Lin Feng stood up again and discussed the reasons and methods he mentioned when communicating with Li Jing. He mainly used land to motivate soldiers to work hard and use future interests to attract businessmen to support foreign wars.

"All the king's land is the king's land, and the shores of the land are the king's ministers!" As the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor whom Li Jing's daily favor, Li Zhenggu had just been embarrassed. At this time, he was eager to regain his face, and immediately slapped the table and said generously, "The land in the world belongs to the country, how can it be given lightly to private individuals?"

Lin Feng smiled slightly: "Mr. Li, may I ask, are you familiar with history? Is there any precedent in history that the south unifies the north?"

"Of course..." Li Zhenggu said a little loudly, but couldn't continue. When he thought about it, he found that there was no such thing in history. Of course, there was no such thing in history. In history, except for Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, taking advantage of the clams and cranes fighting within the Yuan Dynasty, he benefited from the fisherman and started his career in Nanjing and easily won the world. It was considered that he had been governed by the south and the north. There was no such precedent in Chinese history.

"Mr. Li, is there a small local force in the world who finally cleared the world without carrying out political, economic, and military reform?" Lin Feng asked again.

"This..." Li Zhenggu could not take it anymore. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, anyone who has dominated and accomplished great things must have started from internal transformation. The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties are all living examples.

"Mr. Li, can our Tang Dynasty have an absolute advantage in destroying it in one fell swoop compared to other neighboring countries?" Lin Feng asked again while he was chasing the enemy.

"This..." Li Zhenggu looked up at Li Jing, trying to please the emperor and said there was, but he knew that this was against his will, so he had to keep silent.

"Then is the other party's territory ours?" Lin Feng asked again, knowing that Li Zhenggu would never answer his question, and continued to speak, "Of course not. Since the other party's territory is not our territory, it has no contribution to us there, why can't we take it over by stimulating the soldiers to fight bravely, and we can collect taxes and strengthen our strength?"

What a simple truth, Lin Feng shook his head helplessly and continued, "If it is the same for all soldiers in the world, they can only feed their own belly and receive extremely meager military pay, why should we ask our soldiers to easily defeat the other party and seize the world? Is this possible? If you are too anxious, you are afraid that the soldiers will surrender to the other party. Isn't this a horse that is called a longer road but is reluctant to let the horse eat full grass?!"

Li Zhenggu had no words to meet and had to sit down.

Lin Feng looked at the people around him and began to think about it. He decided to burn another fire. He bowed to Li Jing and said, "Your Majesty, please allow me to come over with a knife from the palace gate." This is inevitable. As Lin Feng's sixth-rank civil servant, it would be a fantasy to bring weapons into the palace!

"Accurate." Li Jing nodded and immediately arranged an eunuch to pick it up.

At this time, Cha Wenhui stood up, bowed deeply to Li Jing, turned to Lin Feng and said, "Lin Yilang once mentioned that the introduction of merchants in the war. War is the safety of a country, and the safety of a country is dependent on the hands of a group of merchants. Isn't it a pity?"

"The sea does not choose the fine stream, so it can become big; the mountain does not reject the fine soil, so it can reach its height. There is no forest in the high and steep mountains, but there is no forest in the valley, and there is no grass and trees; there is no fish in the rapids of the water, and there is no fish in the abyss, and fish and turtles gather in the abyss." Lin Feng said and said two sentences first, one from Li Si's "Letter to Exil the Guests", and the other from the classic work "Cai Gen Tan" in later generations.

"Similarly, if a country cannot maintain a modest attitude and always thinks that everything it has is the best, then it will never be able to attract the best talents to serve it. Attracting talents in an irregular manner and leaving professional things to professionals is what Lin believes that a country that is willing to strive for progress should believe in."

Lin Feng was just talking when he saw the eunuch who took the knife back at the corner of his eyes. He immediately bowed to Li Jing and said, "Please ask the emperor to find two guards, one with this knife and the other with the guard's sword, and chop each other with force."

There was a good show! Everyone at the scene immediately looked at Li Jing. Li Jing was also surprised that Lin Feng suddenly mentioned this matter and naturally agreed.

The two palace guards stood face to face, shouted loudly, swung their swords high, and cut them down with force.

With a loud "clang" sound, the two guards took a step back. The guard who got the knife Lin Feng took looked at the other party's steel knife, then looked at the steel knife in his hand, made a surprise sound, and quickly handed the knife flat to Li Jing with both hands.

Li Jing was also surprised when he compared the two strokes. The blade that Lin Feng held only had a small mouth slightly visible to the naked eye, and a gap of one finger deep and one finger wide appeared on the blade of the guard's waist. The quality of the two swords was immediately distinguished.

Chen Jun, the Minister of War, stood up and asked excitedly: "Lin Yilang, where did this knife come from? Which master is the caster?"

What are you doing? Want to join the official family? With me here, don’t think of such a good thing! Lin Feng secretly despised Chen Jun, but his face remained silent and asked, “Dare you ask Lord Chen, how much does it cost to be the palace guards’ sword?”

"After years of research by the Military Weapons Supervisor, the cost of this type of sword has been reduced to about 900 cents." Chen Jun said proudly.

"But the cost of the knife I took is only about 750 cents, according to the foundry master." Lin Feng said unstoppable. Just this amount, Lin Feng added 150 cents to Sun Cuo's quotation. If he could control coal and iron ore upstream of the industrial chain and expand production in the future, the cost would definitely be further reduced.

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

The steel knives used by the palace guards are basically the best steel knives in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and a better knife like Lin Feng can reduce the cost by 150 cents. What is this? In which war, hundreds or thousands of steel knives will not be lost? And so on, how much money can the Southern Tang Dynasty 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 by a blacksmith shop that I visited in Jinling City a few days ago. The master's surname is Sun Chui, but his reputation is not well-known. Your Majesty, I am bluntly saying that there are many folk geniuses like Sun Chui. They can either create the best products with the best efficiency and the lowest price, just like Sun Chui; or they can complete the most urgent tasks at the fastest speed and the most efficient way, just like the Tang Dynasty merchants. How to discover them and how to reuse them, please think twice." Lin Feng said loudly.

"I, Tang Xingsheng, only use people! Your Majesty can promote a forest maple in the grassland today, and will definitely promote a thousand forest maple in the future!" Han Xizai knelt on the ground with a "bang" and shouted almost in tears.

Han Xizai was arrogant since childhood and "controlled the world and led the princes to establish dominance." This was the dream of the world that he had been looking forward to for Yang Wu (the predecessor of the Southern Tang Dynasty) in "The Stories of Action" when he first came to Jiangnan 24 years ago. However, after the 24 spring and autumn, he became a "cut-cut" Yuanwailang. There was no way to talk about his ideals, so how much misery was buried in his heart.

Xiao Yan, Jiang Wenmo, You Jianyan, Xu Xuan, Liao Jusu, and other honest and loyal ministers, also knelt on the ground with the "bang", their lips were closed and their words were silent, tears surged from the corners of their eyes, and their heads were knocked like a mountain sound.

Li Jianxun, Zhou Zong and Sun Sheng looked at each other, left their seats one after another, knelt on the ground, and said in unison: "Please think of it." Although they are highly respected and have a superior identity, in fact, His Majesty used to favor Chen Jue and Feng Yansi, and now he favored Wei Cen, people like Cha Wenhui, and the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty hated each other and named "Five Ghosts" and "Four Evils" and what kind of good things can people who "Four Evils" do?
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