Li Xuan, who had just returned to Jinling, said that he was very busy, busier than a cowboy!

Because he has to deal with a lot of government affairs that have been squeezed for a long time, although Jinling City has sent many twists and turns to Li Xuan every day in the past six months, but it is usually some big things, and some small things, trivial matters and the like, are temporarily backlogged.

In addition, there are many things that Li Xuan has seen the twists and turns, but he can't deal with them directly for a while, such as the previous issue of the Guantian reform, Li Xuan can't decide on such a major event as the Guantian reform with just a few twists and turns.

And there are even more messy things, such as the renovation of the palace.

The Tang Dynasty has been the capital of Jinling for several years, but the royal family still lives in the royal courtyard and does not live in the palace.

It has been too dilapidated for the palace, although it has been slightly repaired in the past two years, but it is only a part of the small project, Li Xuan has not approved too much money for the repair of the palace, and only approved tens of thousands of taels of silver before and after the repair funds, which is not even as much as Jinling City used to improve the roads and drainage canals in the city.

But the palace can't be left unrepaired all the time, the Tang Dynasty is now the central dynasty of China, and there is not even a proper palace, so it can only live in another courtyard, what kind of system.

At the end of last year, the Ministry of Industry on the cabinet side proposed to take advantage of the fact that Xuanping's military expenditure in the seventh year was not so large, and appropriately carry out the first phase of the palace renovation project.

And for the first phase of the project, the budget they reported was three million taels of silver, and Li Xuan, who was still in Hanyang at the time, watched it and left it directly.

The palace was to be repaired, but Li Xuan didn't want to spend too much money.

Three million taels of silver, enough for the Navy to build ten third-class battleships!

However, the fact that he did not send it at that time does not mean that he has not been dealt with all the time.

Now that others have returned to Jinling City, this matter will definitely be brought up and discussed again.

Similar to the reform of the official field, the repair of the palace and other issues, it is quite a lot, a huge empire, there are many affairs happening every day, even if most of the small things have been filtered out in the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet, but there are still a bunch of affairs that need to be handled and decided by Li Xuan.

The day after returning to Jinling City, there was a table of concerts that had been moved over from the Hanlin Academy, Li Xuan casually asked how many more, and the officials of the Hanlin Academy said that there was still a room!

For this situation, Li Xuan was not even in the mood to appreciate the exquisite dance skills of the palace dance troupe!

On the first day, he spent a full fourteen hours in the outer sanctuary!

Yes, that's right, from seven in the morning, he has been busy in the outer hall until nine in the evening!

Of course, Li Xuan is busy, and others are also busy, not to mention the special institution of the Hanlin Academy, Li Xuan is in the office, they have to accompany them, even those ministers are very busy, Li Xuan is busy until nine o'clock, they have to be busy until ten or even twelve o'clock!

On this day, he reviewed the recitals for more than four hours in the morning, and then spent more than an hour meeting with the ministers, and at lunchtime, he called the ministers on duty in the imperial study.

It's nominally a meal, but it's actually a discussion of work while eating!

Li Xuan could ask questions while eating, but it also made Liu Bagou and them unable to eat, because when Li Xuan asked, they all had to stop, and then organize the language to answer.

Eat and answer while eating in front of the Son of Heaven, they don't have the courage yet!

After lunch, Li Xuan simply rested for more than half an hour, and then continued to summon his courtiers, mainly the relevant generals of the navy and army, and asked about the landing on the Liaodong Peninsula.

The generals told that the initial landing on the Liaodong Peninsula was relatively smooth, but after they landed from the port of Arthur, they were violently counterattacked by the Ming army in Liaodong, and at the same time, because the landing troops were insufficient, and it was difficult to cross the sea to replenish, so they did not launch a follow-up attack on the Liaodong Peninsula at present, but adopted a stubborn mode.

Li Xuan had already expected the difficulties encountered in landing on the Liaodong Peninsula, and it was not a problem to send a thousand people to land, but if he wanted to send more people to land, then it would be troublesome.

This is not to say that there is a problem of capacity, the distance from Dengzhou to Port Arthur is not far, and in the case that the Bohai Sea is completely controlled by the Tang Navy, the broken sampan of the Ming Army in Liaodong has no way to threaten sea transportation.

It was difficult to land, and that was because the army and navy had no way to draw more troops to land on the Liaodong Peninsula!

At present, the Third Army is in charge of operations in the north, and the Third Army is also the most adequately armed army among the armies of the Tang Army, with three infantry divisions and two mixed regiments.

But their task is also very heavy, they need to guard Xuanfu, Datong northern border towns, confrontation with the Tatars, to fight against the Liaodong Ming army in the northeast of Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Province, and the Tatars such as Duoyan Sanwei who are united with the Liaodong Ming army.

At the same time, they also have to suppress Youzhou City, which has many remnants of the former Ming Dynasty, and garrison the vast Hebei and Shandong regions!

Although the strength of three infantry divisions and two mixed regiments is not small, they have to be distributed in so many directions, and the Third Army is also overwhelmed!

In addition, the current military strategic focus of the Tang Dynasty is in the southwest region, and the military supplies that can be obtained in the northern region are very limited, which further limits the combat effectiveness of the Third Army.

This dispatch of 1,000 people to land on the Liaodong Peninsula is already the limit of the Third Army.

As for the navy, the total number of their marines is only more than 3,000 people, and most of them still need to act with the warships, and the number of marines who can be drawn out to garrison ashore is very small.

In the past, in order to station a battalion in the Ryukyus, the navy still drew from the marines accompanying the main ships, and dozens of cruisers were drawn from this cruiser, dozens of frigates were prepared, and then a part of the garrison troops was drawn from several naval bases on the mainland.

In addition, the navy is still preparing the strength of the Marine Corps for the Nanyang Raiders, although after the Tang Western Company went to the South Seas, it has opened up two trading posts for the Tang Dynasty, namely the Mian Lao Island Trade Station and the Wanten Trade Station.

Let's not talk about other broken places, but these two trading posts need to be maintained and developed, and at the same time, Datang Western Company is also preparing to build several trading posts on the main island of Luzon.

Although it is said that the garrison of these trading posts is currently the responsibility of Datang Western Company, according to the trade license of Datang Western Company, the scope of the monopoly trade license granted to the company is, strictly speaking, the sea area west of Malacca and east of Malacca, and they do not have monopoly trade rights.

Therefore, although these two trading posts belong to Datang Western Company, according to the relevant agreements, it will not take long to hand them over to the official, and the military will need to be stationed at that time.

As for the Tang Western Company, their colonial target is not Southeast Asia, their target is India, and the long-term target is West Asia and Africa.

It's just that in this way, the pressure on the Navy is even greater!

The navy can't draw more troops, and the army is also a little embarrassed, plus the military center of gravity has shifted southward, so the matter of the Liaodong Peninsula has just gone down after a start.

After Li Xuan inquired about the detailed situation, he briefly inquired about the situation in Liaodong, and finally said: "The matter of Liaodong cannot be delayed for too long, although the current strategic focus of the military is in the southwest, but at present, the southwest campaign has already won a large part of the victory, and the pressure is not so great.

This year, some materials will be transported to the north, and the Liaodong Peninsula also needs to strengthen its strength, there are too few more than 1,000 people now, and the strength must at least have the size of a mixed regiment, otherwise, it will be difficult to achieve the strategic purpose of containing a large number of enemy troops! ”

Li Xuan just made a request, he didn't care what the army and navy would do!

The navy is naturally left alone, their marines have been used up a long time ago, and if they want to continue to land on the Liaodong Peninsula, they can ensure the safety of sea transportation, but in the battle on land, they are already powerless.

Therefore, the heavy task of reinforcing the Liaodong Peninsula falls on the army itself!

However, on the side of the army, the Third Army, which is responsible for the war on the Liaodong Peninsula, has no way to transfer troops, and almost every infantry battalion of the Third Army now has its own combat mission, which is difficult to transfer!

The only one that can draw troops is the Sixth Army, which is stationed in Zhili Sidao, and it should be able to squeeze out another two or three thousand people.

It's just that in this way, the Sixth Army, which is directly subordinate to the four provinces of the point guard, has fewer troops.

The Army raised this concern!

However, Li Xuan told the army that there was no need to consider this problem!

Because the expansion of the Tang Army will continue, although there will be no large-scale expansion of the army in the seventh year of Xuanping, it is still possible to form a new division, and Li Xuan will be ready to integrate this division into the Sixth Army at that time.

The Sixth Army, which had three infantry divisions, was able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding the four provinces.

After expanding another infantry division this year, the Tang Dynasty will have fifteen infantry divisions, ten mixed regiments, and an independent cavalry brigade.

This cavalry brigade is called the First Cavalry Brigade of the Tang Army, which is currently the only cavalry unit with an independent establishment in the Tang Dynasty, and its predecessor is a cavalry detachment formed by some of the Ming cavalry in the cavalry of the nearly Wancheng Ming Army in the Northern Expedition.

In the autumn and winter of last year, this cavalry detachment was reorganized by the army, and after the reorganization, this cavalry unit was awarded the title of 'The First Cavalry Brigade of the Tang Army', with four cavalry regiments, a cavalry artillery battalion, and a number of auxiliary units such as baggage, health, and engineers, with a total strength of about 4,000 cavalry.

As a result, it became the only cavalry unit in the Tang Army that could fight independently!