Master Yuan Keshi looked at this giant Kongming Lantern with unfulfilled interest. His expression seemed to be full of unfulfilled interest, and he even wanted to go up and try it himself.
However, Li Tai decisively stopped Yuan Keshi. If something happened to Yuan Jiang or even Yan Zhuang, he would only have a headache but not heartache.
But if something happens to Yuan Keshi, who will run away in the Hehuang Valley? Is it really possible to let Yuan Tiangang do Li Bing?
So after watching the hot air balloon performance, Li Tai patted Yan Zhuang on the shoulder and said well done. If there are any similar experiments in the future, I will definitely continue to contact your Yan family, but I need all the craftsmen of this hot air balloon to leave.
The Yan family naturally understood this, and Yan Zhuang even gave Li Tai a list of all the craftsmen who participated in the experiment.
To be honest, the Yan family was somewhat hesitant about putting all their chips on Li Tai, but investing heavily in Li Tai was a matter of course.
After all, Yan Wan has become the Princess of Wei. As long as Li Tai can successfully ascend the throne, he will naturally get the maximum benefit without the Yan family taking the initiative to do anything.
So after settling the matter with Li Tai about the hot air balloon, Yan Zhuang said goodbye.
As for the craftsmen who were studying hot-air balloons, Li Tai temporarily put them in Luoyang University to form an independent research group, and took them all back when Master Yuan returned to the Hehuang Valley.
After all, that's where they can really shine.
Li Tai dragged Yuan Keshi, who was very interested in hot air balloons, back to the Wei Palace.
After all, it is enough for him to see the hot air balloon with his own eyes, so that he can have an idea of this thing, which will make it easier to promote it in the future.
Li Tai is still quite interested in the advancement of hot air balloons. The main reason is that these things consume energy.
Although natural gas and liquefied gas are definitely not affordable in this era, as long as energy is consumed, it is enough for Li Tai.
Even if the use of solid fuels such as coal limits its carrying capacity, there are so few tools that actually consume energy in the world today. Can you imagine that besides steelmaking, the main function of coal is actually for heating!
So when a special product like a hot air balloon appeared that required coal, Li Tai would naturally find a way to push it.
The two returned to Prince Wei's Mansion, and Master Yuan finally recovered from his excitement about the hot air balloon.
Yuan Keshi looked at Li Tai and said seriously: "King Wei, in addition to participating in the Luoshui Game when I come back this time, Du Bie has asked me to ask you something about the future development direction of the Hehuang Valley.
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"What? The original plan for the Hehuang Valley has been fully implemented?" Li Tai was a little curious when he heard this.
Even Xue Dading from Cangzhou continued to implement the plan in Cangzhou. At most, he paved the way for the first step of wheat planting. Regarding cotton planting and salt mining, Xue Dading decisively chose the latter.
After all, the latter can copy what was done in Youzhou, but as for cotton planting, it can only be put aside.
As far as the order is concerned, it's definitely okay to do the easier things first and then the harder ones.
But in terms of industrial layout, his approach would easily encroach on the land originally used for cotton cultivation.
However, as long as Haiyan is a seaside city, it can develop. In fact, it does not take advantage of the dual advantages of canals and flat land, thus affecting the development potential of Cangzhou.
However, this is a matter of whether development is 85% or 90%. It may have an impact on the city's development when it reaches a bottleneck.
For now, if we develop the salt industry first, it will definitely develop faster. After all, there is really no need to worry about sales of salt!
"What are you talking about, King Wei? Don't tell me. The construction of the terraces alone will probably take more than ten years!"
Yuan Keshi looked at Li Tai and said, "It was Du Biejia who discovered that the tribes in the West Sea moved closer to us after Tuyuhun was defeated.
Besides cattle and sheep, we don't need anything else from them.
But Du Biejia believes that since the foreign races in this area have been recovered, these foreign races should be utilized and find ways to integrate them into our Tang Dynasty.
Although the Grass Seed Project can change the living habits of these alien races, if we want to truly integrate these alien races into China, this plan is just a pavement.
So I asked you if there is a good way for them to quickly integrate into Datang?"
To be honest, Du Chuke knew clearly about the grass planting plan.
The main purpose of this plan is to change the living habits of the aliens, allowing them to change from living in pursuit of water and grass to growing pasture on the spot.
But this does not change the relationship between the alien race and the Tang Dynasty. At most, when the Tang Dynasty wants to send troops to fight the alien race, it does not have to worry about the alien race running away, and it can hit them accurately.
This is not enough. If there is no chance, forget it, but now Du Chuke really sees such a good opportunity.
The aliens on these borders were attracted to the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty itself maintained dual military and economic suppression. In addition, it also needed to fight Tibet in the future.
Du Chuke hopes to create a stable rear so that these aliens will be happy to serve as cannon fodder.
So I want to ask Li Tai if there is any way to stabilize the minds of these aliens and work for the Tang Dynasty!
It would be better if the lives of these alien races could be sold and integrated into the Tang Dynasty.
"Who do you think I am? How can there be such a method in the world of selling people and paying for them!"
Li Tai complained in his mind, raised his head and said to Bai He, "Is Peacock in the Chamber of Commerce?"
"Did King Wei have something to do with her? I'll send someone to inform her!" Bai He replied after hearing Li Tai's words.
Li Tai nodded, and then said, "Ask her to bring the records of the textile department, especially the information on wool textiles. Tell her that the opportunity for the development of cotton textiles has come!"
"No!" Bai He nodded after hearing Li Tai's words, and then went out to send people to find Peacock.
Li Tai looked at Master Yuan and said seriously, "As you know, I'm not good at conspiracy and calculating people's hearts!"
When Yuan Keshi heard Li Tai's words, he couldn't help but break into a cold sweat, "Is this what he should know? The King of Wei said it must be so!"
Li Tai continued, "The original grass seeding plan was just the preliminary preparation.
When alien races begin to gather, social division of labor will naturally occur. If you allow them to gather without giving them anything to do, problems will naturally arise.
So when I proposed the grass planting plan, I had plans for the follow-up, but I didn’t expect that it would be implemented so quickly.”
Master Yuan was relieved after hearing Li Tai's words, but soon he came back to his senses, looked at Li Tai with admiration and said:
"The King of Wei has a far-sighted vision that cannot be matched by ordinary people!"
"It's not that magical!" Li Tai waved his hand,
"If you want to educate foreigners, you can't convince them with empty words. You must start with basic necessities, food, housing, and transportation.
If the grass-planting plan starts with food and shelter, then woolen textiles can only supplement their clothing.
Only in this way can they smoothly integrate into our Datang!"
"I don't know, can King Wei explain this plan in detail so that I can tell Du Biejia better?" Yuan Keshi said.
"To put it simply, Chuke needs to choose a town in the West Sea to establish a distribution center for livestock products, especially wool textiles."
Li Tai explained in detail, “The main task of this distribution center is to collect the woolen fabrics and animal skins of the nomadic people.
Through processing and production, these things were made into clothes, which were not only sold to the local people, but also sent to the Tang Dynasty for sale."
In Li Tai's view, if you want to change a nation, you must first transform the other nation in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, not to mention that far.
For example, working hard in science and technology, living in a dilapidated building, wearing street clothes, riding an electric car, you can never expect such people to spend money to consume and once again support the country's economic system.
So the transformation of alien races is the same.
Even if he used the seed plan to gather alien races, he did not gather them for the purpose of developing a new civilization.
And my purpose is to hope that they can become the raw material collection point of Datang, and hope that they understand what it means to dedicate one's life to Datang and become a new Datang person who will work gloriously for Datang.
And if you want to exploit them, or if you want to exploit them, you can't exploit an individual. In that case, it would be better to just capture and throw them into the Tang Dynasty to be slaves, and you can more or less create some profit.
When they came together and were freed from the need for food and housing, the textile industry emerged.
They were guided to herd more cattle and sheep, which were less of a military threat to the Tang Dynasty, and through wool spinning technology, the Central Plains were made aware that the nomads actually had benefits, and these benefits were quite abundant.
In most people's impressions, nomads are tall, thick-set, muscular, and look full of wildness.
In contrast, the people of the Central Plains are well-educated, thin and weak. If there are only three to five or six people, they may not be able to deal with a foreigner.
But the reality is that the Han people are taller than the surrounding foreigners, and even stronger than the foreigners.
The reason is also very simple. The nomadic people's life of hungry meals is really difficult to compare with the abundant materials brought by the stable harvest of the farming people.
It's just that when the nomads came out to rob the farming people, they basically robbed the farming people with the consciousness that if they couldn't rob them, they would die in front of you.
However, the upper class of farming people often suffers from corruption due to the monopoly of abundant materials, which makes the overall organizational strength low.
In the case of weapons that are not up to date, not to mention whether they can be defeated every time, even if they can be defeated, the agricultural civilization will suffer serious losses. This gives people the illusion that the nomads are really strong.
In fact, the nomadic people will die if they don't rob, while the farming people will have to change their land to farm, so how can their combat effectiveness be the same?
However, it will be different when the nomads show their value, because people are after all profit-seeking.
The emergence of woolen textiles was enough to change the nomadic people around the Tang Dynasty from being tough and rude to singing and dancing.
Because in the Tang Dynasty, although there were coins such as Kaiyuan Tongbao, the mainstream of transactions was still bartering.
The mainstream currency is grain at the low level, cloth and satin at the mid-level, and gold at the highest level.
The rest of the things include silver, salt, steel, etc. They can be exchanged for things, but they are not currencies, at least not yet in the Zhenguan Dynasty.
So look at this matter from another perspective. Woolen weaving attracts foreign wool. After weaving it into cloth, the woolen cloth produced is not only cloth. In essence, it is money, and making woolen cloth is
Print money.
The attitude of any class in this world towards capital is basically the same, including wealthy families and even the royal family.
When the equity reaches 50%, capital will take desperate risks; for the sake of 100% equity, capital will dare to trample all laws in the world; when the equity reaches 300%, capital will dare to commit any crime and even risk being hanged.
Li Tai, who has the technology, is naturally not afraid, but the Hu people who have mastered the raw materials have no idea.
As long as he promotes this matter and the surrounding aristocratic families react, they will immediately understand that the foreign races around Datang, especially the barbarians, are their money bags. To be honest, Li Tai doesn't know what the surrounding aristocratic families will do to these barbarians.
clear.
But Li Tai believes that capital can always amplify people's desires and make people its slaves.
Li Tai knew that the Eastern Turks and Tuyuhun were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and the surrounding foreign races had no masters.
Under such circumstances, if the Tang Dynasty family discovered the benefits, they would probably encourage Li Shimin to go to the north and break the legs of all these aliens so that they could eat and drink.
After all, the family doesn't want to break bones, but they will definitely continue to suck bone marrow.
But even so, since Qinghai has developed to this extent, Li Tai has no intention of suppressing it.
After all, the current Tang Dynasty is still too strong in suppressing the surrounding foreign races.
There is no need to make things more difficult for yourself. If you start things like assimilation earlier, it will end one day earlier in the future.
As for what these Tang aristocratic families, especially those on the border, will do, to be honest, Li Tai is also quite curious.
After all, his position is a bit too high. He is so high that the surrounding aristocratic families, when he is not directly opposed to them, they either choose to avoid their sharp edges and not directly collide with him, or they act like nothing is wrong.
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In short, they are determined not to get involved in the alignment between themselves and the prince. They will always only follow the winner.
Although this will definitely not get the best quality resources, it will allow them to pass on the legacy without risk.
For aristocratic families, how many aristocratic families were directly destroyed in this bloody storm during the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
They have long learned to let their family find a way to survive, and that is to always be on the winning team.
"Establishing a wool textile distribution center?" Yuan Keshi understood the core of what Li Tai said, which was to rely on a key technology to establish a key industry, then drive a town, and finally cover the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
To be honest, this kind of operation method is not the first time that Li Tai has operated it. Whether it is Gaoling or Tianjin, they have done it this way, and they have revitalized the entire economy point by point.
It's just that the King of Wei keeps saying that he is not good at conspiracy and calculating people's affairs, but once this plan comes out, how do I feel that the aliens in Qinghai are not trying to contribute their wool to the King of Wei, but at the same time they have to be grateful to the King of Wei?
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Master Yuan Keshi remained silent about King Wei's operations. He could just do whatever he wanted.