After conquering the barbarian region, you can get a fief overseas, although this statement is just gossip, and there is not even any official statement, even those ministers and even high-ranking generals maintain a denial and silent attitude towards it.

But there is no wind and no waves, everyone will always not believe that the air will come to the wind, since there are such rumors, then there must be some clues.

Therefore, many people, especially the current aristocrats, are quite expectant about this, and then work hard towards a goal.

What are the nobles of the Tang Dynasty now, naturally most of them are military aristocrats, and more than 90% of the hundreds of officially crowned nobles in the Tang Dynasty are active generals in the army.

If you don't have enough overseas territories, you still want to expect the Holy Son of Heaven to divide the land to the nobles!

Besides, even if you have conquered enough overseas territories, if you don't have a high enough military merit, you can't expect to get an actual fief, let alone a large-scale, rich fief.

And as the supreme ruler of the empire, Li Xuan also knew that there was such a rumor at present, because this rumor actually came out of his mouth, and he did not stop it from circulating, because he really planned to do so.

In the past two years, he has been thinking about how to continue to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army in order to conquer the world.

Relying solely on these current measures, although the results are not bad, they will not be able to maintain the initiative of the military in the next five, ten, twenty, or even 100 years.

After all, fighting a war is always boring, and even those officers in the military who have received professional military training can hardly guarantee that they will not be tired and afraid of war in the long war, and at the same time, war-weariness and even anti-war psychology will appear in society.

He can almost imagine that after five or ten years, after the empire has initially completed industrialization, the entire empire will be developing thrivingly, and the people's living standards will be greatly improved.

The world is so big, why do you have to conquer them all!

This kind of mentality can be said to be the normal mentality of a person, and even the whole society, can live a good life, no one wants to run to war, and there are always not many born war maniacs.

And Li Xuan is one of them, it's just that his war is to let others fight to the death, but he himself will never go into battle in person, at most even if he supervises the battle in the back.

If Li Xuan wants to complete his great cause of conquering the world, he naturally needs to prepare in many aspects!

In agriculture, he continued to reform the agricultural tax, in the early stage of the 'unified agricultural tax', 'reclamation order', 'rent-for-purchase order' and many other policies, the current agriculture of the entire empire, especially the rural society has been greatly improved, the life of the peasants compared with the pre-Ming period, it is a heaven and an earth.

Although limited by factors such as more people and less land, underground productivity, and low grain production, the vast majority of farmers still find it difficult to eat enough every day, but even so, for contemporary farmers, it is a good life that has never been seen in the past hundreds or even thousands of years.

Otherwise, Li Xuan would not have such a deep position in the vast rural areas and in the hearts of the vast number of farmers!

You give them a bite to eat, even if it doesn't fill them, but as long as they see even the slightest hint of hope, they will treat you as a saint.

The continuous reform in agriculture can be regarded as one of the most successful reforms of the Tang Dynasty in so many years, but Li Xuan feels that it is not enough, he also wants to engage in a ladder agricultural tax, so that the more people who own the land, the more agricultural taxes they pay, so that the land will not be absorbed by a large number of people, and it is also to further stimulate those landlords and old wealth, don't invest money in the land, buy the land and invest the money in the industrial and commercial industry.

The agricultural reform can be regarded as the initial results, and the education and imperial examination system are also the key reforms of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Xuan has not relaxed.

After these two aspects have been effective, as long as the official gives a little stimulation to industry and commerce, mainly policy support, then in terms of the current social environment of Datang, in fact, the development of industry and commerce will naturally rise.

The rapid rise of Shanghai is actually the most obvious example!

In addition to the official policy of giving Shanghai a treaty port, that is, in the early years, it invested more than 100,000 yuan in the construction of infrastructure, and the reason for the rapid development of Shanghai in the subsequent years was mostly due to the stimulation of the overall social environment and people's nature of profit-seeking.

When people see that those who run factories are making money, they will naturally follow suit.

Just like the 'gold mine crisis' a few years ago, when a few people speculated in stocks to make money, a large number of people quickly poured in.

The development of today's industrial and commercial industry is also in this state where some people have made money and a large number of people have followed suit.

And this state of affairs was crucial to the industrialization of the empire.

In order for the Tang Empire to complete industrialization, the official leading force represented by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is of course important, but if the people do not participate, then no matter how fast the development is, it will be limited, because the enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises cannot do everything, they need to concentrate on the national defense industry, but they do not have much mind to participate in ordinary industries.

The advancement of industrialization is not as simple as a few factories, but the advancement of a whole society, and the core of it is a "substantial increase in productivity" rather than a few factories that can build guns and warships.

Of course, the advancement of industrialization will inevitably bring about some other positive effects, such as the improvement of people's living standards!

For example, the question of eating!

After the empire is completely industrialized, unless there is a super-large-scale famine, otherwise, if you want to starve people to death on a large scale, it is estimated that it will be more difficult to happen, at most it will be a small-scale starvation.

In fact, the workers in the industrial age are still very hard, and the farmers are also hard, and they will not enjoy any happiness either.

This happiness cannot be achieved even in later generations, because people have different definitions of happiness in different times and different productive forces.

In the past, they thought they were starving to death, but the child was still alive, and it was probably a very happy thing.

In the future, they may feel that they can't eat enough, but it is a very happy thing for the child to be full, and if there is still a starvation death, then it will definitely feel very strange.

In a few hundred years, they will feel that they are happy to have a house, and if they don't have a house, they will feel very dissatisfied.

Or, thousands of years from now, they will feel that being alive is the greatest happiness!

Happiness or satisfaction are more illusory words, each era has a different definition, Li Xuan naturally will not toss these ghost things, Li Xuan thinks, judging from the current technology and future technological development.

It will not be easy to solve the problem of food in the first 20 years, without a large-scale famine.

In 50 years, if you can initially solve the problem of poverty, and as long as you are willing to work, then you will not starve to death, then you will already burn high incense.

And to make all of this happen, you need industrialization.

And industrialization requires resources, resources from all over the world!

This is also the secondary purpose of why Li Xuan needs to conquer the world.

As for the main purpose, it goes without saying, pretending to be forced!

If he conquered the world, Li Xuan felt that he should be regarded as an unprecedented and unprecedented, this later, it refers to the fact that human beings are still trapped on the earth and have not stepped into the interstellar era, after all, in the interstellar era, conquering a planet and conquering a planet now are not the same concept.

As for the other great men, they can't be compared with Li Xuan, who has accomplished such a feat.

Conquering the earth, the head of the Earth Village, this is Li Xuan's dream now, at least until something unexpected happens, his dream will not be changed easily.

In addition to the people's livelihood economy, the same is true for the reform and promotion of the army, and fiefdoms are one of the major initiatives.

If you want the horses to run, but don't let the horses graze, how can there be such a good thing.

It's just that it's still not suitable to announce these things now, Li Xuan feels that it should be a few more years, and when the military taxis are not so expensive, they can be used as the ultimate ultimate.

Now, it's too early to use this method, and it's a waste.

After all, now, the situation on the military side is still good, the army has been preparing for war in the north for many years, just waiting for the Northern Expedition, and the navy has been frequently tossed recently.

No, in late March, the Navy sent a report on Banten Province, and the Navy requested that support for Banten Province be increased from within the country in order to completely control Banten Island and other islands.

Why did the navy make a special report, because although the navy attaches the most importance to the affairs of Banten Province, it is actually the affairs of the cabinet, the army, and the navy, and to completely wipe out the Banten Islands, even if it is just one Banten Island, it will take at least thousands of troops, and so many people, the navy does not have them, so they can only be sent by the army.

At the same time, after this military strike, it is also necessary for immigrants to take over these lands and expel the local lands, otherwise, even if they attack the local indigenous army militarily, it is useless, and if they cannot actually control it, it will not take long for these natives to reorganize their armies to fight, and if this continues, they will fall into a cycle of suppression, rebellion, suppression, and rebellion.

Therefore, sending immigrants to Banten Island is a must!

And the matter of immigration has something to do with the cabinet.

Whether it is to increase troops or resettle, the navy cannot decide on its own, so although it wants to completely control Banten Island, the navy can only use its own forces first, and before this report is printed, the navy has already transferred a marine battalion to prepare to enter Banten Island.

In addition, a number of transport ships were also used, and they took the initiative to propose to the Department of Immigration and Reclamation of the Ministry of Agriculture that these transport ships can help you transport immigrants to the South Seas, free of charge, without charge!

However, because of the difference between military and political affairs, all the navy can do in the matter of immigration is to provide ships, but they do not have this authority to recruit immigrants.

Therefore, this is the report of Banten Province submitted by the Navy, asking the Son of Heaven to proceed from the overall situation and coordinate various departments to organize materials and personnel to reinforce Banten Province!

In order to show the seriousness of this matter, the navy also said that once Banten is lost, the Portuguese will definitely take the opportunity to completely control the islands of Banten, and then Banten will be in danger, the South Seas will be in danger, and the empire will be in danger!

After Li Xuan saw it, he was speechless to these people in the navy: Don't you want to be so exaggerated, there must be a limit to alarmism!