Although the current Tang Dynasty is said to have great national power, in terms of situation, it is actually still one of the heroes among the heroes competing for the throne.
Although it seems that the biggest competitor at present is only Rome.
During the Warring States Period, the two largest powers in the world were the Wei State and the Chu State. If you want to count, they were the Jin State before the Wei State, that is, the Jin State before the three families were divided into Jin.
But in the end, the one who conquered the world was not the Wei State, which had obtained the inheritance of the Jin State, or the extremely developed Chu State, but the marginalized Qin State. And the Qin State.
Even after Shang Yang appeared, he was repeatedly rubbed by the Chu State because of the poor performance of successive generations of monarchs. As for the glorious past when an army of 500,000 was defeated by an army of 50,000 Wu Qi before Shang Yang appeared.
And Li Er, who is familiar with classics and history, especially the offensive strategy part, will certainly not make blind claims, and will naturally have to pay attention to everything.
If it weren't for these various factors of different natures and levels, how could the armed bandits who had harassed the important economic town on the southeastern coast of the Tang Dynasty for nearly a year be spared their lives. But the unexpected part also happened here, although Li Er this time
I really never thought that I could directly eliminate this group of pirates. After all, the attack was quite powerful, but in the end, they were actually eliminated.
Originally, the day after the battle, King Luo Bin, as the person in charge of military operations, had to deliver information to the emperor. At such a speed, it was obvious that there was no time to observe the follow-up situation of the battle, which of course required further observation and detection.
Only then will new information be obtained, and then it can be passed on to the emperor.
But things happened very suddenly. Early in the morning after the battle, King Luo Bin had not yet compiled the battle report, but he had already received news that the pirate gang had suddenly disbanded and the hozens had dispersed...
So there was a scene where Li Er got excited after receiving the news in the Manna Palace, and his whole body was so excited that he felt hot.
This is so unexpected.
Originally, Li Er's plan was to severely inflict heavy damage on the pirates - this was already done, more than half of the pirates' ships were directly damaged, and then he would spread panic, create rumors, and spread terror - and this level of terror must be
not enough.
Generally speaking, there is such a thing as public opinion.
The more unfavorable it is to the court, the easier it is to spread. No matter how popular the Tang Dynasty is, many things are no different from those of other dynasties.
As a high-level politician, Li Er would certainly not fail to consider the mystery here, so Li Er's plan was originally.
After this wave of military operations, the world will be shaken and rumors will spread, but such rumors and panic can make the people happy - the pirates are trembling, of course the people will be happy - but it is necessary to encourage maritime merchants to resume high-frequency commercial activities and turn the world around
The "economic strategy" that was lost during this period of the Tang Dynasty has been made up first, and the effect is hard to say.
On the one hand, merchants will carry out economic activities extremely frantically when they have mastered key elements - such as major intelligence, the so-called "insider", or a key location, or a certain industrial franchise somewhere.
This is huge profit.
But those scenes are, after all, abnormal scenes. To put it bluntly, they involve some degree of power-for-money transactions. In normal business activities, businessmen are extremely averse to risks.
This kind of disgust has developed to the extreme, which is famous in history books and is the war history that Li Sheng is most familiar with, World War II. On the one hand, the Junker landowners and the Japanese landowners were afraid of the advent of the industrial age, and on the other hand, they were afraid of the risks of "doing business"
And refuse to transform and oppose anything that turns farmers into workers - but this kind of thing must not be done openly. After all, the income of serfs will increase significantly when they become workers. As a landlord, you jump out to forcefully oppose it. This is simply selfish.
Are you seeking death?
So in order to make oneself look more humane, and at the same time to make a profit - industrial enterprises do not need land so much. Although land is also very important, it is not a decisive thing. It is a decisive interest for business owners.
It is always technology. The ultimate embodiment is what Lao Bai in the later TV series told the students in class. The scientist who made billions of profits for General Motors only received ten yuan in patent fees.
This is not the case for landowners. For them, the decisive interests are land and population, more land, more tenants. Therefore... land expansion wars naturally occurred as the time required, and the world war began.
In later generations, the duel between large empires naturally turned into industrial competition, and the intensity was so high that it once caused political turmoil in North America, the Soviet Union and other places.
The current merchants of the Tang Dynasty...actually exist between classical landlords and industrial capital. On the one hand, these guys have personally experienced the huge profits of industry. The scissors gap means that they can kill classical landlords who can only produce agricultural products. For those engaged in industry
The determination is still there.
But although industrial capital has been criticized miserably in later generations, it actually has its own moral law - this moral law is that you cannot escape risks or R&D costs, and you must continue to produce new technologies, otherwise why should you?
Making money? This kind of moral law is the strongest for the industrial capital of later generations, especially the industrial capital of the Anglo-American world. Therefore, Britain and the United States are also the most developed places in Europe. They are not afraid of the evil heart of capital, but afraid of capital self-discipline.
However!
Today's Datang, not to mention the ultra-large-scale industrial chain and industrial network of later generations, even the simple upstream and downstream relationships are very unfamiliar concepts to these merchants.
The reason, no matter what the reason, is the current level of industrial development in Datang. Basically, although a large number of factories have been established, these were transformed from local heroes - small local lords like Shan Xiongxin.
The factory owner, through his understanding of Li Sheng's industrial thoughts, mastered the key industrial skill of dismantling the links, splitting a craftsman's complex craftsmanship into a series of simple links that everyone can be proficient in.
Significantly improve production efficiency.
It is with this new "unique craft" derived from the name Li Sheng that these local bullies have successfully transformed into local bosses.
But the transformation of the economic structure will also happen without people's hearts.
For these overlords, the greatest asset in the world has always been land since they were born. Because of this mindset, these overlords naturally still have the character traits of the older generation of classical landowners, which is caution.
And conservative tendencies. As for this psychological tendency, Li Er, as emperor... had had a lot of dealings with these maritime merchants because of matters in America, and of course he was as clear as a mirror.