Maritime trade is to develop, but it cannot open the coast uncontrollably, otherwise, with the current backward and primitive ruling ability of the Tang Dynasty, it is easy to have chaos, Li Xuan is preparing to open a few more coastal ports in the future, but this is later, not now!

The development of maritime trade and industry and commerce, this is the Tang Dynasty, or Li Xuan's established national policy, but how to develop is a problem worth considering, first of all, after the trade, will face a very realistic problem, then after many exchanges with foreigners, there will be friction, contradictions, and even the kind of colonial behavior in later generations.

And now, Li Xuan wants to put an end to this from the beginning!

As for saying that the Portuguese are not willing to leave, they still want to fight, and they will fight, they are afraid of a fart!

The Ming Dynasty was able to drive Portugal away in the early decades, and it doesn't make sense that the Tang Dynasty can't, as for saying that the Portuguese ships are strong and cannons, they can't beat them at sea!

This is also a problem that is not worth mentioning, my Datang Navy can't even beat any medium-sized pirates now, and it's normal that it can't beat the Portuguese, once the Portuguese come, my Datang Navy will not be able to fight with them.

Besides, the Tang Navy did not control the coastal areas of Guangdong, but the Ming Army Navy has always controlled the coastal areas of the Pearl River Estuary, which originally had one or more enemies that could not be defeated, and it would not hurt to have another Portuguese.

But as long as they dare to land, the big brother of the Datang Navy, the Datang Army will teach them to be human in minutes!

As for the naval blockade, the Ming army and sailors are so awesome that they can't block the maritime trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Nanyang region, besides, the maritime trade of the Tang Dynasty is blocked, who are these Portuguese doing business with?

If the Portuguese dare to do it, Li Xuan will accompany them, anyway, the sea trade is just the icing on the cake in these years, and today's Datang can = not rely on the sea trade to eat.

When the industrialization of the Tang Dynasty became large-scale, and it was necessary to obtain a large number of dumping markets for industrial products and raw material production areas from overseas, maritime trade was indispensable at that time.

And this day, it is estimated that it will not be possible to wait for more than ten years or even longer!

After the end of the day's cabinet meeting, Li Xuan was so aggressive, and even thunderous and popular handling made a group of cabinet ministers quite surprised, and at the same time, he also deeply felt that this dealing with foreigners was really not a good errand, and if he didn't do it well, he would be punished by His Majesty, just like Wang Wenhua, a university scholar.

However, these things have nothing to do with them, because they are not in charge of these affairs, and the person in charge of these affairs will be the newly established Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, so let the new Ministry of Foreign Affairs have a headache!

Today's imperial cabinet meeting has just ended, the original right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Deng Chongqing, who is in charge of feudal affairs, has been promoted in a daze, and was appointed by Li Xuan as the left attendant of the newly established Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but this newly established Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Li Xuan did not appoint Shangshu for the first time, so now all the affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs fall on the shoulders of him, the left attendant.

Nowadays, the affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are all messed up, which makes him a little overwhelmed!

When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was first established, all the manpower was transferred from the former Ministry of Rites' Department of Domain, but this was just established, and I didn't even know where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was located, so it was time to start dealing with the illegal occupation of Hokyong by the Franc Jiren.

At today's cabinet meeting, the matter of Hao Jing has been determined and illegal, and the practice of a group of local officials in Guangzhou Prefecture is to collude with the people of the Buddha Lang Jiren without permission, and now they have all been dismissed from their posts and investigated, but the follow-up handling of this matter needs to be handled by the new department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Therefore, after taking office in a hurry, Deng Chongqing immediately asked to face the saint, why, it was to discuss with His Majesty the tone and how to deal with the follow-up affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After meeting Li Xuan, Deng Chongqing tactfully asked His Majesty for instructions and led the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In this regard, Li Xuan was not polite, and immediately said: "The future work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will focus on two things, one is feudal affairs, and the other is foreign affairs!" ”

"As for the affairs of the domain, you did well before, you can continue as usual!" Li Xuan said this, and Deng Chongqing also pricked up his ears to listen!

Li Xuan said that their vassal affairs were doing well, but in fact, Deng Chongqing knew that there was no such thing as vassal affairs at all, and the so-called vassal affairs were not to indicate the affairs of the vassal kings in the dynasty, but the affairs of foreign vassal states, such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other local vassal states, these countries were the traditional vassal states of the Chinese Dynasty, and most of them would ask for the canonization and tribute of the Central Chinese Dynasty.

But now there is no feudal state that has officially attacked the Tang Dynasty, and the suzerainty recognized by people is still the Ming Dynasty, but it is not this rebellious dynasty that has just risen for only a year or two: the Tang Dynasty!

So there is no such thing as a feudal affair!

Originally, the Tusi affairs were also handled by the Department of Household Affairs, but soon Li Xuan believed that the affairs of the Tusi were internal affairs, not affairs of the Domain, so he removed this right from the Department of Household Affairs and belonged to the subordinates of the Ministry of Households, because the Ministry of Households was the agency that dealt with civil affairs.

However, the limited contacts between the Tang Dynasty and the foreigners were mostly led by the Ministry of Commerce, and the army and navy also participated, and even the local governments such as Guangzhou and Lianzhou also participated, but the former Department of Foreign Affairs and the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not participate.

So how to carry out the work, Deng Chongqing is still a little confused!

Li Xuan also saw the doubts in Deng Chongqing's eyes, so he said: "The first thing in foreign affairs is communication, and then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can set up a number of departments to be responsible for communication with foreigners from various countries, and at the same time lead and be responsible for various negotiations with various countries, and in the future, foreign consulates can also be set up in various countries, and send personnel to be stationed in the country to be responsible for communication!" ”

"In addition, you also need to stick to a bottom line, that is, everything is based on the interests of the country, and strive for various interests for my Datang as much as possible!"

"For example, some time ago, didn't a foreigner write through the Lianzhou government, saying that he was requesting a reduction in tariffs on some goods? That's what you need to communicate and negotiate! ”

The conversation between Li Xuan and Deng Chongqing lasted for nearly half an hour, and Li Xuan almost took out what little knowledge he had about foreign affairs and taught Deng Chongqing how to carry out foreign affairs work hand in hand.

And when it was over, Deng Chongqing said: "If we reach some agreements with these foreigners, once these agreements are unfavorable to our Datang in the future, then what should we do?" ”

Li Xuan didn't answer his question directly, but said, "The treaty is used to tear up!" ”

Hearing this, Deng Chongqing was silent for a while, and then said, "The minister understands!" ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly, he is still more optimistic about Deng Chongqing, although this person did not have any real power before, and he was not one of the core ministers of the Tang Dynasty, but he was able to climb to the noble position of the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites in the Tang Dynasty, and he had all the talents and abilities.

Like the Ming Dynasty, in the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites, which is responsible for the etiquette system and education affairs, is a real noble position, especially the Hanlin Academy has not become a place of hope, but has become Li Xuan's private secretary.

Although Li Xuan himself doesn't think so, he can't stand the people below, and even a group of cabinet bigwigs think so, so many middle-level officials want to enter the Ministry of Rites to raise their hopes, and then enter other places to serve.

For example, the same waiter, the right waiter of the household department is transferred to the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites, which is a promotion, but on the contrary, it is a demotion.

For these default rules in officialdom, Li Xuan has no intention of changing anything!

This Deng Chongqing did not serve in the Ministry of Rites before, he was the right waiter of the Ministry of Commerce before, and he was transferred to the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites in the second half of last year.

And it is true, he is now promoted to the left waiter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After Deng Chongqing left, Li Xuan continued to be busy meeting people, but this time it was not a civilian official, but a military general, he first called Bao Yifen from the navy and Zeng Ziwen from the army.

Say that there is a possibility of a war with the Franco-Robot in the near future, and ask the Navy and Army what they think!

When Bao Yifen heard that he was going to go to war with the Franc Machine, and it was because the Franc Robot illegally occupied Haojing, he naturally expressed his anger about this matter without hesitation, and then resolutely stated that if the war started, the navy would fight to the death!

But as soon as these words were finished, Bao Yifen euphemistically proposed that not a single regular warship of the Navy has yet been built, and the earliest third-class frigate will not be put into service until the second half of this year.

Because Bao Yifen knows that although there are not many warships on the Nanyang side, there are still a few, and there are many armed merchant ships.

Moreover, Bao Yifen also tactfully proposed that at present, both the army and the navy are purchasing artillery from the Francophone man, and if war breaks out, I am afraid that the artillery trade will not be able to continue.

But after Bao Yifen said these concerns, he said in a firm tone: If the war really breaks out, then the navy will definitely fight to the death, even if all the warships sink in battle, they will definitely not retreat.

Bao Yifen said so, and Li Xuan was also quite speechless!