Regarding Liu Xianzhi's statement, the officials above the court were shocked, and only Qiu Yiru continued to object: "Your Majesty, although His Royal Highness King Yan said that it can improve the country's financial situation, but the state comes forward to do business, it will become a competition with the people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Regarding Qiu Yiru's statement, Liu Xianzhi immediately refuted: "Lord Servant, what Xiao Wang said is not competing with the people for profit, please don't misinterpret Xiao Wang's meaning." In fact, the Li family merchant group is no longer the people of our dynasty, and with their strength, they can completely set up an overseas state to fight against our dynasty, what Xiao Wang said is actually to regain the wealth that should belong to our dynasty from the hands of this merchant group, and at the same time curb the continued expansion of this merchant group, so as not to become an external trouble of our dynasty in the future. ”

Hearing this, Liu Yan stretched out his hand to stop the argument between the two important ministers: "Don't talk about it, two Aiqing." Qiu Aiqing's concern is the foundation of our dynasty, while Yan Wang's consideration is a potential opponent of our country, and the original intention of both of them is for the sake of our country's interests. As for how to act in this matter, I still need to think carefully. In this way, after retiring from the dynasty, I will convene the chief and deputy chiefs of the three provinces, as well as the Shangshu of each ministry and the king of Yan to continue to discuss this matter. ”

Since the emperor said so, it is inconvenient for Qiu Yiru to continue to insist.

After the retreat from the dynasty, the ruling core of the Silk Kingdom gathered around the emperor again to continue to discuss this matter.

Liu Yan first asked Liu Xianzhi: "King Yan said that this Li family merchant group will become a potential opponent of our dynasty, where did he start?" ”

Liu Xianzhi replied: "Your Majesty, what the courtiers said is not just in terms of the economic ability of this merchant group, although their economic ability has completely surpassed that of small countries, and even many large countries cannot be compared with it, but their economic ability is actually still dependent on trade between countries, and it is relatively scattered, and it is not enough to maintain such a maritime empire with economic capacity alone." However, judging from the news that the spies sent out had penetrated the merchant group after several years, the maritime empire had already begun to conquer the land. ”

Liu Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you saying that they have established a kingdom overseas?" ”

"True, Your Majesty." Liu Xianzhi: "It is reported that the current leader of the Li family's merchant group is not their main master, but an agent. Since this agent took over the Li family's business group, their style of acting has changed greatly. In the past, although the Li family merchant group was already very powerful, but it did not show strong expansion, but after this agent came to power, the aggressiveness of the Li family merchant group was undoubtedly exposed, and they used their strong strength to sweep away almost all the pirate forces, and incorporated these pirates into their own private army. As a result, they quickly seized the maritime trade of all parts of the country, and if they were to compete, the merchant ships would either disappear or be shipwrecked, and there would be no other way but to bow down. ”

"Wait, you're saying all of this was done by an agent? So what is their master doing? Liu Yan asked.

Liu Xianzhi smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you have asked the point." Their master did even more powerful, he raised a private army, became the son-in-law of a small country called Palci, and then destroyed the enemy of this small country, Yaki, and then went to war with another great power, Arubania, which is said to have reached the capital of Arubania. ”

"How can such a thing happen?" Liu Xianzhi's words even moved Liu Yan: "Yaki I haven't heard of it, but isn't this Arubania a powerful country west of Paz?" How did you get to this step? ”

Liu Xianzhi: "Nayaki is an ancient country that has been at war with Arubania for many years, and isn't it also destroyed?" This news has been more than a year ago, and if nothing else, Arubania is now Palchi territory. Your Majesty, please think about it, this Li family merchant group is backed by powerful economic power, and now it has established a brand new country, and the territory of this country includes two large countries, and its momentum is probably rare in history, right? If such a country is allowed to continue to grow, who can guarantee that it will not attack the Paz Empire? If even the Paz Empire can't stop it, then won't it be my dynasty next? ”

"What's this man's name?"

"His name is Li Tianhao!"

"Li Tianhao?" This name flashed in Liu Yan's mind, and for a moment he suddenly remembered, isn't this Li Tianhao the name of the young man he met when he sneaked to Quanzhou to play when he was the prince?

Liu Yan's heart was taken aback, and he was busy warning himself in his heart: This must be a coincidence, just a coincidence, don't think nonsense.

Liu Xianzhi did not notice the fluctuations in Liu Yan's heart, and continued: "It is said that this person is a military genius, and he has been invincible since he started his army, and he has not tasted defeat all the way, so his legend has been widely spread in his country. In addition, the younger brother also heard an important news, the reason why this Li family merchant group was able to run rampant on the sea and sweep away the two countries was that they had two treasures from our country. ”

"Baby?" It was not Liu Yan who asked this, but Xue Boren.

"Yes, what is incomprehensible is that they have the outer ships that only our fleet has, and what is even more incredible is that they are even equipped with the weapon firearm that only my Chaoshenji battalion has!"

"What!" Xue Boren was shocked when he heard this, he may not care about anything else, but he is the most familiar with the firecrackers of this Shenji Battalion, and the firecrackers have made great contributions during the expedition to Goryeo. But this weapon is the top secret of the Silk Country, and ordinary officers can't even see these weapons, let alone touching them, but how could such a secret weapon fall into the hands of a merchant group far away on the sea?!

At this time, Liu Yan had already confirmed that there was no possibility of shaking what he suspected - if you want to talk about the outflow of foreign steamship technology, there is no second person except for the young man Li Tianhao back then. It was precisely because he learned that Li Tianhao had purchased military ships with a large amount of money, and after returning to the dynasty, he asked his father for orders to strictly investigate and severely punish a group of officials in Quanzhou Port. Since this incident, it is impossible for Quanzhou to send out such ships, so Li Tianhao at that time is naturally the Li Tianhao of today.

"King Wen dreams of bears, the dragon returns to the sea, the heaven and the earth are divided, and the karmic fire is everywhere??????" Liu Yan suddenly remembered a few words said by the Xiangshi who showed him at the beginning, and inadvertently muttered out.

Although Liu Yan's words were said very lightly, they had already been heard by several important ministers who were closest to them, and everyone looked at each other, not knowing what the emperor meant.