Whether it is for an individual or for a country's court, no money is very terrible, a person has no money, he cannot buy all kinds of materials he needs for life, he cannot spend happily, and even starve.

And for a country, the lack of money is even more terrible, the lack of funds will put the operation of a country into a terrible paralysis, and once the country is paralyzed, all parts of the country will enter a state of anarchy, and the number of traitors will increase dramatically, seriously threatening the daily life of the common people.

Of course, those in power do not think too much about the interests of the common people, and they are always worried about the interests of their own small collective.

If this situation continues, the rulers will inevitably be overthrown by the people, and even lose their own lives, so since ancient times, all the rulers will try their best to avoid financial difficulties, and when this situation occurs, they will try to get more financial resources.

The way to obtain financial resources is either to increase reforms or increase taxes, and under normal circumstances, in either case, it is always the ordinary people who are unlucky.

And Ma Teqin adopted a better method, renting and selling the country's land, which seems to be selling the country, but the ordinary people here, as long as their lives can go on, who cares about the little land that is rented and sold, and for the nobles, as long as their own interests are not violated, it doesn't matter much if the state rents and sells some land, because they can't come up with a more effective way.

Therefore, at a time when there is a serious crisis in the country's finances, Ma Teqin's policy of renting and selling land is in line with the interests of the aristocracy and the common people, and there will be no great resistance in the country, and most of the land leased and sold is ownerless wasteland and forest land, and the leased ports are all simple ports that need to be developed, and there are even shallow-water ports, which cannot be used without spending a certain price.

Of course, the main reason why this method can work is that the information of this era is not developed enough, and the people's sense of rights and patriotism has not yet awakened, resulting in the end of the imperial court betraying the country but unable to oppose it.

In the later generations, when the media was developed, this kind of traitorous behavior would soon be ruthlessly criticized by the common people, and all major newspapers and periodicals would criticize it, and the prestige of the ruler would soon disappear, or even end up in a downfall.

I remember that the big bald head in China, in order to consolidate his rule with the help of the power of the Japanese Bandits, sold a lot of rights and interests to the Japanese Bandits, but the common people and patriots did not agree, and they launched a nationwide condemnation, which greatly reduced the prestige of the bald heads.

No matter what, anyway, the people of the Lion Kingdom in this era have no sense of resistance, as long as they can get by, they will not risk killing their heads to do dangerous things, and this also allows Li An's plan to be implemented smoothly.

The subordinates listened to Li An's analysis and felt that it made sense, Datang is so powerful now, why is it strong, of course, because the country is rich and the people are strong, that is, it means that it is very rich.

Datang is very rich, so all the institutions of the whole country can operate well, and there is enough money to invent all kinds of things needed, and it can also equip a strong army, in short, everything is easy to do with money, and nothing can be done without money.

"Li Shilang, if this lion country has been renting and selling land constantly, won't it become richer and richer, so will it not admit it after it gradually becomes stronger! The subordinates can see it clearly, there are many merchants who borrowed money to buy land, if the Lion Kingdom does not admit it in the future, these merchants will be really miserable. ”

The subordinate said worriedly.

Ang Lee smiled: "The Lion Congress has such a big guts? I don't believe it anyway. ”

For a weak country like the Lion Country, Ang Li really didn't take it to heart, even if it was developed by him, it would be absolutely impossible to surpass the possibility of Datang, not the slightest possibility, so the Lion Country is a small country worth reassuring.

Datang's strength is so strong, there is no need to treat the Lion Kingdom as an opponent, it is simply a waste of time, and the Lion Kingdom is completely unqualified.

Later generations of China in the gradual rise, has been regarded as a huge threat by the world powers, and the rest of the poor small countries in the never regarded as a threat, this is because the area of China is extremely vast, the population is also large, the history and culture is even stronger, fully possessed to become the world's first power, and the rest of the small countries, in the complete absence of the characteristics of becoming a world power, so, only the rise of China will be regarded as a global threat, as a threat to the big powers, and the same rich small countries are very reassuring, Because they are completely ill-equipped to challenge the characteristics of a strong country, it will not lead to tension among the powerful countries.

In Ang Lee's view, the Lion Kingdom is a small country in the future, and there is no need to take it to heart at all, and to regard it as an opponent is to look down on himself.

"Li Shilang, the Lion Country will naturally not be my opponent of Datang, however, the Lion Country is lonely overseas, and it is impossible for our main force to stay near the Lion Country all the time, sooner or later it will be withdrawn to the Datang mainland, and the small number of soldiers and horses left here may not be able to deter the Lion Country!"

The subordinate said worriedly.

Li An smiled and said, "This official understands, you are worried that after the Lion Kingdom has eased up, it will take advantage of the departure of the main force of our army to regain the land they rented and sold. ”

"That's right, in three or two years, the Lion Kingdom will not be so bold, but it will be difficult to say in the future, ten years, twenty years, or thirty years later, who can say clearly?"

The subordinate spoke.

Time will change everything, there is nothing in the world that time can't change, time will make people old, it will also change people's hearts, and it can also change the original covenant, so after a few years, the Lion Kingdom will not forcibly repossess the land that has been leased and sold, no one can say, in short, renting and buying the land of the Lion Kingdom must carry a certain risk.

However, Li An is not worried about this, at this moment, the Maritime Silk Road is still in preparation, once the Maritime Silk Road is fully unimpeded, Datang will inevitably be stationed in important areas along the way to deter pirates and soldiers and horses from neighboring countries, so there should be no situation where the Lion Kingdom will rebel.

"Your concerns are very reasonable, so in order to prevent such a thing from happening, you must garrison enough soldiers and horses in important areas along the way, at least to be able to deter neighboring countries and pirates, and you can rest assured."

Li An opened his mouth to comfort.

The subordinates thought for a moment and said, "Li Shilang, it is too far to take the sea route from Yazhou to the Lion Country, wouldn't it be better if we could open up a shortcut on land." ”

Li An was surprised: "If you have any ideas, you might as well say it directly." ”

As a leader, Ang Lee doesn't like to sell off the guanzi, likes what his subordinates say, don't hide it.

"My subordinates have looked at the map of the world in the past few days, and I feel that starting from Datang Jiannan Road and developing in the southwest direction, it is completely possible to bypass the Strait of Malacca, so that if there is anything wrong here in the Lion Country, Datang can react quickly."

The subordinate said.

Li An has naturally thought about this road for a long time, but this road needs to pass through two countries, one is the vassal state of Nanzhao in the south of the Tang Dynasty, and the other is the vassal state of Bi, these two small countries are not very strong, if they borrow the road, it should not be too difficult, but after all, this has to pass through the land of other countries, which always makes people feel insecure and inconvenient.

"You are very smart, this is indeed a shortcut, which can be a good support for the Maritime Silk Road, but there are great practical difficulties in opening up this road! First of all, this shortcut road needs to pass through Nanzhao and Pi country, in the land of other countries to build their own road, you know how difficult it will be, secondly, this road to pass through the area is a mountain with high mountains, how difficult it is to build a road, you can imagine, not to mention the strong capacity of the railway, even the road is very difficult! ”

Ang Lee opened his mouth to point out the difficulties of building this road.

"What Li Shilang said is that his subordinates also have this consideration, but if you build a road here, it is really perfect, but it is too difficult to build."

The subordinates recognized Ang Lee's words, and a look of regret appeared on their faces.

Li An carefully recalled the map and said: "As long as you work hard step by step, this road can be opened, besides, Nanzhao and Bi have their own roads, and the roads of their two countries are connected together, and they can pass this ocean, but this road is too difficult to walk, and it has no commercial value for the time being, and it is also very inconvenient for the mobilization of the army, and what I can do now in Datang is to help these two countries repair the existing roads, so that this rugged and difficult path will not be difficult to walk. As long as it is continuously repaired and opened, this road will have commercial value sooner or later. ”

Whether this place can be built into a highway, Li An's heart is naturally very clear, here is the later Yunnan-Burma Highway, it can be completely repaired, but it needs to pass through the country of Pi and Nanzhao, as long as it is opened to traffic, then, it has the value of use, this road will have a good supporting role for the maritime Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty, in addition, Nanzhao and the country of Bi are still vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, but history tells us that sooner or later Nanzhao will belong to the Tang Empire, and the country of Bi is also fully capable of annexation. If Nanzhao and Bi become the land of the Tang Dynasty, the Maritime Silk Road will become more secure and will be very powerful for the development of the Tang Dynasty.

However, it will take a long time to annex Nanzhao and the Bi Kingdom, and the Nanzhao can be annexed first, while the Bi State will take longer to successfully annex it.

"Li Shilang, this road is a hundred-year plan! As long as it is repaired, it will be of great benefit to Datang. ”

The subordinate responded, looking very excited, and happy that he had made such a good suggestion himself.

"In fact, in addition to the road of Nanzhao and Biguo, there is also a road in the west, and it is much easier to walk than this road, and it can lay railways in the future, which can better support the Maritime Silk Road."

Li An thought of another path in his heart.

"Oh, there's such a good road, which one is it!"

The subordinate asked with concern.

Li An said: "Starting from Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, developing all the way to the southwest, until reaching the sea, there is actually more than one road here, there can be several, but the overall route is to develop from Anxi to the southwest, let's regard it as a road!" ”

"Well, this road is not bad, if the train can really pass, it will be too powerful, in this way, the land we got from the Lion Kingdom is not a lonely sea."

The subordinate said excitedly.

The topography of this passage in the west is also more complicated, however, it seems to be slightly better than the one in the east, and the Tocharian area in the west is already building a railway, as long as it is slightly extended, it can be connected to the sea, and when the time comes, a super-large seaport will be built in the seaside position, so that there will be one more commercial channel, which will be extremely beneficial to the foreign trade development of the Tang Empire.

Li An's next place to go is the end of the western passage, he has to personally inspect the terrain, choose an excellent harbor, as the starting point of the future land passage, as long as the harbor is built and the railway is opened to traffic, the goods here can be directly transported to Chang'an City, and the goods of Chang'an City can also be transported here.

The sea and land unite to serve the commercial development of the Tang Empire, so as to develop better.

Where businessmen gather, you can always hear all kinds of news, because these businessmen are from all over the world, and interesting things happening all over the world will be talked about here, so as to spread further afield.

Because Datang has developed too fast in recent years, most of the overseas businessmen are Datang businessmen, accounting for at least half of the share, and most of the news they talk about is naturally all kinds of interesting news from Datang, including gossip news and commodity news.

Merchants pay more attention to interests, what are the new rare commodities of Datang, what is the price, how much is the output, whether there is commercial value, etc., these are always the focus of their pursuit, because ordinary small countries can not play new tricks at all, only the Tang Empire can continue to launch all kinds of rare goods, and these goods are almost all from the research and development center founded by Li An, where there are quite a lot of talents, all kinds of craftsmen as high as hundreds of thousands, driven by Li An, the level has improved rapidly, so, even if Li An is not in the capital nowThese talents also know how to improve the existing goods to make them more sophisticated, and at the same time, they also have a certain ability to develop some less complex new products to obtain profits for the Tang Empire.