Xingquan Mansion, the former prefect's yamen, is now the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xuan was staying in the front hall as before, handling almost endless government affairs.
With the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, more and more messy things happened. Even though Li Xuan had planned to build a new Hanlin Academy as his secretarial agency to help him handle more and more government affairs, but in the
Now in the early days of the expansion of this dynasty, all kinds of things are inevitable.
Of course, if Li Xuan wanted to be lazy, he could just ignore everything, but if Li Xuan really did this, the development of the Tang Dynasty would deviate from the route he had set.
There is no way, who makes his Tang Dynasty lack all kinds of talents? Looking at the many officials of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they are civil servants or military generals, to be honest, there are only a few talented people, even those with superior abilities.
No, most of them are people with mediocre abilities.
If he lets go, leaves everything to them, and lets them formulate the major policies of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan can guarantee that the Tang Dynasty will become completely different in less than a month.
If you want to create the Tang Dynasty you want, it is indispensable to personally take part in major policies.
After reviewing a report submitted by the tax department on establishing a complete tax system in Lianhe County and Bailin County, Li Xuan wrote down a few words of his own opinions, and then threw the document aside.
Then he took out another document from the desk and read it. This document was sent by the Ministry of Agriculture. It said that it was now the autumn and winter season. In order for next year's spring plowing to start smoothly, it requested the three counties of Xingquan Prefecture.
Some of the ditches are being renovated in order to have a good harvest next year.
Li Xuan looked at the detailed renovation plan again. The Ministry of Agriculture actually listed a renovation plan for eight large and small ditches, which was expected to cost four thousand taels of silver.
You need so much money to fix it!
Even though water conservancy is related to the grain harvest, and further to the national economy and people's livelihood, the most important thing of the Tang Dynasty now is to expand the army, and then send troops to expand, capture Xingquan Prefecture, adjacent to the state capital, and face the incoming Ming army. How can they have the energy and energy?
What kind of water conservancy projects should we use to build water conservancy projects?
Immediately and without hesitation, he wrote down the approval opinion: "We are short of money and food, so we will make another plan."
If it weren't for the fact that water conservancy and farming were really important to the foundation of the empire, Li Xuan wouldn't even say it would be discussed separately, but would directly refute it.
Anyway, the Tang Dynasty can no longer spare enough funds to build large-scale water conservancy facilities. The Ministry of Agriculture wants to build water conservancy facilities. Let them fiddle with it. It will be the best if they can fiddle with it. It doesn't matter if they fiddle with it or not. Anyway, it is.
Don't expect the treasury to give out a grain of grain or a tael of silver.
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty's treasury cannot make ends meet, and various expenditures for military expansion are huge. Food alone is difficult to solve.
The various strategic materials needed to build weapons and ammunition have almost exhausted the last ounce of silver from the national treasury. The Ministry of Taxation is still worried about where to squeeze out the salaries of officials and soldiers. How can there be any extra money?
What kind of construction are you going to do?
Lack of people, food, and silver are the problems that the Tang Dynasty has always faced, and will continue to be so for a long time to come. This has nothing to do with the expansion speed of the Tang Dynasty, even if the Tang Dynasty occupies several
It is unlikely that this situation will improve after 10 provinces.
Because the larger the scale, the greater the income and the greater the expenditure.
It is difficult for the Ministry of Taxation to solve the problem of food and wages, but the generals on the military side are not too worried, because just after taking Lienhe County, the generals of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were already preparing to launch the next battle.
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There are many reasons why we are so impatient to launch the next battle.
The first one is naturally to pursue the victory and take advantage of the Ming army in the nearby areas to be swept away, quickly capture other prefectures and counties at a slight cost, expand our strategic buffer zone, and prevent the Ming army from attacking Xingquan directly after the attack.
Fucheng is coming.
In addition, taking the initiative to attack can also distract the Ming army's energy and prevent them from having the opportunity to calmly gather their forces and then attack Xingquan Fucheng.
To put it simply, a group of generals such as Zeng Ziwen wanted to turn passivity into initiative, disrupt the Ming army's gathering and offensive deployment by taking the initiative, and prevent the war from burning directly in the base camp of Xingquan Mansion.
The multi-line attack method forced the Ming army to divide its troops and attack, and then eat up the main force of the Ming army step by step.
Because both Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen can already guess that if the Ming army calmly mobilizes its troops, it is very likely that an army of forty, fifty thousand or even hundreds of thousands will eventually be gathered to attack. This will put strategic pressure on
It's just too big.
Even if the new army of the Tang Dynasty had advantages in weapons and quality of soldiers, it would be difficult to defeat the Ming army's hundreds of thousands of troops through one or two strategic decisive battles.
Once encircled and blocked by the Ming army from all directions, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty would only be able to defend Xingquan Mansion, and it would be almost impossible to win the war again.
Therefore, after capturing Xingquan Fucheng, generals including Zeng Ziwen began to plan how to fight!
In addition to military strategy reasons, Li Xuan and many military generals also have another purpose in planning to fight, which is to feed war with war!
After all, Xingquan Prefecture is a bit small, with a small population and barren land. We originally thought that we could raise an army of 10,000 people from the population of over 300,000 in Xingquan Prefecture.
But the actual operation is very difficult. Let’s not talk about money and food. We can’t recruit so many soldiers alone.
In the first few days, the recruitment momentum was quite encouraging, but in the following days the number of soldiers applying every day showed a cliff-like decline.
The reason is very simple. Those who want to work hard to earn military food basically apply for the army as soon as possible. These people will apply within the first few days, and after this group of people apply, there will only be zero left.
The scattered people.
According to the Ministry of War's estimates, after taking Xingquan Fucheng, the number of troops recruited in Bailin County and Lianhe County was only 4,000 at most, which was quite different from the expected 6,000 people.
And this is to be blamed on Song Zhiwen. In order to suppress and destroy the puppet Tang rebel army, Song Zhiwen has recruited a large number of young people in Xingquan Mansion over the past year.
Song Zhiwen first recruited a large number of young men. If the new army of the Tang Dynasty came to recruit soldiers, the number would naturally become smaller.
In order to truly expand to a scale of ten thousand people, it is necessary to recruit soldiers from other state capitals.
After controlling other state capitals, you can not only obtain troops, but also taxes and even various strategic materials.
In addition, there are one-time income trophies, which can be used to support the war.
Disrupting the deployment of the Ming army and supporting war with war are the two biggest reasons why many generals of the new army of the Tang Dynasty wanted to fight out as soon as possible.
As for the expansion of territory, to be honest, this is just incidental!
In order to prepare for the next military operation, all the money and food from the Tax Department have been spent long ago. How can there be any extra money and food that can be used to build water conservancy facilities?
Didn't you see that Li Xuan's palace was only slightly repaired? The palace has no money for large-scale renovations, and it is impossible to use money to build water conservancy facilities.
After processing a large number of reports sent from various cabinet ministries on his desk, Li Xuan left his chair and walked out of the study.
As soon as he came out, a young man waiting outside the door walked up quickly. This man was a member of the Hanlin Academy in the recently restructured Hanlin Academy. His name was Huo Qishou, a very young scholar.
This person was originally the son of a landlord in Zhengtai County, to be precise, he was the son of a run-down landlord. In his early years, his family was also a big landlord, with hundreds of acres of land. However, like Li Xuan, he had a father who cheated his son.
My father is a good gambler. As he gambles, the family's fortune is getting smaller and smaller. When his father dies, he is still left with a lot of debts. As the saying goes, the debts of the father are repaid by the son. This has completely paid off the debts of the gambler father. This hundred
His acres of land were gone, his three old houses were gone, his fiancée also broke off the engagement, leaving only a little maid with him.
Fortunately, he is still a scholar. Although his talent in reading can only be regarded as average, he will probably only be able to pass the examination to be a scholar in this life. But he is still a scholar. What is the purpose of writing letters and couplets to others on weekdays?
Yes, he can support himself and his loyal little maid.
Later, the Tang Dynasty rose strongly and swept across Zhengtai County. He and many people with no future broke through and joined the Tang Dynasty.
When Li Xuan saw him and heard about his deeds, he almost asked him directly if he was also a time traveler from later generations. The template of this person is simply the typical protagonist template in time travel novels: Home
Falling in the middle of the road, there is also the famous plot of breaking off the engagement, plus a loyal and beautiful maid. If this was time traveled, Li Xuan can imagine his future plot: studying hard, passing the exam to be a scholar, slapping the face of the girl who broke off the engagement,
Met a hidden court boss and became his disciple, and then hooked up with the teacher's granddaughter. He wrote a few poems when he had nothing to do, and won the honor of being a brothel. He then passed the examination and became a scholar, and finally became an official and entered the Imperial Academy.
Achieving a reversal in life, he successfully knelt at the feet of Mr. Zhengde.
It's a pity that after Li Xuan's observation, this person is really not a time traveler, he is just an unlucky scholar.
After this person entered the Tang Dynasty, he moved through various ministries, and finally entered the reformed Hanlin Academy and became a bachelor of the rank and file.
However, the Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty was a typical secretarial institution. It was not only a place for nobles to raise their hopes, but also had real power. If the bachelor's degree was replaced by a more popular ranking, he would be the imperial secretary.
Follow Li Xuan every day, carrying a bag and pouring tea!
Huo Shouqi immediately said respectfully: "Your Majesty, just now the Palace Affairs Secretary said that the Queen Mother and the Empress, Concubine Shu's phoenix chariot has already started to set off and is expected to arrive in five days!"
After hearing this, Li Xuan nodded slightly: "Ask the Palace Affairs Secretary to speed up the repairs of the harem, and be sure to clean up the house before they arrive!"
But Huo Shouqi looked troubled and said: "The Palace Affairs Department said that the tax department has not yet given the money needed for repairs, so..."