After being the emperor for a long time, Li Xuan often had the illusion that he was the son of destiny, and that God had brought him to this broken era to save the world.

This era is so tattered, maybe only those literati will talk about how beautiful it is, how beautiful the Qinglou woman is, but it has been so many years since he came to this era, Li Xuan can deeply feel how hard the vast majority of ordinary people in this era are living that little life.

In later generations, the middle and lower classes may feel that housing prices are high, prices are high, and it is a luxury to buy a paramela, but even if it is poor, you can always eat enough, and in modern society, it is really not easy to starve to death.

But in this era, being able to eat enough is a common demand of the whole society, and even a luxury!

The world is big, and there is nothing more important than being able to eat well, but even such an important thing has not been done in the long history of China for thousands of years, in fact, most of the time, more precisely, before the eighties of the twentieth century.

Why later generations will always think that Yuan Gong is a great man, from top to bottom, he has given him countless praises, is because his hybrid rice has greatly solved the problem of eating in China for thousands of years.

Such a person deserves the word great!

And now, sometimes Li Xuan also feels that he is walking on the road of a great man!

He came to this era and brought about change, thus making this era better and better!

His approach to solving problems may be radical, but it is essentially the same.

In later generations, there were hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers, so Li Xuan would engage in immigration and reclamation, engage in overseas trade, and conquer the world!

Because of the backwardness of technology, grain production cannot be improved, what should Li Xuan do at this time, improve technology? That's for later, now, he wants to expand his living space!

To solve the problem of eating, in fact, it is very simple to say, either the grain production will increase, or there will be more land, the former cannot be done, but the latter Li Xuan thinks it can be done.

When the land of China could not support the people of China, more land should be seized with guns.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty officially put forward such a sentence as a propaganda slogan, and even existed as the propaganda tone of the entire empire for many years.

"The land of the world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers'

This sentence is not only used to highlight the empire and highlight the legitimacy and sacredness of Li Xuan's rule, but also as a theoretical basis for the expansion of the empire!

After the Tang Empire ended the Southwest Campaign and the Liaodong Campaign, it quickly embarked on the road of expansion!

To the northeast, they took the Goryeo Peninsula, dividing the entire Goryeo Peninsula into four provinces under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Province, while also advancing in a northeasterly direction, with military strikes and resettlement going hand in hand.

In just two years, from the eighth year of Xuanping to the tenth year of Xuanping, the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture organized hundreds of thousands of landless peasants from inland provinces to migrate to Liaodong Province to reclaim land, and developed a large amount of land.

Overseas, the empire took overseas trade as the forerunner and actively carried out overseas immigration activities, and Luzon has become the majority of overseas immigrants in recent years, with more than tens of thousands of people immigrating to Luzon one after another.

Because of the gradual increase in population and the increasing importance of the Imperial Cabinet at the beginning of the tenth year of Xuanping, it was decided at the Imperial Cabinet meeting to upgrade Luzon to Luzon.

One south and one north, this is the main direction of the current immigration expansion policy of the empire in the last two years!

And as Li Xuan, who promotes all this development, sometimes he can't help but be proud!

In the thousands of years of history of China, the only person who can do this is himself!

What does this mean, it shows that he is still doing well as an emperor, and he is worthy of being the chosen son!

Of course, Li Xuan, as an insider, didn't know, in fact, his thoughts were actually no different from the first emperor Learbi.

At that time, Lear Bi also felt that he was the chosen son, and then resolutely ascended the throne and became emperor.

But no matter what, Li Xuan is pushing the Tang Empire forward step by step according to his own ideas, pushing the ancient nation of China forward, not just immersed in the glory of the past and unable to extricate himself.

In the past thousands of years, Huaxia, which has been the king and hegemon in East Asia, is very awesome, but it is still far from truly dominating the world, and now Li Xuan is going to lead Huaxia to build a real global empire!

For example, the Tang Dynasty, which was even greater in the former Tang Dynasty, made future generations mention his Tang Empire, and they all had to gasp!

Not worship, but fear!

A great empire must be feared!

When there is fear, there will be respect and honor!

This is just like the empires on which the sun never sets, all of them have a power that is extremely feared by outsiders, and the most typical representative of this power is a global navy.

When Spain dominated the world, it relied on its invincible armada!

When Britain dominated the world, it relied on its Royal Navy!

When the United States dominated the world, it relied on its aircraft carrier fleet!

And each of the above-mentioned fleets is basically a global navy, capable of controlling every sea area in this world, and thus supporting its global strategy!

If the Tang Empire wants to go out and dominate the world, it must have a global navy.

Therefore, in the past two years, the Tang Empire has continued to reduce the proportion of total military expenditure, but the proportion of naval military expenditure has increased year by year, which can be said to be extremely abnormal.

At present, the financial budget revenue of the Tang Empire, that is, the tenth year of Xuanping, has exceeded 90 million taels, but the total military expenditure is still maintained at about 30 million taels, accounting for 30 percent of the fiscal expenditure.

If this expenditure ratio is in later generations, even if it is around the twentieth century, it is also very terrifying, but for this era, it is nothing, you must know that in the early years, the proportion of military expenditure of the Tang Dynasty accounted for more than 50% of the fiscal revenue, if it was a few years earlier, it was basically seven or eight percent.

Today's 30 percent ratio is already the result of falling again and again, and judging from the trend of this year's wind, the proportion of military spending next year will even drop further to about 28 percent.

However, the proportion of expenditures has decreased, but with the increase of fiscal revenues, the total military expenditures have increased year by year.

But this increase in military spending is not on the army, but on the navy!

In Xuanping's 10-year financial expenditure budget, the total military expenditure was 30 million taels of silver, and the army accounted for 80 percent, taking away 24 million taels of silver, which was even less than the military expenditure of the army in the ninth year of Xuanping, and the army's military expenditure in the ninth year of Xuanping was still 25 million taels of silver.

This year's navy's military expenditure accounts for 20 percent of the total military expenditure, that is, 6 million taels of silver, which is already directly double that of Xuanping's seventh year.

This shows how quickly the Empire's investment in the Navy has increased.

The navy's military expenditure has increased, and they have also accelerated the strength of shipbuilding, and in addition to implementing the fleet expansion plan implemented by Xuanping in the seventh year, they have begun to brew a new round of fleet expansion plan this year.

Seeing the round after round of expansion on the navy's side, the army side also has some opinions, and this kind of opinion is not small, and it has been many times that Li Xuan's side has been troubled.

In the words of the army generals, the army is suffering now!

In the past, he fought for life and death, and finally laid this great foundation under the leadership of the Son of Heaven, but now he has been picked by the navy's group of bastards, and the military budget is so tight every year that the army's reorganization plan for the whole army that has been preparing for the army cannot be implemented, and it can only be made up for small fights.

The army side took 24 million taels of silver, which seems to be a lot, but in fact it is really not enough, because the army needs to maintain a huge army!

You must know that the army not only has a field force of several hundred thousand people, but also a large number of reserve divisions, and the number of reserve divisions is much more than that of field troops.

Since the end of the Battle of the Goryeo Peninsula, there has been no large-scale fighting on the part of the Imperial Army in the past two years, and the Privy Council has also taken the opportunity to reorganize the system of the army, including the improvement of the establishment, the improvement of the system between field divisions, reserve divisions and militia units, and more importantly, the large number of grenades equipped.

After two years of sorting out and rectifying, there are currently 16 infantry divisions on the army side, and each of these 16 infantry divisions is a strategic strike force of the Tang Empire.

It is the core force that maintains the external expansion of the empire, resists foreign enemies, suppresses internal strife, and maintains the inviolability of the Holy Son of Heaven's divine imperial power!

According to the latest establishment table of the Privy Council, these 16 infantry divisions, except for a very small number of divisions with some special formations, such as the Fourth Infantry Division, which is specially deployed in the southwest region, is not the same, most of the infantry divisions are relatively unified, but the establishment of six regiments and four battalions reorganized by the Imperial Privy Council.

The six regiments refer to the fact that each infantry division has three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment, and a baggage regiment.

The four battalions refer to the fact that in addition to the above-mentioned regiments, each infantry division also has an engineering battalion, an assault battalion, a guard battalion, and a heavy artillery battalion.

The establishment of the six regiments and four battalions is also the biggest reform of the field troops carried out by the imperial army in the past two years, and the core of the reform is actually not artillery, cavalry, and baggage troops, because these changes are not big, and the biggest is the reform of the establishment of infantry battalions.

In the early years, each infantry regiment of the army had five infantry battalions, and each infantry battalion was not large.

In actual battles, especially when all flintlock pistols were equipped, this kind of organization became unsuitable, because the regiment of the five-battalion system was formed in order to adapt to arquebuses and spears, and after changing to flintlock pistols, this kind of formation was not very suitable.

This situation was exposed in the later stage of the Unification War and the Goryeo Peninsula Campaign, but there was no time to rectify it at that time, and after the Goryeo Peninsula Campaign, the army organized a lot of research, and finally with the Strategic Department under the Privy Council Operations Department as the core, a new four-battalion establishment was proposed to adapt to the new weapons and tactics.

And the establishment of each infantry battalion is also larger than that of the previous infantry battalion, because the size of each infantry team has expanded from the previous 100 to about 140 people.

Therefore, the individual combat ability of each infantry battalion is also more powerful!

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