Valley Emperor

In the fourteenth year of Xuanping, in mid-August, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the whole Jinling City was filled with the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After several years of recovery, the war wounds caused by the unification war in the early years have been gradually recovered, and stability has been restored in most parts of the country.

Especially under the policy of unified agricultural tax of the empire, the life of peasants can be said to be much better than that of the former Ming Dynasty. In addition, the imperial military has unswervingly implemented the policy of suppressing bandits over the years. Basically, they have disappeared. Even the chieftain armed forces in the southwest region have gradually disappeared in historical occasions because of the empire's firm policy of reforming the land and returning to work.

Of course, in order to reform the land quickly and peacefully, the empire also adopted a policy of preferential treatment of chieftains. As long as the chieftains of the year were willing to surrender completely, they would basically be granted official positions and given a certain amount of real power, some of which were relatively powerful. A toast with great influence can even get a title.

This preferential treatment policy, coupled with the high-pressure military deterrence that the empire has always maintained, most of these chieftains chose to obey, and only a very small number of chieftains chose to resist, and then ended up in ruins.

The agricultural economy has been restored, and industry and commerce have gradually developed, which has made the domestic situation of the empire better day by day.

As the political center of the empire, Jinling City, which is also not weak in economic and cultural strength, is naturally more prosperous day by day. The scale of Dongcheng District is growing day by day, and the population is increasing day by day.

The entire Jinling City, including the old city and Dongcheng and the newly developed city nearby, has a permanent population of more than 300,000. This population figure does not include the population figures of the suburbs and other areas of Chengtian Mansion, but only refers to the urban area. population.

With a large population and active economy, this also makes Jinling City appear unprecedentedly prosperous!

However, when people started to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, the atmosphere of the imperial study in the courtyard of the palace was more serious!

In the conference room in the imperial study, the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, sat on the dragon chair at the top, as he always did in meetings, while the civil and military officials were seated on the super-large rectangular table below.

The total number of civil and military officials with a total of more than 30 people did not seem crowded when sitting at this rectangular table.

At this time, the courtiers at the bottom were arguing loudly about the northern policy, but the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan did not seem to be listening to the debates of the courtiers. , cast his eyes on the large glass floor-to-ceiling windows.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sun outside sprinkled on the thin curtains, making the reflected sunlight less than dazzling, and making this huge conference room extremely bright.

The glass windows are made of super large pieces of glass, which are spliced ​​together to form a huge glass curtain wall. Through the light gauze curtains, you can see the branches outside shaking gently with the autumn wind.

Autumn is here, time to fight!

Since the decision to implement the Hetao strategy in March, Li Xuan has already made up his mind that he must fight a battle this autumn. Even if the Tartars cannot be completely eliminated, they must be severely damaged and their arrogance must be combated.

As for taking the opportunity to retake the Hetao, to be honest, this is not Li Xuan's main purpose.

Because the Hetao area is relatively special, the south of this place is a desert, which also makes the Hetao area and the Central Plains area have obvious geographical obstacles. Even if the Central Plains Dynasty seized the Hetao area, in fact, the Hetao area will become a fast enclave. , it is difficult to defend, and it is also more difficult to attack north.

Of course, it was difficult to capture the Hetao, and it is even more difficult to hold the Hetao now!

Li Xuan's purpose is not to say how much lost territory needs to be recovered now, but to hit the Tatars!

But it is clear that so far, whether it is the military or the ministers on the cabinet side, they are more interested in recovering the Hetao, and have not deeply understood what he said in the meeting in March, 'destroy the Tatar The arrogance of the Tar's is the true meaning of the phrase.

The main point is to hit the Tatars hard, and the recovery of the Hetao is only incidental.

It's just that Li Xuan also understands the thoughts of these courtiers. It's too tempting for them to recover the Hetao. Whether it's the military generals or the civil servants in the cabinet, all of them are sharpening their fists. Waiting for the recovery of the Hetao and then the name will go down in history.

Li Xuan didn't care about them, anyway, there was no conflict between recovering the Hetao and attacking the Tatars.

Because the Hetao area is now an important control area of ​​the Tatars, this area is currently in the hands of an important tribe of the Tatars, that is, the Ordos Department, and this tribe is one of the 30,000 households of the Mongolian right wing and is located in the Alta Khan. under control.

The 30,000 households on the right wing of Mongolia, including the Ordos Department, the Tumut Department, and the Yongxiebu Department, are basically controlled by the Alta Khan, and it is by virtue of the 30,000 households on the right wing that the Alta Khan can It was quite arrogant to be able to fight in the south and the north, and annexed many other small and medium-sized tribes, fighting Chahar in the east, and Owara in the west!

Before the Tang Dynasty, Alta Khan was a confidant of the Ming Dynasty, and now, he is also a confidant of the Tang Empire!

Entering the Hetao is not only to capture the grazing area of ​​the Ordos Department, but more importantly, to severely damage this one of the 30,000 households on the right wing, an important part of the Altan Khan.

Therefore, the goals of recovering the Hetao and severely injuring the Tatars are similar, but Li Xuan still hopes that the military can pay more attention to annihilating the enemy's living forces, rather than worrying about the gains and losses of one city and one place.

Li Xuan looked out the window and pondered, and the courtiers had long been accustomed to Li Xuan's absent-mindedness.

Over the years, Li Xuan's state at the royal meeting was almost the same. He rarely spoke, and basically listened to the courtiers arguing. Of course, everyone knew that Li Xuan, the Holy Son of Heaven, was not dumb. What he said, the Holy Son of Heaven was listening.

Otherwise, everyone doesn't have to bother to argue. Although this kind of debate is a dispute between the courtiers, in fact, the courtiers explain their views to the emperor Li Xuan, and strive for the emperor to agree with their views. .

Today's meeting is still discussing the issue of the North, not only limited to the Hetao, but the entire North!

The Army has already elaborated on the problems in various parts of the north from a military point of view, and focused on the necessity of launching a military strike on the Hetao area as soon as possible.

However, the cabinet believes that the empire is not yet ready, and many preparations such as supplies are still in progress, hoping that the military can delay the action.

In addition, the cabinet also hopes that the military can ensure the safety of the Hetao area after the war, because they already plan to immigrate to the Hetao area on a large scale immediately after the military captures the Hetao area to completely control the area.

In this regard, the military said that it would be very difficult. To control the area militarily, the military can do it in the early stage, but they can only ensure the safety of the main fortress and the surrounding area. However, in the vast other Hetao areas, ordinary The safety of the migrants cannot be guaranteed, because once the Yellow River freezes in winter, the Tatars will be able to come and loot every three days.

The fortress was certainly unbreakable by the Tatars, but looting elsewhere was no problem.

Therefore, large-scale immigration is carried out in the early stage, and the military cannot provide absolute security.

When the army and the cabinet were arguing over various issues, the admirals on the side seemed to have nothing to do with them, and they didn't say a few words from beginning to end.

Because the war in the north has nothing to do with their navy, at most it is to let the Yellow River Fleet provide some support, but this is a trivial matter, and the navy does not even need to mobilize for this purpose.

Besides, they were actually a little unhappy in their hearts. The fact that they went north means that the army has received a large amount of military spending, and even the navy has to make concessions for this. Originally, they planned to start construction of two battleships this year. Said, let the navy suspend this project, free up the money, let the army as military expenses.

This caused the navy to be furious, thinking that the army was deceiving people too much. The 5 million taels of temporary military spending set at the beginning of the year, the navy only took a mere 200,000 taels of silver in a symbolic way, and the rest was all given to the brain. The army and the navy were very dissatisfied at that time, but this was a decision made by the Son of Heaven himself. Naturally, it was impossible for them to question the Son of Heaven. In the end, they threw their grievances on the army.

As a result, the army was still not satisfied. It turned out to be a letter to the Son of Heaven saying that the navy is strong~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and there is no war. It is a waste of military expenses to build a large number of battleships during this period. Come out and buy guns and shells for the army.

As soon as they heard this, the navy all jumped out: your army is too much, and the 4.8 million taels of the five hundred taels of silver temporary war expenses are not enough, and you even hit the original idea of ​​​​the navy In terms of military spending, this is really unbearable.

You must know that the navy is also under great pressure on military expenditure. The navy not only has to maintain a huge army, but also maintain a marine corps with a size of more than 10,000 people. In addition, there are many naval bases that need to be maintained. To conduct patrols and escorts, everything here requires a lot of military expenditure.

In order to successfully build two new battleships, the navy has been calling on the entire army to cut down on food and clothing since last year, and even the senior generals took the lead in donating part of their salaries, which solved the cost of shipbuilding, but now the army is fluttering about a word, just How can it be so easy to take the remaining shipbuilding funds saved by the navy, which makes the navy very angry!

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