When Adric asked the question, his tone was serious, and his eyes were fixed on Gislent.
The Son of the Storm of the Landis Kingdom smiled reservedly, although in the face of Adric's oppressive eyes, Gislent skillfully turned his head sideways, avoiding the other party's gaze, and then he replied lightly: "Your Excellency, Minister of War, you have forgotten that I am a navy."
You're asking a general about the Army, and that's not a professional thing to do. ” A hint of disappointment flashed in Adric's eyes, and he shook his head: "You know very well that this is not a tactical issue. ” "Then I have no authority to answer this question."
Gislent smiled: "Even if I answer, my personal opinion does not represent the will of the country to which I am loyal. ” Adric was silent for a moment, his eyes seemed to be a little worried, as if deep down he was deeply worried about something.
It was a long time before he finally spoke again, and this time, the famous general of the Byzantine Empire, even a hint of frustration in his tone.
"My Majesty, I want to see you, Gislent."
Gislent glanced at Adric, and a smile like this suddenly appeared on his face, which seemed a bit nondescript to a man with a full beard and a rough face.
At this moment, Gislent's smile was a little meaningful, but also a little cunning.
"When should I go to His Majesty the Great Byzantine Emperor?"
"Tonight."
Adric answered the question, and then he stared deeply at Gislent: "I remember you said when you first came here that you came here in an unofficial capacity, so you can't meet my emperor. ” The Child of the Storm smiled reservedly: "This time, that time, my dear Lord Adric. ” "That's what I'm worried about."
Adric's reply was cold, even hard.
"It's a bad time."
At the end of a remote road in the city of Osgiria, in the deepest part of a huge mansion, in a circular study building, just a few months ago, it was once regarded by the whole of Yanjing as the most mysterious and awe-inspiring place, before the man named Cavishir died.
At this moment, a girl is sitting on a soft couch behind the desk, in a semi-recumbent position, one hand supporting the armrest next to the soft couch, and an unfolded scroll is placed in her hand.
A dark flaxen brown and black hair was naturally draped down, and the delicate face was full of bookish air, and the cheeks were dotted with some small freckles, adding a bit of playfulness to the originally delicate face.
It was a young face, but the things that flashed in those eyes seemed to be wisdom that did not correspond to this age.
"Very bad, very bad timing."
The girl sighed faintly.
When she spoke, her eyes did not look at the person in front of her, they all drooped their eyes, and her long eyelashes enveloped her eyes, which looked a little mysterious.
Standing in front of this freckled girl is a tall woman, with stunning long purple hair, bursting out with a kind of stunning beauty, graceful and delicate figure, full of fiery charm, but on her face, the half of the iron face, to her who should have been gorgeous, added a cold and tough iron face, and the purple eyes looked more and more bewitching Via stood there, right in front of her desk, her face as cold as ever, her eyes as cold as ever, and her body as straight as ever.
But at this moment, the purple-eyed woman's heart was not as calm as she appeared.
Via looked at the girl in front of her who was halfway on the soft couch, who had been just a follower to the man, a shadow, a little tail hiding in the shadows beyond the dazzling light of Kavishir.
But now, the girl sat in Cavishir's study, lying on Cavishir's soft couch, with Cavishir's books in her hand, and even the smell of her speech was a little like the dead man.
This feeling made Via feel very uncomfortable, and when she was in this familiar place, looking at another person sitting in this familiar position, it made Via feel very awkward, so she seemed to be a little absent-minded.
"You're not listening to me."
The girl lying on the soft couch suddenly threw a sentence.
"Hmm."
Via looked at the girl in front of him: "You sit in the teacher's place. ” The girl smiled: "And it's still in the teacher's study, don't you feel as if I inherited everything from the teacher, so you are a little dissatisfied with it" Via didn't speak.
The girl suddenly sighed: "Trust me, it doesn't feel good.
You may feel a little unhappy about this, but I promise you that I have inherited not only these responsibilities but also those responsibilities that my teachers have left behind. ” Via laughed silently.
"You and I are both his students."
The girl lying on the soft couch suddenly stood up and stared at Via: "So, about jealousy, imbalance, these negative emotions, you and I are very clear in our hearts, these are all very boring things.
I don't care what the hell is going on in your heart.
You can be dissatisfied, or you can be unhappy with me in your heart, I don't care about that, my only request is that you have to do what I say, I just want the result, for the changes in your psychology and emotions in the middle of the process, I don't care about these are also the teacher's arrangements before his death. ” Via took a deep breath, her purple eyes completely cold: "Go on." ” The girl withdrew her gaze from looking at Via, continued to lower her eyes, as if she was strolling through the heart, and then said slowly: "This is a very bad time I just got the news, Your Majesty has asked to meet Gislent immediately. ” Via didn't speak.
"A lot of people ignore an issue that's actually very important, something that teachers have raised a long time ago, but that's been ignored by most people."
The girl frowned slightly: "Landisians, it is far more dangerous than we thought.
Even the teacher believes that compared to the Odin, the Lantis talent is our real henchman in the future. ” "Future" Via sneered: "The premise is that Byzantium can continue to exist without dying, otherwise, there will be no future you said." ” "Correct you, it's not what I said, it's the teacher who said it."
The girl said with a straight face.
Via closed his mouth and made a "continue" look.
"This issue has always been ignored by the imperial family, whether it is the prime minister, the ministers of various ministries, or the magnates of the empire, they have never faced up to that overseas island nation.
Yes, Landis has only one-thirtieth the land area and one-tenth the population of our land.
And, at least so far, the kingdom of the sea has never shown any ambition for the lands of the mainland.
But the teacher thinks that this is not because they don't want to, but because the best time to belong to Lantis has not come. ” The girl suddenly picked up the scroll next to the armrest, and after turning a few pages, it was not an ordinary book at all, and it recorded dense rows and rows of data.
"It's this Landis, all along, it gives us the impression that it is wealthy, favors overseas, has no intention of fighting for control of the world, lacks aggressiveness, and the only foreign policy is balance, balance and endless balance.
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But if I say the following data, maybe you'll see what I mean. ” The girl took a deep breath: "Before the outbreak of this civil war, the annual financial income of the Byzantine Empire was about 30 million gold coins.
Of course, this data excludes those Tema military districts that are not under the control of the central political axe.
If you add in all the population lands controlled by the governors of the Tema Military Region, this number may be doubled.
There are about 65 million gold coins.
However, please note that in this figure, of the 65 million gold coins, nearly 20 million gold coins are consumed in military spending every year.
Other losses included the normal expenses of keeping the empire afloat, and in fact the Byzantine Empire had very little fiscal savings each year, and sometimes even additional taxes were required to meet the demand.
Do you know how many troops we have fed under such circumstances, about 200,000 well-equipped central standing troops, 800,000 semi-professional local garrison troops and peasant soldiers, and the ridiculous thing is that these 800,000 figures are only on paper, and you and I are very clear about the following empty quotas.
Let's look at the political system of the Odin Empire is different from ours, they are more barbaric, more backward, and the system is more rudimentary, their population is one-third of ours, and the land is about seventy percent of ours but the arable land area is less, according to our estimates, the financial income of the Odin Empire is only 10 million gold coins a year, but thanks to their almost barbaric system, their military consumption is much lower than ours.
Of course, this is not worth learning from. ” When the girl said this, she flipped the page of the book in her hand: "Now let's look at Lantis, the overseas kingdom in our impression, their land is one-thirtieth of ours, and their population is one-tenth, but their annual political income is about" Speaking of this, the girl paused deliberately, and then said the answer word by word: "Eighty million gold coins and this is the data obtained three years ago, given that the surveillance system of the Landis Empire is becoming more and more strict, it is becoming more and more difficult for us to get the most accurate information."
But according to historical data, it shows a very interesting situation: whenever Byzantium and Odin went to war, the financial revenue of the Landis Empire that year would show a kind of stimulating growth, which means that when the two great powers on the continent were biting each other, bleeding, and fighting to the death, the Landis would quietly intervene in the war.
This intervention is not overt, but in a cunning and despicable way.
They will quietly support both sides of the war, and then supply the resources that both sides need: weapons, ordnance, and even food, and even in some years of war, the Landis can actually rent their fleet to us to transport the food and ordnance we need, and they earn our gold by renting the fleet, and they don't have to die a single person, they don't have to spend a copper plate of their own, which is equal to our military expenses, help them maintain their ships, and use our money to support their ships They maintain nearly three hundred warships, most of which far exceed us in terms of draft and load, not to mention the Odin Empire, which has no navy at all.
More than 80 million gold coins a year, but do you know what the annual balance of the Landis Kingdom is?"
The girl's smile was a little complicated: "Less than six million gold coins" She let out a long sigh: "Think about it carefully, their population and country are much smaller than ours, but in the past twenty years, almost all of their annual huge financial income has been used, and the surplus of less than one-tenth of the huge amount of wealth has been used Where have we only seen that the army of the Landis Kingdom is less than 60,000, but the establishment of two corps, but what we don't see is, The military system of the reserve army of the Landis Kingdom is the most complete and advanced among the three countries, they have more than 800,000 reserves all year round, these reserves look no different from ordinary people in peacetime, but they have to spend eighty days a year in various regions to assemble for military training, and the time and work delayed by receiving military training are financially subsidized by the political axe of the Landis Kingdom, and at the same time, every adult male must be forced to enter the reserve at the age of eighteen On the surface, they only have a standing army of two corps, but in reality, if they want to, they can recruit more than hundreds of thousands of well-trained soldiers in a month with a single mobilization order At the same time, they have the most powerful navy, and the total volume of the navy is a figure that we cannot imagine, and if they wish, they can easily use that invincible navy to enter our inland seas, and with their transportation capacity, they can transport 200,000 troops to the port of Osgilia in a month, including weapons and food Let me ask, if it is really a country that "has no mainland ambitions and no enterprising spirit", why would it invest such a huge amount of financial revenue in reserves every year to maintain such a huge number of reserves?"
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