Valley Emperor

Li Xuan, who just returned to Jinling, said he was very busy, even busier than a cowboy!

Because he has to deal with a lot of government affairs that have been squeezed for a long time, although Jinling City has sent many memorials to Li Xuan every day in the past six months, they are usually major events, while some small and trivial matters are temporary. Backlog down.

In addition, there are many things that Li Xuan can't handle directly even though he has seen the memorials. For example, about the previous Guantian reform, it is impossible for Li Xuan to decide such a major event as the Guantian reform based on just a few memorials. of.

And there are more messy things, such as the renovation of the palace.

The Tang Dynasty has been the capital of Jinling for several years, but the royal family still lives in the royal courtyard, not the palace.

The palace is really too dilapidated. Although it has been slightly repaired in the past two years, it is only a small part of the project. Li Xuan has never approved too much money for the repair of the palace. Ten thousand taels of silver were spent on repairs, and this amount of money was not even as much as Jinling City spent on improving roads and drainage channels in the city.

But the palace can't be left unrepaired all the time. The Tang Dynasty is now the Central Dynasty of China. It doesn't even have a serious palace. It can only live in a different courtyard.

At the end of last year, the Ministry of Industry of the Cabinet proposed that the first phase of the renovation of the palace should be properly carried out while the military expenditure of Xuanping in the seven years was not so large.

As for the first phase of the project, the budget they reported was three million taels of silver. After Li Xuan, who was still in Hanyang at the time, looked at it, he stayed in the middle and did not send it.

The palace is going to be repaired, but Li Xuan doesn't want to spend too much money.

Three million taels of silver is enough for the Navy to build ten third-class battleships!

But the fact that it was not posted at that time does not mean that it has not been dealt with all the time.

Now that others have returned to Jinling City, this matter will definitely be discussed again. .

There are quite a lot of issues like the reform of the official field and the renovation of the palace. In a huge empire, many things happen every day, even if most of the small things have already been filtered out by the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet, but Li Xuan is needed. There are still piles of things to be dealt with and decided.

The day after returning to Jinling City, the Hanlin Academy had brought a table full of memorials. Li Xuan casually asked how many there were, and the officials of the Hanlin Academy said that there was still a room!

In this case, Li Xuan is not even in the mood to appreciate the exquisite dance skills of the Palace Dance Troupe!

On the first day, he stayed in the outer hall for fourteen hours!

Yes, that's right, from seven in the morning, he has been busy in the outer hall until nine in the evening!

Of course, Li Xuan is busy, and the others are also busy, not to mention the special institution of the Hanlin Academy, Li Xuan is in office, they have to accompany them, even those ministers are very busy, Li Xuan is busy until nine In the middle of the day, they have to be busy until ten or even twelve!

On this day, he reviewed the memorial for more than four hours in the morning, and then spent more than an hour meeting the ministers. During lunch time, he called all the ministers on duty in the imperial study.

In name, it is a meal, but in fact, it is to discuss work while eating!

Li Xuan could ask questions while eating, but Liu Bagou and the others couldn't get enough to eat, because when Li Xuan asked questions, they all had to stop and then organize the language to answer.

Answering while eating in front of the Son of Heaven, they still don't have the guts!

After lunch, Li Xuan briefly rested for more than half an hour, and then continued to summon his courtiers, mainly the relevant generals of the navy and army, and asked about the landing on the Liaodong Peninsula.

The generals reported that the initial landing on the Liaodong Peninsula was relatively smooth, but after they landed from the Port of Lushun, they were violently denied by the Liaodong Ming Army. The side did not launch a follow-up attack, but adopted a stubborn mode.

Li Xuan had long anticipated the difficulties encountered in landing on the Liaodong Peninsula. It was not a problem to send thousands of people to land, but if he wanted to send more people to land, it would be troublesome.

This is not a problem of transportation capacity. From Dengzhou to Port Lushun, the distance is not too far, and when the Bohai Sea is completely controlled by the Datang Navy, the broken sampans of the Ming Army in Liaodong have no way to threaten maritime transportation.

The landing is difficult because the army and navy have no way to deploy more troops to land on the Liaodong Peninsula!

At present, the third army is in charge of the northern operations. The third army is also the army with the most sufficient troops among the various armies of the Tang Army. There are three infantry divisions and two mixed regiments.

But their task is also very heavy. They need to control Xuanfu and the northern border towns of Datong, confront the Tatars, fight against the Liaodong Ming army in Yongpingfu and the northeastern part of Shuntianfu, and join forces with the Liaodong Ming army. Duoyan Sanwei and other Tatars rose up.

At the same time, they have to attack Youzhou City, which has many remnants of the former Ming Dynasty, and garrison the vast Hebei and Shandong areas!

Although the three infantry divisions and two mixed regiments are not too small, they have to be distributed in so many directions, and the third army is also overwhelmed!

In addition, the current military strategic focus of the Tang Dynasty is in the southwest region, and the military supplies that can be obtained in the northern region are very limited, which further limits the combat effectiveness of the Third Army.

It was already the limit of the Third Army that a thousand troops were dispatched to land on the Liaodong Peninsula.

As for the navy, their total number of marines is only more than 3,000 people, and most of them still need to act with the warships. The number of marines that can be dispatched to the shore for garrison is very small.

Before, in order to station a battalion in Ryukyu, the navy still recruited from the marine corps on each main ship. This cruiser recruited dozens of them, and the frigate built dozens of them, and then from the mainland a few The naval base has deployed a part of the garrison troops, and this is how the battalion was formed.

In addition, the navy is still preparing the Marine Corps for the Nanyang Raiders. Although the Datang Western Company has established two trading posts for the Tang Dynasty after it went to the Nanyang As for the Dan Trading Station, as far as the Datang Territory was erected along the way, there are countless islands or places with stone tablets in the Datang Western Company's territory, because the Datang Western Company has never passed by a place, regardless of whether there are indigenous people, establish a Datang first. Let's talk about the territorial stele.

I won't talk about other broken places, but these two trading stations need to be maintained and developed. At the same time, Datang Western Company is also preparing to establish several trading stations on the main island of Luzon.

Although it is said that the garrison of these trading stations is currently the responsibility of Datang Western Company, but according to the trade license of Datang Western Company, the scope of the monopoly trade license granted to the company is strictly speaking west of Malacca and east of Malacca. In the seas, they have no monopoly on trade rights.

Therefore, although these two trading stations are owned by Datang Xiyang Company, according to the relevant agreement, they will be handed over to the official in a short time, and the garrison will require the military to garrison.

As for the Datang Western Company, their colonial target is not Southeast Asia, their target is India, and their long-term targets are West Asia and Africa.

Only in this way, the pressure on the Navy will be even greater!

The navy could not draw more troops, and the army was in a bit of a dilemma. In addition, the military center of gravity moved south, so the Liaodong peninsula matter, after the beginning, was gone.

After inquiring about the detailed situation, Li Xuan briefly inquired about the situation in Liaodong, and finally said: "The matter of Liaodong cannot be delayed for too long. Although the military's strategic focus is currently in the southwest, the current Southwest campaign is already a victory. For a large part, the pressure is not so great.

This year, some materials will be shipped to the north. This Liaodong Peninsula also needs to strengthen its strength. Now there are too few more than 1,000 people. The force must be at least the size of a mixed regiment. Otherwise, it will be difficult to play a strategy to contain a large number of enemy troops. Purpose! "

Li Xuan just made a request, he doesn't care what the army and navy do!

Naturally, the navy just let it go. Their marines have so little in total, and they have already used up. If they want to continue landing on the Liaodong Peninsula, they can ensure the safety of maritime transportation, but they are already powerless in the battle on land.

Therefore, the important task of reinforcing the Liaodong Peninsula falls to the army itself!

However, on the side of the Army, the Third Army responsible for the war on the Liaodong Peninsula has no way to deploy its troops. Almost every infantry battalion of the Third Army now has its own combat mission, and it is difficult to deploy!

The only one that can mobilize troops is the Sixth Army, which is stationed at the four roads of Zhili. If you squeeze it, you should be able to squeeze out another two or three thousand people.

Only in this way, the Sixth Army, which is the point guard of Zhili Sidao, has fewer troops.

The Army raised this concern!

However, Li Xuan said to the Army that ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ does not need to consider this issue!

Because the expansion of the Tang Army will continue, although Xuanping will not have a large-scale military expansion in the seventh year, it is still possible to create a new division. Li Xuan will plan to incorporate this division into the Sixth Army. .

The Sixth Army, with three infantry divisions, was able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding Zhili Sidao.

After another infantry division is expanded this year, the Tang Dynasty will have fifteen infantry divisions, ten mixed regiments, and an independent cavalry brigade.

The name of this cavalry brigade is the First Cavalry Brigade of the Datang Army. It is the only cavalry unit with an independent establishment in the Datang Dynasty. Formed cavalry detachment.

In the autumn and winter of last year, this cavalry detachment was reorganized by the army. After the reorganization, this cavalry detachment was awarded the designation of the 'First Cavalry Brigade of the Datang Army'. It has four cavalry regiments, a cavalry artillery battalion and several baggage, Auxiliary troops such as health and engineers, with a total strength of about 4,000 cavalry.

As a result, it became the only cavalry unit in the Datang Army that could fight independently!