Him and their stars.

Chapter 386

Major General Lal stared at Yu Lian dumbfounded, his first reaction was that you must be fucking teasing me.

He then realized that no matter how unreliable the other party was, he probably wouldn't joke about this kind of thing, and felt as if ten thousand Endor cubs were stepping over him while tap dancing.

Didn't you say that the years should be quiet?Didn't you agree to be cautious?How can you not keep your word?

However, the above two reactions only stayed in his mind for less than a second.While lying on the grass, Major General Lal quickly switched his role to the business mode, held his chin in thought for a moment, and said solemnly, "Reason?"

This Major General, who was full of honesty and kindness like a businessman, appeared on the other side like a face-changing face in a Sichuan opera, which made Yu Lian startled for a moment.

Your Excellency the Major General seemed to realize that this was not the same as his usual character set, so he quickly restrained his aura, and squeezed out a simple and honest smile again: "Oh, Lieutenant Colonel, what you said is really impressive. Uneasy! Didn't we agree to spend this period of time peacefully? Besides, the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council may really have some disagreements, isn't this normal? Any country has such problems. The Union On the other hand, the relationship between Azure Palace and the two courts is not good. Don’t we have the same virtues in the Eternal City?”

"The shipment of special materials delivered by the Hand of Glory shipyard this week is only one-third of what it used to be. Of course, this is not direct evidence, and it is very likely that the imperial intelligence agency wants us to see it. It's just..." While talking, Yu Lian used the information terminal to open two news items that appeared only yesterday, but they were news about the other two super-large shipyards in the empire, the Airt Shipyard and the Breeze Shipyard.

Like the Hand of Glory, they are all shipyards that can build titans and dreadnoughts.

"A war angel-class titan ship has been built?" Rear Admiral Lal was taken aback.

"Yes, it is used to replace the ships for the emperors of the general election. In contrast, the Hand of Glory has no shipbuilding indicators for dreadnoughts this year. We all know that the Hand of Glory theoretically belongs to the Royal Shipyard and is authorized by the emperor. , under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council. However, the Airt Shipyard and Breeze Shipyard are under the unified management of the Imperial Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Industry, and of course they are also managed under the Prime Minister’s Office.”

The governing model of the Galactic Empire is the so-called bicameral system.

The two houses refer to the Imperial Royal Council and the Privy Council respectively.

The former is the "theoretical" highest legislative and supervisory body of the empire, composed of senators elected by the nobles and elected members of the people.That is why they are called the House of Lords and the House of Commons.We have introduced this point before.

And a mansion is the prime minister's mansion, which can be directly understood as the central government.The prime minister is the country's highest executive officer, who is selected through a well-established imperial bureaucratic system. Of course, there are also many successful examples of soldiers directly transferred to civilian positions.The so-called "the prime minister is compared with the state and county" is here.Theoretically, apart from the unavoidable bureaucracy, the prime ministers and ministers produced under this system have rich experience in governing, so they can naturally declare condescendingly that the opposing alliance is a group of actors and libertines who rely on lip service to get to power.

The history of the Chenxi Dynasty has developed to the present, and there have even been four foreign prime ministers who were not born in Tyrero, but the alliance has not yet produced a general who is not a human being. Even if it is politically correct, the empire is not necessarily unable to say One or two.

However, for the military aristocratic class, most of the prime ministers born as civil servants are just their housekeepers.

The Galactic Empire has always been a regime of the military system, and it has always been a country ruled by military aristocrats.Even the Chenxi Royal Family and the Eight Great Elected Emperors are, to put it bluntly, nothing more than the biggest military nobles.

Ever since, there was the so-called Privy Council to ensure that the military aristocrats had a good grasp of the imperial government.

From the perspective of ordinary people in the empire and other countries, this is the real highest authority of the empire, with members ranging from fifteen to thirty.The Prime Minister of the Empire is naturally one of the Privy Council Ministers, but often only one, and often not even the chief.

In addition, the eight elected emperors, military generals, powerful factions of local princes, and even ordinary nobles or elders with prestige may all be members of the Privy Council.

As the highest administrative organ of the country, the prime minister's office should theoretically integrate the organs of the various ministries of the national government.However, as for the departments that are really involved in the country's plans, the Prime Minister's Office can probably only talk about the finance and police departments.

As for the Hongluyuan, which is in charge of foreign affairs and vassals, the Heraldry Academy, which unifies the affairs of nobles and princes, the Grand Marshal’s Office, which is responsible for military orders, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is responsible for external and internal intelligence security, all of the above are under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. The prime minister's office has no right to directly intervene.

Just look at the power structure. The Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council fully meet all the conditions for tearing apart X, and even the prime minister himself must have a seat in the Privy Council.

The fact is exactly like this. In the history of the empire, there has been a long history of struggle between the government and the government, but the prime minister's office has always been at a disadvantage. Of course, it can only continue to play the role of a not very obedient but very capable housekeeper.In addition, with the ten generations of gods of the Chenxi Dynasty sitting on the top to reconcile, the struggle situation can at least be in a state of fighting without breaking, and overall it is still in a stage of healthy competition.Of course, it is also a good thing for the national power of the empire.

However, the struggle between the courts is not without repetition.If there is a strong and capable prime minister, the government may overwhelm the Privy Council.

And the current prime minister of the empire, the Earl of Valpolis, who was born in an ordinary bureaucratic family of Tirero, is one of the powerful and capable prime ministers.

"I have learned about the life of the Earl of Valpolis. Although he was born as a small nobleman of the Tiriro people, he is essentially a civil rights faction that is very rare in the empire. The main supporters, apart from the bureaucracy, are those elected by the people. During his five years as prime minister, he has been reducing imperial military expenditures, expanding infrastructure investment and welfare expenditures through the Ministry of Finance, and adjusting the empire’s consistent military-first policy to people’s livelihood.”

In the Galactic Empire, the ones who are worse than the emperor are actually the military nobles who have penetrated into all walks of life.If you want to touch their cake, you must have the awareness to be sidelined by their Qing emperor at any time, and at the same time, you must have the awareness to be pushed out by His Majesty the Emperor to sacrifice to heaven.Anyway, the emperor of the empire has always had a tradition in this regard.

However, after a series of joint efforts, Prime Minister Valpolis still completed his disarmament plan last year.

Naturally, the huge imperial fleet cannot move.Although your Excellency the Prime Minister is a civil rights faction born as a bureaucrat, he is not a traitorous Labor Party. He knows the real reason why the empire can rule half of the galaxy.

Not only did he not cut down the naval fleet, he even passed a new shipbuilding plan, and planned to complete the replacement plan for all the emblem machines in the army within three years.

However, on the contrary, he began to carry out drastic reforms, or almost eliminate them, to the already bloated Marine Corps, Imperial Stormtroopers, planetary garrison forces, and garrison fleets in various star regions.

You must know that after the end of the last Galactic War, in order to cope with the possibility of another all-out war, the Grand Marshal's Mansion carried out three large-scale expansions of the Imperial Army.However, due to the opening of the Venus Gate, the international situation in the entire galaxy has fundamentally changed. The powder keg that is about to explode immediately has a place to vent, and a full-scale war will naturally be impossible.However, the huge military force that was expanded to cope with the war has just been preserved.Therefore, it just happened to be the direction for the prime minister to operate.

"I have also heard about this situation. However, this does not mean that the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council really have... the kind of contradiction you mentioned that can be used. It’s actually beneficial.” Major General Lal thought for a while, and used his personal terminal to call up a data table for Yu Lian.

"As far as the outside world knows, the empire's military expenditure data in the past few years has actually played a lot of accounting games. In fact, since 826, if the construction of various new warships and equipment is included, the empire's annual military expenditure has been increasing. of."

Yes, this is like a certain rabbit in Yu Lian's hometown disarming hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of troops, and merging large military regions.The organization and personnel have been significantly streamlined, but military expenditures have been increasing.The gameplay of the prime minister of the empire is quite similar.

Yu Lian couldn't help but praise Major General Lal and his friends for their work ability.To be honest, considering the brains and courage of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, and thinking about the manipulation of the central government in the past, the intelligence department of the embassy in the empire has absolutely no power to do wet goods.Then, this set of real imperial military expenditure data must have come through "legal and reasonable" channels.

We all know that the more reasonable and legal anything is, the more difficult it will be for you.Based on this alone, one can imagine the hard work of Major General Walter and the others.

"You really, really worked hard..." Yu Lian touched the general's hands and shook them vigorously.

The general was slightly taken aback, then sighed heavily, and shook Yu Lian's warm hand back forcefully, tears seemed to well up in the corners of his eyes.

Everything is silent.

After the two sides had a wordless exchange with their eyes, and confirmed that each other's favorability had increased a lot, Yu Lian smiled and said: "Then, now comes the problem. The actual military expenditure of the empire is actually increasing, but at the same time it is increasing." It has also increased investment in infrastructure construction and welfare. In the first two years alone, the welfare expenditures of imperial citizens and nationals have increased by [-]% and [-]%. With such high financial support, the imperial government There is no imbalance in the fiscal revenue. Is this through the squeeze of criminals and civilians, the exploitation of the colony of the Andromeda Nebula, or the national debt and inflation?"

General Lal shook his head: "The empire has not issued large-scale national debts in the past two years, nor has it planned to print large-scale money. In addition, the empire's finances have indeed not been falsified."

"Oh?"

"There is absolutely no problem with this information. The Imperial Treasury Department and the Central Bank of Tirero have something to do with us. Counselor Bliss is personally responsible for this aspect. After getting along for a long time, you will understand that this is a very reliable comrade-in-arms. "

"Oh."

"...This kind of thing, as long as you have a little contact in the business and financial circles, you will know it all." General Lal quickly squeezed out a simple and honest smile, and added a serious sentence, although it is a bit suspected of superfluous.

Yu Lian took a deep look at the other party, and once again the community had a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of the embassy in the empire.

No matter how unreliable the leaders above are, they are still moving forward with heavy burdens!
(End of this chapter)