When Li Xuan expressed his grand strategic concept, for many high-ranking members of the army, they did not have the same mental strength as the navy, and they were full of great achievements, fame, and glory.

The first thing that came to the minds of those army bosses was: the empire will continue to expand, expansion means war, and war means that they can continue to fight for Your Majesty!

In this way, they don't have to worry about being like the founding heroes of many dynasties, after unification, they will be cooked by rabbits and dead dogs, and all birds will be hidden.

This world is so vast, if Your Majesty wants to conquer these regions, he will continue to use these generals!

It's a good thing, a great thing!

A few days later, Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing, who learned the top-secret news, and the four army commanders who led the army abroad, all wrote a secret fold and sent it back, and the content on the secret fold was much the same, saying that they all resolutely supported the decision of the Holy Son of Heaven to expand the territory, and they would be all over the place, and they would also conquer the world for His Majesty!

In fact, it's no wonder that these army generals, especially the high-level lieutenant generals, will think of rabbits and dead dogs for the first time, because this kind of thing is too much in the thousands of years of history in China.

Therefore, people with a little bit of historical knowledge will worry about such a problem, when the empire is completely unified, will they follow in the footsteps of the founding generals of previous dynasties and be cooked by rabbits and dead dogs.

Those who served in the Privy Council and did not control the military power outside, such as Zeng Ziwen and Lei Wan, they are all fine, although they are also high-ranking generals in the army, but to be honest, their prestige in the Tang Army is actually limited, and it is basically difficult to have any actual impact on the imperial power after leaving the War Department.

But Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, Wang Chaohong, and Fang Xi are different from these generals who lead the army abroad, they lead the army to fight outside all the year round, even if Li Xuan has made many restrictions in order to prevent various accidents, such as the military salary is directly transferred from the Ministry of Taxation to the soldier's account in the royal bank, and the military salary is directly distributed without going through the chief officer of the army.

Another example is the strict restriction on the recruitment of troops on the spot, and the power of recruiting troops has always been firmly controlled by the Cabinet, the War Department and the Navy Department, and even the right to recruit soldiers of the Guards is handled by the War Department, and the War Department and the Navy Department are not held by generals, but by civilian officials.

In addition, there are other less obvious constraints, such as the unification of logistics, and when the logistics supply of the troops is always provided by the logistics department, it is also to avoid potential risks.

The training of recruits is the responsibility of the Training Department of the Privy Council, and the replenishment of soldiers is also the responsibility of the War Department.

The generals of the army do not have the above rights.

However, even if there are many restrictions, but it is actually very difficult to really restrict the generals from rebelling and rebelling, and the generals who lead the army outside generally have a very high prestige, have strong control over the troops they belong to, and can also give false orders, the troops have various restrictions, but if you are really ruthless, you can actually cause all kinds of turmoil.

Li Xuan also took certain precautions against this, and the transfer of senior generals was relatively frequent, for example, the large rotation of the generals at the two levels of the previous army commander and division commander was to prevent senior generals from serving in a unit for too long and causing deep-rooted influence.

Hao Bonian had served in the First Army for a long time, and later Li Xuan transferred him to the Third Army, and after a while, Li Xuan was also ready to transfer him again.

Of course, these are just some of Li Xuan's preventive measures, or systems.

What he wants is to completely form a fixed system to prevent the future, especially after he dies, the devil knows if his son or grandson can control the situation.

As for himself, he is not worried about this kind of problem!

Speaking of prestige, who in the entire Tang Dynasty can have his high prestige? This prestige is not only brought by his status as emperor, but more importantly, he is the one who leads this empire to the top step by step.

All kinds of policies and military reforms have left a deep imprint on him, and many military generals, especially senior military generals, are almost all students of the Imperial Academy, and the students in the Imperial Academy can be called the protégés of the Son of Heaven, especially in the previous periods, Li Xuan taught in person, it can be said that many senior military generals, including Hao Bonian, were personally brought out by him.

In this era, the relationship between teachers and students is far closer than that between monarchs and ministers!

Li Xuan doesn't have to worry about these problems, but his successor will inevitably worry about these problems, so Li Xuan can be regarded as taking precautions, and from the very beginning, he has established various perfect prevention systems to avoid trouble in the future.

Not to mention what Li Xuan himself thought, but in the eyes of the high-ranking generals of the army, the Son of Heaven clearly revealed his strategic vision for the future, indicating that the war is far from over, and this is enough!

Under the influence of Li Xuan's first revelation of the global strategic concept, without alarming outsiders, under the Privy Council Operations Department, an overseas strategy department was quietly established, which consists of the West Asia Section, Southeast Asia Section, South Asia Section, American Section, and European Section, which specializes in studying the situation of all countries in the world and providing strategic support for foreign expansion and conquest after reunification!

In fact, it is more appropriate to add the word "global" to this overseas strategy department, such as 'global strategy department', but the overseas strategy department still cannot accurately describe Li Xuan's grand global strategic concept.

The Military Intelligence Department under the Privy Council has also officially opened sections in Europe, the Americas, South Asia, and West Asia to spy on all the intelligence of various countries and carry out all kinds of secret activities.

First of all, there is a lack of qualified intelligence personnel, and it is completely different from espionage in eastern Liaodong and southwest China in China.

And if you go overseas, at least you have to know the local language, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., you have to master one of them, and now that the colonies of these two countries are spread all over the world, knowing one of them overseas can solve most of the language problems you face.

But if you want to blend in with the high society of Europe, travel widely throughout Europe and spy on intelligence, you must also know Latin, otherwise you will not even be able to read many European books.

Well, the lingua franca of Europe these days is not English, nor is it Spanish and Portuguese, and even less German, English and French, but Latin.

The clergy, scholars, and others had a wide range of written and spoken languages, mostly in Latin.

However, in East Asia, there will be no such problem, appearance is not a problem, because they are all yellow people with yellow skin and black eyes, and North Korea, Fuso, Annam and other places are the radiation areas of Chinese traditional culture, North Korea and Annam and Japan, the upper class people widely use Chinese, well, proud to know Chinese!

The newly opened offices under the Global Strategy Department and the Military Intelligence Department reflect the current strategic transformation of the Tang Dynasty and begin to prepare for it.

Perhaps, it will take many years before the global strategy can be truly implemented, but Li Xuan has always been a person who needs to take precautions, and now he is ready, and he will fight in the future, without grinding and procrastinating.

Compared with the navy, it is only doing intelligence and strategic preparations, while the navy's actions are much faster, and now the navy has begun to discuss how to build a strong navy in the future global strategy!

For this reason, a group of senior naval staff officers within the Navy are already planning a three-year development plan or even a ten-year development plan.

In the ten-year development plan, those senior staff officers clamored for the fleet to have 300 main warships, of which the total number of battleships would reach 100 and the number of cruisers should reach 200. And frigates, patrol ships, etc., are prepared to exclude the range of capital ships.

And out of a hundred battleships, the number of first-class battleships should reach fifteen, the number of second-class battleships should reach twenty, and the number of capital ships of the third class should reach sixty-five!

However, now, the Datang Navy does not even have a single battleship, only two third-class battleships under construction, and it will take two or three years to enter service.

The ten-year plan is too long, but the three-year plan is imminent, because the Son of Heaven does not have much time left for the navy, and the Son of Heaven has already made it clear that if he wants to seize Malacca in the next few years, he will definitely have to fight with the Portuguese at that time, and in order to ensure sea supremacy, the strength of the navy must be obtained to a certain extent.

For this reason, when discussing within the navy, in order to ensure the security of sea supremacy at that time, even if it is only a minimum level of escort, then the navy must have more than five capital ships of the third class, and twenty cruisers of the third class, and the number of frigates will be even more.

Why do you need so many ships, because you need to escort them, the Portuguese are not stupid, you can't do it on land, if you can't fight a decisive battle with the fleet, they will directly attack the merchant fleet, without the protection of warships, it is difficult to ensure the safety of the merchant ships themselves.

When the time comes, if a merchant ship loaded with goods is sunk casually, it will be a loss of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and if you are unlucky enough to go home and directly kill a merchant fleet, the loss will reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver.

For this reason, before the discussion within the Navy was over, and the official fleet expansion plan had not yet been submitted to the Son of Heaven, the Navy had already placed an order for three third-class battleships in advance!