Chapter 1305: “Rebuilding new army”

The spiritual life of the people is more important than the vast territory, and even more important than the degree of economic prosperity. The greatness of a nation lies in its height of internal development, not its height of external development.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russian writer)
Seeing that Duke Cullen also mentioned the formation of a new legion, Duke Patel, the prime minister of the empire, hurriedly objected and said: "Your Majesty, there are now 120 standing legions in the empire, which is the limit that the empire’s finances can support. Form a new legion!"
"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister said so much." Duke Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, echoed: "The Imperial Army now requires 30 million gold coins per month. If the Imperial Army continues to expand, we It is really impossible to get the gold coins to send the military rates."
"What? Thirty million gold coins!" Duke Cullen, surprised by this number, angrily questioned Duke Hammond: "You old man said to give me 30 million gold coins for military expenses a month, then I Why did the military actually receive only 12 million military expenses?"
"Humph!" Duke Patel, who was already dissatisfied with the Duke of Columbine, sneered. "The Imperial Army's monthly military expenditure is more than the Imperial Ministry's expenses? The weapons and equipment of the fallen soldiers, which is not a huge expenditure? And what is handled by your imperial army?"
"Your Majesty." The Secretary of the Interior, Duke Amble, immediately stepped forward: "The Ministry of Finance has allocated four million gold coins to our city defense army's pay and maintenance costs every month, and the monthly pension for the fallen soldiers is as high as 700. Ten thousand gold coins."
"Different city defense troops, why did the army pay four million gold coins in January?" Charlie the Great asked the Duke Amble in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty, after the last war, the Imperial Ministry adjusted the scale of the provincial defense force. There are three thousand city defense officers in the capital of the ordinary provinces, and there are 1,000 city defense officers in each county. There are between six thousand and seven thousand soldiers."
"The size of the city defense army of the four provinces under the governor's government is more than twice that of ordinary regular provinces. Take the Mengdan province of the eastern metropolitan government as an example. The capital of the province has five thousand city defense troops, There are two thousand city defense generals in each of the four subordinates."
"Our empire currently has four governors under the nineteen governors, with a total of 239,000 urban defense forces; the other 35 regular provinces, with a total of 224,000 urban defense forces; It is not an exaggeration for as many city defense troops to consume four million gold coins per month."
Dissatisfied with the interpretation of Duke Amble, Duke Cullen immediately reprimanded: "Our army has 120 standing legions plus seven special legions, and the monthly military expenditure of 2.54 million soldiers is only 1,200. Ten thousand gold coins, the monthly military expenditure of the 450,000 city defense army in your area is actually 4 million gold coins; in the end, the city defense army is the pillar of the imperial army, or is my standing army the pillar of the imperial army?!"
"Your excellency Cullen, do you think that the military expenditure of the City Defense Army is only for the City Defense Army generals?" Duke Amble retorted without any weakness: "Forty-five thousand City Defense Army don't need to spend money to eat and drink Lhasa, every month Is it not excessive to consume one million gold coins?"
"Forty-five thousand city defense troops consume one million gold coins per month, which is not excessive, so where are the remaining three million coins?"
"Your Excellency Cullen is really forgetful. Have you forgotten that the military department has allocated the military expenditure of the Royal Legion and the Royal Knights to our Ministry of the Interior? In our Ministry of the Interior, the military expenditure of the Royal Legion and the Royal Knights is the same as The city defense forces were put together."
"Even if this is the case, 250,000 Royal Legionmen and 13,000 Royal Knights will not be possible for a month..."
After talking half-stop, Duke Cullen suddenly realized what he had done. He quickly looked up at the dragon seat, and Emperor Charlie's face was really gloomy; after knowing that he was wrong, Duke Cullen immediately turned back aside. No more.
The Royal Army and the Royal Knights have a monthly military expenditure of up to three million gold coins. This is definitely not normal. As for why it is not normal, the Duke of Coulomb knows it; after all, the military expenditures of the Royal Army and the Royal Knights are all part of the military. Distribute it.
"This is the end of the military expenditure, it is 30 million gold coins, 30 million gold coins, needless to say." Charlie the emperor directly concluded the matter of military expenses, and then asked the Duke Hammond: "The Empire Ministry of Finance has the most How many gold coins can still be used for military expansion?"
Knowing that the expansion of the army was a foregone conclusion, Duke Hammond thought carefully and replied: "Your Majesty, the Treasury currently has 65 million gold coins in stock. If necessary, you can take out 25 million of them. The military headquarters expanded."
Dissatisfied with this number, Emperor Charlie frowned tightly, and then turned his head to ask the Duke of Amber: "Did your Ministry of the Interior discover a large gold mine in the southern province of Milan in the last few months? How is mining now?"
"Your Majesty, Midland Governor has recruited more than 20,000 young and strong men to participate in the mining of gold mines in Tabus County. Last month, seven tons of gold were mined; but because the mint for melting gold coins is still expanding, nearly The total amount of gold coins in three months is only 1.4 million."
"Mining seven tons of gold a month is too slow, and casting 1.4 million gold coins in three months is ridiculous!"
"Your Majesty, Weichen sent someone to the Midland Governor immediately after returning home today, allowing him to expand the mining volume and speed up the coining."
"My request is: within one month, the number of workers in mining must reach 100,000, and the gold coins minted each month must not be less than three million."
"Your Majesty, is the one-month period a bit hasty, Governor Midland may be over there..."
Before the words of Duke Amble were finished, he was interrupted by Charlie the Great: "Amber, my words are orders!"
"Weichen obeyed purpose." Duke Amble suddenly said no more.
"Coulomb, I ask the Ministry of Finance to withdraw 15 million gold coins from the national treasury, and then replenish your military department with two million gold coins every month; within a month and a half, you can recruit as many new soldiers as you can and build a standing army to the Eastern Front. ?"
"Your Majesty, although recruiting is not difficult, the formation of the standing army is not easy. Our military department has limited reserves of weapons and equipment. We can only build up to ten standing army in a month and a half."
"Ten legions are too few, not enough, far enough!" After a moment of meditation, Charlie the Great ordered directly: "I will find a solution to the problem of weapons and equipment. Your task is to recruit 500,000 recruits within a month. Twenty-five standing legions."
"Weichen obeyed." The Duke of Coulomb felt that his task was not too difficult.
"Boris."
"The minister is here."
"I gave you 10 million gold coins, and you immediately sent someone to get in touch with the people of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce. I want them to provide the empire with a minimum of 500,000 sets of weapons and equipment within a month; these weapons and equipment do not necessarily need to be more Sophisticated, but must be durable!"
"Weichen obeyed."
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