Valley Emperor

Bao Yifen described the situation in Nanyang like this: "It is urgent!"

When Bao Yifen said it, it seemed as if the sky in Nanyang was falling, which made the generals of the army have a toothache!

As far as the broken area of ​​Nanyang is concerned, there is nothing urgent to delay, isn't it just a few colonies, it seems to be so important.

But now it's the navy who speaks. In order to avoid being rude in front of the king, the army generals pretend they didn't hear it and let them blow it up!

Just listening to Bao Yifen continue: "Last year, our colony in Luzon was attacked by pirates. Thousands of pirates besieged our colony. Fortunately, the soldiers stationed there fought bravely and finally successfully resisted, but There are two such things, especially this time the pirate attack, although we have no evidence, but we can judge that the preparation must be provoked by the Portuguese!"

"The Portuguese have already caused a major obstacle to our colonial operations in Southeast Asia, and in the foreseeable future, they will continue to launch various means to hinder our Southeast Asian policy, therefore, we must fight against the Portuguese arrogance to ensure the empire's strategic advantages in the South China Sea and maritime trade interests!"

Bao Yifen's words are not over yet. He continues to say that the Portuguese have seriously violated the interests of the empire. For the interests of maritime trade and the development of domestic industry and commerce, they must fight the Portuguese and beat them to the ground. if.

These words sounded reasonable, um, they did make sense, but none of the people present were stupid!

Although the conflict with the Portuguese is big, it is not so big that war is necessary, and before the European shipping route is established, the war with the Portuguese started. How can we carry out maritime trade in the future?

The relationship between the Portuguese and the Empire is now more and more complicated, with various conflicts of interest, but there are also huge common interests.

And the common interests of both sides, before the empire failed to open up a second European route and established real trade relations with the Spaniards or other countries, fell out with the Portuguese, that is, both sides lost.

You must know that the prosperity of overseas trade today, to a large extent, relies on Portuguese channels to export a large number of commodities to India, West Asia, Africa and Europe.

Especially the European market is now completely monopolized by the Portuguese!

No way, now the Portuguese are so arrogant that they almost monopolize the African coast and some of the Indian Ocean routes. Even the more powerful Spaniards cannot compete with the Portuguese in these waters, and can only do it secretly.

This also led to the fact that in the relationship between the empire and the Portuguese, it is impossible to simply say that cooperation or hostility is.

Competing in cooperation is the current relationship between the two.

In this way, fighting with the Portuguese is currently not worth the loss, so the navy shouting to fight the Portuguese is not realistic in the short term.

It's not a matter of not being able to beat it, but a problem of severing trade after it's been beaten!

You can't say that you are doing business while you are at war!

Well, although this is not impossible, it always feels a bit nonsense. Since we are all in business, what kind of battle is there!

After all, the core contradiction between the Portuguese and the empire is not actually a mere few colonies in the Southeast Asia, and even a strategic location like Malacca is not a core contradiction for the current relationship between the two sides.

Their core contradiction is that the Portuguese monopolized the route to Europe, and then made a lot of profits from East Asia to Europe, but they did not leave much for the Tang Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, in the profiteering route from East Asia to Europe, the two sides had conflicts over the proportion of the spoils.

The Tang Empire wanted more, not just small heads.

The Portuguese must not do it. They have made a lot of efforts to open up and monopolize the route to East Asia. How can they not make high profits.

This is the core of the conflict between the two sides!

It was also the key reason why the Tang Empire tried so hard to open up a new European route, and at the same time wanted to bring in the Spaniards, in order to increase the profits on this route.

I can earn 100 taels of silver, why am I only willing to earn 10 taels of silver? Why don't I just take ninety taels of silver or even all of it!

The various contradictions and conflicts of interest between the Portuguese and the empire have also led to a more complicated relationship between the two sides. The navy is talking about fighting and fighting, and the generals of the army are too lazy to pay attention to them.

Even Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, felt that the navy was too hasty, and what kind of Portuguese would they want to fight?

The strategic focus of the Tang Empire now and in the future, if nothing else, will still be directed to the north and northwest, where the Tatars, Tubos, and Oiras are the real threats to the Tang Empire at present!

Even if they can no longer threaten the strategic security of the empire, even if it is for the horse farm, in order to obtain horses, the Datang Empire has to launch a few wars.

Among them, the Hetao area is even more important. The army has already formulated dozens of plans, all of which are studying how to recover the Hetao area and consolidate the defense of this area.

In this context, in fact, it can be declared that in Xuanping's eight-year military expenditure allocation, the army will still occupy the absolute majority, and the navy will occupy a small part.

However, even if it occupies the majority, the life on the army side will still be more difficult, because the total military expenditure is less!

In the seventh year of Xuanping, the army and navy spent a total of about 30 million taels of military spending, and the army monopolized more than 26 million taels of silver.

But this year, the total military expenditure is only 25 million taels, and it has been clearly stated that there will be no additional temporary military expenditures allocated this year.

Under such circumstances, even if the army alone occupied 80% of the military expenditure, the total amount at that time was only 20 million, and these silvers needed to support the army's total of more than 200,000 front-line field troops, and at the same time needed to maintain The reserve troops of about 300,000 people in various places still need to give some funds to support the militia organizations in various places.

If it is just to maintain these troops, in fact, 20 million taels of silver is enough, and not only is it enough, there is more!

But the army is still fighting, and fighting costs more than maintaining troops!

The Liaodong side is still fighting, swallowing a lot of military spending every day!

Then the bandit suppression operations in various places, the small-scale armed forces of the Tatars and Tubos in the border towns, etc., all require combat funds.

As a result, the army felt that Xuanping's eight years were a bit difficult!

And it can be predicted that the future will be more and more difficult, because the more peaceful the period, the lower the proportion of military expenditure, the empire cannot maintain such a high proportion of military expenditure all the time!

How to do?

What else can I do? Use various methods to save military expenses, and then tighten your belts to live your life. For example, when you are in war, you must save artillery shells. Don't use the shells as money. If you shoot out a shell, it will cost you a large piece of silver. !

However, disarmament is impossible disarmament, and disarmament will not be considered in this life!

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