Li Tonghai used the opportunity to teach his son, and then began to think about the issue of the title.
These titles are not given casually, especially some titles, which are also related to luck. If the virtue is not matched, there will be disaster.
As for Shenwu, it can be said to be the ultimate in martial arts. As for Shengyan, it can even be called the source of literature. With such a combination of literature and martial arts, he couldn't help but start to wonder what Zhao Cheng wanted to do with this move.
After all, Zhao Cheng's current cultivation of Taoism and Dharma is unparalleled in ancient and modern times. Even the two ancestors of Taoism and Buddhism were not as good as him when they were in the human world.
Now the two people Zhao Cheng pardoned were both strangers who came from the sky.
It would be fine if Zhao Cheng only gave ordinary titles, but he obviously had a plan to give these two titles.
However, Li Tonghai was not a Taoist after all. Although he had read many Taoist books, he had never entered Taoism. No matter how many Taoist books he read, he would still be seeing flowers in the fog. After pondering for a while, he had no clue. Li Tonghai simply
forget about it.
He thought about Zhao Cheng's purpose, but it was just an instinct.
As a minister, doing things for the emperor and figuring out the emperor's thoughts are basic skills.
Compared with the title issue, his most important thing now is the preparation of trade routes. Throughout the ages, business has always been a lowly industry. The so-called high and low, the more lowly the industry, the more severely it was suppressed by the court.
For example, when it comes to farming, the price of food is severely suppressed.
Although Li Tonghai is not good at business, he knows how to employ people. When Zhao Cheng talked about this yesterday, several candidates jumped out in his mind. As for finding people from strangers, that is a follow-up matter.
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It can be used by strangers and can be reused, but it cannot be trusted easily.
He first builds the general framework and then considers the issue of recruiting talents.
As a smart man, he knows why businessmen are suppressed.
The reason is simply because of the danger.
In some dynasties, some big businessmen even interfered with the change of the throne. How much money can those who are so-called businessmen make in a country?
If the imperial court had not imposed various restrictions on merchants, it would be easy for merchants to grasp the lifeline of the country.
Therefore, in order to achieve stability, all dynasties in the past dynasties mostly suppressed commerce and did not give it status.
As long as you are a businessman, no matter how rich you are, you are still a pariah and cannot be an official. If you have money, you cannot have power.
And those who have money but no power are just fat sheep.
As for Daxin, there had been wars before. Although various industries were established one after another, there was no room for businessmen to survive.
Because the entire resource allocation was handled by the imperial court, it was close to a planned economy.
Although people in various places can use money to buy things, various supplies are limited based on their status.
The biggest advantage of this model is stability. As for the disadvantage, it is too stable and cannot develop quickly.
Of course, the imperial court has not yet opened up the idea of opening up internal trade. Instead, it will first carry out foreign trade and exchange various raw materials from other countries at extremely low costs.
"It's difficult, it's difficult. It's not easy to do this well. If you don't do it well, I'm afraid it will turn into a major corruption case..."
"However, if you want to open up the trade routes, it will not happen overnight. The barbarians are so ferocious that they will not deal with you seriously. You can only beat them if you are afraid. If I hurt one person, I will destroy your country. Only in this way can we let you
Those barbarians are in awe..."
"This matter depends on Ji Yi."
"Your Majesty's move is the most difficult step to open up the situation if you want to be a saint at home and a king at the outside. If this step is not done well, I am afraid that the entire court will be in turmoil..."
Li Tonghai thought to himself.
The so-called inner saint and outer king means that at home, the holy way is used to appease the people and continuously improve people's livelihood, while externally, they use force to conquer, plunder various resources, and benefit the people. In other words, only with external supplements, internal
Only then do you have the capital to practice the holy way.
After all, resources cannot be created out of thin air. They must either be squeezed from the people of one's own country or snatched from outside.
As for the inner king and the outer sage, it has been used by the past imperial courts. In order to seek stability internally, they will be squeezed to the extreme, and externally they will be famous and rewarded lavishly. In this way, they will get the name of sage king.
There are so many dynasties throughout the ages, and it is not without reason why they did not choose an inner sage and an outer king. After all, it is much easier to be an inner king and an outer sage.
If it were the other way around, it would be easy to drag the court into the quagmire of war and add more variables.
"However, if this matter comes to pass and we seize the blood of various countries to support the people, which will be a great achievement for thousands of years, I may be able to take this a step further and directly crown the king..."
"At that time, everything was just right. After more than ten years, the matter was completed, and it was almost time for me to step down as the first assistant. I just happened to retire with great achievements, and there was no need to worry about the rabbit dying and the dog being cooked..."
Li Tonghai thought of the prosperous future.
To be crowned a king, it can be said that apart from rebelling and becoming the emperor, being crowned a king is already the pinnacle, or the pinnacle, of a minister.
Because throughout the ages, in so many dynasties, there has been a rule that people with different surnames are not allowed to be crowned kings. No matter how great your merits are, they will only be crowned by the prince, and it is impossible to go any further. Unless you are a powerful official and directly add Jiuxi, then you can be crowned king.
But you can add Jiuxi, why not just usurp the throne?!
But it's different in Daxin. If you have extraordinary achievements, you can be crowned king.
This is undoubtedly the big picture.
And even Li Tonghai felt a little longing when faced with the matter of being crowned king, because it was a supreme honor, enough to spread his reputation through the ages.
…
"Two weeks, this is a good thing, but also a small matter."
"The big thing is to wipe out the barbarians!"
"If it was a war, where would the merit come from?!"
"If you can lead the great new heavenly troops and wipe out the barbarians from all directions, this will undoubtedly be an unprecedented feat, and you will definitely be crowned king!"
On the other side, when Lin Yi heard this, he had the same idea as Li Tonghai.
Although he is now the Duke of the country, he also has a heart that wants to be crowned king.
Even though the prince of Daxin only has honor and no real power to establish a fiefdom or establish a government, the king is still the king.
As for the barbarians, they are not easy to fight. In the face of the temptation of becoming a king, such difficulties are nothing.
…
In the spring of the eleventh year of Yingtian, an army of two million troops went on the Northern Expedition. Lin Yi was the commander, and Lu Xun, the Marquis of Shenwu, took charge of the general banner and accompanied the army on the expedition.
In the autumn of the eleventh year of Yingtian, while sweeping the caves in Liting, the royal palace of the grassland barbarians was breached, and the barbarian king died. The thirteenth prince took the remaining troops and fled to the North Sea. At that time, Lu Xun led three hundred men and horses.
Three hundred broke five thousand, showing the martial arts of refining, breaking the formation alone, killing two hundred armors by one person, killing the enemy formation, and capturing the thirteen princes alive.
Since then, the war has ended so easily.
In the winter of the same year, Beihuangji was established, and the first trade road was opened.
The imperial court also supported the weak tribes in the grassland, supported puppets, and let them rule this place, thereby reducing the cost of governance.
And this is not the end of the war, but just a warm-up.
