Chapter five hundred and ninety-first Lu Hai generals fight
In order to compete for military expenditures, even Hao Bainian, who was leading the army in Shaozhou Prefecture, ignored the war in Shaozhou and took the opportunity to return to Beijing to report on his duties and rushed back to Zhaoqing to participate in a dispute over military expenditures.
Chen Keqiao, who fought in Huguang, Fang Xitong, who fought in Guizhou, and Li Chunjing, who fought in Guangxi, were unable to come back in person, but they all wrote notes and used 500-mile horses to send them back to Zhaoqing.
What they do is to try to get as much military spending as possible for the army.
Even though the navy, which has only one major general in total and has only one major general in the army, is small in size, as the saying goes, the enemy does not lose the battle. In this quarrel, they are not inferior to the army at all, and they are more radical!
On the Navy side, Rear Admiral Bao Yifen, who had just been promoted to Rear Admiral and served as the Chief of the Naval Military Command Department, although he had switched careers from the Army before and was just junior compared to Hao Bainian and others in terms of seniority, did not care at all about the face of his former Army colleagues.
He yelled at the Army many times outside that it was shameless. It was not satisfied with asking for 70% of the military expenditure, but dared to ask for 95% of the military expenditure. This was to force him to hire someone and force the Navy to die.
At the same time, he also declared many times that the navy would rather die in battle than succumb to the power of the army!
Some mid-level naval officers even said wildly in private, 'If the distribution ratio of military expenditures this time cannot meet the requirements of naval development, then the navy's fleet will dare to bombard the residences of senior army generals!'
The army general smiled faintly at this: "The navy has cannons, and the army can't do it without cannons. When our army was playing with cannons, your navy hadn't even been established yet! If you piss off our army, be careful we sink all your sampans."
Got it!"
Then at the latest navy and army spending coordination meeting, Zeng Ziwen and Bao Yifen actually got into a fight!
That's right, these two high-level bosses of the navy and army did not care about the dignity of the imperial ministers at all, and started fighting directly at the coordination meeting. The two bosses fought, and the army and navy officers under their respective subordinates
Although on the surface they were pulling their respective superiors to break up the fight, secretly they were punching and kicking them.
By the end, many of the army and navy officers who attended the meeting had footprints on their clothes. Zeng Ziwen was punched by someone unknown and his left eye was black.
Seeing that the land and sea armies were fighting over military expenses, and the fight was at the level of generals, if this continued, they would probably dare to draw swords and guns in the next meeting.
For this reason, Li Xuan had to personally intervene in this dispute over army and navy military expenditures!
However, before Li Xuan personally stepped in to coordinate the dispute over army and navy military expenditures, he had to cut off the hands of some people in the cabinet that should not have been extended.
Because of this battle between the army and the navy for military expenditures, the cabinet also participated uninvited. This is not because Liu Bagou and others have good intentions to resolve the conflict between the army and the navy. In fact, they regard the conflict between the navy and the army as a
See the joke.
The reason why they intervene is because they believe that this is a great opportunity for the cabinet to intervene in navy and army affairs and increase the cabinet's influence on the military. If this intervention is successful, the cabinet's power to allocate military expenditures for the army and navy will also be in order in the future.
If you get mixed up, you may be able to control the lifeblood of the army and navy: the distribution of military expenditures!
This will greatly increase the cabinet's influence on the military!
However, both the land and sea are civil servants who are not part of the cabinet, and they all speak the same language. This is an internal matter of the military, and your cabinet should stay out of it, otherwise I will come back and refer to you.
You civilian officials should handle administrative affairs honestly and do your best in the promising business of earning military expenditures for our military. But how to spend military expenditures and how to allocate military expenditures to the army and navy are internal affairs of our military. You guys
Get away as far as the civil servants go!
Even Li Xuan expressed his dissatisfaction with the cabinet's attempt to interfere in military affairs again. Ma Dan, these civil servants never forget to learn from the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who tried to control the military!
Therefore, Li Xuan did not hesitate to give a beating to the cabinet officials headed by Liu Bagou in a morning meeting, saying that the recent industrial and commercial development has just begun, the busy farming season for grain is coming soon, and the subsequent collection of summer taxes will also be a priority.
As for the most important thing, let’s forget about the other minor matters of the various cabinet ministries for now, and do the above-mentioned errands with all your heart, so as not to live up to my high expectations!
The translation of this sentence is: mind your own business and don't get involved in military affairs!
Although what he said was not very straightforward, Liu Bagou and the others heard it. In the end, they had to completely give up the opportunity to intervene. However, Li Xuan knew that the civil servants of the cabinet represented by Liu Bagou would not
They are determined to give up on military power, which can be seen from their unswerving efforts to support the tax inspection team and patrol police in various places, and even assign firearms to them.
These civilian officials will not give up military power.
The temporary concession is just for greater progress in the future!
How can the military power be left to the control of those military chiefs? How unethical is this? For the eternal foundation of the Tang Dynasty, the cabinet must control the military power!
After knocking back the hand of the cabinet, Li Xuan also began to deal with the sudden and somewhat big dispute over military expenditures between the army and navy.
However, he will not directly draw a distribution ratio, because this is quite inappropriate. Even if it is the most reasonable distribution ratio, Li Xuan will never determine this ratio personally. His status is destined to be here.
In a military spending dispute, there can only be one referee or arbiter, and cannot make the decision personally.
Regarding the proportion of military expenditures allocated between the Army and the Navy, the Army and the Navy will ultimately have to sit down and negotiate to reach a result acceptable to both parties.
To this end, he officially held a meeting on the allocation of military expenditures for the Imperial Army and Navy at the end of June!
He planned to personally take charge and let the land and sea families coordinate again and finally reach a distribution agreement. He thought that with him in charge, there would be no bloody things like fighting with swords.
Of course, it is impossible for them to carry swords and guns in front of Li Xuan. If these generals want to meet Li Xuan, they cannot bring swords, guns and other weapons. After all, Li Xuan is also afraid of death.
However, Li Xuan's sharp eyes saw that the new chief of the Navy's Military Command Department, Major General Bao Yifen, was wearing a crutch, and several of his subordinates were also wearing crutches; several senior army generals were each carrying a large cane.
When the wooden stick was called a baton, Li Xuan suddenly got angry!
Damn it, these bastards are so eager to fight!
Immediately, he said lightly to the lecturer beside him: "Go and collect all their things!"
Then he said with a straight face to a group of senior army and navy officials: "You and other important ministers of the empire are actually fighting and causing trouble with each other. How unbecoming it is. If this spreads out, outsiders will not be able to laugh. You are shameless. I'm still
I need to save face!"
Li Xuan was angry. Bao Yifen, Zeng Ziwen and others naturally did not dare to be presumptuous. They quickly bowed and apologized, saying that I would be punished by death and that Your Majesty should calm down.
But after everyone sat down, the army and navy officers sat on both sides of the rectangular table, glaring at each other!
Seeing this scene, Li Xuan was also a little helpless. It had only been half a month since the separation of the Army and the Navy, and it was already like this. If it continues for a few more years, what kind of trouble will the Army and Navy have in the future?
But even though he was a little helpless, he did not regret his decision to separate the land and sea. The army and the navy were two unrelated services, and it would be even more inappropriate to force them together. According to what China has formed over thousands of years
The navy has a tradition of emphasizing land over sea. If the navy is not separated, the navy cannot expect to achieve any development.
Even if there are conflicts between the army and the navy, this is normal.
Regardless of whether it is modern or modern, in any slightly normal country, the contradictions and conflicts between the military services are very large, and it is almost impossible to reconcile them.
For example, during World War II, the conflict between Japan's army and navy was so great that it almost affected the national strategy!
The German Air Force and Navy were also in quite a big fuss. Because of the strength of the Air Force, the Navy's Zeppelin aircraft carrier was unable to obtain carrier-based aircraft. This is an old joke that has been circulating for decades.
In the United States, the contradiction between the army and the navy is also endless. The navy and the army will never share the same fighter aircraft, and this contradiction continued until the war.
There was a conflict between the military services in the Tang Dynasty. This was completely acceptable, and Li Xuan had expected it before, but he was still a little speechless when it happened like this.
In fact, Li Xuan didn't know that in this battle between the army and the navy, the top generals on both sides had no choice!
There is only so much military expenditure. If the army is more, the navy will be less; if the navy is more, the army will be less;
Military expenditures represent establishment and equipment, which in turn represent combat effectiveness, military exploits, and promotion opportunities.
The middle and lower-level officers of both the army and the navy are all focused on this matter. If the higher-ups above cannot fight for enough benefits for them, how can these upper-level officers of the army and navy deal with the group of middle- and lower-level officers below.
Therefore, whether they are willing or not, true or false, they have to do their best to fight for the interests of their respective branches of the military, even at the cost of performing full force. In this way, even if the final battle fails, their personal prestige can be maintained!
For example, when the time comes, people in the Navy will say that Major General Bao Yifen has tried his best. In order to compete for military funds, he has taken the fight to the imperial court, but those damn Army bumpkins are bullying others too much.
Many times, people cannot help themselves. This is true for Bao Yifen and the same is true for Zeng Ziwen.
Zeng Ziwen, the Chief of Operations Department, as the only army boss staying in Beijing, must shoulder the responsibility of fighting for the best interests of the army. Before Hao Bainian was driven back to Zhaoqing by His Majesty, he took the time to visit him at his door and spoke with a very solemn expression.
He said in a tone of voice: "The future of the army's more than 100,000 soldiers depends on Brother Zeng!"
Several other army bosses also said similar things to Zeng Ziwen through letters or messages.
How could Zeng Ziwen, who shouldered the great trust of the entire army, give in so easily? Once he gave in, even though the army was large, there would be no room for him!