(This chapter makes up for yesterday, and will be updated tonight!)

On December 23, 1811, the day before Christmas Eve, according to the usual practice, all important officials of the Iberian government and military gathered in Madrid to attend the annual summary meeting and tomorrow's Christmas dinner. As the de facto leader of Iberia, Xiao Jie had to attend of course.

The conference started after Xiao Jie gave a brief speech. As the prime minister of the Iberia government, Forbeck summarized the achievements of Iberia from November 1810 to November 1811 and where there are still shortcomings. Iberia has undergone vigorous infrastructure construction. At this time, the railway mileage has reached 5,000 kilometers, realizing the connection between the capital Madrid and Iberia's north and south cities and some small and medium-sized cities. The road mileage has also reached 10,000 taels. Thousands of kilometers, basically every large, medium and small city has road connections. These railways and highways are connected to form a dense transportation network, which makes the transportation environment of Iberia a very large country. There is no doubt that during this period, Iberia's traffic conditions were definitely the best in the world today, even the economically developed Britain could not compare.

The improvement of transportation conditions stimulated economic development to a large extent. Coupled with the turmoil in France and other European countries, more and more Jews and big businessmen of other nationalities migrated to Iberia with their families. They brought The strong capital of Iberia has enabled the rapid development of Iberia's industry and commerce in a short period of time. Last year, Iberia's economic growth even reached 13%. Last year, Iberia's gross national product also surpassed that of France for the first time, amounting to 3.2 billion francs, becoming the economic power second only to the United Kingdom. At the same time, the UK's GD was 5 billion francs, and France's was 3 billion (this data is fabricated, and no exact information can be found). However, Iberia's fiscal revenue is only 800 million francs, of which 200 million are used for military expenses. Compared with France, Iberia's taxation is much lighter. Although France's GD is lower than Iberia's, Napoleon's taxation in France is very high in order to expand his armaments and prepare for war. The fiscal revenue has been kept at 10 francs. above. Of course, the military expenditure of the French army is even higher. Since 1810, French military expenditure has remained at more than 1 billion francs. This is not to say that Napoleon invested all his fiscal revenue in military expenditure, but 300 to 400 million francs will be invested by the French finances, and the rest will be supplemented by looting from the occupying power.

The cultural and health undertakings have also made great progress. After the economic development has been greatly developed, the people's living standards have been greatly improved. After the basic food and clothing are basically solved, the education level of children has also been paid attention to. In addition, the Iberian government has also given a lot of financial support to education, investing hundreds of millions of francs in education construction every year, so that more than 60% of school-age children in Iberia can enter the classroom. But what followed was a serious shortage of post-school teachers. The lack of schools can be easily solved, and the government can pay for repairs, but it is serious if there are no teachers, so that Xiao Jie had to order a large number of teachers to be imported from France, which also made French widely used in Iberia. In addition, the penicillin that Xiao Jie entrusted to the famous French pharmacology expert Kleist to study was also successfully developed in this year. For this reason, Xiao Jie specially established a pharmaceutical factory in the Andresi Group, specializing in the production of penicillin and Some other necessary medicines. The successful development of penicillin means that the chances of survival of gesture soldiers in the Iberian army on the battlefield will be greatly improved in the future. Of course, due to the powerful efficacy of penicillin, Xiao Jie put it on the list of strategic materials, strictly controlled it, and adopted confidentiality measures, only using it within the army and within the territory of Iberia. This made Kleist a little dissatisfied, and Xiao Jie had to explain to him that it would take two years at most, and when Iberia became more stable, he would agree to export a small amount to other countries.

Next, other summary reports from the government are also being carried out one after another, and finally it is to expose the existing problems. Although Iberia has made great achievements now, there are still many problems exposed, especially with the large increase in the foreign population, the security situation in Iberia has declined significantly, and other countries sent to Iberia There are also a lot of spies in Lia, and there are nothing more than three places that attract them, one is the Talavera Arsenal, the other is the Madrid Academy of Sciences, and the other is the Valencia Shipyard, so that Iberia's The internal affairs and intelligence departments had to deploy a large number of personnel in these three places to prevent the leakage of confidential technology. Another aspect is that with the continuous development of the economy, the gap between the rich and the poor has also begun to widen. Although it is not very serious now, in order to reduce the possibility of class conflicts breaking out, we must pay close attention to this issue. The best question is that since Xiao Jie gained the right to rule Iberia, due to the blockade of the British navy, Iberia has completely lost contact with large overseas colonies. You must know that it is the whole of Latin America, Africa, and some parts of Asia. No one is willing to give up such a large piece of fat. Therefore, strengthening the construction of the navy to break the British naval blockade has also been put on the agenda.

Next is the army, and the speaker is Chief of Staff Eke, a lieutenant general who is not yet 30 years old. He primarily reports on the build-up of the Iberian army in 1811. During this year, in addition to the original troops, Iberia had one more legion, that is, the Iberian First Legion composed of six Iberian divisions, with a total strength of 110,000. In this way, the army strength of Iberia reached about 350,000 people. In addition, there is also the establishment of a new branch of the military, that is, the Air Force established with the support of Xiao Jie. Now the total number of the air force has reached more than 5,000 people, and they are mainly equipped with large, medium and small three-medium airships developed by the Academy of Sciences. The numbers reached 10, 30 and 60 respectively. Their main combat mission has also evolved from the initial strategic transportation to strategic bombing. The load capacity of a large airship has reached 30 tons, and it can completely be used in the bombing of local fortresses or big cities on the battlefield. This point has been tested. Although the accuracy needs to be improved, their fighting style and power cannot be ignored. Finally, there is the navy with new warships. Since the defeat of Nelson's fleet, Britain has never sent warships close to the eastern coast of Iberia. Even the British Mediterranean fleet stationed in Gibraltar has also restrained a lot. Because they know that the Mediterranean is no longer the swimming pool of the United Kingdom, and it is no longer a place where they can do whatever they want. To the north of them, there is a very powerful neighbor. But this does not mean that the United Kingdom has compromised. Their navy still blocked Iberia's route into the Atlantic Ocean, and they also stepped up the development of new warships. In April 1811, their self-developed steam-powered warship was also officially launched for sea trials, and all the data were not bad, only a little worse than the 'Iberia' class. Britain has a shipbuilding capability that Iberia cannot match, so it is obviously impossible for Iberia to surpass Britain in terms of numbers at sea. The only feasible way is to develop more powerful and advanced warships. And the 'Bonaparte' class is a warship with overwhelming advantages.

The last item of the meeting was to discuss Napoleon's upcoming expedition to Russia, what impact it would have on Iberia, and what role Iberia should play in this war What kind of role?

Forbeck first expressed his opinion: "I think it is very inappropriate for His Majesty Emperor Napoleon to launch this war. The situation in France is very unstable now, and the war will also have a disastrous impact on the economy. And the French economy is also in a very difficult situation, if it fails, the French economy will collapse, if it wins, the French economy will also suffer a very large loss, which will seriously affect the development of our country's economy."

Forbeck's words were endorsed by the insightful people present. The French economy could not withstand the consumption of the war. Now Napoleon is already a bit militaristic. The French economy may have collapsed long ago~lightnovelpub.net~ Dugor also expressed his views, which to a large extent represent the views of the military: "His Majesty Napoleon will lead the The 600,000 troops expedition to Russia, I think His Majesty has a good chance of winning, but what we have to consider is what kind of attitude His Majesty Napoleon will take after defeating Russia. We must know that after Russia is defeated, the entire European continent may We are the only ones he wants to eliminate the most. So I think we should prepare early and strengthen our military build-up to prepare for the coming crisis."

His words were also supported by other military generals. In their view, Napoleon, who commanded such a large army, had absolutely no possibility of failure. What should be considered now is what Napoleon will do after victory. One way to deal with Iberia now.

However, Xiao Jie did not agree with the proposal to start expanding the armament construction now, because the current army size has reached the limit that Iberia can bear. Moreover, it is still unknown whether Napoleon can win. Russia's Kutuzov is not easy to deal with. To be precise, Russia's cold winter is not easy to deal with.

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