Lin Feng got up again and discussed the reasons and methods he had stated when he communicated with Li Jing, mainly using land to motivate soldiers to work hard, and using future interests to attract businessmen to support foreign wars.

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!" As Li Jing's daily favored privy envoy and deputy envoy, Li Zhenggu had just lost face, and at this time, he was eager to save face, so he immediately took the case and said generously, "The land in the world belongs to the state, how can it be lightly given to private individuals?" ”

Lin Feng smiled slightly: "Lord Li, may I ask, you are familiar with history, is there a precedent in history for the south to unify the north?" ”

"Of course......" Li Zhenggu said half a sentence loudly, and he couldn't continue, and when he thought about it, he found that there was really no such thing in history. Of course not, in history, except for Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, who took advantage of the internal clam and crane competition in the Yuan Dynasty, he profited from fishermen, and easily won the world from Nanjing, which can be regarded as unifying the north with the south, there is really no such precedent in Chinese history.

"Let me ask you again, Lord Li, is there a small place in the world that has finally cleared the world without carrying out political, economic, and military reforms?" Lin Feng asked again.

"This ......" Li Zhenggu couldn't pick it up again. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, all those who have become masters and hegemons must have started from internal transmutation, and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang are all living examples.

"Let me ask Master Li again, can my Datang have an absolute advantage over other neighboring countries in one fell swoop?" Lin Feng took advantage of the victory to pursue and asked again.

"This ......" Li Zhenggu looked up at Li Jing, wanting to please the saint and say yes, but he knew that this was against his will, so he had to keep his mouth shut and not answer.

"Then the other party's land is our land?" Lin Feng asked again, knowing that Li Zhenggu would never answer his question, and continued to talk to himself, "Of course not." Since the other party's land is not our land, and it does not contribute to us in the slightest, why should we not take it by giving it to the soldiers to motivate them to fight bravely, and we should sit and collect its taxes and increase our strength? ”

What a simple truth this is, Lin Feng shook his head helplessly, and continued: "If all the soldiers in the world are the same, they can only feed their stomachs and receive a very meager salary, why should we require our soldiers to easily defeat each other and win the world, is this possible?" You are in a hurry, but I am afraid that the soldiers will surrender to the other side. Isn't this a long way for a horse, but not willing to let the horse eat grass?! ”

Li Zhenggu was speechless, so he had to sit down.

Lin Feng looked at the people around him and began to think thoughtfully, decided to burn another fire, bowed down and saluted Li Jing, "Your Majesty, please allow Weichen to take a knife from the palace gate." "This is an inevitable thing, with Lin Feng's status as a sixth-grade civil official, it is a fantasy to want to bring weapons into the palace!

"Exactly." Li Jing nodded and immediately arranged for a eunuch to fetch it.

At this time, Cha Wenhui got up, bowed deeply to Li Jing, turned to Lin Feng and said, "Lin Yilang once mentioned the introduction of merchants in the war. Isn't it wrong for a soldier to put the security of a country in the hands of a businessman? ”

"The sea does not choose a trickle, so it can become big; The mountain does not reject the fine soil, so that it can be high. There are no forests in the high mountains and valleys, and the valleys are overgrown with vegetation; There are no fish in the turbulent part of the water, and the fish and turtles gather in the deep pool. Lin Feng opened his mouth and said two sentences, one was from Li Si's "Book of Exhortations to the Guest", and the other was from the later classic "Caigen Tan".

In the same way, if a country cannot maintain a humble posture and always think that everything it has is the best, it will never be able to attract the best people to work for it. Attracting talents in an eclectic manner and handing over professional things to professional people is the purpose of employing people that Lin believes that a country that wants to work hard should believe in. ”

Lin Feng was talking, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse that the eunuch who took the knife had returned, and immediately bowed to Li Jing and said, "Please find two guards in the Holy Lord, one with this knife, and the other with the guard's saber, and slash each other hard." ”

There's a good show to watch! Everyone at the scene immediately looked at Li Jing. Li Jing was also very strange that Lin Feng suddenly mentioned this matter, so he naturally agreed.

The two palace guards stood facing each other, shouted at the same time, picked up their knives, blade to blade, and slashed each other hard.

There was a loud bang, and the two guards took a step back. The guard who got the knife that Lin Feng took glanced at the other party's steel knife, then at the steel knife in his hand, let out a surprised sound, and hurriedly handed the knife to Li Jing with both hands.

Li Jing was also surprised when he compared the two. The blade that Lin Feng was holding only had a small opening that was slightly visible to the naked eye, while a gap of one finger deep and one finger wide appeared on the blade of the guard's waist knife, and the quality of the two knives was immediately distinguishable.

Chen Jun, the secretary of the military department, stood up with a "whoosh" and asked excitedly: "Lin Yilang, where did you get this knife?" Which master is the Forger? ”

Do? Want to get into the official house? With me, don't think about such a good thing! Lin Feng secretly despised Chen Jun in his heart, but his face was silent, and he asked rhetorically: "Dare to ask Lord Chen, what is the cost of a saber from the palace guards?" ”

"After years of research by the Ordnance Superintendent, the cost of this type of saber has been reduced to about 900 Wen." Chen Jun said proudly.

"But the knife I am holding, according to the casting master, costs only about seven hundred and fifty yuan." Lin Feng's words were not shocking, and he swore endlessly. For this amount, Lin Feng added one hundred and fifty wen to Sun Cuo's quotation, and if he can control the coal and iron ore in the upstream of the industrial chain in the future, and then expand large-scale production, the cost will definitely be further reduced.

What the? More than a dozen people stood up at the scene, including Li Jing and Li Jingsui.

The steel knife used by the palace guards is basically the best steel knife in the Southern Tang Dynasty at present, and Lin Feng can reduce the cost of such a better knife by one hundred and fifty Wen, what is this concept? What war did not lose hundreds or thousands of steel knives? And so on, how much money can Nantang save.

"Lin Aiqing, where did this knife come from?" Li Jing couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart and stared at Lin Feng tightly.

"This is forged in a blacksmith shop that Wei Chen found in Jinling City a few days ago, this master has the wrong surname Sun, but his reputation is not good. Your Majesty, with all due respect, the world is so big, folk wizards like Sun Cuo abound, they may be able to create the best products with the best efficiency and the lowest price, just like this Sun Cuo; Or you can complete the most urgent task in the fastest speed and the most economical way, just like the Datang businessman. How to discover them, how to reuse them, please think twice. Lin Feng said loudly.

"I am prosperous, but I am employing people! Your Majesty can raise a forest maple in the grass today, and he will be able to raise thousands of forest maples in the future! Han Xizai knelt on the ground with a "plop" and shouted almost silently.

Han Xizai has been conceited since he was a child, "controlling the four seas, leading the princes to determine the hegemony", this is the dream of the world that he looked forward to for Yang Wu (the predecessor of the Southern Tang Dynasty) in "Xingzhi" when he first came to Jiangnan 24 years ago, but 24 spring and autumn seasons have passed, and he has just become a "leftover" outsider, and there is no way to talk about thousands of ideals, how much misery is buried in his heart.

Xiao Yan, Jiang Wenwei, You Jianyan, Xu Xuan, and Liao Jusu, a group of upright and loyal ministers, also knelt on the ground with "Flutter Tom", their lips closed tightly, tears welled up in the corners of their eyes, and their heads were knocked like mountains.

Li Jianxun, Zhou Zong, and Sun Sheng glanced at each other, and they all left their seats, straightened their bodies and knelt on the ground, and played in unison: "Please think about it, Your Majesty." "Although they are highly respected and detached, in fact, His Majesty used to favor Chen Jue and Feng Yansi, and now he favors people like Wei Cen and Cha Wenhui.

Wei Cen, Cha Wenhui, and Li Zhenggu were shocked, they didn't expect this group of people to take this opportunity to join forces to attack secretly, this knife was stabbed so hard, it had been put on the fire, naturally they didn't dare to lag behind, and hurriedly knelt down and shouted: "May Your Majesty go down to Mingjian and make good use of the world's talents!" ”