After Li Tai and Ma Zhou finished discussing, Ma Zhou did not immediately write a letter, but instead sorted out the contents of the discussion with Li Tai. Especially this matter is related to how the imperial court collects taxes, Ma Zhou dared not be careless.
As time passed, because there was no time to send Jie Li Khan to Chang'an before the dynasty meeting, Li Shimin ordered Jie Li to be imprisoned in Luoyang first. When Li Jing led the army back, he would offer prisoners to Taimiao together.
Therefore, the Grand Court is held normally. Long live the dance. Basically, the Grand Court does not look like a rigorous meeting at all, but rather like a group of demons dancing in the court.
Li Tai and Li Chengqian both attended this grand ceremony. This was the first time that the two of them stood at the court meeting at the same time, and they happened to be on the left and right, standing in front of all civil and military officials as princes.
The only difference is that Li Chengqian is born to stand here because he is the prince.
Li Tai stood here to help solve the problem of the victims, and stood here with his merits.
Li Tai and Li Chengqian looked at each other, and no one knew whether there was any electric light in their eyes.
No matter what, because he defeated the Turks, from Li Shimin to all civil and military officials, everyone knew clearly that no matter how bad the next year was, at least there was no need to worry about being bullied by foreign races.
As the Secretary of the Shangshu Zuo Pushe, Fang Xuanling briefly summarized and looked forward to the achievements made this year and the arrival of the new year.
Then Li Shimin selected several officials to inquire about the results of this year, which was considered part of the process of the Grand Court.
For many small officials who may not be able to see Li Shimin once in a year, if Li Shimin is lucky and he is transferred to him and his answer is excellent, he might be able to rise to the top and give Li Shimin a good impression.
Finally, the ceremony ended with the ritual meeting in the dance of the demons.
Li Tai returned to the Yue Palace and began to take out a pen, recalling Fang Xuanling's words, which were related to the future development of the Tang Dynasty.
Bai He looked at Li Tai and couldn't help but say:
"King, this dynasty meeting has just returned, so I won't change this dress first. It's so troublesome to wear this dress!"
Well, what you can wear in the big court cannot even be considered a court uniform, but should be considered a dress.
Basically, I only wore this once a year, and the whole set of prince's dress weighs at least a dozen pounds, which is indeed quite uncomfortable.
While speaking, Bai He skillfully changed Li Tai's clothes, and Li Tai also changed into casual clothes he wore in the Yue Palace.
Bai He did all this and came to Li Tai's desk to polish the ink, which was quite interesting to add fragrance to the red sleeves.
Li Tai looked at Bai He and polished the ink and said, "Bai He, do you want to manage foreign affairs?"
"But what did I do wrong? I just want to follow King Yue!" Bai He's expression changed when he heard Li Tai's words.
"Okay..." Li Tai nodded in understanding and said, "Then you go and find the peacock, I have something to do with her!"
"As for order!" Bai He quickly agreed when he heard Li Tai's words.
Li Tai watched Bai He leave and sighed slightly. He was not enough of his hands!
Compared to becoming a strong woman in power, Bai He is good at being a young secretary by his side to check for omissions.
In fact, Bai He is a scholarly family, and he is not bad at all when dealing with chores around him. He obviously has good abilities.
But as women of this era, they still rely instinctively on men, rather than seizing every opportunity to gain power.
This made Li Tai very helpless, because Li Tai really needed a tool person who could work!
"I can only continue to find a way to find a way!" Li Tai took a deep breath, turned his eyes to the white paper, picked up his pen and started writing the text, mainly to summarize Fang Xuanling's outlook and summary at the annual meeting.
"From the words of Fang Xiang today, with the great defeat of the Turks, the oppression of the external environment of the Tang Dynasty declined, so the Tang Dynasty began to adjust its governance strategy. At least starting from this year, more resources will be spent on the Tang Dynasty, rather than
On external conquests.
Moreover, in recent years, the Tang Dynasty has suffered continuous disasters and needs to recuperate and restore its national strength.
In other words, the political tone of the entire Zhenguan should be to reduce extravagant fees, reduce taxes and select good officials.
During the Zhenguan period, the Tang Dynasty was able to quickly recover its national strength after suffering disasters and fighting against the Turks, which was because of the light taxes and levies.
This method of governance by inaction is the most suitable method at the beginning of the founding of the country. At least in Tuyuhun, the Tang Dynasty will win a long period of peace, which is quite important
But it’s not only the Tang Dynasty, but even I need time to make arrangements and truly play the role of the agricultural institution!”
Li Tai took a deep breath, "The years have been quite precious to me!"
"King of Yue!" Just as Li Tai was thinking, the door was knocked, and Bai He said, "The Peacock is here!"
"Come in!" Li Tai replied calmly, and soon saw the peacock coming in.
Baihe came behind Li Tai and continued to help Li Tai polish the ink, without any disturbances because of the arrival of the peacock.
"See King Yue!" Peacock looked a little panicked when he saw Li Tai, and quickly saluted.
Li Tai nodded and said to Peacock:
"The big shop is doing a good job. After a while, Binwang will come to you.
At that time, he will hand over the coal industry in his hands to you, so you must be prepared!"
"Leave it to me?" Peacock looked a little confused when he heard Li Tai's words, and he didn't expect that he would be responsible for this matter.
Li Tai continued: "I will give you the direction of industrial planning. You just need to implement the direction I plan!"
"As for your order!" Peacock was relieved when he heard Li Tai's words, and he was filled with confidence in an instant.
Compared with the people in the court who evaluated Li Tai only as a capable official, but Li Tai's subordinates all recognized Li Tai's ability to plan and layout.
At least in their opinion, Li Tai's plan has taken considerable contribution to the entire Gaoling being able to flourish so much.
"Bai He, go and get the map of Guanzhong!" Li Tai said to Bai He.
"Okay, king!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Bai He quickly went over and brought a map over.
Li Tai took the map and opened it one by one. It was a map of Guanzhong, but the most detailed one was the tributaries of the Wei River.
Li Tai said to Peacock: "After you took over the coal industry, you mainly work hard in two directions.
First, with the Wei River as a link, establishing a coal system that starts the preliminary processing of coal mines as the first step, processing coal products in Gaoling as the second step, and finally transports all coal products to the entire Guanzhong through the Wei River."
"If we do this, the cost of coal will become very high. What profit can we make!" Peacock frowned.
"Sometimes the importance of location is more important than the origin of minerals, and you need to remember that we sell not just coal, but the standard of selling!" Li Tai said calmly, "You just need to build this system to improve it.
Now.”
"Abide by the order!" Although Peacock didn't understand, she still agreed.
Li Tai looked at the Peacock and continued: "Then the second point is to establish a laboratory to conduct a comprehensive study of the properties of coal.
This research is mainly to accumulate knowledge of the basic properties of coal, such as burning at a higher temperature, burning for longer periods, being able to merge with iron and producing steel, etc.
Don’t be afraid of spending money, just spend money specifically to make people study and study all information about coal, whether it is useful or not!
This thing is our foundation, and we need all its information!”
"I understand!" Peacock immediately agreed when he heard Li Tai's words.
Li Tai said this and continued as if he thought of something, "If the big shop enters the stable period, you can let go slowly.
It is just a tool to revitalize Gaoling. Now Gaoling no longer needs big shops to continue to contribute to bricks and tiles.
But if you keep holding on to the cloth, you can try to use money to improve the machine to increase the efficiency of weaving.
However, the most important thing is to find a way to master more raw materials for silk fabrics.
After all, once the weaving efficiency is improved, the cloth raw materials you have now will definitely not be enough!"
"The cloth raw materials are basically grasped by the Kanto family. If you intervene rashly, it will probably cause misunderstandings from the other party!" Peacock said with a wry smile.
To be honest, if there are not enough channels in this era, it will be very difficult to cross states or even cross roads to do business.
Even though King Yue stood behind him, Li Tai's influence was not at all due to Guanzhong.
Raw materials are often controlled by wealthy families. Even if Peacock wants to intervene, it is almost impossible to bypass the wealthy families and acquire them directly from the people based on the other party's local complex connections.
Li Tai said calmly: "I know that it is very difficult to compete in the same track, so it's better to cross the border!
I made a cotton called white folding, which is also a kind of silk fabric. Baihe also used it to knit a piece of clothing for Changle.
Unfortunately, this kind of textile is both water and ate the land, and it is also consuming all of it. Planting it in Guanzhong is too much of a grain-based land.
You can try to send someone to Yongzhou, Lingzhou, Fengzhou, where the Yellow River passes, or you can find a land to try planting in Qinzhou, upstream of the Wei River.
Only when you have your own raw materials can you have the foundation of your life.
Otherwise, it would be too easy for Zheng Fengchi to cut you off the cloth industry you have in your hands, not to mention others!”
Peacock was sweating profusely when he heard Li Tai's words and hurriedly said, "I must do this!"
"Yeah! Go down!" Li Tai said to Peacock, "Don't be too anxious, take your time, we still have time!"
The peacock didn't dare to talk too much, so she went down soon.
After all, for Peacock, he found a direction and wanted to carry out this matter thoroughly, he would definitely have this ability.
As the peacock left, Li Tai couldn't help but think deeply.
"Cotton is so good at territorial land. Especially if you want to plant it in the hinterland of China, you will compete with grain for land. It is better to plant it in Longxi, and even when you attack Tuyuhun, you will offer it to the army as military supplies.
The most important thing is that after the Tuyuhun is defeated, cotton should be planted in places like Xinjiang and Qinghai. With economic interests as a link, the relationship between the border areas and the Central Plains will become closer.
Even if I don’t promote cotton by myself, I think the court will take the initiative to promote it!
Let’s fall first as a step of leisure.”
Li Tai took a deep breath. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty decisively gave up the Western Regions. A very important reason was that the benefits brought by the Western Regions were insufficient.
As long as it is worth enough, Li Tai believes that not to say that the Western Regions are originally the territory of China. Even if it is not, he will try his best to naturalize it without giving up.
However, as long as cotton is formed into a certain scale and everyone understands its value, the emperor will generally take the initiative to promote it, and Li Tai does not need to worry about anything.
In comparison, coal has been used in China for a long time, but it has never really paid attention to coal.
Don’t say anything else, after discovering their effects, things like salt, iron, and tea will decisively collect taxes.
However, although coal is also mined in large quantities, it only regards coal as a simple fuel, just like wood.
Therefore, Li Tai wants to integrate the entire coal system as much as possible and promote the development of coal through scale and industry.
To be honest, both Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling saw Li Tai's actions of integrating the coal system.
But they don't care, because in their eyes, coal is just fuel for burning things.
It is neither food nor clothing. At most, it is just materials for heating in winter. It is nothing if Li Tai monopolized.
Even if there is any problem, you can't use coal, but you can use wood to burn things, and there are quite a few things that can replace coal.
Under such circumstances, they let Li Tai integrate the coal industry.
After all, after Li Tai is integrated, even if he is levied coal tax in the future, he will just look for Li Tai directly.
Because those privately opened black coal mines cannot be taxed if they want to tax them!
After the grand court meeting, the peaceful days passed day by day, and everyone was waiting for Li Jing to return to the court, and then offered prisoners to the Taimiao.
At this moment, Ma Zhou's memorial "On the Canal Transport" was handed over to the court, and the court also started to discuss it for a while.
Because Ma Zhou took Gaoling Wharf as an example, he gave detailed examples of the rich benefits brought by the prosperity of the wharf.
However, in this process, due to the lack of specific management rules and regulations of the court, ship shipping has no taboos, and it is easy to transport contraband. At the same time, this circulation has brought about further development of commerce.
However, the most important thing is that the canal transportation itself consumes a lot of labor, but these labor does not pay taxes.
This invisibly weakened the national strength of the court.
Therefore, Ma Zhou believed that the court paid taxes on industries such as the court that needed to consume a lot of labor.
This tax payment is not to suppress this industry, but to recognize this industry, just like the court's recognition of farmers.
Because Ma Zhou was considered the direct descendant of the Yue Palace, he suddenly submitted such a memorial, which made the entire court feel a little nervous.
Especially those censors who have always been biting Li Tai, they all quietly quieted when they saw this memorial, and everyone's eyes looked at Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian felt everyone's eyes and thought silently in his heart, "It depends on what I do, it's not my command!"