The money lost is enough for the Tang Dynasty to repair how many official roads, how many rivers are repaired, and how many things are solved? It can be said that... this is an unsolvable problem, and it is not impossible to solve it. That is, they opened a pit as soon as possible in the black soil located in the northeast.

They have detected the black soil in the northeast, including the climate around the black soil, when to plant and when to harvest each year, have been tested by professional agricultural personnel. Huo Gang did not deceive them. The land here is too fertile, enough for them to plant enough food.

Therefore, when the land here is reclaimed, it can naturally make up for the problem of a large piece of food shortage in the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, even so, the food in the Tang Dynasty was not enough. Li Tai knew this, his two brothers and father naturally knew it, and the ministers of the Tang Dynasty also knew it. Because the food consumption in the Tang Dynasty increased rapidly every year, these food consumption was not just a problem of the population growth of the people in the Tang Dynasty.

It also includes the problem of the increase in food consumption of the people themselves.

The reason is very simple. What did the people of the Tang Dynasty eat in the past? Even coarse grains are not enough! Living life is the first priority. When they used to eat noodles, bran was almost mixed into white flour. Although they were coarse grains and black steamed buns, they could at least eat them full.

The key point of the problem is that such black-faced steamed buns with bran were not enough for the people of the Tang Dynasty to eat! It is conceivable that the food shortage of the Tang Dynasty was in the Tang Dynasty.

And now? Not only can everyone have enough food for ordinary people, but the most important point is that most people no longer eat coarse grains. They have started to eat fine grains, and bran has been ground separately for feeding pigs, chickens, etc. to poultry and livestock, and add meat to the people's homes.

From these alone, it can be seen that the lives of the people in the Tang Dynasty were constantly improving, and this alone had to increase food consumption by one third. With the increase of fine grains, the previous ones were not very delicious. The area of ​​sorghum, corn, etc. was naturally decreasing.

Also, when people's lives are better, they will naturally have more normal pursuits, such as wine. Making wine requires a lot of food. In the past, ordinary people were almost impossible to drink the Tang Dynasty wine, or they only drank it once or twice in their lifetime.

However, when alcohol gradually became popular in the lives of ordinary people, the amount of alcohol consumed was a huge thing, and the same food consumed was naturally a huge number.

In addition, there is the invention of cooking. The cooking that was gradually introduced to the Tang Dynasty from the Han Dynasty has become popular among the people of the Tang Dynasty. Due to the improvement of life, many people also need to cook. Oil pressing requires the use of beans such as soybeans, or specialized oil such as rapeseed. These are also land that needs to be cultivated or consume grain.

With this kind of overlap, let alone the reduction of grain planted on arable land in the Tang Dynasty, even if the grain planted on the Tang Dynasty did not decrease, according to the current consumption method, the grain gap in the Tang Dynasty was as high as half and more!

In fact, two-thirds of the Tang Dynasty's grain currently needs to be imported from the Han Dynasty.

Of course, there is also a reason for this because the Tang Dynasty was storing grain. The Tang Dynasty naturally saw some threats. It was not that they thought the Han Dynasty would do it on purpose, but they were also afraid of accidents, so they also stored some of the food, but the grain they stocked was basically only enough for a year.

It is difficult to save more. Storage conditions and the speed of imports of Dahan are actually limited.

But it is considered good to be able to save for one year. In the past, the Tang Dynasty dared not say that there was food for the people across the country to eat for one year? Don’t even think about it, it is simply impossible.

It's a good thing now. When the black soil in the Northeast begins to be cultivated, the pressure will be even more relieved.

However, due to population restrictions, the black soil in the Northeast was very slow to open pits. However, this time there is a good news, that is, the railway technology man has been opened, allowing the Tang Dynasty to build all the way from Chang'an to the Northeast. Although the railway may go far, as long as it is built, the control over the Northeast will naturally be improved by a step.

The speed of immigration can naturally be accelerated. It is too far away, so the current speed of immigration in the Tang Dynasty cannot keep up.

It is also because of these reasons that Li Tai and the others have learned a lot. These methods are actually summarized by Li Shimin and Li Tai and Li Chengqian and the others have also seen them because they know that the same method can be used for other countries!

Because the Tang Dynasty also had such advantages over other countries!

As for food, it is of course not a problem. Just continue to buy from the Han Dynasty. Anyway, his master said that he can have as much as he wants, and the transportation ships from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the lower reaches have also been updated with even larger transportation speeds, so the speed of transportation is naturally faster.

So in fact, the price of transporting grain from the Tang Dynasty to Japan is not high. If they sell it according to the price of grain in Japan, their profits are still quite large. However, Li Tai also learned it, so he would not sell it according to the price of grain in Japan.

Just like the method his teacher used, he also had to control the food in Japan. Of course, no one knew whether his teacher did it on purpose, but now the established fact has been formed. Whether the Tang Dynasty is willing or not, the food is in the hands of the Han Dynasty.

For example... can the Japanese raise silkworms in large quantities? Buy silk from their hands and sell them fabrics and silk to them at low prices to impact their local textile and silk markets. Or let them use a lot of land to plant Eucommia and plant hemp.

Although linen clothing was eliminated, the consumption of linen was not reduced at all. The Tang Dynasty consumed a lot of linen every day for a large number of linens, as well as the manufacturing of sea fleets, etc.

Whether it is a thick burlap bag or a fine burlap bag, they have different uses, and the demand for burlap is even greater than before.

The Han Dynasty did not produce linen on a large scale, so many textile merchants in the Tang Dynasty used all to produce linen except high-end silk.

After explaining that Hakata Narakawa, Li Tai didn't care about these things. He only needed to do a few things every day. Seeing the construction team outside the city getting bigger and bigger, the same amount of grain was naturally spent, but he didn't care about this little grain at all.

The entire Donglin Island is only 400,000 people. At the current speed and the food he transported, Li Tai can last for a year! As for the subsequent period, it is not that there is no food, but that there is no need. The food needed for 400,000 people, the sea fleet of the Tang Dynasty can be transported here now.

Of course, it is not actually transported so much, after all, they can still produce and grow locally.

So Li Tai doesn't have to worry about not having enough food now, because it is impossible for 400,000 people to work for him, and it is impossible for him to support everyone. After he establishes his authority, he will allocate land to everyone.

In addition, Li Tai was also preparing to transport his teacher's set, that is, food coupons, over.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to do it, you will always be able to copy it directly, right? What’s more, his teacher has already solved this example perfectly for him. As for the reasons why food coupons will be imitated, to be honest... let’s not talk about whether the people here dare to dare, even if they dare, they can’t even make paper. What a nonsense!

He bought this special paper directly from the big man.

So Li Tai naturally didn't worry at all.

Huo Gang naturally knew about what Li Tai did, but he naturally didn't care. The special paper sold to Li Tai was the first generation of banknote paper for the Han Dynasty. At present, the Han Yuan of the Han Dynasty has been updated to the third generation of paper for the Han Dynasty.

Even the first generation of paper Tang Dynasty could not be made, and it was even more impossible for Japan.

Of course, in terms of printing, the Tang Dynasty had mastered the movable type printing, and Huo Gang didn't care. The printing technology of the Han Dynasty had already broken through the movable type printing, and he no longer cared about the backward printing system of the Tang Dynasty.

So if Li Tai wants to buy paper, Huo Gang naturally gave it to him, and he directly gave it to the cut paper. He still believed the child's ability to copy. To be honest, Huo Gang also wanted to see what Li Tai could do, but it should not be difficult.

The main reason is that the Japanese system is too backward. If someone really starts to liberate, the Japanese government will not be able to withstand it.

In fact, just as Huo Gang thought, seven days after the start of Bodu City, the other nine counties on Donglin Island also started similar work, using grain to hire local people to work, but the other nine counties were relatively small in scale, and anyway, the population of these nine counties itself is not large.

So this small scale is enough. Build military barracks, and when the military barracks are built, start to level the roads in various counties, and even start to build toilets and other related facilities. In short, these tasks will take one or two months.

You don’t have to pay money at all, just give food.

Li Tai didn't care about this little grain at all, and he could pay it all. However, this process made Li Tai's reputation resound throughout Donglin Island, and he soon established great prestige on Donglin Island.

During this process, the yamen that referenced the Tang Dynasty began to be established in various counties, and scholars assigned to various counties gradually began to cooperate with the local nobles.

Li Tai was waiting for Nagawa Hakata to find the chicken. Li Tai was not in a hurry at this time, but what Li Tai did not expect was that this time did not allow him to wait too long. Just about a month after he started to build infrastructure, the drums at the Dali Temple yamen established by Li Tai were finally beaten.
Chapter completed!