".......................... You can send someone to Aix. The amount of weapons and armor you bought from Provence. You must not be owed."

"Now we have already had a financial reserve of five million Finneys in our hands, including the money that the Sergeant General borrowed from the Holy Regiment of Besançon."

Att looked up at the Governor of the Government Cooper sitting on the right and asked, "How much surplus is there in the Government Vault?"

Cooper calculated slightly in his mind and replied: "Including the 300,000 Finneys that had been allocated to the Continental Commercial Bank's western Provence two days ago, the government government's treasury still has 1.4 million Finneys."

"After the Battle of the Successors, the army was reorganized and expanded. The First Division of the Wells Legion was a combat corps division, with the highest squandering expenses. Five hundred war soldiers and more than one hundred baggage soldiers only paid 500,000 Finneys per year. Including the consumption of military equipment and supplies, the annual fee exceeded 800,000."

"The newly expanded cavalry company has reached 200 people. These guys are real gold-eating beasts. Not to mention the huge cost of purchasing war horse armor in the early stage, now it takes more than 150,000 yuan per year to raise war horses alone. There are also cavalry pay, military equipment, and supplies. In terms of the squandering of the 500 war soldiers, there is no need to be a low cost of 500 war soldiers."

"Fortunately, the Western Gage Corps had a court supply, and the Sap Company and Andermat Company of the Southern Gage Corps did not need full support, and the Tignets Company was not expensive. The Gage Corps and the New Reserve Corps belonged to the peasant soldiers and had little investment."

"Sir, with all the taxes in our Wells Province and the profits of the European Commercial Bank, it is already very difficult to maintain an army of this scale. Moreover, we not only need to support the army, but now your territory has expanded, and your subordinates have reached nearly 100,000, and nearly 10,000 people are not self-sufficient."

"The government government vault has been encouraging and supporting the situation."

"Although you keep filling the vaults in various ways, this is not the profit that Wells Province can really make a long-term profit..."

Yat frowned when he heard this. The old guy said a lot, but in a word, he was always on the verge of bankruptcy. The reason why Wells Province has been in a prosperous situation is just because he can keep making money to fill the gap.

But this is not a long-term solution.

"It is necessary to seek a path to sustainable development." Yat said silently in his heart.

"Cooper, I know everything you said. It's great to have long-term considerations, but I have a comprehensive consideration."

Yade was determined to calm down and said to all the confidants in the office: "Now that the money has been obtained, we have to use it."

"I decided to allocate one million Finneys of the five million Finneys to the army to prepare for war. One million Finneys were delivered to the government for various business construction. Another five million Finneys were allocated to the government for the purchase and hoarding of food and food, and the remaining two million were retained in the vault to prepare for the last battle."

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"How to use the three million Finney fund, Odo and Cooper, you two take the lead in formulating specific plans for the military and government governments, and submit them to me within ten days."

"Remember, don't tell the origin of this money for the time being. The Holy Group is destroyed. I still think that the loan contract for this money will be destroyed with them."

"Okay, you will continue to report important matters that the Second Military Government needs my resolution."

Odo immediately pulled out a submission in his hand, "Sir, the Military Affairs Office is preparing to expand the General Staff, which is an expansion plan. In addition, the day before yesterday, Baron Antayas wrote a letter saying that more than a dozen people who claimed to be mountain mercenaries came to the Mountain Confederacy recently and hoped to cooperate with us. In the letter, Antayas said that the group of mountain mercenaries was extremely poor, with very little military equipment, and seemed to have no combat power. I asked the Lord if he refused."

Yat was so busy that he almost forgot the people in the mountains. "No, no, no, because the Confederacy of the Mountains is very closed, we have not dealt with them much in recent years, but I have heard that the mountain people in remote places are extremely tough and we can use them."

"I will discuss this matter in detail when I return to Beiguan Military Fort tomorrow."

Hearing this, Cooper interrupted, "Master, I have some understanding of those mountain people. In the early spring of this year, the recruitment of refugees in the north was slow. In order to expand the source, I sent someone to recruit them in the Confederate. However, those guys stayed in the mountains for too long, and their heads were harder than pig iron. They probably regarded us as slave vendors selling serfs, and they refused to go down the mountain to join us no matter how they persuaded them."

"I think it's because the mountain grain is in short supply this year, so I'm almost starving to death before I came out to be a mercenary."

Yat smiled, "Then you can send someone to the Confederate again, bring more food, and tell them that we can eat enough to join us."

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At the end of November, heavy snow begins and winter is approaching.

In the heart of Wells Province, the North Pass Military Fort in the Wells Valley. The heavy snow in the sky reduced the training of the First Division of the Wells Legion by half, and the soldiers were much more relaxed, but the officers had to enjoy a rare leisure while enduring day after day military theory teaching.

The officers’ school is starting again.

All officers above the squadron leader of the First Division of the Wells Legion and several combat units directly under the Legion were driven to the school hall of the Beiguan Military Fort.

In addition to the front-line war corps, several second-line corps and their independent institutions under their jurisdiction were also summoned to Beiguan for classes.

Nowadays, the Yat-senal is busy and it is unlikely that it will teach the officers in person. However, several senior officers of the Wells Legion and a large number of middle and senior officers have both theoretical and practical experience, and are more than enough to teach those middle and low-level officers.

In the barracks of the Beiguan Army Fort Legion, Yat stared at three guys wearing thin leather armor, worn leather boots, and emitting a strong and sour atmosphere.

He knew that the mountain people were poor, but it was not common for him to go out to negotiate business and dress up in poverty.

"But, have you not eaten yet?" Yat finally found the topic.

Three mountain people who claimed to be the leader of the mercenary team were really nervous when they saw such a prominent noble as the Count.

At that age, I guess I had gone out a long way and had some knowledge, "Sir, I'm in a hurry to go, and I haven't had time to make a fire and cook~"

"Has a war been fought?"

"Fighted, with Schwarbian."

"Has I killed someone?"

"I have killed two, but they are all miscellaneous soldiers. They have been on the battlefield, but they have never killed anyone."

"It's quite honest."

Yat looked at a few mercenaries who were more like farmers than farmers, "You have two hundred people?"

"Two hundred and thirty people, if you need it, we can assemble a thousand people in ten days. We have had battlefield experience, but they don't have decent weapons."

Yat waved his hand, "You guys come and have a look first. I'll hire you for a month first, and then discuss it in a month."

"Come." The guard at the door walked in.
Chapter completed!