Chapter 1152 Another Year of Cold Winter
In the past few years, they have been vigorously developing within the Great Zhou Dynasty. In the volcanic island, the southern region, and the northeastern region, which area of development and construction is not burning money like crazy?
The manufacturing of steam trains and the laying of railways have indeed greatly accelerated the development and construction efficiency of relevant areas.
But! The efficiency of development and construction has accelerated, which often means that the speed at which you spend money has also accelerated! !
Not to mention the various R&D and production departments below, which also consume a lot of financial funds every year.
This causes them to throw their money out like crazy.
The reason why Zhou Xu has been so troubled in the past two years is thanks to the wealth he accumulated during the war in the early years.
But to be honest, their foundation is still shallow and their wealth is not much. After such a squandering, they have finally bottomed out...
To put it simply, they have no savings. Now Within their empire, the salary expenditures and project funds of various departments depend entirely on the revenue from their state-owned industries and the taxes paid by the people every year.
Whenever something happens to these two areas, their financial expenditures in the new year will be problematic.
The Finance Minister was undoubtedly aware of this and quickly called for a halt.
By the way, it was not just the project of manufacturing the No. 003 steam train that he stopped. There were many other projects, all of which he proposed to reduce funding or directly eliminate.
It’s just that the steam train project is a relatively typical one and was specifically mentioned.
In fact, the report sent by the Finance Minister this time is as thick as a "five-year college entrance examination, three-year simulation" book.
As if he was afraid that His Majesty would not understand, he made a detailed display and calculation of every project that needed to be cut or eliminated directly, and he marked the reasons and reasons behind each project. His own thoughts.
What should Zhou Xu do? I could only read it page by page slowly.
After all, even Huo Qubing couldn't directly make the decision for him whether to cut off some projects.
He will certainly not agree to all of these applications from the Minister of Finance.
He and the Minister of Finance look at a project from different perspectives, so their ideas are naturally different.
However, he obviously will not reject them all. Forget about anything else, at least regarding their current financial issues, the Finance Minister’s words are not problematic.
According to the Finance Minister’s idea, it will be slowed down this year.
When the development and construction in the Northeast region is completed, a lot of fiscal expenditures will be stopped. At the same time, after the Northeast region has completed its development and construction, it will be able to bring prosperity to them after the regional economy is generated. Come to some financial gain.
By then their internal financial situation will be clearly relieved.
Zhou Xu agreed with this point of view.
The financial situation determines that they will not make any new moves in the coming period, mainly focusing on existing development projects.
In the blink of an eye, it’s another cold winter...
This winter, Pingyuan Fortress in New Taipei District has not been peaceful. Outside the fortress, nearly a thousand corpses of big green men are lying there. Pingyuan Fortress The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield outside in the wind and snow.
As the commander-in-chief of the New Taipei District, Shi Lei stood on top of the fortress wall, frowning slightly as he looked at the scene outside the wall.
"This is already the third wave this year..."
The first wave was in autumn, and the second wave was in early winter.
Although the three waves of greenskins were all small-scale troops, with a total strength of less than a thousand men, and they were all easily defeated, this was obviously different from the usual situation, and it still made Shi Lei a little worried.
At this moment, a group of figures appeared outside the fortress, causing Shi Lei to turn around and walk off the wall.
The dwarves from Copperforge are here.
Although the battle ended before they arrived every time, the dwarves still sent troops over to confirm the situation out of caution.
According to his observation, the leader was Wojin Copperfurnace, who had had contact with them before. The arrival of Wo'jin Copperfurnace gave him some ideas.
Shi Lei could feel that the opponent's status among the dwarves in Copperhearth Castle was not low. Except for the first two times, the other dwarf who led the team to confirm the situation was another one.
Now that Wojin Copper Furnace appears again, Shi Lei guesses that there must be something going on.
“Long time no see! Good friend!”
Seeing Shi Lei, Wojin Tongluo laughed and approached.
As soon as they met, Shi Lei clearly felt that the other party was trying to get close to him.
However, because of the other party's heroic behavior, it doesn't make people feel a little bit disgusted.
"Long time no see, Mr. Wojin, why are you here in person this time?"
After the simple courtesy, Shi Lei got to the point directly.
Although Wo'jin, who is over two hundred years old, is not naive, he is obviously not good at beating around the bush.
"There are some things I want you to talk about."
Speaking of this, Wojin turned his head and looked around.
"I think we'd better talk somewhere else."
"Please come with me."
Understanding what Wo Jin meant, Shi Lei nodded and said Made a 'please' gesture.
"Wait for me outside."
After signaling his boar knights to wait outside, Wojin followed Shi Lei into the Plains Fortress, led him to the empty conference room, and Order someone to brew two cups of hot tea.
Running around in this ice and snow is not an easy job. With a sip of hot tea, Wojin obviously felt a lot more comfortable.
"I won't beat around the bush, I'm here to invite you, Dazhou, to join the coalition to resist the greenskin invasion."
After hearing this, Shi Lei frowned and subconsciously You have to come up with that set of excuses.
Unexpectedly, Wojin moved faster this time.
"Don't refuse in a hurry. Listen to me, Your Excellency Shi Lei. You must have noticed that this is not the first time that green-skinned troops have entered deeply this year."
Wo'jin's These words made Shi Lei swallow back the words that were already on his lips, and made him look like he was "all ears".
"This is because the greenskin's offensive and troop size have been strengthened."
Speaking of this, as if thinking of something troublesome, Vol'jin scratched his messy hair.
"To be precise, something happened within the coalition forces. A coalition force temporarily retreated from the front line due to some things. The retreat of that force had a considerable impact on the entire front line battle situation."
< br>“Forget it, let’s not talk about this troublesome matter. To put it simply, the greenskins have the upper hand now, and our Copperhearth Castle has been besieged by the greenskins since autumn.”
"The situation is getting worse now, and we can't take care of it anymore. This is the main reason why there are so many small-scale greenskin troops coming in this year."
"So many small-scale troops are missing. , The greenskins must have noticed this. Once Copperhearth Castle is breached, you, the Great Zhou Dynasty, will not be able to stay away."
Speaking of this, Wojin paused, and his face showed full sincerity. ……
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to join the coalition. I only represent our Copperhearth Castle and hope to form an alliance with your Zhou Dynasty to jointly resist the greenskin invasion on this land!"
(End of this chapter) )