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In addition, the Army has also developed inland warships, maritime transport divisions, etc., in order to cooperate with the Guards fleet to block the Yangtze River when the Navy rebels.

In short, the Army is doing everything possible to block the navy's wolf ambitions, and even many army generals believe that the reason why the navy has always been honest and not betrayed is because their army's defense work has been done well, and they have not given them any opportunities for the navy. This suppressed the conspiracy of those careerists in the Navy.

Unfortunately, the people in the Navy think so too!

This is why the Tang Empire has no enemies on a global scale, but why the army and navy are still obsessed with equipping more advanced equipment, especially those heavy artillery that seem to be obviously useless.

Whether it's the navy's 300mm battleships or the army's 300mm fortress guns, it's not as good as a quick-firing mortar for dealing with natives!

However, whether it is the navy or the army, they still spend huge sums of money to purchase and equip them, and all of them are deployed on the mainland.

The Army has never deployed 300mm artillery overseas, let alone 300mm fortresses and train guns. Even if it is 250mm or 200mm artillery, the Army has never deployed it overseas. , The largest caliber artillery deployed overseas is the 150mm artillery.

The same is true in the navy. The navy's battleships have always stayed at home, let alone deployed overseas. They have not even run a few times in the ocean.

Those battleships of the Navy have long been sprayed into port fleets.

Just launched last year, the latest battleship Ceylon of Datang, which was commissioned this year, was directly called the Ceylon Hotel...

This is because the Ceylon has a huge tonnage, with a standard displacement of more than 14,000 tons, and a full-load combat displacement of more than 15,000 tons. The huge tonnage not only brings huge armament, but also It also brings better accommodation and airworthiness.

Outsiders claim that the standard of living on the battleship Ceylon is the best among the many warships of the Navy, and its luxury is no less than that of a luxury hotel in the country.

At the same time, I thought that although the battleship Ceylon was already in service, it only ran a few laps in the offshore for training, at most, it was a few laps in the South China Sea. Most of the time, it actually stayed in the port of the Hong Kong Naval Base.

This is why the battleship Ceylon is called the Ceylon Hotel!

However, even if the navy's battleship policy is sprayed like this, the navy has not stopped the pace of building large-tonnage battleships.

At the same time last year, the Navy started to build a very interesting battleship, that is, the shallow water battleship!

The displacement is more than 5,000 tons, but the draft is very shallow, and the seaworthiness is not good. At the same time, it is equipped with two 300mm rear-mounted naval guns and a large number of 150mm secondary guns.

The Navy claims that the strategic purpose of this shallow-water battleship is for the frontier strategy and is used for overseas deployment to attack indigenous land targets, but in fact the Navy built such a large shallow-water battleship specifically to fight on the Yangtze River and to fight against the army’s native turtles.

The battle between the army and the navy of the Tang Empire was unimaginable to outsiders.

From competing for outstanding young officers, to competing for public opinion, the proportion of annual military expenditures, to formulating top-secret combat plans, and actually developing and equipping various weapons for this purpose.

To be more polite, if there is any accident, it is estimated that the army and navy can fight every minute.

However, this kind of mutual defense and even hostile behavior of the army and navy is what the Son of Heaven wants to see, and it can even be said that this situation is caused by Li Xuan himself spending decades to promote.

Not only the contradiction between the army and the navy was caused by Li Xuan deliberately, but also the contradiction between the cabinet and the military was deliberately caused by Li Xuan.

The separation of military and government is the most basic policy principle in the Tang Empire.

In addition to the contradiction between the army and the navy, and the separation of military and government, there are actually many places where you can see many discords within the Tang Empire.

For example, since the establishment of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Taxation have basically been rivals, and the two sides have often fought back and forth. These executives of the finance department directly bite back.

There are also censors in the Inspectorate, who are not born to deal with other civil servants, because if the censors want to be promoted and rich, they have to pull down a few other civil servants.

Now the big bosses in the Inspectorate, especially the censors of the left and right, are all ruthless men with the blood of civilians on their hands.

They are not so ruthless, why do they get up?

The contradictions within the Tang Empire are actually everywhere, and many contradictions are actually created by Li Xuan deliberately, and Li Xuan let it go no matter how bad it is.

What do the superiors fear most?

It is not that the enemy is strong, but the betrayal from within!

In order to prevent problems before they happen, then the subordinates cannot be monolithic.

Therefore, it is not scary to have a hill, but the most fearful thing is that there is no hill!

At the same time, how many mountains are there, and who is stronger or weaker, must be well controlled. This is the political balance.

The political structure of the entire Datang Empire belongs to many institutions, and it even seems a bit cumbersome. It is absolutely unreasonable for the efficiency of governance~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But this kind of political structure is what Li Xuan can do at present. The most balanced structure would not allow a certain subject to become bigger, thus threatening the imperial power.

This is the result of Li Xuan's 40 years of hard work. It cannot be built overnight, nor can it be broken by a certain courtier.

It's not that easy because it's a chain link.

Whoever dares to break it, without Li Xuan's action, the other courtiers will have to trample him to death first.

For example, Yushi Du of the Inspectorate wants to control the power and make cronies in the imperial study. Is this possible?

impossible!

A vote of officials in the cabinet was directly stabbed!

If the officials of the cabinet want to exclude people from other institutions and take charge of the imperial study alone, the military is expected to shout that Heaven will punish the thieves of the country.

Even if the cabinet and the military reached an agreement, the Imperial Academy would not be happy!

If these conflicted people can unite!

Then Han Tong will start killing people.

Balance, this has always been the political framework Li Xuan has been pursuing.

The current Datang Empire seems to be full of internal contradictions, but in fact it has formed a relatively stable structure, and no one can easily make it bigger.

And do those courtiers know about this situation?

No one is a fool. They can get into the high-level officials of the empire, regardless of whether they are civil servants or military generals, those censors or others. One is counted as one, and they are all elites.

Can't they see this situation?

See it!

But will they change?

Won't!

On the one hand, this balance also represents the interests of their courtiers.

On the other hand, all fools know that the Son of Heaven is playing with a balance. You have to jump out and break this balance. Isn’t that courting death!

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