For Li Shimin's words, these ministers naturally believe it, they have all seen the territory map of the Tang Dynasty before, and many things have not been marked, such as the mountain ranges, which are also approximate, far less detailed than this.

Since these things have been verified, no matter how Huo Gang did it, it is obvious that what the other party said is much more complete than what they knew.

"So for now, what Du Qing said to you yesterday, you should all know in your hearts, our task next year should be to take down the Eastern Turks where Jieli is located, that is, Hetao, Wuyuan and other important horse-raising areas, in this way, our Datang will no longer lack war horses, and then all the way along the Yinshan Mountains to the northeast to expand." Li Shimin pointed to the map behind him and said.

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, if we wantonly attack the surrounding countries like this, then this will not be self-destruction for our Datang, and we are not like these barbarians." A minister spoke.

"Well, what you said is good, but what do we get in exchange for corporal Tang Lixian, treating the surrounding countries fairly?" Li Shimin sneered, "In exchange for his wanton invasion of my Datang, in exchange for these small countries under the banner of paying tribute every year, in fact, they took a large amount of gold and silver treasures from my Datang." ”

"In order to maintain the face of the heavenly kingdom, when each small country pays tribute to us, we have to return a large number of gifts, far more generous than the tribute they paid, you tell me, what is the use of such tribute?"

"There is a saying that I think is very true, there are no friends between countries, only eternal interests, not to mention anything else, since ancient times, the contradictions between our Central Plains and the northern nomads do not need to be said, you all know, can overtures be exchanged for peace? No! All peace is fought! ”

"And if we want to solve these troubles once and for all, then it's very simple, just let these countries become our own!" Li Shimin said viciously.

"As for how to attack them, if you can't find an excuse to go to war, what do I want you to do?" Li Shimin looked at them all for a while, and then continued: "For the sake of the Tang Dynasty's century-old foundation, these conflicts and contradictions are nothing, as for what future generations think of us, history is written by the victors, and the losers have no right to talk about others." ”

"It's like these small countries...... Li Shimin pointed to the small countries around the Tang Dynasty, and then said in a calm tone: "My Central Plains has a long history, and since ancient times, these places have been the territory of the Han people in my Central Plains, and the ancient books where we are have recorded these places are our inherent territory since ancient times, so now we just take back our territory, is there a problem?" ”

Li Shimin's words made everyone a little stunned, this ...... They didn't know how to answer this for a while, and the most important thing was that all the ministers felt a little unfamiliar with the current Li Shimin, because the current Li Shimin was strong and made them feel ...... It's so strange.

You must know that although Li Shimin had a strong personality before, he almost never expressed it so openly, but now Li Shimin has a strong ...... A sharp edge that makes it difficult to look at directly.

Seeing that these ministers did not speak, Li Shimin continued to speak lightly: "Whether you have any opinions or not, this is the future development direction of Datang, if anyone has an opinion, as long as you can find 40,000 acres of black land for Datang, you can find a reasonable way out for the future prince of Datang, and find a new direction for the development of these gate valve families, then I can listen to your opinions." ”

Li Shimin's series of words made everyone speechless, when you say this, who will answer the phone? It is impossible for anyone to accomplish these three things, but if they think about it carefully, or they have already thought about it last night, they all know that they cannot have any other way than to work hard to assist Li Shimin.

Because these things that Li Shimin has taken out have formed a general trend, a general trend that no one can stop.

Looking at the expressions of these ministers, Li Shimin has an indescribable joy, he really admires Huo Gang now, Huo Gang is right, as an emperor, as long as he is willing, he can completely guide the general trend, when the general trend has been achieved, these people cannot stop it, no matter who blocks it, it will inevitably be crushed by the wheels of the general trend.

"The ministers have no objections." Wei Zheng was the first to speak again.

Li Shimin glanced at Wei Zheng a little strangely, he felt that Wei Zheng, this old guy, was a little wrong today, Wei Zheng rarely didn't find fault with him in the past, but today this is not very like Wei Zheng in the past.

With Wei Zheng taking the lead, everyone else also spoke, and they had already made their choice last night.

Seeing that they spoke, and it was unprecedented unification, Li Shimin sighed with emotion, sure enough, there are only eternal interests in this world, although he Li Shimin has not been the emperor for a long time, but before, any decision he made was almost always passed.

But this time, the huge benefits brought by these ministers have made these ministers agree like never before, what does this mean? Sure enough, this is the general trend!

This kind of feeling of being oppressive is really good, but it's a pity, it's impossible for Huo Gang to assist him, but Li Shimin also knows that with a person like Huo Gang, he Datang really can't let go of him.

Throwing these to the back of his mind, Li Shimin collected his mind and began to tell them some things again, some Du Ruhui said it, some Du Ruhui didn't say it, but if he didn't say it, Li Shimin had to say it again, because he said it and Du Ruhui said it, those are two concepts.

Today, this time the small court meeting was held until the afternoon, and at noon these ministers were used in the palace, which was unbelievable for most people.

But they also know that today's meeting is important.

And on the second day after the end of the small court, the envoy group from Datang to Dahan had already been formed and set off directly! The scale of this envoy group is not large, nor is it small, but there is an unexpected person in this envoy group, this person is none other than Wei Zheng, who is already forty-seven years old.

For Wei Zheng's request to go to the Western Regions, as an envoy, Li Shimin was extremely surprised, because he never thought that Wei Zheng would make such a choice, saying that after Wei Zheng was scolded by Du Ruhui, he suddenly became like this, which made Li Shimin a little puzzled.

You must know that Wei Zheng chose to be a minister before, that is, the kind of minister who tells the emperor that you can't do anything, that is, the minister who stands on the opposite side of the emperor, Li Shimin naturally knows his choice, otherwise it is impossible to tolerate him.

And Du Ruhui is naturally a minister, giving advice to Li Shimin, an emperor does need to advise ministers, Li Shimin does not object to this, because he also thinks that he is always right, and sometimes someone needs to be reminded.

But Wei Zheng's change made Li Shimin a little puzzled, but this time Wei Zheng didn't make any trouble, but he made a request to go to the Western Regions as an envoy.

Originally, Li Shimin took into account that he was old, but Wei Zheng said that Gao Shilian was 5 years older than him and blocked it back, Li Shimin thought about it and did not object, so he simply let Wei Zheng lead the team and would go to the Western Regions with Gao Shilian.

Just when Wei Zheng and them were on their mission to the Western Regions, Huo Gang was here, and all the departments of the entire Han Dynasty were finally formed! At least in Yumen Pass, these departments have already carved out a place where their offices are located.

And some of the relevant documents have also begun to be prepared in different categories, although the number of talents is not large now, and many of them are directly filled by the guards cavalry under Huo Zheng, but at the very least, the framework of all departments has been built.

When these departments were set up, to Huo Gang's surprise, the Spirit of the Jade Gate also gave a reward again, as a complete political system was formed, a complete set of laws were rewarded, and it was also a law book in line with this era.

After getting this set of law books, Huo Gang did not take them out, but began to study these laws as soon as possible, this set of laws is much less than modern laws, but it is much more complete than the laws of the Tang Dynasty in this era.

In particular, the regulations on commercial taxation are very perfect, Huo Gang has been reading for several days, he has read this whole set of books one by one, compared with modern law, the most significant point of the law of this era is that the punishment is very heavy.

After confirming that there was no problem with these books, Huo just handed over this set of books to the Ministry of Justice, although the minister of the Ministry of Justice was Huo Zheng, but Huo Zheng obviously couldn't deal with these things, and Liang Shuo was in charge of the Ministry of Justice for the time being.

As the prime minister of the former king of Liangzhou, Liang Shuo must have experience in governing a country, and the most important thing is that Liang Shuo has studied the laws of the Tang Dynasty, so the work of the Ministry of Justice is entrusted to Liang Shuo.

Originally, Huo Gang also expected Liang Shuo to specify a complete set of laws, but he didn't expect the Spirit of the Jade Gate to directly give Huo Gang a set, so it was simple.

Getting the code book that Huo Gang handed over to him, Liang Shuo was also a little stunned, Huo Gang said that he handed it over to him before, but now he took out a complete set of codes? However, Liang Shuo didn't care about this, and after getting it, he immediately began to study it carefully.

Liang Shuo didn't finish reading it, he only read a small part of the front, and Liang Shuo was amazed by the people who made the entire set of codes, because he was amazed by the rigor of the logic, the rigor of the words, and the details of the regulations.

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