The title of emperor, since Qin Shi Huang, has been the unique honorific title of the Son of Heaven in the central dynasties of the land of China, if there are surrounding countries that dare to call themselves enemies, it is of course an endless situation.

Well, unless this central dynasty is extremely weak and can't beat the other party, otherwise it will send troops to fight like that.

This is the same as the current Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty!

After the Ming Dynasty learned that Li Xuan was called emperor, he was bent on encirclement and suppression, and never had the idea of appeasement, but unfortunately it could not be encircled and suppressed, but it was a loss of troops and generals, and the huge southern provinces were lost.

Even the current Tang Dynasty will not easily negotiate with the Ming Dynasty!

As long as it can be fought, then it will definitely be fought until one side is completely destroyed.

Because there is no other day!

In the land of China, there can only be one emperor!

At the same time, since ancient times, China has a very interesting concept, that is, the land of the world is not the king's land!

The meaning of this is that the whole world is the land of the emperor, and this whole world includes all known and even unknown territories!

To exaggerate a little, the whole world and even the whole universe are the territory of the emperor!

Therefore, later generations said that there was a theoretical basis for saying that "since ancient times", according to this set of theories, the entire earth has been Chinese territory since ancient times!

Now, a man who doesn't know that the Francophile who came out of that corner dares to call himself the emperor, which can't allow Liu Bagou to be angry about this!

This is not only a matter of face, but also a matter of Tang orthodoxy and Chinese tradition.

Franc machine man, must be killed!

Therefore, when Liu Bagou said this, many people nodded slightly, thinking that what Liu Bagou said was very reasonable!

To be honest, even Li Xuan agrees with Liu Bagou's words, but for this reason, he went on an expedition to the Buddha Franc Machine, which is a bit unreliable!

The Franc Machine is thousands of miles away from the land of China, and this sending a large army to an expedition to a country thousands of miles away is enough to choke.

Besides, the current Strait of Malacca and even the shipping route from Europe to the Far East are under the control of the Franc man, even the contemporary empire of Spain, where the sun never sets, has no way to avoid the Franc man in the Far East, and it is extremely difficult to colonize a Philippines.

With the current strength of the Datang Navy, let alone an expedition to Europe, even whether it can cross the Strait of Malacca is a question!

However, Li Xuan would definitely not say this kind of thing, but Rear Admiral Bao Yifen on the side explained that it was unrealistic to want to fight the Franco.

Of course, Rear Admiral Bao Yifen, who is well aware of political sensitivity, will never say anything about the Franco-machine man that cannot be fought, and the navy can't fight it now, but can only say that the Franco-man must be fought, and these bold and lawless barbarians must be killed, but there is too much preparation work required for the expedition, and it needs to be considered in the long run!

A long-term plan can be regarded as fooling this matter!

And Liu Bagou is actually not stupid, he said so, this is because of the name of righteousness, and now after the navy said a long-term plan, he is also pushing the boat, saying that if there are any difficulties in the military's preparations, the cabinet will help as much as possible.

Strictly speaking, at this small court meeting, the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers have already decided to start a war with the Franco machine man and make an expedition to the Buddha Lang man, but when the official start of the war will need to be considered in the long run!

After fooling this matter over, it was discussed, and the messenger of the Francophone still had to deal with it, and the matter of trade and repair also needed to be implemented.

The Tang monarchs and ministers who shouted a few lofty slogans soon became realists.

War, that's about that later.

Now, it's better to trade with the Franc machine and make money through sea trade!

In the past two years, the Tang Dynasty has opened up its maritime trade to the outside world, developed industry and commerce internally, and maritime trade has developed rapidly!

And although he fought with the Franc machine man in Haojing, the follow-up Franc machine man also tried to blockade the coast of Guangdong, but this is all a matter of the old yellow calendar, the blockade is useless, but when he sees other businessmen making a lot of money, the Franc machine man himself can't help it, the blockade has not been done for a long time, and several batches of merchant ships have been sent to trade, of course, in order to avoid suspicion, it is the name of the small countries in Southeast Asia.

The Tang Dynasty also didn't see it, and directly put the blonde and blue-eyed foreigners on the spot to the Nanyang natives and started business again.

In the past six months, the Franc Machine has sent many batches of merchant fleets to Guangzhou or Lianzhou to trade, so that both the Franc Robot and Datang have made a lot of money.

However, although money can be made, it is not a matter of borrowing the name of other countries all the time, so this time there is an envoy to come to trade and repair.

For this matter, Li Xuan also set the tone, it is okay to repair trade, but the other party's self-claim must remove the word emperor, otherwise how far will it go!

After putting aside the affairs of these Franc machine people!

This morning meeting continues!

However, there are no major events, they are all some daily government affairs, and they will soon be dealt with and then the meeting will be dismissed.

After the meeting ended, Li Xuan was not idle, but summoned more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Industry alone, and summoned the officials of the Ministry of Industry alone, naturally because Li Xuan was dissatisfied with the development of the Ministry of Industry, especially the slow progress of technology research and development, and was ready to come to a special meeting.

"Recently, the Navy reported that it was the mass production plan of 14 catties of artillery promised by the Ministry of Industry, and it was bounced again?"

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Xuan said directly: "The fourteen-pound artillery, and even the main naval gun of the navy, which is also the heavy artillery that the army is preparing to use, why hasn't it been developed for so long?" ”

In the face of Li Xuan's questioning, the people in the Ministry of Industry said that they were also quite helpless!

Fourteen catties of artillery, if it is only produced on a small scale by hand, then in fact, the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty has been able to do it, not only fourteen catties of artillery, even eighteen catties of artillery, and now it is beginning to try to manufacture.

But this is pure manual small-scale production and large-scale mass production, these are two concepts!

Small-scale production by hand, it took a month or even more to build a large-caliber artillery piece by a handful of the most skilled engineers and a group of craftsmen who were also not weak.

And mass production is a group of ordinary workers who can use machinery to continuously produce large-caliber artillery of uniform specifications!

These are two very different concepts!

But helplessly, the officials of the Ministry of Industry could only endure Li Xuan's criticism, and at the same time make self-criticism, expressing deep sorrow that the Ministry of Industry had dragged the Tang Dynasty back in its struggle to dominate the universe, and promised to redouble its efforts in the future, invest more strength in research and development, and contribute their own meager strength to the Tang Dynasty's dream of dominating the universe and His Majesty's dream of marching into the Qinhuai River.

Li Xuan is still very satisfied with the attitude of the officials of the Ministry of Industry!

Although he also knew that these officials of the Ministry of Industry showed in front of him that they were going to change their ways, in fact, this was not very capable of accelerating the mass production plan of the fourteen-pound artillery.

In fact, the mass production plan of large-caliber artillery cannot be solved by the arsenal under the Ministry of Industry alone, and the real research and development work has actually been transferred to the Zhaoqing General Battalion of the Young Military Battalion.

In fact, it is not only the research and development of large-caliber artillery, in fact, many of the current technology research and development of the Tang Dynasty are in charge of the students in the young military camp, although the students in these young military camps are not very old, most of them are more than a dozen young people, and in terms of academic qualifications, in fact, at most they are incomplete primary school students, and there are not a few middle school students.

But even so, their scientific literacy is the only one in this world, except for Li Xuan.

In today's Tang Dynasty, although Guozijian is nominally the highest-level university, it is actually dominated by liberal arts, even if it is a science college, it is biased towards astronomy and geography and some common sense theories.

The juvenile colleges opened in various places are actually a weakened version of Guozijian, with both arts and sciences.

And some core technologies, especially the physics, chemistry, ordnance and other courses in middle school and even subsequent high school written by Li Xuan himself, can now only be accessed in the Zhaoqing General Camp of the Young Military Camp.

In order to further train high-tech talents, the current Zhaoqing General Battalion, a young military camp, has begun to carry out reforms!

Among them, the enrollment of students in the juvenile college is one thing, and on the other hand, it is also divided into classes, divided into liberal arts classes, science classes, and military classes.

Among them, the science class is the core, and the people in it are almost all young geniuses, although the number is not large, there are only about ten people at present, but these more than ten people are actually responsible for the core research and development of various advanced technologies of the Tang Dynasty.

Almost every student is responsible for the research and development of a certain project according to their interests and hobbies, such as the improvement of fuses for large-caliber artillery and howitzers, mechanical design, and even the research and development of glass and mirrors.

Of course, they are only responsible for theoretical design and experimentation, and how to turn laboratory products into industrial products is the business of the factories below, and they don't have so much time to figure it out.

After the end of the meeting of the Ministry of Industry, Li Xuan held a series of working meetings in succession, including the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Agriculture.

This is busy until the evening!

And in the evening, when Li Xuan was about to finish his day's work and go back to the harem to watch the palace dance, the attendant of the secretary department outside walked in, and then reported to Li Xuan, saying that there was news from the young military camp, and His Majesty was most concerned, and the steam engine that had invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the young military camp had finally made a breakthrough.

They built a prototype and experimented with it!