Li Shimin picked up the fourth book, smiled, and did not speak, but the hearts of the ministers were like fifteen buckets of water, seven up and eight down, finally, Li Shimin spoke, only to hear him say slowly: "This fourth book is related to maritime trade, poetry madness, you can roughly talk about the content of this note." ”

"Yes." Li Hao slowly bowed his hand and raised his voice, "Your Majesty, please set up shipyards and seaports in the coastal areas, and at the same time, the ministers have the construction drawings of large ships to offer, which can vigorously develop our Tang Dynasty maritime trade and enhance national strength." ”

The development of maritime trade is only one of the purposes, and the other purpose is to build an invincible navy.

I don't know why, it may be that the ministers were shocked by Li Hao before, but now that this kind of problem has arrived, no one has come out to contradict Li Hao.

Li Hao thought that someone would come out to oppose it, and he prepared a full stomach, but he didn't expect it to be such a scene, and he was even a little disappointed.

Li Shimin saw that no one was playing with Li Hao, so he took the initiative to cooperate with him and asked: "Poetry madness, is maritime trade very important to enhance my Tang national strength?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's very important." Li Hao hurriedly replied, "At present, my country's foreign maritime trade is not much, most of it is internal maritime trade, but I don't know, this world is very big, the world beyond the ocean, so big that it is beyond your imagination, the Maritime Silk Road, you must have heard of it." ”

The ministers began to be moved when they heard this, Li Hao is planning to extend his claws to the sea, stretching far enough, but they are very interested in the Maritime Silk Road, after all, it is a very profitable business, although the Maritime Silk Road has been withering more and more recently, but it still exists, but it is limited by navigation technology, and it has not been popular.

Li Hao continued: "Your Majesty, in fact, the minister's proposal this time is to vigorously develop the navigation industry of my Tang Dynasty, reactivate the Maritime Silk Road, and even be a hundred times stronger than before, setting off the Age of Discovery that swept the world. ”

Li Hao intends to launch cultural aggression with sea trade, Li Hao called it the Canghai plan, but don't underestimate cultural aggression, this is a very terrible aggression, even more terrible than real knife and real gun aggression, China's civilization is broad and profound, often made people abroad admire, in the future world, there are many foreigners because they love Chinese culture too much, and they can't wait to be Chinese.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were countless gentiles with such thoughts, and now there are millions of people in the Tang Dynasty, and Shi Najie is the most typical example.

Cultural aggression can really corrupt a nation, and can even annex a country's civilization, not to mention, China's civilization is not comparable to ordinary countries.

Li Hao then said: "Foreign maritime trade is a fast and powerful policy, and the tax revenue of customs and ports alone can reach more than three million yuan per year. ”

When the ministers heard this, they all exclaimed, what is the concept of three million guan, this is too scary, but there are still some old ministers who are not convinced, and some people shout and ask: "On the sea, it is very dangerous, how can the Maritime Silk Road be reopened when you say it?" ”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said proudly: "This unnamed old man, where there is a will, there is a way, if you don't try it, how do you know if you can do it, and Li is still quite sure about the reopening of the Maritime Silk Road." ”

He turned to face Li Shimin and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, when the minister was in Qiongnan, he and the craftsmen devoted themselves to studying the technology of shipbuilding, and now they have more than 100 huge ships, each of which is more than 10 zhang long, the smallest is 14 zhang long, and the largest ship is more than 40 zhang long, and the fleet goes to sea once or twice a year, and each trip back will bring back more than 100,000 taels of gold. ”

The ministers were in an uproar when they heard this, in their impression, the ten-zhang long ship was already a giant ship, and the ship was more than forty zhang long, how big was that, it was very terrifying to think about, and besides, you can earn 100,000 taels of gold on a trip to the sea? Is there a mountain of gold overseas? Many people began to suspect that Li Hao was bragging.

Li Hao said and took out a thick stack of drawings from his arms, held them high, and said: "Your Majesty, here are the ship construction drawings researched by the ministers and craftsmen, this ship is called Galen Ship, with this ship, the sea area in the world can not go to the place without my Tang Dynasty." ”

Finally seeing the drawings of this legendary giant ship, Li Shimin hurriedly said: "Submit it!" ”

Xu Lian stepped off the platform and handed a thick stack of drawings to Li Shimin, Li Shimin took it and looked at several of them, saying that he couldn't understand them, they were densely filled with data, and there were some engineering drawings, and he couldn't understand some strange icons at all.

This is very embarrassing, after all, Li Shimin is not a talent in this area, he glanced at the ministers, and suddenly said: "Wang Chaosheng, look at these drawings." ”

Xu Lian hurriedly walked off the platform with a stack of drawings on a tray, and came to the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Wang Chaosheng, Wang Chaosheng carefully picked up one and looked at it, after a look, he was out of control, his eyes were round, his face was full of shock, and after reading one after another, he didn't mean to stop at all.

Wang Chaosheng was too fascinated by it, and from time to time he let out a sound of surprise and admiration, completely forgetting that he was now on top of the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin couldn't help but lose a little patience when he saw that he couldn't stop at all, such a thick drawing, he couldn't wait for Wang Chaosheng to read them all, and asked out loud: "Wang Chaosheng, what do you think of these drawings?" ”

Wang Chaosheng woke up at this time, put the drawings back into the tray excitedly, and then came out of the line to salute, and said with excitement on his face: "Your Majesty, it is a miracle, it is simply a miracle!" ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked happily, "In this way, what Li Hao said is true?" ”

Wang Chaosheng said excitedly: "King Qiongnan is really not a genius, even the ministers have a lot of ununderstood points in this drawing, but the ministers can see that the ship-making process of this drawing is simplified, and the structure is solid, and it should not be a problem to build a giant ship, these drawings are very precious, and can be called the treasure of the world!" ”

"Luckily!" Li Shimin laughed heartily when he heard this, pointed at Li Hao and said, "Poetry madness, you have made great achievements again!" ”

Li Hao humbly arched his hand and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to take credit, the minister only expects that my Tang Dynasty will be strong, not only dominating the land, but also being able to crisscross the sea." ”

When the ministers heard this, they were also infected by this sentence, dominating the land and crisscrossing the sea, what a grand blueprint this is, just thinking about it can make people's blood boil, even if they don't like Li Hao, and even hate Li Hao, but Li Hao's expectation is also their expectation, for the first time in history, they sincerely support Li Hao.

Li Shimin smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, a good one to dominate the land, crisscrossing the sea, the drawings are submitted, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, I will send someone to the Ministry of Industry, poet maniac, you first talk about it, where is it better to add shipyards and ports?" ”

Li Hao said: "Back to Your Majesty, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Taizhou, Chengshanjiao are all excellent harbor areas, can be added in these places, or expand the harbor, as for the shipyard, should not build too much, one can be, the minister thinks that the best shipyard site can be set in Dengzhou, Dengzhou three sides of the sea, there is a natural notch in the northeast direction, named Weihai, can avoid the wind and waves, is a natural harbor, build a shipyard here, it is more suitable. ”

"Get the map." When Li Shimin heard this, he immediately asked Xu Lian to get the map.

Li Hao hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a map." As he spoke, he took out a folded map from his bosom.

"Bring it in."

Xu Lian hurriedly walked down the platform and presented the map, Li Shimin unfolded the map and looked at it, heh! A detailed hand-drawn map, and extremely accurate, at first glance, it is from Li Hao's hand, after all, Li Hao is good at painting, painting people can be lifelike, not to mention drawing maps.

Li Shimin moved his eyes to Dengzhou, and sure enough, he saw that the northeast coast of Dengzhou drew a circle with charcoal and marked two words "Weihai".

"It's a great place indeed." Li Shimin stared at the map for a long time, nodded again and again, and then handed the drawings to Xu Lian and said, "Take it down and show it to the secretaries." ”

Xu Lian hurriedly took the map and got off the platform, walking back and forth beside the queue of ministers, letting them look at the map, and the ministers nodded again and again after reading it, I have to admit that Li Hao is indeed very good at picking places, and Weihai is indeed a natural harbor.

After Zhongqing finished reading it, Xu Lian returned the map to Li Hao, and Li Shimin asked with a smile: "What do you think?" ”

The ministers all nodded in agreement, saying that Weihai is very suitable for a shipyard, and some people suggested that a seaport should also be established in Weihai, but at this moment, a discordant voice sounded, only to hear Ma Zhou suddenly questioned: "Your Majesty, Weihai is indeed a good harbor place, but the ministers still have doubts, Weihai is close to Goguryeo, Silla and other large and small countries, and there are pirates rampant in that area, if a shipyard or harbor is built here, once the enemy attacks, then the shipyard and the ships in the harbor may fall into the hands of the enemy, isn't it to make wedding dresses for others." ”

The ministers were surprised when they heard this, they thought that Ma Zhou and Li Hao had a good relationship, but they didn't expect that now Ma Zhou would actually question Li Hao's point of view, what is the situation.

Li Hao said with a smile when he heard this: "What Master Ma said is extremely true, so it is necessary to increase troops in the coastal area of Weihai to resist the sea invaders, and at the same time train the navy in Weihai, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone." ”

After Li Hao finished speaking, he threw a small look at Ma Zhou, and Ma Zhou smiled knowingly, in fact, this was just a cross talk performed by the two of them, which naturally led the topic from the shipyard port to the navy.

Sure enough, Su Dingfang immediately said in a loud voice: "The minister seconded the proposal, the situation in the Weihai sea area is chaotic, and it is necessary to increase the number of troops, and set up a new Weihaiwei to train the naval army." ”

Li Ji immediately also came out and gave his hand: "The minister also seconded the proposal." ”

Niu in and out of the column: "The minister also seconded the proposal." ”

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Almost all the generals seconded the proposal, because they had already seen that Li Hao's act of building a shipyard was not only for the sake of maritime trade, but also for the purpose of strengthening the Tang Navy, how could they not be excited, and naturally agreed, not only that, but even some long-term Wenchen also seconded it.

Li Hao's fourth letter was also successfully passed, and this time most of the Manchu civil and military forces agreed, which was the first time in history.