For the original Wang Wenhua to play and say that the ancestors were in the eighteenth generation, this made Li Xuan a little embarrassed!

Although the Li family now claims to be the descendants of the Li Tang Dynasty, to be honest, the Li family was just a small landlord before, and it has nothing to do with the Li family in the Tang Dynasty.

Regarding Wang Wenhua's behavior of posthumously sealing the eighteenth generation ancestor of the Li family, Li Xuan directly replied, what are you kidding, since you pride yourself on being the orthodox dynasty of the Han people, you must respect the tradition, and what is the tradition, that is, the four generations of posthumous sealing, no more and no less!

But he didn't expect that after the posthumous sealing of the eighteenth generation was over, today Wang Wenhua came up with the title of 'Great Emperor', placing Li Xuanzhi in a greater position than a series of founding emperors such as Qin Shi Huang, and even three emperors and five emperors.

But what he didn't expect was that after Wang Wenhua finished speaking, a group of ministers below were stunned for a moment, and then knelt down in unison, and Liu Bagou said: "The minister seconded the proposal!" ”

Now Wang Wenhua is patting the emperor's sycophant, although this sycophant sounds a little disgusting, but as courtiers, what they can do at this time can only be seconded, is it difficult to oppose it?

To oppose the Supreme Title is to oppose Li Xuan's exploits, which is directly equivalent to opposing Li Xuan, so they don't have the courage to do so.

So they just kneel down and then call in their mouths!

Under the secondment of a minister, Li Xuan didn't know what to say.

Forget it, anyway, he has already accepted the title of Eternal Sage, and rebellion has always been a matter of not knowing when it will fail, the Great Emperor will be the Great Emperor.

It is better to call yourself the Great Emperor than the Jiannu of later generations to call yourself the Great Emperor!

Of course, Li Xuan wanted face, so naturally he would not agree immediately, and then under the bitter pleading of the courtiers, he reluctantly agreed, and promoted his emperor to one level and became the emperor.

Therefore, in the official documents of the Tang Dynasty in the future, Li Xuan was not called the Emperor of the Tang Empire, but the 'Emperor of the Tang Empire'!

After the news came out, whether it was under the rule of the Tang Dynasty or the gentry class under the Ming Dynasty, they maintained a contemptuous attitude towards the self-selling and shameless behavior of the Tang Dynasty, and there were many ridiculers.

Even this matter spread to the side of the puppet Ming Dynasty, which attracted a lot of laughter, and at the same time, he did not forget to accuse a few pseudo-Tang monarchs and ministers of being rude, such a shameless thing can be done, I don't know if the coffin board of the ancestor of the Li family can be suppressed, will he jump out and scold Li Xuan for being shameless!

But this kind of thing, in fact, the common people don't care, this is the same as the people of later generations, in fact, he doesn't care whether his boss is the director or the general manager, anyway, he is his own boss, and changing the title will not have any practical impact.

Ordinary people are more concerned about some things related to their vital interests, such as tax exemption for land reclamation and rent-to-purchase!

The first to implement this policy was in Zhaoqing Prefecture, where some landless peasants had already been approved to cultivate official land, and rent-to-purchase in other places was also underway.

At the same time, the entire Tang Dynasty also set off a wave of wasteland!

Whether it is the poor people or those small and medium-sized landlords, they have all begun to find ways to open up wasteland, and even large landlords have organized manpower to carry out large-scale land reclamation.

The Tang government maintained support for the people's land reclamation, and even the big landlords organizing people to carry out land reclamation.

After all, for the Tang Dynasty, the purpose of tax exemption is to increase the number of acres of land under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, so as to increase more grain production, and with more grain, we can feed more people and collect more taxes.

Population and taxation are the core pillars of any regime.

Nowadays, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the population is actually small, even the most populous Guangdong, only a few million people, and Guangxi and Guizhou are even less.

Even if it is the Huguang area, which is known as Huguang and the world in later generations, the population in the contemporary era is actually not too much, and the area with the largest contemporary population and the most mature development is still Jiangnan.

In contemporary Jiangnan, the population of a county can be more than that of a prefecture in a remote area in the southwest.

And when Li Xuan and a group of civil officials of the Tang Dynasty were busy carrying out reforms and increasing the strength of the Tang Dynasty, the generals were not idle.

After entering August, the three professional warships of the Datang Navy have been put into service one after another, and have completed various sea trials, and then these three professional warships have been incorporated into the second fleet, and it has been announced that they have combat effectiveness and can go to sea at any time to fight.

At this time, the Tang Navy also officially launched a series of naval battle plans, completely expelled the Ming Army's naval divisions, Francophone people, and even those pirate gangs from the Pearl River estuary, and requested the army to provide support.

The navy's battle plan had been put forward as early as May and had begun to prepare, but now everything was ready and only the east wind was owed, so Li Xuan simply approved the navy's battle plan.

After obtaining permission, the Datang Navy acted quickly, and the first to act was naturally the second fleet, which took three professional warships as the core, and also provided logistics supply and auxiliary operations for these three professional warships, and carried six armed merchant ships with marines, among these six armed merchant ships, they also included three Galen ships captured from the Franco, two small ones with more than 300 tons, and the large one with more than 500 tons, and the remaining three armed merchant ships were all lucky ships with a tonnage of 300 tons.

These three professional warships and six armed merchant ships are all large ships of more than 300 tons, and they have excellent ocean-going navigation and continuous combat capabilities.

The second squadron, which consisted of nine warships, was also the core of the navy's battle plan this time, and almost all of its strategies and tactics revolved around this detachment.

In addition to the Second Fleet, 12 armed merchant ships belonging to the First Fleet of the First Fleet stationed in Hong Kong will also participate in the operation.

In addition, the Second Fleet also dispatched four armed merchant ships to form the Fourth Fleet to support the First Fleet.

The Pearl River Fleet's many small ships will also cooperate.

And their first target was Lantau Island, which was only separated by a wall from Hong Kong Island, which was now occupied by the Ming army, and the strength of the Ming army's naval division stationed here was not weak, and the previous attempts by the navy to recover the island had failed.

But now, the Tang Navy, which has gathered most of its strength, has made up its mind to recover the island and pull out the largest and last large-scale base of the Ming Army's naval division at the mouth of the Pearl River.

On 13 August, as the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, the Second Squadron set sail from the Haojing Naval Base, accompanied by dozens of small ships of the Pearl River Fleet, or more precisely arsonists.

And on the same day, the first squadron in the Hong Kong naval base also poured out!

In Zhaoqing City, Bao Yifen once again told Li Xuan about the plan of this operation: "In this battle, the core goal of our army is to seize Lantau Island, but before that, our early tactical goal is to blockade the enemy's port, force the enemy fleet back to the port, and at the same time block the reinforcement of the enemy's naval division, and then, our navy will cover an infantry battalion of the army and a marine battalion of our navy to land on Lantau Island, outflank from behind, destroy the enemy's ground resistance on land, and finally encircle and annihilate the enemy fleet in the port!" ”

Li Xuan said: "What if the enemy army avoids the battle and escapes? ”

After Bao Yifen heard this, he was still full of confidence and said: "If the enemy fleet escapes, then our second fleet will be able to use its high speed and excellent mobility to chase and kill it, and it is impossible for them to escape back to Nanao Island under the pursuit of our army!" ”

Hearing Bao Yifen's words, he was full of confidence, and Li Xuan also knew that the navy had been preparing for this for a long time, and the artillery shells used in training alone had already fired thousands of rounds, and the officers and men on the three battleships were training on the ships every day.

I've been training for so long, and I've been waiting for this day!

Immediately, Li Xuan said: "Since the navy is confident, then I will wait for the good news!" ”

At this time, Bao Yifen said: "Minister, I will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty, after this war, whether it is the pseudo-Ming Shui Master or those Franc machine people, they will definitely not dare to enter the Pearl River Estuary easily!" ”

Li Xuan nodded and didn't speak!

After two years of hard work, the Datang Navy was able to accumulate three professional warships and more than 20 armed merchant ships of more than 200 tons, which met the skilled sailors and gunners needed for the above-mentioned ships.

Although this kind of strength has surpassed ordinary pirates, it is still far inferior to the Ming Army's sailors and Franc machine people.

Although the ships of the Ming Army are all traditional Chinese-style sailing ships, there are many boats!

You have to know that the Ming Navy that continues to fight against the Tang Navy is actually the Guangdong Navy plus part of the Fujian Navy Division, Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Shandong and other regions of the Ming Army Naval Division, but it has not moved yet!

Moreover, even if these Ming naval divisions are actually in Nanao Island and the coastal areas of Fujian, the Ming naval divisions at the mouth of the Pearl River are just a small fleet.

Even if the battle of Lantau Island was won, in fact, it would not have much impact on the relative strength of the enemy and our forces on the entire sea, and if the Ming army lost this battle, it would not take a few days to be able to re-dispatch a super-large fleet over.

At that time, I am afraid that the three professional warships of the second squadron of the Datang Navy will be able to rely on their high speed and endurance to go to sea and continue to fight, and the other ships will have to hide back in the Pearl River estuary to avoid the edge.

In that case, the impact on the current war for hegemony between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty is actually very limited!