Chapter 1622 Irrelevant to Glory

His Excellency the Prime Minister also talked about this with the Special Envoy before coming here.

What if the time comes when you need to come up with something of substance.

The federal people are not fools, and Mr. Truman was named the most aggressive president in the history of the federation, and it is not pure bragging.

He is not only smart, but also has a group of people who can help him.

When talking about these things, the Prime Minister thought of a person who made his teeth itch, Lynch!

If it wasn't for Lynch, maybe the current Gefla is another look, but because of Lynch, everything has changed.

Your Excellency the Prime Minister is not even sure whether this change is good or bad. It should be good in general, he thinks so.

In addition, there are so many terrible scientists. The outbreak of the Federation's national power is not simply due to productivity, but also scientific progress!

In this era, during this period, an advance in scientific research has a great impact on warfare.

For example, Blackstone Aviation has always been ahead of the world in research on fighter jets, which gives the Federation and Penteio an air force confrontation that always has the upper hand!

Don't look at the fact that both sides seem to be unable to gain an absolute advantage, and they are very anxious, but in fact, Peng Jieao's battle loss rate is much higher than that of the Federation.

This is the military lead brought about by scientific and technological progress. According to the current situation, once Peng Jieo's air force can no longer use numbers to fight against the federal air force, the change of battlefield air supremacy will also directly change the battlefield pattern.

There are so many terrible and great people in the Federation, which makes the Prime Minister envious and jealous, some to the Federation society, and some to Mr. Truman.

After consideration, Your Excellency the Prime Minister gave the special envoy a very simple answer, as long as they are related to Amélia, they can agree to it.

The reason is also very simple. Only when the Amelia region is firmly in the hands of Gefla, the part that Gefla needs to fulfill in their agreement with the Federation will be meaningful.

No matter what your federation wants from the Ameria region, customs rights, taxation rights, or other privileges like extraterritorial rights, you can talk about it!

Because Amelia is only in the hands of Gefla, these things are what they need to consider.

If Amelia is finally taken away, the Federals will not get these things, and for Gefla, they will have no further losses!

Therefore, if the federal people want to allow Gefla to perform the second half of the agreement, they must make efforts to defend Amélia for Gefla.

This is an incentive, a spur, and a constraint. Everything revolves around Gafla's core interests, the Amélia region.

But this kind of matter cannot be raised by the special envoy himself, at least not at first, he must let the federal people raise it themselves, and let them have a feeling—

I've hit them where it hurts, and I'm going to grab this request hard!

Only in this way, some obvious problems that can be taken advantage of will be ignored by people, or deliberately let go.

Sitting across the negotiating table, facing the top official of the Ministry of International Affairs, who is hailed as the "Eagle of the Federation" by the international diplomatic community, the special envoy is still a little nervous.

"No journalists, no more people, just the two of us, and that's the way I want to tell you that what we're talking about isn't about honor."

These words touched the special envoy deeply.

If the identities of the two parties are reversed, he will definitely exaggerate this matter, and let the entire Federation and even the whole society know that Gefra, the former overlord, has bowed his head to the rising new leader of the Federation!

This is a very cohesive thing, and from the end of the First World War to the end, Gefla did not take less care of the Federation.

It was either to do something here, or to do something there. At that time, the diplomats and foreign ministers almost kept running back and forth between the Federation and Gafla, just to solve the problem.

Those diplomats in Gefla have their nostrils upturned, and they leave the table at every turn, but the federal people are chasing after them to apologize...

Perhaps this is the reason why the Federation can become stronger and stronger?

The envoy thought so.

He nodded with a heavy heart, "This arrangement is very good."

As he spoke, he felt a little... meaningless, and he chuckled lightly, not knowing whether he was laughing at himself, Gafla, or something else.

"I have already stated our position to His Excellency the President and mentioned our needs..."

The middle-aged man, the top official of the Ministry of International Affairs, nodded, "Yes, I have discussed this issue with Mr. President. I think the conditions you mentioned are not impossible to complete, but there are some things that need to be followed up."

The special envoy was a little surprised, but felt it was reasonable.

The battle situation in Nagalil is still unclear. If Gefra can attract some of the main players from Amélia, it will naturally reduce the pressure on Nagalil.

Both sides have their own appeals, and this is not to say that no one has a dirty heart, this is just proceeding from reality.

"Please say!"

The top official of the Ministry of International Affairs looked down at the document in his hand, and then said, "We can support the 200,000 troops you requested, but you must provide all the expenses of these troops."

"Including but not limited to everyone's basic salary, subsidies, welfare benefits, medical insurance, pensions after death and all expenses."

Having said that, he paused, this is only the first requirement, and only if he agrees first, can there be anything later.

He looked at the special envoy, and the special envoy frowned and thought about it, the money... To be honest, it's really not a small amount.

Many people always subconsciously ignore the cost of "people", the 200,000 army, assuming that everyone's basic salary and subsidies allow them to get a salary of 600 per month-in fact, it will be higher than this.

Then just 10,000 people need 6 million in terms of wages, 100,000 people are 60 million, and 200,000 people are 120 million federal sols, which is equivalent to 80 million francs.

If you take into account other expenses, such as food, medical care, and pensions.

Maybe they need to spend 1.5 billion francs or more on these people in a year!

This amount of money is actually not a heavy burden for the current federation, because the federation has a population of 60 million. According to the current wartime tax rate implemented by the federation, at least 60% of each person's income will be paid. be levied, the maximum shall not exceed 80%.

Based on the current federal minimum hourly wage standard multiplied by 60%, the federal government can collect about tens of billions of taxes and fees from the entire federal government every month on average!

Of course, this is the most ideal state, removing about 40% of the non-working income population, such as children and the elderly who are unable to work.

And minus the social unemployment rate (at this time, due to the loss of part of the cheap labor supply in Nagalil, the employment rate of the federal society began to increase), based on the calculation that the income group is only 35% of the whole society, the federal monthly Just by collecting taxes, there are about 3.5 billion to 4 billion tax revenues!

This is a relatively underestimated value, and the actual tax revenue may be more than this, and much more.

This is also the reason why the federal military doesn't care about the budget. The billions of budgets are thrown out without blinking. It's not because they don't have any concept of money, but the federal government is really **** rich!

This kind of situation actually happened in the Penteio Empire. They are also a vast country, but Gefla is not one of them!

Even if their wartime tax rates were higher than those of the Commonwealth, it would be difficult for them to support such a dire military budget.

If you count the previous ones, if they spend their own money, they will have to spend no less than 6 billion francs, which is 8.5 billion to 9.5 billion federal sols!

This is too heavy for them.

The special envoy remained silent. He calculated some data. From his point of view, the request made by the federal people was not too much, but he could not agree immediately.

"Our current finances are relatively tight, and we can't take out so much at once, but if you strongly request, we can solve this part of the problem by paying in installments."

The special envoy put forward an idea of ​​his own, "You are responsible for these expenses first, and we will pay you the expenses in installments, or through other methods, and we will not be directly connected with these individuals."

Without direct contact, the final conflict is between these individual sergeants and the federal government. As for the issue between the Gefla government and the federal government, that is another issue.

Diplomacy has never been a simple matter, and when debts and diplomacy are linked together, it becomes even more troublesome.

The room fell into silence, everyone was analyzing the situation, and then the top official of the International Affairs Department shook his head slightly, "We will discuss this matter last."

"Secondly, considering the complexity of the battlefield and the difficulty of resupplying during wartime, we propose that your military standard adopt the one we are currently using."

"All the previous ones were abolished and eliminated~lightnovelpub.net~ or replaced to the non-frontal main battlefield, this is for our better local supplies."

The soldiers who fought in Nagalil before reported a situation to the Ministry of National Defense. Due to the different standards of military equipment between Gefra and the Federation, the bullets and other consumables of the two sides cannot be shared!

This is very uncomfortable. When a soldier goes to the battlefield, all kinds of equipment are heavy enough. It is impossible for each of them to carry an ammunition box to the front line.

On the front line, the main way for soldiers to obtain ammunition after they run out of ammunition is to collect it from soldiers who died in battle around them, or to share some with others.

But they were using a different standard than the Gefla soldiers, which meant that they ran out of ammunition and had to fall back.

This is obviously a very stupid behavior!

In addition, the military industry group actually has to express itself in this "loan" plan, so they hope to take advantage of this opportunity to update the standard of weapons and equipment within the scope of the World Development Council to the federal standard...