Li Xuan did not directly approve the fleet expansion plan handed over by the navy, such a big matter is naturally not decided at the discretion of the decision, for example, the navy said that it would build so many warships, and the funds required were also extremely huge.

The cost of building battleships, cruisers, frigates, patrol ships and other naval combat ships alone has reached more than 3 million, and the navy does not know that it only needs to build combat ships, but also needs to build various auxiliary ships, and the number of these ships is also quite large, and some auxiliary ships are particularly expensive.

For example, the fast traffic ship being built by the navy specifically for maritime communication has a displacement of more than 300 tons, but the cost is expected to exceed 100,000 taels!

This kind of fast traffic ship will adopt an innovative ship type, that is, the students of the Ship Master Department of the Royal Institute of Technology, the flying clipper ship, which can reach a speed of fourteen or even higher in a downwind state, has not been built before the Tang Dynasty, this is the first time, and the cost is naturally very high.

But the navy still placed an order, on the one hand, the navy does need fast ships to transmit all kinds of information, and on the other hand, the navy also has the consideration of promoting the development of shipbuilding technology.

Therefore, the two fast traffic ships currently under construction are actually test ships used by the Datang Navy to test the clipper type.

In addition to a variety of auxiliary vessels, the fleet expansion package is followed by the expansion of port facilities and investment in research and development of various new technologies.

All kinds of expenses are added up, and the navy has proposed a total of eight million taels of silver!

Eight million taels of silver, this figure is not high for the financial revenue of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not high for other expenditures, after all, Li Xuan is ready to invest 10 million taels of silver in five years in order to carry out domestic immigration.

But many things are not simply looking at these eight million taels of silver!

At present, the salaries of the officers and men of the Tang Navy are generally higher than those of the Army, because the profession of sailors is more dangerous than that of the Army, and it is also more hard, and the professionalism is higher than that of the Army, and the salary is higher than that of the Army, which is very normal.

And after the number of these naval officers and men increases, the salary expenses of the personnel alone are not a small amount, and then there are all kinds of training and combat expenses.

In the end, all the totals add up, and it is very likely that the eight million will be directly doubled to 16 million taels of silver.

In addition to the Navy's original military spending, it is very likely that the Navy's annual military expenditure will double in the next three to five years, from the current more than 2 million taels of silver a year to more than 5 million.

At present, there are more places to spend money in the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible to say that the military expenditure of the navy has doubled, and Li Xuan still needs to consider it carefully.

Therefore, Li Xuan did not approve it at the first time, but sent it back to the navy to continue to revise, mainly to calculate the amount of the total military expenditure of the navy in the next three and five years.

At the same time, Li Xuan also began to frequently summon officials from various cabinet ministries, especially the Ministry of Taxation, to estimate the financial revenue and expenditure of the Tang Dynasty in the next few years.

Although I don't know why in October, the Son of Heaven began to care about the budget for next year and even the next few years, but the civil officials in the cabinet, all of whom have an upright sense of smell and a very sensitive sense of smell, immediately discovered that the Son of Heaven may have a big move, and it may still require a lot of financial consumption.

Otherwise, the Son of Heaven would not have paid special attention to the financial situation for this purpose, especially the financial situation in the next few years.

The crux of the matter is, what exactly does the Son of Heaven intend to do? How much does it cost?

If the amount is not too big, then they will not say it, for example, preparing to renovate the palace, expand the royal palace and the like, that is a trivial matter, a few million taels of silver should be enough, the cabinet coordinates one or two, then the money will be squeezed out, after all, as a courtier, it is natural to consider the Holy Son of Heaven, although the royal palace where he lives now is luxurious and huge enough, but compared with the Forbidden City, it is still a little unqualified.

However, if the Son of Heaven plans to do something that costs the people and money, such as rebuilding the palace all at once and spending tens of millions of taels of silver, then they have to persuade it, the finances of the Tang Dynasty are still relatively tight, and it would be too unwise to spend tens of millions of dollars to build a palace at once.

But Li Xuan didn't say that the current global strategy conceived by Li Xuan is only a dozen high-level generals of the navy and army, and Li Xuan is not ready to carry out large-scale propaganda in a short period of time.

Li Xuan didn't say it, and those ministers were even more worried, but in the face of Li Xuan's explanation, they didn't have the courage to delay, and the Ministry of Taxation quickly sorted out the financial budget for Xuanping's seven years.

At the same time, it also roughly figured out the main revenue and expenditure budgets for the eighth year of Xuanping and the ninth year of Xuanping.

According to the estimates of the Ministry of Taxation, excluding the parts of Hubei, Sichuan, and Yunnan controlled by the Jingwang regime, most of Shaanxi

The Liaodong region controlled by King Hui!

At present, it does not include the northeast region, Tibetan region, Xinjiang region, Tatar steppe region and other regions that are outside the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Just based on the actual control area of the Tang Dynasty at present, Xuanping's fiscal revenue in the seventh year is expected to exceed 60 million, reaching about 65 million taels of silver, the bulk of the expenditure is military spending, about 30 million taels of silver, administrative expenditure is about 20 million taels of silver, and 10 million is invested in supporting industry and commerce, water conservancy, and transportation, and another 5 million taels of silver, which is used as emergency funds according to convention.

In the eighth year of Xuanping, the income will continue to increase, and it may reach more than 70 million taels, and by the ninth year of Xuanping, this figure is very likely to exceed 80 million.

However, the people of the Ministry of Taxation also made it very clear in the report that this estimate is only the estimate of Xuanping for seven years, which is not far from ten, because when the estimate is made, the estimate of the Ministry of Taxation mainly adds the agricultural tax in the newly occupied areas, and then adds the predetermined increase in the existing control areas.

However, in the eighth year of Xuanping, the increase in this amount mainly came from the increase provided by the recovery of agriculture and the development of industry and commerce.

By the ninth year of Xuanping, the increase was basically concentrated in the growth of industry and commerce.

However, the reason why the estimate is an estimate is because the Ministry of Taxation also knows how Datang's industry and commerce will develop in the next few years, and whether the agricultural recovery will be as fast as estimated.

Therefore, they can only give an approximate number, and they do not guarantee the accuracy of this number.

In terms of expenditure, military spending, administrative expenses, various subsidies, and so on have also increased along with the increase in fiscal revenue.

After Li Xuan looked at it carefully, he felt that with the financial situation of the Tang Dynasty in the future, it was still a bit reluctant to give the navy more than 5 million taels of silver a year, after all, the army would have more than 20 million a year.

In particular, the military expenditure of the navy is different from that of the army, when the army expands, it costs a lot of money to fight a war, but when it comes to peacetime, or when there is no large-scale war, in fact, the main expenditure is maintenance costs, and a large part can be left.

But on the navy's side, five million taels have been given now, and don't expect it to be reduced in the future, basically we have to maintain this level all the time to be able to maintain the size of the fleet.

Therefore, after Li Xuan learned about the financial situation in the next three years, he directly gave instructions to the navy, four million a year, and no more, and then your navy will expand the fleet according to this figure.

The navy was not pretentious, and after complaining a few times that it was ineffective, it honestly submitted a new fleet expansion plan, and this time, the number of battleships and cruisers was not reduced, but the number of various auxiliary ships was reduced a lot, and the plans for port facilities and the like were also reduced a lot.

Subsequently, Li Xuan officially approved the fleet expansion plan submitted by the Navy in the second round, which opened the prelude to the expansion of the Datang Navy's fleet!

When the domestic navy began to expand its fleet, a small fleet was moored in the eastern part of the Sunda Strait in the Java Sea, but they were not passing directly through the strait, but were heading towards the land in the eastern part of the strait.

There, is the western section of the island of Java: Banten!

This place is actually very similar to Malacca, because they are both important locations to hold the strait, so this time when they went south to the Java Sea, when Guedes and Ying Zihua carefully discussed, they felt that it was too dangerous to break into the Strait of Malacca, so the fleet was diverted to the Sunda Strait!

This strait is not yet controlled by other European colonizers, and the islands of Sumatra and Java on both sides of the strait are still under the rule of the local natives.

It is worth noting that the indigenous people in Southeast Asia, especially those in the coastal port areas, have actually been in contact with the maritime merchants in West Asia and India for a long time, and have been influenced by them in many ways, such as religious beliefs.

For Europeans, they are no strangers either!

As for the Chinese people, they are naturally no strangers, the maritime merchants of the Chinese Dynasty have always been widely active in various parts of the South Seas, although there are not many people who come to Java Island, but there are always them.

When the fleet approached the port of Banten, it was not ostracized by the natives, but was welcomed and had a good time trading, exchanging spices for some of the goods brought by the fleet.

And in response to Zihua's request that Datang Western Company hope to establish a trading hall in Banten, leaving a number of personnel to garrison and store goods for long-term trade, he happily agreed, so that Ying Zihua shouted: The people of Nanyang are so hospitable!

Anyway, the Chinese people are not the first to come to trade, people from West Asian countries, Indians, and Europeans have all come, just hoping to get a small piece of land by the sea to build a merchant house, which is not a big deal!

And the Datang Western Company also gave money to buy land, and there was a lot of money to buy land on the surface, but more to those officials in private!

Besides, they don't dare to object!

When Zihua asked them about this, the battleship outside the harbor just opened the gun window, revealing rows of swarthy gun barrels, and by the way, a salvo drill was conducted!