Man Tanghong

Li Shimin was silent, feeling in his heart for a long time, and suddenly said: "But walking with one foot is not as safe as walking with two feet. You can use Turkic, Tubo, and Tuyuhun people to help you find out the way from the Western Regions to the West.

Then who do you ask to help you find out the road from the west of Mengshezhao, and from the west of Linyi to the west?
You can't pin your hopes on the Mengshe people and Linyi people, right? "

The Linyi people Li Shimin mentioned are easy to understand, and the Mengshe people are the Nanzhao people in the late Tang and early Song dynasties, that is, the later Dali people.

The Nanzhao Kingdom in history was established by the Mengshe people.

The palace on the Nanzhao Customs Island in the Erhai Lake of Dali in later generations was built by the people of Nanzhao.

Now they have not yet established Nanzhao, so Tang people call them Mengshe people, and the forces they gather together are called Mengshezhao.

Although Li Shimin didn't say it clearly, his meaning has been expressed very clearly.

That is, the Mengshe people and Linyi people are unreliable and embarrassing.

It is better to count on those Baiyi who have already attached to Datang than to expect them to help Datang open up the road to the west.

Although this statement is a bit arrogant, it also means looking down on people.

However, today's Datang does have this qualification.

Today's Datang is the most tyrannical country on this land, and it is also the only overlord on this land. Looking at other forces is like looking at a herd of wild beasts running around outside their own ranch.

You can hunt anyone you want to hunt, and look down on anyone you want to look down on.

After all, you can't expect a person whose national strength, military strength, and strength in all aspects is dozens or even a hundred times stronger than you to treat you as the same kind.

"I know that the Mengshe people and the Linyi people are unreliable, so I am going to ask other people to help us open up these two paths."

Li Yuanji said frankly.

Li Shimin asked curiously: "Who? Who else has this ability?"

Li Shimin didn't think that anyone else could help Datang accomplish something that even the local natives couldn't do.

Li Yuanji smiled and said, "Merchants..."

Li Shimin stared blankly and said, "A merchant?"

are you kidding me?
Li Shimin's face was full of disbelief.

Li Yuanji smiled and continued: "Yes, they are merchants. Don't underestimate them. If there is anyone in this world who is most suitable to open up roads besides the army, then it must be merchants.

As long as they are profitable, they will become the most powerful group of people in the world, capable of accomplishing things that many people, forces, and even many dynasties cannot. "

Li Shimin shouted almost without hesitation: "This is impossible!"

Li Yuanji smiled and said: "The reason why you say that is because you don't know merchants well, and it's also because merchants have been suppressed since Lu Buwei's strange goods became available, and they have never displayed their true strength.

If you understand merchants and know exactly what kind of strength merchants can explode, then you don't say that. "

Li Shimin snorted coldly and said: "You also know the allusion of rare goods that can be lived in, then you should understand how much trouble merchants will cause when they grow up. It's not that I don't know merchants, nor do I know what kind of strength merchants can explode.

I clearly know the harm of merchants after they become big.

I advise you to also remember the harm of merchants after they become big.

You must never think about supporting merchants to grow up, or you will kill yourself.

I don't hope that one day, the emperor of my Tang Dynasty will be sold around. "

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Li Yuanji sighed deeply.

Lu Buwei is really harmful.

It is because of such a disaster as Lu Buwei that the merchants have suffered for more than 1000 years.

From the Han Dynasty to the middle of the Song Dynasty, merchants must be conscripted in battle, and every time they are conscripted, they do the hardest and most tiring work. Whenever there is a war, merchants must rush to the front with their weapons. Serve as cannon fodder.

After the defeat, if someone needs to take responsibility, the merchant must be killed first.

The one with the same treatment is the son-in-law.

This is also the reason why the son-in-law has always been looked down upon and bullied.

Because you are a person who will die anytime, anywhere, and will be drafted into the battlefield anytime, anywhere, the probability of living to die of old age is extremely low, so if people bully you, they are not afraid of revenge when you get old.

Moreover, people of the same family live together and bully you, a person with a foreign surname, even if you want to take revenge.

Therefore, in ancient times, not only merchants were not easy to do, but soft rice was also not delicious.

Li Shimin's views on merchants are so big, this is no longer a prejudice, but an inherent thinking that has been formed for hundreds of years.

It's not just him who thinks so, 90.00% of the people in Tang Dynasty think so too, except merchants.

So if you want to use merchants to do things, in this era, you can only do it, not talk about it.

"What the second brother said is that I don't want the emperor of my Tang Dynasty to be sold around, so I just want merchants to help us open the way, and I don't want to support them to become big.

Besides, the merchants of today are completely different from the merchants of the past.

Today's merchants are vicious dogs that collect money in the hands of the powerful.

The reins are held in the hands of the rich.

Even if I give them a chance, they will not be able to get rid of the control of the rich and powerful, let alone become big. "

Li Yuanji followed Li Shimin's words.

If it is wrong to criticize Li Shimin's statement, it is necessary to help the merchants rectify their names and help them fight for a fair and just treatment.

Then it is undoubtedly against the mainstream thinking of this era.

This is not desirable.

Now he just wants to use merchants to do things, and it's not that he is a merchant himself. He wants to fight for his own rights, so there is no need to say good things for merchants.

Hearing this, Li Shimin said with a stern expression: "The dignitaries and businessmen are colluding, which is even more hateful and more harmful."

Just pure dignitaries, or pure merchants are already harmful to the ruler.

It is also reasonable to say that the rich and powerful are colluding with merchants and doing more harm.

But just because they are harmful, you can't use them.

In history, I have never heard of a dynasty that did not use dignitaries or merchants.

"So, we have to lure them out and let them harm others, instead of keeping them in my Tang Dynasty and letting them harm my Datang."

Li Yuanji said with emotion.

Li Shimin snorted coldly: "They went out and made money, so they have to come back. At that time, they will have more money in their hands, and their strength will be stronger, and the disaster will be even more serious when it comes to Tang Dynasty."

Li Yuanji shook his head and said with a smile: "Then you are wrong, after they left my Datang, only my Datang can support them to gain a firm foothold outside and seek wealth outside.

So they will unswervingly stand by my Datang and support my Datang with all their strength. "

Let the merchants go out to do business by themselves, and they will definitely be targeted and plundered in various ways.

But if Datang's army takes them out to do business, that means they are targeting and plundering others.

Merchants can still tell which is more important.

Merchants are also clear about which way to do business is more enjoyable.

Therefore, when you are away from home, as long as the army of the Tang Dynasty does not eat and occupy everything, the merchants will definitely stand on the side of the Tang Dynasty unswervingly, and will spare no effort to provide all kinds of help for the army of the Tang Dynasty when necessary .

As for making money outside, come back and bring disaster to Datang.

There is this possibility, but more merchants will bring all the resources outside to Datang to make Datang stronger so that their descendants can continue to do business with the army of Datang.

After all, the merchants followed Datang's army to drink human blood outside, and they were all full. How could they return to Datang and risk Datang's various beheading laws to bring disaster to Datang?

Moreover, when they see the cruelty outside, they will realize how good a stable and peaceful Tang Dynasty is, so they will try their best to maintain this piece of pure land called Datang in their hearts.

Only a very small number of people who are deeply involved with the powerful, and even are powerful themselves, will return to Datang after earning money outside, and use the money to seek a higher status, greater power, and more words right.

Only they will bring disaster to Datang and become Datang's disaster.

But this disaster can be solved in Li Yuanji's view.

Whoever is involved in the matter, whoever is separated from the Tang Dynasty, and the whole family moves out of the territory, it will be fine.

If you like status, authority, and the right to speak, if you mess around outside the territory, you can even establish a country outside the territory, and you can do it anywhere.

If you can pay a large amount of tribute and pay tribute every year, the Tang Dynasty canonize you as king and recognize the existence of your kingdom.

"What if it's in my Great Tang? They won't be so unswervingly on my side, Li Shi, and support my Li Shi with all their strength?"

Li Shimin asked with a sneer.

Li Yuanji laughed and said: "I allow them to seal borders outside the territory, allow them to establish a country outside the territory, how can they have the leisure to stir up wind and rain in my Tang Dynasty.

If there are still people who covet my Li family's foundation, then I will separate them and get them to a place tens of thousands of miles away from the Central Plains.

I don't believe that after traveling tens of thousands of miles, they still have the strength to fight back to the Central Plains. "

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, curled his lips and said, "That's not sure..."

Li Yuanji smiled cheerfully.

If there was such a day, he would wake up laughing from his dreams.

What if Li Tang died one day?
If someone can fight back to the Central Plains from a place thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, in the fertile soil of the unified Central Plains, it means that his footsteps have already touched many places on the Eurasian continent.

How could he only covet a Central Plains.

He will covet more.

There will be more places that the Han people can touch, and more places that will spread.

At that time, what he pursued will be realized. Even if Li Tang dies, he will not have any regrets.

"If there is such a day, if there is such a person, even if he digs me out of the soil, I will give him one."

Li Yuanji said with a bright smile.