The political affairs have been said, and the rest is the military issue.

At present, the Catalan government has invested heavily in the military, including the construction of railways, the reform of the military system, and the purchase of weapons and equipment.

The military factory is being built, but the funds are really stretched, and if you don't want to issue public bonds, you can only wait for a loan from the Bourbon royal family.

Garcia saw that everyone had finished discussing, so he said with a smile: "The army has completed the compulsory retirement of ordinary soldiers over the age of 32.

In addition, we have absorbed from society many workers who have been laid off by women workers. In addition, a group of tenants were recruited from the estate, and soon 20,000 people were able to start the first batch of training.

Discharge pay, recruit salary...... These were allocated to me by the Treasury, a total of £160,000... It's still not enough.

Many of the recruits do not have military uniforms and still wear regular uniforms, although they are only short-term soldiers for 4 months, but they are not even uniform.

In addition to this, all the weapons and equipment were insufficient, the number of troops expanded from 36,000 to 46,000 (10,000 were discharged, 2,000 more than expected), and we took out all the stocks, but it was not uncommon for two people to use one gun.

I would also like to invite some instructors from England, France and Prussia, all of whom are nobles, and their salaries are not low.

Therefore, I applied for another payment to solve the above problem. ”

The crowd, especially Enrique, fell silent.

So far, the military spending has been taken from the government's account, and Enrique has pulled out the corners little by little.

If you give the army another amount of money, you will have to borrow, Enrique doesn't want to do that, but he knows that Garcia has a point, and these expenses really can't be saved.

Seeing that the scene was silent, Garcia asked Alfonso for support: "Your Highness, the army is already carrying out large-scale literacy education, and we have been insisting on instilling in the soldiers the idea of loyalty and patriotism and defense of Bourbon......"

Alfonso only felt a little funny about Garcia's currying, and he brought up the matter of making the army literate, but could it really have any great effect? He had no hope.

If you want to develop a disciplined and organized army, similar to the PLA in later generations, you can't just teach a few words and let the teacher say a few words.

It must cooperate with the long-term training, and the influence of the military environment and social atmosphere.

If the few cultural teachers invited by the army could make all the soldiers loyal to the royal family in a few classes, Alfonso could only suspect that the teacher's surname was You.

His biggest purpose in making soldiers literate was to hope that they would understand orders and learn some basic tactics.

Having said that, in the face of Garcia's plea for help, Alfonso spoke: "Enrique, allocate another sum of money to the army, it actually doesn't hurt for the government to maintain a proper amount of debt." ”

He has always felt that Enrique is somewhat obsessive-compulsive and seems to be particularly interested in achieving a debt-free Catalan government.

This is not a good thing, not the idea of a good finance minister, but in view of Enrique's other aspects, Alfonso would like to remind him of a few words.

Enrique looked at Alfonso's expression and understood that this was informing him, and reason told him that he should do it.

He was a little sad and said: "Well, the government will issue a batch of public bonds, which is expected to set a quota of 300,000 pounds, and all this money will be given to the army." ”

Garcia smiled with satisfaction, with these 300,000, the army could be reloaded with French Chasebo rifles.

The best rifle of the era! And it's easy to buy.

The French have a high production capacity of rifles, and the army has all been reloaded, so they are happy to sell some guns to their harmless little neighbors.

At this time, someone asked Garcia curiously: "You said that the source of the army was tenants and laid-off workers, how did you get the peasants out of the estate, and the owner of the manor didn't care?" ”

Garcia and Enrique looked at each other and smiled proudly: "We promise that as long as 10 farmers from each estate train us for 4 months, we can get a whole year's rice tax exemption and a discount on renting farm tools!" ”

Okay, the man was speechless, he was going to reduce taxes and do farm tool activities, and he was a white wolf with empty gloves.

In the end, Adolf was left unreported, and in a sense, what he was about to say was what should really be discussed at the party meeting.

As soon as Adolf opened his mouth, he shocked everyone: "I have retired from the army!" ”

"Why?" "Do you want to go into politics?" “……”

There was a lot of talk about it, and it seemed to them that Adolfo's political career was a matter of course, but it was better to spend some time in the army and follow the path that Campos had taken.

"Because Catalonia is still under the Spanish system, it is not easy for soldiers to blatantly join the party, so I decided to retire."

After Adolf finished talking about the reason for retiring, he continued: "I will join the party and set up a private security company, with an estimated size of 5,000 people!"

This security company will recruit young nobles to join, and it is mainly responsible for providing security for the nobles, supervising the discipline of the army, guarding the royal family, and preventing the infiltration of the Carlos faction and the free government!

All the funds are provided by the Bourbon royal family, not government accounts! ”

A shocking statement!

In the dead silence, Alfonso smiled, and this was the plan he and a few higher-ups had come up with.

At first, it was to deal with the police force of the Carlos faction, and many nobles were worried that dealing with the Carlos faction would cause riots, and the police would strike again, threatening their lives, so they openly and secretly approached each other and persuaded the Catalan government to tolerate it.

This was the case in this case of women workers, although most people had already accepted women to work, but because the newspapers were in the hands of the Carlos, public opinion was very unfavorable to the government.

"The most government in the history of Iberia" was shouted, much to the annoyance of Alfonso and the others.

It's just that he can't deal with Huo An of the Press and Publication Administration, and the nobles don't support it!

But the Carlos faction did not deal with it, and they were against themselves at every turn, and there have been signs of a union between the Carlos faction and the local nobility recently.

As they infiltrate the army, the further back they go, the more difficult it becomes to deal with.

He thought of the shadow troops, which could maintain order in the city and suppress the police force in all its aspects, without the help of the regular army.

Inspired by that special unit in Germany.

He thought again that this was the case anyway, and that he would have to implement a one-party system in the future, and sooner or later the military would be able to join the party.

The scale of the project was expanded to 5,000 people!

In this era, the army, especially the less educated army like Catalan, was fighting a civil war, and it was easy to break up or mutiny.

Under normal circumstances, the soldier looks at the big headwind, drills into the mountains, and after a few days comes out again, it is a civilian, after all, there is no ID card these years, and everyone looks similar, and the soldiers are in chaos, who knows that he is a deserter.

How could Alfonso allow this to happen, so he added the attribute of a warlord to this force.

In this way, this security force can be regarded as a combination of the shadow force and the palace guard.

He was not afraid to say in public that he wanted to form a shadow army, the Carlos faction did not have a regular army in their hands, and it was too late to discuss it in a short time, and they did not dare to take the initiative to rebel.