Vivian first reported on Basra's fiscal expenditures and revenues for the last month, and to Canglong's surprise, the fiscal revenues of the entire Basra province were full, exceeding $3 billion, and excluding the billions spent on education and construction, the whole of Basra now has a surplus of $2 billion.

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

Canglong looked at Vivien, and she explained: "Because in this month, the investment of large foreign companies has contributed to the prosperity of Basra, plus the extraction and export of oil, the profit is very rich, and it is not surprising that there are three billion dollars." ”

Vivien seems to feel that three billion dollars is less, but everyone knows that now is just the beginning, and after a few months, or a few years, I am afraid that the financial income in 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 in Basra are all exploited and exported, this amount of money is simply a huge profit.

Otherwise, there are not so many rich princes in the Middle East, such as Hamulet, three billion is really nothing to him.

"What about diplomacy?" Canglong asked.

Chiram was a little embarrassed, apparently not going very smoothly in this regard: "Although most countries have secretly sent envoys, they do not dare to establish diplomatic relations with us in a bright and bright manner, and under pressure from the United States, neighboring Kuwait often troubles our fishing boats in the Persian Gulf, and those speedboats of the Coast Guard have difficulty coping with the large ships of the Kuwaiti Navy, and Iran, the only one, also seems to remain on the sidelines. ”

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

Assad seemed to guess Canglong's doubts and explained: "We only have a dozen coast guard patrol boats, and there are no weapons on them at all, and Kuwait and the central government have signed a common coastal defense agreement, so after our prophetic army occupied Iraq, Kuwait provoked many times, and even our fishermen were detained, but after we launched missiles last time to shoot down a US drone, Kuwait's provocations began to decrease." ”

"Hmm!" Canglong's face was solemn.

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

"Ignore them for now, and let the fishing boats try not to encroach on their waters in the future." Canglong said.

Hearing this, the high-ranking officials had a look of 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 in the event of a conflict with Kuwait, Western countries will certainly intervene, and 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, and compared with the Kuwaiti navy, although it is not 108,000 miles behind, 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 decided to start expanding the army." Canglong said.

Hearing this, there was no opinion on the public, and in the present 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 Vivian objected: "It is difficult for us to afford to expand the army now, the economy has just recovered, and we should recuperate." ”

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

"20,000 !!" Vivien was even more surprised, "What do you use to feed an army of 20,000 people?" Don't tell me to use Basra's revenues. ”

"In the future, half of Basra's financial revenues will be used for military expenses and the other half for administrative expenses, and the expansion of the army is inevitable, and our enemies are not just the Americans and the central government." As he spoke, Canglong looked at Vivien 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 it, and definitely did not support Canglong's expansion plan.

The senior generals present were all very excited, and Hei Wuchang said: "Head, 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." Black impermanence is not polite, and he directly asks for the biggest official.

"Okay then, you are temporarily 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 troops, is it okay?" ”

"As long as my subordinates are armed, they are all field troops." Hei Wuchang said calmly.

"Lao Hei, the cow is not as boastful as you." The snow leopard joked, "Of your 50,000 militiamen, there are only one or two thousand people with combat effectiveness, and a field division has at least 10,000 people, can you pick so many people out?" ”

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

"Pull it out and practice?" Black Impermanence had a harmless smile on his face, obviously he was talking about the elite of the Prophet 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 and said, "Do you think I'm stupid?" We can't use guns, 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 it is still commanded by Xiami as the commander of the missile brigade. ”

Shrimp sat on the side, nodded and had no objections, 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 there was a special operations brigade that was not announced, Canglong said: "The special operations brigade will form 500 people, with Snow Leopard as the brigade commander, focusing on training special operations, reconnaissance and sabotage behind enemy lines, as for the equipment, discuss it with Russian military advisers, money is not a problem, the problem is to get 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 also only 500 people, the role of the special operations brigade is special operations, the Delta Force of the United States, there are only less than 3,000 people, but it is already a very large number.

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

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

"What about me? Head? Seeing that the budget only had 1,500 people left, Bai Wuchang was completely anxious.

"A thousand men expanded to the Coast Guard." Canglong said, looking at everyone, "Who wants to train the navy?" ”

Everyone lowered their heads, even Bai Wuchang turned his face, as if to say, don't look for me, I won't drive the ship, and the other generals are also unwilling, the so-called navy is the coast guard, a few broken ships, a few bad guns, and the kind that is often bullied, whoever does it is unlucky.

"Since no one wants to, Commander-in-Chief Badr is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy." Canglong said and stood up.

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

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

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

"So it's also a difficult task, and of course it's given to the most capable people." Canglong smiled, and without waiting for him to speak, he announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Some people are happy and some are worried, for example, Badr and Bai Wuchang are very melancholy, until Vivian stays in the end, Canglong is 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 very angry, and she couldn't wait to slap Canglong's face: "With a stroke of your pen, you will cut half of the financial revenue, when all that money is pie in the sky?" ”

Canglong smiled, and was prepared: "Didn't I leave half of it for you, don't you say that I forgot, you still have to use this half to build a military academy, and now the cultural quality of the soldiers 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 angry, and just about to speak, the dragon thief slipped 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