To be honest, Li Tai's efforts to control pollution are actually quite consistent with the entire Chinese worldview.
Because everyone pays attention to the unity of nature and man, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, so if something like a steel mill appears, even if the country will carry out large-scale production for profit, in fact, in the social environment of the Tang Dynasty, it will
received considerable hostility.
Because it is difficult for ordinary people to directly enjoy the benefits brought by steel production, but it is very easy to cause damage due to steel production.
It's a bit like the people in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China who would hit the train with hoes. They didn't know what the train would bring them. They just knew that the buzzing sound of the train would make their ancestors uneasy.
Under such circumstances, the environmental protection system that Li Tai originally created to prevent direct criticism from officials was actually quite unacceptable to many Confucian scholars.
If this can enhance national strength, they will be more supportive.
After all, Confucianism in this era has not yet reached the stage where Ming Confucianism and Qing Confucianism are as bad as Confucianism, and they also want to develop.
"Okay, then this matter is over!" Li Shimin nodded and no longer pursued the matter.
After all, this time, Li Tai can directly re-build a steel city in Chang'an. To a certain extent, it is equivalent to handing over technology. Li Tai has cooperated so much, so what else can he say?
In contrast, Li Shimin had a headache as to how many craftsmen he had to arrange for the entire blast furnace.
Again, Li Shimin has no shortage of top talents, but even Li Shimin doesn't dare to say that he has more than the backbone of general apprentices to master craftsmen.
After all, Li Tai's road construction also attracted many master craftsmen from the imperial court.
Building roads on Henan Road is not only a matter for Li Tai, but also a matter for the entire country.
Under such circumstances, even if the court cannot support it financially, if there is a surplus of talent reserves on hand, then if Li Tai says he wants to dispatch them, then he will dispatch them.
Now that a steel city has popped up, Yan Lide of the Ministry of Industry must be having a headache.
"Now it's another matter, whether the academy soldiers should maintain a relatively complete organization!" Li Shimin said solemnly.
"Keep the complete establishment..." Li Tai couldn't help but froze when he heard Li Shimin's words, and said,
"It's not necessary. Didn't our Tang Dynasty adopt the army army system? Even if they don't leave after the war, the first batch of people should retire this year!"
When Li Shimin heard what Li Tai said, he glared at Li Tai fiercely and said, "Once you are a soldier, you will be a soldier all your life. Even if you retire temporarily, you will still be recruited for war when you receive orders in the future, unless...
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When Li Shimin thought of this, something suddenly occurred to him, and he glared at Li Taidao fiercely,
"You want them to retire so much. Could it be that you have already arranged their future lives?"
"I want to recruit them to build roads with me!" Li Tai said to Li Shimin calmly and loudly.
"Building roads?!" Li Shimin listened to Li Tai's words, slapped the dragon chair hard, pointed at Li Tai angrily, and said,
"Do you think what you are saying is human? You actually let these elite soldiers follow you to do corvee work. What you said will chill the hearts of many soldiers!"
"Well, if I give you money, it's not considered corvee, it's work!" Li Tai said seriously, "Working for the country."
"Stay tough!" Li Shimin was full of anger. What did he say? Did he say that he asked the corvee to work without paying him!
Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little afraid, but he still said forcefully: "I know this is a bit excessive.
But they have the ability to adapt to their talents, and the load they can carry is really amazing.
Not necessarily for other jobs, but for work on construction sites, we really need people like them!"
Li Tai was sincere at this moment. After all, even if this society is a little bit fantasy and the people's physical fitness has been enhanced a little, for transforming nature, this enhancement is really not obvious.
But these soldiers with adaptive talents, let them go to the construction site to work, each of them can carry their own weight astonishingly.
Why are people like this fighting? Come here and move bricks. Moving bricks has such a promising future. I will also subsidize you!
"You still said that!" Li Shimin was even more dumbfounded when he heard Li Tai's words.
After knowing such soldiers, I wished I could make a copy to make my Tang Dynasty even more powerful.
But after Li Tai found out, he actually wanted to let these soldiers disarm and return to their fields, release their horses to Nanshan and do corvee work...
What are these things!
"Anyway, Duke Wei is here. If my father wants these soldiers, he can just train a batch of them. There is no need to keep an eye on the academy soldiers!"
Li Tai said helplessly, "They finally walked away from the battlefield. Let them have a good rest so that they don't have to go to the battlefield again. Isn't it good?"
When Li Jing saw that this matter involved him, he stood up and saluted Li Shimin, and then said to Li Tai:
"King Wei, with an elite force of between 4,000 and 500,000, it is still valuable to retain this kind of army!
Although our Tang Dynasty adopts the system of imperial soldiers, generally the general retains the talents of his personal soldiers. When the imperial soldiers are summoned, they train while marching, and when they fight on the battlefield, they can basically master the talents and abilities.
But the academy soldiers are different. They have completed the refinement of weapon mastery and adaptive talent. It would be a pity to adopt this method.
Because the soldiers may not follow the same commander in the next battle, that is to say, if they are recruited next time, the commanding army will be different, and the leading generals will be different, so the adaptive talents they have finally smelted and mastered the weapons will be washed away.
Therefore, it is more inclined to retain the elites who have experienced the battle of defeating more with less and mastered the smelting of weapons.
Instead of adopting the method of ordinary generals, retaining personal soldiers and disbanding government soldiers."
"Does Aye mean to retain this army of academy soldiers and continue to be stationed in Xihai County?" Li Tai asked curiously.
"Under normal circumstances, this academy soldier is only suitable for honing his adaptive talents in a special place like Xihai County!"
When Li Jing said this, he couldn't help but look at Li Tai, and then said,
"But since the King of Wei can provide more than 160 kilograms of armor for the academy soldiers to train, in fact the academy soldiers can be trained anywhere.
Then they have the foundation to be permanently stationed in Chang'an and provide support to the surrounding areas at any time, and the support is provided by heavy infantry, which means a different meaning."
Li Tailuo said with some incomprehension: "Can't Duke Wei train soldiers with the same talent?"
"Talent is easy to train, just pick one up." As expected, Li Jing did not express any difficulty in this.
But Li Jing quickly added, "But the talent is still the same, but the people who can master it will be the same?!
Although I can directly use military formations to apply talents as needed, if I want my soldiers to truly master this talent, the soldiers themselves also need to expend sweat.
Especially the talent of adaptability...their food should not be ordinary rice!"
When Li Tai heard Li Jing's words, he thought for a moment and said, "Having meat in every meal is a high requirement?"
After hearing this, several people present wanted to sew Li Tai's mouth shut.
Wei Zheng, in particular, wanted to scold Li Tai. What does it mean to have meat for every meal? Is it a high requirement? I am afraid that even some landlords may not be able to achieve this.
When Li Jing heard Li Tai's words, he looked at Fang Xuanling with rather critical eyes.
It seems to be saying, look at others doing logistics, and look at you doing logistics, can our army eat meat once every half a month?
Fang Xuanling was not afraid of Li Jing's gaze. This condition was not to mention a soldier. Even if a scholar-bureaucrat wanted to be afraid, he would need to have a mine at home.
Look at the guy next to you named Wei Zheng and see if he can do it.
Therefore, this kind of standard is simply not something that normal people can achieve. King Wei can do it because he is a monster!
Although the two of them only glanced at each other, they had already exchanged thousands of words mentally.
"Ahem!" Li Jing coughed a few times and said, "Is there so much meat in Xihai County?!"
Li Tai said matter-of-factly: "I didn't arrange the grass seeding plan somewhere, Wang Xuance is the person in charge of the grass seeding plan.
Although the ultimate goal is to allow the local people to integrate into the Tang Dynasty from nomads to farming.
But this process must be profitable in order for this plan to continue, and it is not just Datang’s unilateral contribution!
And the increasing amount of mutton in Youzhou, don’t you want to see it?”
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling said helplessly:
"Although Youzhou's production is mainly cattle, horses and sheep, in fact, along the canal, it is basically digested in Guandong. Not a single cattle or sheep can pass through Hulao Pass and reach Chang'an. However, some horses can be sent here every year!"
In addition to the cattle that were traded, a large part of the cattle were taken over by the Agricultural Society and leased to the local people.
As for the sheep, Li Tai thought about it. He usually likes to eat mutton hot pot in winter and roasted whole sheep in summer...
It's definitely not my fault, it must be that the output in Youzhou is too low, so the market in Luoyang can't digest it!
As for pork, it existed in this era, but it was not famous for one reason or another.
Li Tai occasionally eats pork, but he wanted to try large-scale production, but in the end he couldn't scale up.
It's very simple. There is no feed suitable for pigs. For cattle, sheep and horses, specially selected grass seeds can be used as staple food. I occasionally add some food to them. Generally, cattle, sheep and horses can be raised well.
But pigs are different. If they are just raised individually, it would be enough for the people to get some pig grass and feed the pigs when they go back.
But if I want to raise food on a large scale, I definitely need a kind of feed, and this kind of feed cannot compete with others for food. Otherwise, I will not be able to raise food on a large scale until at least the food overflows.
Therefore, the scale of pigs cannot be increased now. At least compared to cattle, horses and sheep, the cost of large-scale breeding of pigs is much higher.
Thanks to the grass seeding plan, the scale of cattle, horses and sheep is getting bigger and bigger, and it must be mentioned that the fields sown in the grass seed plan are not the fields used to cultivate normal wheat and rice grains, so the increase in the scale of cattle, horses and sheep is an increase.
income.
Under such circumstances, beef and pork may sometimes be cheaper.
Li Tai further explained: "The mutton in Youzhou can be preserved as much as possible through the canal, and the ice cubes dug in the winter are preserved as much as possible, but the mutton in Xihai County is basically not available due to the long distance.
Probably sold to Chang'an.
So solving it on the spot is the best way. They get angry after eating meat, so they need tea every time they get supplies!"
"..." Both Hou Junji and Li Jing had been to Xihai County. They looked at each other and understood that Li Tai was right.
The soldiers who did not participate in Li Tai's logistics operations that time were reluctant to part with the cattle, horses and sheep. Those cattle and sheep they brought with them were basically gone on the road. They were either dead and eaten by everyone, or lost and eaten by everyone.
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The distance from Xihai County to Chang'an may not be far, but unless it's for selling horses or something, the merchants will be desperate if they only sell mutton.
No one is willing to do this kind of loss-making business.
"In Xihai County, not only mutton, but also beef should be available because there is no farming!" Li Tai said.
"They also eat beef!" Wei Zheng couldn't help but raise his voice a few times when he heard this.
"The yaks from Xihai County can't get down to the plateau. They will be burned to death when they come down, and the taste is just average. But if you pay more, it should taste better than the beef from the Central Plains!" Li Tai said.
Hearing this, even Li Shimin couldn't help it and said: "How dare you comment!"
"Ahem!" Li Tai finally recovered and continued to explain,
“If the cattle and sheep raised under the grass seed plan cannot be consumed normally, they will have to be eaten.
In fact, I think we can discuss with Tibet whether they want these cattle and sheep, and if necessary, we can open up a trade route!"
"Tubo also has cattle and sheep, right?" Wei Zheng heard Li Tai's words and couldn't help asking Li Tai, "Do they need us?"
"The same is raising cattle and sheep, but the cost is different! To be honest, I think it is best to put these cattle and sheep directly in the East Women's Kingdom for trade. It is up to Tibet to decide whether they want them or not!" Li Tai shook his head.
road,
"If we can wipe out the cattle and sheep industry in Tubo...forget it, the distance is still a bit too far, but Xihai County definitely has an advantage in terms of cost.
If we can turn Dongnü Kingdom into a commercial city, this may also show the sincerity of our Datang!"
To be honest, it is actually very difficult for a commercial city like this to become the gateway to the country.
This is why Li Tai did not use Youzhou City as a treaty port, but specifically redeveloped Tianjin from scratch.
To a certain extent, if you want the economy of this place to be active, then the moral integrity of the people in this place will become quite flexible. If you let them take on the important role of protecting the country, it will conflict with their own interests.
, they will hesitate to some extent.
So in fact, if the border army is too involved in trade, it will be very easy to be corrupted.
And using this method, Tubo originally wanted to build a barrier against the Tang Dynasty in Dongnu Kingdom, so it is very likely that this place will become Tubo's weakness.
"When Tibet comes to pay tribute this year, you can go to Honglu Temple and ask yourself!" Li Shimin said solemnly,
"It's just that if this is the case, will the food and treatment of the academy soldiers drop when they arrive in Chang'an?"
"That's not enough. If we don't have mutton or beef, we still have chicken. Besides, we Tang people eat rice and noodles as our staple food. I believe they ate meat at the border for three years, and their lives are not very comfortable after all!" Li Tai was very happy!
He said calmly.
"King Wei, look at what you said!" Hou Junji, who had been listening by the side at this moment, couldn't help it anymore.
He eats meat every day, but his own bodyguards don’t get such treatment!