11. Slaughtering Tigers

It was already August 756 in the cosmic calendar when the high-level leaders of the Divine Light Clan received the report, and when they received the report, the entire Divine Punishment Department was almost in chaos, this was not an ordinary trivial matter, but something serious.

Under the command of the five giants of the Divine Punishment Department, the war machine of the entire Shenguang Clan began to operate at full capacity, the conscription and orders were issued, the order for logistics production was issued at the first time, and the order to convene a military meeting was conveyed to the hands of all important people in just three days.

His Holiness the Pope Woolrod Shenguang immediately ordered the various departments to prepare for a meeting in ten days, and for the first time in his three hundred years as pope, he felt a mountain of pressure.

Ten days later, the high-level meeting of the Shenguang clan was held, in addition to the senior leaders of various departments, the participants also included important figures in the sect, a total of more than 1,000 people, gathered together, this group of old guys all looked like they were sixty or seventy years old, but they were all old foxes who had lived for more than a thousand years, and everyone had the cultivation of the late Mahayana period, but they just pressed the cultivation one by one and didn't want to cross the catastrophe.

The Minister of Educational Affairs, Cortez Holy Light, presided over the meeting: "Everyone is clear about the report of the Ninth Legion, and everyone has studied it for many days, does the Divine Punishment Department have any conclusions about this crisis?"

The Minister of Divine Punishment, Carla Roosevelt, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, fellow parishioners, after many meetings of our Divine Punishment Department, our Divine Punishment Department has already made a preliminary plan. Generally speaking, our plan is two sentences, the first of which is: prepare for a big battle, a bad battle. The second sentence is: If you want to fight the enemy, you must first take care of our home. ”

For Carla Roosevelt's words, everyone is a black line in their heads, they naturally understand what this means, and basically agree with the report of the Ninth Legion, now, it is not the time to strike first, but to do a good job of their own defense.

Cortez smiled and said, "Can the Great God Marshal explain the plan in more detail?" "There is nothing to say about this, what we have to do now is to prepare for war, in addition to regular conscription, replenishment of all kinds of war materials, strengthening training, etc., is to first set up our own early warning system, otherwise, we will wait for the enemy to suddenly appear at our doorstep." Minister Cortez, this is a very staggering budget, and it is definitely going to give us all a headache to spend. ”

There is really nothing to say, build a comprehensive radar early warning network, so that the enemy can not sneak into the territory of the Shenguang clan to cause sabotage, of course, it is inevitable that the enemy will sneak in, but with such an early warning system, it will be able to minimize casualties, as long as you do a good job of your own defense first, and then be able to fight better in the future.

Pope Woolrod asked: "Grand Priest Carla Roosevelt, is there no action in other aspects?" "Back to Your Majesty, that's just a matter of details, there are still routine reconnaissance and other aspects, and we still have to mobilize a troop of troops to the Mingguang River system to strengthen the strength of the Ninth Legion, these are just small things, and they will not affect the plans of our sect." The most important thing for us now is to first get the early warning system and defense system in our north, so that the enemy will have to go around in a big circle even if he wants to attack. ”

Cortez stopped asking, turned around and asked, "Minister Rafael, is there any answer from the Ministry of Prayer?" Minister of Prayer Raphael* shook his head and said: "Our Ministry of Prayer has gathered three million elites to pray to the Heavenly Realm Holy Clan, but there has been no response, it seems that the other party has exerted pressure on the Holy Clan, and this is also the attitude of the Holy Clan to us, and we can only rely on ourselves in this battle." ”

Although this was an expected answer, everyone was still a little disappointed, without the support of the Holy Clan, it would be detrimental to the Divine Light Clan. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's not that the Holy Clan doesn't want to support us, it's just that they can't support us, once they openly support us, I'm afraid that the consequences will be more serious, so this battle can only rely on our own strength, however, I believe that our Divine Light Clan will definitely be able to defeat the opponent. Pope Woolrod saw that everyone was a little demoralized, and hurriedly cheered everyone on.

When Cortez heard the Pope say this, he stopped asking, turned his head and said, "Minister Owen, the Doctrine Department is about to start propaganda, is your Doctrine Department ready for this? This is an all-out war." The Minister of Doctrine, Owen Zhiguang, nodded and said, "There is no problem at all, I can guarantee that." "The war is about to begin, propaganda is the first priority, and this is a long-term war, and it is even more important to pay close attention to education, in a word, we are righteous, and the enemy is evil.

Carla Roosevelt said, "Secretary Cortez, I would like to ask if we want to start the war economy now?" Fighting a war is to burn money, and nothing can be done without money, as a huge Shenguang clan, although the reserves for thousands of years are very sufficient, but this time is different from the past, this is a full-scale war, and the materials that need to be consumed are amazing, not to mention, it is necessary to set up a comprehensive early warning system and defense system, and this amount of funds is already terrifying, therefore, whether to start the wartime economic policy is the key.

Ko Zhisi shook his head and said: "After discussion, our academic affairs department believes that it is not suitable to start the wartime economic policy for the time being, after all, this is a long-term war, and if the wartime economic policy is launched again, the consequences will be very serious, and it will also be a blow to the morale of the sect." ”

Carla Roosevelt also understood that the launch of the wartime economic policy before the official start of the war was also a blow to the people's psychology, but he frowned and said: "Since the wartime economic policy is not activated, the huge military expenditure will be solved by the Ministry of Education." This sentence is the real purpose of Carla Roosevelt, war, fighting is comprehensive strength, in this comprehensive strength, money undoubtedly occupies an extremely important position, no money, and a fart fight.

Cortez felt a headache when he heard this, this is not a matter of one sentence, but a huge trouble, military spending, it makes people want to cry when they think about it. To fight against a powerful enemy, in addition to establishing an early warning system and defense system, it is also necessary to expand a large number of troops, all kinds of materials, warships, etc. require a lot of money, and then think of the need to train a large number of reserve troops, then the daily training expenses are enough to make Cortez's face green, and the pension of the soldiers who died in battle, etc., this sum of money is definitely an astronomical huge number, where does so much money come from?

In the previous wars, the losses of the Shenguang Clan were not very large, even if it was the battle to eliminate the Qingsha Tribe, the loss was only three legions, but what was facing in front of him was a descendant of the Protoss who could compete with the Angel Saint Clan, and its strength could naturally be imagined, and after two battles, it lost a full division of troops, which was just a tentative battle and had such a big loss, if the war really started? How big would this loss be? No one can calculate clearly. Therefore, it is conceivable that this military expenditure will definitely become a heavy burden on the Shenguang Clan in the years to come, and it is he Cortez who is directly responsible for this military expenditure.

"Aren't you forcing me to hang myself, Lady Carla Roosevelt?" said Cortez with a wry smile. "Minister Cortez, I'm not forcing you, but I can't help it, I have no money but to ask for it, as for how you give me money and where you get it, I don't care. "Carla Roosevelt will naturally not give in, this money is related to the question of whether the war can be fought or not, and then we will talk about it after finalizing it, so as not to have any problems in the future, if there is no money in the fight, then it will be his turn to cry.

Others didn't dare to speak, when they thought of the huge military spending, everyone didn't want to get their hands on it, raising huge military spending is to get a lot of benefits from it, but this is not a matter of one or two days, but it is possible to fight a war for tens of thousands of years, no one can predict the progress of the war, once there is no military spending halfway, then you wait to be torn to pieces by the army. Therefore, although the benefits are good, you must have a life to be able to enjoy them. "I can only try to find a way, but, Grand Commander Carla Roosevelt, your Divine Punishment Department can't go too far, our military spending is limited. ”

Others can push it, but Cortez can't push it, who let him be in charge of the economy, and who will ask for money if he doesn't ask him for money? It's just that he will get vaccinated first, and then say, if the Divine Punishment Department is crazy to expand the army and organize thousands of legions at once, it will not be able to raise so much military expenses by killing him.

Carla Roosevelt was satisfied: "Minister Cortez, you can rest assured, I am not an ignorant person, I will know how to stop in moderation, but this kind of thing is also uncertain, it depends on the progress of the war, I can't guarantee the size of the army, I can only try to control it." "War is not a question of one side from the beginning, and the specific scale of the war, how long it will be fought, and what kind of scale the army will expand to are all determined by the battlefield, and it is still too early to say how big the army will be when it reaches its peak.

The meeting has basically ended here, and the ministries have basically reached a consensus on all aspects of the issue, although they are preparing for war, but it is impossible for the war to burn to the territory of the Shenguang clan in a short time, and the Shenguang clan still has a lot of time to prepare, and now, it is only the preparation stage for war.

Pope Woolrod said, "Grand Priest Carla Roosevelt, at this stage you are in full charge, and all military operations are up to you. Other departments are well coordinated. Ladies and gentlemen, the war is about to begin, we must prepare for a long-term war, this battle will be the most dangerous battle since the birth of our Divine Light Clan, if this battle is won, we can all become gods, if this battle is lost, we will all be finished. I hope that everyone will do their best to fight this battle. ”

They stood up, placed their left hand on their right chest, and saluted the Pope: "By Your Majesty's Decree." ”

(A moment of silence for the compatriots who died in the earthquake in Ya'an.) ）