From the perspective of Confucianism, people criticize them, despise them, despise money, and despise commerce, just as the so-called everything has its two sides or even multiple aspects, which has been widely criticized by people who oppose Confucianism in the past as hindering the development of capitalism and hindering China's progress towards democracy and prosperity.

However, after Suning truly understood the original meaning and influence of Confucianism on business, he felt that the existence of Confucianism had guided the atmosphere of Chinese society to a level that despised money and attached importance to morality, and maintained it for a long time, which was beneficial to Chinese society, because blindly attaching importance to business and valuing money would only bring about a serious problem of capital families controlling the country, similar to the United States, so Confucianism's discrimination against business also has its positive impact.

Of course, what you get, you have to pay the same price to exchange, at this point, God is fair to everyone, so Suning feels that losing the qualification to communicate with the capitalist era is such a price, China paid a heavy price, but did not seize the most important opportunity, continue to carry forward the spirit of the national doctrine, so that it ended up a very miserable end, and has continued, this is a Chinese tragedy, the biggest tragedy of China in the twentieth century.

And at this time, everything has not yet begun, everything is still full of opportunities, Suning will not let the Tang Dynasty and China in this world lose this opportunity, the pilot of the Western Turks is the first step, and everything in the world must be abandoned. Taking a new path out, the unique conditions that Datang has are the excellent prerequisites for the development of all this, and maintaining the Confucian view and doing a hundred things in parallel is the ideal society.

Although all this is still in vain, you can't see and touch it, but at least this is a rare opportunity, for this world of China can be at the forefront of the world world, can develop into the world's largest country. And that couldn't be more important. In order to achieve this ideal, it is worth whatever price the Zongheng Division pays, and the value of those caravans can be reflected at this time.

The caravans of twenty wealthy nobles and twenty wealthy merchants were fully equipped and had set up camp next to the Military University in the northwest corner of Chang'an City. The preparation before departure in the next few days is to make up for the shortcomings. Report everything they brought to Suning. Suning recorded that as a party of the imperial court, these things were damaged if they were robbed on the way. The imperial court is to be compensated.

The imperial court also has to be honest, isn't it? Confucianism has been rampant for so long, a businessman is a Confucian businessman, and he has to speak in a crepe, for fear that the court will bully them, and the caravans of twenty wealthy nobles are strictly protected by the guards of their own mansions, but because they are merchants, they can't have private troops, and can only rely on the protection of the three thousand garrisons of the Tang Dynasty, and this security level has dropped by a level in an instant, so Suning announced that if their goods are robbed, not sold, all of them will be compensated by the Zongheng Division and will not let them suffer losses.

Looking at their suspicious expressions, Suning had no choice but to come up with a killer weapon - how long they go, how long will their families not have to pay taxes, this is the biggest concession of the imperial court, you have to be content! The merchants were overjoyed, the court really didn't expect compensation, how could there be an emperor in the world to compensate them merchants? But this tax exemption for as long as you go is definitely a real benefit, if you stay there for a lifetime, the family will not have to pay taxes for the rest of your life, and the money you earn will be your own, and you don't have to worry about the heavy business taxes and terrible tax officials.

Just for this, these businessmen showed an expression of seeing death as home, making Suning cry and laugh, now you see death as home, thinking that if you go, you will die, and after you taste the sweetness, it is estimated that you will not leave, then it is okay, take you as an example, you are the first batch of big capitalists, see where you can go, and then make considerations, the court is also preparing to change the "Commercial Law", if the commercial law does not change, business will naturally not be able to develop.

Finally, under the gaze of a large group of people, the Tang expeditionary Western Turkic caravan set off towards the Western Turks in the northwest direction, a vast army of nearly 10,000 people, if it is not accompanied by a huge number of carriages and oxcarts, it must be a very majestic expeditionary army, of course, in a sense, this is also an expeditionary force, but an expeditionary force of commercial attributes, they are going to open up new markets, open up new foreign markets for Datang's goods, and achieve the goal of promoting foreign demand.

Ancient business has always been self-produced and sold, small scale, difficult to do big, any kind of industry wants to develop into a behemoth, must be indispensable to mutual exchanges between regions, the ancient giant business is to do the business to the whole country, so called the giant business, but if you want to become a business elite, you must do the business to the whole world, with such a vision, business can develop, because the market is always the most important.

Now they don't quite understand, and after they taste the sweetness in the Western Turks, they will understand what is called windfall profits, what is called high profits, after tasting such sweetness, and after expanding their appetite, they will no longer limit their eyes to small passes, they will definitely think about the ancient commercial glory - the Silk Road, that road, is the real gold everywhere.

With such a belief, there is no need to be afraid that the commercial development will not be able to develop, and when the Silk Road is opened, the political and military power of the Tang Dynasty can penetrate along with the penetration of commercial power, and regain control of the Western Regions, the Hexi Corridor, which the Han family has not been able to grasp for hundreds of years, master there, and then unite the countries there, look down on Tibet, and train troops on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so that the soldiers can master the know-how of plateau warfare and be familiar with the plateau climate, and such an army must be stronger than the soldiers of the Central Plains.

The existence of Tubo in history made the second half of the Tang Dynasty unable to live in peace, and the Tang Dynasty lost more and won less, the main reason is the plateau climate, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could not fight, but the soldiers of the Tubo could fight at any time, the Tang soldiers went to the plateau and their physical strength was reduced by half, dizzy, and the Tubo soldiers went down to the plain but their combat power increased greatly, how can there be any reason to be undefeated? Therefore, it is necessary to use the plateau climate against the plateau climate. If they control Tibet, we will control Qinghai, train soldiers at the same altitude, and under the superior equipment of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo will not be a problem.

This is the first big goal of Suning's plan to open up the Western Regions, after killing Tubo and controlling the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, you can occupy an important transit point for sending troops to Central Asia, the main reason for Gao Xianzhi's defeat in Hengros is also that there are too few soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, and the control of the Western Regions is not strong enough; So this time. There is no need for nominal control. Send diplomats, send troops to station, and you will directly control it, and if you don't accept it, you will fight. Destroy them. It is directly set as the Datang Administrative Region.

The most reliable to play down!

It occupies the Western Regions and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It was tantamount to controlling the western frontier of modern China, and at this time Central Asia was still under the rule of the Sassanid Empire of the Persian Empire, which is commonly known as the Great White Food. The Sassanid Dynasty is already in the late decline era, but the history of the Sassanid Dynasty and China is still good, the relationship is also relatively good, such as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, China and the Sassanid Dynasty friendly exchanges are more frequent, the Book of Wei records, the Persian envoys to China to engage dozens of times, to the Northern Wei Emperor brought a variety of gifts, there are treasures, elephant taming, etc.

The Sassanid Dynasty in the sixth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, that is, next year will begin to be attacked by the Arab army, in 651 AD, that is, after the destruction of the second year of Yonghui of the Tang Dynasty, the son of the last emperor of the Sassanid Dynasty, Balus, had fled to the Tang Dynasty, asking Tang Gaozong Li Zhi to send rescue troops to resist the Arab invasion of Islam, Gaozong seemed to have little interest, escorted him back to the area of Sistan, Afghanistan and established the Persian Protectorate in the twelfth year of Yonghui, but was finally destroyed by Islamic Arabia in the fourteenth year of Yonghui, In the Chinese history books, it is called the white-clothed food and the black-clothed food.

The relationship between Suning can probably be understood, Gao Xianzhi's opponent is this black-clothed big food, and the black-clothed big food is more aggressive than the Sassanid Dynasty, that is to say, the Sassanid Dynasty is relatively friendly to China, and it is very weak and not strong, but Islamic Arabia is very strong, full of aggressive desire, this time has begun to rise, the Tang Dynasty has not much time, we must rush to get the entire western Xinjiang of China before the Arab destruction of the Sassanid Dynasty, control there, and then vigorously intervene in the Central Asian war and control Central Asia, and against Arabia!

In the same way, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, at that time, whether it is the Western Turks, or Tubo, or the countries of the Western Regions, they will disappear, or still exist in name, but in fact it is already the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and only by fighting in their own territory can they have a sense of belonging, Suning does not mind recruiting locals into the army, so that they can be sinicized as quickly as possible, then education is also very necessary.

There are a lot of things to do, but there are only about 20 years left, and it is not difficult to do these things in 20 years, but it must be done, because if it can't be done, it will usher in a bigger blow after 20 years.

Of course, at that point, the territory of the Asan is also to be accepted, so a large piece of the Ganges Plain is not a pity, Southeast Asia should also be accepted, grain production is important, rich in marine resources, is an indispensable place for the development of Datang's navy and maritime power, Datang can open up the land Silk Road, can also open up the maritime Silk Road, in short, must arrive in Europe, hit the world, so that the vision of the Tang people broadened, no longer satisfied with a piece of the Central Plains, but never satisfied.

The caravan left Chang'an City with Suning's ambitions, left everyone's field of vision, and will also leave the territory of Datang, go to the territory of other countries, thrive in a foreign land, become a huge bloodsucking worm, suck the blood of nomads dry, and then go to other places to continue to suck blood, providing opportunities for the intervention of Datang's political and military strength, and working hard for Datang to control the Western Regions.

So any weapon will be a double-edged sword, mainly depending on whether the person using it is smart, how well it is used, and what are you afraid of? Just use it directly, no one is your opponent, don't use it well, needless to say, you will die a miserable death, but Suning feels that he can use this weapon well, because the current businessman is just a simple businessman, there is no political power, there is no military power, and there will be no in the future, the royal family and nobles will not give them political power and military power, when these people see the power of businessmen, they may be afraid.

"Sanming, you say, if this matter is successful, how should we deal with those merchants? They don't spend a single soldier, they don't spend food and grass, they defeat the Turks with the power of the Turks, as you said, the means are incredible, it's okay to put them abroad, if they are in the Tang Dynasty, isn't it dangerous? Sanming, do you have a solution? Somehow, Du Ruhui suddenly foresaw the future of the businessman's rebellion......

Suning smiled coldly: "Of course there is, I have been ready for a long time." (To be continued......)