In the Privy Council, a group of generals and officers crowded into Zeng Ziwen's office, and their faces showed obvious joy!

"Great victory, this is a great victory in the past two years that is even greater than last year's Huguang Campaign!" A colonel said with a happy face: "In the first battle of Jianping, the 100,000 elite divisions of the puppet Ming thief army in Jiangnan were lost, so that they could not resist the continued advance of our army at all, I am afraid that in a few days, the news of our army's capture of Jinling City will be able to come!" ”

"Yes, after taking Jinling, the army can continue to enter Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang and other places in the east, and take all the prosperous places in the entire south of the Yangtze River.

"Not only can you take Jiangnan, but you look at the map, after the victory of Jianping, the main force of the army was not damaged, and Master Li also said on the good news that he is already preparing to send troops to continue to Hangzhou, Zhejiang, so that the second army can cut off the retreat of the puppet Ming Yu Dayou's department, and later it can completely cooperate with the third army to encircle and annihilate the puppet Ming Yu Dayou's department, so that the entire south of the Yangtze River can no longer find a second thief army to resist our army!"

"My Datang Dynasty hegemony, after the first war of Jianping, is as stable as Mount Tai!"

Listening to the discussions of his colleagues and subordinates, Zeng Ziwen also held back the excitement in his heart, and immediately said: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, this official will enter the palace immediately and report to Your Majesty!" ”

"Yes, such a major piece of good news must be reported to Your Majesty as soon as possible, Lord Zeng, you should go quickly!"

Zeng Ziwen nodded slightly, then took Li Chunjing's good news and went out, and then went straight to the Zhaoqing Palace not far away.

The Privy Council was not far from the palace, and Tsang soon entered the palace and then asked for an audience.

And soon saw Li Xuan in Li Xuan's office!

"Your Majesty, a great victory, a great victory in Jianping, in the first battle of Jianping, the Second Army of our Tang Army gathered the main force to meet the 100,000 main forces of the Pseudo-Ming King Yiqi, and annihilated them all!"

However, what made Zeng Ziwen a little strange was that His Majesty's reaction was a little flat, and he didn't show an expression of overly surprised, but just said with a smile: "Really?" Bring me the battle report and I'll take a look! ”

Zeng Ziwen immediately sent the good news over, and Li Xuan took it and looked at it carefully.

After reading it, Li Xuancai's face changed slightly, but his expression still remained calm, and he immediately said: "Okay, this time the Second Army did a good job, and this battle has been won, so there is no need to worry about the next Jiangnan war!" ”

"Such a great victory, the reward of the meritorious soldiers must be timely, do not delay, and the bereavement of the disabled soldiers must also be done as soon as possible, my Datang can have today's foundation, relying on the brave fighting of these soldiers, I can't treat them badly!"

Then, Li Xuan discussed Zeng Ziwen about the follow-up war in Jiangnan and the reward, half an hour later, Zeng Ziwen left, and after Zeng Ziwen went out, Li Xuan, who had always maintained a smiling expression, finally laughed wildly!

"Haha, haha......"

"In the future, who would dare to say that I am the leader of the bandits, and I will destroy his nine clans!"

Fortunately, the sound insulation in the office is good enough, otherwise, if the secretaries of the department outside the office hear Li Xuan laughing wildly in the office, I am afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble.

The victory of the first battle of Jianping brought not only the annihilation of 100,000 enemy troops to the Tang Dynasty, but not even just a Jiangnan, but the whole world.

After the fall of Wang Yiqi's department, there was no large-scale Ming army in the entire Jiangnan that could stop the advance of the second and third armies, which was unexpected, and the entire Jiangnan would fall into the control of the Tang Dynasty in a short period of time.

And the key thing is that this time the Jiangnan Battle is a battle to determine the outcome of the battle, the two sides did not have a long-term tug-of-war, although the impact on the people's livelihood in Jiangnan is inevitable or some, but it has been reduced to a minimum, and this means that after the Tang Dynasty took over these areas, it did not need to spend much effort to use the money, food and population of these places to provide support for the follow-up war of the Tang Dynasty.

When the entire Jiangnan is under his own control, using Jiangnan, he Li Xuan can completely expand his army by tens of thousands or even 100,000, and gain a greater advantage in the subsequent war with the Ming army.

These chain reactions bring huge strategic advantages!

With the Battle of Jianping, the unification of China is no longer a dream, but a thing that can be truly realized.

Once China is unified, the emperor himself can be regarded as a veritable emperor.

When the time comes, who will be able to stop him from establishing the Three Palaces and Six Courts?

Who can stop him from conducting a draft all over the world and including all the most beautiful women in the harem?

Who could stop him from sending a large army west to Europe and plundering the Yanmar to enrich the harem?

No!

In the future, it was so tempting that Li Xuan was excited for a long time to calm down the restless heart at that moment, and then he passed down the edict to hold a great court meeting tomorrow to announce the great victory to the hundred officials, and at the same time ordered the Ministry of Rites to immediately start writing an article, and in the next issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper, officially publish the news of Jianping's great victory, and announce his Li Xuan's great martial arts to the whole world!

Of course, before the court meeting was held tomorrow, Li Xuan still convened a royal meeting in the afternoon and summoned the minister on duty in the imperial study to meet him.

Jianping's victory, the follow-up will definitely bring a lot of affairs, the army will be rewarded, and officials will be sent to the land south of the Yangtze River to establish rule.

And these are urgent matters, and there is no room for delay.

This time, the meeting went very smoothly, and when the cabinet even proposed to the army to temporarily increase the military expenditure of 500,000 taels for military spending in the direction of Jiangnan, Liu Bagou and others on the cabinet side were only slightly silent, and then they readily agreed.

They agreed so happily, naturally not because the cabinet still has money, in fact, the cabinet is now a poor bastard, but because they know that the army has entered the south of the Yangtze River, and they are afraid that they will have no money?

It is estimated that when the time comes, the private property of the nobles and officials such as the puppet Ming royal family, the princess and the uncle, and the private property of the officials will be able to obtain a large amount of floating wealth, not to mention that the entire Jiangnan is a typical Tibetan wealth for the people.

When the officials of the Ministry of Taxation arrived in Jiangnan and the members of the tax inspection team began to collect taxes, it was easy to pay thousands of taels of silver, not to mention much.

In Fujian, the Ministry of Taxation can collect one or two million taels of silver in poor provinces such as Fujian, but in Jiangnan, if you don't collect more than 10 million taels of silver a year, you are embarrassed to say that you are a professional tax collector!

Seeing that they could reap a large amount of financial revenue from the Jiangnan side, Liu Bagou easily agreed to the military's request to increase temporary war expenses.

Isn't it just 500,000 taels, just copy a house and have it.

What's more, they have given more than 10 million taels of silver a year for military expenses, and it would be trivial to give another 500,000 taels of silver.

If this matter is known to the Ming army, I am afraid that it will be envious, jealous and hateful, Wang Yiqi this autumn in order to guard against the thief army, rectify military affairs and train the Jiangnan New Army, begged bitterly, the Ming court only gave him two million taels of silver, and after the traditional drifting, the last thing he got was about one million taels of silver.

However, on the side of the Tang Army, the temporary increase in military spending for a campaign is only 500,000 taels of silver, and this figure is not discounted.

On the side of the Tang Dynasty, there is no such fine tradition, if anyone dares to embezzle military spending, there is no need for Li Xuan to do it himself, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing and other generals dare to directly pull the artillery to bombard this official who dares to embezzle military spending, it is a more awesome artillery execution than shooting and beheading!

After all, the core pillar of the Tang Dynasty is not the cabinet and other officials, but the army, and the significance of the existence of the cabinet ministries now, in fact, the biggest is to support the army in the war.

After a meeting, the civil and military officials went back with a happy face, and everyone was happy at this meeting, the military received temporary war funds, and the reward also entered the formal process.

On the cabinet side, it was a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, and after the cabinet people went back, they immediately held a cabinet meeting, at which Liu Bagou emphasized the need to establish the rule of the Jiangnan region in the shortest possible time, and began to collect taxes.

Let the officials of the tax department do it boldly, let go of their hands to do it, and keep up with the pace of the military, and the military will start collecting taxes in the next game.

In short, the cabinet doesn't care how the military fights in the future, and they can't care about it, there is only one thing they are most concerned about, and that is taxation!

The next day, the Great Dynasty Meeting was held, and the officials were all congratulating Li Xuan's wise saint martial arts!

Ninety percent of the great victories in Jianping's First World War were due to Li Xuan's wisdom and greatness, and the remaining tenths of a percent were the hard work of hundreds of officials and generals.

At the court meeting, the sycophant team headed by Wang Wenhua was in full swing, and dozens of people took turns to fight, quoting scriptures and classics, and Li Xuan was a little embarrassed.

Although I also know that I am very awesome, you don't have to say it in front of hundreds of officials, how bad is this!

Well, Li Xuan has already begun to swell!

After the end of the court meeting, Li Xuan returned to the harem, and at this time, most of the concubines in the harem also got the news of good news.

Li Xuan, who was in a good mood, also simply took a day off, this was all won, why did Lao Tzu work so hard, and it was very tiring to review and fold every day!

Li Xuan, who was on vacation, did not watch the dance of the palace dance troupe alone as usual, but accompanied Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun, and Princess Huichen to have a family dinner.

Then she played with Princess Wei'er and other children, making Princess Wei'er giggle, while her two younger brothers, who were crawling around on the ground, raised their heads from time to time and looked at their sister with curious eyes!

My sister's smile is so scary!