Listening to Li Yuan's talk about the location of that island, Liu Muxin said Li Yuan, you really know how to occupy it.

The location of that island is Kuridong Island between Polo and Sumatra, between the two islands of Upang and Tripung.

But Li Yuan is also reasonable.

Listening to Li Yuan's lecture on the whole process, Liu Mu found that history is really written by people, and the real history may not be what later generations recorded.

Liu Mu remembered that there was an ancient kingdom of Sumatra called the Gandhari Kingdom. According to the history books, this country was later renamed the Three Buddhas, but according to Li Yuan, there should be a group of people who are Buddhists who are different from the original Gandhali religion, and this group of people is ready to overthrow the Gandhili.

Li Yuan was still talking there, and he laughed as he spoke: "I am very generous, I personally gave that island to the country of Ganduri, and the king of Gandoli is ready to build a palace for me on the island in order to thank me for my reward, and he will serve me as the master of the Tang Dynasty for generations." ”

"Got a war?"

"If you don't fight, there are hundreds of bandits, and they all fled after a few random hits." Li Yuanle said.

In Li Yuan's eyes, there will be at least tens of thousands of people or tens of thousands of people to fight a war.

But Li Yuan didn't know that in these small places, there were hundreds of people who were considered an army. The elite of the Tang Dynasty Shence Guard fights, even if he only takes a knife, he is a strong army with one enemy and ten enemies.

Li Yuan picked up Liu Mu's abacus and asked, "What are you counting?" ”

"Father, ...... aw" Liu Mu first let out a long breath, and then continued: "The poor can't afford to fight, I'm calculating the military consumption of various shipping divisions, transshipment divisions, and docks in the recent period. It's not that I don't know, I'm shocked, this is not over, I feel that half of all the profits of the general division since last year have been spent on military spending. ”

Li Yuan laughed and threw the abacus far away.

Liu Mu didn't understand Li Yuan's thoughts, and immediately asked, "What does Father mean?" ”

Li Yuan put away his smile and became very serious: "Superiors, don't count these." These small accounts are calculated by the small family, and the superior is calculated by the potential. ”

Without waiting for Liu Mu to react, Li Yuan explained to Liu Mu: "Taking the Han Dynasty as an example, in the years when Emperor Wu was in power, he forcibly emptied the treasury, and it is impossible to count how many people died in the Han Dynasty, some died in the army, and some died in the army. Without this dozen, it seems that the Han Dynasty was prosperous and the treasury was sufficient, but it was empty. ”

"The country, the world, and the hegemony are all played."

Li Yuan's words were full of pride.

Liu Mu remembers the history of the Tang Dynasty, and it can be said that the Tang Dynasty has been fighting foreign wars every year, and there are always battles to be fought in the north, south, east and west.

Tang was defeated in the feudal town.

At the beginning, I saw that this feudal town was not bad, but after a long time, I couldn't get rid of it, and I wanted to change it, but I was powerless to change it.

Coupled with the fact that Wu Zetian destroyed most of the power of the family gate valve, the world of the Tang Dynasty no longer had the strength to fight against the feudal town. Eventually, the Tang Dynasty became a dismembered empire.

Li Yuan picked up a piece of fruit that Liu Mu had originally placed on the table and put it in his mouth, then re-lit the cigar and said to Liu Mu: "The support you gave to Rome is not enough. ”

"It's a lot."

"No, Rome does not expand, slaves from your place are available. My father heard that some slaves want to join my Tang nationality, so this matter can be handled well. ”

Liu Mu didn't expect Li Yuan to be so old, but his heart of expansion was getting bigger and bigger.

Li Yuan asked again: "The current Tang Dynasty, does it have the strength to destroy Goguryeo?" ”

"I don't know." Liu Mu hadn't been in Datang for a long time, so he didn't know about the changes in armaments in the north.

Li Yuan put away his serious smile: "I suddenly don't want to send troops to Goguryeo." ”

"Why?"

Liu Mu didn't understand it at all, if it was to destroy Goguryeo, Li Yuan was definitely the biggest supporter.

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Because, there are more interesting things than sending troops." ”

Liu Mu became interested: "What does my father have a high opinion?" ”

"Don't hurry, the time has not yet come."

Li Yuan stopped continuing on this topic after selling a pass, but asked Liu Mu: "Can the military budget support it?" ”

"It can be supported, and the major families, wealthy families, and big businessmen have said that as long as they need money for the war, they will help them." Yanagi was full of confidence when he said this.

Don't say it's a wealthy family or a family.

It is that ordinary people are willing to contribute money and effort.

At this time, Yangzhou City.

Li Shenfu specially invited Qin Qiong from Qizhou, and also called Li Xiaogong, as well as Xiao Yu, a retired official of the Tang Dynasty who was dealing with various issues in Fusang Dao, and Feng An's son with extraordinary ability, Feng Zhidai, the current governor of the South China Sea Fleet.

"Yanzhou and Qizhou are the barriers in the northeast of Datang and are also important towns. Yangzhou and Hangzhou are the important towns of Jiangnan East Province. Xiangzhou is an important town in the west of the Yangtze River, and the important town in Lingnan must be Guangzhou City, and Shuzhong ......" Li Shenfu spoke first, and said all the important towns in the southeast, northwest, and northwest regions of the Tang Dynasty.

These are important towns and the center of a region.

A central city for economy, culture, military, education, etc.

Li Shenfu took out a document and handed it to Qin Qiong. Qin Qiong looked through it and handed it to Xiao Yu beside him.

After everyone saw it, Li Shenfu said: "Chang'an City since the Liufu horse westward, sold one-year, three-year and all kinds of fleet voyage foreign development bonds, in short supply, the day before the release of the disappearance of the night in front of the Wutongfang began to queue up, until the next day sold out, many people are still reluctant to leave. ”

Qin Qiong said: "What do you say about foreign development bonds, this is to raise military spending. Liu Mu can be said to have fought earth-shaking in the Mediterranean, he came back, and before he returned to the Tang Dynasty, he went around in the South China Sea, and someone who came back first told me that he organized the so-called Fifty Army, and leveled all the ports, cities and three important towns along the coast of the Saracen Kingdom, as well as the royal capital. ”

"Looks like it's hugely profitable?" Xiao Yu's face was full of smiles.

Originally, he was arranged to go to the Mediterranean, but he sent Li Daozong over, and at that time, Xiao Yu knew that the Tang Emperor would definitely want to make a difference there, so he sent a quasi-commander-level general instead of a civil minister like him.

"The problem is not this, but the present. There are a number of petitions in Yangzhou. Li Shenfu brought the topic back to the topic.

Li Xiaogong said on the side: "Uncle's words are too conservative, not several. There are enough petitions in Hangzhou to fill a room, and there must be fewer here. ”

"Two." Li Shenfu gave an answer.

Li Shenfu said: "The people of Yangzhou believe that it is reasonable that the stock is not convenient to sell outside Chang'an for the time being because of the special situation. But bonds are different, and the first batch of people who bought bonds made the highest annual profit of 11.4 percent, and they have always earned 1,14 cents, which is very good. ”