Chapter 548 Lian Po takes office

Lian Po was promoted to the Golden Core Realm, and Hua Kai asked his fifth uncle Hua Zichen to give up the position of Dean, and he was in charge of the Intelligence Department as the deputy Dean.

Lian Po was dedicated to his duties after taking office. He began to understand the seven major legions and gradually went to each military camp to understand the structure and combat power of each legion, and then began to understand the garrison forces in each city, and finally the militia training of Huaxia.

Hua Kai has been much freer recently. Lian Po can handle things that the three foundation-building teams cannot solve by himself. Hua Kai tries to take as little action as possible and let the Military Affairs Office solve the problem by itself.

On the eighth day of the second month, Guangling County was besieged by tens of millions of wild beasts. Lian Po could not resolve the crisis when he went there. The number of monsters in the entire Guangling County exceeded 30, and Hua Kai had to go to support with Wukong.

Hua Kai and Wukong cooperated to kill more than 20 monsters. They encountered many monsters that exploded but did not retreat. This also made everyone realize the gap between the Golden Core Realms.

On the 30th day of the first month, the core members of the Hua family had a collective meeting, and Hua Kai also participated this time. Winter is the busiest time for the Military Affairs Council. The entire meeting was focused on the battle to defend the wild beasts. This year, many cities are under great pressure. The militias are on standby at all times, and the cities are at risk of being breached at any time.

Lian Po spoke for the first time as the president of the Military Affairs Council. He divided all areas of Huaxia into three levels of danger: high, medium and low. He coordinated all elite forces, put all foundation-building troops as the main emergency forces, and placed the elite corps in the most dangerous places. The entire defense system of Huaxia became clear in an instant.

All the core members of the Hua family felt the strength of the famous commander for the first time. In terms of the overall command of military forces, no one in Huaxia could match him.

"Your Majesty, the strength of the seven elite corps of Huaxia is beyond my imagination. Even against Qin and Chu, we have an absolute advantage in military strength. In particular, the seven corps also have a large number of reserve corps. The number of elite corps of Huaxia exceeds 400,000, and the average realm of soldiers reaches the Qidong realm or above. The number of people in the Qi training realm exceeds 60,000, and the number of people in the Xiantian realm reaches 4,000.

Nowadays, there are more and more wild beasts in the world, and the focus of various countries is on wild beasts. It is impossible for a big war to happen in the world for a long time in the future. I found a problem in our Huaxia country, that is, there are too many cavalry.

The effect of cavalry against wild beasts is not as good as that of sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, and our Qinglong Corps, Yuezhi Cavalry Corps, and Zhaoguo Elite Cavalry are all elite cavalry corps, with a number of 80,000. The annual military expenditure allocated by the State Council reaches 14.63 million gold, and each cavalryman averages nearly 200 gold. You must know that this number can support 100 elite soldiers in Qin.

In addition, the Suzaku Corps and the Qilin Corps also have more than 20,000 cavalry corps, and the annual cavalry military expenditure reaches about 2 million gold. Last year, the Military Affairs Council spent a total of 36.5 million gold on military expenditure, which is more than ten times that of the Qin State. "When Lian Po said this, everyone knew what the newly appointed director of the Military Affairs Council wanted to do!

"Your Majesty, I think it is enough for Huaxia to keep two elite cavalry. Reduce the other cavalry and reserve regiments to ordinary corps. One or two cavalry trainings a year are enough. In wartime, they can be used as cavalry in time when they are on horseback, so that more people can learn to fight with shields and broadswords, so that our defense pressure in winter will be greatly reduced.

The Qinglong Corps, Zhao Elite Cavalry, and Yuezhi Cavalry are all reduced to 10,000 people, and other corps will cancel the cavalry establishment. In this way, Huaxia can save 8 million gold every year. This 8 million gold can improve the strength of the entire Huaxia city defense army and even the militia by a level, and there will be surplus. "Lian Po looked at Hua Kai and said.

"Lian Shuai thinks that cavalry will not play a big role in the future, so he wants to reduce the number of cavalry and expand the infantry, right?" Hua Kai looked at Lian Po and asked.

"Yes, I think so. Although the cavalry of China is powerful, the annual expenditure is too huge. The soldiers' salaries are more than three times higher than those of other countries. If they give up Qin or Chu, these armies will have dragged down the country long ago!" Lian Po said truthfully.

Many people below whispered to each other when they heard this. They obviously disagreed with Lian Po's words. In everyone's mind, soldiers fought on the battlefield and fought to their death, so it was natural for them to have high salaries. But they didn't know that the officials of the State Council and the Council of Deputies were not lower than this.

"Lian Shuai, I don't understand why you keep thinking about saving money? If you think that the equipment or expansion of the city defense corps is not enough, just let the Military Affairs Council come up with a plan. Why do you want to reduce the number of cavalry?" Hua Kai asked, and everyone looked at Lian Po with a puzzled look.

"Well... isn't it right for the army to reduce spending? As the president of the Military Affairs Council, I save money for the country and spend it in the most reasonable place. If a country wants to be strong for a long time, it must develop comprehensively." Lian Po looked at everyone present and suddenly felt that he was out of tune with everyone.

"President Lian, you may not know much about the situation in China. Let me tell you about it.

The fiscal revenue of China was 89.76 million gold the year before last. Last year, the Military Affairs Council budgeted 39 million gold, and finally used 36.5 million gold. The State Council budgeted 26 million gold, and finally used 27.2 million gold. The Collegial Council budgeted 12 million gold, and finally used 6.83 million gold, more than half of which was used for social welfare.

Until now, Huaxia still had 19.21 million gold that had no budget to use the year before last. In order to achieve a balance of fiscal revenue and expenditure, the king has adjusted the loan interest of Huaxia Bank to the lowest. If General Lian thinks that there is something wrong with the budget of the Military Affairs Council this year, just raise it. As long as the use of funds of the Military Affairs Council is open and transparent, I think the king will definitely sign and agree. "Xue Chen said for Lian Po at this time.

Lian Po didn't know what to say. When he first became the director of the Military Affairs Council, he saw that many local financial audits were more casual. As long as you remember where the funds went, few people would stop you.

Lian Po even educated those officials for this. Today, it seems that he can't keep up with the pace. When he was a general in Zhao State, it was extremely difficult to apply for every sum of money with the King of Zhao. It was very good to be able to pay 80% of the military salary every year. I didn't expect that Huaxia State has become so rich now.

"The Military Affairs Council is led by General Lian. If you have any questions, just ask. If General Lian really thinks that there is a problem with the configuration of Huaxia's military strength, the Military Affairs Council will come up with a restructuring plan and we will discuss and decide together. However, the military pay of all soldiers in Huaxia has been determined now. There is only the possibility of increase but no decrease. All equipment and weapons in the Wild City Armament Department can be customized. We are waiting for the day when the Military Affairs Council will get better and better under the leadership of General Lian." Hua Kai said.

Lian Po nodded to show that he understood. The annual military expenditure of 40 million gold can be increased if necessary. Lian Po is thinking about how to better organize the military strength of Huaxia and how to play a greater role in defending against wild beasts and national wars.

After the meeting, Hua Kai came to the Journey to the West world and saw that the new Journey to the West plot had begun. More than 300 people had entered the Journey to the West world. Sensing the Three Kingdoms world, Ma Changwang was organizing everyone to line up to enter the trial. Under normal circumstances, the Three Kingdoms world is opened once every three days. In the past six months, more than 300 people have improved their qualifications, and the number of people who have broken through the innate and Qi training realms in Huaxia has begun to increase rapidly.

After that, Hua Kai entered the family space next to the crystal column to check the attributes of Huaxia.

Hua Family: First-class family

Prosperity: 2.98 million

Combat power: 3.52 million

Agriculture: 5.13 million

Animal husbandry: 4.98 million

Commerce: 7.21 million

Culture: 4.91 million

Comprehensive strength: 28.73 million

Allies: Xiongnu (second-class), Lu (second-class), Yuezhi (second-class), Yan (first-class).

Subordinate forces: Lian Family (first-class), Xue Family (second-class), Luo Family (second-class), Ma Family (third-class), Jia Family (third-class)...

Hostile forces: Qin (first-class), Chu (first-class)

Funds: 3084 purple gold coins, 37261 taels of gold, 32 taels of silver

Luck value: 16.7 million

Portable space: 36 cubic meters

There are four missing from the twelve main quests. The first one is that Hua Kai reaches the great perfection of the Golden Core Realm and three Golden Core Realms appear in Huaxia. This is still a little short.

The second is that the population of the territory reaches 10 million. Now the population of Huaxia is close to 9 million, which seems to be not much different.

The third is that the will of one thousand people reaches S- or above. Hua Kai looked at the system and saw that the number is now 467, but there is the "Three Kingdoms" world that can improve the mid-war qualifications. The number of S- qualifications in Huaxia is increasing rapidly. At this rate, it will exceed one thousand in three to five years at most. Hua Kai still has more than one hundred bottles of qualification pills, and the [Alchemy Room] can also refine many elixirs that improve qualifications, so it becomes easy to improve qualifications.

The fourth is that the capital's qualifications reach B level. Hua Kai has been paying attention to this. The absorption of population is strictly required for cultivation and qualifications. The population of Huacheng has always been kept at B-. If you want to improve it, it will be more troublesome. Send away some people with low willpower and collect more people with high qualifications. Hua Kai has the [Eye of Truth], which are all trivial matters.

It seems that the most difficult part of the main task 12 is actually to advance to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Realm. Hua Mo, Xue Chen, Fifth Uncle Hua Zichen, and Wu Ren Tuya are all Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Realm. Their qualifications are all SSS-, and they only need an opportunity to break through.

After leaving the [Family Secret Realm Space], Hua Kai saw a female official standing outside his study. After asking, he found out that it was Chu Yuncheng who came!

Although Chu Yuncheng is only in the Xiantian Realm, his relationship with Huaxia is extraordinary. Without his Sihai Chamber of Commerce, the Hua family would not be as prosperous and powerful as it is today. Therefore, Hua Kai has always been very good to Chu Yuncheng.

Asking the female official to summon Chu Yuncheng to his study, Hua Kai waited for more than ten minutes and saw Chu Yuncheng appear outside the hall.

"President Chu, come in!" Hua Kai said.

"See the King of Huaxia!" Chu Yuncheng saluted Hua Kai.

"We don't need so many false formalities. In this winter, President Chu came to Huacheng for something?" Hua Kai looked at Chu Yuncheng and asked.

"I dare not hide it from the King of Huaxia. I came to Huacheng to see you at the request of the King of Chu. The King of Chu already knows everything about the affairs between Huaxia and Qin, and he is also very indignant about Qin's actions.

Chu has not declared that it will cut off all ties with Qin because it does not dare to provoke Qin. Chu will still stand on the side of Huaxia in the future."