When Liu Bagou finished reading the text, the audience was silent, and the soldiers' expressions were very calm, the reason was very simple, like every time the text was read out in the past, they couldn't understand it.

You can't expect a group of illiterate and semi-literate people to understand it, but even if they don't understand it, they also know what is said in this text, which is nothing more than how bad the Ming Dynasty was and how great the Tang Dynasty was.

It's all the same old routine, and they're no longer weird!

After reading out the text and other chaotic departure ceremonies, Li Xuan did not continue to talk nonsense, but simply ordered to set off.

Immediately, Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing stepped forward to receive the holy decree of the expedition, and then saluted, turned over and began to lead the army to officially set off.

In fact, before they set off, the forward troops of the Datang New Army had already set off early this morning to open the way for the army in advance.

In addition, in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of these two infantry regiments, Li Xuan also assigned cavalry, artillery, and baggage troops to each of these two infantry regiments.

At the same time, the army was accompanied by officials from the Ministry of War, whose main responsibility was to recruit soldiers as soon as they arrived in Liping Province.

In this war, there will never be too few soldiers.

In order to allow the troops to be replenished as soon as possible, the recruitment of recruits in the military department will also follow the pace of the army, and recruit soldiers in one place when they take a place.

After these two infantry regiments, the 4th Infantry Regiment will also depart in half a month, while the 3rd Infantry Regiment will be suspended.

Watching the thousands of troops gradually leave and finally disappear from sight, Li Xuan was already thinking about continuing to expand the army in his heart.

At the beginning, the expansion of the four infantry regiments was based on Xingquan Province, and now that the new army of the Tang Dynasty is on the march again, if everything goes well, most of the area of Li Ping Province, especially the eastern part of Li Ping Province, will be taken by themselves.

At that time, the Liping Mansion side will need to take on the heavy responsibility of covering the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment to resist the Ming Dynasty army from Guiyang, and at that time, a mere Fourth Infantry Regiment will definitely not be enough.

The Third Infantry Regiment also needs to be stationed in Xingquan Mansion to deal with threats from Huguang and other aspects, so the strength of the Datang New Army is a little insufficient.

For this reason, he already had the intention of using the recruits recruited from Li Binh Province to establish the Fifth Infantry Regiment or even the Sixth Infantry Regiment.

It's not enough to have soldiers just to expand the army, you also have to have weapons and equipment, and the biggest factor that has always restricted the expansion of the Tang Dynasty is not soldiers, but weapons and equipment, especially muskets and artillery.

At present, of the four infantry regiments, only the first and second infantry regiments have been fully equipped with muskets, and the remaining two infantry regiments are still short of muskets, and according to the estimates, it will take at least a month to replenish the third and fourth infantry regiments with enough muskets.

The artillery was even more difficult, so much so that the new army of the Tang Dynasty had to use some of the bowl-mouth cannons that could be used by the captured Ming army.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing that the army had gone away, and Li Xuan was still looking towards the west on horseback, Liu Bagou beside him walked over and said softly: "It's time to go back!" ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly, then turned the horse's head and returned to the city with the civil and military officials.

As soon as he returned to the city, Li Xuan called several major officials of the Ministry of Industry over and began to give orders.

"The scale of the workshop of the Ministry of Industry is not enough, the manpower is not enough, and the output is still too small, which is far from meeting the needs of our army, and your Ministry of Industry must increase the scale of the workshop and produce more weapons and ammunition!"

As soon as the people from the Ministry of Industry arrived, Li Xuan gave his own order.

The few people in the Ministry of Industry who listened to it were bitter in their hearts, and their majesty only knew that the output of weapons was not enough, so they let themselves and others blindly increase the production.

But how could His Majesty have considered that the operation of the workshop requires a large number of manpower, and those ordinary laborers are easy to say, but those craftsmen are not so easy to find.

The several workshops they have established in Xingquan Mansion now have already collected the craftsmen in the entire Xingquan Mansion City, as well as the craftsmen in the nearby areas, and the technical talents of craftsmen are not something that can be cultivated in a day or two, and a qualified technical craftsman has to be trained for several months, to say the least.

Now His Majesty said that the scale was not big enough, and they could only sigh.

Immediately, someone said: "Your Majesty, to expand the scale of the workshop, the number of craftsmen is not enough!" ”

Li Xuan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this, I have already asked people to recruit craftsmen from Lianhe County, and they will be sent to Xingquan when the time comes!" ”

Immediately, some people wanted to say that even if the craftsmen from Lianhe County were added, they could not meet the needs of many workshops in the Ministry of Industry.

You know, now the Ministry of Industry workshop is actually very large, Zhengtai County and Xingquan Mansion, a total of more than 20 different types of large and small workshops, there are timber workshops, iron workshops, musket workshops, artillery workshops, gunpowder workshops, sword workshops, bow and arrow workshops, arrow workshops, and quilt workshops and so on.

Almost all kinds of materials needed by the new army of the Tang Dynasty, they need to produce, and the musket workshops set up in Zhengtai County and Xingquanfu City are the largest, and the total number of ordinary workers and skilled craftsmen in the two musket workshops together exceeds 800 people.

The total number of workers in the many workshops in the two places exceeded 4,000, but most of these people were ordinary laborers with low wages and prisoners of the Ming army who did not pay salaries, and there were not many real skilled craftsmen, adding up to only three or four hundred.

Three or four hundred people were scattered into more than 20 workshops, and the average number of people in one workshop was only one or twenty.

However, although they complained bitterly in their hearts, they didn't say anything, because Li Xuan didn't give them a chance to speak!

The difficulties of your Ministry of Industry are difficult to do, but can you have the Ministry of Taxation? At most, the trouble of your Ministry of Industry is the lack of manpower, but it doesn't mean that there is no way to improve production efficiency.

However, the tax department is very troublesome, and it is quite difficult to collect the money and grain smoothly.

No matter how difficult the work of the Ministry of Industry is, can there be difficulties on the military's side? Even if there are difficulties, we must rise to them!

Now that the Tang Dynasty is surrounded by enemies on all sides, the gap in strength is huge, so the military has also formulated an active offensive strategy, and even launched an offensive when only two of the four infantry regiments can fight, and the difficulties they face are much greater than those of your Ministry of Industry.

Li Xuan is a high-ranking person, the emperor of the empire, in his opinion, the Ministry of Industry wants money for money, raw materials for raw materials, workers for workers, what are you saying now that the number of craftsmen is not enough to increase production? This difficulty can't be solved, and you still want to enjoy the glory and wealth, what are you kidding!

The people from the Ministry of Industry went out with a sad face, and then Li Xuan called Qian Mengjiu from the Ministry of War and Ma Wei, who was mainly responsible for recruiting new soldiers, in.

Discussions have begun on how to recruit new recruits in Ri Binh on a large scale!

Qian Mengjiu and Ma Wei of the Ministry of War were much happier than the people from the Ministry of Industry, and they said that the Ministry of War was ready, and in addition to the officials of the Ministry of War who went to Liping Province with the army, they had also prepared seven or eight recruitment teams, and then they would keep up with the pace of the army and recruit new soldiers along the way.

As long as the advance of the Datang New Army does not stop, the pace of the recruitment working group of their military department will not stop.

However, they also have some concerns, that is, how to arrange such recruits recruited along the way, whether they will be replenished to the front-line troops on the spot, or will they be handed over to the new barracks of the training division?

In this regard, Li Xuan said without hesitation: "The recruits recruited along the way will all be handed over to the new battalion of the training department, and not a single soldier or soldier can directly supplement the combat troops, and the strength required by the combat troops can only be supplemented by applying to the combat department." ”

At the beginning, the Ministry of War was asked to recruit new soldiers, just to prevent the generals from recruiting soldiers privately, causing a lot of trouble, even if there will be a lot of trouble now, but Li Xuan will resolutely not open this opening, and the troops must not replenish the troops on the spot without permission, even if they go through such a hand of the Ministry of War.

The military department recruits new recruits, the training department is responsible for the training of the new battalions, and the operations department is responsible for supplementing the trained recruits to the troops.

This whole set of procedures is now running perfectly, Li Xuan does not want to change it, and he does not allow others to change it, even if it causes a certain decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops and even inconvenience in combat.

However, in order to alleviate the shortage of soldiers in the front-line troops as much as possible, Li Xuan still made the greatest efforts, he asked the recruitment officers of the military department to follow up in time, recruit recruits on the spot, and then send them to the recruit battalion set up by the training department, and this recruit battalion is not fixed, but sporty, it is said to be a recruit battalion, but in fact it is more like a recruit unit, but it does not participate in the combat missions on the front line.

To this end, the Training Division will set up two mobile recruit battalions in the rear of the combat units, and a fixed recruit battalion in the city of Ri Binh after the capture of the city.

The recruits of the first two mobile new battalions are to supplement the shortage of the first corps and the second infantry regiment, while the recruits of the third new battalion are to prepare for the subsequent establishment of the fifth infantry regiment.

When Li Xuan was busy with this, Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun and Ye finally arrived in Xingquan Mansion City, and for this reason, Li Xuan also put down his busy work that lasted for more than a month and began to return to his life as a normal man.

For example, in the night when Dong Yunyun and the others first arrived, he had an in-depth conversation with Dong Yunyun and Zhu'er in the room about his life and ideals all night.

The next day, he went to Ye's side again, and also had an in-depth exchange of life ideals.

After this in-depth exchange, Li Xuan felt that his entire spirit had been sublimated, and his whole body was full of energy!

However, unlike Li Xuan, who only focuses on life and ideals, Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun and Ye, and even Zhu'er, the little girl, are more concerned about the issue of the heir to the empire.

As soon as the Empress Dowager Bai arrived, she grabbed Dr. Wan, who had become the imperial doctor of the Tang Dynasty, and asked, "How is the emperor's body lately?" ”