Qin Kai's theory of reducing armament production is complete nonsense for Tang Shaoyi, military spending is signed by the cabinet and deliberated by the Congress, how can it be said that it will be cut, but, in fact, for three consecutive years, military spending has not actually increased, but is constantly shrinking, and at every cabinet meeting, the bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs look at the Ministry of Finance one by one like enemies.

"Prime Minister, don't mention this military spending, otherwise Ruidong and Gengtang won't be in a hurry with me!" Tang Shaoyi frowned and showed a bitter gourd face, as Qin Kai's money bag, it was really a chore.

"Shaochuan, the cost of arms research and development and the expansion of military schools cannot be saved, but the production progress of conventional armaments and the plan of the Ministry of Military Affairs to expand the army can be temporarily postponed and funds can be used for the first phase of investment in provincial hospitals and medical schools!" Qin Kai knocked lightly on the table, thought for a moment and then added, "If there is still a difference, first withdraw some money from Zhonghu's investment fund...... The handling of this matter must be followed up by the Department of Integrity to ensure that it is promoted! ”

After nearly 10 years of armament expansion, the entire Greater China has formed a huge force including 4 overseas provinces and 1 federal republic, and after the implementation of the reserve system for more than ten years, it has made the domestic mobilization of war force reserves reach an astonishing Cheng Dù, Qin Kai is naturally well aware of the importance of manpower in this era, and there are currently a total of 15 large military regions under the jurisdiction of 84 army divisions, which has been the result of several consecutive years of army expansion, and the army is much cheaper than the navy.

In addition, due to the fact that the army equipment has not been reloaded on a large scale, the Type 80 submachine gun and AK02 rifle have long been mass-produced, and the price of spare parts is low in China. A lot of money was left for the defense industry. In fact. The research and development work to replace the MG series of heavy machine guns has been continuing, that is, there are two mature plans for general-purpose machine guns, however, Qin Kai obviously does not plan to roll it out on a large scale, and in the short term, the army will have enough to eat!

Qin Kai also did not plan to engage in international trade in weapons, so naturally, it was estimated that the sales would be very good as an arms dealer. However, this is a great deal of trouble, especially for the new China, which is now expanding its territory on a large scale, and this is obviously already a first-class important task before the complete consolidation of the country's territory.

After Tang Shaoyi and Qin Kai bargained, they finally agreed that the Ministry of Finance would allocate the first phase of 3 million yuan to build 30 provincial-level hospitals, and at the same time, the military and medical schools would set up 50 medical teams to prepare for the construction of large-scale provincial-level medical institutions, and that this expenditure would be increased year by year in the new year's financial budget. This person has been buzzing in Qin Kai's ears from beginning to end, complaining about this lavish idea of spending money.

was really annoyed by this one completely, Qin Kai pondered for a moment. Only then did he reluctantly come up with another important medical preparation plan -- the medical system with medicine, which was originally only operated as a state secret plan, and he was still considering putting it into large-scale production at the right time.

The two sulfonamide production processes of the horsetail room have achieved preliminary results, among which the two sulfonamide-derived chemicals of the branch office fully reflect the sterilization effect required by Qin Kai in the test, as a crosser, he naturally understands the value of antibacterial chemical products, therefore, under the instruction of Qin Kai, the Ministry of Industry took the lead in the form of multi-party shareholding to prepare for the establishment of Tianzi No. 1 China Sinopharm Company, which still adopts the operation mode of the mature board of directors of Nanyang Industry, with 50% of its shares and 20% of its shares. The real yàn group holds 10% of the shares and the private capital accounts for 20% of the shares.

Sinopharm has the monopoly sales rights and interests of new drugs authorized by the state for 20 years, and the state-owned income part is transferred to the national medical infrastructure construction fund, and the access of private capital is to prepare for the expansion of production after the patent sales expire, Qin Kai naturally understands the limitations of medical technology in this era, due to his own intervention, the progress of modern medical technology in China is very great, and a large number of experienced military doctors trained by the army in the period of war can fully feed back to the society in peacetime.

In this era, Western medical care is still in the early stage of Western medical technology, and new drugs have surprising profits, so as long as they make full use of patent protection, they can provide sufficient funds for the infrastructure of the domestic medical system with the help of domestic leading Western medicine manufacturing technology.

Tang Shaoyi is obviously still skeptical about Premier Qin's confident plan, but since it can save valuable funds for the national finance, he naturally has no opinion! He immediately said very cheerfully, "Prime Minister, this plan is very good, and it will definitely be effective if it is handed over to the Ministry of Commerce...... By the way, what other plans do you have, if not, I will go to negotiate with the Ministry of Military Affairs for a while! ”

Ten seconds later, Tang Shaoyi immediately realized that he had obviously said the wrong thing, and he shouldn't have talked about the plan to this great prime minister who was full of all kinds of messy ideas all day long, and as a result, Qin Kai immediately threw out the idea of 10 provincial-level fertilizer plants, 2 large-scale rubber preparation plants in Nanyang, and 2 large-scale oil production bases...... The money bag immediately found a reason and disappeared in an instant.

After Qin Kai saw Tang Shaoyi get out, he actually knew in his heart that the pressure was huge, the founding of the People's Republic of China has only been 11 years ago, and the first two or three years have been attacking from all sides to straighten out the national system, fortunately, after the national taxation system, local police, and the army's security system was improved, after the light industry was liberalized, the entire national economy entered a very good outbreak period, but even if the national tax increased by 4.6 times in 11 years, for Qin Kai, he still felt that he could not meet his full head of industrialization investment ideas.

On November 8, Bauer, the British minister to China, suddenly came to visit Qin Kai and conveyed important news from London, that the Pacific Fleet's trip to Plymouth obviously had an unexpected effect on Qin Kai, and that the results of the mediation between the two countries in the Spanish-American War, especially after the two countries carried out naval military exercises, Salisbury's cabinet had regarded China in the Far East as an important object of cooperation that could not be ignored.

Minister Power and Prime Minister Salisbury for the first time put forward the idea of signing a peace treaty of strategic mutual trust with China, and the British put forward the strategic idea of using the Indian Ocean as their sphere of influence, and came up with a new condition that Qin Kai could hardly refuse--to start diplomatic negotiations on the areas controlled by the two sides of Australia.

In order to control the Gobi in North Australia today, the Ministry of Military Affairs even migrated a Mongolian cavalry unit and several Mongolian tribes of thousands of people to the local area, and gave these Mongolians very generous subsidies, allowing them to leave their footprints on the deserted Gobi, and the two army divisions in South China are also on standby in Java to deal with possible conflicts in North Australia at any time.

After a week of careful consideration, Qin Kai finally gave up the idea of selling arms to the Transvaal for a small fortune, and those arms deals, compared to the barren Gobi in Australia, he naturally chose the latter, he immediately summoned Ma Jianzhong, counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and immediately started formal negotiations with the British after the opportunity to meet the opportunity.

The news of the support of China in the Far East quickly reached London, and the Salisbury Cabinet carefully analysed the response from China and was already quite convinced that the opportunity to solve all the problems of the Far East had arisen through the diplomatic channels of the Guò Empire...... Just as Prime Minister Salisbury was considering how to maximize the benefits of a deal with China, news from South Africa once again shocked the whole of the United Kingdom.

In fact, despite the constant contradictions with the Transvaal Republic, even Prime Minister Salisbury had no idea of exterminating the Boers at once, and the difficult circumstances of the First Boer War made all British high-ranking and military officers realize that once war was triggered, the British Empire would face the condemnation of the whole of Europe...... Although the British Empire was completely ignorant of the attitude of the European countries on the Boer question, it had to consider the horror of the whole of Europe participating in the Boer War.

And now, the last thing the British want to see is a reality! (To be continued......)