Chapter 271: Not Rational Enough

"That's a real problem!"

Carlo looked at the two plans that were sent to him, and couldn't help but buckle his head.

Although Carlo was the king of Italy, the Savoy family was also the eldest family, and many of its members' annuities were an essential income. This method of reducing annuity income, without thinking about it, is simply unrealistic. It will inevitably attract strong opposition, and he, as the most important member of the family, is equally unlikely to stand on the opposite side of the family members for this.

"Chief Guard, go and get Mr. Alejad."

Carlo had come up with a solution, but he needed the help of the wise man of the court.

Without letting Carlo wait, the court governor Alejad appeared in front of Carlo.

"I've seen Your Majesty!"

Looking at the increasingly old palace manager, Carlo couldn't help but ask with concern. "Mr. Alejad, how are you doing?"

Faced with Carlo's concern, the court steward spoke. "It's not bad, although there are still small problems, but I feel like I can last a few years."

"This time I came to Mr., I have something to ask......

In Carlo's mouth, he told the old man what it was all about, as well as what he thought.

After listening to Carlo's story, Administrator Alejad nodded in reply. "Your Majesty's idea is very good, and the current royal property can also come up with this money, but since this money is lent to the government, then it must be calculated with interest, even if it is calculated according to the interest on bank loans, this is also a must."

Yes, Carlo is planning to lend money to the government by the royal family, although this is just a circle, but at least nominally there is no reduction in the royal family's funds, and the family members will not object to this.

As for the supplementary suggestion made by Director Alejad, Carlo also admitted that it was something he had not thought about before. Although these profits are not much, but one yard is one yard, and some things need to be clearly divided so that there will be no trouble.

Since this was decided, Carlo called the chief of the guard and informed the prime minister of his decision.

And after settling this matter that could have an impact on Italy's future, Carlo picked up a document he had read before, a war report from Libya. After a month of hard fighting, the clean-up operation, led by the Libyan Governor-General Haward Georgi, under the command of General Briinen, finally paid off.

After nearly 10,000 men in three cavalry brigades, they wiped out five large tribes, seven medium-sized tribes, and several small tribes in one month. A total of 57,000 people were killed and captured, and more than 5,000 guns of various types, tens of thousands of other weapons, more than 70,000 cattle and sheep, more than 8,000 horses, more than 900 camels, and more than 7 million lire of various property were confiscated.

In a sense, the operation was not bad, casting the majesty of Italy over this barren land.

Of course, the operation was not unscathed, the Italian army this time 619 people were killed, 391 wounded, and 27 missing. The fact that the number of casualties is higher than that of the wounded speaks volumes about the suffering of the army during this clean-up operation.

Moreover, after the war report, Governor Georgie was still complaining that many of the officers and soldiers who died in battle were caused by the lack of doctors and medicines. Due to the shortage of doctors and medicines, some officers and soldiers were dragged into serious injuries from minor injuries and then died as a result.

Carlo has no good way to deal with Governor Georgie's grievances now, and the only thing he can do is to appeal for the doctor to join the army and serve the country. This is just a little bit difficult to make the current doctors give up their comfortable lives and good remuneration to serve the country.

Italians have not experienced the baptism of Confucianism, although nationalism is prevalent in Italy, but like other countries, nationalism is more at the bottom, that is, the kind of people who have just solved the problem of food and clothing, and have read some books. It is really difficult for a middle-class doctor to give up a decent life and go to the army to eat sand.

This is not only a situation unique to Italy, but also in the whole of Europe, and even in Germany, where the military atmosphere is the strongest, military doctors are a long-standing problem.

Of course, Carlo is more concerned about one thing than the minor problem of the military doctor.

That was the result of this clean-up operation, and he was a little dissatisfied with the results. That's right, he wasn't very satisfied with the results this time. The reason is simple, because this is the first operation, and those tribes are not yet prepared. Under such circumstances, the surprise attack found only more than 50,000 people, which is not an outstanding result.

And he has a hunch that although there are only two or three hundred thousand people in Libya, these local snakes will become particularly difficult to catch when they are vigilant. Familiar with the local environment and terrain of the local tribes, trying to catch them is like catching a loach with their bare hands, and these slippery local people will not give them such a good opportunity again.

Thinking of this, he will not have too high expectations for the next Libyan clean-up operation.

On the other hand, Libya has no permanent rivers, which makes it less attractive to Italian farmers, who are largely agricultural. Completing the task of migration is a huge test for the Governor of Libya.

Thinking of this, Carlo called a guard. "Send a message to the Prime Minister and ask him to tilt Libya to a certain extent in terms of funding and policy. A message was also sent to Governor Harward Chogi, telling him that in addition to the elimination of the local tribes, the food supply problem needed to be solved as soon as possible. ”

Although the latter question should be said by the prime minister, Carlo looked at the situation of Libya consumption and decided to talk about it himself.

Because he saw a list of supplies that Libya had been transporting in recent months. It can be said that everything in Libya needs to be transported from the country, from grain, horseshoes, nails, to steam engines, coal, and all kinds of machinery.

These supplies are quite a lot, costing the government at least nearly two million lira a month. During this period of the clean-up operation, Libya spent more than 7 million lire. Not to mention, the local garrison will need to continue to fight in the future, and the cost will be even higher.

In the spirit of saving a little for the government, Carlo felt the need to let Governor Harward Georgie save a little.

Although the harvest was not bad, it would cover the cost of several months, but it was also a lot of money to transport these North Africans to East Africa.

When he thought of these rising expenses, Carlo really regretted it. In order to prevent future troubles, Italy's financial expenditures have been made too high by itself, and they are almost out of breath.

This kind of lesson must be remembered next time, I am still too anxious and irrational.

Just as Carlo was making an oath for himself, a guard suddenly reported that Foreign Secretary Jemini Bacona had something to do.