Although this college is not included in the official system of the imperial court, it should be spent and not returned to the imperial court, but an act of enterprise training talents, but Li Shimin still feels that it should be taken care of by the official government.

First of all, he called on the students of the vocational and technical colleges to actively participate in the engineering examinations of the imperial court in the future, become officials, and serve the imperial court.

Then, he decided to let the imperial court award rewards to some people who have achieved results in craftsmanship and technical research, rewarding money for small contributions, and even knighthood for large contributions.

It's like Sun Xiangfu has previously researched seeds and planting methods to increase wheat yields, which is a great credit that can be knighted.

This policy will undoubtedly inject a shot in the arm into the increasingly developing and progressive industries of Datang, and will directly lead to more people to tinker with new processes and inventions. Of course, it may also make Kong Yingda, who has been a little depressed recently, even more anxious.

This year, there is basically no foreign war in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin's focus on governance is to promote education and promote ethnic integration, so this morning, his order has been sent to Guozijian, and all the existing students in Guozijian who have studied for more than two years will be sent to Anxi and Andong, as well as Yunnan and Lingnan, to implement and spread Han culture. What is Han culture? Naturally, it was the Confucianism they learned in Guozijian.

This can be seen as Li Shimin's emphasis on Confucian culture, and it can also be seen as Li Shimin finding the correct use of Confucian culture, teaching those barbarian minorities to be gentlemen who adhere to the Three Principles and Five Constants, but it is a very challenging job.

Because, if these Confucian students taught by themselves cannot be used by the country, then what is the use of this knowledge for the country?

Didn't I see other people's cooks, masons and the like, all shouting to serve the country and strive to be a marquis, if Confucianism can't even compare with these non-streams, how can they mix in the court?

Since he came to Lantian County, Li Shimin naturally wants to take a look at the headquarters building of Datang Overseas Exploration and Investment Co., Ltd., which is a whole building-style building complex, which also began construction in June last year, and has been built for about half a year so far, but because the whole is too large, there are still construction sites everywhere, in fact, there is nothing to see.

Li Shimin wants to come here to have a look, in fact, he also wants to talk to Sun Xiangfu about some things about this company, after all, it is the industrial institution that Datang currently has the most capital and the most extensive interest groups in Datang except for Qianzhuang, and it must be handled carefully.

"Samurai Tong is a merchant from a businessman's background, but he is very old, and you recommended him to manage such a huge industry, but because after you go to Shannan Province, I will go to his position? In fact, you don't have to worry, the samurai is good at management, and I still have many state roads in Datang that are lagging behind Guanzhong, Beidi, and Lingnan, and after he returns to Chang'an to report on his work, I can transfer him to other state roads to be the general manager. ”

"Didn't Your Majesty just say, the samurai is good at management, among the princes of this court, I'm afraid there is no one more suitable than him to manage this overseas exploration and investment company, the business involved in this company will be overseas, no less than the development and construction of the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty, and it is always bad not to let one person manage it all, I have a lot of things to be busy here, he is more suitable than me."

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, and said, "In this case, I will send an order to Shannan Dao, and when you finish handing over to him, let him go back to Chang'an!" In addition, what you wrote about the formation of the Tang Navy, after I have discussed it with the generals in the past few days, I feel that it is very necessary, and I plan to set it up first, the Liaodong Navy and the Lingnan Navy, each equipped with 200 new warships and 20,000 soldiers, what do you think? ”

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he shook his head and said, "It's too little, the number of our Datang navy, no matter how much, it's not too much, once we master navigation, it is equivalent to a nomad mastering horsemanship on the grassland, overseas places, for my Datang, will be a smooth road, Chen boldly estimated, in the future, it is likely that whoever has mastered the sea will control the world, because, as far as we know at present, the area of the ocean is probably more than twice as large as the land, that is, most countries in this world will be near the sea, If there is no strong navy and a sufficient number of them, even a small country like the Wa State can become a problem for a big country like our Datang.

Because no matter how strong our Datang is, it is impossible to have so many troops, arranged on the entire coastline, and it is even more impossible to send garrisons to all overseas industries, and the Japanese people can easily go to the places where we have no garrisons to rob by sea, which is too cost-effective for them, and it is more cost-effective than the Turks who went to our Central Plains to fight in the grass valley in the early years. ”

"Wa Kingdom?"

Sun Xiangfu didn't mention this stubble, Li Shimin almost forgot about the Japanese State, since the Battle of Yanjin, he has not seen the Japanese people, and he has not seen the Japanese people on the courtiers, if he really has the possibility of threatening the Tang Dynasty, then, he should be eliminated in the bud.

"Yes, the Wa Kingdom, this is a nation that is not very willing to submit to others, and I Datang is off the coast, there should not be such a country that does not belong to the Tang Dynasty, so the minister thinks that it should be a training place for our Datang Navy, and after taking it, my Datang should have no worries from the sea within a hundred years."

The Wa Kingdom is different from the backward tribes on Yizhou, Liuqiu, and Luzon Island, they have a feudal system, and they have mastered a certain navigation technology, and the civilian ships often travel back and forth between the Tang Dynasty and the Korean Peninsula, and they are very fond of foreign development, as a politician and strategist, Li Shimin's eyes are naturally unable to rub the sand, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "In this case, another navy will be formed in Shandong, and a navy will be formed in Jiangnan, with four armies and 80,000 troops, which should be enough!" ”

Sun Xiangfu knew the reason why Li Shimin didn't want a certain navy to be too large, he was afraid that it would be difficult to control it in the future, after all, these armies were far away from the center and could easily occupy a base area overseas.

However, in Sun Xiangfu's view, 80,000 navies are still not enough, because the purpose of Datang's navy is not to defend the mainland, except for the Japanese state, there is no longer any force that can threaten the Datang coast, and the purpose of the navy is now to open up a broader overseas territory.

So, he said again, "Your Majesty, the surrounding areas of our Datang Dynasty have been destroyed, do you want to release Manan Mountain?" ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he asked puzzledly, "What does Zhengming mean by this?" ”

Sun Xiangfu replied, "The establishment of our sixteen guards in the Tang Dynasty is about 40,000 people per guard, which is an army of more than 600,000 people, and now, Andong, Anbei, Anxi, and Annan are stationed on the four sides, and there are special troops stationed there, and you only transfer 80,000 people to form a navy, so the rest of the more than 500,000 soldiers will not stay for leisure?" ”

"How can it be an idle meal? Wouldn't I let them return to their hometowns to work as farmers, but also promote domestic production? ”

"Domestic production, the people who need it, will become more and more professional, and the people who are soldiers and wars also need to be more and more professional, so that we can become stronger, if we have no war in Datang in the next 20 years, then, the existing government military system, will make our Datang's armaments abandoned to what extent, have you ever thought about it? A government soldier who doesn't have to fight and has been farming for 20 years, can he pick up weapons and fight on the battlefield again?

The descendants of the government soldiers who succeeded them and never went to the battlefield, do they have combat effectiveness?

These people, can they use the more advanced and complex equipment we have made? ”

"Uh, this ······"

Li Shimin was stunned by Sun Xiangfu's series of questions, this is indeed a question that has to be changed, before the Tang Dynasty's government soldiers were strong, that was because of the annual war, frequent fighting on the battlefield practice, although it was a soldier in wartime, a farmer in leisure time, but basically half of the time, in the army.

But now, the situation is completely different, if the Wa Kingdom is cleaned up by the way, then, Datang may really not have a war for many years, Songtsan Gampo, who licked his wounds on the plateau, did not dare to make a move in the direction of Datang easily before it developed to a certain scale.

Therefore, most of the government soldiers may always be farmers at home, but this is not good, what kind of consequences a country will have if it does not have enough strong armaments, Li Shimin knows too well.

After being speechless for a moment, Li Shimin said again, "Do you have any good suggestions?" ”

Sun Xiangfu didn't think much about it, and replied, "Of course, it is to professionalize some soldiers."

With the financial resources of our Datang, we can completely raise it, especially a military branch like the navy, which needs perennial training and has relatively high technical needs, in addition to training their professional killing skills, we must also let them study, strengthen ideological education, and master a certain level of education. 、

Every year, a certain number of young soldiers must be added to the army, and a certain number of veterans should be discharged from the army, so as to ensure the vitality of the army while retaining the martial spirit of the whole people. ”

Sun Xiangfu said a lot of things, but it gave Li Shimin a lot of inspiration, especially now that the army has begun to strengthen ideological education, there are art troupes continue to instill some ideas for soldiers to protect the family and defend the country, these soldiers' loyalty to the country is not comparable to any previous dynasty, however, it seems that the focus of what Sun Xiangfu said just now is not this, Li Shimin heard the meaning in his tone, he thought that 80,000 navy was too little.

"Then Zhengming thinks that the formation of the navy, how should it be planned?"

"It depends on the number of soldiers on the southern coast of the Tang Dynasty, even if the southern soldiers are good at ships, even if they are all used for the navy, it will affect the stability of the country too much, because the northern soldiers are the strongest on land, and they are more appropriate to use to guard the country.

Moreover, our eyes should not be on the coastal territory, but should be more farther away, and I think that our Datang should at least set up two ocean-going naval forces of more than 50,000 people, and take turns to control the entire Datang offshore sea, all the way to Australia.

As for the coastal waters, it is only necessary to deploy a thousand-strong naval force in a few ports on the Liaodong Peninsula, Laizhou, Suzhou, Quanzhou, Zhenzhou, Guangzhou and other places to prevent piracy and some lawlessness. ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Jing, who had followed him to inspect, and it was obvious that he felt that what Sun Xiangfu had just said was very feasible to use the southern army as the foundation of the navy to open up the country and the northern army as the base of the army to defend the country.

Li Jing thought for a while, and then said, "Your Majesty, Zhengming's suggestion is very feasible, among the sixteen guards, the soldiers from the south account for a little more than thirty percent of the whole army, and there are 1780,000 soldiers, and it should not be difficult to select more than 100,000 good ships from the middle, soldiers who are not afraid of water." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded and said, "In this case, how to arrange the specific arrangement, you have a fold, let's go to the court meeting to discuss it, in addition, the military system reform, you and Du Qing, also come up with a main plan as soon as possible, everyone will refer to it together, my proposition is to maintain the number and combat strength of the army, as well as the follow-up capacity, and do not worry about the problem of financial investment." ”

"Minister, obey the order."

After Li Jing received the task, he glanced at Sun Xiangfu with some gratitude, his suggestion gave the soldiers more room to live in Datang, you know, the generals, what they are most afraid of is that they are useless to the country.