However, Qi Qingfeng can also be regarded as a figure who has seen the world, he knows that Gao Xianzhi, as an old and spicy general, will never hand over such an important matter to a lonely and unknown person, if he is judged by his appearance at this moment to leave a bad impression on the other party, then in the future, this Sichuan-Shu business matter may be difficult.

So after hesitating for a moment, he immediately clasped his fists with both hands and returned the salute to Feng Changqing, and said calmly, "Brother Feng, in the future, the matter of Shu will depend on Your Excellency, if there is anything wrong with the urging of a certain person, I hope that Brother Feng can Haihan forgive me......"

"It's good to say, it's good to say, the order of the marshal, Feng Mouzi should do his best, but the business and trade affairs in Jiannan have always been controlled by the Chengdu Royal Chamber of Commerce, if you want to get a piece of the pie under their noses, I am afraid that this matter is also urgent, and maybe you have to think in the long run, but fortunately, the grain and grass in our army and all kinds of ordinary needs are transported by the military itself, and there is still room for operation in the joints, and this matter is also an unknown secret for the Wang Family Chamber of Commerce......

As soon as Feng Changqing's words came out, Qingfeng's eyes immediately flashed with a hint of joy, in fact, the business and trade matters he thought about before coming to Jiannan were not so much normal trade as he hoped to build a short-term grain route, even if Jiangnan has now started self-reliant construction work, but after all, it still takes a certain amount of time to really achieve the point of self-sufficiency of dozens of armies, as long as Gao Xian Zhisong can divide some of the grain in Bashu now, then other things can actually be put aside for now.

And Gao Xianzhi looked at the matter and talked about the key to the serious situation, so he also found an excuse at will to let the two of them leave the camp to discuss, because what he is doing now still feels a little sorry for Li Mao from the bottom of his heart, after all, Li Mao's kindness to him, the leader of Jiannan Dao, is much less than the previous Li Longji, and the youngest son who has just been crowned was directly sent to Taixue to study, not to mention, even his family members who stayed in Chang'an have benefited one by one. And the most touching thing for Gao Xianzhi and unable to refuse was that Li Mao even hung his name and portrait in the Tang Dynasty Famous Generals Pavilion in the Chang'an Lecture Hall, and even ranked among the top ten famous generals, and then paid tribute to those young generals every day. This kind of honor is really higher than the sky among the few veterans who are still alive in the entire Tang Dynasty.

So he Gao Xianzhi has no more contradictions in his heart, he knows that he is not a perfect person, and he also wants to be famous through the ages, and he will be famous for eternity, if he is ruined because of his secret support for Li Heng, then he can't say anything about it, so he waited for Qingfeng and Feng Changqing to walk out of the barracks, Gao Xianzhi still resolutely wrote down the matter truthfully after hesitating for a long time, and ordered someone to send it to Chang'an to inform Li Mao.

It's just that after he described his helplessness in the letter, he also vigorously persuaded Li Mao and stated the pros and cons to persuade Li Mao not to attack Jiangnan and Zhedong for the time being, because Gao Xianzhi stood in the perspective of a general to analyze the people's hearts, the time, the place, and most importantly, he also thought that Jiangnan was the place where Li Mao focused on the development of silk light industry, and it was easy to mess up, and the Silk Road could not be interrupted because of this......

And half a month later, Li Mao personally handed over Gao Xianzhi's letter to Zhang Jiuling in the imperial study, so that he could look at it and tell him what he thought, but Zhang Jiuling immediately bowed to Li Mao after reading the letter, and then stumbled and knocked down.

"Holy man, this matter must not be hesitated! Gao Xianzhi's move is obviously a disobedient heart, he colluded with the traitor, and now he is still so fearless to defend himself, Weichen hopes that the sage you can immediately make a decision to urgently recruit Gao Xianzhi to return to Chang'an to accept the guilt......" Listening to Zhang Jiuling's somewhat indignant statement, Li Mao endured it for a long time and still couldn't help laughing out loud, and then opened his mouth to him and said slowly, "Old Zhang! You are too upright to do anything, Gao Xianzhi, if he really has a disobedient heart, why is he still turning around like this to excuse himself, in fact, what he said is not completely unreasonable, I did spend a lot of thought on it all over the south of the Yangtze River, especially Yangzhou, Lin'an, and that Shanghai, which is also the place you call Huating County, I also deliberately set up several textile factories and shipyards before, Zhedong Road and those places are not as good as our Central Plains hinterland, they have less land and more mountains, and the local people have always relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, life is very poor! So I want to take this opportunity to change the face of their place...... Aiqing, don't get up on your knees and talk first, you don't need to be so polite with me, think about when we were in Lingnan together...... Ha ha...... It's going to be a happy time!! ”

Hearing Li Mao's almost tone, Zhang Jiuling also suddenly felt that he was really making a fuss, so he slowly stood up again and sat down on the round stool, but he was still looking at Gao Xianzhi's handwritten letter in his hand repeatedly.

"Sage, what you mean Weichen also understands a little, but if the rebels are entrenched in Zhejiang, Dongjiang, Jiangnan and other places for a long time, they will inevitably become bigger, and now the abolished prince has found Gao Xianzhi to open the Jiannan Trade Road, so it is tantamount to adding a party to help, Weichen is worried that if the court does not ruthlessly exterminate it at this moment, it will still take more effort in the end...... As for what you said about reforming and building Jiangnan, the imperial court can do it itself......"

"No, no...... Lao Zhang, you think about this matter too simply, although Jiangnan is poor, but the folk customs are extremely fierce, if there is no local gate valve, the fact that the clan is helping to carry out this reform is difficult to carry out smoothly, but now Li Heng's gang of people paint cakes to fill their hunger to the local nobles, the gentry have great enthusiasm, think about it, who doesn't want this from the dragon's work! They followed my third brother Li Heng to develop and grow themselves with all their might, but what you are worried about, I have also thought about it, no matter how strong a corner of the land is, I am afraid that in the end, I will not be able to fight against hundreds of state capitals in my Datang country! So what I have to do now is to clean up this mess in the north first, which is actually the main reason why I am in a hurry to get you back from Silla, they have handed over the land and their connections, but if they can't eat the fat I promised before, how can they be willing to rest...... There really can't be any more turmoil in the north, old Zhang ......"

Li Mao said, picked up the long stick in his hand, pointed to the map behind him, and pointed: "Lao Zhang, you see, now the Silla Peninsula, and even the entire northeast are all under the control of my Tang Dynasty, so the economic development of the north will inevitably start from the entrance to the sea in Silla...... And Fuso may be a good springboard...... Further on, these islands and even the vast expanse of Australia farther away are natural fertile land that can be seen and touched! ”

"This? Sage, you have been thinking about it for too long, although the island country of Fuso is sparsely populated, it is not easy to take it for a while! Not to mention the loss of money and people's power due to the war between the two countries, if it cannot be attacked for a long time, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the domestic situation, so Weichen still wants to think twice, saint! At present, although Datang has no strong enemies outside, there are troubles inside! The rebels led by the abolished prince are the henchmen of the imperial court, and this attack on the small country of Fusang and the development of overseas farmland can not be slowed down a little! ”

Zhang Jiuling was slowly telling his opinion, but seeing Li Mao standing up from the dragon chair and walking to the map to observe, he immediately took the initiative to get up and follow, and then said a little verbose again, "Sage, it's really not the best time to attack Fusang at this moment!" Most of the maritime trade is that other countries come to my Datang to do business, and my Datang Empire is rich in products, and there is no need to buy physical goods from other small countries! Such a large-scale battle to raise troops across the sea has not only lost a certain number of Tang Dynasty soldiers, but the annual endowment of tens of millions of people has been wasted here! ”

"Zhang Aiqing! Do you say that thousands of years ago, the land area of China was only a corner of the Central Plains? And throughout history, all dynasties, except for the powerful Han Dynasty, which was able to expedition to Mobei and open the Silk Road, did the other dynasties lose their own strength in civil strife? "This ...... What you said, sage, is very true, roughly like this, if it weren't for the huge casualties of the population of the Central Plains of the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasty, it would be difficult to recover in a short period of time, and there would be no Hu people in the later period to mess with China......"

"That's right! The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, at present, my Tang Empire can be called the first empire in the past, if you don't take advantage of the national strength to sweep away the eight wildernesses, then who can say what will happen in the future? I don't believe in the Tang Empire for thousands of years, what I hope is that even if my own people in China fight in the future, it will be like the iron law set by the First Emperor, and no one will dare to split Tibet, Turks and other places, and in the future, Silla, Fusang, and Siam...... And so on will be the land where my Chinese people take root and multiply...... Let me bear all the charges, Zhang Aiqing, you and I will work together to make the family business bigger, okay! Is it inevitable that there will be deaths and injuries if the Han Dynasty defeats Tubo, will there be the disaster of war in my Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, so I really don't want future generations to suffer, let's fight as much as we can, as for how much they can hold, it's up to them......"

Li Mao said while staring at the small island of Fusang with his eyes, his thoughts really returned to a place far away, as a descendant of the future generations of China, he knew that even if the Heavenly King Lao Tzu came at this time, he would not be able to stop him from destroying the sunrise country of Fusang! But the more rational Zhang Jiuling still didn't seem to be moved by Li Mao's sincere words, and the things he considered as the ruler of a country generally included the overall situation, because he knew that the current Tang Empire was by no means stable enough to deal with foreign enemies wholeheartedly.

Not to mention, even if he personally governed the Silla Peninsula for two years, the situation was embarrassing and panicked, and when he was there, he was better able to treat everyone equally, but in just a few months after he left, there were more than a dozen cases of local people collectively running away and resisting. -->