Although Zeng Ziwen had already threatened to withdraw from the negotiations, Bao Yifen was still unmoved, because the army had already said this several times, and if he had withdrawn from the negotiations, he would have retreated long ago, so why would he have been delayed to this day.

But looking at Zeng Ziwen's demeanor, Bao Yifen also knows that I am afraid that ten percent is already the bottom line of the army's retreat, and it is estimated that Zeng Ziwen will not agree even if he is trapped to death, because once Zeng Ziwen retreats again and gives up the army's bottom line, I am afraid that the position of the head of the war department will not be stable, and a group of army officers below will kill him.

Therefore, Bao Yifen pondered for a few seconds and said: "Thirteen percent, but our navy will be refitted with many armed merchant ships in the second half of the year, and the gap in artillery is very large. ”

Zeng Ziwen, who just said that he wanted to withdraw from the negotiations, said: "Ten percent, this proportion is not negotiable, otherwise even if I agree, the army will not agree, as for artillery, our army can free up ten five-pound artillery pieces for you in the second half of the year!" ”

At this time, Bao Yifen also thought for a long time, and turned around and discussed in a low voice with a few naval colonels for a while, and then spoke again!

Bao Yifen said: "Since this is the case, then I will no longer insist on our navy, and the proportion can be reduced to 11 percent, but you will add another ten seven-pound guns, and the six nine-pound guns purchased from the foreigners by the Ministry of Commerce in the early stage will also belong to us!" ”

Zeng Ziwen said: "It must be 10 percent, otherwise I can't explain to the 100,000 soldiers of the army, there are not so many seven-pound artillery, our army is also in urgent need, several artillery battalions are still lacking, besides, what are your navy and us doing to grab these seven-pound field guns, but the six nine-pound heavy guns can be given to you, our army has recently purchased three nine-pound guns on its own, and those foreigners will be able to deliver them next month, and they will also be given to you!" ”

At this time, Bao Yifen pondered for a little and said: "Seven catties of artillery can be dispensed without, and ten percent is fine, but the army must give us support for 3,000 recruits, and it must be recruits who have completed formal training, and let my navy go to each new barracks to choose by ourselves, landlubbers our navy doesn't want!" ”

Zeng Ziwen thought about it for a long time, and then said with a gloomy face: "Deal!" ”

Then he got up, and then said to a group of army officers behind him: "What are you still waiting to do, go!" ”

Bao Yifen also stood up with a gloomy face, and then went out: "Let's go back too!" ”

Immediately, a few attendants of the Hanlin Academy outside the door and the guards in the palace saw more than 20 naval and army officers who were not very good-looking come out separately, and then they went to the side, and no one cared about who went out!

As soon as the agreement on the distribution of military expenses of the army and navy was reached, someone trotted to report it to Li Xuan, and after Li Xuan learned of the agreement reached by the army and navy, he nodded slightly, although the army and navy made a bit of a big fuss, but finally did not make a big basket.

The proportion of the army and the navy of 10 percent was also expected by him.

After all, whether it is the army or the navy, they all have their own bottom line, in his opinion, the bottom line of the navy is lower, because although the expansion of the navy has increased the schedule, the navy itself also knows that the core of the current Tang Dynasty is still placed on the army, after all, more than 100,000 army officers and soldiers are the core pillars of the Tang Dynasty.

At present, the biggest role and task of the navy is to control the Pearl River Estuary and the Xijiang River, and strictly speaking, this is not something that must be done in a short period of time.

However, on the side of the army, the pressure is extremely great, and with the elongation of the battle front, the Tang Army, which is fighting on multiple fronts at the same time, is now under great pressure.

According to the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, the strategic task in the second half of the year is mainly to recover Shaozhou Mansion, and then enter the southern area of Huguang, concentrate the forces of the First Army, the Second Army, and the Fourth Army and the Ming Army to fight in Huguang, and at the same time send partial divisions into Yunnan, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places.

With so many fronts, the demand for the strength of the Datang Army is also very large!

Especially because of the elongation of the battle line, it is more difficult to replenish, not only because of the long distance, but also because more second-line troops are needed to maintain the supply line.

At the same time, the expansion of the control area, to maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty in these places, also requires a large number of troops, in addition, because the strength of the capture camp is too weak, in the northeast of Guizhou, Guilin Mansion performance, the capture camp can only be used as the task of maintaining law and order, in the face of the enemy, even the Ming army's ordinary guards attack can not be defeated.

And this is still based on the early stage of the defense of the city!

The weak combat effectiveness of the pirate hunting camp also made Li Xuan determined to reform the existing raiding camps, these trapping camps were of no use at all, and it was impossible to maintain law and order in peacetime and support the regular army in wartime.

Moreover, the cost of these raiding camps is not much less than that of the garrison, and the soldiers of these raiding battalions are also paid, even if they are less than the soldiers of the garrison, but they are not too much.

At the same time, in view of the fact that the performance of some troops in the garrison army is acceptable, such as the Third Garrison Brigade, it is not suitable to use this part of the garrison army as cannon fodder, and it is easy to have problems if the salary is too low, so Li Xuan is already preparing to reorganize the thief hunting battalion and the garrison together.

The principle is that the battalions in various localities should be directly dismantled, and some of the available ones should be directly incorporated into the patrol police in various localities and changed to ordinary patrol police, and after they are changed to patrol police, their salaries will naturally not be military expenses, but will become administrative expenses in various localities.

Many of the old and weak people in the robbery camp were all laid down and demobilized, and let them go home to farm!

As for the original tasks in the robbery camp, such as maintaining law and order, they were completely entrusted to the patrol police in various places, which was originally the task of the patrol police.

As for the task of suppressing the locality, it is completely returned to the responsibility of the military, because the military has calculated that for the same cost, the regular army can control a larger area, because the regular army is more combative.

At the same time, the garrison is also preparing for reform!

Now with the regularization of the Tang Army, the soldiers of the garrison army have begun to take military salaries, although the military salaries are less, but the number of garrisons is huge, this is not a small amount, in terms of pure military salaries, the cost of the garrison is greater than that of the regular army!

At the same time, because the overall number of garrisons and robbery camps is too large, and a lot of money is spent, but the combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the regular army, what is this, this is a waste!

In terms of military spending and role, the garrison actually spends about the same amount of military expenditure as the regular army, but its role is generally less than that of the regular army.

Therefore, Li Xuan has already decided to reorganize the garrison army, and this time he will not call it a garrison army, but will directly organize it into a regular army unit, and prepare to follow the model of the Third Garrison Brigade, and organize it into a unit that mainly uses cold weapons, but is given a certain amount of firearms auxiliary force, and has independent combat capability.

The previous reorganization of the Third Garrison Brigade was quite successful, although its combat effectiveness still cannot be compared with the regular army, but it is still much better than the ordinary garrison army, Li Xuan is ready to continue this model, the garrison army is reorganized, and the treatment of its soldiers is comparable to the treatment of the regular army, that is to say, the reorganized garrison army will also be a regular army, but a regular army equipped with cold weapons.

Of course, not all soldiers in the garrison can become regular soldiers, in fact, according to the plan of the army of the Tang Dynasty, the existing garrison must be at least 50 percent of the personnel, because the quality of ordinary people is really unusable, and they are not qualified soldiers at all, even if they are forced to train, it is useless.

In addition, the soldiers of these garrisons are also local soldiers, and after they retire and return home, they will be able to provide a large number of young and strong labor force for the society, which is of great benefit to the resumption of agricultural production.

However, Li Xuan didn't plan to let these soldiers who retired and went home completely become peasants, because even if the quality of these soldiers who retired and went home was poor, they had also been on the battlefield, and they were barely considered good reserve soldiers.

Therefore, Li Xuan plans to let these demobilized soldiers continue to participate in the reserve forces under the leadership of the army when they return to their hometowns, and establish reserve regiments, battalions, and teams according to the number of retired soldiers in various places.

After six years, you can not participate in reserve training and no longer force yourself to return to military service!

This kind of system was known to later generations as a reserve system at a glance.

In the garrison, except for half of the officers and men who will be retired and demobilized, only 20 percent of the remaining half of the personnel have passed the quality test and can be directly integrated into the unit to fight, and the remaining 30 percent will have to go back to the new barracks for at least one month of training again.

After passing the training, they will be integrated into the regular army and serve directly.

The capture and theft camps were abolished, half of the garrison soldiers were demobilized, and the elite were reorganized into regular troops, and the Tang Dynasty would reduce at least 50,000 troops in the process.

This is one of the most important military reforms of the Tang Dynasty in the second half of the year, and its importance will not be much less than the preparation for the establishment of the Fifth Infantry Brigade.

However, after the regularization of the garrison force, although many personnel will be eliminated in the process, the pressure on military spending will also be quite large, and this is also the reason why the army insists on spending more than 90 percent of its military spending.

After the distribution ratio of military spending was determined, although the army and navy were not satisfied with each other, since it was a foregone conclusion, they had no other way, and the follow-up was naturally thinking about how to make the military expenditure that they had earned so hard to spend more valuable.

The navy naturally built ships and bought guns, but the army reorganized the third garrison brigade for the first time, and since then it has set off a wave of reorganization of the garrison army!