Qin Zhifu, who was puzzled, even thought, could it be that he was really lucky with shit, or maybe he was really a talented peerless general, he didn't know yet, but the Ancient Sage Monarch knew about it and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility?

Qin Zhifu naturally didn't know that Li Xuan naturally had his reasons for doing this, and this reason was definitely not because of how powerful Qin Zhifu's ability was, but because of the need for political propaganda.

Since he, Li Xuan, through the Tang Dynasty newspaper, has already hung Qin Zhifu high for publicity, and has also shaped Qin Zhifu into a fighter who abandoned the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and opposed the Ming Dynasty, then he must follow up in other aspects.

Military ranks and titles must be wanted, and the actual position cannot be a false position, after all, this is to be shown to others, especially to those generals of the Ming army, naturally let them see how good Qin Zhifu is after defecting anyway, so that they will follow the surrender, and now Li Xuan hopes to have a few more Ming army generals, guerrilla generals and the like to lead the army to surrender.

Therefore, Qin Zhifu's position cannot be a fictitious position, nor can it be too low, after all, no one is stupid, what position in the Tang Dynasty is a position of real power, and what position is a fictitious position, the Ming army probably knows something.

But then again, it is impossible for Li Xuan to really arrange a high-level position with real power for Qin Zhifu, in that case, a large number of officers in the military who have worked hard and accumulated military merits will be cold.

So in the end, after thinking about it, Li Xuan arranged for Qin Zhifu to be the deputy commander of the Seventh Infantry Division.

The key here is not the deputy division commander, but the 7th Infantry Division.

Why, because the 7th Infantry Division has not yet been formed, and preparations are underway for its formation.

And Li Xuan actually didn't plan to give Qin Zhifu a long time as the deputy commander of the Seventh Infantry Division, he was the deputy commander of the Seventh Infantry Division in the months when he was preparing for the formation, but after a few months, Li Xuan would transfer him out, because the impact of this matter would fade away, and there would be no need to publicize Qin Zhifu with great fanfare.

Speaking of the 7th Infantry Division, it is naturally the most important part of the army's expansion plan in the four years of Xuanping, because in this expansion, the army will expand a main infantry division and two mixed regiments, and a new supplementary brigade will also be formed.

And this time the expansion of the army, as in the past, is to draw a part of the troops from the main forces to act as the core, and then replenish the new troops.

In other words, the existing main force is to be split and then supplemented to expand it into a new full-strength force.

The 7th Infantry Division is expected to draw a certain number of troops from the 5th Infantry Division, the 4th Mixed Regiment, and the 5th Mixed Regiment to form an army in Jiangxi.

The newly formed Ninth Mixed Regiment will be formed by drawing troops from the First Mixed Regiment, the Second Mixed Regiment, and several fortress garrison regiments, the Ninth Mixed Regiment will be formed in eastern Guangdong, and the 10th Mixed Regiment will be formed into troops from various units of the First Army stationed in Huguang and Changsha, Hunan.

A few days ago, Li Xuan felt that the jurisdiction of Huguang was too large, so he ordered Huguang to be divided into two, and most of the area south of the Yangtze River was divided into Hunan, north of the Yangtze River, but including Wuchang was divided into Hubei.

The original governor of Huguang was changed to the governor of Hunan, and at the same time the new governor of Hubei was established, although the current Huguang, most of the area was still under the Ming Dynasty, and there was only one Wuchang Mansion in Hubei under the control of the Tang Dynasty, but it did not prevent the Tang Dynasty from setting up a governor of Hubei.

Now there are more and more areas under the control of the Tang Dynasty, and local officials at the level of governors have been set up one after another, including the governors of Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, and Yunnan.

In addition, because of their particularity, the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Trade Zone and the Lianzhou Trade Zone is directly under the cabinet and does not belong to the local governor.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty also divided some state capitals within its jurisdiction, for example, several prefectures in Guangdong are relatively large, so it is a certain subdivision, such as from Guangzhou Mansion and Huizhou Prefecture to divide a certain area, and establish a new Dongguan Prefecture, Zhaoqing Mansion was divided into two, and the southern coastal area was established as Yangjiang Prefecture.

This is because the level of communication and transportation is backward, and if the jurisdiction of the prefecture level is too large, it will be difficult for the prefect to effectively govern the remote prefectures and counties within its jurisdiction.

Such measures have also increased the number of prefectures, prefectures, and counties under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, of course, in fact, there is not much increase, because many counties are directly upgraded to prefectures, and prefectures are upgraded to prefectures.

The adjustment of the jurisdiction may have a greater impact on ordinary people, but for the entire Tang Dynasty, this is just an inconspicuous matter among its many reforms.

What really attracted the attention of Li Xuan and even many important ministers was the military expansion, because it was related to the subsequent war between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and the victory or defeat of the war was really related to the eternal foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, many cabinet officials clearly knew that continuing to expand the army would seriously squeeze their funds, but they all expressed their approval.

Because they all know that the army is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the basis for whether they can continue to enjoy glory and wealth in the future.

Even if the Ministry of Taxation is already very optimistic, Xuanping's taxes in the second half of the fourth year are expected to be raised by a large margin, and after obtaining Hunan and Jiangxi, the two large agricultural provinces with large populations, the financial situation will be greatly improved, and Xuanping's budget revenue for four years will probably be raised to 15 million taels of silver.

But even so, it is far from enough for the Tang Dynasty!

Because of the expansion of the army and the construction of ships, the scale of the army of the Tang Dynasty continued to expand, and the military budget of the army, navy and guards alone this year alone has exceeded 15 million taels of silver!

However, to maintain the operation of a political regime, in addition to the military and a huge government agency, where does the funding of these institutions come from, it is naturally impossible to temporarily raise taxes or anything.

There are several main sources of income, such as the income of copying the family, every place will be raided, the floating wealth obtained in this aspect is not in a few, although it is said to be a one-time income, but it is also a great relief of financial pressure, especially this year has taken the northern region of Jiangxi and Hunan, and has copied several Ming Dynasty vassal palaces, and the income is quite rich.

On the other hand, in addition to taxes and other income, such as the Mint under the Ministry of Taxation, its profits are not low, although the expansion of the ruling area, the issuance of standard silver and copper coins has increased significantly, and its profits have been millions a year.

Then there is the Datang Salt Company, the salt tax paid by it is included in the tax, but the salt company itself still has a lot of profits, and these profits will also be handed over to the state treasury.

In addition, although most of the major factories under the Ministry of Industry are arsenals, some of them are for civilian use, such as several textile factories, Foshan Iron Factory, etc., these factories are also profitable, and the profits need to be handed over.

Another type of income is the messy fines, some of which are retained by the local government and some of which are still paid to the state treasury.

Finally, a loan from the Royal Bank!

The Tang Dynasty because of the financial situation continued to make ends meet, the deficit was huge, not long after the establishment of the Royal Bank, it was already began to borrow money from the Royal Bank to live, at present, the central government owes the Royal Bank of various loans, it has exceeded three million taels of silver, and then the local governments sometimes have a hard time, but also borrow money to live, this aspect adds up to millions of dollars.

In this way, the central and local governments of the Tang Dynasty already owe more than 4 million taels of silver to the Royal Bank.

In short, the power of the Tang Dynasty was basically spent on the army, and the operating expenses of other institutions were basically barely maintained by these messy ways.

But no matter how difficult it is, you have to grit your teeth and persevere!

This defeated the puppet Ming Dynasty and unified China, and this bitter life will come to an end, and the finances of the Tang Dynasty will be greatly improved.

If you say that you lose the battle, then there is nothing to say, everyone fled for their lives, as for the debts owed to the Royal Bank, when the Tang Dynasty is gone, naturally no one will collect debts from the dying dynasty.

The army is expanding, and so is the navy, and their plan to build battleships is one of them, in addition to the continuous expansion of cruisers and frigates.

In fact, the goal and direction of the navy's expansion are clearer than those of the army, that is, to expand the fleet size of capital ships to 30 and more than 100 warships of various auxiliary purposes, including armed merchant ships and transport ships.

The purpose of the navy is to completely control the sea control along the coast, and at the same time to enter the mouth of the Yangtze River and even go north to Beijing and Tianjin.

However, the expansion of the navy is limited by factors such as technology, funding, and the number of slipways, so it can only be done slowly, but the army's expansion plan is different, and the recruits have long been ready and are waiting to be formed.

Therefore, as soon as the plan for expanding the army was passed, the 7th Infantry Division, the 9th Mixed Regiment, and the 10th Mixed Regiment immediately put up a shelf, and then entered the stage of training and reorganization.

As for equipping this thing, take your time, the Army's way has always been to pull the head out first, and then wait for the equipment while training.

However, even so, it has put the major arsenals under the Datang Ministry of Industry under tremendous pressure!