I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Personal income tax, elimination of subsidies, increase in prices, and issuance of additional currency.

Through a series of measures, the imperial court's fiscal revenue soared.

Relying on this money, Dahua can carry out the construction of hundreds of large-scale engineering projects at the same time.

Dahua once again set off a wave of construction.

In order to make way for construction, Dahua has further reduced military expenditures.

In the 13th year of Yongxing, Dahua's military budget for the 14th year of Yongxing was only 200 million yuan, less than 1% of GDP, which was outrageously low.

You know, Dahua's current main force is as many as 400,000, and the second-line force is 1 million.

Among them, there are 200,000 main troops deployed in the Central Plains, 500,000 second-line troops, and the rest are overseas.

Fuso has about 20,000 main troops and 40,000 defenders.

Annan Siam has about 10,000 main troops and 40,000 garrison.

Java has about 20,000 main troops and 50,000 garrison.

India has a main force of about 70,000 and a garrison of 150,000.

Africa has about 20,000 main troops and 60,000 defenders.

Europe has about 30,000 main troops and 60,000 defenders.

South America has about 20,000 main troops and 60,000 defenders.

North America has about 10,000 main troops and 40,000 defenders.

Military expenditures alone are not even enough to pay for these armies, let alone the research and development of various weapons and the updating of equipment.

In fact, the military also has many sources of income, such as private funding from properties across the country and funding from businessmen. The garrison troops in peaceful areas basically rely on self-reliance, while the troops in war-torn areas rely entirely on plunder.

Even though the military is so frugal and budget-conscious, the military's situation is still very bad.

Within the military, there have been suggestions for disarmament, but they have been rejected by several big bosses.

With the current land area of ​​Dahua, 1.4 million regular troops are really too few.

Civil servants in both the DPRK and China hope that the military can calm down and not be so anxious to recover some places with low economic value, so as to reduce military expenditures.

But the military ignored it. While Dahua was developing vigorously, the military's small-scale military operations were also continuing.

At the beginning of the thirteenth year of Yongxing, Dahua had already recovered the area from Panama to southern Mexico, as well as the islands in the Caribbean.

Cuba, Puerto Rico and other places were all recovered.

More than half of South America has also been recovered. The western coastal areas have basically been brought under the rule of Dahua, leaving only the central and eastern coastal areas.

Without European support, the local immigrants had no way to compete with Dahua and could only retreat.

Either they choose to surrender, or they flee to the jungle and become savages, mixing with some local indigenous people.

However, this is of no use.

Dahua has not recovered these places yet, not because it cannot be recovered, but because the income from these places is low and Dahua has insufficient motivation.

Places like the Amazon rainforest are basically of no use to Dahua today.

In North America, the number of immigrants from Dahua has reached two million, and the western coastal areas have come under the rule of Dahua.

Some inland areas controlled by Indians also chose to surrender to Dahua.

At the same time, some of Dahua's troops and immigrants also passed through Panama and landed in the lower Mississippi River area through the Caribbean Sea to expand.

There are also small-scale wars in Europe. Dahua regained the Danish area and controlled this strategic point.

It will be much easier to fight Poland and Tsarist Russia in the future.

This makes the Polish government anxious all day long, not knowing when Dahua will take action.

At the beginning of the 14th year of Yongxing, Dahua's territory had reached 70 million square kilometers.

Nanjing, General Strategy Department.

The strategic planning meeting for the new year was held under the chairmanship of Tao Dongcheng.

Although Tao Dongcheng is the minister of the General Strategy Department and the most powerful person.

However, he did not sit down.

There are three seats in the upper seat, occupied by three strategic advisers.

Li Shaobin, Liu Hansan, and Wang Dayong, the three Conglong veterans, always have a higher status than those who came later.

They have no actual power, but their opinions are important and everyone respects them.

"In the new year, we have to work hard again."

Tao Dongcheng said that the hundreds of military bosses below could only smile bitterly when they heard this.

Dahua is vigorously developing the economy and carrying out construction, and other things have to give way, and they have no choice.

If they stop all military operations, they can save some military expenses, but they are unwilling to be lonely.

"The navy's shipbuilding plan is temporarily suspended, and a few more transport ships can be built."

Tao Dongcheng continued.

"This is not good. There are so many overseas territories and there are not enough warships to deter us. I'm afraid it will cause some trouble."

Wu Yi, who represented the interests of the navy, spoke symbolically, but he also knew that these words were in vain. Anyway, the military has no money now.

"Three fleets are enough. Any more would be a waste. With the strength of our government, there is no place where we dare to rebel."

Tang Guozhen said.

Maintaining a navy is really expensive, so you can spend less on it.

"Although military spending is very small, our actions cannot stop. This year, we have to complete the following goals. First, recover the West Asian region, second, recover the eastern coast of South America, and third, recover the eastern part of North America.

What we want to discuss next is how to accomplish these goals with as little money as possible. "

Tao Dongcheng said.

Achieving these goals is not difficult, not at all. The key is how to spend less money.

"Don't use armored vehicles. It's too troublesome to transport them from the mainland."

"Forget about heavy artillery. If you have mortars, you can crush the enemy."

"Forget it about the Air Force, it's too expensive."

"It's better to control the number of people participating in the battle."

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Everyone expressed their opinions one after another, and all options were available.

Among them, several suggestions have been singled out and discussed in focus.

For example, support a group of pro-China forces in North America and let them fight against themselves, and then Dahua will follow behind to take advantage.

This way you don't have to invest so many troops, and you don't have to kill or injure too many Dahua soldiers.

The pensions for these wounded and wounded soldiers are also a heavy burden.

And if those immigrants are used to fight immigrants, no matter how many people die, Dahua does not need to pay compensation, just provide them with some ammunition.

In West Asia, the same method can be used to support the pro-China forces in Persia.

Because Dahua is too powerful, some people in Persia hope that the royal family can voluntarily abdicate and then merge into Dahua.

However, the royal family did not agree to this suggestion and also suppressed these pro-China forces.

Supporting these forces to fight against the royal family can save a lot of military expenses without investing too many troops, just like what Dahua used in Fusang.

When both of them are exhausted, maybe without Dahua's intervention, they will voluntarily abdicate and then merge into Dahua.