At present, the state's income has indeed increased a lot, but the expenditure is also much larger, and almost a quarter of the annual tax revenue must be used for the army, which is already very terrifying, and according to the normal investment, it is more reasonable to control the military expenditure at one-tenth of the total annual income. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But Wang Sirui doesn't care so much, he invests a lot of money every year, of course, the benefits are not without it, that is, the combat effectiveness of the army is flying like a rocket.

However, there is another thing that makes Wang Shizhen a headache, that is, military spending is only the army's usual expenses and training, and the total cost of equipment, if a war breaks out, this money will not be included in the military budget for the first year.

And this year, the Chinese Empire used the strength of two group armies in the north to fight a war with the Russians, although the war has not been long so far, but it has spent nearly 40 million taels of silver, which is basically half of the military spending, and this war has not yet been fought, according to Wang Sirui's prediction, the next is the time to really burn a lot of money.

Although it seems that they can survive in the short term, after two years, the country's investment in infrastructure construction will be reduced several times, or even no investment at all, unless it continues to overdraft in advance.

Although monetary reform can solve this problem to a certain extent, in the same way, can money be printed casually? They also have to take into account the issue of the exchange rate, so the country can't start to be shameless for money, right? In the end, let the people carry a sack of money to buy a pound of rice?

10 million taels of silver, this is when the government is making a budget, set aside a fund in advance as a backup, just in case, and this reserve fund originally had 70 million taels of silver, but the army used more than 40 million taels of silver, and the rest was allocated to various departments, so this is only 10 million taels of silver, and the government has to use it tightly until the next fiscal year.

Of course, Wang Shizhen also knows that Wang Sirui has other projects overseas to make money, and he will not really let the government have no money to use, but as the saying goes, only children who can cry have milk to eat, at this time, Wang Shizhen still has to cry poor, otherwise how should the government live in the second half of the year?

Don't ask Wang Shizhen how he knew, because the Chinese Empire did not come up with a penny of funds for the fleet purchased from the United States, and this money was paid directly to the Americans by Wang Sirui through foreign funds.

Do you want to leave a stain on yourself in the penultimate year of your term? Although he has no way to go further, it is still very good if he can be re-elected.

"Don't worry about the problem of funding for the time being, I will find a way to solve it, let's talk about the construction of the Navy first." Wang Sirui said helplessly, although the country's income is increasing, but the country is getting poorer and poorer, and this is also a helpless thing, if you want to get rich, build roads first, this truth Wang Sirui is still very clear.

Of course, for the sake of the country's development, Wang Sirui also had to decide to withdraw some of the overseas funds.

And Henry Ford has also relied on the strength of Ford Motor in recent years, and has sat on the throne of the world's richest man with a total asset of three billion US dollars, and is far ahead, and can open a bigger gap with the second place every year.

However, in fact, the assets that really belong to Henry Ford are less than 500 million US dollars, and the cash is only about 200 million, and the rest are all Wang Sirui's assets.

And this asset is also a little shady, so in addition to retaining a part of this fund in Ford to continue to be used for research and development, production, about 900 million US dollars of assets have been injected into the Ailinhua Investment Company, and this company has also gained a lot of equity in the United States, and there are about 600 million funds in hand, but outsiders do not know.

If China really can't come up with the money, then Wang Sirui can only take out 200 million US dollars from overseas to use it for new plans.

"Okay, we built a shipyard in Lushun earlier, and we are only manufacturing some 1,000-ton civilian ships and a small number of military supply ships, although we have mastered some of the technology, but I suggest that we don't use too much strength for the time being, and build a few small ships as much as possible to practice their hands, and it is better to accumulate experience step by step." Wang Shizhen said directly, anyway, as long as Wang Sirui doesn't let him raise funds, he can do whatever he wants, he just gives advice, and he can't be the master anyway.

"No, it's too late, if we go to build a few small ships to practice, we still don't have the experience of building large warships, which will take more time to accumulate, and now the most we can't afford is time, although our battleships are the most advanced in the world, the most powerful battleships in the world, but in a few years, we will be surpassed, and we can still only be in a passive situation at that time.

If you want to do it all at once, you can do it all at once, and you don't have to build so much, but at least you have to build one for each type of warship to practice. Wang Sirui shook his head and rejected Wang Shizhen's suggestion, which was too conservative.

They have construction experience, after all, when the Americans helped them build, there were also a lot of Chinese engineers involved, although it was only an auxiliary, but it was considered to have accumulated some experience, but I don't know if it would be successful for them to build independently? But this is no longer a problem for Wang Sirui to consider, no matter whether he can succeed or not, this step must be taken.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with building one warship of each type, but the problem is that the empire has not yet fully mastered the technology of naval armor, and it is not obvious to build some small-tonnage warships, but it is estimated that it will be a little difficult to build some large-tonnage warships." Xu Shichang spoke, although he was also in favor of developing the navy, but they couldn't develop it so blindly, and they couldn't develop the navy until some necessary problems were solved.

In terms of tank armor, they dare to say that they are at the forefront of the world, but after all, they are warships, which need to drift on the sea, not the kind of tanks that walk on land.

"You don't have to worry about this problem, we have the technology, we already have all the conditions for building warships, now we just need to accumulate experience. At the same time, I have a requirement that no matter what type of warship is built, the performance must surpass that of the previous generation of warships. Wang Sirui smiled, obviously, this question could not stump him.

What is Wang Sirui's hundreds of millions of funds used for in the United States? Well, a few years ago, wasn't the United States an economic crisis, a large number of steel companies collapsed, Wang Sirui took the opportunity to acquire several steel companies, because there was an American identity as a cover, so there was no accident in these acquisitions, and one of them was to provide naval special armor for a shipyard on the west coast of the United States.

After the acquisition of the steel plant, then all the technology will naturally be transferred to the new boss, and in order not to arouse the suspicion of the Americans, Wang Sirui just asked people to secretly bring back a copy of this information, and then let the scientific research institute conduct an experiment, and the results confirmed that it was indeed the manufacturing technology of naval armor, and then this information was sealed, and all the participants were also given a gag order.

And this cooperation with Germany, there is a naval armor project, although the Germans gave them not advanced technology, but through the technical comparison of the two materials, people can always find some ways to improve, in fact, as early as after the end of the year, this program has already begun.

But until then, they still have to build a new batch of warships using technology acquired from the United States.

"Then there are no problems, as long as the funds and personnel are in place, the project can start at any time." Xu Shichang shrugged his shoulders, very helpless in his heart, what is he calling for discussion? It's obviously an order, right?

Although it is very worrying to have such an emperor, but to be honest, this feeling is indeed very bad, and I will experience it myself.

"Then let's start preparations first, the data of the new warship will be relayed to the technical personnel, and the military department and the government must do a good job in logistics, especially in terms of security." Wang Sirui continued to command.

The Lushun shipyard was not located in the shipyard of later generations, but in Sheepshead Bay, which was a military restricted area, within the protection of shore artillery engineering, and at the same time there was a large number of troops on land, and it was chosen there mainly for secrecy. In later generations, the shipyard is now also a shipyard, but only civilian ships are built there, and some of the warships are also built to confuse the enemy.

At present, the empire has only two new shipyards, and the plan is to build a large shipyard in Shanghai next year and a large shipyard in Fujian the year after, and the three shipyards are basically enough to meet the development needs of the navy.

Of course, this is not an ordinary shipyard, let's just say that the current two shipyards, Lushun Shipyard has a 10,000-ton dock, five docks of more than 5,000 tons, and ten docks of less than 5,000 tons.

The Sheepshead Bay Shipyard has three 10,000-ton docks, one of which can build 100,000-ton ships, two 50,000-ton docks, and 10 8,000-ton docks and 15 5,000-ton docks.

If the manpower and technology are sufficient, using the classic sectional construction method of the later United States, it will only take one year to build a huge fleet with three battleships, 10 to 20 heavy cruisers, 15 to 30 light cruisers and destroyers.

Of course, if you want to achieve this terrifying construction speed, I am afraid that it will take at least ten years, or even longer, to accumulate experience, and what needs to be done now is to take precautions, and wait for the accumulation of experience and industry to a certain extent. (To be continued.) )