Twisting the short beard and brewing slightly, Baili Yan asked the first question:

"Today, there are many strong people in the lower middle, and I have few people and few lands, so what can I do to be strong in 30 years. Before answering this question, Ben Hou put aside the premise that the method of trying to be strong must not be used to benefit from soldiers, and in addition, everything else can be said freely. ”

As soon as the words came out, the young talents who sat down and talked about it repeatedly, and Xue Chong's eldest son, Xue, was puzzled and asked first:

"Can the Marquis of Yongxing make it clear why he can't use his troops to expand his territory and become strong."

"The young marquis asked well." Bai Liyan affirmed, and then said: "Since the drought in the Central Plains 26 years ago to the pacification of the black scarf seven years ago, in the past 20 years, the country has suffered natural disasters and wars, and the country has lost nearly 30% of its population.

But it does not mean that the swords and guns are put into storage and the martial arts are abolished, and when the troops should be mobilized, they should be mobilized to defend the land and defend the country. In view of the fact that you are specialized in business and do not know about military and state affairs, it is inevitable that you will be open-minded, so this premise is placed. ”

It is a joke not to seek the unification of the world by force, and the unification of no dynasty is piled up with lips and money.

In view of the current delicate situation and the industrial capacity of Yongxing City, this group of young men did not know the disparity between 100,000 rifles and 100,000 spears, and their cognition was still at the level of cold weapons and early rudimentary artillery.

At the same time, today's conversation is more or less necessary to convey to the outside world, Bailiyan will not seek expansion by force for a period of 30 years, which is not only to set the tone for public opinion, but Bailiyan and Luhou have reached an agreement that in order to seek economic interests, they will not use troops on a large scale in the short term. Thirty years of small military use may be unlikely, but it is possible in the short term.

After explaining the reason in detail, Xue Song, the second son of Zhonghou Xue Cheng, got up and gave a slight salute and said:

"In Xia Xue Song, dare to answer Yongxinghou's question first."

"Xue Gongzi's courage is commendable, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Xie Yongxinghou." Putting away the number of gifts, Xue Song continued: "In the next thought, Tuqiang can be roughly divided into two, one is to govern the government, and the other is to fight. Since the Marquis of Yongxing sought strength for my king, he has taken two measures at the same time to have today. If we carefully study the stakes involved, regardless of the strength or weakness of the generals, if the use of soldiers is simply the supply of chariots, horses, baggage, grain and grass, but when it is said that it is large, the use of soldiers is, in the final analysis, the use of money and grain, and the money and grain are taken from the people, and since they are related to the people, they have to ask about governance. Therefore, before the war, governance was more important than the use of troops.

At that time, the Yongxing River was fiercely warned, and the two methods were carried out at the same time, which was really a helpless choice. Presumably, if the new policy had been implemented three years earlier, perhaps the Xianjun army would not have suffered the disaster of food shortage.

As the saying goes, don't fight unprepared battles, and now the Marquis of Yongxing does not use troops to be strong, and he thinks that there is still a lot to be done in governance. Just as a building starts from the flat ground, it is a truth that everyone only sees the magnificence above the flat ground, but not the foundation stone of the wall under the flat ground. Therefore, it is not to use the advantages of the army to seek a solid foundation for the country.

The above is a humble opinion in the next point, if there are any shortcomings, please Yongxing Hou for guidance. ”

After speaking, Xue Songjing sat down, and the others were talking, Bai Liyan remained silent, neither showing praise nor strong denial, he said in a flat tone:

"Xue Gongzi's analysis is thorough and rigorous, and his discussion is reasonable and commendable."

Bai Liyan used the twelve words of "thorough analysis, rigorous thinking, and reasonable discussion" to summarize Xue Song's answer, and finally did not forget to affirm it as worthy of praise. However, these sixteen words can be summarized into four words: "decent".

This praise is actually remarkable at the moment, at least Xue Song's thinking has jumped out of the thinking and cognition of the vast majority of today's people, and occupies another high level.

Therefore, the twelve words "thorough analysis, rigorous thinking, and reasonable discussion" are correct, and it is also praiseworthy. However, the depth of cognition still cannot keep up with the national conditions that are changing profoundly in the future society, so it can only be said to be decent.

At this time, behind the third long case in the first row on the left, a young man stood up, a young man with a scarlet brocade straight jacket, a short sword under his ribs, a slender figure, and a handsome face. The young man first bowed to Xue Chong and Baili Yan, who were sitting down, and then signed up for his surname:

"In Xia Xue Zhong, answer to Yongxing Hou."

"Childe Zhong, please speak."

"Xie Yongxinghou. In the next thought, if you don't use soldiers to be strong, it's not really that you don't use soldiers to plan the world. Nowadays, Bing Ge has long been changed, and what ordinary people see is not the benefit of gold and iron, but gold, silver, jewelry, silk and cloth, and even a grain of rice, a copper coin, or even a pair of shoes, all of which can be soldiers.

And this soldier can benefit the people and benefit the community internally, and externally it is an invisible weapon to destroy people and destroy the country invisibly, and it is a quick knife that kills people without seeing blood, and takes people's lives without paying for their lives.

Therefore, you can not take the world with the profits of gold and iron, but you can use gold and silver to secure the internal and external resources, and reap double the profits.

Therefore, it is believed that we should vigorously develop industry and commerce, and at the same time support agriculture and mulberry, expand the Xianguo property and accumulate material and financial resources, control the world with commercial goods, and corrupt the enemy with gold and silver weapons. ”

What Xue Zhong said made Baili Yan moved, and this strategy coincided with his layout, to be precise, Xue Zhong was only one step away from seeing through the essence of the world.

In essence, the reunification of the existing Central Plains territory, with the current communication conditions, technical reserves, and relying on force, cannot complete political reunification, so it can only complete the nominal reunification in the situation of separation. The maintenance of reunification is not only a deterrent to military strength, but also a high degree of economic and administrative unity.

Since the history of the Central Plains, the military unification has been very simple, and in forty or fifty years, the old dynasty can be overthrown and the new emperor can be established, and the real administrative and economic unification, and the backwardness of traffic and transportation have been infinitely magnified by the vast territory.

Therefore, the army's dependence on the central economic blood transfusion has been transformed into the army's parasitism on the localities, forming local mountaineering and even the local emperor, which is now a prince, let alone administrative unity.

Nowadays, the economy and technology of Xianguo are highly developed, forming an economic engine from the inside out, and all the industrial products required by the Central Plains are inseparable from Xianguo, often for a long time, the commodity economy subtly weakens the effective rule of the local princes under their rule, and when the needs of the people cannot be satisfied, it shakes the foundation of the governance of other princes.

As Xue Zhong said, at that time, bribes with gold and silver, corruption with exquisite objects, and finally the soldiers will be invincible. At this time, it is not difficult to find that Xue Zhong's move is not a realistic version of opening the way with money, coercing by force, inducing color revolutions, and finally foreign intervention.

But thinking of the details, Bai Liyan couldn't nod his head in affirmation for the sake of prudence, so he said:

"Gongzi Zhong's words are good policies, but the world is the world of Liang Tianzi, and my Xianguo is under the Son of Heaven and should be a courtier. And although my Xianguo is prosperous, I only have eleven counties and lose wealth and the world, so I can't help but be a little self-conscious. This proposal can be the words of the child's family, if it is useful in the future, the son should not hesitate to share the worries of the king. ”

"What Yongxing Hou instructed me was, and I received it below."

Xue Zhong's words are golden and good, but they also cost people's lives, even his life. Appropriate suppression and affirmation will not make him too sharp and die.

With Bailiyan's plan, strive for a 20-year peaceful environment, and comprehensively promote the four modernizations of "industrialization, electrification, mechanization, and popularization of education", the existing political system of a strong cabinet and weak monarchy will not continue to move forward, aiming to quickly complete the growth of the education population and industrial population within 20 years, lay a unified territory for the next 20 years, and strive to achieve a high degree of political unity.

Therefore, within 20 years, the industrial and commercial industries of the Xianguo country are bound to grow explosively at geometric multiples, and the supply of basic industrial products and necessities to meet the needs of the population of the Central Plains will not be a problem after 20 years.

Xue Zhong can recognize this situation, indicating that he has calculated in detail the rate of Yongxing City's production capacity in the past 20 years, as well as the basic technology prospects. He didn't say it because he couldn't say it clearly, he only needed to express the core idea, and he had completed the information he wanted to express to Bailiyan.

At present, most people do not realize that Xianguo has the production capacity and economic strength to foster the world in the future, so Xue Zhong's ideas cannot be accepted by most people, and even arrogantly. If Bailiyan affirms, it means that Bailiyan has this plan and can do it completely, which is the biggest trouble.

The unification of the world is not only about economic and war preparations, but also about the achievements that can be achieved in the political contests that are not visible in the early stage than in military battles, and at the same time, what cannot be obtained politically, may not be achieved in military wars.

Liang Tianzi is first of all a trouble, nominally the world is still Liang Tianzi's world, Xianguo arrogantly said that he wants to dominate the world, and the political situation will be very passive. Not to mention that after getting Bailiyan's affirmation, it will not be long before there will be a reaction.

Therefore, Liang Tianzi's wall cannot be pushed in the short term, and whoever pushes it is the stupid donkey who is stoned to death under the wall, so all sensitive topics related to the overthrow of Liang Tianzi are taboo content.

In the same way, Bailiyan has been strictly guarding economic and technological secrets for 20 years, and it is this force that has had such a huge impact on the present that it will die before the foundation grows. Even though the foundation has been established, it has not yet reached the point where it is possible to make a big statement.

Rashly caught in the encirclement network of the princes of the world, the biggest hard wound of the foreign demand for raw materials in the salty country will become the fatal wound that seriously weakens the production capacity of the salty country.

Appropriately suppressing radical sentiment is more conducive to continuing to expand the basic market, so as not to be shot out of the head by Liang Guo's gun and be thrown into the ground.

After Xue Zhongyan finished speaking, a few more people answered, the content was either conservative or very optimistic, and Bailiyan's attitude towards this was always the same, half of praise and disapproval, mediocre encouragement, radical suppression, and did not show a preference for any one person.

The young talents took turns to answer, saying what they thought, Bai Liyan and Lu Hou exchanged opinions, ready to end the first question.

"But there are still people to answer." Bai Liyan asked below, everyone shook their heads, and just as Bai Liyan was about to ask the second question, the lame man who was sitting in the outermost door of the third row on the left got up and saluted Baili Yan:

"In Xia Xue Bolin, I have seen Yongxing Hou."

"Oh, Xue Gongzi, please speak."

Bai Liyan's attitude was obviously much colder, Xue Bolin had never moved, he thought that this person should be more knowledgeable, and he didn't want to suddenly speak, which would inevitably make people feel uncomfortable.