Returning from Chang'an to Gaoling, Ma Zhou was already waiting in the school. When he saw Li Tai coming back, he immediately greeted him and asked:
"I heard that the king was assassinated, what's the situation now?"
"It has been dealt with!" Li Tai said calmly,
"In addition, Aye rebuilt Gaoling County and asked me to be a county magistrate and a position below the county magistrate, and I was allowed to appoint and remove myself.
He wanted to see if I could manage Gaoling County to the highest evaluation in these three years, so as to prove that I have the talent of Ganluo!”
"Your Majesty, have you agreed?!" Hearing this, Ma Zhou frowned slightly and said.
"That's natural!" Li Tai patted Ma Zhou's thigh and said confidently,
"I'll be the county magistrate responsible for the plan, and you'll be the county magistrate responsible for the implementation.
We joined forces, and this agricultural institution is so prosperous, what is the land of a county?"
Li Tai is very clear about his abilities. If he asks himself to do specific work, then it’s better not to do it. Does anyone know his level of work?
In comparison, Ma Zhou is the famous figure of the future. If even this county cannot be done, that would be a big joke!
So Li Tai said that he gave Ma Zhou unlimited trust.
When Ma Zhou heard that Li Tai directly gave him the position of county magistrate, he was also a little amused and crying.
But it has to be said that Ma Zhou was quite moved by Li Tai as the King of Yue.
Just as Li Tai said, Li Tai was basically responsible for planning the Gaoling place and was responsible for building it bit by bit.
This sense of accomplishment is also quite gratifying for Ma Zhou when he looks at a originally desolate and barren land, so in the face of Li Tai's invitation, Ma Zhou said: "Don't you dare not."
Obey!”
Li Tai continued: "Since Aye has given us three years to build this city to the top evaluation, we must have resources to evaluate the place and adapt to local conditions to achieve twice the result with half the effort!
Let’s go to my study to talk at night with candles and plan the future as quickly as possible!”
"No!" Ma Zhou was also excited when he heard Li Tai's words.
For Ma Zhou, his favorite thing is to talk to the monarch at night. Only in this way can he show his importance to himself.
"Baihe, come and take the lights and make records on the side!" Li Tai said to Baihe,
"In addition, let the kitchen prepare a midnight snack. After all, it is cold at night and you need to eat something to fill your stomach."
Bai He was about to say something when he heard Li Tai's words, but Li Tai pulled Ma Zhou into the study.
Bai He glanced at Lu Anshou beside him, and Lu Anshou looked at Bai He with a heavy focus.
This means that he is just a bodyguard, Li Tai doesn't sleep, and he can only stand at the door.
The most important thing is, if you have a midnight snack, please, don’t forget me!
Li Tai pulled Ma Zhou to the room, Bai He followed him to the lamp inside, grinding ink to record.
Li Tai said, "Let me talk first, what do you think is the advantage of Gaoling?!"
Ma Zhou took out a glass of wine from somewhere, raised his head and took a sip, let out a long breath, and then said slowly:
"Gaoling District is located in the hinterland of Guanzhong, where the Jing River and Wei River banks meet. It can almost reach all parts of Guan along these tributaries of the two rivers.
If this Guanzhong is compared to a dish, then Gaoling is the heart of the dish, which is well-connected and omnipotent!
Secondly, the soil here itself is fertile and the water veins are well developed. If cultivated, there will be more fertile land!
The most important thing is that this place is close to Chang'an, which is the most difficult point to break through here and the key point to make this place break through.
After all, we have always been eating the convenience of being close to Chang'an!"
When Li Tai heard Ma Zhou's words, he nodded and agreed, "You are right, the most important thing is to be close to Chang'an here!"
Li Tai naturally understood the benefits of getting close to the imperial capital, but the real importance is to seize this location advantage.
Li Tai narrowed his eyes and said, "Basically, the Ministry of Personnel's assessment will conduct assessments on land reclamation, household registration increase and decrease, agricultural arrears, tax collection and other items.
As for my personal evaluation, only I, Aye, can evaluate it, but others are not qualified.
So, we just need to do practical things, do everything well, and leave those officials with nothing to say!"
"Where is the king going to start!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou said with a smile on his face.
Li Tai said calmly: "With the existence of an agricultural institution, I don't need to worry about reclaiming the land.
As for whether there is a bumper harvest, although the wheat harvest this year is not good, the land is much more mature after a year of reclaiming.
After a year of trial fields, all the best methods of experimental fields can be fully integrated and implemented in all aspects this year.
As long as the next year is not a natural disaster, I believe that our harvest may reach more than two stones, and there will be more in the future.
With students from the Agricultural Institution, even if we rely on the weather to make a living, we can at least eat the most delicious bite!"
Ma Zhou couldn't help but smile bitterly as he heard Li Tai's words.
To be honest, the so-called winter wheat harvest this year is actually not much different from the fields cultivated by other ordinary people.
So Ma Zhou is not as confident as Li Tai!
But no matter what, compared to other people who are simply eating experience in growing, the agricultural institution built by Li Tai has at least developed some habit of experiment diary, at least the experimental data looks relatively reassuring.
In fact, Li Tai knew very well that the Tang Dynasty was already the peak of the feudal era.
In this era, traditional agriculture in ancient times had basically been established. What are manure compost, water conservancy construction, and various farming techniques, it is not that Li Tai, a farmer, could greatly increase the yield by relying on some technology.
So Li Tai needs to do not invent or create some amazing planting methods, but to organize all these scattered farming technologies that are regarded as unique skills by their farmers, and to fully utilize these technology formation systems.
This is the first goal of establishing an agricultural institution by yourself, which is to organize all the farming techniques in the past and digest them into a system.
This is why Li Tai is willing to be the magistrate of Gaoling County because he needs time to digest the farming skills he has done in the past.
Only on the basis of past accumulation can you continue to try to promote the scale and specialization of farming, and bring different productivity to the world. Otherwise, the foundation will not be solid enough, and it will be very troublesome to implement new technologies in the future.
Ma Zhou has never seen the productivity burst out of resource integration or technology integration.
Therefore, the wheat grown in the fields this year is no different from other newly cultivated wheat.
But in fact, Li Tai was just conducting large-scale and diverse experiments in the first year.
By the second year, the soil becomes more fertile, coupled with the integration of accumulated technology in the first year, Li Tai believes that his harvest next year will definitely be very amazing.
"After all, next year will be a rare record of good harvest in history, and the price of grain has dropped to the era when rice dou three cents!"
Li Tai thought to himself that he would take advantage of next year's weather no matter what.
At that time, the grain will linger from one stone per acre to two stones. At that time, it will be said that the students of the agricultural institution are superb, so who can refute it again!
"Anyway, with students from the Agricultural College here, I am not worried about farming!" Li Tai said seriously.
"Then the next problem is the population aspect!" Ma Zhou saw that Li Tai was not worried, but he didn't say much.
At worst, I can work harder and encourage the farming and sericulture to work harder and let the people do their best to plow the fields.
Li Tai said seriously: "Yeah, if you want the local people to have children with peace of mind, at least you must make them feel safe and worry-free!
Of course, we also need to encourage it, but this matter needs to be carried out step by step, and it will take a long time to achieve results.
In contrast, I think we can have the idea of those migrant populations!”
"Migration population?!" Ma Zhou frowned when he heard Li Tai's words.
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded, "The first thing to do about population is to edit our current population into the book.
I don’t want to know the household, but I need to know exactly everyone in Gaoling County!”
"Although our Gaoling does not have a wealthy family for the time being, it will be difficult to do it if it takes a long time!" Ma Zhou frowned.
"It's okay. Let the students from the Agricultural Institution replace officials every year, and conduct a census on the entire Gaoling County once a year!"
Li Tai said simply, “Especially let students from other places do it, local students supervise it, and the results are counted into credits.
If something goes wrong, the reported local students will receive credits, so it is absolutely sufficient at least in the hands of people.”
"This seems to be simulating the clear amount of land!" As soon as Li Tai's words came out, Ma Zhou immediately reacted.
To be honest, Ma Zhou has never seen such a way to use students directly.
Only one county has students from the agricultural college to conduct a comprehensive census, and Ma Zhou feels that Li Tai is preparing very well!
"Just clear the amount of land!" Li Tai looked at Ma Zhou's energetic appearance and knew that he could not continue to pretend to be confused.
After all, with Ma Zhou's talent, even though he did not expect the real purpose of these students due to historical limitations, as long as he calmed down and thought about this, he believed that Ma Zhou would immediately understand Li Tai's true purpose of cultivating agricultural students.
So, Li Tai showed up to Ma Zhou and said, "I remember what I have always said.
Students from agricultural institutions were trained to become spokespersons for poor farmers and wait for opportunities to make them local agricultural officials.
From a small perspective, it is to spread the past agricultural knowledge learned from agricultural institutions and increase the yield per mu of land.
But the real purpose is to hope that they can cooperate with the court and strengthen the court's control over the grassroots level!"
Hearing this, Ma Zhou was shocked when he looked at Li Tai. Ma Zhou suddenly stood up and bowed to Li Tai:
"Ma Zhou is willing to work hard and help the king complete this plan!"
Li Tai glanced at Bai He who was constantly making records, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Ma Zhou up, "What are you doing like this?"
Li Tai shook his head and said, "This is just an idea. It will take ten or twenty years, or even longer to realize this idea.
No one even knows whether it is really useful. Let’s continue to implement it first. Let’s talk about this plan in the future!”
Ma Zhou said seriously, "Although this plan is extremely difficult, it is a dignified way.
Even if the aristocratic families know the use of these agricultural students, as long as their land still wants to increase their yields, they must accept the students.
And whenever these students go, they will become the eyes and ears of the court, helping the court see the people below clearly."
Li Tai was not confused about this issue, but continued:
"After completing the census, we can find ways to absorb the population and enter our county town.
If you are a refugee, you need to work for Gaoling, build bridges and roads for the county town, and contribute your labor before you can be allowed to join.
Another type is to fail the exam. As long as you are willing to settle down in Gaoling, we will let them settle down and help them solve the problems of housing and work. After all, agricultural institutions always lack teachers!”
"Then the next thing is taxes and labor service!" Ma Zhou couldn't help but press the temple,
"We don't need to worry too much this year. Not to mention that this county was built by adults last year. According to convention, the tax burden on land for the first year will generally be exempted.
Of course, because I couldn't grow any good things in the first year of cultivation, the court would not eat this life-saving food.
However, taxes can be exempted, but corvee may not be exempted. When the farming season is slack this year, the court may come to ask people to act as corvee!
Regardless of whether the court has distributed corvee service or not, I think adults must be prepared.”
"Corresponse..." Li Tai thought for a while when he heard Ma Zhou's thoughts,
"I think so, can you figure out how many people we need to be corvee-service.
I plan to organize a group of people directly to let them be responsible for the county's corvee service.
Others who do not want to be corvee-service can replace corvee-service by paying some money or a piece of silk cloth."
"Don't worry, you have been in the Northern Wei Dynasty since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and I followed this system!"
Ma Zhou smiled and said, "It is normal for the king to not understand this matter. The king can think of this method by just thinking. It is really a talent for Ganluo!"
Li Tai knew that the Tang Dynasty's rent-in-one regime was quite famous, but he really didn't expect that this thing would actually exist in the Northern Wei Dynasty. He thought that this thing was only developed when Li Longji was in fact.
However, Li Tai also said calmly, "Since that's the case, I won't say anything more, but that service team needs to be added to those who know how to calculate!"
"The service only needs coolies, why do you have to join the computing talent?" Ma Zhou said in confusion when he heard Li Tai's words.
"Because only by calculating the total amount of the project, calculating how much to do every day, and how long it takes to do it well, the remaining time belongs to these people. Only in this way can the enthusiasm of the people be stimulated.
Otherwise, let them serve in a daze, wouldn’t this just let them live a mess!”
Li Tai shook his head, accustomed to the modern rhythm of 996 and 007. In ancient times, the rhythm of being a monk hitting the bell on a day was really despised by Li Tai.
How could such a rhythm make China become an infrastructure madman again?
I am still planning to create wonders in the future. I am afraid that I will be scolded as a fool if I rely on corvee!