The moment he saw Xu Yan's head, Suning knew that a more fierce battle was about to begin, Xu Yan's death was only to get rid of a big enemy for the Western Turkic United Business Group, but this does not mean that the Shandong family could not choose a replacement for Xu Yan, Xu Yan is a businessman, although the Shandong family looks down on businessmen, but they also have to raise a group of businessmen to make money for them and squander them, so there are many business talents in Shandong.

It's just that Xu Yan's degree of danger surpasses that of others, reaching the SS pole, personally experiencing the Western Turkic business model, and sublimating his business ideas, which other business talents do not have, so as long as Xu Yan is not the leader, Xu Yao, one of the best business elites in the blood drops, can completely cope with it, Suning and Du Ruhui sit in the Chang'an headquarters and wait for the news, waiting for the final result.

Cui Xiaoyi led the Shandong United Business Group to continue to set off, with the ardent expectations of the Shandong family and Cui Xiaoli's move to threaten the lives of his family and left Shandong, with a huge business group of more than 2,000 people to the north, vowing to recapture their trade routes and wealth, on the other hand, the Shandong family also began to operate at full strength, opening up the second battlefield, to win the qualification of opening the northern border as a trade gateway in the court.

The power of the Lu family and the Zheng family in the court has been almost abolished, but they are not the only two families in the family! Therefore, more courtiers of the family united to ask the emperor to open a treaty port, and Shuozhou, an important town on the Great Wall in the north, as a trade port, allowing people of all ethnic groups to do business here and exchange with each other.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a condition demanded by the minions of the Shandong family. Everyone can see it, but at this time it is not a problem that can be seen and cannot be seen, but a problem that must not be controlled by the big families of the trade pass, to be honest, the trade plan of the northern pass has always been prepared to be implemented by His Majesty Li Er, and it is ready to build another merchant group and the Western Turkic merchant group to cooperate with each other, and there must be some confrontation, and the merchants must control and compete, and they cannot let them make progress.

When everyone can eat enough. If you don't have control over the merchant yet. Then wait to be overthrown, Suning will not tell His Majesty Li Er about this, after all, it is still very unbelievable now, to make people believe that the businessman they despise will one day become the leader of the country. I'm afraid it's not just them who don't believe it. The merchants wouldn't believe it either. We just want to make money, what does it have to do with anything else?

It's just that Suning made Li Er's majesty more or less notice the power of the businessman, so Li Er's majesty became vigilant. The great success of the Western Turkic model proved the feasibility of the political model of commercial control, corrupting those leaders with money in exchange for their support, so as to indirectly control the whole of a country, this situation made Li Er's majesty concerned, and now the Shandong family has taken the initiative to open trade passes and barbarian trade, so that the northern passes will not be in the hands of Shandong?

With money, people, power, and status, isn't Shandong the second imperial court? Before, because the Datang border guards patrolled all the time, all the business could only be regarded as smuggling, so the scale was not large, and they did not dare to put it on the bright side, once the trade gate was opened, all things could be made clear and legalized, and the wealth they could get would be greatly increased, which was equivalent to having their own financial system, and then the long-term heritage would completely explode, and the situation was worrying.

Therefore, in any case, the control of the northern trade pass cannot be put into the hands of Shandong, it must be in the hands of the imperial court, and without the permission of the imperial court, you cannot do business, and copy the Western Turkic model to the north, otherwise this will be a hidden danger, a group of businessmen who do not listen to the imperial court and only obey the Shandong family, such a business group is definitely not a good thing, but a cancer.

His Majesty Li Erlu summoned all his think tanks overnight, including Suning, to hold a secret meeting together, and all the people who participated in the meeting were the starting team of Li Er's Majesty, even Wei Zheng and these people did not come, only a few people were able to participate, and among the courtiers after Li Er's majesty became emperor, only Suning was able to enter this inner circle.

After everyone met, they knew that their group of people was the highest power in the Tang Dynasty, and Suning was the other in it, young, and he had been the emperor's courtier for only two years, but he was trusted in this way, and he could participate in such a meeting, everyone sighed, but basically they all know each other, and they all have a chain of mutual interests.

It is also very simple for His Majesty Li Er to call a group of people, the purpose is very clear, it is imperative to open a treaty port in the north, and this Datang is not opposed, because the opening of a trade port is also a good thing for Datang, and Datang also needs such a pass to communicate with the northern tribes more, with its soldiers who surrender without a fight, with the least casualties, they can occupy such a vast land, and copy the Western Turkic model to the northern tribes, especially Xue Yantuo.

After the Eastern Turks in the north were wiped out, the largest country was the Xue Yantuo Khanate, after the Eastern Turks were eliminated, a large number of people were relocated to the interior for the purpose of labor reform, after the rebellion of the Xue Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's blow to the rest of the Eastern Turks was further deepened, and the rest of the entire Lingzhou neighborhood was wiped out, either killed or taken prisoner, and all of them were captured as slaves in the interior of the Tang Dynasty. The territory of the ethnic minorities such as the West Turks in the west, the sand moraine in the south, and the Kulunshui in the north, is extensive.

In the past, in order to contain the Eastern Turks, the Tang Dynasty vigorously supported Xue Yantuo against the Eastern Turks before launching the Battle of Yinshan, which was also effective, but since the Eastern Turks were burned by Suning, Xue Yantuo became the biggest overlord in the north, and Pearl Viga Khan Yinan became the biggest overlord in the north.

At that time, when Datang was discussing the plan to deal with the rise of Xue Yantuo, someone once proposed to make peace, but Suning happened to be present at the time, thought of a lot of things, and was immediately furious, pointing to a group of generals and saying Are you a man in Datang? To exchange a woman for peace? Can't Datang beat Xue Yantuo?! That's what only the cowardly and incompetent do! That's an insult to the Tang boy, it's a shame to the Tang boy!

These words caused a huge repercussion and shock in the court at that time. A large number of generals and colonels are inexplicably ashamed of this, yes, why should the peace of the Tang Dynasty be obtained by sacrificing a woman? Is there no boy in Datang? Want to test a woman in exchange for peace? The Han Dynasty couldn't defeat the Xiongnu before making this decision, and now the Tang Dynasty can't beat Xue Yantuo?

After that, many courtiers asked several times to win over the northern ethnic minorities with a harmonious plan, but they were stopped by a group of generals with red eyes, claiming that whoever dared to mention peace was to slap them in the face, and give the emperor's daughter to others as wives in exchange for peace, which was a shame from the beginning, not a strategy. Not a reward. It's a shame!

The military generals unified their thinking, and hate the plan with their relatives from then on, and once someone proposed it, they would clamoring to lead troops to exterminate that tribe, resulting in a very serious confrontation between the military and the civil servants. His Majesty Li Er also suddenly thought of the Han Dynasty and his relatives, which was a last resort. Give the noble princess to the barbarian as a wife. How to think about how to be aggrieved, so from then on, he was not very enthusiastic about planning with his relatives, and refused the requests of many tribes. It once caused a diplomatic crisis, but after quelling the Lingzhou rebellion, no one dared to rashly make a request for peace.

For this reason, Suning's name spread in the inner palace, and many princesses' impression of Suning was greatly improved......

Now in the face of the problem of the opening of the northern pass, once again a minister put forward the meaning of wooing and monitoring Xue Yantuo with his relatives, Xue Yantuo is now unprecedentedly powerful, with tens of thousands of people in armor, can not be hard to fight with it, but it is better to follow the model of the Western Turks, to control, the establishment of a trade pass, in order to dispel its doubts, just Yi Nan proposed to make peace with the Tang Dynasty, to marry the Tang princess, so simply take advantage of the situation to allow, and then with the opening of the trade pass, it will definitely be able to be done in one fell swoop, turning Xue Yantuo into the second Western Turk.

This strategy was not proposed by the ministers of the scholar clan, but by some ministers of the Han family from the perspective of the interests of the Tang Dynasty, which was indeed very feasible, and His Majesty Li Er couldn't help but waver, so he gathered his henchmen to discuss whether to implement it according to this plan, and how to get all the control power into the hands of the imperial court without being taken away by the Shandong family.

As soon as this matter was said, Hou Junji, the first person in the military and chief of staff, vigorously opposed it, pointed to Suning and said: "The Marquis of Sanyuan said at the time that harmony is the decline of the former Han Dynasty and the weakness of the Xiongnu, and the next policy under helplessness is a shameful policy of exchanging women for peace, and it is really a man in the tens of millions of people of the Han Dynasty!" Can't Datang beat Xue Yantuo? Why did you send the princess? That's a shame for all men!

Your Majesty, the minister resolutely opposes this move, if it is a princess and a pro, it is equivalent to looking down on the Tang Dynasty soldiers, looking down on the Tang Dynasty men, the Tang Dynasty has not yet reached the point where it wants to exchange women for peace and interests, Your Majesty, please Northern Expedition Xue Yantuo! "Hou Junji has a strong temperament, and when he hears this, he gets angry, and small-minded people are more likely to get angry, not to mention that now Hou Junji is above 10,000 people, so Hou Junji wants to go north to Xue Yantuo to prove that he is the leader......

Of course, this is not necessary, Xue Yantuo did not provoke the Tang Dynasty, and now he is still a minister, Li Er Majesty appeased Hou Junji, just appeased, Yu Chi Gong said angrily: "Your Majesty, I don't think we should have a strategy of harmony, we can't beat people, and the princess is not an object, it can be sent back and forth, if it is a concubine and a dancer, forget it, but the key is that the princess, Su Xiaozi is right, how do you think about it and feel aggrieved, anyway, the minister will definitely not agree, who dares to agree, The minister will definitely go to his mansion to make trouble, and then drag him to the north to attack Xue Yantuo! ”

Wei Chigong is also a confidant of Li Er's majesty, participated in this meeting, played a scoundrel, and the angry Li Er's majesty couldn't cry or laugh, the two generals immediately set the tone for the meeting, and the plan of the pro-family was absolutely not allowed, the military denied it, Li Er's majesty thought about it, it was his own daughter, and his father's daughter, those eldest princesses, if they were sent out to toss those barbarians, it would be really uncomfortable, Suning didn't say it before, but now when he says it, why do you feel so aggrieved?

Waving his hand, Li Er said: "That's it, don't mention the matter of harmony, in the future, don't mention it at all, Xuanling, when the matter is over, you go back and draw up a fold, just abolish the harmony and pro, and hand it over to the province for consideration, and in the future, Datang will not be reconciled, I also feel a little aggrieved, well, that's it...... Suning, what do you say, you don't want to be close to you, so how to control the trade gateway in the hands of the imperial court? ”

Fang Xuanling promised, Suning was stunned, and asked again? Haven't spoken yet......

"Your Majesty, this matter is really not easy to handle, but now Shandong has gathered a huge business group of 2,000 people to go north, and the Western Turkic business group has also been organized, and it is also a big business group that is heading to Xue Yantuo, and the minister is arranging this matter, as long as the caravan in Shandong is driven back, there should be a way." Suning thought for a moment and said cautiously. (To be continued......)