Li Tonghai took advantage of the incident to teach his son, and then began to think about the title.

These titles are not given casually, especially some titles, which are also related to the number of fortunes, and if they are not matched, there will be disasters.

And Shenwu can be called the best of martial arts, as for Shengyan, it can be called the source of literature, such a literature and martial arts, he can't help but start wondering, what Zhao Cheng wants to do with this move.

After all, Zhao Cheng's current Taoist cultivation can be called unique in ancient and modern times, even if he is the second ancestor of the Taoist Buddha, when he is in the world, he is not as good as him.

Now the two people who Zhao Cheng pardoned are both strangers who came from the sky.

If Zhao Cheng only gave ordinary titles, it would be fine, and giving these two titles would obviously be calculated.

However, Li Tonghai is not a Taoist in the end, although he has read a lot of Taoist books, but he has never entered the Tao, even if he reads more Taoist books, he will be in a fog after all, and after thinking for a while, he has no clue, and Li Tonghai simply doesn't want to think about it.

He pondered Zhao Cheng's purpose, but it was just an instinct.

As a courtier, doing things for the emperor and figuring out the emperor's mind is a basic skill.

Compared with the issue of the title, the most important thing for him now is the preparation of the trade route, throughout the ages, business has always been a cheap industry, the so-called high and low, the more lowly the industry, the more suppressed by the imperial court.

For example, farming, the price of food is crushed.

And Li Tonghai, although he is not good at business, but he knows how to use people, when Zhao Cheng said this yesterday, he jumped out of several candidates in his heart, as for finding people from strangers, it was all a follow-up thing.

Inhumans are usable and reusable, but not gullible.

He first set up the general framework, and then considered the problem of recruitment.

As a smart man, he knew why businessmen were suppressed.

The reason for this is simply because of the danger.

In some dynasties, some big businessmen even interfered in the change of the throne, the so-called merchants of a country, how much money do they make? !

If it were not for the various restrictions imposed by the imperial court on merchants, it would be easy for merchants to grasp the lifeblood of the country.

It is based on the successive dynasties, in order to seek stability, most of them suppress commerce and do not give it status.

As long as he is a businessman, no matter how rich he is, he is still a pariah, he cannot be an official, and if he wants to be rich, he cannot have power.

And having money and no power is just a fat sheep.

As for Daxin, it has been fighting wars before, and although various industries have been established one after another, there is no room for merchants to survive.

Because the entire allocation of resources is handled by the imperial court, it is close to a planned economy.

Although people in each place can buy things with money, all kinds of materials are limited according to their identities.

The biggest advantage of such a model is stability, but as for the bad part, it is too stable, so the development cannot be fast.

Of course, the imperial court has not yet released the idea of opening up business internally, but first carried out foreign trade, and exchanged various raw materials for extremely low costs from outside countries.

"It's difficult, it's hard, it's not easy to do this thing well, and if it's not good, I'm afraid it will turn into a big corruption case......"

"However, if you want to open up the trade route, it is not an overnight thing, the barbarians are more ferocious, and they will not make serious transactions with you, only if they are afraid, I will hurt one person, and I will destroy your country, only in this way can those barbarians be in awe......"

"It's up to Lin Yi to do this."

"Your Majesty's move, this is the most difficult step to open up the situation, if this step is not done well, I am afraid that the entire court situation will be turbulent......"

Li Tonghai thought to himself.

The so-called inner and outer kings are talking about appeasing the people with the holy way at home and continuously improving the people's livelihood, but externally, it is conquering by force, plundering all kinds of resources, and benefiting the people.

After all, resources cannot be conjured out of thin air, either squeezed from the people of one's own country or snatched from the outside.

As for the inner king and the outer saint, it has been used by the imperial court in the past, the internal is for stability, extreme oppression, and the external for fame, and the name of the holy monarch is obtained.

There have been so many dynasties throughout the ages, and the reason why they did not choose the inner and outer kings was not without reason, after all, it was much easier for the inner and outer kings to be saints.

If it were the other way around, it would be easy to drag the imperial court into the quagmire of war and add variables.

"However, if this matter is done, at that time, it will be a great achievement to seize the blood of various countries to support the people, and I may be able to go further and directly crown the king......"

"At that time, everything is just right, more than ten years later, things are done, and I am almost at the time when I am about to step down as the first assistant, just to retire with great success, and I don't have to worry about the rabbit dying and the dog ......cooking."

Li Tonghai thought of the future prosperity.

Feng Wang, it can be said that in addition to rebelling and becoming the emperor, Feng Wang is already the apex of the courtiers, or the peak.

Because throughout the ages, so many dynasties, almost all have the rule that a different surname is not allowed to be crowned a king, no matter how great the merit is, it is also the most national prince, and it is impossible to go further, unless you are a powerful minister, directly add Jiuxi, then it is possible to be crowned king.

But you can add nine tins, why don't you just usurp the throne?!

But in Daxin, it is different, if there is immortality, you can be crowned king.

This is undoubtedly the big picture.

And even Li Tonghai, in the face of the matter of being crowned king, has a little longing in his heart, because this is a supreme glory, enough to spread the reputation of the ages.

……

"Two waits, this is a good thing, but also a small thing."

"Sweeping away the barbarians is the big deal!"

"If it's a war, where is the merit?!"

"If you can bring the Great New Heavenly Soldiers to sweep away the barbarians in all directions, this is undoubtedly an unprecedented great cause, and you will definitely be crowned king!"

On the other hand, when Lin Yi heard this, he also had the same thoughts as Li Tonghai.

Although he is now the prince of the country, he also has a heart that wants to be crowned king.

Even if the prince of Daxin only has honor, and has no real power to establish fiefs and open mansions, the king is the king.

As for the barbarians, it is not easy to fight, and in the face of the temptation of the king, such a little difficulty is nothing.

……

In the spring of the eleventh year of Yingtian, the Northern Expedition of two million troops, with Lin Yi as the commander, Shenwu Hou Lu Xun led the general banner, and went out with the army.

In the autumn of the eleventh year of Yingtian, under the plough court sweeping, the grassland barbarian royal court was breached, the barbarian king died, the thirteenth prince with the remnants, thinking of the Beihai escape, at that time, Lu Xun with three hundred men and horses, with three hundred to five thousand, showing the martial arts of refining gang, one person broke the formation, one person killed two hundred armor, killed the enemy formation, and captured the thirteen princes alive.

Since then, a big war has easily come to an end.

In the winter of the same year, Beihuangji was established, and the first trade route was opened.

The imperial court also supported the weak tribes of the steppe, and supported puppets to let them rule the place, so as to reduce the cost of governance.

And this is not the end of the war, but just a warm-up.

(End of chapter)