Iris Palace, the inner side of the King's Palace.

According to the tradition of the Kingdom of Westdum, large ceremonies, large discussions and announcements were generally held in the magnificent king's palace. The king or queen would sit on the throne surrounded by elite guards. At the foot of the throne ladder, ministers, nobles, and parliamentary deputies have their own fixed seats to hear the parliament presided over by the prime minister.

This kind of large kingdom parliament usually only meets once a month, or if there is any important matter, the prime minister will convene the members of the council in the king's palace.

Generally speaking, routine matters, daily government affairs, and prior decision-making on major matters are carried out on a small scale. The Prime Minister, the King, ministers from various departments, and high-ranking officials of military affairs, finance, and commerce discussed matters in a small hall on the inside of the King's Palace.

After Prime Minister Norsman formed his new cabinet, in the first few years, he would pretend to invite Queen Main to sit on the throne and hold a large court meeting. But lately, Northman has become increasingly lazy to engage in this kind of formalism. The great festival once a month became once every three months, and then became longer. The last time a great court meeting was held half a year ago.

In contrast, he and his cabinet members met more and more often in the small conference hall, especially during the period when the relationship with Jinyang Pass had become extremely bad.

The words of a thousand and the words of ten thousand are all preparations for a war that is very likely to break out in Greece.

"Marshal Kavon." Norsman's gloomy face has become the norm, "The request I gave you three months ago to expand the strength of the Westdom Garrison to 400,000, why didn't you reach the intended goal?" ”

Marshal Cavon, with his white hair and face full of vicissitudes, was dressed in a military uniform and sat straight in his seat. Hearing the question, he replied: "Your Excellency, after receiving the order, the Vestum Garrison has been doing its best to increase its strength. However, there are two serious problems, one is that in most of the lower districts, our recruitment of recruits has been greatly hindered, except for the support of individual communities for our recruitment work. Local forces, some political parties, and even witchers and cults are obstructing our recruitment efforts, making it difficult to recruit our soldiers in many places. ”

"In addition, the second problem is that the salary we offer to recruits is so low that even many poor people in the lower districts are not willing to come."

"You don't have to announce the treatment, or you can announce the treatment better, such as eating and dressing, and the untouchables in the lower districts will flock to it as long as they hear about these two items." The person who said this was the cabinet minister in charge of commerce, Varglis.

Kavon glared at Varglis: "You are insulting the honor of the army!" ”

Vagliss said indifferently: "Otherwise, what else can be done?" ”

"Let the Ministry of Finance allocate enough funds that should be allocated is the right thing!" Calvon looked at the greedy merchants with angry eyes, and although he was old, it was only then that people remembered that he had once been known as the 'Lion of the Kingdom'.

The old lion glared at the man with a fierce momentum, which made the fat guy of Vaglis, tremble.

Frightened by Vaglis, Cavon's gaze turned to Finn.

Luhmann? Finn, chairman of Blackbird Heavy Industries, is also the most important minister under the Norsman Prime Minister, in charge of finances. Kavon dared to glare at Vaglis, but he still had a slight scruple about Fein, and he wouldn't say anything too ugly.

In any case, what Kavon meant by this was to shift the blame for the poor recruitment and failure to achieve the goals expected by His Excellency the Prime Minister to the Ministry of Finance.

In fact, this is not a big deal. Conscription, how to conscript without money? There really is no way to levy it. During this time, Marshal Cavon had already thought of many ways, and finally expanded the number of garrisons to 280,000, but there was still a gap of more than 100,000 from the target. It's not a problem that can be solved by shouting slogans and figuring out a solution. In fact, let alone the requisition of new soldiers, even this batch of newly recruited troops is difficult to match with weapons and equipment, let alone a relatively high level of military training.

Prime Minister Norsman's gaze was also on Luhmann Fein at this time.

"My Chancellor of the Exchequer, I need an explanation from you."

Luhman Fein was silent.

In fact, the Kingdom's finances are now in a very bad state. With only the normal income of the kingdom's treasury, it is impossible to continue to expand the army on a large scale and train more KSS agents.

The reason why it can continue to be maintained is that it is only through the blood transfusion of several large enterprises in Westdum, led by Blackbird Heavy Industries, and the traditional territory of the Hargraves family, the St. Bouren Valley.

Among them, blood transfusions from major groups are particularly important.

Capitalists are not philanthropic, they support the Hargraves family, they support the Norsman, that is an investment.

And since it is an investment, it must pay off.

After paying a lot of money, they want to get political rights. One can imagine what a capitalist will do when he has seized public power.

Perhaps, there are good people among capitalists, but the nature of capital is to earn the most profits under the circumstances possible. When there is no limit to capital, even with the help of public power, capital will inevitably make more profits.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Luhmann? Fein, who came to power with the rise of the Norseman duke, was the representative of the capitalists who supported the Norsman cabinet, and he was also the largest capitalist. His clique provided a lot of financial support for the Norsman to win the position of prime minister of the kingdom and liquidate the royal party.

This also earned him an extremely important position in the Norsman cabinet.

In the eyes of the public, Finn is the number one supporter of Northman and the second person in the current cabinet. He wields one of the most important powers of the current royal government: the financial power. So much so that at times, Prime Minister Northman had to respect Finn's opinion.

It's just that in recent times, there seem to be some cracks in the close cooperation between these two leading bigwigs in the kingdom's political arena.

It comes down to a question of money, as it is today.

In the past few meetings, Finn had already refuted Norsman's opinion several times, and today, although he did not speak, he was silent about Norsman's order to keep him allocated money to the army.

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