Valley Emperor

The strength that is far stronger than other grain merchants is the only reason why Zhili Grain Company can stabilize grain prices and push the grain prices of Zhili Sidao in the direction that the empire wants to see!

People have more food reserves than you, and more cash than you, what can you do?

Even if the Zhili Grain Company is using commercial means dignifiedly, other grain merchants can't play it.

The success of Zhili Grain Company also directly promoted the establishment of Datang Grain Corporation and the establishment of the provincial grain companies under its jurisdiction. It is more moderate business means to operate, rather than simple and crude executive orders.

Li Xuan is also relieved about this situation. To be honest, he was still a little worried when he promoted the establishment of the grain company. The method he adopted was actually some measures to follow. Of course, the specific details are different. It is the same, but it is basically the same, that is, it is to directly use the powerful strength of the country to maintain price stability, especially the crucial food price, on the premise of maintaining market freedom as much as possible.

Huaxia in later generations is definitely a leader in all countries in the world in this regard, regardless of various economic crises, regardless of the skyrocketing housing prices, but the prices of basic living materials still remain stable, even if it is inevitable that there will be a rise. , but the level of increase is also in line with the overall economic development.

And more importantly, while maintaining food price stability, the authorities did not take some coercive and excessive measures, but adopted market measures.

Originally, Li Xuan thought that it would be difficult to replicate such a policy in the Tang Dynasty. After all, the economic system of the Tang Dynasty was far from being as complete as the modern countries of later generations. It would be very difficult to rely solely on commercial means to maintain price stability. difficulty.

But the performance of Datang Grain Corporation still made him very satisfied.

Datang Grain Corporation has performed well and played its intended role, so Li Xuan does not need to take some compulsory administrative measures to stabilize prices.

Coercive administrative means, although the effect is equally outstanding, is a double-edged sword for the empire itself, which has a certain negative impact on the industrial and commercial development promoted by the Tang Empire.

Li Xuan, who was in a good mood, after the Lantern Festival, promoted several officials who were in charge of this aspect of affairs, and the director of the Department of Agricultural Products of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises who was in charge of the affairs. On the ground, serve as the governor of a province.

After letting go of the food issue, Li Xuan once again shifted the focus of his work from internal affairs to the military.

In recent months, although Li Xuan has also maintained his attention to military issues, he just listened to the briefing and basically did not interfere too much with the work of the 6th Army and the generals of the navy.

However, now that the Liaodong campaign has reached a critical moment, and the Nanyang Raiders has also started the preliminary work, Li Xuan must pay attention to it himself.

To this end, in the second half of the first month of the first month, he held an expanded military meeting in front of the imperial army, and the senior generals of the 6th Army, the Navy, the Guards, and the Three Army of the Tang Dynasty gathered together.

Many high-ranking generals, dressed in generals' attire, entered the largest and most important conference room in this royal courtyard. This huge conference room is different from the ordinary hall. This is a room with an area of ​​two hundred The multi-square-meter conference room has a huge rectangular table in the middle. Around the rectangular table, there are more than 30 chairs.

There was no chair in front of the rectangular table, because there was an independent office seat in front of it, which was Li Xuan's seat.

On either side, there were a dozen or so chairs with their backs against the walls and huge floor-to-ceiling windows. These chairs were the seats for those who attended the meeting.

The window of the conference room is not a narrow window, nor a traditional Chinese sliding door, but a large glass window. Almost two-thirds of the entire wall is glass windows.

These glasses are architectural glass produced by the glass company invested by the Royal Assets Division. Although limited by technology, each piece of glass is not large, but it is still possible to make such large-area glass windows by putting together a frame. effect.

The large glass windows make it very bright even though the sky is a little noisy today, but the meeting room still does not need a lot of candles.

These high-level generals entered the conference room for 6 consecutive years, and then began to chat in twos and threes, and many of them looked serious. When talking with each other, they did not forget to cast hostile glances at the generals of other military services.

When everyone talked, it was also clear circles. There were a lot of generals of the 6th Army, there were more than 20 people, occupying a lot of space. The dozen or so people from the Navy chose to be by the window, while the Guards' generals were by the window. There were the least number of generals, only four of them. They stood aside and muttered that they didn't know something. There were also observers from the Hanlin Academy, the 6th Army Department, and the Navy Department. They were scattered.

The people from each institution are clearly distinguished, and no one tried to chat with people from other institutions, because everyone present knew the importance of today's meeting, and the various factions present were regarded as enemies of each other. Even if they are not enemies, there are conflicts of interest.

Today, they all represent their own institutions, factions, and personal friendships, which are worthless in today's context.

Take Lieutenant General Lei Wan, for example, he actually had a good personal relationship with Vice Admiral Song Binglin, the former commander of the Second Fleet, the Minister of the Naval Staff, and they also agreed to be in-laws for their children.

But today, the two of them didn't seem to know each other. After entering this conference room, they stopped talking, not even nodding to each other.

Personal friendship is personal friendship, but wait a minute, I am afraid that the two sides will face each other, each representing the navy and the 6th army to compete for interests, and the losing party, it is estimated that the situation will not be very good, at least its military will definitely be dissatisfied.

Why are these people's expressions so serious and their faces full of alertness!

That is because the military budget for the eighth year of Xuanping has not yet been finalized. Although a meeting was held when the Xuanping eight-year financial budget was formulated at the end of last year, at that time, the Son of Heaven only allocated part of the military budget. After the allocation, about one-third of the military spending was withheld and not allocated.

Today, a very important topic is to discuss the distribution of the remaining one-third of military spending.

How to distribute it is a big question.

It's not even just a question of military spending, but also a question of the future direction of the Datang Empire's military strategy.

With the progress of the Liaodong campaign, even if the Liaodong campaign is still going on, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time to win Liaodong, and it is estimated that it will not take long, at least two or three months, but more than a year and a half. , the Liaodong side is estimated to be able to take it down.

And then, what is the purpose of the huge military power of the Tang Empire?

Ma Fang Nanshan, doing nothing?

Impossible, this is an army that spends more than 20 million taels every year, and it is a loss to keep it from fighting!

And many high-ranking generals know that the Son of Heaven, the Holy Monarch of all ages, is a person with huge ambitions, and this ambition can even be said to be unprecedented.

The Son of Heaven is going to conquer the world!

But how to conquer specifically, where to fight first? how to spell?

This will not only affect the strategy of the future empire, but also affect the distribution of interests between the military services.

Fighting Nanyang first, okay, the navy is happy. Fighting Nanyang means expanding the fleet, expanding the 6th clan, and the military expenditure will be more, but the 6th army is not happy.

If the Tatar-dominated north is attacked first, the 6th Army will definitely be clapping their hands and celebrating. If they attack the north, the 6th Army will definitely expand its army and build more cavalry, but the navy will be very disappointed.

Because military spending is limited, the 6th Army gets more and the Navy gets less!

In addition to military expenses, there is a very important point that war means merit, and merit means promotion and rank, even if it is not for himself to seek promotion and rank, but there are a lot of soldiers waiting for promotion.

As a military boss, you don't fight for the opportunity for your subordinates to be promoted to rank. If you are a Mao boss, you should retire and go home with your baby!

The generals of the 6th army and the navy are **** for tat, but the guards side is as stable as Mount Tai. .

Besides, the great Eternal Sage, who is greater than the sun, even if the 6th Army and the Navy are abolished, will not lose a single copper plate for the Guards!

For nothing else, just because their name is 'Guardian'.

As for several officials in the Hanlin Academy~www.wuxiaspot.com~, for example, Li Daobing, the head of Hantong, the chief of the 6th Military Section, and the Chief of the Navy Section, who came to audit as usual, as well as the 6th Military Minister of the Cabinet and the Minister of the Navy. The others all sat by themselves and didn't speak. Anyway, they were here to observe today, um, no, they were watching the play by the way.

What kind of drama are you watching? Naturally, it is to watch the 6th Army and the Navy carry out a big strategic fight!

This kind of scene can usually only be seen at the end of the year or the beginning of the year, because the end of the year or the beginning of the year is the time for the allocation of military expenditures. The 6th Army and the Navy have to stage a big show every year. .

So today, all the generals who come to the meeting, regardless of whether the 6th Army Navy or the Guards, are not allowed to carry saber, um, crutches, walking sticks and the like.

Well, there is a new rule this year, before entering the venue, there must be no metal belt buckles on the belt!

Because in the middle of last year, when the 6th Army and the Navy held a joint meeting, a colonel's senior combat staff member of the War Department of the 6th Army Privy Council was so angry with the generals of the Navy that he untied the belt on the spot and slapped people, and he was beaten Those who beat others were fined for one year.

From this, it can be seen that in official business, the 6th Army and the Navy are already in a state of incompatibility!

After the scheduled time came, none of the people who were supposed to come arrived. It didn't take long for an official from the Secretariat to walk into the conference room with brisk steps, and then whispered to the many bigwigs in the conference room: "Everyone. My lord, the holy car is coming soon!"

At this time, the many generals in the conference room stood up according to the predetermined sequence.

As soon as they stood up, they heard someone at the door chanting, "Your Majesty is here!"

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