Huge profits are indeed huge profits, and there is nothing wrong with it. Business originally exists for profits. If it were not for profits, business would not have become more developed. Once the power of business has developed to a certain extent, economic interests and political interests of political groups will conflict, and the bourgeois revolution will emerge.

Today, the Tang Dynasty has not even formed a citizen class in the Song Dynasty, let alone the bourgeoisie. The first milestone representative of the developed commercial power is that political groups cancel curfews, allow free business operations, no mayors, no special location restrictions, etc. However, due to concerns about the various problems brought about by the excessive development of commercial power, Suning has not yet considered the issue of commercial reform. It first takes the Western Turks as a pilot, and then depends on the situation.

Therefore, the new Zonghengsi devoted all his energy to the affairs of the Western Turks. At the same time, because of the complete takeover of the Zonghengsi, the court had no past quarrels and noise. His Majesty Li Er felt that the existence of Zonghengsi and Suning's so-called division of labor and work were quite good, so he gave Zonghengsi greater power - to be fully responsible for all the work of the Western Turks. When things happen, the doctor and the official husband can discuss and decide together, and there is no need to report everything to the emperor.

This guy rarely divides some of his power to others. This is a good phenomenon. When the hundred schools of thought are revived, he can use more experts to gain more power and vigorously decentralize power. The benefits brought by the revival of the hundred schools of thought are clear at a glance, and the existence of the Zonghengsi is more necessary and more advanced.

The Western Turkic barbaric land that was not yet civilized at all actually has no commercial value, but it still has economic and strategic value. The so-called economic value is a large grassland with abundant water and grass. It can provide a large number of war horses to increase the power of the Tang Dynasty's cavalry. Whether it can have military advantages over the nomadic peoples depends mainly on the cavalry. If the cavalry is strong, it can be used to attack the nomadic peoples. If the cavalry is weak, it can only be attacked by the nomadic peoples. This is the experience brought by the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.

This was the situation before gunpowder weapons were improved. But at this stage, it is not difficult to get Suning to produce ordinary gunpowder, which is easy to do, but the low-level power is really difficult to apply to the military. Perhaps it is possible to use it to open mountains and break stones to increase the speed of building roads. But it is necessary to use it in military affairs. This is not enough. It is definitely a gift to other cavalrymen on the battlefield, even bows and arrows and stone catapults.

Suning has no experience in this regard and cannot be found on the magic machine. It seems that it can only be based on luck. If it can inspire people's invention power, that would be great. After all, advanced gunpowder was also invented step by step. It always requires some opportunities to reach the sky. Suning has many opportunities, and it is unrealistic to think about more.

As for the strategic value, it is the control of the Western Turks over the countries in the Western Regions. Since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasty's control over the Western Regions has weakened. The Eastern Han Dynasty was destroyed until the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. This kind of control was only superficially and could never return to the Ban Chao era. So when the Tang Dynasty's power re-emerged to the Western Regions decades later, it was facing the Western Regions that were completely different from hundreds of years ago.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. When the Tang Dynasty in another world was not well aware of the Western Regions and its thoughts remained in the Han Dynasty, it suffered a lot. It also failed in the Battle of Henglus and lost the opportunity to penetrate Central Asia. There was also a plateau, the Greedy Wolf, Tubo, eyeing the rich Western Regions. Therefore, in order to gain more control of the Western Regions, control the entire Silk Road, trade with the West, open the vision of the Tang people, and promote the development of the entire Tang Dynasty, then you must master the Western Turks and be invincible with the help of the Western Turks.

Suning excitedly told Du Ruhui the intention of Zonghengsi's move. Du Ruhui became more satisfied and surprised when he looked at Suning. For this reason, he viewed Suning in this way.

Not to mention anything else, Suning's vision and long-term perspective are enough to make up for his shortcomings in military capabilities. Du Ruhui believes that although Suning still lacks military capabilities, he has never received Confucian education since he was a child. His thoughts are completely aggressive and enterprising. Unlike many decision-makers in the Tang Dynasty, Suning is not pedantic, does not care about false reputation, but more about real benefits. Moreover, compared with the entire Tang Dynasty, it is definitely not him or his friends. His starting point of decision-making is the Tang Dynasty and the entire Tang Dynasty.

His value in formulating national strategies is far higher than his value on the battlefield. The Tang Dynasty did not lack strong generals, famous generals, or even commanders, or newcomers of the younger generation. Since the establishment of the military university, the military's strength has been well guaranteed and inherited. A new generation of military generals is growing vigorously. A new generation of generals led by Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance has emerged. Suning's military capabilities are actually comparable to their current status. Even in military terms, the development of Xue Rengui and others will be better than Suning.

However, when it comes to national strategy decision-making issues, Suning has an extraordinary vision and insight, and can often think about a problem in ways that ordinary people cannot imagine, which always brings completely different views. These views are often ignored by previous decision makers, but they must contain a lot of benefits, otherwise people like Suning would not care.

Just like this Western Turkish incident, others care about whether the Western Turks can surrender, whether they can pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, whether they can achieve no war between the two countries, live in peace, acquire more prisoners to promote labor transformation, and win time for development for the Tang Dynasty, and nothing else matters. However, Suning did not think so. What he thought about was how to obtain the greatest benefits by controlling the Western Turks, and even through the foundation laid by the Western Turks, extend the power of the Tang Dynasty to the countries in the Western Regions that had been lost for hundreds of years, and even further west, the places where the Dashi and Qin were located in the past were recorded in books, and we don’t even understand it at all.

This led to the fact that when our eyes were still limited to a Western Turk, Suning had already begun to formulate plans to promote the Dashi, Daqin and even more Western, and used his knowledge of masters to pass on the knowledge of his masters. He taught them to other potential young officials in the Zongheng Division and tried his best to influence them. These people dislike Confucianism and had a considerable likes of the Zongheng School's academic classic "Guiguzi". At this stage, a considerable number of young Zonghengists have begun to read the Western Region materials left by the brothers of the Ban family, and have begun to draw maps of the Western Regions, doing their best to understand and familiarize themselves with the real situation of the Western Regions, and preparing to launch an attack on the Western Regions.

While Suning's eyes are based on the present, they are moving further away. Excellent ministers can see the situation ten years later in the Tang Dynasty. What Suning sees is a hundred years later. For the Tang Dynasty, Suning, who has developed strategic and tactical strategies, is far stronger than getting a famous coach Suning who is invincible on the battlefield. The angle and starting point of the Tang Dynasty's cultivation of Suning should be a national sage who is determined to win thousands of miles away, not a famous general. At the same time, Suning should have enough apprentices to accept his knowledge, because his knowledge is definitely not limited to the masters and the greatest hope of reviving hundreds of schools to fight against the Shandong families. It is Suning.

Du Ruhui secretly wrote a memorial to His Majesty Li Er personally, but did not submit it to His Majesty Li Er for the purpose of submitting it to His Majesty Li Er. When His Majesty Li Er saw this complete memorial, he was obviously very satisfied: "Du Aiqing is so thorough to look at things and people, so Du Aiqing can make a choice in the shortest time. Sometimes, I have to rely on Du Aiqing to make a choice for me. Now, this is another good choice."

Du Ruhui smiled and said, "I just think that putting such a genius in the army can protect it, but it cannot be used to the greatest extent. Suning's best ability is not military tactics, but vision. Everything he does now is to lay a foundation for the future. Only by doing what he is now can he do more things on this basis.

Just like labor reform, if labor reform is completed, the world's corvee service can be avoided. It is not only an unprecedented merit, but also a large amount of troops and labor force in the fields for the Tang Dynasty, bringing the existing population to the extreme, rather than simply encouraging childbirth and increasing the population. He thinks that it is a good thing to have more people, but once there are more people, they eat more, and it is very easy to have a famine of insufficient food. Once a famine occurs, a lot of people will die, and everything must start from the beginning. Instead of such a vicious cycle, it is better to find the cause from the source and solve it."

His Majesty Li Er nodded: "So where does Suning think the source is?"

Du Ruhui said: "He didn't say it clearly, but said that he was trying to solve this problem. He himself did not know this thoroughly. Taking rashly will only bring disaster. This problem is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. We have to be cautious. We must first test everything and see how the situation is, and then change it, otherwise everything will become very bad."

His Majesty Li Er nodded in approval: "This is the quality that the national savant possesses. It seems that I still buried him, but he is determined to get into the army and is unwilling to hold a position in the court. I can't do anything about this."

Du Ruhui smiled and said, "Your Majesty, what is suitable for Suning? Your Majesty must know better than the ministers. Logically speaking, under the rule of a wise monarch, he must be in harmony with the people, and everyone can play his best ability, without considering the issue of wood being in the forest. But why do people in the world think that wood being in the forest will be destroyed by the wind? And they will definitely do things that wood being in the forest will be destroyed by the wind, so that Suning must first learn to protect itself rather than govern the country at a young age.

Your Majesty, Suning is the prime minister. With his talent, if he has received good training and protection, I will not be as good as him. However, how to protect him and give him the best experience before he has grown to that level, it is not what I should consider, but what I should consider. Your Majesty, I will say so much, and I hope your Majesty will think about it carefully."

After Du Ruhui left for a long time, His Majesty Li Er stared at the memorial and was silent, without moving, without talking, nor drinking water, making Zhao Chen beside him very worried. Fortunately, it was not too long before, His Majesty Li Er chuckled, stood up, and said a soft word that seemed to be talking to himself...

Indeed, Su Xianggong sounds better than Su Hou. Boy, see where you can go...

Suning naturally couldn't hear this, and he didn't have the heart to listen to it. He devoted all his thoughts to the Zonghengsi affairs. Now everything is going smoothly, and the most difficult court has already settled. As for the caravans of those families with good friends, the issue of caravans has been almost done. More than 20 families are willing to dispatch their own caravans to do business in the Western Turks, which is a foregone conclusion. Now the only problem is that the private merchants are not very enthusiastic about this matter, so that it has been five days since Zonghengsi posted a notice. No private shop has come to apply for the recruitment. Only a few people come to ask about the specific matters and then leave quickly, and are not applied for the recruitment.
Chapter completed!