As for how far the Tang Dynasty can go in the future, whether it is before or now, Li Xuan does not have much confidence, although he often dreams of drinking horses from the Qinhuai River and entering the Forbidden City, but in fact, he has not had much confidence to come this far.

According to his own inference, it is possible for his Tang dynasty to occupy several prefectures and counties in a short period of time, or even expand the scope of activities to several provinces within a few years.

But he felt that this kind of expansion would be short-lived, and before the Ming Dynasty attached importance to it and gathered the strength of the whole country to encircle and suppress, his Tang Dynasty would have a relatively large space for activities, but it would be able to do a lot of things during this time.

After waiting for the Ming Dynasty to really pay attention to it, the activity space of the Tang Dynasty is bound to be seriously compressed, and it is unlikely that the Tang Dynasty wants to be a bandit like Li Zicheng at that time.

Because the Datang New Army relies heavily on firearms for combat, without firearms, to be honest, although the Datang New Army still has a certain advantage in the quality of soldiers, this advantage can be resolved.

In order to keep firearms in use, the Tang Dynasty must have a stable rear that can provide soldiers, weapons and ammunition, which means that the new army of the Tang Dynasty cannot fight in a way that flows around like Li Zicheng or Hong Xiuquan.

Even the coercion can't be played, because the premise of the coercion is that in the year of the house famine, the ruling class is extremely disappointed in the ruling class, and sometimes it sweeps the country when it can't survive, but the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of this year is still in the middle of the dynasty, although many problems have been exposed, but it is far from the end of the Ming Dynasty that the people are not living and the situation of changing children and eating.

The peasants in China are the most simple, and they will not rebel at the slightest rush, and they will not hide from such things.

Moreover, although the Tang Dynasty is small, it is also a regime established according to a standard dynasty, and it is already planning to open the imperial examination.

The current national conditions and the particularity of the new army of the Tang Dynasty itself determine that the path of bandits is not suitable for the Tang Dynasty.

Since you don't play bandits, you can only play the mode of the base area, and in order to keep the base area and even develop and grow, the new army of the Tang Dynasty needs to defeat the Ming army, and it needs to constantly defeat the Ming army, and this needs to maintain the advantage of weapons and personnel.

As for the advantage of firearms, Li Xuan didn't know how long he could maintain it.

Everyone is not stupid, your Datang New Army will use firearms, and the Ming Army will also use them, even if they can't react for a while in the early stage, but they will definitely use firearms on a large scale in the later stage.

And the musket of the Tang New Army, to be honest, is not a high-tech product, the craftsmen in the ravines can make it, and the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can also make it, in fact, probably in this period, the Ming Dynasty will imitate the bird gun, and the bird gun is a very typical arquebus.

As for artillery, the Ming Dynasty is even more lacking, and today's Ming Dynasty has been equipped with a large number of Franc machine guns, and there are many general cannons of hundreds or even thousands of catties.

Even if there were no guns and artillery before the Ming Dynasty, but people wouldn't imitate them?

Therefore, the technical superiority in firearms cannot be maintained for too long in theory, and how long it can be maintained depends on how much attention the Ming Dynasty attaches to the Tang Dynasty.

Maybe it's a year or two, maybe five or six years, and if the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty collectively make stupid mistakes, it may also remain for more than ten or twenty years.

It is unknown how long the advantage in firearms will be maintained.

And once there is no advantage in firearms, the quality and tactics of the soldiers will not be of much use.

Even if the Ming army is worse than you, you can't beat it one-on-one, and people won't fight one out of ten?

Based on these reasons, Li Xuan has always been pessimistic about the future of his own Tang Dynasty, and it is estimated that it is possible to be able to crisscross several provinces and jump for a few years, but it is really too difficult to overthrow the Ming Dynasty. Although Li Xuan wouldn't say this thought to everyone in his heart, it didn't mean that he wouldn't think like this, and make some preparations for it.

What preparation?

Naturally, it's an escape, but Li Xuan has been ready to run away all the time for more than a year.

And in these days, what could be safer than escaping from the sea.

When the time comes, if he can't beat the Ming Dynasty, he will take the remnants of the Tang Dynasty to the sea, well, not to go to the sea like the blue building, that's what women do, but to Nanyang or something, if it is to go to these places in Nanyang, it is easier to find a place to kill all the natives and continue to be his emperor.

Even if he can't take the army away, it will be easier for him to run with his family at that time, and he can't wait for the Ming army to come to the door.

That's right, even if there are already thousands of troops under his hands, all of whom are already planning to attack the city and overthrow the Ming Dynasty, Li Xuan still does not forget to leave a way out for himself.

Because he really has no faith!

Choosing to go south and go to the beach, in addition to planning to leave a way out for yourself, of course, there are other more important reasons, after all, you don't have to run to the beach to run away from this kind of thing, and going to the mountains and forests is the same effect.

If you go to the south first, you can stay away from the ruling core of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Yangtze River Basin, and the military pressure will be less and you will have more time for development.

In addition, you can also exchange science and technology with foreigners.

Although the Westerners in these years are not good at science and technology, there are some things that are still very good, such as their artillery, and we will see if we can get the manufacturing technology of artillery from the foreigners when the time comes.

In addition, it is very important to do maritime trade business to make money to support the family, oh no, it is to raise an army.

The combination of so many reasons prompted Li Xuan to make the choice to go south.

Therefore, at the imperial strategic meeting the next day, Bai Yunqi, who had been hinted at by Li Xuan, once again proposed a plan to go south, and he came up with a very detailed strategic plan for going south.

A clear-eyed person glanced at Bai Yunqi's actions, just to know that this was a decision made by His Majesty himself.

Because in the high-level of the Tang Dynasty, everyone knew that Bai Yunqi was the spokesperson of the emperor, and at every strategic meeting in front of the emperor, he rarely took the initiative to say anything, let alone put forward any constructive suggestions.

Once he came up with a very detailed plan, then eight out of ten nine times out of ten was the emperor's intention.

And this time, the same is true, Bai Yunqi's plan for going south is more detailed than the plan proposed by Li Chunjing and them yesterday.

In this plan for moving south, not only military strategy is taken into account, but also political and economic issues.

With such a detailed plan, ten Bai Yunqi can't do it.

Only His Majesty can come up with such a detailed plan!