Chapter 150: The Contradiction in Military Spending
Cutting off a large piece of fat in the northwest of the Broken Wolf Country, the Yuanyan Coalition Army will naturally not be so easy to be returned by the people of the Broken Wolf Country, so Lin Yue has planned a series of protective measures, not only from the military level, whether it is economic or political, but also bound to take root here in Fancheng.
On November 20th, Qiu Chen also transported a large number of materials to Fancheng, and Lin Yue and Qiu Chen also joined forces to build a new political system here in Fancheng, based on the government officials of Yuan and Yan, and established a Fancheng political council, which held the supreme legislative, judicial, military and administrative power of Fancheng and surrounding towns.
Subsequently, talents were selected from the people in Fancheng and the surrounding areas as management personnel, and the administrative cabinet was formed, which controlled the administrative power of the city and the surrounding towns, and managed it together with the Yuanyanfan City Political Council.
There are two advantages to adopting this method of management. First, the Yuan Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom held the absolute right to rule all the towns around Fancheng; Second, gathering talents around Fancheng Town for the use of Fancheng Council, which can not only mobilize their enthusiasm for developing Fancheng, but also attract more people to join Fancheng.
And after the final discussion, with Fancheng as the center, it united Fucun, Fanzhen, Ximu Town, Beirong Town, Yuzhen, Baishui Town, Yousha Town, Leng Town, Xiaoli Village and Beicheng to establish a new country, officially named Fanguo, which is nominally a country composed of people from Fancheng and other surrounding towns, but in fact a country jointly led by Yuan and Yanguo.
This can also be regarded as a colonial country, but the two countries of Yuan and Yan do not grab or seize, and are bent on seeking stability and development.
After the new political system was settled, it marked that all the surrounding towns such as Fan City had nothing to do with the Broken Wolf Country, and all the people in it were the people of the Mortal Kingdom.
In addition, Lin Yue also managed to contact Qian Kun and contact the Soul Killing Society through Qian Kun. Inform Zheng Xiaotian that their Yuanyan coalition army has established a mortal country in the northwest of the Broken Wolf Country, and managed to hold back the large army of the Broken Wolf Country, and then the people of the Soul Killing Society can also make some moves in the northeast, and then the two sides will agree on a good time to capture the last few towns in the north of the Broken Wolf Country together, and completely block the northern part of the Broken Wolf Country.
Judging from the map, in addition to the Fan Kingdom occupied by the Yuanyan Coalition Army, there are eight towns in the north of the Broken Wolf Country, among which the Coal City is located on the location of the most abundant coal mine in the Broken Wolf Country, and in the strategy of the Yuanyan Coalition Army, capturing the Coal City is also the most important goal.
However, it is obvious that the people of the Broken Wolf Country are not so stupid, and through the trend of the Yuanyan Coalition Army's attack, they can also see the goal of the Yuanyan Coalition Army, so they have also deployed a lot of troops in several towns near the Fan Kingdom in the north to prevent further attacks by the Yuanyan Coalition Army.
At the same time, the Broken Wolf Country is also recruiting troops nationwide, hoping to further deter the Yuanyan coalition army by increasing the number of troops.
Originally, the country of Broken Wolf had 12,000 troops, accounting for about six percent of the population of Broken Wolf Country. And Broken Wolf plans to expand the army by another 6,000, so that the proportion of occupation will reach 10%.
Theoretically, the number of soldiers reaching 10 percent of the country is still an acceptable range, but there are other issues that need to be taken into account, that is, the coordination between the wolf breaking forces and the domestic population, as well as the coordination of the state finances and the number of troops.
From the beginning of the Great Crossing to the present, the Broken Wolf Force has always relied on force and money to maintain, and as many troops as they occupy and how many populations they have, they will form as many armies.
And now the sudden expansion of so many soldiers will not only make it a little difficult for the residents of the country to accept, but also make the military budget of the Broken Wolf Country increase a lot.
Because the army of the Broken Wolf Country is different from the Yuanyan Coalition Army, he uses the high military expenditure to attract the soldiers of the Broken Wolf Country to join the army, and once the soldiers of the Broken Wolf Country make major achievements, the soldiers of the Broken Wolf Country will also give a major reward.
In this case, the soldiers of the Broken Wolf Country can show stronger combat effectiveness, which is also the Broken Wolf Army can become more and more brave in battle, after all, there must be brave men under the heavy reward.
And what the Broken Wolf Country is facing now is that the Broken Wolf Country has lost one-sixth of its territory, although that part of the territory can't produce much wealth, but this has also shrunk the Broken Wolf Country's finances a little.
At the same time, it is necessary to increase military spending, which is undoubtedly a difficult problem to deal with.
"Lord Broken Wolf, there are two ways to solve this problem now!" In the information center of the Broken Wolf Country, the Sky Wolf reported to the Broken Wolf Country: "First, stop some projects in the country, and reduce the budgets of other aspects, and free up more budgets for the maintenance of the army!" Broken Wolf frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said, "If we do this, how much budget can we spare to maintain the army?" After looking through the documents in his hand, Sky Wolf replied: "Stop sixteen non-urgent projects, and reduce the budgets of six departments for the next year, and the vacated budget can maintain an additional three thousand four hundred soldiers for half a year's military budget, not including army rewards!" ”
"So little!" Broken Wolf was a little surprised and said: "How can we only maintain half more troops when we stop so many projects and reduce the budgets of other departments?" The Celestial Wolf sighed and said, "Lord Broken Wolf, first of all, since last year, we have further increased the salary of joining the army, and each soldier needs to pay six thousand Broken Wolf Coin a month. Under such high costs, we were able to assemble a sufficient number of soldiers last year. And now, at the cost of six thousand wolf coins, we can't recruit six thousand soldiers, which will take more to achieve. According to the statistics of the information center, the conscription plan, which was scheduled to be completed this month, was originally 3,000 pre-conscripts, but in the end only 1,600 were recruited. The information center also calculated that if you want to recruit enough soldiers, you must increase the cost by 30 percent, that is, 7,800 wolf coins per month. And if we do that, we will have to spend more money to raise the salaries of the old military. To sum up these problems, after the final calculation, it will lead to only 3,400 more soldiers! After hearing this, Broken Wolf's eyebrows had already wrinkled into a Sichuan shape, and the volume of his speech increased slightly: "Why is this happening, why haven't we been able to recruit enough soldiers, the army salary we have offered is high enough, there are six thousand broken wolf coins every month, which is more than twenty times the salary of an ordinary person!" Hearing this, the Celestial Wolf continued to reply: "Lord Broken Wolf, in fact, I also started to notice this problem not long ago, using the mercenary method of our Broken Wolf Gang on Earth before to form an army is itself a flaw! When the broken wolf heard this, he couldn't react immediately, and even a little angry, and said: "What's the flaw, this method has played a huge advantage since I started to form the Broken Wolf Gang, when I was on the earth, we only had a dozen people, but we directly got rid of the other largest gang in the city at that time, and even the government didn't take us seriously." Now, why can we develop to such a large territory, isn't it also this mercenary way, money can make the devil grind, this is the truth! Is it the right way for us to force civilians to join the army? ”
"Lord Broken Wolf, rest your anger!" Seeing that the wolf was a little excited, the wolf immediately said: "I know that the mercenary method is your biggest advantage when you formed the wolf breaking gang, it has attracted a large group of talents for you, and it has played a huge role in the new world, expanding our wolf breaking country into the most powerful country in the surrounding area!" But what you don't realize is that if we continue to run this way, after that, the cost of our needs will be higher and greater, until in the end, we will even spend most of the country's finances on the military. When the Sky Wolf said this, the broken wolf thought about it carefully and found that this was really the case.
"How so? Is it true that we, like those so-called democracies, make it the duty of every citizen to join the army, and force those ordinary people to join the army? Didn't you say before that if you want to govern a country well, you can't oppress the people too much, and we have done it? ”...