The first thousand one hundred and ninety-five chapters destroy the arrogance of the Tatars
In the 14th year of Xuanping, in mid-August, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the entire Jinling City was filled with the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
After several years of recovery, the war wounds caused by the early unification war have now gradually recovered, and stability has returned to most areas in the country.
Especially under the empire's unified agricultural tax policy, the life of farmers can be said to be much better than that in the pre-Ming Dynasty. Coupled with the unswerving implementation of the bandit suppression policy by the Soviet Union in recent years, currently, all kinds of bandits in the entire empire
Basically, they have disappeared. Even the chieftain armed forces in the southwest region are due to the empire's firm implementation of the policy of returning natives to the countryside. Many chieftain armed forces have gradually disappeared from history.
Of course, in order to carry out rapid and peaceful reform, the empire also adopted a policy of preferential treatment for chieftains. As long as the chieftain leaders were willing to completely surrender, they would basically be granted official positions and given certain real powers. Some were relatively powerful.
Chieftains who are also more influential can even obtain titles of nobility.
With this kind of preferential treatment policy, coupled with the fact that the empire has always maintained high-pressure military deterrence, most of these chieftains chose to obey. Only a very small number of chieftains chose to resist, and then ended up with their families and families destroyed.
The agricultural economy has been restored, and industry and commerce are gradually developing, which makes the empire's domestic situation better day by day.
As the political center of the empire, with strong economic and cultural strength, Jinling City is naturally becoming more prosperous day by day. The size of Dongcheng District is getting bigger and bigger every day, and the population is increasing day by day.
The entire Jinling City, including the old city, Dongcheng District and nearby newly developed urban areas, has a permanent population of more than 300,000. This population figure does not include the population in the suburbs and other areas of Chengtian Prefecture, and only refers to the urban area.
population.
With its large population and active economy, Jinling City has experienced unprecedented prosperity!
But just when people started to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, the atmosphere in the imperial study room in the palace courtyard seemed more serious!
In the conference room of the imperial study, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan was sitting on the dragon chair at the top as usual, while the civil and military ministers were seated on the super large rectangular table below.
The total number of civil and military officials, numbering more than thirty, did not seem crowded even when sitting at this rectangular table.
At this time, the ministers below were arguing loudly with each other about the northern policy. However, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan did not seem to be listening to the debate of the ministers. Instead, he sat at the top. He did not close his eyes, but tilted his head slightly.
, and cast his gaze on the large glass floor-to-ceiling windows.
It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sun outside shone on the thin curtains, making the refracted sunlight barely dazzling and making this huge conference room extremely bright.
The glass windows are all made of super large pieces of glass, and they are spliced piece by piece to form a huge glass curtain wall. Through the light gauze curtains, you can see the branches outside swaying gently with the autumn wind.
Autumn is here, it’s time for war!
Ever since he decided to carry out the Hetao strategy in March, Li Xuan had already made up his mind that he must fight a battle this autumn. Even if he could not completely eliminate the Tatars, he must still severely damage them and combat their arrogance.
As for taking the opportunity to recapture the Loop, to be honest, this is not Li Xuan's main purpose.
Because the Hetao area is special, there is a desert to the south of this place, which creates an obvious geographical barrier between the Hetao area and the Central Plains area. Even if the Central Plains Dynasty captures the Hetao area, the Hetao area will actually become an enclave.
, it is difficult to defend, and it is also difficult to attack northward.
Of course, it was difficult to capture the Loop, and it is even more difficult to hold the Loop now!
Li Xuan's purpose is not to regain much lost territory now, but to inflict heavy losses on the Tatars!
But it is obvious that so far, whether it is the military or the ministers on the cabinet side, they are more interested in recovering the Hetao, and have not deeply understood what he said in the meeting in March, "Destroy the Tatars".
The true meaning of the sentence "arrogant arrogance".
The key point is to inflict heavy losses on the Tatar people, and recovering the Loop is just incidental.
However, Li Xuan also understood the thoughts of these ministers. The temptation to regain the Hetao was too great for them. Whether it was the military generals or the civil servants in the cabinet, they were all trying to do it.
Waiting to recapture the Loop and leave his name in history.
Li Xuan didn't care about them. Anyway, there was no conflict between regaining the Loop and attacking the Tatars.
Because the Hetao area is now an important area controlled by the Tatars, this area is currently in the hands of an important tribe of the Tatars, the Ordos tribe, and this tribe is one of the 30,000 households on the right wing of Mongolia, located in the Anta Khan
under the control of.
The 30,000 households on the right wing of Mongolia include the Ordos tribe, the Tumote tribe, and the Yongxiebu tribe. These three 30,000 households are basically controlled by Anda Khan, and it is precisely with the help of the 30,000 households on the right wing that Anda Khan can
To be able to conquer the north and south, annex many other small and medium-sized tribes, and attack Chahar in the east and Oara in the west, the arrogance is quite arrogant!
Before the Tang Dynasty, Anda Khan was a serious concern of the Ming Dynasty. Now, it has also become a serious concern of the Tang Empire!
The march into the Hetao was not only to seize the grazing area of the Ordos tribe, but more importantly, to severely damage one of the 30,000 households on the right wing and an important part of Anda Khan's command.
Therefore, the goals of retaking the Loop and severely injuring the Tatars are similar, but Li Xuan still hopes that the military can pay more attention to annihilating the enemy's effective forces instead of worrying about the gains and losses of one city or one place.
Li Xuan looked out the window and thought, and the courtiers had long been accustomed to Li Xuan's seemingly absent-minded state.
Over the years, Li Xuan's state in imperial meetings has been almost the same. He seldom spoke and basically listened to the arguments of the ministers. Of course, everyone also knew that the Holy Emperor Li Xuan was not mute. On the contrary, as everyone said,
What I said, the Holy Emperor was listening to.
Otherwise, there would be no need for everyone to argue so hard. Although this kind of argument is said to be an argument between ministers, it is actually the ministers explaining their views to the Holy Emperor Li Xuan and trying to get the Holy Emperor to agree with their views.
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Today's meeting is still discussing issues in the north, not just limited to the Hetao, but the entire north!
The Army has already elaborated on the problems in various parts of the north from a military perspective, and focused on the necessity of launching a military strike on the Hetao area as soon as possible.
However, the cabinet believes that the empire is not ready yet, and many preparations such as supplies are still in progress, and they hope that the military can delay action.
In addition, the cabinet also hopes that the military can ensure the security of the Loop after the war, because they have planned to immigrate to the Loop on a large scale immediately after the military seizes the Loop to completely control the area.
In this regard, the military said that it will be very difficult to control the area militarily. The military can do it in the early stage, but they can only ensure the safety of the main fortress and surrounding areas, but the vast other Hetao areas, ordinary
The safety of immigrants cannot be guaranteed, because once the Yellow River freezes in winter, Tatars can come and rob them every three days.
The fortress is definitely unbreakable by the Tatars, but it is not a problem for them to plunder other places.
Therefore, large-scale immigration was carried out in the early stages, and the military could not provide absolute security.
When the army and the cabinet were arguing over various issues, the several naval generals on the side acted as if the matter had nothing to do with them. From the beginning to the end, they did not say a few words.
Because the war in the north has nothing to do with their navy. At most, they just ask the Yellow River Fleet to provide certain support. But these are all trivial matters, and the navy does not even need to mobilize specifically for this.
Furthermore, in fact, they are still a little unhappy. Going north means that the Army will receive a large amount of military expenditures, and even the Navy will have to make concessions for this. Originally, they planned to start construction of two battleships this year, but the Army unexpectedly
He said that the Navy should suspend this project and free up the money to be used by the Army for military expenses.
This made everyone in the Navy furious, thinking that the Army was really going too far. The Navy only took a token amount of 200,000 taels of the temporary military expenditure of 5 million taels set at the beginning of the year, and gave away the rest.
The Army and Navy were very dissatisfied at that time, but this matter was the decision made by the Holy Emperor himself. Naturally, it was impossible for them to question the Holy Emperor. In the end, they took all their grievances on the Army.
As a result, the Army was still dissatisfied and actually wrote to the Holy Emperor saying that the Navy was powerful and there were no wars. Building a large number of capital ships during this period was a waste of military expenditures. It was better to free up the money for the Army to purchase guns and cannons.
Cannonballs.
Upon hearing this, everyone in the Navy jumped out: Your Army has gone too far. It was not enough to receive 4.8 million taels of the 500 taels of temporary war expenses.
In terms of military expenditure, this is really unbearable.
You must know that the pressure on the navy's military expenditures is also great. The navy not only has to maintain a huge army, but also maintains a Marine Corps with a strength of more than 10,000 people. In addition, there are many naval bases that need to be maintained.
To carry out patrols and escorts, everything here requires a lot of military expenditures.
In order to successfully build two new battleships, the Navy has been calling on the entire military to cut back on food and clothing since last year. Even senior generals took the lead in donating part of their salaries, which solved the problem of shipbuilding funds. But now the Army has just said a few words.
How can it be so easy to take away the remaining shipbuilding funds saved by the Navy? This makes the entire Navy very angry!