There is an underground fortress in the territory of Diranfes, this fortress is difficult to find on the map, but it can be determined that the fortress is in the mountains, and in the mountain range where the fortress is located, there are a total of 200 kilometers of tunnels, through which the underground military base can be found through the underground railway.

The fast escape passage of the base is only authorized by Fick and the other seven people, and this shaft-like escape passage is usually sealed, that is, after taking the subway underground for more than 20 minutes, it is not known what places the underground base corresponds to on the surface.

Now this underground base is home to members of the military, economic, foreign, intelligence, science and technology, and industrial planning departments of Diranfez. These members are the core members of the Fike team. So the scale of the meeting is not large, but the level is very high. Of course, Luan attended the meeting and made a statement.

After the spokesman of the military department gave a presentation on the situation of the army, and the intelligence department gave a presentation on the military movements of various forces, the economic situation.

Fick turned his gaze to Luan, who began his speech, and after enumerating a lot of numbers, Luan saw the dozing officers on the left, put down the manuscript, and said to Fike: "Financially, we can only support it for eight months, and within eight months, we must start a war." ”

Luan's apparent alarmism made Fick ask, "How serious is it?" ”

"The devaluation of the currency is not only a depreciation of the money in everyone's hands, but that many factories will stop production due to a lack of raw materials, a large number of people will lose their jobs, and industries without unemployment will also lose their wages because of the reduction of wages, which will discourage the enthusiasm of workers," said Luan. ”

Lu An said, and a general next to him interjected: "Lack of motivation? Oh, this kind of traitor is damned. ”

Lu An looked at the general and said lightly: "In terms of work, I have a hundred ways to disobey the yin and yang, but you don't feel that I am grinding foreign work at all. The industrial positions are separated by mountains, and you can't monitor all the people. People are high-pitched and depressed. If you don't have enough to eat for a long time, don't have warm clothes, worry about your children's tuition every day, and buy soy sauce, rice, oil, and salt for groceries, it is absolutely impossible to be motivated about work. General, dare to ask your soldiers how much they can guarantee their morale for a few months when the logistical supply is cut off? ”

The general argued: "Spirit is very important! ”

Lu An: "I have considered the role of spiritual encouragement in promoting production, but relying on spirit cannot make up for the negative effects caused by the material shortage. ”

Fick interrupted the normal situation, he stopped the general from continuing to speak, and asked Luan, "What do you think, Cirico?" ”

Luan: "It's okay for our economy to fight a war, but we definitely can't get into a long-term war. ”

"Hey, now is not the time to save money." The military couldn't help but retort. These military bigwigs are really in a hurry, if it weren't for Lu An's personal combat effectiveness, they would probably rush over and grab Lu An's collar and shake it.

"It's not about saving money, we don't have money to save," Luan said. We don't have a single gold coin right now. Our banknotes are a type of currency based on material supplies. I am not short of scraps of paper to print money, so when I say lack of money, I do not mean a lack of anything else, but a lack of materials needed for the war. I'm just in charge of providing the necessary supplies for your chariots, don't think of me as a miser guarding the gold coins, I say there is no money, it's not that there are no gold coins, but I really can't get the war consumables you need.

Now the production link is very fragile, a large number of parts production gap is imported, once the war is prolonged, the price of relevant parts in the international market will rise, our foreign exchange can buy even less, your weapons and ammunition will be short. It's not a question of money, it's a question of the supply of war materiel. ”

At this time, these generals seemed to have found a point of attack, and said to Lu An: "Why import, it is related to the industry of military production, why do you give money to foreigners." ”

Lu An slapped the table with a "bang" and slammed the generals head-on: "What? Do you want to call me a national thief? I would like to ask those people who tell me every day, 'Military spending must be increased, and other aspects can be sacrificed for the time being!' ’

In order to satisfy this 'most critical war' in your mouth, I have terminated many of the investments in the 'most important industries' that you now speak of, and I wonder if the products produced by these industries are important to the country? The saved upfront industrial investment can directly purchase enough parts from the international market to meet the current military industrial production.

You people, if you can't win this war, and if you find one excuse or another, you can all jump into the lava pool and kill yourself. ”

Lu An's attack was as rapid as a volcanic eruption, and in many rehearsals, Lu An specially chose this time to attack, in order to prevent someone from coming to trouble himself under the banner of a thief in the future, and he directly commanded this group of main battle factions who were not sympathetic to economic management at this most suitable time.

Luan's words are clear, the country's industry can only provide so much for the present war. The army don't make excuses. Don't pass the buck for defeat. Caldera jumping is a culture of the country's military personnel to solve the shameful defeat of the war, which is equivalent to the suicide of the earth's island nation.

Under Lu An's gaze, several generals of the military avoided Lu An's questioning gaze. After today's generals, these generals have no reason to speak wildly to Lu An in the future, and endlessly demand military spending.

Fike saved his general and asked Luan, "Ciric, what's the solution?" I hate the feeling of being sluggish. ”

Lu An: "First of all, we must first win this war, and after winning dividends, we must develop the economy, and under the guarantee of the economy, support a sufficient number of enterprises in our fragile industrial links, maintain the supply channels of parts in this industrial chain, and get rid of the situation that the channels are controlled by foreign countries." ”

From the point of view of the concept of absolute planned economy, it is a waste in production for an industrial link to be supplied to a number of manufacturers with different production technologies, and this is indeed the case from the perspective of pure industrial technology, because the consumption of three production technologies at the same time is definitely greater than a production standard.

In World War II, the U.S. military chose an aircraft model, and the company that won the bid was forced to distribute orders to other factories for production, and the other factories only received processing fees. The winning factory received most of the funding, which reduced industrial wear and tear during the war.

In peacetime, in the industrial system, where technological changes are rapid, only by handing over the demand for supply to a number of enterprises can the benign competition role of capital improvement technology be thoroughly brought into play.

If it is only handed over to one company, it is theoretically the most cost-effective, but it is only theoretical, human nature is greedy. In the second half of the twentieth century, there was a period when the factories that produced the planes turned to the absurd side by and begged for suppliers of parts, and the reason for this was the establishment of a supply mechanism. The worst situation is that it is clear that a data cable interface is not done in accordance with the commonly used data cable interface, but it is made into a hexagon, triangular, and pentagonal one. The purpose is that you can only use mine, not to find a replacement in the market.

Although the planned economy is ultimately the most suitable system for the era of artificial intelligence, it is now necessary to consider the inferiority of human beings.

Lu An's meaning is very clear, the debts owed must not be made up, and the industries that have not been put into production now will continue to spend money on development after the war is over.

The generals present had already seen that Lu An was going to cut the "kitchen knife" for military spending after the war. And they didn't have any reason to refute Lu An, who took out the "kitchen knife".

Also after listening to Lu An's explanation, Fike, who was actually the main battle faction, also twitched on his face. He was ready to pull the shelf from the beginning, but now he has nothing to say.

In the past, it was the gold standard, and gold was always available, and business cultists directly said that everything in the world could be priced in gold coins. This gives the army the illusion that it can develop the military as long as the state gives gold coins. However, Lu An reminded the old men who were accustomed to using gold coins to see the cost of war - Diranfis had no gold coins, only war materials, and it was impossible to turn civilian materials into war materials for the army by drawing money from other places.

After the cold game, Fick coughed and said, "Ciric, you did a good job. Next, we move on to the next topic. ”

Fick found that he had not lost an argument with the finance department and the army since Luan became the head of the treasury, and that previous chancellors of the exchequer were often threatened with fists by the generals. And now looking at the generals who wilted at the meeting, the participants of the diplomatic department and the intelligence department, although they were silent on the surface, but the corners of their mouths were slightly crooked: "Qiu Ba, you also have today!" ”

The war machine of Diranfis has been turned on, and all preparations for starting a war are ready. And now Diranfes was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity similar to the Franco-Prussian War, when Prussia waged war against France.

In the Franco-Prussian War, it was France that took the lead in the attack, and Prussia, which was completely prepared, was perfect in terms of war readiness and international morality. With the impeccable posture of the international community, France was ceded and begged for mercy, and finally pitifully engaged in a "Last Lesson" (this text is very classic in Chinese Chinese textbooks). Well, this is the same as Japan starting a war after World War II, and finally being blown up by atomic # bombs, and then thinking that he is pitiful and a pure victim of war, a bird.

Although the result was the cession of territory by France, the Franco-Prussian War was initiated by France on its own initiative. And now Diranface is also waiting for such a suitable opportunity.

The day after the meeting, on September 2, 14 A.D., the police of the Kasher province of Diranfis seized a group of steel smuggling trains through a special information channel (from the Tiran Fez Intelligence Group), and the members of the smuggling group were all detained.