Just when Li Tai had sorted out his large and small factories in Luoyang, adjusted their layout and location, and returned to Luoyang to prepare for a big fight, he did not expect that Wang Gui, the Duke of Yongning County, was actually sitting in his palace of Prince Wei.
He was leisurely drinking the oolong tea he had stored at the moment. He really regarded it as his own home!
But facing Wang Gui, what can I do? I can only apologize?
After all, this old man is sixty-six or seventy-seven years old. In ancient times, he was old enough to do random things.
Not to mention, he was one of the Four Prime Ministers of the early Tang Dynasty before Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui. In terms of qualifications, he was older than Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.
Wang Gui touched his long beard and said with a smile:
"I just handed over the revised "Five Rites", and the sage appointed me as the Shepherd of Henan and the King of Wei to come to Luoyang to take office.
So King Wei, you should not be tired of my old minister!"
"No way!" Li Tai said after hearing Wang Gui's words, "I really want to have a sage like you to help me navigate the direction.
I should listen more to your teachings, why do you say I am bored? Duke Yongning has misunderstood me!"
Wang Gui didn't say much after hearing Li Tai's words, he just smiled and said,
"Don't worry, King Wei, I am an old man who is almost 70 years old and I can't live my life day by day.
Unlike you young people who are not full of energy, just taking it one day at a time will certainly not affect your governance in Luoyang, King Wei.
However, King Wei, the tea here is good, very good!"
"White Crane!" Li Tai said decisively, "Prepare a pound of oolong tea sent from Guangzhou for Duke Yongning, and also clean up a courtyard for Wei Wangfu to live in for a long time."
After Li Tai finished speaking, he said to Wang Gui, "Mr. Yongning will stay at the Prince of Wei's residence first.
I know that Duke Yongning is best at distinguishing the pure from the dirty, and punishing the evil and rewarding the good, and I hope that I can work with him to develop Luoyang in the future."
"Haha! The King of Wei is a wonderful man. Since the King of Wei warmly invites you, I won't be pretentious." Wang Gui said calmly.
But he saw Bai He leading Wang Gui to the room where he lived, and Li Tai looked at the direction Wang Gui left, but couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, because Li Tai didn't expect that his father actually parachuted a King of Wei to him.
Fu comes down.
Wang Gui is not easy to mess with. Although his ability is also top-notch, his real strength now is not his ability, but his age.
In ancient times, people over sixty years old were basically considered to have a long life. This kind of person would not only do whatever they want, but if they at least go underground every now and then, no one would be able to bear it.
Therefore, Li Tai is not afraid of someone who can even restrain him, but if an old man comes and looks at him, and even if he accidentally kills him, Li Tai feels that he will be in big trouble.
However, even though there was a guy he couldn't afford to mess with, Li Tai didn't feel that he would definitely have a conflict with him.
After all, he is almost seventy, and he wants to retire well and enjoy his retirement. Wouldn't it be nice to have a few more years left behind?
In contrast, it is time for so many of his people to come back after being away for so long.
One month is enough time for them to get to know the city of Luoyang, and it will be much easier for them to do administrative work.
Therefore, after Li Tai returned to the Prince of Wei's Mansion, he issued a notice to them and asked them to come to the Prince of Wei's Mansion for a meeting tomorrow.
He came back to sort out the next development, such as "Wanxiang Shrine" and "Chang'an Luoyang Chidao Plan", Li Tai also took them out and read through them, but in the end he gave them up.
Because since I really plan to use Luoyang as the foundation for development, there is no doubt that the first task is to build roads.
As for the signature project "Wanxiang Shrine", it is naturally meaningless. In comparison, the "Chidao Plan from Chang'an to Luoyang" was canceled by myself.
The most important reason is that the steel produced by ourselves is not enough to support such a long distance.
Li Tai picked and picked, and finally found a plan that he had thrown in the corner. He blew the dust on it and decided that this was it. He wanted to put the plan into operation first.
"Your Majesty, it's late at night, shouldn't you go to bed peacefully?" Yan Wan asked, looking at the bright lights in Li Tai's study.
Li Tai took a look at Yan Wan, but there was a bit of surprise in his expression. When he thought about it, he suddenly remembered that he was married.
Li Tai said slowly, "Princess, please go to bed first, I have some things to deal with."
"No!" Yan Wan couldn't help but feel a little depressed after hearing Li Tai's words, but she still responded.
"By the way, when I came back today, I saw that the courtyard was a lot tidier. Even the scenery when walking through the garden was quite unique. I believe you have put a lot of thought into this month, but thank you for your hard work!" Li Tai said to Yan Wan
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"Where!" Hearing Li Tai's praise, Yan Wan chuckled proudly and said, "As long as the king likes it!"
"Since your design skills are so superior, I will leave the Taoist Workshop to you to design so that the top agricultural school in Luoyang can be located here.
I will ask Lu Cai to hand over the facilities of the agricultural school to you. You need to at least design a city that can accommodate at least 20,000 students and teachers, and at the same time, you need to provide them with supporting school facilities."
Li Tai looked at Yan Wan, smiled and said, "Are you confident?"
"Twenty thousand students and teachers?!" Yan Wan couldn't help but look a little surprised when she heard Li Tai's words.
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded and said, "Are you confident enough to challenge me?"
To be honest, normally speaking, if the city in Chang'an is occupied by high-ranking officials, then a few people may occupy a city, or even one person may occupy a city.
But if they are all civilians, then generally speaking, a city can only live in a thousand households at most. It is not an easy task to squeeze 20,000 people into this city!
"Just think about it slowly!" Li Tai looked at Yan Wan, smiled and said, "If you really can't do it, there's nothing you can do!"
"Your Majesty, please wait for a few days. Wan'er will definitely give you a satisfactory answer!" Yan Wan clenched her fists and said.
Hearing this, Li Tai smiled and said: "Then you go back first, I will go back to sleep after I finish handling the things here!"
When Yan Wan heard Li Tai's words, she nodded obediently without any further entanglement.
After Li Tai finished the finishing work for his plan, the next day soon came, and Li Tai obediently went to invite Wang Gui to come with him for a meeting.
Regardless of emotion or reason, public or private, even if this Henan shepherd and Wei Wangfu showed an indifferent attitude, no matter what, he still wanted to give him face.
Otherwise, if he went through everything without even saying hello to him, then Li Tai felt that Wang Gui must have snitched on him.
When Wang Gui saw that Li Tai came in person to inform him of Luoyang affairs early in the morning, Wang Gui smiled and agreed to participate.
Soon, Lu Anshou, Bai He, Peacock, Ren Yaxiang, Tian Changgeng, Lu Cai, Wang Zhenru, Wei Xu and Zhang Sui all came to the Wei Palace one after another, and Li Tai introduced Wang Gui to everyone.
Naturally, he bowed respectfully to Wang Gui.
The group of people looked at Wang Gui more or less, but Wang Gui didn't pay any attention to the arrival of everyone, and looked drowsy, as if he would fall asleep at any time.
Li Tai said, "Everyone is invited to come here today so that you can share your experiences in Luoyang.
At the same time, I have the first step of planning for Luoyang, please come together and fill in this plan!"
Li Tai said, and asked Bai He to copy this plan into more than ten copies, and everyone had one copy.
There was even a hint of surprise on Wang Gui's face when an extra portion was delivered to Wang Gui.
Seeing the plan in his hand, Wang Gui smiled at Li Tai, then lowered his head to read it, not seeing the tiredness just now.
""Charcoal, Rice, Oil, Salt, Sauce, Vinegar Tea"" Looking at this plan, everyone present couldn't help but feel a little confused on their faces?
"Yes, the first step in Luoyang's development plan is to complete the basic daily necessities of the people such as charcoal, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
I need such a supply and marketing cooperative to be established in every city in Luoyang so that the people at the bottom can afford these seven things!"
Li Tai said firmly, “This will be a task we need to stick to this year, next year and even beyond.
Basically, if these infrastructures are not in place, Luoyang will eventually fade away no matter how many people come there!"
Before Wu Zhou established his capital in Luoyang, the population of Chang'an was several times that of Luoyang, making Chang'an's environment unbearable.
But none of the people in Chang'an want to come to Luoyang. One of the most important points is that the infrastructure and some basic living materials in Luoyang are not up to par.
So Li Tai plans to develop Luoyang into a city with a population of one million, and Luoyang's infrastructure must also keep up. In addition to roads, these seven things are necessary!
"Charcoal, rice, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, these are easy to talk about. I understand that King Wei has already made a plan."
Only then did Lu speak, "But what about oil? Can we have a lot of oil to stabilize prices?"
Because Li Tai has built the industry from the beginning, it is not difficult for Li Tai to obtain charcoal, grain, salt and tea. As for sauces and vinegar, sauces basically include soybeans and sauces, and vinegar
Basically, if you can make wine, you can make vinegar. Therefore, the real difficulty for Li Tai in implementing this policy is the oil.
"Well, first of all, I have found peanuts and asked the Agricultural College to implement large-scale planting. This thing is very capable of producing oil. Once large-scale production is completed, the oil will be stable in the future!" Li Tai looked at the crowd and said.
To be honest, Li Tai didn't expect that he could actually get peanuts.
Li Tai had always believed that this thing would not spread to China from the Americas until the Ming Dynasty.
But unexpectedly, when Yuan Keshi came back, he brought back peanut seeds among the seeds from the south. He tried to plant them in farmers' schools. The momentum was pretty good. Another wave of seeds next year should be able to carry out a full-scale operation.
Planted.
Therefore, what Li Tai said is not entirely a guess, but somewhat certain.
Of course, what Li Tai didn't know was that in 1958, carbonized peanut seeds were unearthed at the Qianshanyang primitive society site in Wuxing, Zhejiang, and the age of the stove pit was determined to be 4,700 ± 100 years ago.
In 1961, carbonized peanut seeds were unearthed again from primitive social ruins in the Shanbei area of Xiushui County, Jiangxi.
In addition, wild plants with very similar shapes to peanuts have also been reported in Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangxi and other places.
Especially in 2007, experts from the Xi'an Cultural Preservation Center confirmed that peanuts had appeared in the crops unearthed from the burial pits of Han Yangling Mausoleum 2,100 years ago.
So peanuts are a local product of China, but they all grow in the south, and the fruits are in the soil. Maybe some locals occasionally eat them as snacks, but there is really no one who can take this kind of thing and squeeze it for oil.
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Therefore, Li Tai was quite surprised to see him. Fortunately, the Agricultural University has been interested in collecting strange seeds since its establishment.
After all, for the Chinese people, even if the things they grow cannot be eaten, they can still be used as medicine, so it is enough to try them first. And since Li Tai has seen it in his previous life, he will directly take it out to study its development.
direction.
Hearing Li Tai's words, everyone present looked at each other and felt that there would be nothing wrong in listening to King Wei's judgment in agriculture, but no one had ever seen the yield that can be achieved by pressing peanut oil.
It's not easy to draw a conclusion directly.
Lu Cai continued, "But planting peanuts will not quench our thirst. Does the King of Wei have any good supplements?"
"Raise pigs!" Li Tai put forward his suggestion seriously.
"Ah?" Everyone was shocked when they heard Li Tai's words. They didn't expect that Li Tai would make such a suggestion.
But Li Tai said, "We need to provide Luoyang with stable meat, so in addition to opening the poultry industry around Luoyang, I will also add livestock such as pig industries to supply pork to Luoyang."
If the common people need oil and water, they can just get some fat meat and boil it for oil!"
"But King Wei once said that the upper limit of the breeding industry is determined by their feed. We have so much feed for them to eat!"
After all, Lu Cai had a solid foundation, but he quickly grasped the flaws.
"If it's Chang'an, I really have no choice!" Li Tai smiled calmly and said,
"But Luoyang stretches from Youzhou to the north and Yuhang to the south. I don't ask others to transport some grain for trading. I just keep collecting bran for the pigs to eat. I believe that from Youzhou to the north and Hangzhou to the south, there will eventually be people who are willing to do it.
This is the business!"
"Purchase bran from Youzhou or Yuhang and bring it to Luoyang to feed the livestock!?" When everyone heard Li Tai's words, they were a little deafened. To be honest, this kind of operation has never been done before, and they have never even thought about it!
Even Wang Gui, who had been listening beside him, his eyes lit up and he began to think seriously.
Li Tai continued, "We are no longer in Chang'an, but now in Luoyang. Since ancient times, the cost of land transportation has been twenty times that of water transportation, so many things that seem unthinkable in Chang'an can be achieved in Luoyang.
Because the Grand Canal here connects the north and south of China, we must consider the layout of China as a whole!"