My Italian: Chapter 562 Advance War Preparations Part 2

In the evening, there were many guests at Cruz's house today, and the visitors were all bigwigs from the National Socialist Party.

For example, Mr. Zarg as Minister of Education, Mr. Andre as Minister of Transport, and Mr. Caleb as Minister of Industry. In addition, National Socialist Executive Committee members Campos, Lacerda and others also came.

The meeting of National Socialist ministers in the cabinet and its executive committee at Cruz's home is certainly eye-catching.

For this reason, Cruz deliberately let out the news that he was going to discuss the mid-term election with the top leaders of the National Socialist Party today. Believe it or not, at least give the party a legitimate excuse.

Although the party is in name, it needs to be done in a decent manner, so after drinking and drinking, a group of people came to his study.

Fortunately, the Cruz family's study room is relatively large, and a dozen or so people can sit there.

After everyone was seated, Cruz, the convener of this session, spoke. "Everyone, I have called you here this time because I have important matters to discuss with you. I met with Your Majesty today. Your Majesty plans to increase the military expenditure from 30% to 40% of the total financial revenue starting next year. I found you because I think it should be What can be done to reduce the budget of various government departments to 60% of the total budget."

Cruz's words made everyone at the scene look at each other in blank dismay, because the news was too shocking. Although the relationship between the major powers is currently tense, this approach of directly increasing military spending to 40% of the budget is too radical.

Because this is not preparing for war at all, but preparing for war. There is still a moment to cancel the war preparations. Although this will cause certain losses and may cause turmoil, it is also acceptable.

And there is basically no possibility of canceling the preparations for war, because a lot of money has been invested to squeeze other government departments to manufacture a lot of various weapons. If they are canceled at this time, they will definitely encounter backlash. possible.

And 40% of the budget is basically the maximum limit that countries can use in peacetime, because this is the limit that governments can use in peacetime (of course, except for the red system, which is too organized, it is simply a foul to compare the monarchy and the republic).

As long as a country invests 40% of its fiscal revenue in the military, it means that there is no turning back and a war must be fought.

Everyone present also knew this, so they were shocked by the prime minister's words.

"Is there no room for turning around?"

Minister of Education Zarge couldn't help but ask at this moment.

"No."

The prime minister knew what he meant, and answered directly and decisively. "Not only the king thinks so, but I also think so. There is no room for Italy to turn back. You have seen the development of Italy in these years, and you must know how difficult it is to develop Italy in these years. Now it is only by burying your head in development. It’s no longer possible, the market capacity in Italy is coming to an end. What should we do then, if we don’t think of a solution now, when will we wait.”

The meaning of Cruz's words, none of you present can understand. The National Socialist Party is now the ruling party. Except for those who are ministers, the other National Socialist Party's high-level multi-government situation is more or less familiar.

Knowing the current crisis hidden in Italy, I also know that what Cruz said is the only way out for Italy at present.

Although this is not as domineering as the Kaiser's sentence "Use the German sword to obtain land for the German plow", it means the same thing, and they all need to find a market for their country.

This is also the disadvantage of late-developing countries, because the market has already been occupied by the first-mover countries. Unless your domestic market is large enough to complete self-circulation without relying on external markets. But at present, the only possibility in the world is the big country in the Far East. Even America, the chosen country, is not good, because its population is not large enough. Although it is still rich in resources, it needs people to buy goods to produce them.

And if you want to break this passive situation, there is only one way to grab the market it occupies.

And how can the first-mover country allow you to grab its market? Then you can only use the most straightforward method, which is just a war, and whoever wins will get it.

"Then what should we do?"

This is Minister of Communications Andre's questioning. On the surface, it is a question, but in essence it means agreeing with Cruz's point of view.

With Andre taking the lead, several others followed suit. "Prime Minister (party leader), tell me what to do."

Even Zarge, who asked about it before, made the same remarks. After all, he is not stupid. When everyone agrees, how could he object? Isn't this isolating himself? Even a little emotional intelligence would not do this, let alone a politician.

Faced with everyone present acquiescingly supporting his actions, it would be a lie to say that Cruz was not moved, but at this moment he can't say words of thanks, he can only put them in his heart.

"First of all, we need to make statistics on the budgets of the departments we are in charge of, cut off unimportant or secondary budgets directly, and then we will sum up to see how much the reduction is. Next, I will talk to the Minister of Finance first. This year's total budget How much is it, and then we will discuss with the ministers of other departments to let them also reduce the budget and leave 40% of the budget for the military.”

For the Prime Minister's words, everyone present recognized them very much. This kind of budget reduction can only be done in this way. It is difficult to talk about it in a department by department.

Unlike them, they are all from a political party, and the budget saved is to restore the glory of Italy, and they can justify it.

This moment also shows the importance of Kahlo's choice of the National Socialist Party as the ruling party. This extreme approach can only be recognized by extreme parties. Switching to the left-wing party that has been in power before, it is absolutely difficult to get it to agree to such an extreme approach. Even if Carlo forces them to do it, it is good to procrastinate.

After the tone is set, there are still details. Several National Socialist leaders who served in the cabinet began to discuss which budgets should be cut and which should not be cut, but basically they all have more important budgets and less important ones.

This kind of noise failed to reach a preliminary result for two or three hours.

In the end, Cruz came up with a way to reduce various departments according to the proportion of each department in the fiscal budget last year and the proportion of the government's retreat this year. If it is really impossible to reduce it, you must explain it to him and give him enough reasons to convince him, otherwise you must cut it off.

Cruz's method may not be the most reasonable, but it is the best solution at present, otherwise they would have quarreled for three days and three nights.

The ministers of the National Socialist Party are so difficult to deal with, so other ministers can imagine that Cruz has a new understanding of his task.

Sure enough, in the following time, Cruz summoned other ministers in charge one by one to talk about the budget cuts in his department. The attitude of the ministers is that firm.

The basic process is as follows:

"Totally impossible!"

"Our department's budget cannot be reduced. Every budget is very important."

"There is only so much that can be reduced, and any more reductions will affect the operation of the department."

"No way, I can only subtract one more item, just one item will do."

"Why do you insist on forcing me, Prime Minister? You can find other departments. Our department has reduced everything that can be reduced."

"Cruz, are you satisfied now!"

Although the words are different, the attitude is basically the same.

Moreover, these ministers persisted for a long time or a short time. Some agreed in a few days, some took more than ten days to agree, and some even dragged on for a month before accepting it as the budget meeting approached.

And in this period of more than a month, the energy spent in it is unimaginable, just use a single data to know~www.mtlnovel.com~ In the more than a month after Cruz took over the task, the prime minister lost weight After weighing more than ten catties, I almost lose my appearance.

Finally, at the budget meeting at the end of the year, the government passed the budget for the new fiscal year. In this total budget of 34.19 lire, the total military expenditure of the navy and army reached 1.37 billion lire. Among them, the army was allocated 822 million lire and the navy was allocated 548 million lire.

It can be said that this budget far exceeded the estimated budget of the navy and army, which made him overjoyed. However, when they saw the murderous eyes of their government colleagues, the two navy and army ministers did not dare to express their inner joy.

Of course, they also know that since the king has won such a generous budget for the navy and army, the next thing to do is not easy. The idea of ​​fighting a big war has already taken root in the mind of the Minister of the Navy and Army.

The next step is to prepare all kinds of armies to make Italy's sword sharper and cut at the enemies pointed at by the kingdom.

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