The navy is crazy and poor, and everyone is calling for economy, freeing up military expenses to build ships and expand the fleet, but it is not a matter of saving alone, it is only a few million taels of silver a year, but it is necessary to maintain such a large stall.

Therefore, the navy is now also beginning to want to take the wrong path.

What should I do if the military expenditure from the treasury is not enough to spend?

In recent years, they have frequently expanded in the South Seas, in fact, they also have plans in this regard, which is to defeat an indigenous place, looting gold and silver and other kinds of booty is indispensable, although these booty still nominally still belong to the treasury, so that the Ministry of Taxation will be included in the fiscal revenue.

But this is only in name, when it comes to actual operation, the Son of Heaven will also compare the size of the military, and in the end, some of these trophies will often be returned directly to the army or navy.

In addition, when looting the booty, not everything needs to be handed over, and the personal seizures of the soldiers can be kept, which can be regarded as a measure to subsidize the soldiers for the military.

After all, in recent years, salaries have been continuously reduced, and the overall salary has dropped by 20 percent, which is still talking about ordinary soldiers, if it is officers, they are often called to donate, and some of the officers who have a big family and do not rely on their salaries to support their families will even donate all their salary income.

Therefore, a certain amount of compensation is given in terms of war booty, which is also a measure that the military has long acquiesced in.

Fighting the South Seas, although there is also loot income, but generally speaking, it is not much, although this broken place is large, but those islands are actually like that, the main wealth is all kinds of spices, and spices need to be planted, and then trade before they can generate value, and the military cannot directly obtain too much loot income.

If it's the Americas, then there's a big chance.

The Spaniards can obtain a large amount of gold and silver in the Americas, and it makes no sense that their Tang Empire, or more accurately, their Tang Navy is not good.

Those are two continents, and from the mouths of those foreigners, they know that that this place is rich in gold and silver, and any cheapest glass bead can be exchanged for a piece of dog's head gold.

This kind of place is much better than Australia occupied by the Tang Empire today.

Although Australia is also large, the Tang Empire has also carried out secret explorations in recent years without the help of various countries, but the main development is mainly concentrated in the northwest of Australia, that is, the place where a gold mine was discovered, and more than 2,000 people have immigrated before and after.

However, just digging for gold by yourself, how can you snatch it directly from others!

What's more, in that part of Australia, even if you dig up a lot of gold, it will belong to the treasury, and it has nothing to do with their navy, but if it is robbed in the Americas, then a considerable part of it will become naval military expenses.

In this way, the Navy will not be so interested in the Americas until they receive a report from the Luzon Squadron.

They are already ready, and this year they will send an exploration fleet to the Pacific Ocean, and after figuring out a safe route, then it is time to cross the Pacific Ocean and kill the Americas.

The navy did not care about the war in the north, and was focused on its own strategy of going south and what to colonize the Americas, and the same was true of the army, they were not interested in overseas, they were only interested in conquering the grasslands.

If you want to conquer the steppe, you have to defeat the Tatars, and if you want to defeat the Tatars, then you need to seize the Hetao, inflict heavy damage on the Ordos department, and first cut off one of Altan Khan's arms.

It is unlikely that a full-scale march to the steppe will be possible in a short period of time, because although the current Tang Empire's cavalry is not small, there is still a big gap in number with the Tatars, a nomadic people.

At this time, Lu Yuzhi, the director of the army cavalry, was briefly explaining to everyone the current cavalry strength of the Tang Empire!

At the end of the Unification War, he served as the commander of the First Cavalry Division with the rank of Major General, and was promoted to lieutenant general for ten years, and served as the director of cavalry in the Privy Council of the Army, responsible for cavalry development, tactical strategy and other matters.

To some extent, this person is the cavalry director of the Tang Army, of course, he has no command authority.

His judgment of the Imperial cavalry was the most authoritative.

I only heard him say to the crowd: "To implement the Hetao strategy, cavalry is the most important thing!" With that, he looked around, and the others also looked approving.

In northern operations, cavalry is definitely the core combat force, which no one can oppose, so even those artillery generals who think highly of themselves have to pinch their noses and admit that in northern operations, especially in field operations, cavalry is the core force, even if it is their artillery, they have to ride on horses and incarnate as cavalry artillery to accompany the cavalry.

Lu Yuzhi continued at this time: "In order to deal with the situation in the Hetao, our army has concentrated four cavalry divisions and two cuirassier regiments in the area around the Hetao, and we are already able to gather 15,000 elite cavalry on the eastern front line of the Hetao!" ”

Wen Chen, who doesn't know much about military affairs on the side, is a little puzzled, your army has been engaged in it for so many years, and the military expenditure is millions of taels, so you can make more than 10,000 cavalry?

They don't know about military affairs, so naturally they don't know that although there are more than a few cavalry in the Tang Army, there are more places that the Tang Army needs to guard, and the northern border line alone is tens of thousands of kilometers, how can it be possible to gather all the cavalry.

What's more, what Lu Yuzhi said was only an independent cavalry unit, and did not include the divisional cavalry unit.

The total number of cavalry in the Tang Army is naturally more than 15,000 cavalry, in fact, if you only talk about cavalry, the number of cavalry in Datang is still relatively large.

After so many years of development, the number of cavalry of the Tang Army has been greatly expanded, and the independent cavalry and divisional cavalry have developed together.

Divisional cavalry is the cavalry unit attached to each infantry division and even each reserve division, each main infantry division has the establishment of a cavalry regiment, and the reserve division has the establishment of a cavalry battalion.

The division of the main infantry division belongs to the cavalry regiment, with a standard establishment of 650 light cavalry, equipped with sabers, flintlock rifles, flintlock pistols and other weapons, and is mainly responsible for reconnaissance, covering the flanks, pursuing and covering up and killing.

The cavalry battalion of the reserve division has 300 cavalry!

However, this is only a standard establishment, and in fact there is a general shortage, such as the reserve division, its cavalry battalion is generally only so many hundred horsemen, and the few are even only a few dozen horsemen, which is called a cavalry battalion, let alone a cavalry team.

Except for the main infantry divisions guarding the northern frontier, the situation is relatively good, and the infantry divisions in the hinterland of the Central Plains and in the southwest and south are generally short of cavalry regiments under their jurisdiction, ranging from two or three hundred to four or five hundred.

At the same time, the cavalry units in these infantry divisions and reserve divisions are inferior cavalry units within the army, and most of the war horses used are Mongolian horses of poor quality.

And these divisions belong to cavalry, and the total number is about fifteen thousand cavalry!

But the elite cavalry of the Tang Army is mainly concentrated in a few independent cavalry units!

At present, the Tang Army has a total of five cavalry divisions and 12 cavalry regiments, with a total of about 30,000 independent cavalry.

These five cavalry divisions, in fact, are the previous cavalry brigades, but they have been given a different name, and their commanders are still with the rank of major general.

Each cavalry division has two cavalry brigades under its jurisdiction, and each cavalry brigade has three cavalry regiments, and the establishment of the cavalry regiment is a standard 650 cavalry, a small regiment, six cavalry regiments plus a cavalry battalion directly under the division headquarters.

The combat cavalry can reach 4,000 cavalry, in addition to a cavalry artillery battalion and a cavalry baggage battalion.

In the case of the 12 cavalry regiments, the types and establishments are not very uniform, they are all set up according to local conditions, and they generally have relatively obvious characteristics, and there are all kinds of cavalry.

For example, the famous First Lancer Regiment, this cavalry regiment can almost be said to be the proudest and most dazzling business card of the army's cavalry units.

But Fang Dongquan, a retired former army veteran, said: The 1st Lancer Regiment is an expensive vase made by some people!

Because in his opinion, this first lancer regiment is useless except for pretending to be showy, and it is also very expensive, isn't it just a precious vase!

The regiment is a standard heavy cavalry, the whole regiment has 850 heavy cavalry, these heavy cavalry wear special full-body plate armor, use Sui Fa pistol, sabre, Sui Fa cavalry and other weapons to fight, the cost of several times than ordinary light cavalry, but how much real combat value, that is, the wisdom of the people, some people think that this first lancer regiment can sweep the world, some people think that as long as he is given an infantry battalion, he can completely annihilate this lancer regiment.

In short, this 1st Lancer Regiment is the unit that has caused the most disagreement within the empire, and even the civilian officials in the cabinet occasionally use it to make fun of it, saying that the army spends so much every year and does some fancy things.

Many people think that this kind of iron canned heavy cavalry was a little useful a few decades ago, but now that guns are in charge, this kind of iron canned food is still useful!

The full-body plate armor they wore was different from the mass-produced plate armor, first of all, they generally used personal customization, and each knight of the 1st Lancer Regiment would tailor this full-body plate armor to him after being selected.

Secondly, this kind of plate armor is made of the best steel that Datang can make at present. This kind of steel is expensive, the output is small, and it will not be used to produce ordinary plate armor, let alone export-oriented plate armor, and the plate armor made of this high-quality steel is lighter in weight under the same defensive performance.

According to the Army's vision, this unit was tasked with directly confronting the enemy's cavalry charge, as well as storming the enemy's infantry phalanx, and tearing through the enemy's defenses for its own army.

But whether it can be done or not, no one knows!