To be honest, if it were a family of the Han Dynasty, Li Tai was still a little afraid, but he had already arrived in the Tang Dynasty and Li Taizhen didn't take it seriously.
Don’t look at the current aristocratic families, even the Li Tang royal family is not attracted by it.
But in fact, it has already returned, because after the imperial examinations appeared, the family was doomed to perish.
Because the aristocratic family has too few people, but they have too many resources, they can support it with the foundation of the older generation. However, facing the vast poor families and even ordinary people, they will one day be overwhelmed by the sea of people tactics.
From the perspective of class changes, the decline of the aristocratic family is almost a foregone conclusion, but from Li Tai's perspective, although the aristocratic family is corrupt and backward, Li Tai really doesn't want the aristocratic family to fall like this.
A very important reason is that as the aristocratic family fell, the most suitable one to take over the Chinese power of the aristocratic family, finally chose a civil servant group with the relationship between teachers and students and the township party as the link under the historical choice.
This kind of civil servant group almost reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, but it fell into a mess by the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
To be honest, even if the aristocratic family is corrupt and degenerate, at least they have not become enemies of civil and military affairs, at least they have not bowed to power, and even the Li Tang royal family has the blood of the Hu people, they still do not look down on them, at least they are strong and strong.
However, the civil servant group, from the Song Dynasty, let them stand and stand, and the Qing Dynasty, let the civil servant group kneel, and they kneel obediently.
Even if there are a few hard bones in the civil service group, as long as they are in this system, they will fall into the vicious circle of internal struggles and external struggles.
So if you have the chance, Li Tai really wants to win the aristocratic family.
After all, the aristocratic family is still there, and there is a buffer zone between the civil and military officials, but with the demise of the aristocratic family, the buffer zones of both sides are gone.
The longer the civil and military sides get along, the more conflicts will accumulate. Just like the two parties in the United States, they will definitely fall into a vicious circle of life and death.
However, Li Tai wanted to study plows like Baniu Ploughs not for the sake of the aristocratic family, but for the convenience of intensive production.
Increase the investment in production factors and capital such as material, capital, science and technology, management and labor within a unit of land, thereby increasing production capacity and improving farming efficiency.
Of course, this thing is definitely not suitable for ordinary people, because only with enough land can the cost of plow be evenly distributed.
"In addition to studying large ploughs, how is the progress of the barrel truck?" Li Tai told Du Chuke.
"I am modifying with a keel cart and still under test. Is King Yue anxious about this?" Du Chuke couldn't help frowning when he heard Li Tai's words, "But now in spring plowing, I think we should still focus on plowing."
Li Tai said: "Last year, some of the locusts chose to spend the winter instead of hatching, and they will definitely re-hatch as the weather warms up.
It would be nice if it emerges in the wild, I will just keep raising ducks. I have also raised some chickens this year, so it should not be difficult to deal with locusts.
However, if the cultivated crop fields hatch, naturally, the chickens and ducks cannot be eaten, and maybe they will eat the wheat seedlings.
So it’s better to water more to keep the land moist and delay the hatching of locusts!
Winter wheat can be harvested in April and May. If the locusts come out again after April and May, they will be fine if they release ducks and eat them."
"The King of Yue is aware!" Du Chuke suddenly realized when he heard Li Tai's words, touched his beard and said, "I'm going to make people step up my research on the trolley, and I can't reproduce the scene like last year!"
To be honest, the drought and locust plague like the second year of Zhenguan, if the court was slightly unreliable, it was basically on the verge of destruction, and it was Li Shimin who led his wise prime minister group to hold on to the situation.
At this moment, Du Chuke quickly studied the trolley, which could be considered as a tail for his own control locusts.
However, although the cultivation starts in March, in February, all kinds of tools must be prepared.
At this time, Ma Zhou became the busiest person. He either went to the Dianzuo Office to borrow cattle or went to the Sinong Temple to make some tools. The most important thing was to get some iron to make agricultural tools for Shaofu.
Compared to the fact that we almost gathered the power of the entire court to appease these refugees last year, we can only rely on the face of the Yue Palace.
The Dianjiao Administration transferred the company to earn 100,000 ducks last year, while the Sinong Temple successfully managed the locust plague. There were some favors between the two sides and Li Tai. I must be willing to help with this small matter.
After all, even if a honest official like Dou Jing may not accept bribes, he is willing to help with the trivial matters of repaying his favor.
So I just went to Shaofu Ma Zhou to run a few more times, but in the end I was in the physical condition. As long as there was no party dispute between each other, I could basically do it in public and do it in public. Soon enough iron tools were approved.
Li Tai had enough coal and craftsmen to build iron tools into agricultural tools. With the intention of accumulating talents, Li Tai did not wait to build the junior supervisor in person.
Because spring plowing is about to come, I am afraid that there will be a team to rank, so I registered and transported away the number of iron ore according to regulations. After the farm tools are built, the officials who are in the minor supervision department will need to come to review the iron tools.
He wanted to confirm that Li Tai had not used the iron ore for other purposes, or sold it directly to Hu Shang to do second-hand business.
In short, there must be some iron ore smuggling in the Tang Dynasty, but most of them have iron ore in their hands and trade directly with the Hu people. It is not impossible to use official iron ore to smuggle, but it just needs to be opened.
There are too many links.
Of course, as time entered mid-February, Li Tai's Agricultural Institution officially opened.
Li Tai was surprised by the arrival of a group of people. When controlling locusts, Li Tai did not pick two or three people in the village near Chang'an and asked them to stock 500 to 1,000 ducks, mainly to deal with locusts.
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After the locusts were resolved, these people were converted into the managers of these ducks, and Li Tai recovered half of these ducks.
The remaining half is for them to be used as duck breeds and tell them how many ducks they need to collect every month. The interest is eggs. Even if you raise them too much, there will be subsidies for charcoal and feed.
At the same time, after paying the number of ducks, the subsidy will be cancelled. However, even if the remaining ducks are your property, don’t worry about sales in the future. In the future, purchase adult ducks or 100 duck eggs for 20 cents a month. This price is more than the market price
Lower, but better than stability.
So, after a little discussion, these people felt that they had mastered the skills of raising ducks, so they agreed.
After winter passed, they watched their ducks survive the winter successfully, and they paid half of the ducks they needed to pay back. After all, the old duck soup in winter must be quite fragrant. Relying on the Chang'an market, the duck consumption must be enough.
They found that Li Tai took care of their assets and their lives were getting better and better. With the simplicity and cunning of rural people, they not only mean to repay their kindness, but also feel that they have a great success with King Yue, so they choose to continue to support King Yue.
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Although 500 yuan is expensive, the school requires food and accommodation, so it is just to learn words and mathematics. It is gritting its teeth and handing over it!
Of course, they may not be their own sons, but their brothers, their nieces, their nephews...
In short, under their propaganda, the people of Chang'an heard that it was a knife to cut off the locust demon's head. From then on, King Yue, who had lost his locusts, had to give it a try, under the persuasion of his brothers.
In the mood, stuff a son in.
So Li Tai originally thought that it would be thankful for having 500 people, but in fact, there were nearly a thousand students in this group.
"Ergou, if you can write for 500 es, you don't have many opportunities to teach reading and literacy. You can study hard when you come here.
The eldest brother was lucky enough to follow the King of Yue to get a job as a steward, but he was illiterate, but he ended here.
If you study hard, you will be an official after passing the imperial examination in the future!" Chen Da said seriously to his younger brother.
Chen Ergou nodded. He was raised by Chen Da since he was a child, so Chen Ergou has always listened to Chen Da's words the most.
"Sanwo, study hard when you come inside. King Yue can kill locust monsters. He is a god. If you come inside, you must learn the ability of King Yue to kill locusts. In the future, even if locusts appear in our fields, you can still swish.
Kill them all!"
"Yeah, yeah." Sanwa immediately gestured in his hand as he listened to his father's words.
"Big bull, there is really not enough food at home. I asked my relatives to raise five hundred cents. You can go to school to be obedient and then you can eat openly. You can learn as much as possible in literacy and math. If you can learn a few skills in farming,
There is no need to worry about eating in the future!”
"I must be obedient and eat enough!" The big bull said to his mother silly.
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Well, although people who entered the school may not really come in because of the profession of farmer, Li Tai needs to let them know that he built this school himself not to let them come in and live a life.
It is time for them to know the school motto.
Li Tai immediately copied the four sentences of Hengqu in order to rescue the future Northern Song culture.
"Set up your mind for heaven and earth, establish your destiny for the living and the people, inherit your unique knowledge for the past sages, and bring peace to the ages."
Now these four sentences are the school motto of my own agricultural institution. I don’t ask anyone to memorize it, but I read it more every day and I will remember it subtly in my heart.
However, it was okay for this group of students to be the first half of the month, but in March, they also joined the busy spring farming farming to help.
The things that preschool students are actually very simple to take charge of, which is to eradicate roots and remove the roots of weeds!
In fact, land reclamation is not a easy job. In ancient times, in order to clear up land, there were many people in their thirties and forties who died of blood while driving, because land reclamation itself was a very labor-consuming task.
First of all, the people who open up wasteland basically have no shoes, and even if Li Tai gives them the shoes, he will not wear them to plow the fields.
Modern people's rubber rain boots will be cleaned after a little rinsing, but there was no such thing in ancient times, so many ancient people chose barefoot when farming.
Because when wearing shoes, you will be covered with mud every time you work, and ancient shoes were made of cloth and then they would rot after brushing them a few times, which was too expensive.
Farmers have the lowest cost of barefoot. In fact, the elderly in modern remote areas should have this habit of plowing the fields.
It was not until I didn’t know why push pins, nails, broken iron sheets, and glass slag appeared in the field that I slowly changed to wearing rubber rain boots.
Then the main purpose of reclamation is to eradicate weeds.
Don't take it for granted and think about setting a fire and burning all the weeds.
"Water Margin" The forage farm in the Fengxue Mountain Temple is full of forage and straw, which the people have worked hard to collect and pay taxes to the court.
Not to mention that the fire is a little bigger. If the wildfire is ignited, it will be even more like the survival of the village that is backing the mountains and surviving the mountains.
Therefore, the method of slashing and fire will be gradually eliminated because this method has too low resource utilization rate. Unless a war is fought, no one will burn the mountain.
So if you want to open up the land, you can only slowly reclaim the fields that can be cultivated with one hoe and one hoe.
Now people with experience in land reclamation are mainly responsible for cutting grass, then let preschool students remove roots, and then let students enter the formal class rake the ground, collect various rhizomes, straw, etc., or use them as firewood, or take them
Come and feed.
During the land reclamation process, these are all expensive resources.
However, the agricultural institutions only have two seasons of land reclamation in spring and autumn. When they experience the process of root removal, raking and mowing grass, and even the process of soil preparation, field and water search, they can experience the entire process of personal experience.
It is not easy to open up land.
Only when they plant ordinary fields can they truly feel cherished.
During this process, because they are all working hard, it consumes a lot of physical strength and must keep up with the nutrition, otherwise there will be many people who will die for the destruction of the land.
Fortunately, the duck farm has been built and the chicken farm has been following it slowly, so there is a duck egg at the end every few days and a bowl of meat-filled old duck soup a week to ensure that they can eat well, so that they will not let them go.
I was exhausted when I was still growing.
Of course, from preschool to the first phase of the formal class, they realized that it was not easy to open up land, and Li Tai planned to spend two years to slowly polish them.
Unlike those aristocratic families who have been studying, they always say that it is not easy for the people to farm, but they never thought that the people's lives would be more difficult than they imagined.
But Li Tai didn't really take them as farmers who opened land.
In the third year, Li Tai will give them how to use scientific methods to record the planting status, how to try grafting different plants, how to cultivate better crops, and how to find a crop, and how to plant it in detail.
Write a paper.
After all, Li Tai doesn't expect them to become big shots in agriculture, but it's enough for them to become tough in agriculture.
After they graduate in four or five years, no matter which land they go to, they can help local farmers improve their crops and grow more lush crops.
If so, then I will live up to the purpose of establishing this agricultural institution.
The same thing is said, agriculture is hard to hurry. If you really want to see the results, it will take at least four years of sowing and four years of growth!