In the early hours of the morning, Li Xuan had already gone back to the harem to sleep with the Ye family, and most of the people in Zhaoqing City also fell asleep, but in the conference room in the palace, a group of naval and army officers were still staring at each other with dark circles under their eyes.

At three o'clock in the morning, an army lieutenant colonel couldn't hold it and fell asleep directly, but a few guards came in directly outside and poured a basin of cold water on them. ”

That person naturally didn't dare to scold anything at this time, it was Your Majesty who gave the order, and he didn't have the courage to scold Your Majesty, so he could still vent his anger on the admiral opposite: "It's all the naval turtles who don't know how to advance and retreat, and they have given you up to seven points, and they are not satisfied!" ”

When he spoke, he still slapped the table hard, and his wet hair was thrown up, a very handsome young man, and with this hair-shaking action, it should have been very chic, but with the hideousness on his face, it was not very good-looking.

However, the officers of the navy naturally will not fall behind, and immediately scolded back, and the scolding rose, all of them wanted to come forward to massage, and at this time, the attendant who was already on duty on rotation hurriedly called the guards guarding the fleet outside the door, and said at the same time: "You are all important ministers of the empire, Your Majesty's arms, don't lose your dignity!" ”

At this time, the guards had already pulled away a few excited army and navy generals and acted as a human wall, but although the army and navy generals who were angry at this time retreated, they did not give this Hanlin Academy attendant the face at all: "Get out of the way, it's not your turn to interfere in the affairs of our military!" ”

This is already in his thirties, and he is also a former Ming Juren, the face of the Hanlin Academy Attendant Bachelor sank, and he said secretly in his heart: "What the elders of the pavilion said is right, these martial artists are really unreasonable!" ”

However, he also knew that the separation of military and political affairs was a national policy that His Majesty adhered to, and although he, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, had a different system from the various ministries of the Cabinet, in the final analysis, it still belonged to the civilian system, and in order to avoid taboos, he did not speak.

When the guards went out again, the army and navy sat down again, and then Zeng Ziwen said: "Brother Bao, it's not okay to go on like this, not to mention whether we can hold it up, but Your Majesty's anger is not something you and I can bear, so I will fight hard to let my army colleagues scold, and let the decision be another one percent, eight percent, I don't know what the navy wants?" ”

At this time, Bao Yifen, who was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, also spoke: "Brother Zeng, our navy is not unreasonable, and our navy also understands the difficulties of the army, but your army has a great cause, and you can still eat the enemy in foreign battles, and capture a large number of enemy ordnance and other materials, which saves more, and the funds for this expansion and follow-up operations will also be available, but what about our navy?"

Now our navy does not even have a single warship, and His Majesty has already issued a death order, this year we want our navy to recapture the Pearl River estuary and defeat the puppet Ming Naval Division entrenched in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River and the Pearl River estuary, if we want to do it, we also need to add at least 100 warships, and the navy has more than 10,000 officers, otherwise, it will be really unsustainable! ”

"The previous thirty percent of our navy didn't insist on it, but twenty percent was the least, otherwise, it really wouldn't be able to maintain the situation!"

After Major General Bao Yifen finished speaking, some army generals retorted: "Not a single battleship? What is Veyron Grade? What is the Xingquan? What is Wuzhou? Could it be that the transport ship is not successful? ”

At this time, there was also a naval colonel who said: "The above-mentioned ships are all armed merchant ships, and according to the classification of warships approved by His Majesty, they are not even the lowest-level river gunboats!" ”

After arguing for another quarter of an hour, Rear Admiral Bao Yifen said: "In this way, our navy will take another step back, eighteen percent, and I will take the lead in these two points, and our navy officers and men will collectively supplement the salary with less salary!" ”

"Why don't you shoot!" Immediately, there were army generals shouting!

In the past six months, the vast majority of the more than 2 million yuan in military spending has actually been spent on the army, and this proportion has reached 95 percent.

According to the army's internal plan, even if the army makes concessions on the proportion of subsequent military spending, it must not be less than 90 percent, otherwise it will have an impact on the army's follow-up plans.

However, this ratio, not to mention that the navy does not know about it, and even if it does, it is absolutely impossible to agree to it, and the military expenditure of only 10 percent cannot support the navy's ambitious expansion plan.

In the end, the two sides were at a stalemate again!

The next morning, after Li Xuan got up, he asked how the navy and army were negotiating, and the attendant next to him replied that there was still no agreement, and the requirements of the two sides were very different!

In the end, Li Xuan was not surprised, if he didn't sleep for a night, he would be able to fight for a few percentage points more for his own military branches, and these generals were willing not to sleep.

But it's okay, keep consuming!

Anyway, the distribution of military spending of the army and navy must be agreed, otherwise it will not be possible to carry out work in the follow-up, and I didn't see that the impact of military spending is so great that even Hao Bonian specially ran back from the front line, although it was for the reason of returning to Beijing to report on his work, but Li Xuan didn't know Hao Bonian's thoughts.

Immediately, he scolded Hao Bonian back to the front line, and asked him to go back and lead the troops well, take down the Shaozhou Mansion as soon as possible, and it is the right thing for the troops to advance to Huguang, don't go back to Beijing to participate in this kind of.

On the morning of the same day, Li Xuan began to be in various government affairs according to the usual practice, and at this time, the bigwigs of the cabinet obviously knew that the high-level officials of the navy and army were all locked up in the conference room by His Majesty, and they all had a gloating demeanor, not to mention how happy.

And it is also a sigh, fortunately, all the ministries of our cabinet are united, and several cabinet bosses can also control the situation, and the distribution of administrative expenses of these ministries is also clean and neat, which will make His Majesty angry like those martial artists in the military!

However, there are also people who understand why this happens, because most of the expenditures of the Tang Dynasty are military expenditures, and as for administrative and other expenses, they are only more than 200,000 taels of silver in a hundred years, accounting for less than 10% of the financial expenditure.

This money is not much, and Liu Bagou and other cabinet bigwigs are also strong, so there is no large-scale competition for funds. When the proportion of military spending is reduced in the future, I am afraid that the cabinet ministries will not be able to live in peace!

The top brass of the various ministries of the Cabinet gloated, and they did not save face for the generals of the military, and even openly mocked them!

In this regard, Li Xuan is also too lazy to make great efforts, and the civil officials and military generals are not in harmony, which is the result of his best pursuit, in fact, even if the army and navy have completely broken with many contradictions, it is also related to Li Xuan's connivance.

If he had personally set the distribution ratio of military expenses at the beginning, there would have been so many bad things later.

After handling many government affairs in the morning, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy who accompanied him reported to Li Xuan: "The top level of the army and navy is still deadlocked, and since the early morning of last night, the two sides have only narrowed the gap by two percentage points, the army has regressed to 9 percent, and the navy has regressed to 17 percent.

Although it seems that there is only an eight-percentage point gap in the middle, if it is converted into military spending, it is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, how can it be so easy to compromise!

What should I do in this case?

Cold salad, wait for the times!

So Li Xuan handled official business as usual in the afternoon, but although the others did not go to the conference room, they still sent someone to pass on an edict, saying that the army and navy had made concessions, and I was deeply pleased, and hoped that the army and navy would continue to negotiate amicably for the sake of Datang, and I hoped that the two sides could reach a mutually satisfactory result.

This is tantamount to nothing, so the navy and the army continued to stare at the conference room full of feces and urine, and they didn't dare to sleep, even if they wanted to sleep, as soon as they fell asleep, the guards outside would immediately come in to wash your face, cold water!

And the officials and guards of the Hanlin Academy on duty have now changed four batches of people.

By the end of the evening, all the people of the navy and army who could doze off while sitting were too lazy to speak, even if they had occasional quarrels, they were just a few words of scolding, and they were not as long as before.

As for staging the whole martial arts, I don't play anymore, this is sleepy, how can I have the strength to fight!

As a result, words such as 'turtle, bastard, grandson' occasionally came from the conference room.

But after the two sides endured all kinds of nausea and sleepiness in the conference room full of the smell of feces after dinner, Zeng Ziwen and Bao Yifen glanced at each other, and then they both saw helplessness from each other!

If this continues to grind a few tenths of a dozen or a few tenths, it will definitely not be possible to reach an agreement, and it seems that Your Majesty is really iron-hearted, as long as they don't reach an agreement, I'm afraid they won't let them out, and this is still the beginning, once it really provokes Your Majesty's anger, I'm afraid the navy and army will not be able to please you.

For in the evening His Majesty sent another word that he had decided to deduct a percentage point from the total military expenditure for the year and to be used for the military expenses of the Guards.

What does this mean, it means that if the army and navy are not able to reach an agreement, then His Majesty may directly transfer a large part of the military expenses of the navy and army to the guards.

This military expenditure was originally owned by the sea and the land, but now there is a third disturbance, and it has been poached by the Guards, and if there is more, the top brass of the navy and the army will have to hang themselves.

So after the two glanced at each other, Zeng Ziwen took the lead in speaking: "Nine five!" ”

Bao Yifen: "Sixteen! ”

Zeng Ziwen: "Nine Six"

Bao Yifen: "Fifteen-five!" ”

At this time, Zeng Ziwen's face suddenly became gloomy: "Ten percent, a fixed price, if you don't agree, our army will withdraw from the negotiations, and it's a big deal to end up together!" ”