In the fourteenth year of Xuanping, in the middle of August, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the entire Jinling City was filled with the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After several years of calming down, the war wounds caused by the early war of reunification have now been healed one after another, and stability has been restored in most parts of the country.

Especially under the unified agricultural tax policy of the empire, the life of the peasants is much better than in the pre-Ming period, coupled with the unswerving implementation of the anti-bandit policy by the imperial military over the years, at present, all kinds of bandits in the entire empire have basically disappeared, and even the Tusi armed forces in the southwest region are also because the empire implements a firm policy of changing the land and returning to the stream, and many Tusi armed forces have gradually disappeared from historical occasions.

Of course, in order to quickly and peacefully carry out the reform of the land and return to the stream, the empire also adopted a policy of preferential treatment of the Tusi, as long as the Tusi leaders of the year were willing to completely surrender, then they would basically be granted official positions, and given a certain amount of real power, some of the more powerful, more influential Tusi, and even the title of knight.

This preferential policy, coupled with the fact that the empire has always maintained a high-pressure military deterrence, most of these toasts chose to obey, and only a very small number of toasts chose to resist, and then ended up ruined.

The agricultural economy was restored, and industry and commerce were gradually developed, which made the domestic situation of the empire better day by day.

As the political center of the empire, Jinling City, which is not weak in terms of economy and culture, is naturally becoming more and more prosperous day by day, and the scale of Dongcheng District is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and the population is increasing day by day.

The permanent population of the entire Jinling City, including the old city and the Dongcheng district and the newly developed urban areas nearby, has exceeded 300,000, but this population figure does not include the population of the suburbs and other areas of Chengtianfu, but only refers to the population of the urban area.

With a large population and an active economy, Jinling City has become unprecedentedly prosperous!

However, when people began to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, the atmosphere in the imperial study in the palace courtyard was more serious!

In the conference room in the imperial study, Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, sat on the dragon chair at the top as usual when he had meetings, while the civil and military ministers were seated on the oversized rectangular table below.

The total number of civil and military ministers has reached more than 30 people, and they do not seem crowded to sit at this rectangular table.

At this time, the courtiers below were loudly arguing with each other about the northern policy, but Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, seemed not to be listening to the debate of the courtiers, but sat at the top, and did not close his eyes, but tilted his head slightly, and set his eyes on the large glass floor-to-ceiling window.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sun outside sprinkled on the thin curtains, making the sunlight refracted in but dazzling, and making this huge conference room extremely bright.

The glass windows are made of oversized pieces of glass, which are spliced together to form a huge glass curtain wall, and through the light gauze curtains, you can see the branches outside gently swaying with the autumn wind.

Autumn is here, it's time for war!

Ever since it was decided in March that he was going to carry out the Hetao raider, Li Xuan had already made up his mind that a battle must be fought this autumn, even if it could not completely eliminate the Tatars, but it was necessary to deal a heavy blow to them and combat their arrogance.

As for taking the opportunity to recapture the Hetao, to be honest, this is not Li Xuan's main purpose.

Because the Hetao area is relatively special, the south of this place is a desert, which also makes the Hetao area and the Central Plains region have obvious geographical obstacles, even if the Central Plains Dynasty seizes the Hetao area, in fact, the Hetao area will become a fast enclave, it is difficult to defend, and it is more difficult to attack north.

Of course, it was difficult to capture the Loop, and now it is even more difficult to hold the Loop!

Li Xuan's purpose is not to say how much lost territory needs to be recovered now, but to severely damage the Tatars!

But it is clear that the ministers, both the military and the Cabinet, have so far been more interested in recovering the Loop, and have not grasped the true meaning of the phrase 'get rid of the arrogance of the Tatars' that he had spoken at the meeting in March.

Heavy damage to Tatar talent is the focus, and the recovery of the Loop is only incidental.

It's just that Li Xuan also understands the thoughts of these courtiers, and the recovery of the Hetao is too tempting for them, whether it is the generals of the military or the civil officials in the cabinet, they are all grinding their fists and palms, just waiting to recover the Hetao and then go down in history.

Li Xuan didn't care about them, anyway, recovering the Hetao and fighting the Tatars did not conflict.

Because the Hetao region is now an important area controlled by the Tatars, and the region is currently under the control of an important tribe of the Tatars, that is, the Ordos tribe, which is one of the 30,000 households on the right wing of the Mongols, under the control of Altan Khan.

There are 30,000 households on the right wing of Mongolia, including the Ordos Department, the Tumut Department, and the Yongshebu Department, and these three 10,000 households are basically controlled by Altan Khan, and it is with the 30,000 households on the right wing that Altan Khan was able to fight in the south and the north, annexing many other small and medium-sized tribes, fighting Chahar in the east and Warat in the west, and the arrogance is quite arrogant!

Before the Tang Dynasty, Altan Khan was a big problem for the Ming Dynasty, and now he has become a big trouble for the Tang Empire!

The march into the Hetao was not only to seize the grazing areas of the Ordos Department, but more importantly, to severely damage this one of the 30,000 households on the right wing, an important part of Altan Khan's command.

Therefore, the goal of recovering the Hetao and inflicting heavy losses on the Tatars is similar, but Li Xuan still hopes that the military can pay more attention to the annihilation of the enemy's living forces, rather than caring about the gains and losses of one city and one place.

Li Xuan looked out the window and thought, and the courtiers had long been accustomed to Li Xuan's absent-minded state.

For so many years, Li Xuan's state in the imperial meeting was almost like this, he rarely spoke, and basically listened to the courtiers arguing, of course, everyone also knew that Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, was not dumb, on the contrary, what everyone said, everyone was listening to the Son of Heaven.

Otherwise, everyone would not have to go out of their way to argue, although this kind of argument is said to be a dispute between the courtiers, but in fact, it is the courtiers who explain their views to the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan, and strive to make the Holy Son of Heaven agree with their own views.

Today's meeting is still about the problems of the north, not just the Hetao, but the whole of the north!

From a military point of view, the army has elaborated on the problems in various parts of the north and has emphasized the necessity of launching a military strike on the Hetao area as soon as possible.

However, the cabinet believes that the empire is not ready yet, and many preparations such as materials are still underway, and hopes that the military can delay the operation.

In addition, the cabinet also hopes that the military will be able to ensure the security of the Hetao area after the war, because they already plan to carry out large-scale migration to the Hetao area as soon as the military seizes the Hetao area and completely control the area.

In this regard, the military said that it would be very difficult, to control the area militarily, the military could do it in the early days, but they could only ensure the safety of the main fortress and the surrounding area, but the vast other Hetao areas, the safety of ordinary immigrants could not be guaranteed, because once the Yellow River froze in winter, the Tatars could run over and plunder in three days.

The fortress was certainly impenetrable to the Tatars, but it was not a problem for them to raid other places.

Therefore, large-scale migration was carried out at the initial stage, and the military could not provide absolute security.

While the Army and the Cabinet were arguing over various issues, the admirals on the side looked like they didn't care about themselves, and they didn't say a few words from beginning to end.

Because of the war in the north, it has nothing to do with their navy, at most it is just to let the Yellow River Fleet provide some support, but this is a trivial matter, and the navy doesn't even need to mobilize for this.

In addition, in fact, they are still a little unhappy in their hearts, this going north, it means that the army has received a large amount of military spending, and even the navy has to make concessions for this, originally they planned to start construction of two battleships this year, but the army actually said that the navy should suspend this project, free up the money, and let the army use it as military expenses.

This made the navy furious, thinking that the army was really too deceitful, and the temporary military expenditure of 5 million taels of silver set at the beginning of the year, their navy only symbolically took a mere 200,000 taels of silver, and the rest was given to the army, and the navy was very dissatisfied at that time, but this matter was made by the Son of Heaven himself, and it was naturally impossible for them to question the Son of Heaven, and finally they sprinkled their grievances on the army.

As a result, the army was still not satisfied, and even wrote to the Holy Son of Heaven that the navy was strong, and there was no war, and it was a waste of military spending to build a large number of capital ships during this period, so it was better to free up the army to buy guns and shells.

As soon as they heard this, the whole navy jumped out: Your army has gone too far, and the 4.8 million taels of the temporary war expenses of 500 taels of silver are not enough, and you have even put your mind on the original military expenses of the navy, which is really unbearable.

You must know that the pressure on the navy is also great, and the navy not only has to maintain a huge army, but also maintains a marine corps with a size of more than 10,000 people, in addition to many naval bases to maintain, and daily patrols and escorts, each of which requires a lot of military spending.

In order to be able to smoothly build two new battleships, the navy has called on the whole army to cut back on food and clothing since last year, and even senior generals have taken the lead in donating part of their salaries, which has solved the shipbuilding expenses, but now the army wants to take the remaining shipbuilding funds saved by the navy with a fluttering word, how can it be so easy, this can make the navy angry!

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