Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 701 Li Shimin's Visit

In fact, Sun Xiangfu has not waited for Sun Xiangfu to be intimate enough with the children at home!Li Shimin came to the door the next day.

"Is the cultivation of various crops in Lingnan going well?"

"It's not bad. After a few years, there should be a steady stream of harvest."

There were no false greetings, between a question and an answer, the two monarchs and ministers had already sat down after seeing the ceremony, and the children playing in the hall were also taken down by Hongmei Chuntao and the others tactfully.

"I want to rule the world so that all people, regardless of race, will no longer suffer from wars and chaos. Can Zhengming teach me?" Li Shimin said straight to the point after he sat down.

"Your Majesty has such an ambition, and I naturally support it. However, as the old saying goes, try not to use war to achieve such a goal." Sun Xiangfu maintained his usual position.

"Just try not to use war as much as possible?" Li Shimin directly pointed out the key points in Sun Xiangfu's words. Before that, he did not agree with launching any unification war.

"It is impossible to unify the world without showing the people of the world enough force to maintain peace in this world. I know this very well. Therefore, I just hope that your majesty will do less killing, so that the history books that will be written a hundred years later will write the story of your life. At that time, what was promoted was benevolence, not military exploits in exchange for killing." Sun Xiangfu replied very clearly.

If the king advocates conquest by force, the general will be even more so. According to the current pace of development, it is not impossible to move towards industry and even a technological society in a hundred years. If, by that time, the ruler still has It is very dangerous to suppress all dissatisfied thoughts by force. When all human beings become one nation, everyone should have only one goal, which is how to make everyone survive and multiply better, and eliminate class exploitation. problems, cherish everyone's life and care for everyone's health.

However, this is just a beautiful fantasy of Sun Xiangfu, and he himself knows this, because human beings' sensory consciousness and total desires are innate, just like Sun Xiangfu himself, he can't tell the difference. The faces of barbarians in the Western Regions, and many others, will get angry when they see ugly people, and feel happy when they see beautiful people.

These will cause them to have a variety of completely different emotional attitudes when they are in the world. These are the beginning of the dispute. Sun Xiangfu actually does not think that anyone can control these things, so even if they are unified now, in the future, Splits may still occur.

However, Li Shimin's great reunification under certain conditions has certain benefits. First of all, after a period of rule, he can promote Han culture more intensively and promote the integration of ethnic groups and races to a certain extent. To achieve the effect that even if it is split, Chinese and Chinese characters are still the common way of cultural communication in the world, then Li Shimin's efforts are not in vain.

Because, if there is no communication barrier for human beings, under the same cultural atmosphere for a long time, all future generations will have the same ancestry and same origin. Kill civilians.

Sun Xiangfu's words made Li Shimin silent for a while. In fact, what he has been thinking about is how to complete the unification of the Great Tang. With the current military strength of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, there is no need to worry about fighting the country. There is gunpowder With a big killer like a hot air balloon, there is no army in this world that can compete with Datang.

But what about after they were defeated by force?How to manage such a large site?How to ensure that no one will rebel against Datang?If the unification of the Eurasian continent only drags the Tang Dynasty into endless wars, then the loss outweighs the gain.

Thinking that every time the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate reported something to him, it would take a courier to run for more than a month, and he would issue a decree to go there, and the same was true. He felt a little headache. Four months, or even half a year or more.

As long as he imagined the situation in his head a little, he would feel a headache, so he had to nod to agree with what Sun Xiangfu said, and try to achieve unification through non-war means. Belonging to the rule of Datang, in this way, the possibility of rebellion is much smaller.

"So, in your opinion, what should I do?" Li Shimin asked again.

Sun Xiangfu thought for a while, but did not answer directly, and said, "Your Majesty wants to appoint Deshou as Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, probably because he has some new insights into the future development direction of Datang!"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Yes, I discovered that the reason why our Tang Dynasty has the current situation is entirely because of various new technologies, which make us , have been greatly improved, therefore, I intend to give these talents in charge of technology, power, status, and honor to the greatest extent, and regard them as the core of a strong country and promote them."

When Sun Xiangfu heard the words, he had to lament that Li Shimin was indeed a political genius. He could always jump to heights that ordinary people did not have and think about problems. It would not be surprising if Li Chengqian, or any of the peasant children, had such thoughts , because this is what Sun Xiangfu instilled in them.

However, Li Shimin was able to realize such principles from these things by himself, and started to implement them without hesitation.

"Your idea is correct. The whole country is pragmatic, and the study of pragmatism will make the country strong and the power of the people strong. The whole country is practical, and the study of pragmatism will make the country weak and the people weak and incompetent.

Science and technology is a kind of knowledge that seeks truth and is pragmatic. It can improve the productivity of all walks of life. As long as the productivity continues to improve, then the national strength of our Tang Dynasty will become more sophisticated and reach a certain level, just like the current My Tang Dynasty is the same as the other countries in the Western Regions. They are in a situation of crushing them in all aspects. Our country is basically stable.

And if one day, there are other countries whose scientific and technological level far exceeds that of Datang, they will crush us just like we crush the countries in the Western Regions now.

Therefore, I believe that in the future, the strength of a country may not depend on the size of its population or territory, but on the level of science and technology.

When someone masters a weapon more powerful than gunpowder, and an aircraft faster and more flexible than a hot air balloon, they may easily defeat us with only a small number of people. "

What Sun Xiangfu said was easy to accept for Li Shimin who had already figured out this aspect earlier. It is simply that Datang has the highest level of science and technology now, so it is Datang who crushes others. As for the future, Li Shimin is sure No one will be allowed to surpass Datang.

"But, does this point have anything to do with the united war?" Li Shimin returned to the topic.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and replied, "You have realized the importance of the development of science and technology, so you should rely on science and technology to achieve future domination of the world. For example, now, our Datang can build straight, flat, There is a concrete road for fast passage, then, if we build it from Guanzhong all the way to Anxi Dadu Protectorate and Suiye City, will it strengthen the imperial center and control over the Anxi Dadu Protectorate area?"

"Xiu to Suiye City?"

After Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, he felt that it was very necessary, just like the distance from Chang'an to Dingxiang, which was almost two thousand miles, took about ten days even if he rode a horse, because the road was difficult to walk and there were many muddy rocks , The horse often does not get up when running, and dare not run fast, for fear of falling.

But later it was different. After the wide concrete road was built, one could easily travel four hundred miles a day on horseback, and it only took five days to reach the destination by normal riding.

After that, after the horse-changing stations and hotels along the way are all built, the couriers and carriages can travel at the fastest speed for twelve hours. Seven hundred miles is still possible. Then, in about three days at the earliest, you can reach Dingxiang from Chang'an.

Calculated based on the distance from Chang'an to Suiye City of about [-] miles, if a straight concrete road is built, and calculated based on the daily journey of [-] miles, it may only take more than ten days to make the trip. And if the courier has a post station for changing horses and people along the way, he can basically travel thousands of miles a day, and the communication can be completed within ten days, which is faster than the government decrees in Guanzhong a few years ago to reach many places.

In fact, someone had proposed this idea in the court earlier, but the project involved a relatively large amount of money and required a lot of funds, so it was stranded. Now, the court does not lack this little money.

Seeing that Li Shimin thought for a moment before asking back, Sun Xiangfu knew that he also had the same idea, and said, "The convenient road can enable the imperial center to have stronger control over these relatively distant areas. The rhythm of the battle also needs to gradually advance where the imperial court's control can reach."

Sun Xiangfu From this perspective, the strategic intention in Li Shimin's mind was immediately clear. He first locked on the two regions of Central Asia and South Asia. Now many small countries in Central Asia have been affected by the impact of the big eclipse. The threat of national subjugation, and their suzerain, the Byzantine Empire, has a lot of worries. It doesn't want to go to war with the big cannibals and consume its national power. It doesn't care about them. Tang's Anxi Dadu Protectorate was right next to them, so close, with such a thick thigh, they couldn't ignore it even if they wanted to.

However, many small coastal countries in West Asia were exhausted and impoverished when responding to Tianzhu's attack. The people had already flowed into Tammo Road in large numbers. In fact, until now, Datang wanted to control these two areas. There is no need to go to war, just open certain policies.

For example, accepting their surrender to the Tang Dynasty and promising some guarantees after surrendering, this move will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the existing major Western powers, accepting the weak and killing the powerful with one punch, the unified goal is basically It's finished.

"Zhengming's thinking is really clear, but I know that you must have many more specific ideas, because you just mentioned relying on science and technology to achieve the rule of those distant territories in the future, you might as well say it together, so that I can do it in my heart There are many."

Li Shimin is a person with a strong sense of the overall situation. Since Sun Xiangfu mentioned this question just now, he will never forget it and will definitely ask it to the end.

"Your Majesty, do you know why I sent some sisal and rubber sap to Chang'an for research by various material research institutes?" Sun Xiangfu knew this would be the case early on, and asked with a smile.

"What are you going to build again?" Li Shimin frowned, looking at him expectantly.

"A thing that can make cars and ships travel faster and continuously. I call it a steam engine. As long as this thing is built, it will greatly shorten the time you go to any place you rule. , However, this thing is very complicated, and it will take some time to break through various technical difficulties. At present, it only exists in theory." Sun Xiangfu explained.

"Steam engine? How did you come up with this thing?" Li Shimin asked in surprise, no matter how big his brain was, he couldn't imagine what kind of thing could be so powerful.

Sun Xiangfu thought for a while, then pointed to the tea-burning stove in the living room and said, "Look at this water-boiling stove, the charcoal fire is burning underneath, and there is always hot air in the spout of the cooking pot above, which is constantly blowing out. Chong, on the latest water steamer, the cooking pot can already be heated with solar energy, and the hot air from it can be introduced into the bottom of the steamer grid with iron pipes to steam the food. Perhaps, we can also use this principle , to do many other things.”

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