Li Xuan's knighthood can be said to have greatly stimulated the morale of the Tang Dynasty, some people who were knighted were happy with smiles on their faces, and others who were not knighted were also full of expectations for the future, thinking that one day they would become the aristocratic lord that everyone envied.

Although it is said that these newly sealed nobles of the Tang Dynasty have only one name and no fief, although Yulu said that there is, but I don't know that the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse will really be issued.

But this did not prevent Fang Dongquan from laughing and laughing.

These men who were ordinary farmers in the early years, and then mixed into mountain bandits, when it comes to knowledge, at most they know things within a radius of 100 miles, and they know that there is a Xingquan Mansion outside Zhengtai County, as for what else is outside Xingquan Mansion?

Perhaps, there is a place as big as Xingquan Mansion outside, well, maybe it's not as big as Xingquan Mansion.

What, you said that there is a Guizhou Province above Xingquan Mansion, and there are seven or eight state capitals in Guizhou Province that are as big as Xingquan Mansion, or even bigger than Xingquan Mansion?

Moreover, there were more than a dozen provinces like Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty, and some provinces were even several times the size of Guizhou?

And the place occupied by the Ming Dynasty on the earth is just a corner, there is the entire Asian continent outside the Ming Dynasty, there is a Europe in the west of Asia, there is an Africa below Europe, the east of the Ming Dynasty is the vast sea, there is the Australian continent, and the east is North and South America.

Compared to the area of the world, Xingquan Mansion is just a piece of sea water in the middle of the sea!

Are you stupid, how is this possible?

Xingquan Mansion is so big, Lao Tzu can't get out of Xingquan Mansion for the rest of his life, and even so, Lao Tzu is one of the most knowledgeable people within a radius of 100 miles, and now you tell me that compared with the vast world outside, Xingquan Mansion is just a little bigger than a sesame seed?

You're!

You still say, believe it or not, I led someone to arrest you and hold you on a false accusation?

Zhengtai County, which my Tang Dynasty occupies, is already a vast land of 100 miles, and it can be counted in the entire Xingquan Mansion, and now you dare to say that the place occupied by my Tang Dynasty is just a small land, you are definitely ill-intentioned, intending to shake the great rule of my Tang Dynasty.

Someone, grab this magic stick, tie it to a pillar and burn him!

Yes, burn him!

The lack of knowledge has led to Fang Dongquan and Butcher Chen's narrower horizons and more special ideas.

The glory and wealth they imagined were called lords, living in a brick house with three or five rooms, with a hundred acres of land, and they could eat white rice every day when they ate, well, they had to eat meat for three days, and they had a wife, and if there was another maid, even if this maid had yellow teeth, it would be better if they could smoke people to death with bad breath when they spoke.

The luxurious life they imagine is to be able to eat a bun and throw a bun!

Now their life in the Tang Dynasty has almost achieved this goal, at least they eat white rice every day, meat can also be eaten often, and they also have wives at home, and there are maids waiting for them by the way.

Isn't this the life of a noble lord?

The lack of imagination makes Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, and Chen Butcher more easily satisfied.

But the few people who have read the book, as well as those who have a lot of knowledge, are disdainful of this, especially Zeng Ziwen, who was born in a Jiangmen family, and Yang Xiucai, who was originally a big landowner, but people have enjoyed a rich and luxurious life, although they will not use the sandalwood mouth of a young girl as a urinal, but the beautiful maid who warms the bed will never be lacking.

People who have knowledge and opened their horizons, they are even more difficult to satisfy, well, they are talking about those who read.

Whether it is Yang Xiucai, Wang Wenhua, Old Man Xie, or some other scholars who were forced or semi-forced to become officials of the Tang Dynasty, most of them will complain about the difficult conditions of the Tang Dynasty.

But they complain and complain, but they will not object to anything, because they are more rational and understand that with the current conditions of the Tang Dynasty, it would be good to be able to feed everyone, and you still want to eat big fish and meat every day? I'm sorry, the Tang Dynasty really can't do it for the time being.

How did these people survive?

They are looking to the future!

Those scholars who were forced to rob and were unwilling to continue to mingle with the Tang Dynasty in the future were thinking that the new army of the Tang Dynasty would be defeated by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and then the Tang Dynasty would disperse and go back to their respective homes to find their mothers.

However, there are still some people who are bent on thinking that the Tang Dynasty can really succeed in rebellion, and no matter how bad it is, they will have to divide one side, so that they can realize the ideals in their hearts, not to mention, and the glory and wealth can be less?

People see things differently, they have different visions, and they think differently!

People's hearts are always complicated, and Li Xuan would have been afraid of too many people's thoughts earlier, but now, he is too lazy to guess the thoughts of the courtiers below.

He is the emperor, it should be someone else to guess his mind, what is it to guess others!

The knighthood is a spiritual reward, but it does not help much for the many problems faced by the current Tang Dynasty.

After dealing with the knighthood, Li Xuan, Liu Bagou, Fang Dongquan and other civil and military officials continued to be busy, their pre-imperial strategic meeting, from beginning to end, will last for a full seven days, and the content discussed is hundreds of large and small, and these things, no matter how big or small, are directly related to the future development of the Tang Dynasty.

Let's not talk about internal affairs, it's just a matter of business, yes, doing business with Old Man Sun and secretly doing business with some other bold businessmen who want money and don't want their lives, was discussed by the civil and military dignitaries of the Tang Dynasty and even Li Xuan himself.

And in this pre-imperial strategic meeting, the matter of foreign trade has become one of the top five major issues in the Tang Dynasty, along with the improvement of the cabinet system, the two-level administrative system of towns and villages, the expansion of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and the formulation of tax rates.

At the strategic meeting in front of the emperor, Old Man Xie, En, that is, the first secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty, Xie Waqian said in a heavy tone: "Your Majesty, since the original agreement between our dynasty and Sun Yuanwai in Xikou Village, it has been more than a month, but Sun Yuanwai's caravan has not been seen so far, and the two people sent by our dynasty have not been able to send back the news so far!" ”

In the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites was responsible for etiquette, education, and diplomatic affairs, and at present, the Tang Dynasty did not have institutions such as the Ministry of Commerce, so the responsibility for diplomatic dealers naturally fell on the Ministry of Rites.

At this time, the stone blacksmith, also known as the first blacksmith of the Tang Dynasty who struck iron, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu also said with a bitter face: "Now there are not many materials in our warehouse, because of the lack of materials, the workshop production in Xikou Village is afraid that it will not be able to last too long and will run out of materials!" ”