() Vivien first reported on the fiscal expenditure and income of Basra in the last month, and to Canglong's surprise, the fiscal revenue of the entire Basra province was more than $3 billion, and excluding the billion dollars spent on education and construction, the whole of Basra now has a surplus of $2 billion

Even Chilam and Assad were a little surprised, although Basra used to have a lot of revenue, but most of it relied on oil, but even then it was only a billion dollars a month

Canglong looked at Vivien, and explained: "It is not surprising that the investment of large foreign companies has contributed to the prosperity of Basra in this month, and the extraction and export of oil is already very profitable, with three billion dollars."

Vivien seems to think that three billion dollars is less, but everyone knows that now is just a few months or a few years to wait, I am afraid that the financial income of a month will not only be so much, I am afraid that it will break 10 billion or even higher, after all, once the four super oil fields of Basra are all exploited and exported, this amount of money is simply a huge profit

Otherwise, there would not be so many wealthy princes in the Middle East, for example, Hamulet, three billion is really nothing to him

"What about diplomacy," Canglong asked

Chiram was a little embarrassed, and it was clear that this was not going very well: "Most of the countries did not dare to establish diplomatic relations with us in a bright way, although they secretly sent envoys, and due to the pressure of the United States, neighboring Kuwait often troubled our fishing boats in the Persian Gulf, and the speedboats of the Jǐng Guard at sea were difficult to cope with, and Iran, the only one, seemed to remain on the sidelines."

"Kuwait" Canglong looked strange, this country was once invaded by Iraq, causing the origin of the Gulf War, but Kuwait's navy is very weak, so how can there be a conflict with Basra

Assad seemed to guess Canglong's confusion and explained: "We only have a dozen patrol boats of the coastal guards, and there are no weapons on them, and Kuwait and Kuwait have signed a common coastal defense agreement with the Prophet Army, so after the Prophet Army occupied Iraq, Kuwait provoked many times, and even our fishermen were detained, but after the last time we fired a missile and shot down a US drone, Kuwait's provocations began to decrease."

"Hmm" Canglong's face is solemn

Seeing Canglong like this, the high-ranking officials in the conference room all frowned, for fear that the prophet would be unhappy and prepare to fight with Kuwait

"Leave them alone first, and then let the fishing boats try not to encroach on their waters," Canglong said

Hearing this, the high-ranking officials had surprise on their faces, obviously they didn't expect Canglong to tolerate it, but Vivian guessed Canglong's thoughts, obviously their enemy is not Kuwait now, and although Basra is developing so rapidly now, if it starts a war with Kuwait, it will be tantamount to finding a target for fire

Kuwait is the world's fourth largest oil storage country, and if there is a conflict with Kuwait, Western countries will definitely intervene, and then the United States will have a full excuse to launch an attack on Basra

Of course, there is also a reason because the Prophet Army is still very weak, with a total of only 5,000 people, and the missile units are all air defense, and the so-called navy is coastal patrol, although it is not 108,000 miles worse than the Kuwaiti navy, it is not their opponent

The high-ranking officials breathed a sigh of relief, and at the end of the meeting, Canglong asked Vivien to go to the base with him, and gathered all the high-ranking generals

"I've decided to start expanding my army," Canglong said

Hearing this, there was no opinion, and in view of the current situation in Basra, 5,000 men seemed to be too little, and although they still had 50,000 militia troops, it was clear that the militia forces were not enough to cope with a real war

But Vivien objected: "It's hard for us to afford the expansion of the army now, the economy has just recovered, and we should recuperate."

"It will be expanded to at least 20,000 people, forming two brigades, a division, a missile brigade, a special operations brigade, and a field division," Canglong said, "in order to deal with future conflicts."

"20,000 men," Vivien was even more surprised, "what do you do to support the 20,000 troops, don't tell me to use the revenues of Basra"

"Half of Basra's fiscal revenue will be used for military expenses, and the other half will be used for administrative expenditures, and it is inevitable that our enemies will not only be the Americans and zhōng yāngzhèng fǔ," said Canglong and looked at Vivian with a smile, "We must have the ability to defend ourselves and fight back."

Vivien turned her head and ignored Canglong, obviously she was not prepared to continue to oppose and definitely did not support Canglong's expansion plan

The senior generals present were all very excited and said, "I don't want to be the commander of the militia anymore."

"What are you going to be," Canglong asked with a smile

"Give me the commander of your field division," Hei Wuchang was not polite, and directly asked for the biggest official

"Okay, you temporarily act as the commander of the field division and the commander of the militia," Canglong didn't say a word, and assigned the field division that had not yet been established to Black Impermanence, "Of course, the newly formed field division can't be selected from the current veterans, but only from the militia units, okay?"

"As long as my subordinates are armed, they are all field troops," Hei Wuchang said with a calm face

"Old Black Bull, you don't brag like that," Snow Leopard teased, "Your 50,000 militia has only one or two thousand people in combat effectiveness, and a field division has at least 10,000 people, you can pick so many people out."

Although everyone thinks that Canglong is a bit childish to appoint generals like this, but now Canglong is an absolute authority in the entire Basra, otherwise Vivien would not have objected and died down after a few words

"Pull it out and practice," Hei Wuchang smiled harmlessly, obviously he was talking about the prophetic army under the hands of the snow leopard

Originally, the snow leopard gritted its teeth and was about to agree, but when he saw Hei Wuchang's smile, he immediately changed his words: "Do you think I'm stupid, and I can't use a gun, it's just a simple fight, and so many militia people can easily drown us."

Hei Wuchang ignored him, and Canglong continued: "The missile force has been expanded by 3,000 people to form the Basra Missile Air Defense Brigade, a total of 5,000 people, and still under the command of Xiami as the commander of the missile brigade."

Shrimp sat on the side and nodded, without objection, while Badr, who was sitting next to him, was a little restless, although he was the commander-in-chief, but the real power was in the hands of Canglong's people, obviously a little dissatisfied

In the end, everyone looked at Canglong and a special operations brigade, and did not announce it, Canglong said: "The special operations brigade will form 500 people, with Snow Leopard as the brigade commander, focusing on training, reconnaissance and sabotage behind enemy lines, and as for the equipment, it is not a question to discuss money with a Russian adviser, the question is to ask for the best equipment."

Snow Leopard nodded happily, he still did his old job, as for why the special operations brigade only has 500 people, it is not surprising, even the special operations brigades of China's major military regions are the same, only 500 people, the role of the special operations brigade is special operations, and the Delta Force of the United States is less than 3,000 people, but it is already a very large number

"Then what am I doing," Bai Wuchang suddenly asked, "Won't you let me still train the militia, why am I also a signal banner, even a big black man, who has no heart and lungs, and has never received special training, serves as a division commander, you won't give me nothing, right?"

Several people looked at him playfully, but Canglong ignored it and just said: "The remaining budget of 4,500 people and 3,000 people to be expanded is given to Su Su's Military Intelligence Agency, and Su Su is still the director."

"What about me," seeing that there was only 1,500 people left in the budget, Bai Wuchang was completely anxious

"A thousand people expanded to the coast jǐng reserve," Canglong said, looking at everyone, "who wants to train the navy"

Everyone lowered their heads, and even Bai Wuchang turned their faces, as if to say, don't look for me, I won't sail the ship, and the other generals also looked unwilling, the so-called navy, that is, the coastal jǐng reserve, broken ships, a few bad guns, and often bullied, who is unlucky

"Since no one wants Commander-in-Chief Badr to be the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy," Canglong said, standing up

Bai Wuchang was anxious: "Isn't there still a budget for five hundred people?"

"Oh, don't you say it, I forgot about it," Canglong said, "The remaining five hundred budget to set up an aviation formation to be responsible for training, and the command of the air force will be up to you, of course, the United States will leave it to you."

Everyone laughed, and Bai Wuchang had a bitter face: "Head, don't be so bad, okay, Basra's air force is better than the navy, flying into the sky is a target, you let me train the air force"

"So this is also a difficult task, of course, it must be entrusted to the most capable person," Canglong smiled, and before he could speak, the meeting was adjourned

Some people are happy and some are worried, for example, Badr and Bai Wuchang are very melancholy, so that it was Vivian who finally left Canglong and was about to leave, but Vivian said coldly: "Stop"

A smile suddenly appeared on Canglong's expressionless face: "Minister Vivian, do you have anything else?"

Vivian was so angry that she couldn't wait to slap Canglong's face: "You wiped half of the financial revenue with a stroke of the pen, when all that money fell from the sky."

Canglong smiled and was prepared: "Didn't I leave half of it for you, didn't you say that I forgot this half, you still have to use it to build a military academy, and now the military quality in the prophet army is not very good, so we must let them go to further study as soon as possible to cope with this big era"

Hearing this, Vivian was so angry that she was about to speak, and the dragon thief walked to the door and said, "I have something to do, I'll go first."

"You slut," Vivien scolded through gritted teeth, but Canglong couldn't hear it anymore