Chapter 611: The heir of the Great Tang Dynasty
In Li Xuan's view, ordnance production is also industrial production, which belongs to the category of industry, and it has to be carried out by those professional people in the Ministry of Industry.
However, the difference between the artillery of the Navy and the Army is indeed larger, and it is difficult for the Navy to get large-caliber naval guns now, so Li Xuan also gave the Navy a workaround: Now the Army's artillery has basically been satisfied, although it is still expanding, the demand for artillery will definitely increase, but the demand for this kind of artillery is a steady growth curve.
However, the major arsenals are expanding their production almost all the time, and this extra output is just freeing up part for the navy, of course, if the navy does not want army artillery, it can also put forward its own performance indicators for bidding, so that those arsenals can produce artillery specifically for the navy.
Just like the previous three-pound shotgun, this artillery was actually specially developed and produced for the navy from the beginning, but because the army artillery is relatively lacking, and this three-pound shotgun is more than 300 pounds, the army is also partially equipped.
However, there are not many, this kind of three-pound shotgun is mainly equipped by the army's warships, and even if the army is equipped, most of them are used for temporary transition, and this three-pound shotgun will not be equipped on a large scale in the future.
Because of the two-pound shotgun that the army is generally equipped with today, its range has not been improved, and the power has been increased to a limited extent, but the weight has been fully doubled, and the navy does not care about this difference in weight, but the army is very sensitive to this.
Nowadays, the major arsenals under the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty are basically capable of making guns and cannons, and they are also in a competitive relationship with each other, and bidding for these arsenals can just increase the competition between these arsenals, thereby stimulating them to develop better technology.
The Huguang front line is fighting, and Li Xuan, who has been meeting for a while, can't know the specific situation of the front line, and at the same time, as the emperor of a country, Li Xuan can't ask the people below every day like the hairy young man how he is fighting, he has to maintain a calm appearance.
So in addition to dealing with daily affairs, Li Xuan also endured the urgency in his heart and shifted his attention to his own housework, worrying about how the front line was going every day.
That night, after Li Xuan returned to the harem, he did not go to Queen Dong Yunyun's side, but to the Ye family!
That night, Ye pestered him several times, and Li Xuan also cooperated wholeheartedly, even if it was ****.
Why, because the Ye family felt threatened!
About ten days ago, Queen Dong Yunyun felt uncomfortable for several days, so she called the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital to come and see her, and she was diagnosed with Ximai on the spot.
In other words, after two years of hard work, Li Xuan finally made Dong Yunyun pregnant.
This news is still top secret, in order to protect Dong Yunyun from outside interference, and even more to protect the child in Dong Yunyun's belly, the Queen Mother sent two old mothers with explosive combat effectiveness to Dong Yunyun.
All diets need to be inspected in detail, and it is forbidden for unrelated people to get close to Dong Yunyun to avoid all kinds of accidents.
It's no wonder that Li Xuan and the Queen of the Day are so careful, it is really because they are in different positions, and there are few simple things in this royal family, especially when it comes to descendants and heirs.
If it is not even surprising, if Dong Yunyun is born to a boy, then this boy is very likely to be the next emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
And there are too many dirty things in the palace, although Li Xuan does not interfere in the affairs of the harem on weekdays, but asks the Empress Dowager Bai to help suppress the harem, but with the gradual increase in the number of concubines in the harem, this is unnatural.
Now Li Xuan's concubines are no longer the three people in the past, but they have multiplied several times, after moving the capital to Zhaoqing, because of the long-term childlessness, it has led to a lot of discussions, and it is also to appease the people in the Liangguang region, especially the gentry and merchant groups.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty conducted two non-public drafts, respectively for Guangxi and Guangdong, and most of the women selected for the palace also had special political factors.
These women, except for a few women from the Tusi family in Guangxi, are all the daughters of scholarly families who represent the interests of the gentry class in the Liangguang region.
The gentry class, in this era, often includes the groups of scholars, large businessmen, and large landowners, because the scholarly families who represent the group of scholars often have a large amount of land at home, and they are not bad for money.
With fame and power, they will naturally do business, and for the sake of fame, they will often let side branches or domestic slaves come forward to preside over the business.
But in the final analysis, the big businessmen in these years are actually big landlords, and they are also scholars, and these three are actually unified, and they can be described in one word: vested interests!
In the past, Li Xuan and the Li family were actually barely in this class, although their family had less land and less money, but they were also considered to be the landlord class.
The strong rise of the Tang Dynasty, and the implementation of a new agricultural tax and commercial tax for the development of the Tang Dynasty, is naturally a good thing for ordinary people, but for those vested interests who are accustomed to tax evasion, it is not a good thing, so armed tax resistance will emerge in endlessly, and for these people, Li Xuan can not always adopt a policy of killing and killing.
Therefore, in order to divide and win them over, Li Xuan promoted industry and commerce, let those landlords, old money, and businessmen free up their funds from the land, don't always buy land as soon as they have money, engage in = land annexation, but play to open factories and expand production.
In addition, he also married more than a dozen new concubines!
For the sake of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention a dozen beautiful and knowledgeable ladies, even hundreds of Li Xuan have to marry hard!
Thinking that there were more than a dozen beauties in the harem waiting for him to go over and fight every night, Li Xuan was a little weak.
What's even more chilling is that these dozen beauties are definitely not the end, Li Xuan can even predict that there will definitely be more and more women in the harem, and hundreds of them will not be able to stop, and the future will not be easy!
Especially when the queen Dong Yunyun is pregnant, the more than a dozen women in the harem look at Li Xuan like the big bad wolf looks at the little white rabbit, and they can't wait to squeeze Li Xuan clean and get pregnant too.
The next day, Li Xuan, who had been tossed for most of the night, was a little floating, but although he was physically and mentally exhausted, he couldn't stop working.
After the daily morning meeting, Li Xuan summoned Zeng Ziwen and others in the Privy Council, but although they were summoned, there was no special news, because this was the 29th, and even the battle report from Shaozhou Mansion could not be delivered in just one night.
After all, if it weren't for the big defeat and the sudden deterioration of the situation, it would be impossible for the generals on the front line to send the ordinary battle reports to Zhaoqing through a 500-mile fast horse, at most a 300-mile fast horse.
Therefore, after the strategic meeting of the imperial front was over, Li Xuan did not get any new news, so he could only listen to Zeng Ziwen and their discussion on paper about the bright prospects of the Huguang Campaign.
Back in his office, Li Xuan began to deal with daily government affairs.
Li Xuan's speed in handling government affairs is quite fast, basically he can approve a notebook in a few minutes, if it is some reports on ordinary affairs, saying a bunch of nonsense, he can at most scan it at a glance and ten lines, and then approve the simplest 'read'.
Basically, only some excerpts of major affairs will be read in detail, and then give a relatively long reply, such as the prefect of Lianzhou Prefecture, Shangjuan's request to expand the port of Xiuchengpu, and at the same time sort out the excerpts of the official roads and waterways of Lianzhou Mansion to other prefectures and counties, especially to Zhaoqing, Foshan and other places, Li Xuan just looked at it more carefully.
Then he gave a detailed reply, and with his own insight as a descendant, he suggested that Lianzhou Mansion could appropriately set aside a port area to attract investment, and strive to build the largest commercial port in the Beibu Gulf region.
Then he also forwarded the excerpt to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Taxation, and other cabinet departments, so that they could take charge of it.
This kind of large-scale closure of the port and the attraction of investment cannot be done by the Lianzhou government alone, and it requires the cooperation and support of various departments of the important cabinet.
Whether it is policy or funding, it needs the support of the cabinet to make it happen.
After reviewing this excerpt from the Leizhou Mansion, Li Xuan saw the excerpt from the director of the Guangxi Patrol Police Department requesting the establishment of the Guangxi Armed Patrol Police.
The content of the excerpt is very simple, saying that after the abolition of the robbery camp, the pressure on public security in various parts of Guangxi has become very great, and the military troops are also unable to take into account local public order because of their heavy combat tasks.
In order to more effectively suppress the local area and maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the Guangxi Patrol Police Department requested that on the basis of the patrol police in various places, select capable patrol police, equipped with guns and cannons, and set up several battalions of armed patrol police to garrison important cities, such as Wuzhou and Liuzhou.
In this regard, Li Xuan didn't even think about it, and he didn't even look at it in detail, he just drew a × cleanly, and directly replied: "Not allowed!" ”
After thinking about it, he added another sentence: Don't think about the people's livelihood, talk about military affairs in vain, and degrade to three levels.
You don't have to think about it to know that this must be something done by Liu Bagou's group of civil officials!
These people want to meddle in military power and prepare for an army that is directly under the command of the cabinet has never wavered, even if Li Xuan's order said that they can't do this, but they will always test Li Xuan in a roundabout way, and for this kind of temptation, Li Xuan is also unrelenting, and he will suppress it once he tries it.
Whoever dares to make a break will belittle his official!