"Impossible, absolutely impossible! How is this kind of thing possible!? ”

"Alice, what's wrong?"

"Back to ...... Back to Your Majesty, this mutated elven dragon egg is absorbing the elemental power of all the demon cores at the same time! It's just a counterintuitive thing! ”

It can be said that what happened in front of him at this time has completely subverted her previous attempts.

"There is also mutual exclusion between elements, how can a single individual be able to absorb so many elemental powers at the same time?"

However, the facts are in front of her eyes, and she can't do it even if she can't.

It seems that there are some of these things that she has studied.

But for Xia Qi, it is also a good thing.

Since this mutated elven dragon egg could absorb the elemental power of all attributes, then he didn't need to worry about the problem that the number of demon cores of a certain attribute was insufficient.

After all, after the elemental power in the demon core is exhausted, it will take a lot of time to recover naturally, so the quantity is also very important.

The rest is easy,???????????????? Xia Qi directly found a side hall in the palace and placed the mutated elven dragon egg.

Then he found a spell master from the elven clan and engraved a spell on the ground of the palace to speed up the recovery of elemental power, and at the same time, he was also ruthless, and around the dragon egg, a full thirty-six first-order demon cores were placed!

If it is said that one first-order magic core of each attribute can only be said to be gorgeous before, then at this time, thirty-six first-order demon cores of various attributes are piled together, and the scene can be described as quite spectacular.

After settling the mutated elven dragon egg, Alice hurriedly left the palace, intending to go back and look through the books of the steppe elves to see if she could find any clues.

A demonic beast that can absorb the power of all attribute elements, let alone seen it, she hadn't even heard of it before.

Subsequently, Xia Qi also returned to the service hall and began to work with Du Ruhui and the others to deal with the documents sent in the afternoon.

When there were still a few minutes before the end of work, they had a rare review of all the documents that should be reviewed.

In the next few days, as Alber gradually adapted, his work efficiency gradually improved, and now the work on the side of the council hall has basically been completed in advance.

In this case, Xia Qi, Du Ruhui and Zhang Liang subconsciously took away more of the documents sent over every day, so as to give Alber some time to take over and understand what needed to be done in the secretary's office, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

Maintaining this rhythm, the time is the last day of autumn in the blink of an eye.

On this day, according to the custom of Great Xia, there is a court meeting.

Walking into the council hall, under the throne, the left and right sides were already full of ministers.

Every time there is a court meeting, the council hall will become noisy, and the ministers below who are gentle and elegant in suits and leather shoes are directly noisy, and some even want to roll up their sleeves and do a fight.

Fortunately, they were afraid that Xia Qi was still there, so they didn't make a move.

The same is true for this court meeting.

Because the current Great Xia has just ended a war, the current financial funds within the civilization basically have to be used for some post-war work and settling new populations and new cities.

In other words, the quarterly funds that the following departments can obtain have suddenly become less, which directly leads to the fact that this time the court meeting is far more intense than in previous years!

And Xia Qi also considered the applications of various departments.

That's all the financial funds in hand, and you can't be cautious.

Not to mention that these departments want to apply for funding, even if he is he, there are still a lot of projects in his hands that have not been arranged.

In this way, this court meeting also quarreled for a long time before a result was reached, and then Xia Qi summed up a few sentences, which was almost over.

Just as he was about to end this court meeting, the old minister of the Ministry of Finance suddenly stood up from the crowd.

"Your Majesty! The old minister has something to play! ”

"Old minister, please speak."

"Your Majesty, now that we have just experienced a big war in Great Xia, the financial funds are already tight, and those newly taken over a large number of cities are in a state of ruins at this time, and they need to allocate a lot of funds."

"And a large number of warships built during the previous war, now the regular maintenance costs alone have to cost an astronomical amount of money, here, the old minister made a request to retire???????????????? Serve a group of warships to reduce the financial burden of our Great Xia! ”

Hearing the old minister's words, the hearts of all the ministers and officials below were shocked, and their eyes subconsciously glanced at the Minister of Military Affairs who was standing there.

The Ministry of Military Affairs can be said to be a behemoth among many departments.

From the past to the present, the military's funding has only increased, but has not decreased.

Of course, this time the old minister did not say that he would cut the military's spending, but that he would decommission the warships.

This matter is not trivial when it falls into the ears of the ministers below, which clearly means that it is going to touch the mildew of the military.

For a while, everyone below was also talking to each other, and even the old minister of the construction engineering department, who had been shrinking in the corner and looking at the ceiling, was taken aback.

And during this period, Xia Qi, who was sitting on the throne, also flashed a touch of meaning in his eyes after a short period of stunned.

"Zhang Liang, what do you think?"

Zhang Liang, who was named by Xia Qi, stepped forward two steps, and then said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the old minister's statement is not unreasonable, the maintenance of the warship does cost a lot of money, and now, the finances of Great Xia are relatively tight......

Speaking of this, Zhang Liang first paused, and then spoke again: "However, military strength is the foundation of a country, and rashly retiring too many warships will directly lead to the weakening of our combat power in the Great Xia Sea, and if there is a foreign enemy to attack in the future, it will be difficult to guarantee territorial security!" ”

Listening to Zhang Liang's words, Xia Qi didn't react at all from beginning to end, unlike the group of ministers below, he was not worried that Zhang Liang would pinch the old minister at all.

For so many years, he knew these two people too well, and they were just standing on their own positions to express their thoughts, and they didn't mean to fight each other.

There is nothing wrong with Zhang Liang's words, but the old minister's words are also very reasonable.

In fact, after the end of the war, in order to relieve the pressure on the country's finances, it is very normal to appropriately retire some weapons and equipment or even reduce the size of the army.

Today's Great Xia Navy has three fleets, namely the South China Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the Xia Sea Fleet, and there are only seventy-one battleships in service!

In addition, there were a large number of light cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, transport and supply ships, landing ships, and other ships of various types, bringing the total number to 359 warships!

After the end of the war, to raise three fleets of this size, he had to burn a large amount of financial funds every year.

The old minister's statement before is not an exaggeration at all.

"What the two of them said is reasonable, all departments of the navy are still continuing to develop warships, I believe that it will not take long to develop more advanced new warships, and it will be difficult for technologically backward warships to come in handy in future battles, and appropriate elimination is also necessary."

Hearing this, Zhang Liang's conscience below suddenly understood.

Sure enough, I only heard Xia Qi say: "In this way, on the side of the naval fleet, we will first decommission fifty warships to reduce the financial pressure, and then look at the situation." What does the old minister think? ”

This thing has to come step by step, the future development of science and technology, the replacement of battleships is inevitable, but the new battleships have not yet landed, and all the old battleships will be dismantled, which is not a fool. Therefore, Xia Qi plans to retire fifty ships first.

"Your Majesty is wise, and the old minister has no objection!"

"Wechen has no objection."

"Okay, then it's decided, as for what to do with the decommissioned battleship......"

How to deal with decommissioned warships is a difficult problem for many modern countries, and many countries will choose to use those decommissioned warships as targets for military training at sea, and simply sink them.

This makes many people who don't know the situation very strange, how can a battleship be sunk directly when it is so expensive, this is inevitably too much of a loser.

Even if it is dismantled and sold for scrap iron, it is more cost-effective than sinking it directly, and it can still get back some of the cost.

But in fact, this is not the case at all, and it is not so easy for a battleship to be completely dismantled.

It takes time or years to completely dismantle a battleship.

After that, even if the dismantling is successful, except for those things that cannot be sold, the remaining pile of scrap iron, in fact, will not sell for much money.

Even if you don't count the previous costs, the labor costs and equipment costs spent in the process of dismantling the battleship have already exceeded that figure.

In other words, if you want to dismantle a battleship, not only will you not make money, but you will have to pay for it.

In addition, there are other reasons, such as the dismantling process, it is easy to expose some information about your own warship to the enemy, and so on.

Of course, Xia Qi didn't have such concerns, but he didn't plan to dismantle all those warships, that would be too much of a loss.

According to his idea, it is to dismantle half of it first, and then after dismantling all the weapons and important equipment on the battleship, remove some armor plates to reduce the load, and keep the rest for transformation, and change it into a transport ship or a civilian ship to form an official merchant ship in Great Xia, transport cargo resources, and operate maritime trade.

In this way, the matter is finalized.

The list of the first batch of fifty decommissioned warships was quickly sent to Xia Qi's eyes, and what was surprising was that in addition to the forty-one small and medium-sized warships, there were nine battleships in this decommissioned list!

And this is exactly what Xia Qi meant.

Otherwise, the military would definitely take some small ships out for retirement first, and it would not be the turn of the battleships that are the backbone of the fleet.