Becoming the sixth general in the Tang Dynasty was enough to satisfy him.
Because the five generals before him were all men with outstanding military exploits: Hao Bainian, Commander of the First Army, Fang Xitong, Commander of the Second Army, Li Chunjing, Commander of the Third Army, Chen Keqiao, Commander of the Fourth Army,
Although the above four people are from the younger generation, they are actually the core backbone of the Tang Army.
The fifth general is Zeng Ziwen, director of the Operations Department.
Now, he, Cai Erhu, has become the sixth general of the Tang Dynasty. He has successfully surpassed a large number of military officers and is on an equal footing with the above-mentioned people. At this time, maybe he can say that he is already a member of the Tang Dynasty.
The number one fierce general. As for Chen Tufu, the former number one fighter, he had already gone to shoot cannons. I don’t know how long it had been since he had been in combat. He was afraid that he had become a soft-footed shrimp.
The world is so big, no one else but me. Without Chen Tufu, the title of the most powerful general of the Tang Dynasty, Cai Erhu thought that it would be his turn!
After the imperial envoy who announced the decree left, Cai Erhu, who was wearing a general's uniform, sat with a group of officers from the Third Guard Brigade. This was not to discuss a battle plan, although he had been ordered to lead his troops south in half a month.
But now is not the time to discuss this. The top priority now is to get the troops running well.
Nowadays, the Third Guard Brigade has more than 9,000 people, and it is full of personnel. It is also a troublesome thing for these units to run in, especially in the future, the Third Guard Brigade is scheduled to fight independently. The combat mode is the same as in the past.
There is a huge difference, so Cai Erhu and the others need to use these half a month to train and integrate the troops and strive to get off to a good start.
Not mentioning Cai Erhu, in Zhaoqing City, Li Xuan also listened to the report of the imperial envoy who announced the decree. After hearing that the troops of the 3rd garrison brigade were in good order and their morale was relatively high, Li Xuan also nodded with a satisfied look.
He had great expectations for the Third Garrison Brigade.
If the third garrison brigade can perform well in subsequent operations, it will show that even though the Tang Army has entered the modern era of guns and artillery, the cold weapon troops can still play a great role. In the future, they will follow the instructions
The third garrison brigade's expansion model continues to select several outstanding garrison brigades for expansion to carry out combat tasks on the secondary front.
In order to alleviate the current dilemma of the serious lack of regular troops in the Tang Dynasty.
After all, the expansion of the regular army is limited by the output of guns and artillery, which makes it difficult to expand. But the expansion of the garrison is much easier. As long as enough Ming prisoners are captured and enough cold weapons of the Ming army are captured, the garrison can expand.
Just expanded it and there was no difficulty at all.
After the imperial envoy who went to the Third Guard Brigade to declare the order retreated, Li Xuan summoned Zeng Ziwen and other Privy Council directors to hear about the recent military affairs, mainly the reorganization and expansion of the troops. Li Xuan
Xuan once again instructed the various departments of the Privy Council to ensure the smooth formation of the Fifth Infantry Brigade.
He was also waiting for this unit to form an army and cooperate with the First Army to have a decisive battle with the Ming Army.
Now as the Ming Dynasty pays more and more attention to the Tang Dynasty, the military pressure of the Tang Dynasty is also increasing. Needless to say, there are a lot of troubles in Guizhou and Huguang. Xingquan Mansion is besieged.
The Fourth Infantry Regiment still doesn't know when it will be rescued or whether it can be released soon.
In addition, the Tang Dynasty also learned from external news that the Ming army in Jiangxi, Fujian and other places was also ready to send troops south to Guangdong to encircle and suppress the Tang Dynasty.
Even the Ming army in Guangzhou was unwilling to be left alone, especially their naval forces. Not long ago, they even boldly headed north along the Xijiang River. Looking at this, it was clear that they wanted to attack the Xijiang transport fleet of the Tang Army and force them to
The Tang navy fought a battle with the Ming Dynasty navy on the Xijiang River, but the results of the battle for the navy were not very good. One gunboat was burned by the Ming navy, and more than a dozen small boats sank. In the end, they fled back to Zhaoqing in embarrassment.
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The army forts near Zhaoqing were able to stop these Ming navy ships, but subsequent transportation could only rely on land transportation.
The Operations Department had no good solution for this, other than to capture Guangzhou as soon as possible and then build a fort to guard the Pearl River Estuary to protect the Xijiang River Transport.
In the coming months, the military pressure on the Tang Dynasty will be extremely huge.
However, although the military pressure was huge, politically, the Tang Dynasty did appear to be thriving!
Since the Tang Dynasty succeeded in recruiting scholars, it has had a huge and positive political impact. Not only the gentry in Guangxi, Guizhou and other places have put aside their previous prejudices against the Tang Dynasty, but even the Guangdong region
The wealthy gentry also changed their views on the Tang Dynasty.
And these wealthy gentry families actually represent the elite of today’s social class!
Although the agricultural taxes and commercial taxes imposed by the Tang Dynasty greatly harmed the interests of these classes, on the other hand, the Tang Dynasty also brought them great benefits.
The first is to be an official. Most of these wealthy gentry families can be said to be scholars. Their foundation is not in land or business, but in official career.
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty has a lot of official positions. As long as a scholar applies for it, he can basically get an official title. Many children of gentry and landlords have already devoted themselves to the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty.
Another very important aspect is that although the Tang Dynasty implemented the reform of agricultural tax and commercial tax, it did not have the messy taxation in the past. At the same time, it also vigorously promoted industry and commerce, especially the development of industry.
Many wealthy families with workshops at home received huge orders from the Tang Dynasty kings. At the same time, they also banned the various messy checkpoints of the Ming Dynasty and established the Lijin Checkpoint to avoid double taxation.
This can be said to have greatly reduced the circulation cost of goods and stimulated the circulation of goods.
In Liuzhou, which is now relatively mature, in addition to major factories with free access to the Ministry of Industry, a large number of workshops have also been spontaneously formed, and the Tang Dynasty's attitude towards these workshops was supportive.
Taxes are relatively low, and there are huge orders waiting for them.
Where do these orders come from?
The Tang Dynasty had more than 100,000 troops, numerous administrative personnel, urban construction, etc. These were all large households with huge demand for various industrial products!
The development model of the entire Liuzhou is very similar to the original Xingquan Prefecture.
Even Wuzhou, which had only been under the Tang Dynasty for a few months, had changed from the dilapidated scene caused by the war. Although the city walls of Wuzhou still collapsed, the number of ships on the docks had slowly increased, and various goods passed through.
Xijiang travels to and from various places.
The emergence of various small-scale handicraft workshops in Wuzhou is even faster than that in Liuzhou, because this city is considered a relatively developed city with a relatively large number of handicraft practitioners.
As a businessman, as long as you can make money, you can still make money from the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that whether it's in Liuzhou or Wuzhou, these private workshops are still relatively primitive, low-level, and small-scale.
However, Li Xuan doesn't care about this. The development of industry cannot be completed in a day or two. As these small-scale private workshops continue to develop for several years, they will naturally grow and develop due to the principle of survival of the fittest in the market, and finally large-scale enterprises will appear.
Private factories, even if these private factories are all light industry, it doesn't matter.
Because Li Xuan did not expect these private businessmen to invest capital in heavy industry.
What's more, the heavy industry these days is actually the national defense industry, which is not suitable for private capital to intervene. The Tang Dynasty also had a Ministry of Industry.
In mid-April, the Zhaoqing arsenal that the Ministry of Industry had been planning for a long time was finally entering the trial production stage. In order to show his support for the national defense industry, Li Xuan personally attended the trial production ceremony of the arsenal.
Because the factory has a relatively large plan, does not occupy a large area and has a large number of employees, it is not suitable to be placed in Zhaoqing City, so it was built outside the city on the bank of the Xijiang River. Of course, it does not mean that it is completely in a wasteland.
It was established. You don’t know how long it would take to build a house like that. The Ministry of Industry directly requisitioned many houses for use as preliminary factories.
The official factory building construction is still under construction!
Li Xuan wanted to attend the trial production ceremony in person, and he was planning to bring a large number of civil and military officials with him. Naturally, the Ministry of Industry did not dare to neglect it. Xu Jianji, who was appointed as the supervisor of the Liuzhou Arsenal with the rank of fifth-grade doctor of the Ministry of Industry, was already in the arsenal.
Be prepared.
However, early in the morning, there was a group of management waiting.
Near noon, Xu Jianji was notified that the Holy Driver was about to arrive. He immediately looked around at his official uniform, but there was no trace of dust on it. Then he turned back and asked others: "Are you all prepared? Arrive here.
Don’t make any mistakes when you fire your first shot!”
A young seventh-grade official next to him said: "Sir, everything has been prepared. The most senior and most skilled masters have been arranged. When the trial production begins, the quality of the muskets will be guaranteed to be high."
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After hearing this, Xu Jianji nodded slightly: "That's good. Whether our Zhaoqing factory can continue to develop and grow in the future, and whether our position can be moved up, it all depends on today!"
While Xu Jianji was waiting for Li Xuan and the others, Li Xuan and a group of officials rushed to the Zhaoqing Arsenal under the escort of a large number of guards.
It didn't take long to arrive at the entrance of the arsenal. Xu Jianji immediately led a group of people from the arsenal to kneel down and shout long live. Li Xuan was not interested in these scenes.
This emperor has been the emperor for a long time and has heard a lot about "Banzai", so he has become accustomed to it, so he just raised his hand slightly and said calmly, and then directly asked people to take him to see the arsenal.
At this time, Xu Jianji was following a group of people obediently, introducing things like the arsenal to His Majesty, but it was not his turn to come to a small fifth-grade doctor, who was the immediate boss of his immediate boss... Worker