"In the future, the redeployment of the navy will be completely empty in the country." Liao Xiaoyao, chairman of the executive committee, who had just returned from the special military wharf of Dongfang Port in a horse-drawn carriage, thought thoughtfully.

Soon after, though, he was smiling again. What if the vast majority of the naval forces were deployed outside? As long as there are a certain number of anti-smuggling warships left in the mainland, it is enough! Could it be that there is really any country that is idle and sends more than 50 large warships to the South Atlantic? It's crazy!

What's more, the mainland is still building new warships. Giant tropical logs from the Brazilian region to the north are being sent to the three major shipyards one by one, and even the two places of New Courland and New China are doing everything they can to send the round and straight hardwoods to the east coast to provide enough masts for the growing shipbuilding tide.

With the production capacity of the newly industrialized country of the East Coast Republic of China, as long as the investment is in place and the raw materials are sufficient, then the production of all kinds of ships like dumplings is just a matter of idleness. For example, now that the East Coast government has tried its best to raise a large amount of money to invest in the field of naval construction, many warships, including the "Executive Committee" class three-deck battleships, have begun to crowd the slipways of the three major shipyards, so that the construction of civilian ships has been affected for a while.

Therefore, as long as we get over the current period of time, by the middle of next year, the East Coast Navy will be able to breathe a sigh of relief. In the year after that, there will be a fairly obvious increase in strength, and the old warships of all types that have been eliminated by that time can be thrown off to the Far East and the new Chinese colonies. Even the Caribbean Shipping Company may take over a number of old ships that the Navy has obsolete and it is a good thing for both sides, because the Navy can finally recoup a sum of money and they can strengthen the fleet.

The only threat to the Navy's shipbuilding is probably that the funds are sufficient and can be delivered in a timely manner according to the time node. The latter point is particularly important, if the funds cannot be received in time, it will have a great impact on the shipyard's spare parts procurement plan and production plan, which is difficult for the navy to accept.

It is fair to say that the government on the east coast has indeed made great efforts to secure the funds for the construction of the navy, and has cut the budget for many civilian projects to this end. However, because the cost of the navy and army is huge, and the cost of maintaining the army after it is established is not a small amount, the pressure on the financial situation is still quite large. In particular, in the past year, many civil affairs officials from all quarters have come to the Executive Committee to "cry" and complain that military spending has crowded out precious construction funds and made them very embarrassed.

It's okay if a family or two comes, but various ministries and commissions have almost successively sent people over to run the funds, which is very annoying to the bigwigs. In desperation, they convened a meeting of the main officials of their respective departments, clarified to them the major policies of the state in the next period of time, and asked them to obey the national arrangements, strictly restrain officials at all levels in their own departments, and make an inventory of existing projects.

The principle of inventory is: if the project has been approved and the construction has been carried out, the cycle will be relaxed and the pressure of funds will be shared to a longer period of time; Projects that have already been approved but have not yet started construction (or have just started) are stopped in order to save valuable money and invest in more critical projects.

Of course, some people may ask, if there is such a shortage of funds, why not the government step in and issue more bonds to raise funds? This brings us to the question of the total amount of bonds! At the beginning of last year, because of the huge scale of debt, the Executive Committee convened relevant personnel of the Ministry of Finance to discuss countermeasures, and finally established the principle that the total debt of the central government should not exceed 4 million yuan. And the figure of four million was reached in the middle of this year!

In other words, now the central government just wants to issue bonds, and the possibility is already zero, because the set debt ceiling has been reached. Therefore, it is conceivable that in the next two or three years or even longer, all ministries and commissions will have to get rid of the habit of spending money in the past and become careful in their calculations. Don't you see, the Yanbu Railway Project, a national key project that was put on the heart of Liao Xiaoyao, chairman of the Executive Committee, has also been temporarily suspended due to lack of funds? The State Administration of Railways has been informed that state subsidies for the Yanbu railway have been suspended for the time being, and that they can only use the funds allocated to the railway department from the annual budget to build the Yanbu railway. If this is not possible, the government will consider temporarily raising the special tax for the construction of the Yanbu Railway for one year to help them tide over the difficulties.

This is the case for key projects such as the Yanbu Railway, and the rest of the world is naturally useless. As a result, after clearly understanding the situation, these officials scattered one after another, and began to go home and reformulate various construction plans, with the aim of living a "hard life." Compared with their central ministries, some local projects have continued well. Although the lack of subsidies from the central government still makes them uncomfortable, the financial resources of local governments have been strengthened to a certain extent after the reform of the tax-sharing system, and with the increasing population on the east coast, the income from land sales has increased day by day. It is precisely because of this that they have a certain amount of money to invest in local construction, and it is not a problem to build third-class national highways, build one or two small reservoirs, and build some granaries or grain depots.

All in all, the Executive Committee really racked its brains and spent countless hands and feet to protect military spending. They even planned to use the gold reserves stored in the Army No. 1 Prison (which had accumulated a little more than a ton so far) to ensure the progress of the construction of the warship if the funds could not be allocated in time.

For the sake of naval construction, if the East Coast government is not trying to make small plans, I am afraid that no one will believe it when it says it, right? The country is really different from what it used to be, especially after absorbing a group of prime-aged people into the highest institutions of government, this tendency has become more and more obvious.

After returning to his office, Liao Xiaoyao only rested for about two hours before meeting with Leonardo of the Morosini family, the newly appointed ambassador of the Republic of Venesia to the East Coast, who had come to present his credentials. He was not yet thirty years old, with two beautiful mustaches, and was said to be the rising star of Morosini, the old Venetian consul family.

In addition to the submission of credentials, Leonardo Morosini's mission was also a key point in negotiating with the East Bank authorities about the aftermath of the Ottoman situation. Therefore, Liao Xiaoyao sent people to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send several high-ranking officials to sit down together in the luxuriously decorated conference room to discuss.

It is fair to say that in the attack and defense of Vienna that broke out last year, after seeing the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Venetians were ready to make a big move. That is, they intended to mobilize a large number of warships and land forces to attack the Ottoman Empire by sea, and they focused on the Greek peninsula.

At that time, Mr. Gao Wengang, the plenipotentiary envoy to Europe on the east coast, who had a clear prediction of the situation, immediately approached the Venetians and forced them to agree to postpone the attack on the Ottoman Empire through various soft and hard means. The reason given by Gao Wengang was that the Ottoman Empire had been greatly damaged by this war, and that internal contradictions were likely to explode at an accelerated pace, and that the threat to the Republic of Venesia had been greatly reduced. In contrast, the Kingdom of Austria, which won the war, grew rapidly in prestige and power (it incorporated many of the forces that had been in the thick of the wall). For the Republic of Venezia, Austria had by this time surpassed the Ottomans as the country's main enemy.

The Venetians were not fools, and knew that what Gawain had just said was the matter, and that the Habsburgs did have some territorial ambitions for the already rich northern Italy, and they had to guard against it. The problem was that this alone would not have persuaded them not to move their troops at all, and even if the Venetians subsequently gave more merchandise agency rights and allowed the Venetians to have more commercial interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, it would still be insufficient. Thus, at the Council of Consuls, where the representatives of a total of 12 families debated fiercely for two whole days, in the end hatred dominated the meeting, and the Venetians finally decided to send 20 warships and 3,000 soldiers to attack some Ottoman territories bordering the Republic of Venesia from the coastal sea and land in order to seize this golden opportunity.

However, although the Venetians finally decided to send troops, in terms of scale and intensity, it was indeed much smaller than originally planned, and the goal was also smaller: they only wanted to take advantage of the Ottomans when they had no time to take care of them, and did not want to weaken the Ottomans too much, because after the Austrians became famous in the first battle, they wanted the Ottoman Empire to still retain some strength, so that the Austrians would not have much to worry about the disadvantages of many parts of northern Italy.

And since this kind of thing has been done, the Venetians will of course look for opportunities to communicate with the East Coast side, and Leonardo Morosini is the representative. He told Liao Xiaoyao of the heated arguments and final choice of the consuls of the Republic of Venesia as it was, and said that before he set out for the east coast, the army of the Republic of Venesia had stopped advancing, and only the navy was still active, occupying some Greek offshore islands that the Ottomans had already controlled weakly, and had basically ceased fire with the Ottomans.

Of course, Liao Xiaoyao had already listened to the intelligence department's report on the matter before this, and he still had a certain degree of understanding of the development of the situation. In fact, he had some understanding of the actions of the Republic of Venesia and was pleased that the number of troops sent by the other side had been greatly reduced by Gao Wengang's pressure, as it proved the influence of the Eastern Republic of the East.

But come to think of it, the beating that should be there is still indispensable. Therefore, after thinking about it, Liao Xiaoyao still planned to warn the Venetians' behavior, and at the same time analyze the situation more clearly to the Venetians.