The giant bear army, which returned from the Karatu continent in the Far East, can be said to have a lot of money now, but it is not too short of money.

Regardless of the previous plundering methods in the Mazka continent and the Japanese archipelago, the capital of the Xianglong Empire was finally emptying, the imperial tombs were dug up on the outskirts of the capital, and the 400,000 residents in the city were sold into slavery, which made Feili make a fortune, and the vault on the ship was almost bursting.

In short, in the past battles in the Far East, the giant bear army swept almost all the wealth that could be seen, plundered three feet high, and successively recovered gold, silver, pearls, gems, and satin.

There are countless valuable items such as spices, antiques, etc. In this recent eye, according to the incomplete inventory and statistics of the accountants of the army, the legion seized and incorporated into the public account in succession, and the discount should be about 50 million gold coins.

As for how much spoils the sailors and soldiers had divided into their own wallets, only God knows.

However, no matter how fulfilling Feili's small treasury is at this moment, he will never have the intention of throwing money into the water for nothing.

First, if you do charity, you must earn a reputation. Even if I respect you, Elaszhuo, is an old senior in the voter team, you cannot just say a few righteous words and ask me to take out a lot of real money and silver for you to sell!

Moreover, looking at her posture, it seems that she is asking for a lot of money... Looking back at the unfinished unfinished ship on the lake, the "Silver Hunter", Feili felt that the lady in front of her seemed to be a black hole. No matter how many coins she threw in, she couldn't hear any sound. She couldn't be so blatant! We are all voters at least, at most you are older, respect your name and call you senior. Why do you want me to pay for you? You are not my girlfriend, let alone you, who claims to have 1,000 faces and has a legendary rumored heroine with two bigwigs, Ilminster and Samast, who is not tolerant!

Just as he was stunned and his mind was flying, Miss Mitsui Ryuki, who was originally sitting aside to watch the show, also opened quietly...

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Alas, dear Ms. Elaszhuo, even if you refuse to agree to my lending conditions, you cannot blackmail the younger generation as soon as you meet! Such a despicable and rough trick is not like you always have! Be careful to smash your own brand!"

"...Isn't all this forced by you? As an ally fighting side by side, how can you do this kind of reason to put down the wrongdoing?"

When she heard Miss Mitsui Ryuki's sneer, Ms. Elaszhuo finally couldn't help but jump up in anger like a cat with a blown hair. Her original graceful and noble demeanor was gone, "...These conditions you proposed are not loans, but they are simply inclusion and takeover!"

Speaking of this, she turned around and looked at Feili with a eager look on her face."

Now, dear Marshal Taylor, tell me, how much cash can you take out now? Don't worry, I will never take your money in vain! I will definitely return it with all my money in the future!"

Facing Ms. Elaszhuo's eager gaze, Feili felt very stressed for a moment.

After thinking about it, he decided to ask about the amount and purpose of the required funds first, and then I think it would not be a very extravagant thing!

However, regarding Feili's reasonable question, Ms. Elaszhuo turned her face and hesitated, repeatedly vaguely, and refused to explain anything, and finally she was exposed by Miss Ryuki Mitsui's words.

"...Ah, I admit that the mortgage conditions for the loan you proposed to Ms. The temple has indeed been a bit harsh, but it is also a fault for you to be unsuccessful! The two armies of the north and the south have been confronted to this day. You can neither convince the doves, and have entered the capital to regain the central government earlier, nor can you integrate the forces in the north, so that at a critical moment, the chaos of Luskan's rebellion broke out, which caused the elite northern army with many soldiers and wide generals to flee with their tails in front of the miscellaneous southern army with few soldiers and few soldiers and generals... If you want to make a loan, you have to give investors some confidence, okay?"

Miss Mitsui Longji sighed with a compassionate look on her face and said, "..., regular legions generally owed wages for three months, and auxiliary legions generally owed wages for more than half a year, and their morale was so low that they were too low: the seamen in the ocean fleet were unable to feed themselves, and they mutinized twice in a month: the taxes in Yinyue City were "pre-collected, and the year after that, the people were stormed: the war bonds issued by the Northern Army fell below one-tenth of the paper value, causing countless bankers to go bankrupt

Jumping off the building is the "Silver Hunter" floating battleship that you came to the Bingfeng Valley to talk to. It had already been sealed by the creditors in the dock. This time, in order to pull it out of the shipyard in Deep Water City, it was still like a dilapidated situation with the creditors. If there was no real mortgage or benefit, how could we dare to lend you such a huge sum of money?"

She glanced at Feili, who was stunned by the table with a smile, then opened her mouth and spit out a creepy and terrifying number."

A full 50 million imperial gold coins! Dear Ms. Elaszhuo. What you want is not 500,000, or 5 million, but 50 million!!!”

As the saying goes, “Money is not omnipotent, and it is absolutely impossible to have no money.”

And this sentence is still extremely effective in war.

A modern army is a gold-swalking beast with an amazing appetite, and there is absolutely no doubt about this.

A regular legion of the Naiser Empire with a rated force of 15,000 troops, including labor, transportation teams and other auxiliary personnel who are not included in the military, consume as many as 600 tons of flour staple food every month. In addition, the various types of food that the army must provide to soldiers for free,

Clothes, shoes, daily necessities, military pay, attendance allowance and pensions that are paid on time every month...

Especially the expensive weapons that are often replaced and updated, the wear speed of the gun is definitely greater than the imagination of many laymen, as well as daily social training and the massive ammunition consumed in each battle...,

If there is no 4 million gold coins per month, the Legion will not be able to maintain it at all.

Moreover, when fighting in actual combat, the elite but small regular legion is usually not used alone, but is used as the core backbone, and mixed with several other weak auxiliary legions into a battle cluster of tens of thousands to more than 100,000 people to meet the needs of large-scale battles.

In those poor and backward agricultural countries, many warlords who seem to be powerful and have countless warriors under their command have to accumulate income for a few years to import and purchase ammunition enough to fight a battle. They are difficult to maintain training at ordinary times. Therefore, no matter how strong and good the army of the generals of the sect are, they can only bully the poor and weak neighbors who are as scarce as themselves. If they fight against the industrial powers, they will probably be exhausted and all the bullets will be exhausted if they are forced to fight.

The rifle was smoothed, the barrel was scrapped, and even the lubricant was used up. I had no money to import spare parts and then I had to hold an empty gun and let it be slaughtered.

First, without the support of other industrial countries, it is basically impossible for agricultural purposes to defeat a certain industrial country independently.

In those industrialized countries that are capable of producing guns, cannons and ammunition by themselves, the procurement cost of arms can be saved a little, but the cost of raising troops is still extremely large. After the split of the Naisèrel Empire, although the Northern Army camp inherited almost all the regular troops in the old empire system, it also inherited most of the national defense expenses, but it did not inherit most of the fiscal revenue of the old empire!!!

1. In this world, the destruction of a country is always much easier than construction, and the collapse of order is always much easier than reconstruction.

Although Ms. Elaszhuo is the nominal supreme commander of the Northern Army and is still a political star enthusiastically supported by 90% of the country, she has no vital central government title. The territory she can truly master is actually only a small part of the Northland, that is, the Silver Moon Federation with a population of about 17 million, and the important Shanggang Deepwater City by the sea, as well as several enclaves in the east.

As for the rest of the places, such as the port of Luskan, which launched this rebellion, it was really only nominal surrender for Ms. Elastra. The real power figures in these places intercepted more than half of the taxes they should pay, and it was already very polite to pay only a fraction of the taxes to Yinyue City. More ambitious people took all the taxes to Sibao, neither to the south nor to the north. Instead, they trained and built troops themselves, and planned to separatist the parties to announce support for the Northern Army camp and thoroughly mobilized the political and economic forces of the region to participate in this civil war between the north and the south, and treat the Yinyue City camp as the central government. They are completely different things.

(Think about it, the Civil War in the United States was so fierce that there were still many states that remain neutral!)

But at the same time, there are nine regular corps waiting to be fed, more than 30 auxiliary corpses, all of which have more than 200 warships, dozens of smart dragons and a bunch of military-industrial enterprises, plus several education, welfare institutions and government civil servants, and a total of at least 1.6 million people. They make trouble at the Northern Army Command every day, reaching out to the anxious Ms. Elaszhuo for money and paying her salary!

In this way, the poor Ms. Elaszhuo was using about one-sixth of the country's well tax to support three-fifths of the country's army. The embarrassment of her situation can naturally be imagined.

Since the early days of its establishment, the Northern Army Base Camp in Yinyue City has been extremely tight in finances. The north and the south are in tension, the army is frequently mobilized, and the military expenditure is very large: local governments withheld taxes, and even customs in various places is no exception. The church industry that can still be controlled has also been greatly reduced due to the war...

If it is a legitimate central government, in this case, it can order the country to enter the wartime system to improve resource allocation efficiency, eliminate all disharmonious noises, and tilt national strength to the direction of war to the greatest extent. However, although the Northern Army is huge, it is legally a "anti-government armed alliance". It seems that it responds to a long call, but in fact it does not have a close system, and it is impossible to take ruthless measures to strengthen centralization. Otherwise, many local forces will turn against the side of the Southern Army.

Such a frustrating situation of both ends being angry is really hard!

In order to fill the increasingly large financial hole, Ms. Elaszhuo also used up all financial means such as issuing war debt instruments and raising loans in addition to regular tax collection. Even her floating battleship, the "Silver Hunter", which had been basically completed and in the final installation stage, was forced to stop work and be unfinished and mortgage it, but it was still difficult to move. This time, the Lanlu General Attack Plan was abandoned halfway and was almost snatched by the rebels' home nests. The financial revenue and expenditure situation, which was already bleak in the Northern Army Base Camp, finally reached the verge of complete collapse.

Seeing that the Luskan rebels had not yet wiped out their military pay, even the arrogant Ms. Araszhuo had to completely put down her arrogant airs of being regarded as the leader of the country and bowed to her ally the Wojin Church.

However, as recently as he took office, Miss Mitsui Ryuki Mitsui seemed to want to take advantage of the momentum of the new official's three-point success to establish some achievements as soon as possible to establish personal prestige. So he took this opportunity to make an unacceptable terrible request to Ms. Elaszhuo: she actually tried to further involve the fundamental army of the ruling power of the Magic Goddess Church!

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No matter how critical the financial situation in Silver Moon City is, it is not the reason why your Woking Church wants to take away the entire outer sea fleet!"

Ms. Elaszhuo blushed and waved her fists, almost roaring, "..., these are more than 280 best sailing warships, and twenty-six new magic airships! Even if I pawn my palace, I will not sell the fleet in such a low price! You have taken advantage of our financial emptiness to seize the Third Legion, the Tenth Legion and the Twelfth Legion. Isn't it enough?"

"...Tsk tsk, everyone will say bold words, but the question is the funding? Can you still take out more than 100,000 gold coins? Not to mention the huge cost of maintaining more than 280 warships in the Imperial Offshore Fleet, even if the suppression field troops of the remaining two legions who are now commanding the front line of Milaba City, it seems that they have been unable to pay military salaries for a long time due to the collapse of war bonds!"

The new member from the Far East, "Holy Coin" 1 Sister Bu quietly threw out a series of cruel facts as a rebuttal, "... In early July, you summoned 150,000 troops in Silver Moon City, but because you could not afford the 2.5 million gold coins to the start-up fee, you finally brought less than 60,000 people eastward into the imperial capital: Half a month ago, you defeated the Luskan rebels and captured the city of Miraba, the victorious army asked you for a reward of 100,000 gold coins, but even if you pieced together in every way, you only allocated 50,000 imperial gold coins, which caused a sharp drop in morale and led to the subsequent defeat. I am very strange. You are now unable to ensure normal salary even in the field army in combat. Where should you find money to support the idle naval fleet?"

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but blink her eyes jokingly,"

Maybe you need to defeat another battle and let the rebels destroy a field legion to help you save money. The ambush on the Miral River has successfully helped you solve the tens of thousands of owed pay officers and soldiers of the 11th Legion "Lightning". Which one should be next? The Fifth Legion "Reef" or the First Legion, glorious"?"

"..., ladies, please stop quarreling, okay? Let's seriously eliminate the differences and resolve the problem first!" Before Ms. Elaszhuo's lungs were blown back, Marshal Taylor, who suddenly had an idea in his mind, inserted it first.

"... First of all, Ms. Elaszhuo, it is absolutely unrealistic to ask Ms. Elaszhuo to take out a huge sum of 50 million gold coins to help the next time. There is no way that there is so much cash on Xiangrui. And even if I empty my savings and pay your bill for this time, I don't know when the civil war will continue. What should I do if the deficit that will definitely occur next? So this expense can only be borrowed from the Woking Church..."

While saying this, Feili secretly threw a secret at Ms. Elaszhuo, "Don't be impatient 1"

"... However, it is a bit too much for the Woking Church to take away more than 280 warships from the entire offshore fleet at one time as collateral. Of course, given that the income and expenditure of the Northern Army Base Camp cannot be balanced and the financial situation is poor, the Woking Church does need some reliable loan repayment guarantees. Therefore, it is better to change the additional conditions to establish a central bank institution with exclusive banking issuance rights and highest financial supervision rights. How about relying on it to repay the loan for a long time?"

Speaking of this, for some reason, he actually smiled strangely on his face."
Chapter completed!