Chapter 1753 Don't talk about the door, there are no windows
It has to be said that Chen Lifu's words moved Xie Yiwei and even the Holy Emperor Li Xuan.
Li Xuan naturally knew this. The reason why he didn't do it before was not because he didn't know what to do, but because he wanted to take it slow and wait until the industrial system matured.
To put it simply, let the productive forces develop first, and then improve people's living standards accordingly.
Xie Yiwei was moved because he was originally a reformist. No matter what he thought in his heart, he was able to get up all the way because of various reforms. In the imperial political arena, he was known as a reformist.
, a large group of people surrounding him are also reformists.
It's just that Xie Yiwei's reforms were far less radical than Chen Lifu's.
Compared with Chen Lifu, he has become a moderate.
In the past half month, Chen Lifu has been jumping up and down, clinging to the word reform, which has attracted a lot of attention in the court, especially the younger generation of officials, most of whom are inclined to carry out partial reforms.
Therefore, many people switched to Chen Lifu's disciples.
This made Xie Yiwei feel the pressure.
To get involved in the imperial political arena, especially to enter the imperial study room, it is not enough to just rely on the title of minister on duty alone, even if it is appreciated by the Holy Emperor. Now he must have a large group of officials to support him.
Otherwise, it will be like a duckweed without roots and will be overturned by the slightest wind and waves.
Any minister on duty who can climb up will actually have a large group of officials who support them. This is the so-called factional struggle.
In the past, Xie Yiwei used his name as a reformer to win over many supporters. Now Chen Lifu's appearance and his radical attitude have made many young officials inclined to see Chen Lifu.
Naturally, Xie Yiwei couldn't bear this, so he has been making moves recently, ostensibly supporting Chen Lifu, but more importantly, he also wants to seize the initiative in this matter, and even if it doesn't work, he will share more than half of the profits.
Fame.
As for Jia Wenbo, this man is well-known as a stubborn conservative in the imperial political arena. No matter what the reason is, he just doesn't support any changes and thinks it's good as it is now.
There are actually many people who support him. Whether you say they have vested interests or you say they have other interests, their biggest reason is:
The empire is already so awesome, why do you still mess around? What will you do if it breaks down?
What is the current situation of the Tang Empire?
A proper empire on which the sun never sets, the overlord of the earth. When it comes to comprehensive national power, the Tang Dynasty can challenge the world alone.
A Tang Dynasty navy controlled the world's seas, even the distant Baltic Sea. Tang's ships could move in and out with great arrogance. But how did the Tatars, who controlled the southern coast of the Baltic Sea and Denmark, respond?
They resorted to inward migration!
In order to prevent the coastal areas from being invaded by the Tang Navy and shelling the ports, they moved the coastal people inland, leaving only a few heavily garrisoned port cities. External exchanges in Europe,
Almost all are placed in the Netherlands.
Speaking of which, the United Provinces of the Netherlands developed rapidly by taking advantage of the European War, especially since the Tatars let them go and used this place as their window for foreign exchanges, which promoted trade in the Netherlands.
The development is extremely rapid, and there are already signs of a sea coach driver.
However, even the United Provinces of the Netherlands were under the control of the Tang Empire. In fact, many of the merchant ships traveling to and from the United Provinces of the Netherlands were Tang merchant ships...
What are the Tang Dynasty merchant ships doing here? Naturally, they are doing business. Who are they doing business with?
And Dutch merchants!
Who did the Dutch merchants do business with?
And the Tatars!
To put it bluntly, because of the current state of war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tatars, the Tang Dynasty and the Tatars were unable to trade directly, so the two sides had a tacit understanding to leave a place for transit transactions in the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
It sounds ridiculous to say it, but it is the reality.
The largest trading partner of the Tatars every year is obviously the Netherlands, but in fact it is still the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Doing business while fighting a war, this is the current relationship between the two parties.
In order to protect its own interests, especially the safety of Datang merchant ships passing through the straits and traveling to nearby waters such as the Baltic Sea, the Datang Navy directly stationed a small-scale squadron in the Netherlands. However, there was only one fleet all year round.
There are only frigates and a few offshore patrol ships stationed there.
But such a small fleet is already threatening the surrounding waters.
Since there are garrisons, there will naturally be naval bases, and with naval bases, there will naturally be colonies.
The Tang Empire currently has an overseas territory in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Well, this is not a special situation. In fact, Datang has a large number of overseas territories all over the world, whether in India, Africa, or the Americas.
In Europe, although there are no large overseas territories, there are small overseas territories in every important coastal port, such as Amsterdam, London, Rome, Constantinople and other cities.
It is usually obtained by purchasing land.
Most of the major European monarchs were also hospitable. Generally speaking, after they watched the live-fire exercises of the Tang Dynasty Navy, they usually readily agreed to the Tang Dynasty's offer to purchase land to establish naval bases and trading stations.
request.
Even Spain is no exception.
However, the method should be much more relaxed, because Spain is still very important now. In order to avoid excessive stimulation, the Tang Dynasty adopted the method of exchanging ordnance for land and directly gave a lot of guns and ammunition. Although these Spaniards felt that they were holding back in their hearts.
Qu, but considering so many guns and ammunition, I don’t care.
These many overseas territories are enough to prove the strength of the Tang Navy!
Needless to say, the army drove the Tatars all the way from Hetao to Europe.
If it weren't for the fact that the journey into West Asia or Eastern Europe is too far and supply transportation is really difficult, the army would have to suspend its offensive for a few years before starting a war, and then slowly stockpile supplies. Only when the supplies are stockpiled can it continue to attack. Otherwise,
The army had already reached the English Channel.
Regardless of comprehensive national strength or military force, the Tang Empire was a veritable global hegemon!
In the minds of many people, this kind of Tang Dynasty is already awesome enough. It will just continue to develop step by step. It is estimated that it will not take long to completely conquer the world and complete the slogan of one earth and one empire proposed by the Holy Emperor!
Our Tang Dynasty is so awesome now and is developing so well, why do we have to change it over and over again? What if it goes bad?
This is what many people think!
In other words, this is their superficial thinking. As for their real thoughts...
You want to take money out of my pocket? Not to mention the door, there are no windows!