After coming out of the warehouse, Li Ke asked someone to make arrangements. Datang actually had similar warehouses before, but those warehouses were definitely not good at preventing rats, so Li Ke had someone build a new grain warehouse.
For example, when a large amount of grain is piled up, the temperature in the center of the grain will become higher, especially when it is hot in summer, so the construction of granaries is also very particular. Fortunately, Li Ke has books here. The earliest granary construction in China was certainly not It may be as advanced as a modern granary, but it must have come step by step.
The initial granary storage warehouse cannot be as big as a modern granary. It must be built smaller. In this case, it will be easier to solve problems with grain storage. For example, if the temperature and humidity are too high, we must find ways to solve them to avoid germination and mold. Changes, etc., these are all very complicated.
Fortunately, he has a set of processes here, and combined with the actual storage experience of the Tang Dynasty, the ancients also had quite a lot of experience in this area. These experiences are not completely useless, because modern people cannot imagine what it would be like under ancient conditions. The method is the best.
A combination of the two is the best.
At present, there are several storage granaries near Datang, but not many have been built. Li Ke simply told Tian Meng to arrange for a spare warehouse to be set aside, saying that he would place high-quality grain seeds in this warehouse in the future. Let people protect it first and then talk about it.
After doing this, Li Ke went into the palace to say hello to Fang Xuanling. The promotion of this matter still requires the cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture, or the Ministry of Land and Resources.
The original name was the Ministry of Land and Resources, with Gao Jifu, who was originally from Zhongshushe, as the minister. However, Li Shimin later changed the name to the Ministry of Agriculture because agriculture was very important in the Tang Dynasty. Li Ke didn't care, anyway. There's only so much work to do.
Some of the tasks of the Ministry of Land and Resources are indeed not that numerous in this era, and then the Ministry of Land and Resources was listed separately and Gao Jifu was responsible for it concurrently.
To put it bluntly, this department does not have that much work now, so it can be done together with the Ministry of Agriculture, but it may be useful in the future, so the department was established first.
The transportation of these grains is not that fast. It is estimated that it will take Li Ke almost a month.
While Li Ke was making these preparations, Xizhou.
Li Daozong and An Xinggui received the news of the use of troops in the Western Regions at almost the same time.
Seeing the order in his hand, An Xinggui took a deep breath. As expected of His Highness the King of Qin, this pattern is big. Either it doesn't move, or it moves, it will target the entire thirty-six countries in the Western Region.
A complete set of military maps was sent along with the order.
Maps derived from the improvement and redrawing of modern maps are actually considered artifacts in this era.
For more than a thousand years, large rivers have not changed much, such as major large mountain ranges. Let alone a thousand years, if you add a zero at the end, the estimated changes will not be that big. Of course, it cannot be said that there is no change at all, but when this change is reflected on the map, it is actually equivalent to no change.
The maps of this era... How should I put it? People like Li Ke who are not road crazy need a certain amount of knowledge to understand the maps of this era. The main reason is that they are too abstract, although the concept of scale already existed in the Tang Dynasty.
The earliest scale was from Pei Xiu of the Pei family in Hedong during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that he was the ancestor of Pei Xingjian.
However, although people in the Tang Dynasty drew maps with the concept of scale, they drew a house at the location of the village and a peak at the location of the mountain. Topography and other aspects were not reflected.
Unlike modern maps that have contour lines and so on, the map drawn by Li Ke naturally also has contour lines, which is completely similar to modern topographic maps.
Of course, it is also marked that there may be some discrepancies.
But after using the entire map... it is actually much more accurate than the Tang Dynasty map!
It has a larger error on small things, but its accuracy in general directions is absolutely unmatched.
The reason for this is naturally the result of more than a thousand years of vicissitudes of life.
To take one thing as an example, the area of Qinghai Lake in the Tang Dynasty was more than double the area of Qinghai Lake in later generations. Although standing on a high mountain, the approximate radius of Qinghai Lake does not seem to have increased much. But the area has increased a lot.
The reason for such a big gap is naturally due to the different number of rivers flowing into Qinghai Lake. Today's Qinghai Lake is much larger than that of later generations. Those rapeseed fields beside Qinghai Lake in later generations are now underwater.
An Xinggui had an idea after reading the entire map, but he did not take action immediately. Instead, he waited for Li Daozong to contact him.
Judging from the orders in the edict, Li Daozong must have received the order before him. After all, Xizhou was closer, and the connection between Xizhou and Longyou Road was actually increasing.
Last year alone, the caravan trade between the two increased hundreds of times than before. All kinds of goods were entering Longyou Road through Xizhou, especially in the direction of Dunhuang County. .
Some of the goods flowed back to the interior of Longyou Road through Dunhuang County, and some went to the Western Regions. There is also a way to reach Jincheng through the Yellow River, and then stretch through Jincheng to various places on Longyou Road.
So An Xinggui knew very well that Xizhou was now much richer than Longyou Road, not to mention that it was the place arranged by His Highness King Qin?
The most important thing in this order is that the troops dispatched this time should be mainly composed of troops from Xizhou and supplemented by troops from Longyou Road.
Why is this? Of course the difference is in quality.
During the Tang Dynasty's military reform, Longyou Dao naturally also underwent restructuring. The entire Longyou Dao currently had only 35,000 soldiers, but basically all of them were elite. Some of the older ones retired and returned to their local areas to become officials in the Tang Dynasty Public Security Department.
In addition to the special location of Longyou Road, there were about 50,000 soldiers in Longyou Road before, but now there are only 35,000 soldiers, but the number of local security officials has increased to 50,000.
The extra 50,000 officials just allowed the more than 30,000 government soldiers to no longer bear the burden of security work in the towns. Only a small number of city defense troops were retained, and most of them could be deployed to the borders. On the contrary, it strengthened the strength of Long Youdao.
You must know that of the 50,000 soldiers in Longyou Road, only 20,000 could be concentrated in border areas such as Dunhuang. The northern border was about 10,000, and the remaining 20,000 were distributed in various locations on Longyou Road.
Although the configuration is similar now, the more than 20,000 soldiers concentrated on the western border are no longer distributed in various towns, but concentrated in military camps. The ability to respond to emergencies has naturally improved.
