They don't have to study military science to become soldiers. They can study liberal arts or science. Even if they can't become high-ranking officials or scientists in the future, they can always be ordinary technicians or researchers.
Anyway, Li Xuan was only concerned about military issues, to avoid creating tens of thousands of mid- to high-level officers from young military camps in the future. This would be a monster to the existing military system of the Tang Dynasty and should not appear.
And as long as this is solved, the follow-up will not be a big problem.
The Royal Youth Military Academy will not only recruit graduates from the young military camp, but will also recruit other outstanding students in the future.
However, in order to avoid the creation of several academy factions in the future, Li Xuan also plans to merge with the Martial Arts Academy and the Royal Youth Military Academy in a few years. For an empire, it is enough to have a military academy that trains junior officers. There is no need to have higher education.
If there are too many, teacher funding will be dispersed. When the army needs to be expanded and more grassroots military personnel are needed, it is enough to directly expand the enrollment scale. It is not necessarily necessary to build multiple military academies.
After Li Xuan's reforms, the future military camp will actually become a pure genius school, and these talented students will serve as the follow-up echelon of the Royal Institute of Technology.
After all, the teaching level of primary schools and middle schools in various parts of the Tang Dynasty is really very poor, and it is far behind Li Xuan's requirements.
Comparing the reformed Young Military Camp with existing primary and secondary schools, the difference is generally the difference between general education and elite education.
As for the reform of the young military camps, it is not a matter of a day or two. Li Xuan has made the decision, but it is estimated that it will take more than a year to make adjustments. After the reform, the recruitment of young military camps in each province will probably be a matter of next spring.
After finishing his work at the Young Military Camp, Li Xuan once again paid attention to the Liaodong War. It was already March, and according to the plan of the Privy Council, the spring campaign had already begun.
However, the distance is too far, and Li Xuan doesn't know how the fighting in Liaodong is going for a while. But from last winter to now, the military has been preparing for several months. If nothing unexpected happens, this
The summer Liaodong war has almost come to an end.
There is no way. Now that the Tang Dynasty has pacified the southwest, and the northwest and north are generally stable, they can devote their main energy to the battlefield in Liaodong. Under such circumstances, it is really not easy to defeat the battle!
If the battle is really going to be lost, something must have gone wrong, and it is a big problem. Master Li Xuan will have to reorganize the military.
And things were exactly as Li Xuan expected. In the face of absolute strength, Liaodong's pseudo-King Minghui couldn't make any trouble at all.
In April, he finally received a battle report from Liaodong. The battle report said that the Liaodong temporary brigade had entered the Liaohetao area, completely cutting off the Ming army in the surrounding areas of Liaohetao, and then annihilated the 50,000 troops in the Ningyuan area.
The Dominion Army was completely surrounded.
Half a month later, Li Xuan once again received a report that the Sixth Army launched a general attack on the Ming army in the Ningyuan area. Through large-scale artillery bombardment, it suppressed the Ming army with absolute firepower superiority, and then launched a final general attack to conquer Ningyuan in one fell swoop.
, the 50,000 Ming army was completely defeated, more than half were killed or wounded, and the rest were taken as prisoners.
After this battle, it can basically be declared that the victory of Liaodong has been determined. Although there will be battles in the follow-up, they are all over.
Therefore, Li Xuan also formally issued a decree to establish Liaodong Province, and appointed governors, chief envoys and other officials at all levels. At the same time, he gave an order to the Immigration and Reclamation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Cabinet, asking them to quickly and in large numbers send immigrants to the Liaodong region.
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This was not only used to develop Liaodong, but also to completely occupy Liaodong and use the huge population advantage to establish Datang's rule in this area.
Liaodong was considered stable, but when Li Xuan heard that the pseudo-King Minghui led the remaining troops to flee into Goryeo, he knew that the war in the north was not over yet, at least until Goryeo was captured.
To this end, he once again held a strategic meeting in front of the imperial court and called over the army and navy generals. Li Xuan did not say much at the meeting, but only announced his decision to many generals: occupy Goryeo and let Goryeo
The peninsula, a territory that has been a part of China since ancient times, returned to the embrace of China and became a province under the rule of the Tang Dynasty!
Li Xuan's decision relieved many generals who were still worried that after the Liaodong campaign, the army would have nothing to do and wanted to move to Nanshan.
As long as the war continues, they don't have to worry about being laid off and can continue to make contributions. In comparison, the reduction in military expenditures is nothing.
Therefore, even if there is not a dime of temporary military expenditure for attacking the Korean Peninsula, the top generals of the army and navy still like it very much.
War, for these generals, is the best reward and the most practical reassurance. As long as there is war, they don't have to worry about being laid off and losing their jobs, or worrying that the rabbit will die and the dog will be cooked, and the bird will be wiped out and the bow hidden!
Lieutenant General Lei Wan even said on the spot that due to financial difficulties, the army would overcome the military expenses required to attack the Koryo Peninsula on its own without requiring additional financial support.
The Army's military expenditure of two thousand a year is actually quite tight to begin with, but in order to fight the war, the military expenditure should be reduced. The Army will work hard to overcome it.
In order to squeeze out military expenditures, the Army has even begun to lower the salary of the officer class, and various combat subsidies have also been reduced. All units that are not engaged in war, regardless of whether they are reserve divisions or main units, have set off
The vast settlements.
In addition, the army also began to suppress bandits on a large scale!
In the beginning, this kind of bandit suppression was just a political mission, but now, it has become an independent behavior to subsidize military expenditures. Why, because there are spoils for fighting bandits.
By knocking down a bandit's lair, if you're lucky, you may even gain thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver as loot.
So there is no need to say anything, the army itself is very good at suppressing bandits!
And this also directly maintains local security and allows people's livelihood to develop more rapidly. When people's livelihood is developed well, more fiscal revenue will lead to more military spending.
Li Xuan privately told several military bosses that next year, the military expenditure ratio will be about 30%. With a fiscal revenue of 80 million silver, the military expenditure will be 24 million.
But if the fiscal revenue is 100 million taels, then the military expenditure is 30 million!
Therefore, even if it is to increase military spending next year, the military will take the initiative to suppress bandits, promote the development of people's livelihood, and open up more trade routes, so as to increase fiscal revenue and military spending.
Against this background, the military is working very hard to suppress bandits. It is especially stationed in Huguang, southwestern provinces, and northwest areas where there are many bandits, refugees and other illegal armed forces. The military is also suppressing bandits one by one.
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Almost all the reserve divisions have been dispatched, and even the main force will be involved.
One is time. Many bandit gangs in the land of China feel as desolate as the cold winter in spring and summer!
In the country, the army mainly launched anti-bandit operations, while in coastal and overseas areas, the navy was not to be outdone, and they launched military operations against piracy.
The primary target is one of the areas where piracy has been most rampant in the past two years: the western coast of Fuso.