Li Tai did not expect that the court officials in the court had already changed in a few years.
It has been six or seven years since I founded my own agricultural institution. It is normal for some people to be unable to withstand the erosion of time.
Now that I have returned to Chang'an, I have to go and see more of these old ministers who have helped me.
Li Tai calmed down his emotions and looked at Lu Cai and said, "Critical Quality, how has the experimental field of Agricultural University and Zheng Baiqu developed?"
Lu Cai said: "Report to King Yan, after you left, the number of graduates from the Agricultural Institute has remained at about 5,000 every year.
However, the most important part was basically invested in the Jinkou of the Grand Canal led by Du Xiang, as well as the agricultural society in Henan.
At the same time, students in Guangzhou are sent every year, and some even died of illness in Guangzhou and cannot come back!”
Li Tai couldn't help feeling sad when he heard Lu Cai's words and said, "Thank you for your contributions. If there are parents, please give them good advice. If there are orphans, his name will be engraved in the school history of the Agricultural University.
middle.
But the exchange between Chang'an and Guangzhou must continue!”
Li Tai understood that it was okay to go to a place like Guangzhou, but it was the most uncomfortable along the way.
In this era, even the official roads were full of ruggedness. Along the way, no matter how humans robbed houses, just bites by mosquitoes and unacceptable conditions, it would be enough to make people suffer.
Not to mention, no one knows what is in the wilderness. Maybe a hungry big cat runs out and then it's gone.
"Try to plan the roads in Guangzhou as much as possible. Waterways can be used to take waterways, and establish more college strongholds along the way to facilitate smooth exchanges among students."
Li Tai thought for a moment and said to Lu Cai,
"When the shipping industry develops in the future, not to mention that shipping can sail thousands of miles on the sea, as long as we can ship along our Datang coastline, Guangzhou will no longer become the exile place of our Datang, but will be able to produce
The treasure land of sugar cane!”
To be honest, sugarcane in Guangzhou has been planted in recent years, and the per mu yield has also been increased by the students' efforts.
Because it is impossible to carry sugar cane directly for sale, making it into sugar is almost the only way to sell this product.
But even so, because of the rugged roads and the distance from the center of Datang, it is really difficult for sugarcane to transport and export.
If a canal or road can communicate with the Guangzhou region and the Yangtze River Basin, then the sugar industry can have a future.
Otherwise, it would be a luxury product, at most, as the resources of the Tang Dynasty were tilted, it became military supplies.
But it’s only to this extent. If you want to develop further, transportation restricts the overall development of Guangzhou.
"Lu Cai understood that some people would ask them to find suitable places to stay along the way and form an agricultural society on site.
Now there are some sporadic agricultural societies north of the Yangtze River!" Lu Cai answered to Li Tai.
Lu Cai said here, picked up the tea and took a sip, and continued, "As for the other point, Zheng Baiqu has been built for more than three years. After three years of care, the land has gradually recovered the fertility that should have in the fields.
So we began to prepare to reduce the cultivation of medicinal materials in Zhengbaiqu year by year, and prepare to find suitable places to plant medicinal materials in the Qiantang area of Yuhang, and then transport these medicinal materials to Luoyang in large quantities through the Grand Canal.
Since you asked us to establish a ferry in Luoyang, we have more and more materials to save in Luoyang."
Li Tai nodded. Although he left Chang'an, the Agricultural University was developing smoothly.
As for saving some of my supplies in Luoyang, it is because the distance between Chang'an and Luoyang is not far away.
At the same time, because of the Grand Canal of Luoyang, except for going to Shu, it is well-connected to other places.
In this case, the materials are placed in Luoyang, which is relatively convenient for transportation.
So after the ferry in Luoyang was built, Li Tai asked Lu Cai to build various warehouses in Luoyang.
As for not placing it in Chang'an but Luoyang, another very important point is that Li Tai feels that if his supplies are placed in Chang'an, he will be afraid that his father will be beaten by the autumn wind every few days.
After all, I am not afraid of thieves stealing, but I am afraid of thieves thinking about it!
"By the way, I'll let you study how the experiment of increasing yield per mu is carried out? Can your war songs allow farmers to develop the talent of the War Department?"
To be honest, compared to other step-by-step arrangements, Li Tai is most concerned about this.
However, this thing is experimental, and Li Tai is not very sure. He has the idea that if he gets it, he will be lucky and will not be able to live my life.
After all, scientific experiments are unreasonable. If you spend money and time, you will often waste your money and waste your time.
However, the biggest difference between Li Tai and people of this era is that Li Tai has the mentality of converting military to civilian use.
So Li Tai doesn't pursue any technology that transcends the times, such as rubbing black gunpowder with hands, making tnts, etc.
But Li Tai believes that the military technology of any era is the pinnacle of technology in this era.
It is not that war promotes the development of science and technology, but that war itself is the most efficient model for the evolution of human organizations' competition.
Even if any other organization loses, it may not be possible to make a comeback. There is only one life in war and there are tens of millions of reasons for losers, but the only winner is that it is better than the other party.
Therefore, basically, military things are relatively more efficient, extreme, and even fatal.
However, what Li Tai hopes is to convert things in the army from military to civilians, retaining its efficient characteristics, but it can make these things more popular and safer.
After Li Tai knew about the talent of the War Department, he thought about how to make it civilized.
However, this is to some extent a collective agricultural production, and it is a collective production of more than 500 people. In addition to the official military camps, this situation rarely occurs in the military farms of ordinary people.
The reason is very simple, because since ancient times, the land that the farmers have arrived in the hands of the land are broken and fragmented land.
This is from the perspective of directly viewing the farming on the Chinese land through satellites to the smallest land that everyone has obtained, almost no one has a square piece of land.
In other words, even if it is a square piece, there will definitely be a lot of fragmented farmland around it.
This situation has not changed much even in modern society.
If Li Tai had not passed Zheng Baiqu and directly enclosed a large area of land for himself, Li Tai would not have tried the mechanized and industrialized farming model at all.
Because of this model, it is really not suitable for the land of the Guanzhong Plain.
So, Li Tai was just conducting experiments in this area, preparing to develop the black soil of Heilongjiang in the future.
Although he was a little bit eating in the bowl and thinking about the greed in the pot, Li Tai understood that there was no future for mechanization and industrialization to forcibly implement the current arable land in Datang. Only the area of Heilongjiang can satisfy himself
plan.
Even modern times, the same is true. In fact, whether it is the official grain output or the ratio of people and farmland in a region, Heilongjiang is the best granary in China.
Especially in the industrialization of agriculture, it is difficult for China's traditional agricultural provinces to promote mechanization due to land fragmentation.
But in the black soil area of Heilongjiang, it is the model of American big farmer.
This has enabled this land that is at most mature in a year to produce the largest amount of grain in the country.
This is not only due to the unique black soil in Heilongjiang area, but more importantly, it is the cultivation model that almost crushes other production areas.
Therefore, what Li Tai is studying for industrialization and scale experiments is actually to prepare for the development of Heilongjiang after defeating Goguryeo.
Because at that time, even if you encourage immigration, it will definitely be difficult to immigrate to high-latitude areas. Even if sea transportation becomes more developed, many people are reluctant to go to farm.
This makes you have to prepare for the future. In the case of a large population and a small land, how to tap the potential of the black soil in Heilongjiang. In this regard, you must prepare for the future.
Of course, Goguryeo would definitely be gone at that time. After all, if Goguryeo is there, it would be inconvenient to develop it.
The stability of the environment is the basic condition for development and development. If you don’t even have this basic condition, don’t think too much about it.
"The war song can be transformed into the war department's talent successfully!" Lu Cai heard Li Tai's words and immediately said to Li Tai.
"However, the war song is only effective for the students from our agricultural institutions. The kind of labor group composed purely of other people. Although I can feel their progress, it is still quite far from the talent of the War Department."
"Why is this happening?" Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little confused when he heard this.
After all, what Li Tai values is popularization. If it cannot be popularized, the effect of the war song will be greatly reduced.
Although there are 5,000 students who graduate from Gaoling Agricultural University every year, these 5,000 people are too few for the entire Tang Dynasty.
The Youzhou Academy in Youzhou, the Jiangnan Academy in Yuhang, and even established an agricultural university in Guangzhou. However, in fact, Li Tai thinks it is difficult for more than 8,000 students every year.
The important reason is that the agricultural institution model we have established ourselves requires too much resources.
Not to mention the various lands in the early stage and various experimental materials in the later stage, these are resources.
It’s like the number of 211 and 985 in each province and city is relatively limited. It’s not that the country does not want more strong schools to appear, but that there are so many resources in each province and city, and even the resources in the country are just like this.
many.
Behind every powerful school, there is an extremely thick economy as an important support, otherwise a good school cannot support it.
At the beginning, Li Tai also believed that after Liu Rengui and Chu Suiliang learned to establish the school model, these schools could be continuously established on various lands of the Tang Dynasty.
But when Li Tai saw with his own eyes that there were not even 200 graduates from Youzhou Agricultural College, Li Tai knew that his school model could only be done by himself, and others did not want to, but could not do it.
After all, I have supported the school model through various supporting facilities, and it is difficult for others to support the expenses of agricultural school models with the old economic model.
This is also something that I really confirmed when I came to Youzhou and saw the Youzhou Academy created by Li Chunfeng.
Others can imitate themselves to establish agricultural institutions, but they cannot learn how to support agricultural institutions with stable economic support.
Since ancient times, education has always been the most expensive industry. This thing is a bottomless pit. As long as you still have money, you will definitely find that there are still places worth investing in education.
"I don't know the reason yet!" Lu Cai shook his head at Li Tai, "I have also tried other classes in Fei Leke to try it. Basically, they can form the talent of the War Department, thereby improving their efficiency in working in the field."
When Li Tai heard this, he nodded to Lu Cai, "It is important to continue to specialize in research. After all, it is just the talent of the war department mastered by agricultural students. It is different from that of the people all over the world."
"No!" Lu Cai nodded. King Yue's thoughts were always so grand.
It’s just that King Yue is just an idea, but what is really implemented is to run away and break his legs by himself.
However, Lu Cai suddenly thought of something and said to Li Tai, "King Yan, can you visit Duke Dai in this matter?"
"Li Jing?" Li Tai was a little surprised when he heard this and said, "Can he let you enter his house?"
"Is it difficult for Duke Dai to speak? I met it when I was harvesting wheat. I felt that Duke Dai was easy to speak, and even invited me to sit at his house!"
When Lu Cai heard Li Tai's words, he was a little confused.
"I originally thought that as the right prime minister of the court, it was not good for him to disturb him about these things.
But a few days ago, he resigned with a foot disease and has now become a scattered official. If you have any military issues, you should not be careful..."
"Li Jing resigned with a foot disease?" Li Tai was even more surprised when he heard this.
To be honest, compared to what will happen to Xue Rengui in the future, Li Tai is really not clear, after all, he doesn’t read much storytelling.
But Li Jing has watched many Tang Dynasty TV series, and Li Jing is naturally a person who can't get around it.
Even if I read some historical miscellaneous books about Li Jing himself, I knew that Li Jing had just resigned from Li Shimin, and it seemed that the foreign races on the frontier invaded the Tang Dynasty.
Then when Li Jing went home, he was afraid that he had not even built the fish pond, so he was dragged to war by Li Shimin, adding another contribution to his destruction of the country.
"Since Duke Dai has resigned, it's okay to ask Duke Dai more. Xue Rengui, Zu Changming!" Li Tai shouted decisively and loudly.
"Are you?" The two door gods at the door immediately reacted and said to Li Tai.
"These days, you will follow Chief Lu, especially when Chief Lu went to Dai Guogong, you are students from the Agricultural University. Listen to the military gods from the past to listen to the military opinions of the war gods. It is your ability to learn as much as you can secretly!"
However, the two looked at each other in a little face. They did not expect that King Yan would not go offline like this.
After all, when he was in Youzhou, the King of Yan showed a wise demeanor that was superior to others. He arranged the entire Youzhou in a blink of an eye, allowing all the forces of all sizes in Youzhou to use for his own use.
But when I returned to Chang'an, it was wrong. Even the gate of Chang'an had not even entered, so why did the wise demeanor of the King of Yan disappear? Even the things like learning secretly were said so openly.
"Why don't you?" Li Tai asked looking at the two of them.
"I am willing." Xue Rengui answered decisively, and Zu Changming immediately reacted. That was Li Jing, the god of the Tang Dynasty military, Li Jing, why didn't he go if he had the chance to steal his troops?
As for Peacock, Lu Cai and Du Chuke, they all looked up at the ceiling.
It is obvious that he was a little unfamiliar with the grown-up King of Yan, but now looking at the elastic bottom line of King of Yan, he is indeed very Yan.