Sometimes Li Xuan doesn't even know that over the years, he has spared no effort to strike a balance and deliberately created many conflicts between the army and the navy. As a result, the conflicts between the army and the navy are even greater than the conflicts between the military and the cabinet.
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The benefits of this situation to Li Xuan are very obvious. He hardly has to worry about the army and navy joining forces to cause trouble, especially any rebellion.
The Army wants to rebel, but the Navy doesn't agree!
The navy wants to rebel, but the army doesn't agree!
Well, there is also a Guards. Regardless of whether the Army or the Navy rebels, the Guards will not agree. At the same time, if the Guards want to rebel, neither the Navy nor the Army will agree.
What is involved here is a fundamental struggle for interests among the military, and there is not much room for relaxation. This kind of struggle for interests is something that the top military leaders cannot stay away from, and cannot even rely on their own power to fight against it.
Even the top generals of the army and navy like Hao Bainian, Lei Wan, and Bao Yifen were unable to escape from it.
Even they know in their hearts that the struggle between the army and navy will cause internal friction, but they will still do it, because if they don't, a large number of subordinate generals below them will be dissatisfied with them.
It is impossible for a big boss who cannot bring benefits to the military to secure his position as a big boss in the military.
Therefore, even a general like Hao Bainian, who killed everyone in foreign campaigns, could not avoid being involved in the conflict of interests between the army and navy after returning to Jinling City. No matter whether he wanted to or not, he had to do so.
There is only one person who can ease the conflict between the army and the navy!
That’s Li Xuan!
But would Li Xuan do this?
It’s impossible to know everything with your toes!
The conflict between the army and the navy was something he deliberately started, and it took years of accumulation to create the situation in front of him. He would not take the initiative to destroy it.
The army and the navy, and even within the army and the navy, all need a balance, a balance that only he can break, but that others can never break.
In this way, he can sit back and relax without worrying about a mutiny one day.
However, although this kind of thing is of great benefit to Li Xuan's power, Li Xuan also feels a little headache when the army and navy generals quarrel about this in every army and navy imperial meeting.
It was noisy every time, and after too many times, he felt a little bored.
Sometimes, he also thought about simply letting the army and navy ease the conflict, but this thought often passed by in a flash. He was not stupid. If he did this, he, the emperor, would be the unlucky one.
Li Xuan deliberately caused discord between the army and navy. Although this was just his inner thought, there is no shortage of people who are good at guessing people's hearts these days!
How could the top brass of the army and navy not know that this is the way of balance for the Holy Emperor?
But so what? Is it possible that they can do the opposite?
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If you don’t want to die, don’t think that you are the only smart person in this world.
In fact, everyone is not stupid, but everyone knows it, but everyone is pretending to be stupid.
Because since they knew that this was His Majesty's deliberate action, all they could do was obey His Majesty's wishes. If His Majesty wanted the Army and Navy to be at odds, then they would not be at peace.
If you want the Army and Navy to get married, you have to ask the Holy Emperor first if he agrees!
Against this background, the conflict between the Army and the Navy is also closely related to the deliberate promotion of the top brass of the Army and Navy!
Working together from top to bottom, this created a situation where the army and navy in the empire were at odds with each other!
Things were better in the past few years, but after the Battle of the Koryo Peninsula, the army and navy basically completely parted ways.
Last year, the Army sent troops to Ryukyu Prefecture for a rotation. This was originally just a normal rotation. According to past rules, the Navy needed to provide transport ships and escort warships. However, the Navy used the excuse that there were not enough transport ships, so it was stunned that this time
The rotation transportation operation was delayed for three full months!
This greatly stimulated the army!
Now the army has come up with the idea of organizing a large-scale maritime transport fleet under the Privy Council Logistics Department. Unfortunately, this kind of thing violates the interests of the navy.
In the early years of Liaodong and during the Korean Peninsula Campaign, with the intervention of Li Xuan, the army and navy had reached an agreement of mutual understanding, that is, both parties jointly established a maritime transportation committee to jointly be responsible for large-scale maritime transportation operations. But now the army
I want to jump out and do it myself, how could the Navy agree?
You must know that the navy is the professional one on the sea. The Maritime Transport Committee is said to be jointly managed by the army and the navy, but in fact it is still dominated by the navy, because large-scale maritime transportation requires the navy to be involved in maritime escort.
, the Maritime Transport Commission only managed a large number of civilian ships drafted during the war.
In the end, it was under Li Xuan's suppression that the Army gave up the idea of building a large-scale transport fleet alone, but became more and more determined to build a maritime transport division.
Previously, the Army had only one maritime transport division. After being stimulated by this incident, the Army gritted its teeth and squeezed out part of its already tight military expenditures to purchase armed merchant ships in preparation for creating an Army Second Marine Transport Division.
Unfortunately, it only takes a few months for the Army to expand an infantry division as long as the funds are in place. However, it also takes a few months to build a fleet, even just a fleet of armed transport ships.
Then a year or two, or an additional three or four years is also normal.
However, after the Ryukyu rotation incident, the Army also increased the use of the Army's 1st Marine Transport Division, so that this maritime transport division runs on various transportation and supply routes all year round. In order to be stationed in Ryukyu Prefecture, Lu
Transport supplies to army units in Song Mansion, Daemuan Island, Qiongzhou Island, Koryo Peninsula and other areas.
As for the navy, the army will not ask for support from the navy again in peacetime unless it is absolutely necessary.
The conflict between the Army and the Navy has reached this level. Now that the Army has said that it will attack Malacca via Annam, the Navy generals can tell at a glance what the Army people are thinking.
It’s all an excuse to attack Malacca!
The people in the army must have wanted to take this opportunity to adjust the empire's southward strategy, turning the previous conquest of the Southeast Asian islands into the conquest of the Southeast Asian peninsula.
Although there is only one word difference here, the difference is huge!
Not to mention the impact of such a change on the empire, but for the navy, it is unacceptable.
Because to capture the islands and to capture the peninsula, the former is dominated by the navy, and the latter is dominated by the army!
When the leader changes, it will be directly reflected in the distribution of military spending in the coming year!