Xingquan Mansion, the former prefect's yamen, now the palace of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan stayed in the front hall as a few days ago, dealing with almost endless government affairs.

With the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, there are more and more messy things, even if Li Xuan has prepared a new type of Hanlin Academy as his own secretarial institution to assist him in handling more and more government affairs, but in the early stage of the expansion of this dynasty, all kinds of things are indispensable.

Of course, if Li Xuan wants to be lazy, he can do nothing, but if Li Xuan really does this, the development of the Tang Dynasty will deviate from the line he has formulated.

There is no way, who let his Tang Dynasty lack all kinds of talents, looking at the many officials of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they are civil officials or military generals, to be honest, there are few talents, not even those with superior ability, most of them are ordinary people.

If he let go of himself, leave everything to them to deal with, and let them formulate various major policies of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan dares to guarantee that the Tang Dynasty will become unrecognizable in less than a month.

If you want to build a Tang Dynasty that you want, it is indispensable to do it yourself in major policies.

After reviewing a report submitted by the Ministry of Taxation on the establishment and improvement of the tax system in Lianhe County and Bailin County, Li Xuan wrote down a few words of his opinion, and then threw the document aside.

Then he took out another document from his desk and looked at it, this document was sent by the Ministry of Agriculture, saying that it was now in the autumn and winter, and in order to carry out the spring ploughing smoothly next year, he requested that some ditches in the three counties of Xingquan Prefecture be renovated, so as to have a bumper harvest next year.

Li Xuan looked at the detailed renovation plan, and the Ministry of Agriculture actually listed the renovation plan of eight ditches, which was expected to cost 4,000 taels of silver.

Ask for so much silver and fix a fart!

Although water conservancy is related to the grain harvest, and further speaking, it is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but now the most important thing for the Tang Dynasty is to expand the army, and then send troops to expand, take Xingquan Mansion near the state capital, and meet the army of the Ming army.

Immediately, he did not hesitate to write down the reply opinion: "There is a shortage of money and food, and it will be discussed separately"

If it weren't for the fact that water conservancy and agriculture were indeed related to the foundation of the empire, which was very important, Li Xuan didn't say that he would discuss it separately, but directly refuted it.

Anyway, now the Tang Dynasty can't spare enough funds to build large-scale water conservancy facilities, and the Ministry of Agriculture wants to build water conservancy facilities, let them toss it themselves, and it is best to toss it, and it doesn't matter if it can't be tossed, anyway, don't expect the treasury to take out a grain of grain and a tael of silver.

Now the treasury of the Tang Dynasty is beyond its means, and all kinds of expenses are too big to expand the army, and it is difficult to solve the problem of food alone.

The various strategic materials needed to build weapons and ammunition have almost exhausted the last tael of silver in the national treasury, and the Ministry of Taxation is still worried about where the salaries of officials and soldiers should be squeezed out, and where there is any surplus silver to carry out construction.

Lack of people, lack of food, lack of silver, this is the problem that the Tang Dynasty has been facing, and it will be for a long time in the future, which has nothing to do with the expansion speed of the Tang Dynasty, even after the Tang Dynasty occupies several provinces, this situation is unlikely to be improved.

Because the bigger the scale, the more income you have, the more you spend.

It was difficult for the Ministry of Taxation to solve the problem of food and salary, but the generals on the military side did not have much to worry about, because after taking Lianhe County, the generals of the Datang New Army were already preparing to launch the next battle.

There are many reasons why the next battle is so impatient.

The first one naturally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, take advantage of the Ming army in the nearby area to be swept away, quickly capture other prefectures and counties at a slight cost, expand their own strategic buffer zone, and avoid the Ming army from attacking directly to Xingquanfu City.

In addition, taking the initiative to attack was also able to distract the energy of the Ming army, not giving them the opportunity to calmly gather troops and then go straight to Xingquanfu City.

To put it simply, Zeng Ziwen and a group of generals wanted to turn the passive into the active, and disrupt the deployment of the Ming army's assembly and attack by taking the initiative to avoid the war burning directly in the base camp of Xingquan Mansion, and also to force the Ming army to divide their troops through multi-line attacks, and then eat the main force of the Ming army step by step.

Because whether it is Li Xuan, Zeng Ziwen and others, they can already guess that if they wait for the Ming army to calmly mobilize troops, it is very likely that they will eventually gather 40,000 or 50,000 or even hundreds of thousands of troops to attack, and then the strategic pressure will be too great.

Even if the Datang New Army has the advantage of weapons and soldier quality, it is difficult to defeat the Ming army's hundreds of thousands of troops through one or two strategic decisive battles.

Once it was surrounded and blocked by the Ming army from all directions, the new army of the Tang Dynasty could only be trapped in Xingquan Mansion in the end, and it was almost impossible to win the war again.

Therefore, after capturing Xingquanfu City, including Zeng Ziwen and other generals, they began to plan how to fight!

In addition to military strategic reasons, the reason why Li Xuan and many military generals plan to fight out has another purpose, that is, to feed the war with war!

After all, Xingquan Mansion is smaller, with a small population and barren land, and originally thought that it could pull up an army of 10,000 people from the population of more than 300,000 people in Xingquan Mansion.

But in practice, it is very difficult, not to mention the money and food, and the soldiers alone cannot recruit so much.

In the first few days, the momentum of recruitment was quite gratifying, but in the following days, the number of soldiers who applied every day showed a precipitous downward trend.

The reason is very simple, those who want to work hard to eat military rations basically go to the recruitment as soon as possible, these people will go to the recruitment in the first few days, and after this group of people apply, there are only scattered people left.

According to the estimate of the military department, after taking Xingquanfu City, the maximum number of troops recruited in Bailin County and Lianhe County was only 4,000, which was quite a big gap from the estimated 6,000 people.

And this is to blame Song Zhiwen, this Song Zhiwen has recruited a large number of young people in Xingquan Mansion in the past year in order to suppress and exterminate the pseudo-Tang thief army.

This was recruited by Song Zhiwen first, and if the new army of the Tang Dynasty came to recruit soldiers, the number would naturally decrease.

In order to truly expand to 10,000 people, it is necessary to recruit soldiers from other state capitals.

After controlling other state capitals, you can not only get troops, but also taxes and even various strategic materials.

In addition, there are loot from a one-time income, which can be used to feed the war.

Disrupting the deployment of the Ming army and feeding the war with war are the biggest reasons why many generals of the Datang New Army want to fight as soon as possible.

As for the expansion of territory, this is honestly only incidental!

In order to prepare for the next military operation, the silver and grain on the part of the Ministry of Taxation have already been spent, and how can there be any extra money and grain that can be used to build water conservancy facilities and carry out construction.

Didn't you see that Li Xuan's palace was only slightly repaired? The palace has no money for large-scale renovations, and it is impossible to use the money to build water conservancy facilities.

After dealing with a large number of reports sent by various cabinet departments on the desk, Li Xuan left his chair and walked out of the study.

As soon as he came out, a young man waiting outside the door walked up quickly, this person was Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy that had just been restructured, named Huo Qishou, a very young scholar.

This person was originally a son of a landlord in Zhengtai County, to be precise, the son of a broken landlord, in the early years, his family was also a big landlord, with 100 acres of land, but he was the same as Li Xuan, there was a pit son's father, his father was good at gambling, gambling and gambling on the bottom of the family is getting less and less, and after his father hung up, he also left a butt of debts, as the saying goes, the father's debts are repaid, and the debts of the gambler's father are over, the hundred acres of land are gone, the old house is gone, and the fiancée is also divorced, leaving only a little maid to follow him.

Fortunately, he is still a scholar, although his talent for reading can only be regarded as average, and it is estimated that he can only take the test in this life, but he is a scholar, and he writes letters and couplets to people on weekdays to calculate accounts or something, but he can also support himself and a loyal little girl.

Later, the Tang Dynasty rose strongly and swept Zhengtai County, and he and many hopeless people broke the jar and joined the Tang Dynasty.

When Li Xuan saw him and heard about his deeds, he almost asked him directly if he was also a time-traveler from the next generation, Nima's template is simply a typical protagonist template in the crossing: the family is in the middle of the road, and the famous divorce plot, plus a loyal pretty girl, if this is crossed, Li Xuan can imagine his future plot: study hard, show talent in the exam, slap the face of the divorced girl, meet the hidden court boss, and worship him as a teacher, Then hook up with the teacher's granddaughter again, do a few poems if you have nothing to do, and win the reputation of Qinglou; In the re-examination, he was promoted, Jinshi, and finally entered Hanlin as an official, and finally achieved a reversal in his life, and successfully knelt at the feet of Zhengde Lao'er.

It's a pity that after Li Xuan's observation, this person is really not a traverser, just an unlucky reading baby.

After this person entered the Tang Dynasty, he traveled to various ministries, and finally entered the reformed Hanlin Academy, becoming a bachelor-in-waiting, and was a five-grade student.

However, the Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty is a typical secretarial institution, not only a place of nobility and hope, but also has real power.

Follow Li Xuan's ass every day and pour tea with a bag!

Huo Shouqi immediately said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the palace affairs department said that the queen mother, the queen mother, and the concubine's Feng Jia have already started their journey, and they are expected to arrive in five days!" ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly after hearing this: "Let the palace affairs department speed up the repair of the harem, and be sure to clean up the house before they arrive!" ”

But Huo Shouqi said with an embarrassed face: "The palace affairs department said that the silver tax department needed for the repair has not yet been given, so ......"