"Ahem!" Fang Xuanling coughed a few times and said, "King Wei, is there any way for the soldiers of Chang'an to eat meat stably?"
Fang Xuanling finally understood and shouldn't come here today.
But now with the soldiers raised by King Wei as a comparison, if the army's food cannot be improved, I don't know what kind of trouble these generals will have in the future!
But the reality is a little bit. Who in the past has been as noisy as King Wei.
You others don’t know why the country chose the government-military system. Don’t you, the soldiers, know how difficult it is to be a soldier?!
Who doesn’t know that the military recruitment system is good, but it costs money?
In contrast, the military system is much better. Basically, most of the military's expenses are borne by the soldiers themselves.
It would be better if the country only raised the top elites, such as Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army, such as the Yuancong Forbidden Army of the Tang Dynasty. This would save a lot of military expenses.
"I don't have such great ability!" Li Tai replied thoughtfully,
"This is not easy, because the usually available mutton and beef...pork are actually very difficult to breed on a large scale near Chang'an.
Because the fields near Chang'an are more suitable for growing wheat for human consumption, and there is not enough feed, there are naturally no conditions for large-scale breeding."
When Fang Xuanling heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and glanced around, feeling a sense of majesty.
This is not because he does not want to provide benefits to everyone, but even the King of Wei himself may not be able to do this.
But Li Tai didn't see what Fang Xuanling meant and thought to himself:
"So the only livestock that can be raised around Chang'an are chickens, ducks and geese.
This requires selecting a suitable village or town as a pilot project, and then collecting the husks and bran of wheat millet from surrounding cities through the Wei River, grinding them, and using them as feed for poultry.
In this case, the poultry will not need more people to compete for food, so that large-scale production is possible.
As for how large a poultry market the wheat bran and rice husks from the upper and lower reaches of the Wei River can support, to be honest, I don’t know. I need to find a village and town to try it before I know!”
Li Tai spread his hands to show that he was helpless.
After all, although I also have a chicken farm and duck farm in Gaoling, it is not intended to supply the entire Chang'an army.
But even so, the reasons for feeding have limited the scale of their breeding.
If Fang Xuanling is willing to use a county or city as a breeding farm and integrate the rice husks and wheat bran from the entire upper and lower reaches of the Wei River, he can actually support it.
However, this is equivalent to turning a county around Chang'an into a satellite city with a relatively single industry, relying on Chang'an to exist.
Of course, the most important thing here is easy to say, that is, sometimes if chicken plague occurs, the entire county or city will basically suffer a devastating blow.
It is very important to ensure that local people can get through this process.
"If the Prime Minister wants technology, my poultry industry can lend you manpower.
But one thing you need to know is that chicken plague is very likely to occur when the number of poultry reaches more than a hundred.
Although I have preventive measures, I can't guarantee that chickens and ducks will never get sick.
So if we establish this kind of prefecture and county, we need to take precautions against chicken plague and the like!"
Li Tai said to Fang Xuanling very carefully, "So my property usually has five hundred to one thousand poultry per property.
Even if there is a chicken plague and all the poultry in a certain place are directly dealt with, it will not be too distressing relatively speaking!"
When Fang Xuanling heard Li Tai's words, she couldn't help but stroke her beard and felt that Li Tai's suggestion was quite good.
If it is possible, at least give it a try first. At the worst, the warehouses established at the beginning should be given priority to supply to this pilot town.
"Of course, I think the best way is to build a Chi Road from Chang'an to Luoyang!" Li Tai decisively recommended the idea he had always wanted to do.
"As long as this road is built, supplies from the entire Guandong can be sent to Chang'an as quickly as possible.
At the same time, Chang’an’s government orders can also be conveyed as soon as possible!”
"How much does it cost?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice after hearing Li Tai's words!
"It should be cheaper than building the Grand Canal!" Li Tai made a simple comparison using the canal.
"Do you still want to build the Grand Canal?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows when he heard Li Tai's words!
"No, no, the Grand Canal has been built, so there's no point in changing its course!" Li Tai said calmly.
"King Wei, please stop talking!" Du Ruhui hurriedly advised Li Shimin when he saw that he was getting angry.
Although Li Tai insisted, he was not an idiot after all, especially when facing Li Shimin, he said decisively,
"Aye, what I mean is that I don't have a specific estimate for the construction of this road. After all, it is more than three hundred miles away.
Now that I am building an expressway on Henan Road, I can evaluate the project from the side. If it can be repaired, it will be repaired again!"
Li Shimin nodded after hearing Li Tai's words.
Although what Li Tai said made people very angry, if it were not his own son, he would probably tear his mouth apart.
But Li Tai still acted very safely. Even if he wanted to build a Chi Road from Luoyang to Chang'an, he would first test it on Henan Road.
"Okay, let's stop here. When Xue Rengui and the academy soldiers finish visiting their relatives, they will be incorporated into the Yuanwu Forbidden Army.
Stationed in Chang'an all year round, they will be officially converted into soldiers of the imperial court, and you don't need to advance any more money!" Li Shimin said.
Li Tai heard Li Shimin's words and said, "Well, Aye, are the academy soldiers still going to be stationed in Xihai County for training?"
"What do you think!" Li Shimin heard Li Tai's question and said: "Continue to train over there. Once these soldiers are trained, they will be replenished when they retire!"
When Li Tai heard this, he couldn't help but shook his head and said, "The oldest of these soldiers is only twenty-two or three years old.
How long will it take for them to retire? I think a certain number of places can be opened up for Chang'an academy soldiers every year.
Let the academy soldiers who have returned from the plateau choose outstanding ones to add to it.
But for the remaining retired soldiers, I think we should organize them to move bricks!"
"King Wei, how obsessed are you with moving bricks!" Hou Junji couldn't laugh or cry when he heard Li Tai's words. He stood up and saluted, saying,
"This group of ministers feel that a place like Xihai County, which has been tempered by the right time and place and has meat, is an excellent place to train troops.
If the soldiers who come out of there can master the talents and adaptability familiarly, they can also adapt to other army operations very easily.
Each of them can be used as a corps commander, and it would be more appropriate to add them to other armies!"
"Then I will carry a corvee load of one hundred and sixty kilograms..." Li Tai looked at Li Shimin with hopeful eyes at this moment.
"What corvee? These are soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!" Li Shimin said to Li Tai seriously, "Don't humiliate the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!"
Just kidding, such an elite force is doing corvee work for you. If you hadn't trained such a force with your own son, Li Shimin would have wanted to kick Li Tai out of the Tai Chi Palace.
Do you know what your sister's thing is called a violent destruction? It's not like you can't bring out their combat effectiveness by tempering the adaptive talent of weapon mastery, but your mind is full of corvee, corvee, corvee.
This world is not only about corvee labor, but such an elite team is actually used for corvée labor. You are crazy!
Li Tai looked at Li Shimin, and it was obvious that the corvee he had prepared for himself was gone.
"Um... Aye, do you have anything else to do?" Li Tai looked at Li Shimin and asked weakly.
"No more for now!" Li Shimin thought that the main reason he wanted Li Tai to come back was to ask about Xue Rengui and others' refusal to dismantle the establishment, and where Li Tai got so much steel.
Now Li Tai has answered these two questions. Although the other questions are mixed and mixed, in essence, they are just derivatives of these two questions.
The most important thing was to search for the talents that Li Tai had saved up like a squirrel, and he immediately felt refreshed.
"I do!" Li Tai bit down on these two words and said, "Aye still remembers the population problem we once talked about!"
"Oh..." Li Shimin couldn't help but look serious when he heard this. Even Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui also looked serious.
Li Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, while Hou Junji looked left and right, with a confused look on his face.
Hou Junji's eyes were full of doubts, everyone was on the same level, so why was it just me who was so confused!
"You came today because of this matter!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "What do you think?"
To be honest, Li Shimin knew very well why he was willing to let Li Tai establish an agricultural school and even took the initiative to protect Li Tai. Didn't he know that Li Tai would become Li Chengqian's competitor?
I knew it, but I couldn't help it. No one even noticed this problem before Li Tai.
And all of Li Tai's actions, whether right or wrong, are aimed at solving or alleviating the population.
Even the original postponement of women's age for marriage, although in Li Tai's view was to protect women, in Li Shimin's view, it was also a policy to slow down population saturation.
Therefore, Li Shimin is now looking forward to the recovery of China's population, but also has a headache about the recovery of China's population.
Because the population of China takes a step towards its peak, the closer the Tang Dynasty is to its fall.
This kind of feeling that one's own country has just been established and can see that it is destined to perish. To be honest, if there is a different emperor, it may have already begun to deteriorate.
After all, my own efforts have not made any fundamental changes to the rise and fall of the dynasty, so why bother working hard? Just let the population grow freely until the country can no longer bear it.
But Li Shimin is Li Shimin after all. Knowing this, he no longer has to be impatient when working but instead works towards safety.
But Li Shimin also knows that if some policies are sound, they will drive the population further towards the peak!
"It is now the twelfth year of Zhenguan, and more than ten years have passed since the household registration investigation during the Takeru period.
I think our household registration in Datang should have changed significantly. Although we cannot solve the problem, we must at least know the growth rate of the population.
So I think a comprehensive census of population or household registration should be conducted next year!" Li Tai said seriously.
"Household registration census?!" When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but look at Fang Xuanling.
When Fang Xuanling heard what Li Tai said, he couldn't help but stroke his beard and said: "What King Wei said is true.
It has been twelve years since Zhenguan, and it is indeed necessary to conduct a nationwide household registration census!
Even if we can't find a solution to the problem, we must at least understand the extent of the problem.
However, since King Wei raised this matter, he should have some ideas!"
"Xiao Wang has a little suggestion!" Li Tai stretched out his finger with a meaningful look.
Seeing Li Tai like this, Li Shimin said in a deep voice, "Don't make trouble, what do you think?!"
"I think that before the Chinese New Year, the state can organize a New Year's Eve event. As long as the people registered with the imperial court, they can go to the county to receive a portion of meat, a portion of dried fish, a portion of rice cakes, and a portion of chicken. !" Li Tai said.
"This..." Fang Xuanling couldn't help but fell silent when he heard Li Tai's words, and said in a deep voice,
"The time is too short, I am afraid that the material preparations will not be sufficient, and it will be difficult to send things from the county to the hands of the people!"
To be honest, doesn’t Fang Xuanling know about the fact that the imperial power does not go to the prefectures and counties? How is it possible!
As the first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, he was very aware of the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty, or to be more precise, the hidden dangers left over from the Han Dynasty.
The problem of aristocratic families has always been the main problem from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. Even though on the surface they no longer have the right to directly control the government, the remaining power of the aristocratic families is still entrenched at the grassroots level even after the Tang Dynasty conquered the world.
The so-called famous families are not the epitome of aristocratic families. They are always ready to counterattack the imperial court.
In fact, later aristocratic families also succeeded, especially after Wu Zetian completely defeated the Longxi nobles. Basically, the prime ministers were represented by aristocratic families with five surnames and seven looks.
It's just that because of the existence of the imperial examination system, the common people landlords appeared. To a certain extent, they were also aristocratic families, but they were a poor family among the family, or even a branch of the common people lower than the poor families.
It was not until the Huang Chao Uprising and the rise of Wu Fu in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that the family was completely crushed.
Even if there are still aristocratic families in China, at least they will not be the kind of top aristocratic families that directly control the political power. The imperial examination system has also created a slim and fair path for the common people to enter. Even now, the college entrance examination is still cross-class. The best way.
"Then let's make it smaller and distribute it to all students in agricultural colleges!" Li Tai looked at Li Shimin resolutely and said,
"Distribute it to every student with a student status in an agricultural university, no one can be left behind!"
Although sometimes Li Tai is soft and waxy, each guy does not say a word when using the talents he has worked so hard to cultivate.
But now, Li Tai looks at Li Shimin without flinching. This is not a show of strength, but a show of determination!
For Li Tai, the most important thing from beginning to end is the population. In this general direction, he will never waver in the slightest.
After all, during the Zhenguan era, the population was less than five million households. For Li Tai, it was really difficult for the Tang Dynasty to take steps towards the outside world.
Therefore, I must ensure the accuracy of population information. At this time, I proposed to issue annual festivals for agricultural institutions.
His orders can touch the entire agricultural school system, whether it is Jinkou, Agricultural Society, Medical Association, or even craftsmen, they can reach the bottom of society. Li Tai believes in the system he has built with his own hands.
"This is your own school, you make your own decision!" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai and said in a deep voice.