Bi Yutong directly opened the document in his hand: "This is the Huai River flood control project proposal, once completed, it will be enough to benefit millions of people on both sides of the Huai River and irrigate at least 100,000 acres of farmland." This is a proposal for the construction of the Yangtze River wharf in Jingshi, and once completed, it will be enough to increase the throughput of the Yangtze River in Jingshi by more than ten times. This is a proposal for the development of the north bank of Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, which is expected to become a busier new industrial city than the original business district, which is expected to have an annual industrial output value of more than 100 million yuan.

In addition, this is the proposal of Imperial College London on the side of the Ministry of Education, and at least one technical school in each province, once completed, it will provide more than thousands of top elite talents for the empire every year in the future, which will play a decisive role in promoting the industrialization of the empire!

Which of these proposals doesn't matter, you say? ”

In the face of Bi Yutong's words, Shi Qingxuan snorted coldly: "Empire building is of course important, and our navy and army also approve and support this, but now the empire is at a critical juncture, hundreds of thousands of troops are fighting in the southwest and northwest regions, and many civilian armed forces in the controlled areas also need to be eliminated one by one. ”

Bi Yutong smiled: "I remember at the imperial meeting last week, you said that the military is now fighting and winning successes, and it is sure that the main wars in the southwest and northwest regions will be completely ended by the end of this year. Could it be that the imperial navy and army you boast of are invincible in all battles and invincible, and they are all bragging? ”

"You ......" Shi Qingxuan made Bi Yutong's face redden, he Shi Qingxuan is a good hand at commanding troops to fight, but it is strange that he can talk to civil officials and politicians who brush their mouths every day.

In the end, Shi Qingxuan slammed the door in a huff, and before leaving, Shi Qingxuan had already gotten the information he wanted. It is obvious that this time the military spending reduction proposal is a deliberate stumbling block on the cabinet side, the reason is very simple, that is, the military has occupied too much military spending, and the dissatisfaction of the cabinet side has accumulated to the final outbreak stage, this time they took advantage of the fact that the military side has initially ended the war, and directly submitted the 1860 imperial economic development proposal to Lin Zhe. He proposed that after the end of the domestic war, the main energy of the empire should be devoted to economic construction.

And Lin Zhe, a later person, obviously paid more attention to economic construction than they imagined, so he approved it very quickly.

Of course, this is also related to the military itself, who let them boast that they will be able to end the main war in the country in the second half of this year, since the war can be ended this year, then there will be no war next year, and if there is no war, the proportion of military spending will be kept at 70 percent or even more than 80 percent?

Lin Zhe's brain didn't have a show, so naturally he wouldn't do these things.

This time, the proposal to reduce military spending was put forward by the cabinet on its own initiative and approved by Lin Zhe, and the reason for this is, of course, the suppression of the military by the cabinet on the one hand. On the other hand, it is also related to the military itself.

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At several meetings, in order to show the army's outstanding military exploits, the military said that the Chinese army was invincible in war, and that the senior generals were more capable of bragging than one another, saying that Yunnan would be leveled in March, Sichuan would be in Sichuan, and that it would be completely reunified in half a year.

On the one hand, these boastful behaviors have given the cabinet a reason to reduce military spending, and they have also made Lin Zhe have greater confidence in the military, believing that even according to the current size of the army, the country can be unified within the year. In this way, a large amount of military spending can be freed up next year for economic construction.

After coming to this conclusion, many military generals were quite embarrassed. Isn't it just a little bragging, as for that?

We said that we would be able to end all the wars and completely reunify them in half a year, and you really believe it, in half a year, even if we don't fight all the way and march over, those troops in Shanxi will not be able to go to Xinjiang and Central Asia.

In the end, Shi Qingxuan, the military boss, personally ventilated. Let the generals of the navy and army do one thing, and that is to cry to His Majesty about the difficulties of the military.

For a while, crying and complaining about the difficulties of the military, the secret folds of the senior generals flew into Pingrentang like snowflakes, which made Lin Zhe frown.

A week ago, these generals were shouting about how to be awesome. Shi Langyi wrote to say that his troops were fighting hard, the front-line soldiers could not eat two meals a day, and the artillery units did not dare to shoot too many shells in a battle, because the shells were not enough, and the infantry could only charge with their own lives without artillery support.

Lin Dabiao of the navy said that it is difficult for the navy now, because just a few warships will not be able to control the heavy task of coastal defense for thousands of miles, and important coastal ports such as Guangzhou and Tianjin will not have any defensive force, and once the enemy invades from the sea, then the navy can only sink itself en masse in Jiangyin to block the shipping lanes to control and defend Gyeonggi.

Even Wang Lu Yun, who led the cavalry in the north to carry out the Mongol strategy, sent a letter written with the help of the staff officer, saying that the cavalry under his command was seriously insufficient, and it was difficult to effectively control the huge area of thousands of miles of northern Mongolia, and those Mongolian princes liked to play rebellion when they had nothing to do, and often he suppressed the tribe today, and tomorrow he had to go to another place to suppress another army, and this lack of strength caused the cavalry under his command to run around, and the cavalry did not suffer many casualties in the battle. But it was a lot of exhaustion.

He knew why these generals would send these crying reports, but he also knew that if these generals were given a hundred dares, they would not dare to talk nonsense, and the difficulties that could be said must be true.

What made Lin Zhe even more headache was that the military was crying here, and the cabinet was also typing several reports a day, saying today that a certain county in Fujian suffered from a drought and grain production was greatly reduced, and tomorrow it was said that a flood broke out in a certain prefecture in Huaibei, and hundreds of thousands of people in several counties had no food and clothing, and then said that the port facilities in Nanjing, Shanghai and other places were seriously backward, and the merchant ships could not afford to wait for a long time, which cost hundreds of thousands of yuan a day. Then he said that a certain province had already owed the salaries of teachers in government schools in various prefectures and counties, and that there were many months of arrears in the salaries of state employees in a certain province, and so on.

It's as if all the problems of a huge empire are concentrated in these days!

Looking at these reports in his hand, Lin Zhe's face was a little ugly. He threw down the report in his hand on the arrears of salaries to government schools in Zhejiang Province, then stood up and pushed open the door of the office: "Let Shi Qingxuan and Bi Yutong roll over!" ”

This time the civil and military dispute is beyond the scope of Lin Zhe's tolerance, although Lin Zhe is usually very happy to see the disagreement between civilian officials and military generals, and even takes action to create some contradictions for them, but now this kind of large-scale confrontation is obviously not what he wants to see.

In the Joint Staff, Shi Qingxuan listened to the words of the second secretary of the secretariat. His face changed a little instantly, what he just heard was His Majesty's dictation relayed by the secretary, and the word 'roll' in that oracle made Shi Qingxuan deeply feel Lin Zhe's anger.

At the same time, Bi Yutong also listened to the secretariat who came to relay Lin Zhe's dictation and said: "The emperor's dictation: Let Shi Qingxuan and Bi Yutong roll over!" ”

These secretaries conveyed Lin Zhe's orders, but they didn't have the courage to change even a word, Lin Zhe said to get out, and they had to say get out.

"Secretary Wu, wait a while, I'll pack up a few documents and come!" After Bi Yu and the secretary went out, he looked at Jiang Daoquan and the others in the room. said with a bitter face: "I'm afraid it's going to be big now!" ”

Qi Xuanhao, Minister of Finance, said: "This matter is indeed a bit of a big trouble, I see if it is a slight regression!" ”

However, Jiang Daoquan on the side said: "Brother Qi, what you said is light, anyway, even if the funds are compressed, you can't suffer from the finance department, but our educators are still waiting for the rice and grain to be put into the pot, anyway, I don't care, next year's scheduled education funds can't be less, if it is less, you can cut it yourself!" ”

Bi Yutong looked at these people and sighed in his heart. It's not easy for him, the prime minister, to do it, and the following ministries have to snatch food from military spending. But the one who really showed the anger of the military and His Majesty's anger on the scene was him, Bi Yutong, the prime minister, no matter whether he won or lost, but Jiang Daoquan and they were all.

Immediately, he did not talk to these people, but brought a few documents that had been prepared a long time ago, and then went to Pingren Hall with the secretaries of the secretariat in time.

In Pingren Hall, Bi Yutong saw Shi Qingxuan again!

The faces of these two people are not very good-looking, and it is good to see each other Shi Qingxuan snorted coldly. glared angrily, while Bi Yutong turned his head slightly with a cold face, and didn't even look at Shi Qingxuan.

After a while, they entered Lin Zhe's office together, and then the secretaries outside could hear the shouting and scolding coming from inside. The soundproofing of Lin Zhe's office is quite good, and the sound in the office can't be heard at all, but today the secretaries outside heard the faint sound of scolding coming from inside.

Obviously, Lin Zhe was really angry this time!

Secretary Wu on the side tilted his head slightly, and then said to another secretary next to him: "Brother Zhou, it seems that this time it seems to be very fierce, but I don't know who is being scolded inside!" ”

The secretary, who is known as Brother Zhou and is about forty years old, said: "I still need to think about it, it must be fifty boards on one side, this time the military and the cabinet are making too much trouble, you also know, there are so many reports and secret edicts sent from outside these days, Your Majesty, can he not be annoyed when he sees it?" This annoys Your Majesty and still wants to have good fruit to eat? Is it possible? ”

Several secretaries of the secretariat whispered about the military dispute between the military and the cabinet, although the secretaries of these secretariats seemed to be small people, and there were no titles such as general secretary, minister, or even director, only the title of third secretary, second secretary, first secretary, and so on.

However, these people who appear to be important ministers of the empire from time to time are actually very powerful, and many of the official documents that have been reported by the cabinet to the military are actually just a summary by Lin Zhe, and the detailed processing methods and reviews are actually completed by these secretaries of the secretariat.

In addition, the secretariat is under the name of the palace affairs department, although these secretaries are still state employees, but in fact they have no connection with the cabinet or the military, they belong to an independent body of the self-proclaimed system, and there is no fear of the cabinet or the military on weekdays.

Otherwise, they would not have been able to talk about these things with the same face when the top leaders of the military and the cabinet were being scolded inside.

Shi Qingxuan and Bi Yu stayed in Lin Zhe's office for a full hour before they came out, and when they bowed out, they were still terrified, but after turning around and looking at each other, their faces instantly became extremely cold, and then the two of them walked together, and they left without looking at each other. (To be continued.) )