"The Spaniards want peace talks and have begun to withdraw from France?"

Li Wei, who had just enjoyed a wonderful morning under the service of two fresh maids, sat behind the desk with a lazy expression and said.

“Yes, Chief Executive.

The messenger of the Kingdom of Spain was sincere and expressed his willingness to pay for the damage caused to France by this wrong military operation."

"I remember that the former Black Dragon Legion had a regiment of troops that were annihilated by the Spanish. Didn't the envoy of the Spanish Kingdom say how to compensate?"

Li Wei's foreign minister looked slightly stunned. In this battle with hundreds of thousands of people participating, the losses of just over 2,000 people were really insignificant.

However, considering that the French Defence Force had lost less than 2,000 people in the battle, it can be understood why Li Wei held him accountable in such a way.

Li Wei's soldiers are more valuable than those of other countries!

"The messengers of the Kingdom of Spain said that the Madrid government is willing to pay the pensions for the fallen soldiers."

"pension?

Haha, my army does not need pensions at all!

They died for honor, and the stinking smell of money would defile the great French warriors' honor of life for it!"

After hearing this, the cabinet ministers present looked at their noses and their hearts, looking loyal and understanding, but in fact they could no longer control themselves and began to complain.

This is the first time they have heard of the act of not paying military pay or paying death pensions, and they are so fresh and unrestrained...

What is the difference between this and those acts that use medals of honor to replace material and monetary rewards?

Whether it is the soldiers of the former Black Dragon Legion or the current French Wehrmacht, the only preferential treatment that can be received after death in the battle is to lie in the National Martyrs Cemetery that has just been transformed and then enjoy a collective funeral ceremony...

However, even this kind of funeral ceremony with extremely high honors is just a gimmick created by the propaganda department in the Li Wei government!

Li Wei is undoubtedly much more rigorous than at the beginning. The French Defense Forces' military pay is "virtual".

There are relevant records in the government, and all French Defense Forces officers and soldiers were issued a "lie order" to deceive their families, relatives and neighbors, saying that they have generous military pay and pensions for death!

The political significance of doing so is self-evident.

If Li Wei still let those brainwashed soldiers not keep their mouths in their mouths like before, who would dare to join the French Defense Forces?

As for the fact that the French National Wehrmacht could not provide military pay, it was the personal issue of the officers and soldiers.

For these people who have become indifferent after being brainwashed, it is very easy to deal with the matter of asking for military pay from their families. At worst, they can just cut off their relationship.

Compared to the first group of Black Dragon Army soldiers who followed Li Wei, who killed their parents with their own hands, the current French Defense Forces officers and soldiers were just forced to ask for military pay at home, thus severing relations is too normal!

After all, there is no shortage of selfish people in any era. The officers and soldiers of the French Defense Forces can even be used. They need to enjoy their lives, eat delicacies, and even go to the Jiafangsi to be free and easy, so they don’t have enough military pay, so how can they send it to their homes?

Why did the French Revolution promote the idea of ​​fraternity? It is because there are so many selfish people!

If you don’t talk about money, you are still good brothers. If you borrow money, you are very sorry and you will become a passerby in the next second.

Of course, the bad reputation of the French Defence Force officers and soldiers will still be spread, but this is just some cases, and not all families will ask their relatives for their military pay.

As for the disbursement of the death pension, the propaganda department of the Li Wei government has also come up with many strange solutions.

For example, if the dead soldiers claimed that they had an illegitimate child with a wild woman outside, they would give them all the pensions for the death!

Well, many families are still acceptable to this kind of argument. After all, they are all their own blood, but the story of the wild woman running away with her illegitimate child... Oh no, it makes people feel very upset if it is the news.

Of course, this is just one of the stories of not paying death pensions. There are many similar stories, as long as they are logical, it is fine.

The most common ones are the soldiers who died in the battle, who eat, drink, whore, gambling and smoking during their lifetime, and owed a lot of loans, so they paid back the loans. Even if they are shameless, they can claim that the loan has not been paid off and ask the soldiers' families to continue to compensate!

The National Bank founded by Li Wei learned the basic operations of the World Bank in his previous life.

If the heirs left behind the deceased during his lifetime have to lose their skin if they want to take away the deposits left behind by the deceased during his lifetime, the heirs will not want to escape!

Of course, in order not to arouse public grievances, the propaganda department designs the amount of debt owed based on the family situation of different officers and soldiers who fell into battle.

If it is a poor family, they will naturally not let their sons or husbands die, and they will continue to repay the loan.

Those wealthy families are indefinitely.

In short, in the case of information asymmetry, the propaganda department’s routine of compiling stories is very popular, and it easily solved the problem that the official death pension is never paid!

It has to be said that there are still many talents in Li Wei's cabinet government.

It is this series of lies with the brainwashing officers and soldiers of the French Defense Forces that maintain the reputation of the Levi government and the French Defense Forces. To the outside world, it looks more like a normal army, rather than a three-no army without military pay, holidays, and no death pensions...

It is easy to understand that there is no holiday. After all, the military system of this era is not very humane, especially during wartime, when soldiers are almost impossible for them to get holidays.

Otherwise, after the soldiers are put home, if the enemy comes here, how can they have time to recall them again?

In peacetime, European countries generally do not maintain large standing troops. There are more than 100,000 people in large countries, and more than tens of thousands of people in small countries!

But benefiting from this teacher from Prussia, European countries have prepared a large number of reserves. This kind of reserve is different from the reserves in the 21st century. These reserves are mainly veterans who have joined the army and retired and returned home after the war ended.

In fact, it is an arrangement for veterans in peacetime.

It is also a measure to tie veterans to government chariots. As long as you participate in the army and fight, as long as you are not physically disabled or lying on the hospital bed and dying, when the country needs to be recruited, you must immediately go to the nearby military camp to report!

The European army in this era had no regulations on the service life, and governments of various countries also knew that veterans who had joined the army had stronger combat effectiveness than new recruits who had been retrained, so they would naturally not let those retired veterans go. Once a war broke out, these veteran reserves would almost 100% receive notices of joining the army.

In this regard, Prussia is undoubtedly at the forefront.

This is why the number of standing troops in the military data of European countries does not seem to be large, but the war has expanded several times or even dozens of times at once.

Especially those small countries, many of them had no standing troops during peacetime, and even ten thousand people were not even ten thousand people. After the war started, the army expanded by more than ten times in just a few months, reaching a scale of tens of thousands of people!

Even many small German states with a strong sense of crisis strictly implement the system of compulsory military service for all. During war, in addition to men and bureaucrats in necessary production positions, all young and strong people of appropriate age need to join the army...

These are all cultivated by the continuous war environment of continental Europe. Without sufficient sense of crisis, it is the end of destruction. Even the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the hegemon of Eastern Europe, was finally divided into three times by the Three Kingdoms and completely destroyed the country?

You know, at the peak of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, Russia beat it up, and even Moscow was snatched away!

Such a powerful country was destroyed in less than two hundred years. It is conceivable how terrible the war in Europe was.

The Holy Roman Empire was able to retain a small state because there was an empire boss on his head. As Austria, the boss of the Holy Roman Empire, would unite those small states around the big states if he wanted to truly unify the Holy Roman Empire.

The Habsburg family's attempts to unify the Holy Roman Empire several times were defeated by military defeat...

Prussia can be said to have risen with its record of beating Austria.

Li Wei's cabinet ministers were loyal and naturally would not jump out to refute Li Wei's shameless remarks at this time.

After Li Wei finished his reunion, he explained slowly: "The Kingdom of Spain compensates according to their country's pension standards. Of course, this can be discussed. If we agree to a ceasefire, the Madrid government can also discuss the compensation according to our official death pension."

“Is there nothing else except monetary compensation?

The Kingdom of Spain is too stingy. The pension of more than 2,000 people is just a drop in the bucket for a country.”

Li Wei replied with dissatisfaction.

"The Chief Consul, the Spanish messenger only gave these conditions for the time being.

Of course, politically, after the war between the Spaniards and us, they will automatically withdraw from the anti-French alliance.”

Li Wei was obviously dissatisfied with this remark and looked at his tax chief.

The State Administration of Taxation, controlled by Li Wei's General Taxation, is the Li Wei government's money bag and is a crucial department.

Compared with other European countries, the cabinet of the Li Wei government did not have the Ministry of Finance, but was split into the State Administration of Taxation, Logistics, and Industry and Commerce.

Among these three departments, the Logistics Department is responsible for spending money, while the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are responsible for making money.

However, the income of the State Administration of Taxation exceeds that of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, because the Ministry of Industry and Commerce mainly relies on the earned industrial and commercial profits to supply the Li Wei government, and also has to pay taxes to the State Administration of Taxation!

In addition, the department under the State Administration of Taxation also has great power and has the right to mobilize local police and even garrison troops to assist in collecting taxes.

Li Wei highly praised the method of collecting taxes by armed forces, which he learned from the society in the 21st century in his previous life.

Of course, because these cabinet bosses are all officials who were enlightened by Li Wei’s administration, Li Wei only needs a few words to stop the internal strife, so there is no need to divide power and let them restrain each other.

Most cabinet departments are just to clarify division of labor and improve government efficiency.

"Can the money in the treasury support a total war against the Kingdom of Spain?"

Li Wei would not personally calculate the consumption of a total war. It was not a simple math problem. It required a large number of professionals to be responsible for the budget and count all factors.

In this regard, the State Administration of Taxation naturally has a dedicated person.

The three major departments of the State Administration of Taxation, the Logistics Department and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are closely connected, after all, these three major departments are dealing with each other every day.

Li Wei, who is used to being a hand-off manager, often doesn't ask about the process. He only needs the result and must be a sufficiently accurate result, otherwise no one can bear Li Wei's anger.

"Sir, is the Chief Consul, planning to implement military occupation of the Kingdom of Spain for a long time, or just breaking Madrid, and then withdraw it as if it was last time?

The specific war expenses need to be based on the strategic goals of the CEO.”

"What if I want to occupy the Kingdom of Spain for a long time, or even want to put a Spanish crown on me?"

"Sir, please forgive the incompetence of our subordinates. Even if we do not need to pay the military pay and the pension for the deaths of the army, the ordinary daily consumption of the army will not be enough to ensure that we occupy the Kingdom of Spain for a long time.

France's current financial situation is very bad. Even though the Wallace Business Alliance has taken over the industry and commerce in most areas of France, it still cannot meet the huge war consumption.

The long-term occupation of the Kingdom of Spain will inevitably fall into a long war of security, and the anti-French alliance will not sit idly by and watch us completely occupy the Kingdom of Spain. Those Spanish guerrillas will receive a steady stream of support from external weapons and other materials.

If a massacre deterrent policy is carried out in the Kingdom of Spain, it will cause the land of Spain to lose most of its agricultural productivity, and I am afraid that even the self-sufficiency requirement for our occupied military food is not met.

The long-term delivery of ordinary food and grass to the Spanish region will cause the domestic agricultural economy to collapse rapidly. After all, there are still people in many areas of France now in a state of hunger."

The meaning of the Chief Taxation is very simple.

There are only two ways to occupy a European power for a long time.

The first is a normal way of occupation, which will not cause too terrifying massacres to the people in the occupied areas to ensure that there is enough labor production.

But doing so will inevitably allow the local guerrillas to gain a large number of support from local people, and foreign support will not cause the guerrillas to have weapons shortages!

How long will this kind of security war last?

Li Wei naturally understood this truth. Didn’t the Afghan guerrillas, which were known as the imperial cemetery in his previous life, drive away all the world’s top powers in different periods because they had always had foreign support?

Spain is much larger than Afghanistan and is full of excellent ports, so foreign smuggling ship aid cannot be prevented.

If Li Wei was very rich, he could have been consumed all the time, but France, which had not recovered from the civil war, was really too poor...
Chapter completed!