Valley Emperor

Regarding the accusations of the army, the navy also has different opinions.

Admiral Bao Yifen, the former head of the Navy's military command and the duty minister of the imperial study, who has retired from active duty, criticized the army in public: "This army is a group of uncles, and they are still uncles who only take money and do nothing. , with so much military spending every year, except for the occasional fight against a few humble barbarian tribes, I haven't seen them do anything!"

In the eyes of the Navy, the Tatars, the Chahar Department, the Duoyan Sanwei and other enemies instantly turned into so-called inconspicuous barbarians, which made the army generals angry enough.

Let's not talk about the others, but the Tartars, you dare to say that he is just a humble barbarian tribe?

Please, that is a powerful enemy with at least a dozen or two hundred thousand cavalry troops!

Based on these 100,000-200,000 cavalry troops, looking at the entire East Asia region, apart from the Datang Army who can beat them down and finally retreat westward, who else can do it? Can your navy do it?

But in a blink of an eye, the general of the navy said that if the Tartars had just set out to sea, these hundreds of thousands of cavalry were nothing, and a salvo of our warships would be enough to hit them.

The point is, will the Tatars go to the coast or even go to sea to fight with the Tang Navy?

Won't!

The conflict between the Datang Army and the Datang Navy has a long history. Every year, there are countless scolding battles, and there are many quarrels with Li Xuan. ' slogan, turning a blind eye to the various conflicts and contradictions between the Army and the Navy.

The Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, had this attitude, and the other courtiers in the court were naturally more accustomed to the quarrel between the army and the navy.

After all, everyone is a smart person, and why the Son of Heaven turned a blind eye to the quarrel between the army and the navy can be guessed at a certain amount.

In addition to balancing and preventing the confluence of the army and navy, there is basically no second possibility.

When they guessed the thoughts of the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan, many ministers also knew what to do, and even many people were guessing that the army and the navy are arguing so fiercely every year, I am afraid it is still the army and the army. The tacit understanding of the Navy.

Without the acquiescence and permission of the high-level generals on both sides, how could the quarrel be so fierce.

I am afraid that the two army and navy generals who openly engage in scolding are still friends in private.

Li Xuan also knows about this, but he still doesn't care, he doesn't care what people think in their hearts, and he doesn't care if others see his thoughts, but he just wants to balance, even if it's just a balance on the surface.

Although it seems that the upper management of the army and the navy seem to have a tacit understanding, the two sides have been in public conflict for a long time, and even when their own unique cultural heritage has been formed, it is estimated that it is unlikely that they can still join forces.

At the end of the 21st year of Xuanping, when a new round of budget is about to be launched, the army and the navy continue to quarrel, but no one has noticed that in this year's budget allocation, the amount of royal funds has greatly increased !

Royal family funds, which are the funds the royal family obtains from the treasury every year, and then go directly to the inner treasury. The expenses that the royal family spends every year are all paid from the inner treasury, not from the treasury.

As for the expenses the royal family spends every year, that's a lot. The pure living expenses of the royal family are not that much.

The annual expenses of the royal family are mostly the administrative expenses of the royal establishment and the military expenses of the Guards.

For example, the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institute of Technology, the Royal Youth Military Academy, the Survey and Statistics Division of the Hanlin Academy, and the Royal Assets Division of the Hanlin Academy. Although these institutions have different names and prefixes, they have one thing in common, that is, they all belong to In a typical royal internal institution, although the officials serving in it are also of high rank, they are self-contained.

To a certain extent, the personnel of these royal institutions are more appropriately called royal employees.

Specifically, Han Tong and the Guards are the ones who spend the most money. Other institutions either don't spend much money, or they have their own income and don't need much financial support.

For example, the Royal Assets Section, this institution itself is very expensive, but it spends all the profits turned over by major royal companies, because in a certain nature, the Royal Assets Section is more like the group headquarters of many royal companies.

But a spy agency with a large number of personnel like Hantong spends more money every year!

Besides, it's the Guards!

So far, the Guards has three infantry divisions, one cavalry division, one artillery brigade, and one fleet.

Among them, the infantry, cavalry and artillery are all fully loaded troops, and the Guards fleet is also a fleet with battleships and frigates.

All the Guards, including combat troops and civilian officers, all add up to a total of 80,000 troops.

It is quite expensive to raise these 80,000 people.

Due to the continuous expansion of the Guards, the scale of the Han Dynasty is also getting bigger and bigger, and the royal family expenses are also getting bigger and bigger every year. This year, when the army and the navy are competing for the budget, the Guards are already not. Silently snatched his own cake, at least 20% more than in previous years.

As soon as the news came out, it aroused Qi Qi's alertness in the army and navy, because their intuition told them that the Guards were about to start trouble.

They didn't guess wrong, the Guards were indeed going to make trouble, or Li Xuan planned to let the Guards make trouble.

The Guards have always been fully staffed, and their equipment is also given priority to equipping the most advanced weapons. Today, the various marine weapons in the Guards are the most advanced. Even battleships, basically seven or eight main battleships. The steam engines have also been retrofitted.

Most of this extra military expenditure is naturally used to expand the army, while the remaining part is used as the cost of exercise training.

The Guards submitted a predetermined plan, preparing to dispatch a part of the troops to conduct long-distance maneuvering exercises after the New Year, and the long-distance maneuvers will be coordinated through trains and steam ships.

And the destination of the exercise is Henan, Hubei, Hebei and Guangdong. At the same time, there will be a landing exercise at Dayuanfu on the way.

The expansion of the army is easy to understand. The expansion of the Guards has always closely followed the army. Basically, when the army expands, the guards will follow the expansion. Therefore, over the years, the scale of the army has become larger and larger, but the guards are also It gradually expanded from 30,000 to 80,000.

But for large-scale exercises, many of them just don't understand.

This kind of large-scale exercise cannot be done for no reason, even to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, because the cost is too great.

On the army side, if you want to hold an exercise with tens of thousands of people now, you have to plan carefully. Many times the army generals are more inclined to use warfare as a substitute for training!

What kind of exercise, what kind of training, it is more simple and straightforward to pull directly to the northwest or northeast to fight with the local barbarians!

Over the years, the Army has engaged in training with warfare, and has implemented a rotation system for the troops. Basically, the 20 main infantry divisions have taken turns on the battlefield, and their performances have been good and bad, but the Army is generally satisfied.

In fact, only the Guards have always dispatched troops to fight abroad.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Guards, the Guards have always had a tradition of deploying some troops to fight on the front lines. In previous years, they even dispatched a temporary brigade in the northeast and northwest at the same time, with more than one Fifty thousand were fighting outside.

The number of the first temporary brigade of the Guards has been hanging for many years in the northwest side, and even the brigade has been established for many years, that is, the Guards troops inside will not be fixed, basically every one year. Rotation will take place!

Therefore, if there are no special needs, the Guards do not need to engage in large-scale exercises, waste of money!

However, these are only the thoughts of the army and navy generals, not Li Xuan's thoughts!

The positioning of the Guards is never to fight on the battlefield, but to guard against internal enemies, or more accurately guard against the army or navy, or a sudden uprising one day or the like.

No way, who made Li Xuan more pessimistic and more afraid of death.

Therefore, when the scale of the Guards was relatively small, Li Xuan concentrated the Guards in Jinling City, but now, with the expansion of the empire's control, the army's strength continued to increase, although the strength of the Guards continued to increase. , The current force has reached more than 80,000 people, but it is still insufficient.

In this way, it is also time to expand a part of the army, and then send a part of the guards to the field to garrison~www.wuxiaspot.com~ On the one hand, it is to reduce the defense pressure of the army, and on the other hand, it is also to use the guards to control the most important ones. The strategic areas: Kaifeng, the hinterland of the Central Plains, Tianjin, the site of the four battles in the north, Wuchang, the gateway to Huguang in the southwest, and Guangzhou, an important town in the south.

Li Xuan all hoped to garrison a certain number of guards in the above-mentioned places to suppress the unstable local forces.

Therefore, Li Xuan is preparing to expand the Guards, but before expanding the army, he wants to make the Guards familiar with the long-distance combat capability and the ability to fight alone.

This is also the fundamental reason why Li Xuan engaged in this large-scale maneuver exercise.

Because in Li Xuan's vision, the Guards in the future will mainly be stationed in strategic towns, and when they encounter civil strife, they will often need to face the rebels with stronger troops. In order to make up for the lack of troops, Rapid long-range mobility is very important, and the ability to fight alone is also very important.

The purpose of this exercise is to let the Guards master this kind of ability, at least to be familiar with one or two. If this kind of thing happens in the future, it will not even have no experience at all.