Doomsday Code

Chapter 176 Dispute in the Executive Yuan

In the hall with carved beams and painted buildings, bursts of noisy voices could be heard continuously.

If a blind person heard the noise here, he would never think that this is the highest administrative department of the kingdom.

He would just think it was some wet market.

However, the topic of debate in this vegetable market at this time was not the price of daily necessities, but a major event concerning the future direction of the kingdom.

Prime Minister Holmes, who was presiding over the meeting, knocked on the table, and the crisp knocking sound echoed in the hall.

The hall, which had been extremely noisy, immediately became quiet.

"You are all the most important officials of the kingdom, and what you are discussing now is a major event concerning the future of the kingdom. Please don't act like a mess in a vegetable market.

Anyone who needs to speak can raise their hands to express their opinions, and the rest of you please be quiet. "

After hearing Holmes's somewhat angry words, many of the guys who had been making trouble before also shut up.

At this time, the spokesman for the Ministry of Finance raised his hand and said:

"Prime Minister, do you think there is anything else to discuss in the current situation? Those beasts have violated our agreement with them, and we must fight back, otherwise it will happen again after this one.

Moreover, there are more mountains in the kingdom than just the Nanmu Forest, there is also the Dongling.

If we don't give the Black Dragon King a strong counterattack this time, who knows if the beasts on the East Ridge will think we are weak and launch a large-scale beast tide. "

After the spokesperson from the Ministry of Finance sat down, the person from the Ministry of Military Affairs stood up and raised his hand to speak:

"It's easy for you to say that. You know, with the current size of the Western Border Province's army, it is impossible to retaliate against the Black Dragon King and his men.

If one wants to take revenge and wipe out the Black Dragon King and his monsters, the army needed will be more than 500,000.

It is good enough for the current army in the western border to preserve the newly developed territory.

In recent years, the kingdom's policy has tended towards internal defense, and there are no more spare troops in the country that can be deployed.

If it is really as you said, then a large-scale conscription must be carried out.

And how much time does it take to form combat effectiveness?

At the same time, how much military expenditure will be spent after the Warcraft is really wiped out?

Besides, such military operations only bring in a piece of undeveloped wild land, and there is no other economic income at all.”

The views and arguments held by both the Military Department and the Finance Department seemed to be different from his current position.

The finance department, which is extremely stingy and trying hard to cut military spending, is now advocating war.

The Military Department, which clearly yearns for war and needs war to gain fame, status and wealth, is now trying its best to dissuade the war. It also did what the Ministry of Finance should do and analyzed for them that the war consumption and income were not proportional.

The reason for this situation is the political struggle within the kingdom.

The current Minister of Finance is Princess Phipsa, and Huidun is her son, so the Ministry of Finance has actually always been Huidun's assistant.

However, in order to maintain the dignity of the royal family, Feipusha could not directly support Huidun.

And now she has just enough reasons, so for Huidun she is willing to push the kingdom's war machine forward in order to destroy the Nanmu Forest monster group that poses the greatest threat to Huidun's life.

At the same time, Huidun, who is close to the battlefield during the war, will naturally be recruited into the army. Then he can return to the royal capital with justification based on his military exploits.

And now the Military Department has almost lost control of the Kingdom’s army because of Moss XIII.

Nowadays, the supreme commanders of each of the kingdom’s main armies are the king’s confidants, and they only obey the king’s orders.

The current Military Department should more accurately be called the Military Logistics Department.

Therefore, in order to gain power, these people have now joined the army of Prince Jinmu.

They hope that after helping the eldest prince ascend to the throne, they will be able to regain command of the army.

It can be said that this beast tide crisis has once again become a battlefield for the political struggle between the two sides.

"And to put it bluntly, are we going to change the direction of the kingdom's development just because of a barbaric Western Territory that needs massive subsidies from the central government every year?"

The last sentence of the Military Department spokesman is the most crucial. In fact, many veteran officials present have this idea.

Ever since the Black Dragon King came to the Nanmu Forest and cut off the land transportation between humans and elves, the Western Territory, a remote area that does not border other kingdoms, has become a burden to the kingdom.

In fact, many years ago, someone proposed to abandon the Western Territory and use it as a buffer zone between the kingdom and the Black Dragon King of Nanmu Forest.

However, the proposer's fate was not very good at that time, because he openly said that he would abandon the kingdom's territory.

And that is tantamount to treason.

However, since then, the seed of abandoning the Western Territory has quietly sprouted within the kingdom.

And today, this seed has become the weapon for Prince Jinm and his group to eliminate the threat of Huidun.

"Do you know what you are saying? The Western Territory was conquered by the previous king and his soldiers with great effort, and now you want to abandon it with just a few words. You are committing treason."

The people from the Ministry of Finance immediately stood up and pointed at the spokesperson of the Ministry of Military Affairs and cursed.

The military department's people were not timid at all and said:

"Did I ever say that we should give up the Western Territory? I was just stating the facts and reasoning. I just expressed the view that retaliatory military action is unreasonable. I never said that we should give up the Western Territory."

The people from the Ministry of Finance pointed at the people from the Ministry of Military Affairs and were so angry that they couldn't speak. Holmes knocked on the table and said:

"Alright, let's stop arguing. Let's not talk about military retaliation for now. This requires your Majesty to make a decision.

Now let's discuss disaster relief funding for the West."

Then Holmes looked to the front of the Ministry of Finance, where Princess Phipsa had been sitting quietly and not participating in the previous debate.

"Your Highness Princess Phipsa, this is a matter for your Ministry of Finance. Please let your Ministry of Finance speak first."

However, Feipusha glanced at Holmes and said unceremoniously:

"I don't think it's necessary to make a speech. Just follow the kingdom's previous regulations and allocate disaster relief funds based on the level of the beast tide disaster."

As she finished her words, noise broke out in the conference room again.

Everyone present knew that this beast tide was the kind that started off well but ended badly. Although it was very powerful at the beginning, it suddenly retreated before it could cause an indelible disaster to the Western Territory.

So when you really calculate it, the losses in the entire Western Territory are actually insignificant compared to the losses assessed by the beast tide disaster within the kingdom.

And if the funds are really allocated at this level, it will undoubtedly be a godsend for the Western Territory, especially for Huidun.