Chapter 780 Agree with the proposal

"VIP?"

"Developing Shuofang?"

“Developing Lingnan?”

"Develop overseas?"

Li Er and others looked at Li Feng in shock, especially Li Er. He wanted to ask whether you are the emperor or I am the emperor.

Li Feng nodded heavily to everyone and said: "Yes, I need people. I need people to discover Shuofang, discover Lingnan, develop overseas, and there are many more developments.

Although Shuofang City is already under construction, I still feel that it is not enough. Just building a wooden track will require tens of thousands of people. In the future, it will take hundreds of thousands of people to build the railway track.

There are other industries, such as farming, which can only rely on manpower when there is no other labor force, and tree planting. A large number of trees are needed around Shuofang City to prevent desertification, and..."

After Li Feng finished explaining Shuo Fang's arrangements, he paused for a moment to give Li Er and others time to digest.

After a while, Fang Xuanling said: "According to what you said, Shuofang City will need millions of laborers."

"Absolutely." Li Feng nodded.

"What about developing overseas and developing Lingnan?" Li Er asked.

Li Feng said: "There are many islands and a lot of ownerless land overseas. You said that the Tang Dynasty currently has a population of hundreds of millions. Is it possible to go overseas to occupy those ownerless lands?

Even if there are masters, they are still a group of savages. Just capture them, but we will not deal with a group of savages.

As for Lingnan, it is a coastal area, close to the sea, where a large port city can be built. There are many maritime resources. A large number of ships depart from the port city and return to the port when they are fully loaded.

If the goods are transported from the port city to Chang'an, they may be divided up by merchants from other places before they reach Chang'an.

I already have preliminary ideas for these, but it will take a few years, and these few years are just enough for the students of the military academy to graduate."

Li Er said: "Li Feng, there are things a gentleman does and things he doesn't do. Do you know that once you do this, you will be infamed throughout the ages?"

Li Feng smiled and said: "History will always be rewritten by the successful ones. What's more, their country will be included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the future. I just expropriated it in advance."

"Your Majesty." Cheng Yaojin said, "Old Cheng thinks that asking for people is actually very simple. There are many refugees and beggars in various countries. We can send people to advertise to the world and tell them that as long as they come to the Tang Dynasty, they will have land to farm.

There is food to eat.”

Yuchi nodded respectfully and said: "What a good idea. Not only that, our children let the soldiers disguise themselves to rob people from various countries and sell them to Shuofang in the form of trafficking.

Li Feng, just worry about your reputation, I guarantee you will make money by selling people, there are many people in the Tang Dynasty who will take risks."

Four words suddenly flashed in Li Feng's mind: slave trading.

Wei Zheng said angrily: "Yuchi, are you trying to make everyone in the world despise the Tang Dynasty? Do you know that this may arouse the hostility of various countries towards the Tang Dynasty, and eventually lead them to unite and besiege the Tang Dynasty?"

Li Er said in a deep voice: "I'm waiting for them."

Fang Xuanling immediately said: "Your Majesty, please don't be impulsive. Since Li Feng has made arrangements, why not, as Li Feng said, we sell the muskets to various countries and make profits from them. As Li Feng said, bullets are consumables.

Don’s money will continue to flow.”

Li Feng said: "They don't have money, so we can let them use their mines as collateral. We can directly mine each other's mines and reduce our country's mine consumption."

Everyone knows that ore is a consumable, and once a mine is dug, it is finished, so in addition to the population, we occupy each other's mines."

Tang Jian said: "Your Majesty, this business can be done. Nowadays, five hundred muskets can earn 50,000 taels of gold. If it is 5,000 muskets, it will be 500,000 taels of gold, which is five million taels."

This is only the price of muskets and bullets. Weichen believes that with this money, the Firearms Bureau can expand and develop new weapons.

I think this is the most important thing. It is useless even if we keep the musket secret, because everyone knows that there will always be people who will sell the musket to others for huge profits.

In order to keep the profits in my own hands, I think it’s better to sell now. Now that we have money, we can do a lot of things.”

Li Er nodded and said: "What do you all say, dear friends?"

Cheng Yaojin was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, what is there to consider? Everything is for the Tang Dynasty.

If they thought so much, Lao Cheng would have doubted whether they were officials of the Tang Dynasty or spies from other countries."

"Your Majesty, whether the war that Marquis Lantian said will happen or not actually has nothing to do with muskets, because without muskets, they will still start the war.

Just like Tubo, the Tang Dynasty will fight with it sooner or later. Is it because of the muskets?" Fang Xuanling said.

Everyone was silent. Everyone knew about the grievances between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty. As for other countries, they also had their own grievances. Everyone understood that countries fought for their own benefit.

Among them, Datang was the fat one in their eyes, but Datang was so powerful that they didn't dare to act rashly.

Li Er thought for a while and then said: "Li Feng, I will leave the matter of selling muskets to you. Since everything is for the Tang Dynasty, I am the master of the Tang Dynasty. I will bear all the infamy."

"Your Majesty is wise, and I am willing to take full responsibility for any infamy." Li Feng said.

"Your Majesty is wise." Li Jing and other generals all said in succession.

In today's peaceful and prosperous age, the Turks have just been exterminated, and they have no war at all. Without war, these generals will feel like they have nothing to do, so how can they make meritorious deeds?

"Your Majesty is wise." Fang Xuanling, Tang Jian and other officials who had already figured it out all bowed their hands in salute.

Some officials headed by Wei Zheng still couldn't figure it out. When did the Tang Dynasty, which claimed to be a country of etiquette, act so profit-oriented?

Li Erheng looked at this group of officials and said: "Wei Zheng, you guys, please listen to me clearly. You are officials of the Tang Dynasty and the people of the Tang Dynasty. Everything must be based on the Tang Dynasty and the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Even though you don’t support it, I won’t blame you, but if you dare to reveal even a single word about today’s matter, I will take it upon you.”

"My lord, I obey the order." Wei Zheng and others responded.

Everything Li Feng said so far is beneficial to the Tang Dynasty and the people of the Tang Dynasty. The only thing wrong is that the reputation of the Tang Dynasty will be ruined in the future.

When comparing reputation with national interests, fools will choose national interests.

Therefore, Wei Zheng did not fight Li Er to death, otherwise they would be charged with obstructing the country from obtaining benefits, or directly charged with treason. This is not something that can be solved by just one person's death.

In the end, everyone agreed to Li Feng's policy of selling muskets, triggering wars in other countries, and accepting refugees from other countries.
Chapter completed!