Qin Zhifu was ignored. The three parties on Nan'ao Island basically worked on their own affairs. No one paid attention to anyone else on weekdays, and there were many conflicts.
In particular, there was even a fierce battle to compete for the meager food and wages, resulting in hundreds of casualties.
Qin Zhifu also thought about forcibly integrating military power, but it was not easy to integrate military power. He had neither soldiers nor money. When he tried to integrate military power, the generals below him found various excuses to mutiny, and they mutinied three or four times.
After the small-scale mutiny, Qin Zhifu was also disheartened.
Go away and make achievements. I want to leave this hellish place and continue to make money elsewhere. Whoever likes this hellish place will be treated the same!
So recently, Qin Zhifu has been focusing on finding connections, thinking about being transferred away from Nan'ao Island!
Now on Nan'ao Island, the three parties are at odds with each other. Qin Zhifu, the nominal commander-in-chief, is bent on finding a way to be transferred. Under such circumstances, it's good that Nan'ao Island can still be defended. How can we fight back!
Even the Ming Navy is too lazy to pay attention to the Pearl River Estuary now!
It is a pity that although the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was aware of some unusual situations on Nan'ao Island, they did not expect that the turmoil within themselves would be so serious.
This cannot be blamed on the generals of the Tang Dynasty Wangshi for ignoring it, but because they simply do not have this imagination!
Because they use themselves to save others, although the generals of the Tang Dynasty King's Division felt that the combat effectiveness of the Puppet Ming thief army on the opposite side was average, they never regarded the Puppet Ming thief army as their own.
Be a fool.
Moreover, in the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty, although there were many conflicts between the navy and the army, these conflicts mainly came from the competition for military expenditures. However, in the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty, obeying orders was the most basic quality. There was such a stalemate between the navy and the army, but they should cooperate.
Fighting is still a cooperative fight. During the Battle of Qiongzhou Strait, in order to cover the landing of the army, the navy sacrificed more than half of the Second Fleet.
This situation does not happen when the army is in combat. Why?
In the final analysis, this is due to the physical problems of the Tang Dynasty king's army. The soldiers are not generals, but directly belong to the empire and are loyal to the emperor. The soldiers are not loyal to a certain general alone.
The generals on the front line, even Hao Bainian, who has outstanding military exploits, have no power to intervene in the replenishment of soldiers and ordnance, nor the power to intervene in the payment of military salaries, procurement of materials, and replenishment. He only has the power to command the operations and training of the First Army, and only
That's all.
In the Army of the Tang Dynasty, the power to recruit soldiers belonged to the War Department, but the War Department did not directly belong to the Privy Council, but directly belonged to the Cabinet, and was a civilian organization.
Although the payment of military pay and the replenishment of ordnance belong to the Army itself, they do not belong to a specific army. The payment of military pay belongs to the Pay Department, the replenishment of ordnance belongs to the Ordnance Department, and the power to transport supplies belongs to the Logistics Department.
The salary of soldiers is composed of two parts. One part is food expenses and clothing expenses. These will be directly withheld and will not be distributed, and related materials will be distributed uniformly.
Part of it is the salary paid directly to the soldiers, and these salaries are directly sent by the Ministry of Pay to each army, and then distributed on the spot according to the head count.
In other words, the chief officers of the troops at all levels, even Hao Bainian, have no right to interfere with the salaries of soldiers, because his own salary must be obtained from the Pay Department.
Including the promotion and appointment of officers, all are directly under the jurisdiction of the Quanxu Department of the Privy Council. Of course, the chief officers of the troops at all levels have the power to recommend, but whether they are approved or not is a matter for the Quanxu Department. In other words, even Hao Bainian,
He also has no power to promote a second lieutenant to lieutenant.
Many of the above-mentioned decentralization systems were also instituted by Li Xuan in order to control military power!
Clearly divide the powers of each agency and prevent each other from interfering!
Frontline generals only need to train and fight well. They don't have to worry about other messy things at all, and they don't have the right to worry about it.
Otherwise, what would Li Xuan be doing by raising a large Privy Council?
This created a special atmosphere in the Army of the Tang Dynasty: without troops, there will be generals!
Even though Hao Bainian has been the commander of the First Infantry Division for a long time and now serves as the commander of the First Army, the First Infantry Division still fights under his command, but in fact his influence on the First Infantry Division is limited.
It would be very difficult to lead the First Infantry Division in rebellion.
But just because the Tang Dynasty’s royal division is like this, it doesn’t mean that the Ming army is also like this!
Therefore, it is reasonable for the generals of the Tang Dynasty King's Division not to expect such changes in Nan'ao Island, because you think they are not stupid, but in fact they are not stupid either, but they do do stupid things.
However, the Ming Navy on Nan'ao Island was slow to move out, and the Tang Navy's operations were much smoother. After clearing the Pearl River Estuary, the Second Squadron began to patrol the waters outside the Pearl River Estuary and began to ensure maritime order in central Guangdong and the western coast.
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The Ming navy did not move, and the Folangji fleet also gradually gave up the blockade, because there was no practical significance in continuing the blockade. In addition, they themselves had to continue doing business with the Tang Dynasty, so they gradually
It's settled.
This situation is the same as when the Fo Langji invaded the coast of Guangdong decades ago. After the Fo Langji were driven away, they also took revenge for a while, but after a while they couldn't hold on, and then
I gave up voluntarily.
When the Ming Navy and the Folangji people no longer blocked the maritime trade routes along the coast of Guangdong on a large scale, the development of maritime trade in the Tang Dynasty also ushered in a new peak of development!
A large number of sea-going ships began to travel to and from the two ports of Guangzhou and Lianzhou, mainly Guangzhou. These sea-going ships carried goods from all over the world or simply gold and silver to Guangzhou, and then sold the goods and purchased a large amount of traditional
Export commodities, such as silk and porcelain, and recently, some new commodities have been welcomed by many businessmen.
For example, cotton cloth with high quality but low price is produced by major textile factories, including factories of the Ministry of Industry, as well as some medium and large private textile factories. Because a large number of machines are used for production, the cost is lower.
, with higher quality, in addition to internal sales under the rule of Datang, these cotton cloths also began to be exported in large quantities.
For example, the soaps, toothbrushes, toothpastes and other gadgets produced by the Royal Chemical Factory were originally obtained by Li Xuan himself privately to improve his quality of life. They were first only used within the palace, and then slowly spread out.
, and later the royal family simply invested in the establishment of a royal chemical factory and began large-scale production and sales.
Although these gadgets are expensive, they are still quite popular among the upper class and are very profitable.
Even the ordnance and equipment produced by the arsenal of the Tang Dynasty have recently become export commodities. Of course, guns and cannons are not available, and the Tang Dynasty itself does not have enough.
What is for sale are all cold weapons, such as swords, because the swords produced by the Tang Dynasty are directly processed from steel. Although the quality of the steel knives is not as good as those made by masters, the quality is not bad.
, and more importantly, the cost is low. In these days, the steel knives of the Tang Dynasty are quite competitive. How competitive are they?
Not only the small countries in Nanyang purchased some, but even the bandit army under Yu Dayou secretly purchased a batch through Erdao dealers!
The ordnance of the Tang Dynasty is almost universal in East Asia, allowing several arsenals to make money and make money!
Anyway, cold weapons like steel knives could not affect the situation of the war, and they could make a lot of profits by selling steel knives, so the Tang Dynasty turned a blind eye to this.
I even thought about whether to just export plate armor. The Tang Dynasty used machinery to mass-produce plate armor, and the cost was not high. Within the Tang Dynasty, even if the profits from the arsenal were added,
The purchase price of a set of breastplates equipped by ordinary soldiers is only between seven and ten taels of silver. Each arsenal is different, but it will not exceed this range.
A set of half-body armor costs twenty taels of silver, which is generally lower than the cost of iron armor in the past.
Full body armor is much more expensive, costing about forty-five taels of silver.
The above price is not the cost price of the arsenal, but the purchase price of the military. In other words, the cost price is actually lower.
At the same time, it is worth noting that even the full-body armor in the Tang Army is not the ornately decorated knight armor of the West, nor is it handmade, but purely mechanical production without any sense of art. In many cases, even if the soldiers
My body shape is not standard enough and I can’t find armor of the right size to wear.
Officers can use the standard armor distributed by the military, but they can also customize it and buy it themselves. The price of this kind of tailor-made armor is hard to say. It is normal to be several times more expensive, or even dozens of times more expensive.
It is possible. It is no longer the category of standard weapons, but belongs to the category of works of art.
The cost of mass-produced armor is low, but that doesn’t mean the selling price is also low. There were once merchants from a small country in Nanyang who wanted to buy plate armor after seeing it, and even tried to sell a set of one hundred taels.
I purchased ten sets of half-body armor from the Guangzhou Arsenal at such a low price that the person in charge of the Guangzhou Arsenal was so frightened that his legs went weak!
However, this transaction did not pass the review of the Ministry of Commerce. The reason is very simple. Plate armor, like guns and guns, is a prohibited export material. Why is the export prohibited? Because the output is limited, the Tang Army itself does not have enough!
Datang itself was at war, and its output was only so small. Even if it were exported, it wouldn't be enough.
But generally speaking, the current industrial and commercial atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty is still quite good. Not only sea trade has begun to develop, but also on land, they are doing business with merchants from the Ming Dynasty!
Otherwise, how do you think the gentry in Jiangnan used soap!
It was not sold through these maritime merchants.
There was also a shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty some time ago, and a large amount of food was obtained from the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty through Old Man Sun's smuggling channels!