Chen Xin has a certain understanding of the large number of tragedies caused abroad by his own words from the intelligence agents sent back by intelligence agents stationed in factories, mines, businesses, and dynasties in various foreign countries.

Although it is impossible to empathize, we can also understand the tragic fate of the world's workers before the establishment of the communist Soviet Union, as recorded in historical materials.

However, Chen Xin didn't care. He is very clear about his position, he is the monarch of the United Kingdom of China, he is a member of the Chinese nation, between China and foreign countries, how to choose, there is no need to say more.

However, it is not enough to order all departments to tap their potential, and far water cannot quench the thirst of the near.

Today, the United Kingdom has a huge funding gap.

Originally, due to the great industrial development of the kingdom and the reasons of maritime trade, plus the increase in taxes due to the reclamation of the seized land year by year, the kingdom's finances were quite rich.

However, Chen Xin's insistence on the ethnic policy of the Chinese nation as the main body made the kingdom need to constantly immigrate from the Ming Dynasty, and the annual resettlement cost of nearly one million people was not a small amount.

You must know that the northern region of Korea was originally devastated by the Houjin Tatars because of several bloody wars, and the reconstruction costs and the rereclamation of wasteland required a lot of money and material investment.

In addition to this, there are several huge projects that also consume a large part of the kingdom's budget.

For example, in order to cope with the natural disasters of the Xiaoice River period, ensure domestic grain production, and build a new industrial chain, several inland large rivers and rivers are interconnected with large-scale water conservancy projects.

Another example is the construction of a new road network between different places in order to save transportation costs, reduce differences between regions, and increase exchanges.

In addition, in order to save transportation costs, the railway project was built on an experimental basis.

For a variety of reasons, these projects could not be budgeted.

If this were the case, the Ministry of Finance would have already had relevant plans and budgets, and it would not affect the normal operation of the kingdom, and Chen Xin would not be so worried.

However, just this year, the military, which did not need to use financial allocations, had a shortage of funds because of the kingdom's construction of all-steel warships and large-caliber guns, and at the same time the perennial foreign wars.

The military, the army, more than 20,000 people, the navy, more than a dozen large ships with a displacement of more than 500 tons, and the marines, several thousand foreign soldiers, all spent money from the gold mines mined by Sado Kanayama.

They haven't taken money from the budget for more than three years, and the government has deliberately forgotten them because of the military's eating alone.

The military itself, on the other hand, is also inexperienced, relying on Chen Xin's trust, never to the Ministry of Finance, let alone to submit budget reports to the Ministry of Finance, but only to deliver accounting materials to various supervisory units in accordance with legal procedures.

As a result, neither side expected this to happen this year, let alone make relevant preparations.

When something happened suddenly, when the clues broke out, it suddenly disrupted Chen Xin's original plan.

On October 27, Chen Xin convened an enlarged cabinet meeting in the royal palace, and the topic of the meeting was finance.

The ministers of the cabinet under Chen Xin, senior advisers to the Privy Council, and senior military generals attended the meeting.

Officials of the Ministry of Finance, in the past few days, have already calculated the shortfall in funds for the near future.

At the beginning of the meeting, they informed everyone present about the problems facing the kingdom and then threw out that huge number.

"10 billion!"

This figure caused an exclamation from the military, which has never paid attention to the government's budget.

"What? That's too much?

Do you know how much your own all-steel battleship costs?

How much do you spend on maintenance on your warship each year?

And you are equipped with so many large-caliber artillery, although it has not been officially put into use, but floating on the sea, the maintenance figures and training costs are astronomical.

Don't you care at all? Or is it that your military department, the department that manages the budget, has not learned math well? ”

In the face of questions from officials of the Ministry of Finance, the military representatives really couldn't answer, what could they say?

Let's just say that their military top brass has always thought that the profits created by a mountain of gold can allow them to live carefree for dozens or hundreds of years?

If you really say that, then wait for everyone to laugh to death.

They are also very helpless, this is the price of not learning mathematics well, they can't calculate the accounts, how can they fight with the Ministry of Finance?

At this time, almost all the officers attending the meeting had the same idea: "Such an important thing should have been discovered at the beginning of the year." It's a shame.

When I go back, I must transfer the rice guys from the budget section to the island and be salted fish for a few months. ”

In the past few years, the military has helped Chen Xin lift the table to clean the court a few years ago, and he is not used to looking at the government departments.

Now it's okay, after suffering such a big loss, I see that they are still arrogant.

Naturally, the people in the military will not sit idly by and immediately change the topic.

An officer carrying a general star asked in a low voice, "Why do I feel that this number is so unreliable?" Tens of thousands of people in the military, will it cost so much money to fight a war? ”

The Third Assistant Minister of Finance sneered and explained, "Hey, didn't we make it clear just now, it's not just a matter of fighting a battle.

The ammunition and materials consumed by our army in the run-in of the front line at this time, not to mention the things that have not yet been completed in the second phase of the operation. Not to mention, according to the plan, there will be a third phase of operations after that, and I don't know if the fourth phase of operations will be launched.

It's just the follow-up work of the third stage, the forts that were originally to be built and the corresponding military facilities, plus the construction of civilian living areas, add up, the funds required are more than this number.

This is still the funding gap that still exists after the Ministry of Finance added all the remaining funds from this year's surplus into this bottomless pit. ”

The officer immediately seized the flaw: "Then why is even the construction of civilian facilities counted on our heads?" Isn't this part in charge of the cabinet departments? ”

This immediately drew a crusade.

"What else? Don't you know it yourself? One by one, what do you say about this secrecy, that secrecy, the battle plan has never been revealed to us, and we can't even do the budget, who has set aside so much construction funds for you, this account is not counted on the head of your military, is it difficult that our Ministry of Finance will reimburse it? ”

"It's like, what are you, don't you have points in your heart?"

"At the beginning of each year, I go to you to ask for this year's schedule, but you never give it."

"Now, let's get into trouble, I know how many things have been delayed."

The officer was also the fastest, and when the words came out, he was shocked that something was wrong, he knew that this matter was their fault, originally, when it came to the construction of civilian facilities, it should have been reported to the cabinet in advance, and then the budget should be established.

However, because of the arrogance of their own military personnel, the plan was not delivered to the relevant departments until recently, and now, it is really the military's pot.

In the face of the siege of the subordinate staff of the cabinet ministers, they did not dare to fight back at all, but silently endured everyone's accusations there. 10