Valley Emperor

The puzzled Qin Zhifu even thought, is it because he is really lucky, or is he really a brilliant and peerless general, he doesn't know yet, but the sage of the ancients knows it and entrusts him with an important responsibility?

Qin Zhifu naturally didn't know that Li Xuan had his reasons for doing this, and this reason was definitely not because of Qin Zhifu's ability, but because of the need for political propaganda.

Since he, Li Xuan, has passed the Datang Chaobao, he has already promoted Qin Zhifu high, and he has also shaped Qin Zhifu into a fighter who abandoned the Ming Dynasty and turned to the Tang Dynasty and turned against the Ming Dynasty, so he must keep up with other aspects.

Military rank and title are required, but the actual position should not be a virtual position. After all, this is for people to see, especially for the generals of the Ming army. Naturally, they should see Qin Zhifu after he surrendered anyway. What a good life, so that they will also surrender. Now Li Xuan really hopes to have a few more generals of the Ming army, guerrilla generals and the like to lead the army to surrender.

Therefore, Qin Zhifu's position cannot be empty or too low. After all, no one is stupid. In the Tang Dynasty, what positions are real positions and what positions are empty positions, the Ming army probably knows a little bit.

But then again, it is impossible for Li Xuan to really arrange a high-level position for Qin Zhifu. In that case, a large number of military officers have worked hard to get their qualifications, and the officers who have accumulated military exploits will be chilled.

So in the end, after thinking about it, Li Xuan arranged for Qin Zhifu to be the deputy commander of the 7th Infantry Division.

The key here is not the deputy division commander, but the 7th Infantry Division.

Why, because the Seventh Infantry Division has not yet been established, and is preparing to be formed.

Moreover, Li Xuan actually did not plan to serve Qin Zhifu as the deputy commander of the 7th Infantry Division for a long time. He was the deputy commander of the 7th Infantry Division in the past few months, but after a few months, Li Xuan will put him It was selected, because the impact of this incident would fade away by then, and there would be no need to publicize Qin Zhifu with great fanfare. At that time, you can find any idle job to arrange Qin Zhifu.

Speaking of the 7th Infantry Division, it is naturally the most important part of the Army's expansion plan in the four years of Xuanping, because in this expansion, the Army will expand one main infantry division and two mixed regiments. A new supplementary brigade will be formed.

This time, the expansion of the army is similar to that of the past. A part of the troops will be selected from the main force to serve as the core, and then recruits will be replenished.

In other words, it is to split the existing main force, and then supplement each other to expand it into a new full-scale force.

The 7th Infantry Division is expected to draw certain troops from the 5th Infantry Division, the 4th Mixed Regiment, and the Fifth Mixed Regiment to form an army in Jiangxi.

The newly formed ninth mixed regiment will be formed from the first mixed regiment, the second mixed regiment, and several fortress garrison regiments. The ninth mixed regiment will form an army in eastern Guangdong, and the tenth mixed regiment will be Troops will be drawn from the divisions of the First Army stationed in Huguang to form an army in Changsha, Hunan.

Hunan, this is also a ranking that has only recently appeared. A few days ago, Li Xuan felt that the jurisdiction of Huguang was too large, so he ordered Huguang to be divided into two, and most of the area south of the Yangtze River was divided into Hunan, and the north of the Yangtze River. However, including Wuchang, it is divided into Hubei.

The original governor of Huguang was changed to the governor of Hunan. At the same time, a new governor of Hubei was established. Although most areas in Huguang are still under the Ming Dynasty, there is only one Wuchang Prefecture in Hubei under the control of the Tang Dynasty, but it does not prevent it. The Tang Dynasty set up a governor of Hubei.

There are more and more areas under the control of the Tang Dynasty, and local officials at the level of governors have been successively set up, including the governors of Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, and Yunnan.

In addition, the Guangzhou Trade Zone and the Lianzhou Trade Zone, because of their particularity, have jurisdiction directly under the cabinet, not local governors.

At the same time, the Datang Dynasty also divided some prefectures within its jurisdiction. For example, several prefectures in Guangdong are relatively large, so they have been subdivided. For example, a certain number of prefectures in Guangzhou and Huizhou are demarcated The new Dongguan Prefecture was established, Zhaoqing Prefecture was divided into two, and the southern coastal area was established as Yangjiang Prefecture.

This is because of the backwardness of communication and transportation. If the prefecture-level jurisdiction is too large, it is difficult for the prefect to effectively administer the remote states and counties within its jurisdiction. Since it cannot be controlled, it is simply divided directly.

Such measures have also increased the number of prefectures, prefectures, and counties under Datang's rule. Of course, the increase is not much, because many counties are directly upgraded to prefectures, and prefectures are upgraded to prefectures. .

The adjustment of the jurisdiction may have a greater impact on ordinary people, but for the entire Tang Dynasty, this is just an inconspicuous trifle among its many reforms.

What really attracted the attention of Li Xuan and even many important officials was the expansion of the military, because it was related to the subsequent war between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and the victory or defeat of the war was really related to the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, many cabinet officials clearly knew that continuing to expand the military would seriously squeeze their funds, but all of them agreed.

Because they all know that the army is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the basis for whether they can continue to enjoy glory and wealth in the future.

However, in this way, their hardships have to continue, even if the tax department has a very optimistic estimate, Xuanping's tax in the second half of the four year is expected to be greatly increased, and the two provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi will be greatly improved. After a large agricultural province with a large population, the financial situation will be greatly improved, and the four-year budget revenue of Xuanping will likely be increased to 15 million taels.

But even so, it is far from enough for the cost of the Tang Dynasty!

Because of the expansion of the army and the building of ships, the size of the army of the Tang Dynasty continued to expand. Just this year's military budget for the army, navy and guards combined is already more than 15 million taels of silver!

However, to maintain the operation of a regime, in addition to the army, there are also huge government agencies. Where do the funds for these agencies come from, it is naturally impossible to temporarily increase taxes or anything.

There are several main sources, such as the income from home raiding. Every time a place is captured, the home will be raided. The floating wealth obtained from this aspect is not a small number. Although it is a one-time income, it has also greatly eased the financial pressure, especially this year. He successively took over the northern regions of Jiangxi and Hunan, and copied several Ming Dynasty vassal palaces in succession, and gained a lot.

On the other hand, there are other incomes besides taxes, such as the Mint under the Ministry of Taxation, whose profits are not low. Profits are in the millions a year.

Then there is the Datang Salt Industry Company. The salt tax paid by it is included in the tax, but the Salt Industry Company itself still has a lot of profits, and these profits will also be turned over to the state treasury.

In addition, the major factories under the Ministry of Industry, although most of them are arsenals, some of them are for civilian use, such as several textile factories, Foshan iron training factory, etc. These factories are also profitable, and the profits are all is required to be paid.

Another source of income is all kinds of messy fines. Some of these fines are reserved for local governments, and some of them still have to be turned over to the state treasury.

Finally, a loan from Royal Bank!

The Tang Dynasty continued to make ends meet and suffered huge deficits. Not long after the Royal Bank was established, it had already started to borrow money from the Royal Bank. At present, it is only the loans owed by the central government to the Royal Bank. It is already more than three million taels, and then local governments sometimes have a hard time, and they will borrow money to live, and this aspect adds up to a huge amount of one million.

In this way, the central and local governments of the Tang Dynasty already owed the Royal Bank more than four million taels of silver.

In short, for the operation of the power of the Tang Dynasty, the regular taxes were basically spent on the army, and the operating expenses of other institutions were basically maintained by these messy methods.

But no matter how difficult it is, you have to grit your teeth and persevere!

This has defeated the pseudo-Ming Dynasty and unified China, and this hard time will come to an end, and the finances of the Tang Dynasty will be greatly improved.

If it is said that the battle is lost, there is nothing to say. Everyone fled for their lives. As for the debts owed to the Royal Bank, when the Tang Dynasty is gone, naturally no one will collect debts from the dead dynasty.

The army is expanding, and so is the navy. The battleship construction plan they proposed is one of them. In addition, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com is also continuing to expand cruisers and frigates.

The navy's expansion goals and directions are actually more clear than the army's. That is to expand the fleet of main ships to 30 ships, and various auxiliary warships, including armed merchant ships, transport ships and more than 100 ships. .

The purpose of the navy is to completely control the sea power along the coast, while reaching the mouth of the Yangtze River, and even going to Beijing and Tianjin in the north.

However, the expansion of the navy is limited by factors such as technology, funding, and the number of slipways. It can only be done slowly. However, the army's expansion plan is different.

Therefore, as soon as the plan to expand the army was approved, the 7th Infantry Division, the 9th Mixed Regiment, and the 10th Mixed Regiment immediately got on the shelf, and then entered the training and replenishment stage. After a few months of replenishment, they would be able to reach full staff, and then Possess certain combat power.

As for equipment, take your time, the army's method has always been to pull out the heads first, and then wait for the equipment while training.

However, even this has put the major arsenals under the Datang Ministry of Industry under enormous pressure!