After being the emperor for a long time, Li Xuan often had the illusion that he was the son of destiny, and that God sent him to this broken era to save the world.
This era is so shabby, perhaps only those literati can talk about how beautiful it is, how beautiful the brothel girls are, but after coming to this era for so many years, Li Xuan can deeply feel the absolute beauty of this era.
Most ordinary people live such a miserable life.
In later generations, the middle and lower classes may think that housing prices are high and buying a Panamera is a luxury. However, even if they are in poverty, they can always eat enough. In modern society, it is still possible to starve to death.
Not easy.
But in this era, being able to eat enough is a common aspiration of the entire society, even a luxury!
The world is vast, and nothing is more important than being able to have enough to eat. However, even if it is such an important thing, in China's long thousands of years of history, in fact, most of the time, to be more precise, it was the eighth century of the twentieth century.
This was never done before the 1900s.
Why do later generations always think that Mr. Yuan was a great man and gave him countless praises from top to bottom? It is because his hybrid rice greatly solved China's food problem for thousands of years.
Such a person deserves the title of greatness!
And now, sometimes Li Xuan feels that he is walking on the path of a great man!
He came to this era and brought about changes, thus making this era become better and better!
Maybe his way of solving problems is a bit radical, but the essence will not change.
Later generations will have hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers, so Li Xuan will engage in immigration, overseas trade, and global conquest!
Due to backward technology, food production cannot be increased. What should Li Xuan do at this time to improve technology? That is a matter for the future. Now, he wants to expand his living space!
To solve the problem of food, it is actually very simple to say that we must either increase food production or have more land. The former cannot be achieved, but Li Xuan thinks that the latter can be achieved.
When China's land cannot feed its people, it should use guns and cannons to seize more land.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty official put forward such a sentence as a propaganda slogan, and even used it as the propaganda tone of the entire empire for many years.
"The land in the world is not the land of the king, and the shore of the land is not the land of the king."
This sentence is not only used to highlight the empire and the legitimacy and sanctity of Li Xuan's rule, but also serves as the theoretical basis for the expansion of the empire!
After ending the Southwest Campaign and the Liaodong Campaign, the Tang Empire quickly embarked on the road of expansion!
In the northeast, they took over the Korean Peninsula, divided the entire Korean Peninsula into four prefectures, and placed them under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Province. At the same time, they continued to advance toward the northeast, with military strikes and immigration settlement going hand in hand.
From the eighth year of Xuanping to the tenth year of Xuanping, in just two years, the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture organized hundreds of thousands of landless peasants from inland provinces to immigrate to Liaodong Province for farming and developed a large amount of land.
Overseas, the empire took overseas trade as the guide and actively carried out overseas immigration activities. Luzon has become the majority of overseas immigrants in recent years, with more than tens of thousands of people immigrating to Luzon one after another.
Because the population was gradually increasing and its importance was constantly increasing, at the beginning of the 10th year of Xuanping, the imperial cabinet meeting decided to upgrade Luzon Prefecture to Luzon Prefecture.
One south and one north, this is the main direction of the empire's immigration expansion policy in the past two years!
And as Li Xuan, who promotes all this development, sometimes he can't help but be proud!
In the thousands of years of Chinese history, I am the only one who can do this!
What does this mean? It means that as an emperor, he has done a good job and he is worthy of being the chosen one!
Of course, Li Xuan, as an insider, did not know that in fact his thoughts were no different from those of the late Emperor Lear Bi.
At that time, Lear also felt that he was the chosen one, and then he resolutely ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
But no matter what, Li Xuan followed his own ideas and pushed the Tang Empire forward step by step, pushing the ancient nation of China forward, instead of just being immersed in the glory of the past.
In the past thousands of years, China, which has dominated East Asia, is very impressive, but it is still far from truly dominating the world. Now Li Xuan wants to lead China to build a true global empire!
For example, the Tang Dynasty, which was even greater in the former Tang Dynasty, made people in later generations take a breath when mentioning his Datang Empire!
Not worship, but fear!
A great empire must make people fearful!
When there is fear, there will be respect and honor!
This is just like the empires on which the sun never sets in later generations. They all possess power that makes outsiders extremely frightened, and the most typical representative of this power is a global navy.
When Spain dominated the world, it relied on its invincible fleet!
When Britain dominated the world, it relied on its Royal Navy!
When the United States insisted on global dominance, it relied on its aircraft carrier fleet!
Each of the above-mentioned fleets is basically a global navy, able to control every sea area in the world, thus supporting its global strategy!
If the Tang Empire wanted to go global and dominate the world, it must have a global navy.
Therefore, in the past two years, the Tang Empire continued to reduce the proportion of total military expenditures, but the proportion of naval military expenditures increased year by year. This situation can be said to be extremely abnormal.
At present, the fiscal budget revenue of the Tang Empire, that is, in the ten years of Xuanping, has exceeded 90 million taels, but the total military expenditure is still maintained at around 30 million taels, accounting for 30% of the fiscal expenditure.
If this expenditure ratio were in later generations, even around the 20th century, it would be very terrifying, but for this era, it is nothing. You must know that a few years ago, the military expenditure ratio of the Tang Dynasty was
It accounts for more than 50% of the fiscal revenue. If it were a few years earlier, it would be basically 70% to 80%.
Today's ratio of 30% has been falling again and again. According to this year's trend, next year's military expenditure ratio will even drop further to about 28%.
However, the proportion of expenditures has decreased, but with the increase in fiscal revenue, total military expenditures have still increased year by year.
But this increase in military expenditures does not go to the army, but to the navy!
In the fiscal expenditure budget for the ten years of Xuanping, the total military expenditure was 30 million taels of silver. The army accounted for 80%, taking away 24 million taels of silver. This figure was even higher than that of the ninth year of Xuanping.
A little less, the army's military expenditure in the ninth year of Xuanping still amounted to 25 million taels of silver.
This year's naval military expenditures account for 20% of the total military expenditures, which is six million taels of silver. This figure has doubled from what it was in the seventh year of Xuanping's reign.
This shows how rapidly the empire has increased its investment in the navy.
As the Navy's military spending increased, they accelerated their shipbuilding efforts. In addition to implementing the fleet expansion plan implemented in the 7th year of Xuanping, they began to brew a new round of fleet expansion plan this year.
Seeing the navy's expansion one after another, the army also has some opinions, and these opinions are not small. They have come to Li Xuan many times.
In the words of the army generals, the army is suffering now!
Back then, we were beaten to death, and we managed to build such a huge foundation under the leadership of the Holy Emperor. But now, those bastards from the Navy have picked the peaches. Every year, military expenditures are so tight, and the Army has been preparing for all the plans.
Military reorganization plans are impossible to implement and can only be tinkered with in a small way.
The army received 24 million taels of silver, which seemed like a lot, but in fact it was really not enough, because the army needed to maintain a huge army!
You know, the Army not only has hundreds of thousands of field troops, but also a large number of reserve divisions. The number of reserve divisions is much greater than the number of field troops.
Since the end of the Battle of the Goryeo Peninsula, the Imperial Army has not had a large-scale war in the past two years. The Privy Council also took the opportunity to reorganize the Army's system, including the improvement of the organization, field divisions, reserve divisions and militia units.
The space system is perfect, and more importantly, a large number of grenades are equipped.
After two years of sorting and reorganization, the army currently has a total of sixteen infantry divisions. Each of these sixteen infantry divisions is the strategic strike force of the Tang Empire.
It is the core force that maintains the empire's external expansion, resists foreign enemies, suppresses civil strife, and maintains the inviolable power of the Holy Emperor!
According to the latest establishment table of the Privy Council, most of the sixteen infantry divisions have a relatively uniform organization, except for a few divisions with special arrangements, such as the Fourth Infantry Division, which is specially deployed in the southwest region.
, is the establishment of six regiments and four battalions reorganized by the Imperial Privy Council.
Six regiments means that each infantry division has three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one cavalry regiment, and one baggage regiment.
Four battalions means that in addition to the above-mentioned regiments, each infantry division also has an engineering battalion, an assault battalion, a guard battalion, and a heavy artillery battalion.
The establishment of six regiments and four battalions is also the largest reform of the field forces carried out by the Imperial Army in the past two years. The core of the reform is not actually the artillery, cavalry, and baggage troops, because these changes are not big. The biggest reform is the reform of the infantry battalions.
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In the early years, each infantry regiment of the Army had five infantry battalions, and each infantry battalion was small in size.
In actual battles, especially when all were equipped with flintlock muskets, this organization became no longer suitable, because the five-battalion regiment was organized to adapt to matchlocks and spears, and was replaced by
After installing a flintlock gun, this organization is not suitable.
This situation was exposed in the later stages of the Unification War and the Battle of the Goryeo Peninsula. However, there was no time to rectify it at that time. After the Battle of the Goryeo Peninsula, the Army organized a large number of investigations, and finally the Strategy Department under the Privy Council Operations Department
As the core, a brand new four-battalion organization was proposed to adapt to new weapons and tactics.
The establishment of each infantry battalion is also larger than that of previous infantry battalions, because the size of each infantry team has expanded from the previous hundred people to about one hundred and forty people.
Therefore, the individual combat capability of each infantry battalion is also more powerful!