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"Your Majesty, under the governors of the centrally governed provinces, general permanent administrative officers in charge of government affairs, financial officers in charge of finance, judicial officers in charge of justice, military officers in charge of urban defense forces; Do not add corresponding officials?"

"Yes, in the future, local provinces and provinces can add an intelligence officer in charge of intelligence affairs, with the same level as the administrative officer." Bai Feng thought and added: "The judicial officer in charge of justice will be renamed as an inspector in the future. The military officer in charge of the city defense army has also been renamed the commander of the city defense army. The rank is still the same as before, and no changes will be made."

"Follow your orders, Your Majesty!" The Minister of the Interior, the Minister of the Army, and the Minister of Justice responded in unison.

The officials at all levels in the local provinces and provinces are indeed under the jurisdiction of the governor of the province, but the real authority is the central department; in other words, the local department is the executive department projected by the central department to the local, and the central department is the local department. The real manager.

"Your Majesty, the minister proposed to expand the scale of the city's defense forces in various provinces and provinces, and set up a local garrison corps directly under the military department in each province to maintain local stability." Duke Crest, the Secretary of the Army, suggested.

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded!" Marquis Quintus, the first minister of the military, further explained: "The rebellion that had spread throughout the empire was caused by natural disasters and man-made disasters, but the strength of the urban defense forces everywhere was too weak to suppress the rebellion. It is also one of the main wishes of the rapid expansion of the scale of the rebellion, and the minister urged His Majesty to expand the city’s defense force to prevent it from happening!

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded!" Marquis Moritz, the second minister of the military, also stood up to express his attitude.

"Your Majesty, your subjects oppose!" Marquis Krossick, the first minister of finance, directly jumped out and said: "Your Majesty, our Ministry of Finance has little funds left this year. It is still unknown whether the tax will be collected early next year; we are now even The funds for restoration and reconstruction in various provinces are not available. There is really no money for the army to expand!"

Perhaps I felt that I was not serious enough, and when Marquis Krossik arrived, he specifically added: "Even we don't even have the funds to rebuild the city defense army!"

"Your Majesty, rebuilding and expanding the city's defense force is indeed the top priority for restoring local stability. There must be no delay!" Duke Kleist responded unwillingly.

"Your Majesty, our Treasury has no money!" The Marquis of Krossick is just two words: no money!

"Crossick, how much money do you have in the treasury of the Ministry of Finance?"

"Your Majesty, our Ministry of Finance only has 13.59 million gold coins and 49 million silver coins."

"Salah, how many days can the funds from the Eastern Metropolitan Government come to the Imperial Capital?"

"Your Majesty, the transportation team of the Sofia Chamber of Commerce will arrive in the Royal Capital in four days. By then, our Treasury's inventory will reach 1.254 billion gold coins and 2.35 billion silver coins."

After nodding, Bai Feng turned his attention to the Duke of Marcus, Minister of the Interior: "Marcus, the reconstruction of the twelve central and ten southern provinces, and the development of the six eastern, six northern, and southern provinces. How much money do you need to invest in a year?"

"Your Majesty, the six provinces in the East and the North, and the five provinces in the South, these 17 provinces have not been affected by the war. Although the local local administrative agencies at all levels need to be reorganized, the cost of one year Nor will it exceed 20 million gold coins."

"Because of your Majesty's ten provinces in the south, you need to settle refugees in advance, rebuild the local administrative agencies and restore the economy. It takes about 35 million gold coins a year; the number of refugees accumulated in the twelve provinces in the central province is too large. Local administrative agencies at all levels need to be rebuilt, and no matter how much the year's capital investment is compressed, it cannot be less than 50 million gold coins."

"In this way, your estimated annual reconstruction cost is as high as 1.29 billion gold coins, isn't it?"

"Your Majesty, these are the expenditures necessary to restore the central government to local rule!"

"Crossick!"

"Chen is here!"

"You are an old minister of the Ministry of Finance, and you know the situation of the Ministry of Finance; according to your expectations, how much tax can the Empire impose in the next year?"

"Your Majesty, under the premise of excluding four provinces in the northwest, three provinces in the southwest, and eleven provinces in the west, the annual tax revenue of the six eastern provinces should be around 200 million gold coins, and the economic situation of the six northern provinces is slightly inferior to the six eastern provinces. Nor will it be less than 150 million gold coins."

"In the ten southern provinces and the twelve central provinces, only the commercial taxes of the various chambers of commerce can be collected for the time being, and all of them will not exceed 300 million gold coins in a year; as for the five southern provinces, their taxes have always been used for southern border autonomy. Our Ministry of Finance is not aware of it."

"Your Majesty, our five southern provinces are sparsely populated and economically lagging behind, with an annual fiscal income of only about 30 million gold coins; except for the expenditures of the major families to support the army and the maintenance of the system, the fiscal balance of the entire southern border does not exceed two million gold coins." Bai Mingcheng Actively announced.

"From now on, the five standing legions in the southern border will be supported by the Imperial Central Government, and the five provinces in the southern border will also be classified as direct provinces of the central government; Duke Longze and Duke Bai Mingcheng, can you two have any objections?"

"Secretary, please obey His Majesty's order!" Long Ze and Bai Mingcheng agreed very simply.

"The Imperial Ministry of Finance currently has 1.475 billion gold coins, except for the 1.29 billion gold coins needed to restore the provincial economy and local administrative agencies at all levels, plus 680 million collectible Taxation of gold coins, the balance is about 780 million."

Seven hundred and eighty million gold coins sounds like a lot, but more needs to be spent; in fact, the funds that can be used at any time in Bai Feng's hands are no more than the seven hundred and eighty million gold coins.

Only one-fourth of the huge sum of money that the Sofia Chamber of Commerce is about to ship to the Imperial Capital can only be obtained from the stock of the Eastern Metropolitan Government. In the city of Rome, the rest are the assets of the Sofia Chamber of Commerce.

It is no exaggeration to say that in order to save the impending collapse of the empire, Bai Feng took out all the gold coins he could use; if it was not enough, Bai Feng had no choice but to borrow money or just Go back to Rome and exchange it with treasury funds.

After a moment of contemplation, Bai Feng asked Quintus who had his own advice in advance: "Marquis Quintus, you are the first minister of the military department responsible for the military establishment. You come to tell me what scale the future Imperial Standing Army will maintain. More appropriate?"

"Your Majesty, our military believes that the empire needs at least five hundred thousand-level royal corps, fifty fifty-two thousand-level standing corps in order to ensure that the empire is not invaded by foreign enemies; in addition, another 411,000 Only local garrisons at the same level can ensure stability within the empire and ensure that such a large-scale rebellion will not occur again."

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