At present, the steel in the Tang Dynasty basically adopts the traditional production mode, although the production process also uses some machinery to replace manpower, but the key technology is the traditional model.

However, the Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, which Li Xuan instructed to build, was preparing to adopt a new technology, which was the blast furnace iron-making method developed by the senior students of the young military camp under the guidance of Li Xuan.

Several senior students in the young military camp use Li Xuan's guidance, plus these students who can rely on the textbooks compiled by Li Xuan and a small number of guidance, can learn the junior high school curriculum by themselves, and their talent is indeed not reversed, and almost every senior student who can stand out from the thousands of young military camp students is a genius.

This small blast furnace is capable of producing iron on a large scale.

However, there is still no way to solve the problem of large-scale steelmaking technology, so at present, we can only rely on the most primitive means and honest manual steelmaking.

So at present, in the Tang Dynasty, steel is also a very valuable and scarce material, which is basically used to make weapons!

But now if it can produce iron on a large scale, it is enough for the development of Datang, if the Foshan Iron and Steel Plant can be put into operation smoothly and prove that blast furnace ironmaking is feasible, then the Datang Dynasty will quickly copy this model, and at that time, Li Xuan will not be able to meet the output of only 10,000 tons.

But this is all in the future, the current Foshan Iron and Steel Plant is still in the construction stage, and because the technology in the young military camp is still relatively primitive, it has only been a small-scale experiment before, and experimental production and large-scale mass production are two different things, if you want to make large-scale blast furnace iron, the Tang Dynasty still has a lot of way to go.

The Ministry of Industry proposed that once the Foshan Iron and Steel Plant was put into operation, the ordnance output could be rapidly increased, but the people in the army did not have any happy look after hearing this, and the army also knew about the Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, and it was still in the construction period, and they did not know that it would be built in the Year of the Monkey.

However, the army's demand for ordnance is very urgent, and according to the army's predetermined battle plan, before the arrival of the fourth year of Xuanping, all the reorganization plans for the existing troops must be completed!

This means that at least tens of thousands of arquebuses and hundreds of field guns are needed, which is a very big challenge for the current ordnance production capacity of the Tang Dynasty.

Subsequently, the navy also put forward what can be called an ambitious plan, and the navy prepared to launch the Nanao Island Campaign after the new batch of capital ships were put into service in Xuanping four years, to seize Nanao Island, to completely sweep away the coastal areas of Guangdong, and to advance with the sea front to Fujian and even Zhejiang and even the mouth of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, the navy proposed that it is ready to start construction of at least 10 capital ships next year, plus the three capital ships currently in service and the five capital ships under construction, to form an ocean-going main fleet with 18 capital ships.

With this main fleet, I dare not say that it will completely sweep the seas of East Asia, but at least it can hold the safety of the coast!

At the same time, the navy also proposed that among the new capital ships to be built, there will be a second-class cruiser, whose tonnage will reach 800 tons, and it will be equipped with larger-caliber guns, and the main guns will reach 24 pounds.

After this request was spoken, the faces of the people in the Ministry of Industry turned dark!

Although the number of guns and guns required is a little more, they are all weapons that can be mass-produced by the arsenal under the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty, but the second-class cruiser of 800 tons required by the Navy has exceeded the technical capacity of the Ministry of Industry at present.

At present, the Guangzhou shipyard, the largest under the Ministry of Industry, has a dock of only 600 tons, and can only undertake the construction of a 550-ton third-class cruiser; if you want to build a second-class cruiser of 800 tons, then you must first build a large dock, and then solve all kinds of technical problems in building large-tonnage ships, and this is not easy!

At present, the arsenal of the Ministry of Industry, even the Zhaoqing Arsenal, which has the most technical ability, can only produce 14 catties of artillery by hand one by one, and even now even 18 catties of artillery have not been developed, but now the navy requires 24 catties of large-caliber naval guns as soon as it comes to the door.

If they really have an all-powerful Ministry of Engineering, they can build anything, and if they want to get an 800-ton hull, even if everything goes well, it will take two or three years to say the least, and as for the 24-pound naval gun, it will be even more troublesome, and the devil knows when it will be able to do it.

But for the army and navy lion big mouth, the Ministry of Industry has long been used to it, although the face is a little not good-looking, but directly ignore it, anyway, their Ministry of Industry can't make it, what do you military love it.

Compared with the contradiction between the military and the Ministry of Industry, other departments are much more friendly, although there are also financial contradictions, but basically have nothing to do with the military.

For example, the Ministry of Rites proposed that in the fourth year of Xuanping, the construction plan of juvenile colleges in various localities should be thoroughly completed in the Liangguang region, and that every county should have one juvenile college and one prefecture should have three higher education colleges.

The Ministry of Agriculture has also proposed to strive to double the amount of barren land to be reclaimed tomorrow compared to this year!

As for the Ministry of Commerce, it is proposed to increase the output value of industry and commerce in various places by more than 50 percent compared with Xuanping in three years!

Li Xuan didn't say anything about the plans of various departments for the future, but listened to what they said, and at the same time looked at the plans they submitted!

In the end, Li Xuan proposed that today's meeting be suspended, and at the same time hoped that all departments would continue to improve their plans after they returned, and that he Li Xuan would summon and review the plans of each department one by one.

Entering the end of the year, Li Xuan is also busier than ever, he is almost every day with various departments to meet with each department to determine the plans of each department for the next year or even two years, and the plans proposed by each department may conflict with the plans of other departments, at this time Li Xuan also needs to make a decision, but which plan to prioritize.

Compared with before, he just didn't have much time to care about military matters, just listened to routine military briefings every day, and asked a few words when listening to briefings, but it was no longer the same as before, and even the details of tactics would be asked in detail.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has developed and grown, it is impossible for Li Xuan to focus most of his energy on military affairs as before, and because the front line is now far away from Zhaoqing, this back-and-forth communication will be delayed for at least ten days, and in these ten days, there are enough changes to occur.

So now, Li Xuan basically just understands the general situation, and then says a few words to motivate the soldiers, and sets a certain general direction.

As for the detailed tactics, in fact, he is no longer meddling.

Even after learning that Li Chunjing led the army to attack Wuchang and then diverted to Yuezhou halfway, Li Xuan only said 'I know'.

However, Zeng Ziwen and a group of people in the Privy Council were quite worried about Li Chunjing's move!

Worried that Li Chunjing's lone army would go deep and then fall into the heavy encirclement of the enemy, he was afraid that the second army would be heavily damaged.

But although Li Xuan was also worried, he didn't say anything, and he also believed that Li Chunjing would not be stupid enough to crash into the encirclement of the Ming army with the second army.

When he appointed Li Chunjing as the commander of the Second Army, he already knew that today's situation might occur, and to some extent, this situation was caused by Li Xuan himself.

Because in the order Li Xuan gave Li Chunjing, he only said that he wanted to create an opportunity for the march into Nanzhili, but it was up to Li Chunjing to decide what to do.

Now that Li Chunjing has decided to take the risk to go to Yuezhou, he, Li Xuan, has no choice but to continue to show his support!

Even if he was against it now, he sent someone five hundred miles to expedite with the holy decree to let Li Chunjing retreat, it would be five or six days later, and at this time, Li Chunjing was estimated to have already killed Yuezhou City.

Remote command, this is what Li Xuan has tried his best to avoid in the past two years!

On the one hand, there is a delay in communication, and his orders are already unable to be delivered in time!

On the other hand, it is the specific situation of the front line, to be honest, Li Xuan himself does not know very well, and can only analyze it through a few words.

And more importantly, Li Xuan knows that he has never been a qualified general, and his understanding of fighting is only limited to queuing up and shooting in film and television dramas, but if it comes to detailed tactics, to be honest, Li Xuan is actually inferior to Li Chunjing, Hao Bonian and others.

After all, Li Chunjing and Hao Bonian are professional in this kind of war!

Li Xuan is actually only good at one thing now, and that is to be an emperor, a qualified emperor!

As for fighting wars, that is the business of the generals, and the development of the economy, even industry, commerce, agriculture, etc., is the business of the subordinate civilian officials.

What Li Xuan has to do is to point out a direction for them and tell them to move in this direction, but how to overcome difficulties and move forward is the business of these people under his hands.

After all, there is a specialization in art, and people are good at it!

Of course, this does not mean that Li Xuan has completely delegated power, in fact, the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty, or Li Xuan's power, has become more and more concentrated.

The two institutions of the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial Study allowed Li Xuan to completely control military and political affairs.

And the officials in the Tang Dynasty, the older they get, the more they feel that the power of the imperial study is great, and the ministers on duty in the seven imperial studies have replaced the previous scholars and become the real ministers in the Tang Dynasty.

But the imperial study is not a permanent institution, the ministers on duty in it are appointed to stay, and Li Xuan is also a word, sometimes Li Xuan does not want to go through the imperial study, he can also directly control the cabinet ministries through the Hanlin Academy, and even without going through the Hanlin Academy, he Li Xuan can directly control the cabinet ministries and other directly subordinate institutions.

And all this caused the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty to be unprecedentedly concentrated, and the degree of centralization of power almost exceeded that of any previous dynasty, or even any monarch.

On the contrary, Li Xuan has done so centralization, but he has not tired himself down, although he is a little busy, but it is still at an acceptable level, if Zhu Yuanzhang knows, I am afraid he will be envious!

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