Qian Aoli and they guessed Li Xuan's thoughts, and they guessed half right, and at the same time, they guessed half wrong.

Li Xuan felt that Chen Lifu was a talent, but that's all!

As for reusing him and then promoting him to serve as a squire or even a scholar, Li Xuan didn't think about this kind of thing, and even if he did, he didn't care.

The Tang Empire is not a small empire, in a huge empire, in fact, there is a lack of everything, that is, there is no shortage of people, especially no shortage of officials!

The idea of the official position formed over thousands of years has also profoundly influenced people in this era, and in this era, the most talented people regard becoming officials as the only way out.

The biggest motivation for people studying in these years is actually to become officials.

If it weren't for being an official, what would it be for more than ten years of hard study?

Such a social background also determines that the most elite groups in the whole society will be continuously absorbed and then become part of the ruling class.

Whether you are in the military or politics, it is all for the same reason.

And what's even more interesting is that in the current environment of the Tang Dynasty, a considerable number of the most outstanding young people take applying for the martial arts hall and the sea academy as their life goals, not just applying for the Guozijian and Jinling University and then going to participate in the examination.

This involves the aristocratic system of the Tang Dynasty, which clearly stipulates that no knighthood shall be awarded for non-military merits!

The only exception here is the relatives of the clan and a few civil officials in the early days of the founding of the country, such as Liu Bagou and others.

But apart from them, if anyone else wants to be knighted, they must be used for military exploits!

At the same time, the military nobility of the Tang Dynasty is very different from that of previous dynasties.

First of all, that is, after reunification, Datang did not put horses in Nanshan, rabbits and dead dogs, on the contrary, the role of the army is still very obvious.

In addition, in addition to the honorary treatment of knighthood, the treatment of the army has something to do with the fact that the treatment of the army is already very high.

In the army in the Tang Dynasty, the income is not low!

Even if it is an ordinary soldier, he can eat and drink enough, and he can get more than one or two silver a month.

And the officers are even higher, a captain, not counting the extra income such as trophies, salaries and subsidies alone, there are hundreds of taels of silver in a year.

And the school officer, it is even higher, basically thousands of taels of silver.

When it comes to the general class, it will be thousands of taels of silver a year!

Even with this salary alone, they can live a life of human beings!

Not to mention, the military has always been fighting, and there are spoils of war when they fight, even if the bulk of the loot will be handed over, but if anyone says that they will not make some war money from the war, no one will believe it.

It is rumored that in the eighth year of Xuanping, the 15th Infantry Division entered the Goryeo Peninsula, down to ordinary soldiers and senior generals, each of which made a ruthless profit.

In the army, you can make a fortune!

In addition to these salaries, there is also extremely high political treatment!

The military retires a large number of soldiers every year, and the military will not ignore the retired soldiers, and often will make arrangements.

Ordinary soldiers, depending on the situation, soldiers who have not performed much during the service will generally be arranged to work in enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and if they are unwilling to go, they will be given a subsidy.

Soldiers and non-commissioned officers who perform well are often assigned to local patrol police, tax inspection teams and other grass-roots positions.

As for the officers, the arrangement is not so uniform, but basically there is a principle, that is, according to the rank of the comparison of grades, it is difficult to say where to go, it depends on the specific situation, but after a major retires, it can often be arranged from the sixth grade.

And the words of the lieutenant are seven grades, eight grades and so on.

In other words, if you are in the army now, even if you can't get along in the army and can't become a general, you can still enter the local government after retiring!

This also greatly alleviates the concerns of elite soldiers who apply for the martial arts academy and abandon literature to join the army!

In the final analysis, these students applied for the martial arts academy, in fact, they were still to become officials!

Being an officer is also an official, and if you retire and transfer to a local job, you are also an official!

The essence has not changed much.

Under this kind of big back, China has lacked everything for thousands of years, that is, there is no shortage of people who are officials.

There is no way, all the elites in the whole society are running to become officials, so there is really no shortage of talents.

What is lacking is only to make good use of the political environment of these talented people!

Chen Lifu's ability is indeed good, but there are more talented officials in the Tang Empire, and in the early stage of the founding of the country, there was still relatively little corruption.

So without Chen Lifu, there will also be Zhang Lifu, Qian Lifu and the like......

Regarding Chen Lifu's affairs, Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to it in the future, as the emperor of the empire, he had a lot to do.

Internal affairs are almost impossible to deal with every day, and there are also many external affairs.

For example, recently there was a conflict with the Portuguese again, and this time the conflict was not anything else, but the Spaniards!

Why, because after the Tang Dynasty occupied Luzon in the past two years, it began to vigorously develop Luzon.

Needless to say, immigrants reclaiming land and the like are naturally done every day, and the Portuguese don't care much, well, they can't manage it.

And what really made the Portuguese jump on their feet was that since last year, Spain began to organize a large number of fleets to travel thousands of miles, across the entire Pacific Ocean, from the Americas to Luzon Island in East Asia, and then do business with the Tang Empire here, and then set off to return to Europe!

What does this mean?

This meant that the Spaniards had broken through the Portuguese blockade and set foot in the East Asian trade, bringing back a large number of spices, silk and other East Asian specialties to Europe.

And this is something that the Portuguese cannot bear!

In recent years, the Tang Empire has been trying to bypass the Portuguese and trade directly with Europe!

It was in this context that the Datang Western Company was established and launched the exploration of European routes, and the fleet led by Ying Zihua also successfully arrived in Spain, but it has to be said that transoceanic trade is still too difficult for the Datang Empire, although the Datang Western Company has reluctantly opened up a shipping route, but this shipping route is immature and very fragile.

Therefore, after trying to go to Europe once, Datang Western Company also gave up this unrealistic idea of going directly to Europe to trade, but was ready to concentrate on India, West Asia, East Africa and other regions of trade.

When it comes to money, money in India is more profitable!

But the European route cannot be broken, at this time, Spain, which has been struggling to establish a global trade system, is hooked up with the Tang Empire.

The Spaniards and the Datang Western Company, represented by Ying Zihua, reached a cooperation agreement, which stipulated that both sides could use each other's supply ports, and this range included the western and eastern coasts of Africa, as well as the coasts of India and Southeast Asia.

There is no way, the two of them have very few supply ports in the above areas, and if they rely on one alone, they will not be able to complete the long voyage from East Asia to Europe, and if the two sides cooperate, then the establishment of a stable route will become the foundation.

At present, Datang Western Company has established many supply ports in Southeast Asia and India, and the Spaniards also have many supply ports on the west coast of Africa.

The Spanish Tang Empire, no, cooperated with the Tang Western Company, so whose interests were harmed?

Portuguese!

In recent decades, the Portuguese have relied on monopolizing the routes from East Asia to Europe, making almost a lot of money, but now the Tang Empire is cooperating with the Spaniards and jointly opening up European routes, and their interests will naturally suffer great losses.

At this time, the Portuguese naturally made a move!

They intensified the blockade of the eastern and western coasts of Africa, as well as the Indian Ocean, and launched targeted attacks on the Tang Western Company and the merchant ships of the Spaniards in these waters.

Of course, no one would ever say anything about an attack, but the increase in piracy in the waters mentioned above is the most obvious evidence.

That's not all, they also supported pirates from Southeast Asia many times to attack merchant ships coming and going to Luzon, Banten and other routes!

Although ordinary people did not appear in public from beginning to end, everyone could guess that there must be a Portuguese shadow behind these pirate attacks.

"With regard to the South Seas issue, the purpose of our cabinet is the same as before, that is, to establish a peaceful, orderly, and empire-led new pattern of maritime trade!" At the Imperial Meeting, Liu Bagou expressed his opinion on behalf of the Cabinet.

When Liu Bagou said this, he paused and said: "My Tang Empire has swept thousands of miles, and I definitely can't let clowns like Franc Jiren ride on the head of the empire!" ”

But as soon as he finished saying this, he followed up with another sentence: "However, the Nanyang trade is related to the overall situation of the empire's exports, and the colleagues of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are seriously established, so it is necessary to maintain the current overall situation of maritime trade, and not to interrupt the maritime trade because of disputes!" ”

Hearing Liu Bagou's words, Admiral Lei Wan on the side was a little speechless, feeling that your cabinet wants to eat meat or kill pigs...... Eat it raw?

On the one hand, it is necessary to establish a new order in the South Seas, and on the other hand, it is necessary to maintain the overall situation of trade.

So what will they do with the Navy? To fight or not to fight?

If you don't fight, those pirates in Portuguese disguise, but they won't stop, and they are not stupid, knowing that the empire and Spain are colluding to try to bypass them, it would be strange if they didn't resist.

Fight, then the trade with the Portuguese will be completely cut off at once, and then the loss will not be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but millions or even tens of millions of taels of silver in the profits of maritime trade.

In response to this situation, Lei Wan is very helpless!

Even Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, felt a little headache about this situation, this Portugal was like a hedgehog that had lost his mind and was running around, and it was not for the tiger of the empire to bite, and it was not for him not to bite.

Don't bite, he disgusts you!

Bit, it will be stung!!

At this time, it has always been as if it is none of their business, well, in fact, it does have nothing to do with them, and Hao Bonian, the general, spoke:

"If the trade with the Portuguese is cut off, the European trade will be affected, but the impact of East Asian and Indian trade should not be large, especially if we take Malacca, we can go to the Indian Ocean if we want!"