There is more money, so naturally more needs to be done, Sun Xiangfu took the opportunity to propose the merger of the two states of Jingying, the upgrading of the administrative level, and the transformation of the city, and the holding of the next sports conference.

They came to Shanyang more than a month in advance, and went to Dingxiang many times to visit and play, for the advanced and developed Dingxiang City, say not envious, that is fake, any high-ranking official, or a local family, all hope that their hometown is such a prosperous, beautiful, clean and convenient city.

And Sun Xiangfu said that the holding of the sports conference is an opportunity to make a city, such as Dingxiang City, of course, people in Jingzhou, even the planning map has been done, the next sports conference will be held in Jiangling City, it is basically a sure thing, but what about the next session?

If a sports conference is held in a city under his rule, then all the local people will benefit like the people of Shanyang and Dingxiang.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the next sports conference can be arranged to be held in Hongzhou, the seat of my Jiangnan Province, which has rich grain reserves and developed waterway transportation······

Li Xiaogong, the governor of Jiangnan Province, has an unusually keen nerve for business and goods, and when Sun Xiangfu pointed to the planning renderings of Jiangling City to explain to Li Shimin and the ministers, he couldn't help but interject, and began to talk endlessly.

"Hehe, since the new Hebei Province has been incorporated into the seven states in the Northeast under the rule, there are nearly two million people, it is the largest number of Han people in the Tang Dynasty except for Guanzhong, the most dense place, the scale of the famous city of Weizhou, and it is second only to Chang'an and Luoyang······

Li Xiaogong interrupted Sun Xiangfu's words, and his own words were interrupted by Li Daozong, the governor of Hebei Province, and then, Xiao Yu of Jiannan Province also stopped doing it, and Dai Xuan of Huainan Province also stopped doing it.

"Uh, what do you think?"

Li Shimin is not stupid, naturally he has already seen the benefits of holding such a sports conference for the country and the local people, the reason why he asked Sun Xiangfu is naturally to see in Sun Xiangfu's heart, the priority of the country's development, and when he asked this question, the imperial study suddenly quieted down, and everyone looked at Sun Xiangfu again.

"Well, Your Majesty, you are a troublemaker! In this situation, no matter what I say about going to that place first, I will offend my colleagues in other places! How do you ask your ministers to answer? ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, how can you be a person with a small belly? You answer directly to the needs of the country. Li Shimin glanced at the ministers with a smile and said. Only then did everyone withdraw their burning gaze from Sun Xiangfu.

Sun Xiangfu glanced apologetically at the ministers who were also the governors of the state roads, and said, "Your Majesty, holding a sports conference in Jiangling City is a phased task to promote the spread of the development of the central part to the surrounding areas. ”

Listening to Sun Xiangfu talk about the borderlands, Zhang Gongjin, Cheng Yanjin and others, their eyes suddenly lit up, however, Sun Xiangfu did not look at them, but continued, "The effect of the rapid increase in the foreign population is not only that the local culture is well known to others, but also that a new culture will be formed in the local area because of the impact of foreign culture."

For example, Shanyang and Dingxiang, who would have thought that six years ago, it was just a place where the herdsmen didn't like to stay too much, and the Han people didn't want to come at all? Now, there are dozens or even hundreds of ethnic groups gathered here, but because of our relatively free management model, a new market atmosphere has been formed, and there is no disharmony.

It can be seen that after many different cultures are mixed together, it will affect each other and naturally form a new social state.

So, where do we learn from this precedent?

In my opinion, it should be Lingnan, Yunnan, Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. ”

Sun Xiangfu not only said the venue of the next session in his mind, but even the venue of the next few sessions, and even said all the venues of the next few sessions, and after he finished speaking, Li Shimin suddenly had a feeling that his eyes lit up, because he seemed to have figured out the meaning behind this order.

Of course, there were more people who hadn't figured it out for a while, and wanted to ask Sun Xiangfu about the reason for doing this, and cast inquiring glances at him.

Li Xiaogong was the first to speak, "As far as I know, the Lingnan Road in charge of Feng Gong is a rich and oily place, and the annual taxes paid to the imperial court, as well as the rare items that are tributed, are the most important among all the roads, why does Zhengming think that it is better to place the sports meeting on this kind of state road where the economy is already very developed?" ”

Sun Xiangfu didn't think much about it, so he replied, "Because, in six years, another wing of our Datang that can drive economic development will be fully deployed, and that is different from the current land trade route, the 'Maritime Silk Road'." ”

"Maritime Silk Road?"

When the ministers heard this, they were all surprised to repeat Sun Xiangfu's words.

"That's right, that's the name I gave to this maritime trade route."

Sun Xiangfu nodded, and swept his gaze off the faces of the ministers, "During the Han Dynasty, a passage was opened up for us to go from Central Asia, West Asia, and the European continent by land.

When it comes to my Tang Dynasty, this trade route is more frequently applied to the communication between the Central Plains and the Western countries, we now know that China's annual trade with the countries of the Western Regions, the transaction amount is as high as tens of millions, and the commercial taxes collected by the imperial court are as high as one million, and the people, because of these transactions, the profits are many times higher than the taxes, and its importance is self-evident.

Then, under the circumstance that trade is known to bring such great benefits to our country, opening up multi-directional and more convenient trade routes will enable our goods to be sold all over the world and thus obtain greater benefits.

Starting from Chang'an, just passing through the boundary of Anxi Daduhufu, the westernmost control area of my Tang Dynasty, there are nearly 10,000 miles away, and the real walk through the entire commercial and trade area, almost has to go so far, if the goods sold are from the south of our country, then, the way it really reaches the countries of the Western Regions, I am afraid that it will exceed 20,000 miles, which is why the merchants of the Western Regions usually only send goods to Chang'an and Shanyang for sale, and the purchase is only the reason why the goods produced in Guanzhong and Beidi are purchased.

The journey of 20,000 miles is too long, and it takes more than a year for cattle, horses, and camels to travel non-stop, which greatly increases the transportation cost of the goods we produce, and reduces our trade efficiency and trade volume.

However, six years later, this pattern will all change, we have a more advanced steel structure keel made of large sea ships, but also explore the path from the south coast to the coast of the western countries, can directly from the southern coastal docks, the goods produced in the south, by sea, quickly transported to the west, the capacity of the ship, is ten times that of cattle, horses and camels, and it only takes two or three months to transport our goods to the western coastal bulk cargo, its commercial efficiency, will increase more than ten times, at that time, It will revitalize the economy of the entire coastal areas of our country.

Therefore, six years later, the sports meeting we will hold in Lingnan Road is an opportunity to show all the merchants and countries of the Western Regions another trade route opened up by the contemporary monarchs and people of our Tang Dynasty, and take this opportunity to encourage the countries of the Western Regions to establish docks on the coast for our sea ships to dock, and establish commercial channels for bulk cargo······"

After Sun Xiangfu's series of narration, everyone has no objection to the next sports conference to be held in Lingnan, if it is really as Sun Xiangfu said, the maritime trade will be opened up, then, Datang will become an unprecedented economic power, the temptation is too great, and the benefit is all the people in Datang.

"Hahaha, it's a pity that Lingnan Road is far away, Feng Qing still has a few days to go to reach Shanyang, if he can listen to Zhengming's wonderful theory, he will definitely have to drink a hundred cups with me."

Li Shimin's laughing appearance also made the state highway governors who failed to win the right to hold the sports conference feel no longer so depressed.

Fang Xuanling asked while the iron was hot at this time, "So, what are Zhengming's considerations for arranging the Fourth Sports Conference in Yunnan?" Do you want to build the land of Yunnan into a place like Shanyang and Dingxiang in the north? ”

Like this kind of big strategic development blueprint, the entire Tang Dynasty, and Sun Xiangfu can outline some unprecedented new ideas, this kind of opportunity, Fang Xuanling doesn't want to let go, with this kind of big development direction, as the prime minister, he will be much easier to govern.

"The land of Yunnan, in the coming year, will definitely be the top priority of my Datang······"

Sun Xiangfu was about to speak, when he saw that the inner servant Wang De came in with a report and handed it directly to Li Shimin, generally, it is not something that needs to be dealt with urgently, he will not be like this, and suddenly, Sun Xiangfu stopped talking.

After a while, Li Shimin read the report and said, "Zhengming is right, in the next few years, the land of Yunnan will be the top priority of my Tang Dynasty, you Aiqing take a look at this!" ”

Li Shimin handed the report to Fang Xuanling, and after a while, everyone circulated it, this report was sent by Changsun Chong from Dingxiang, the reason was that the country of Pi and the country of Tubo, each came with a team of people from the west, and in a few days, they could go to Dingxiang, saying that they were going to participate in the sports conference, and the eldest grandson Chong asked if he came to invite guests to receive them.

You must know that since Lu Dongzan was captured in the Battle of Yanpingmen, the Tubo side has not made any communication with the Tang Dynasty, as if they have forgotten this thing, Chang'an, Lu Dongzan and a Tubo general, just eating prison food, have eaten hundreds of stone grain from the Tang Dynasty, and they have not seen their monarch have anything to explain to the Tang Dynasty, before this matter is dealt with, the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo are still in a hostile state! Naturally, Eldest Sun Chong needed to ask.

And the country of Piao, there was no contact with the Tang Dynasty before, but now, after the Tang Dynasty incorporated the entire western Yunnan Plateau into its rule, its border with the Tang Dynasty is thousands of miles long, this time they borrowed the way to Tibet, took the western passage, uninvited, and I don't know what kind of attitude it is, this country in this period, is also a big power, its border is three thousand miles from east to west, three thousand five hundred miles from north to south, there are eighteen subject countries, nearly three hundred tribes, and nine large towns, with a population of no less than two million, and Tubo one left and one right, adjacent to Yunnan, If these two countries are united, the land of Yunnan will really not be very stable.