In any case, the Rome Pact finally silenced the fighting in the Balkans. How countries will respond to the current situation will be a matter for the future.

Regardless, the end of the war has given countries time to clear their squeezed affairs.

Italy, which has been the most profitable this time, now has time to rectify many of the things that have been brought down by this war.

Of course, no matter what happens, it is not as good as the post-war summary meeting held this time.

Today in the royal palace, a large number of high-ranking military and political officials gathered together, and they were all part of the meeting.

Many high-ranking military and political officials gathered, and everyone naturally took advantage of this opportunity to communicate with each other.

As the absolute main force of the military, the five generals of the army are here this time. In one corner of the room, the five generals representing the Army were talking in a whisper, but judging by their expressions, the results of the conversation were not very good.

Because the Secretary of War informed the other four people of the news that they were not happy, including the great meritorious Admiral Kadolna this time, the same was true.

Because Your Excellency the Minister of War has brought them bad news.

In view of the performance in this war, the government decided to increase the size of the Janissaries, expanding the current three regiments of the Janissaries into two divisions.

Although the Praetorian Guard is also under the jurisdiction of the Army, the relationship between the Army and the Praetorian Guard, you can see from the expressions of several generals, what the relationship is, and it is strange that they can be happy.

"Is this news confirmed?"

As one of the most outstanding generals in the army of this war, Admiral Kadolna knew that he had asked a stupid question as soon as he asked this question.

Sure enough, before his words fell, Admiral Saragate, who brought the news, glanced at him and said. "I got the news that this matter has basically been decided, and the reason is to reward the army for its outstanding performance in this war."

The reason given by Admiral Saragate, even if everyone is thick-skinned enough, still feels panicked. To expand the Praetorian Guard for this reason is simply murderous.

"Can't you change it?"

In the face of the Minister of War's words, some people wanted to try to block the expansion of the Janissaries.

Faced with this, Admiral Saragait asked rhetorically. "How can this be stopped, and on what grounds?"

Admiral Saragate was right, this time the army had no reason to stop it, and this time the performance of the Praetorian Guard on the battlefield was obvious to all. The capture of Crete and the capture of Salonica with the Bulgarian army made a great contribution to the siege of the main Ottoman forces. This was followed by a landing on the peninsula of Asia Minor, where the Ottoman attack on the Bulgarian army was pinned down from the flank. This is all visible to the big guys, and the army has no excuse to say that the Janissaries are poor.

As for the Marine Corps, although the performance was also not bad, due to the suppression of the Navy, it did not get the opportunity to expand. (It is clear to everyone below the Admiral Gorek that the Italian Navy is still in a weak position.) If the Marine Corps expands, then the contradictions between land and sea will be stimulated, and at the moment the Navy is not capable of expanding its influence on land. Their main aim was to expand the fleet and allow the Italian navy to assert its influence in the Mediterranean. If the Marine Corps is expanded, then it will inevitably squeeze the pace of the expansion of the fleet. ）

Just when several bigwigs of the army were worried about the expansion of the Praetorian Guard, they only heard a proclamation. "Your Majesty, here!"

As these words came, everyone immediately lined up to welcome Carlo's arrival according to their respective duties.

After a brief greeting to those present, everyone took their seats, and the meeting was officially opened as the Prime Minister explained the purpose of the meeting.

Since it was a post-war summary meeting, it was first necessary to understand the cost of the war, after all, everyone present wanted to know how much it was.

"Your Majesty... Ladies and gentlemen, this war is now over, and according to the Ministry of Finance, the war with the Ottomans has cost a total of 997 million lira. Of this amount, 537 million lire was spent on the procurement of various weapons and ammunition materials, 89 million lire was spent on supporting allies, and 272 million lire was spent on the construction, maintenance, security and procurement of occupied areas. The total cost of medical care and funeral expenses amounted to 221 million lire, and the total expenditure was 1,119 million lira. And in this war, we confiscated a total of 122 million lira from various industries belonging to the Ottomans. We still have a surplus of 203 million lire in the war funding. ”

With Chancellor of the Exchequer Tejela's words, everyone present knew that the war had not yet been spent. For this point, the people on the scene basically estimated, but the specific number is still known.

After all, no one expected that the Ottomans would perform so poorly in this war, and although there were some ups and downs later, it was still very smooth.

Before the war, the Italian military believed that in order to solve the Ottomans, Italy would need to pay 5-80,000 casualties. The reality was that Italy paid only more than 30,000 casualties, which was significantly lower than expected.

After the Chancellor of the Exchequer finished speaking, the other ministers then announced the performance of their departments in the war. After the government had spoken, Admiral Goleck, the Minister of the Admiralty, spoke first. "In this war, the Navy organized more than 30 operations and dispatched 759 ships of all kinds. It sank 79 Ottoman warships and transport ships of various types, and successfully completed various mission indicators. ”

Due to the Ottoman navy's weak avoidance of the war, the Italian navy did not perform too well in this war. So after Admiral Golek finished speaking, he sat back and waited for the next person's report.

Don't think about it, the next one must be the Army. In the face of everyone's attention, Admiral Saragate, who is the Minister of War, naturally stood up. "In this war, the army mobilized a total of 590,000 troops, of which 319,000 were dispatched to fight against the Ottomans, and a total of 179,500 captured enemies were annihilated. In addition, our army also suffered losses of 31,200 people. ”

After saying what he should report, Admiral Saragate, like Admiral Golek, sat back in the same way.

After everyone had reported, Carlo spoke. "The victory over the Ottoman enemy this time is inseparable from the full cooperation of all departments, and it is also inseparable from the bloody struggle of officers and men of the navy and land. Victory in this war is the best reward for us. But now that the war is over, our focus will shift to the planning and construction of new territories. ”

As Carlo led the conversation to the new territory, everyone present naturally understood.

Before Carlo could continue to speak, Prime Minister De Pretis spoke. "Your Majesty, our government has made a detailed plan, I don't know if Your Majesty is interested in hearing about it."

"Prime Minister, please speak."

With Carlo's permission, Prime Minister De Pretis laid out the government's plan.

"In view of the large amount of coal that has been found in Kosovo and the commercial mining of lead, zinc, chromium and the silver that exists in Kosovo, in order to exploit these minerals, our Government believes that in order to develop these minerals, we need to build a heavy railway from the port of Durrës to Pristina. In addition, in view of the efficiency of rail transportation, we believe that it is also necessary to build various smelters in the vicinity of the area, so that the resources of the area can be used rationally......"

With Prime Minister de Preetis' speech, the government's plans for the newly occupied territories were also released. At present, Italy is focusing its main investments in Albania and Kosovo. Among them, the discovery of chrome ore resources in Albania surprised the explorers, and the reserves of chrome ore of nearly 30 million tons are extremely rare in Europe.

So 93 percent of the government's investment is in these two areas, and the remaining 7 percent is divided between Libya and the 12 South Islands. Don't blame the Italian government for being so favoritistic, who makes Libya look like a barren land at the moment, in addition to producing some agricultural products such as livestock dates, the only decent point is well salt, which adds up to less than 5 million lire of exports, who can pay attention to it.

In addition to the development plan, the military also talked about the security and security plans.

It wasn't until near the end of the meeting that Carlo asked another question. "What did you plan for the locals?"