Him and their stars

Major General Lal looked at Yu Lian dumbfounded. His first reaction was that you are definitely kidding me.

He then realized that no matter how unreliable the other party was, he would never joke about this kind of thing, and he felt as if he had been stepped on by ten thousand Endor bears in a tap dance.

Didn’t you say that you want the years to be quiet? Wasn't it promised 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 business mode. He held his chin and thought for a moment. His face was straight and he said in a deep voice: "Reason?"

This major general, who had a face that was honest and kind, like a businessman, had another side appear as if he had changed his face in a Sichuan opera, and Yu Lian couldn't help but be stunned.

The Major General seemed to quickly realize that this was different from his usual persona. He quickly calmed down his aura and put on a simple and honest smile again: "Oh my, Lieutenant Colonel, what you said is really shocking. Uneasy! Didn’t we agree to spend this time peacefully? Moreover, there may be some discord between the Prime Minister’s Office and the Privy Council. Isn’t this normal? Every country has such problems. What about the Alliance? On the other hand, the relationship between the Azure Palace and the two houses is not good. Don’t the big shots in Eternal City on our side also have the same virtue?"

"The volume of special materials shipped 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. It is most likely just what the imperial intelligence agency wants us to see. It's just..." As Yu Lian spoke, he used the information terminal to open two pieces of news that had only appeared yesterday, but they were news about the other two super-large shipyards in the empire, Airt Shipyard and Breeze Shipyard.

Like Hand of Glory, they are both shipyards that can build Titans and Dreadnoughts.

"Has one War Angel-class Titan ship been built each?" Major General Lal was startled.

"Yes, it is used to replace the ships for the elected emperors. In contrast, the Hand of Glory has not even reached the shipbuilding quota for the dreadnought this year. We all know that the Hand of Glory theoretically belongs to the royal shipyard and is authorized by the emperor. , directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. However, the Airt Shipyard and Breeze Shipyard are jointly managed by the Imperial Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Industry, which are of course equivalent to being managed under the Prime Minister's Office."

The ruling 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 organ of the empire, composed of senators elected by the nobility and elected members of the public. So it is also called the House of Lords and the House of Commons. We have introduced this before.

The first government office is the Prime Minister's Office, which can be directly understood as the central government. The prime minister is the country's top executive and is selected through a well-established imperial bureaucracy. Of course, there are many successful examples of military personnel directly transferring to civilian positions. The so-called "prime minister is compared to the state and county" lies in this. Theoretically, in addition to the unavoidable bureaucracy, the prime ministers and ministers produced under this system have rich experience in governing. Naturally, they can condescendingly declare that the opposing alliance is a group of actors and libertines who came to power by talking nonsense.

The history of the Dawn Dynasty has developed to the present, and there have even been four foreign prime ministers who were not born from Tireluo people, but the Alliance has not yet had a non-human general. Even if it is politically correct, the empire may not be able to say One or two.

However, for the military aristocracy, most prime ministers who were born as civil servants were just their stewards.

The Galactic Empire has always been a political power with a military system, and has always been a country ruled by a military aristocracy. Even the Dawn Royal Family and the Eight Elected Emperors are, to put it bluntly, just the biggest military aristocrats.

As a result, the so-called Privy Council was established to ensure that the military nobles had control over the imperial government.

In the eyes of ordinary people and other countries in the empire, this is the true highest authority of the empire, with members ranging from fifteen to thirty. The Imperial Chancellor is naturally one of the Privy Council ministers, but often only one, and often not even the chief.

In addition, eight elected emperors, military generals, powerful factions of local princes, and even ordinary nobles or senators with fame and 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 agencies of various ministries of the national government. However, among the departments that really involve national affairs, the only ones that the Prime Minister's Office can have a say in are the finance and police departments.

As for Hongluyuan, which is in charge of diplomacy and vassal affairs, the Heraldry Hall, which integrates 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 and 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 and you will know that the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council fully meet all the conditions for disunity. Even the Prime Minister himself will definitely have a seat in the Privy Council.

The fact is exactly like this. In the history of the empire, there has been a long-standing 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 disobedient but very capable housekeeper. In addition, with the ten generations of divine kings from the Dawn Dynasty sitting at the top to mediate, the struggle situation can at least be in a state of fighting without defeat. Generally speaking, it is still in a stage of healthy competition. Of course, it is also a good thing for the empire's national strength.

However, the struggle between the government and the Yuan was not without its recurrence. If there is a strong and capable prime minister, the government may overwhelm the Privy Council.

The current prime minister of the empire, Count Valpolis, who was born into an ordinary bureaucratic family of the Tirero people, is one of this strong and capable prime minister.

"I have learned about the life of Count Valpolis. Although he was born into a small aristocracy of the Tiruro people, he is essentially a democratic activist who is very rare in the empire. The main supporters, in addition to the bureaucracy, are elected by the people. During his five years as prime minister, he has been reducing the empire’s military expenditures, expanding infrastructure investment and welfare expenditures through the Ministry of Finance, and adjusting the empire’s long-standing military-first policy to people’s livelihood.”

In the Galactic Empire, the only people who are more difficult to mess with than the emperor are actually the military nobles whose tentacles penetrate into all walks of life. If you want to touch their cake, you must have the awareness to be flanked by their Qingjun 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 has always had this tradition.

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

Naturally, the huge imperial fleet cannot be moved. Although the Prime Minister is a civil rights activist 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 reduce the naval fleet, he even adopted a new shipbuilding plan and planned to complete the upgrade of all heraldic machines in the military within three years.

However, in contrast, he began to carry out drastic reforms, or more or less eliminate, the Marines, Imperial Stormtroopers, Planetary Garrison Forces, and the guard fleets in various sectors that were so large that they were already bloated.

You know, after the last galactic war, in order to cope with the possibility of another all-out war, the Generalissimo conducted three large-scale expansions of the imperial army. However, due to the opening of the Venus Gate, the international situation of the entire galaxy has undergone fundamental changes. The powder keg that is about to explode suddenly has a place to vent, and a full-scale war will naturally not be fought. However, the huge military force that was expanded to cope with the war was retained. Therefore, it just became the direction for the Prime Minister to take action.

"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 exploited. The reform of Prime Minister Valpolis has a great impact on the Imperial Army. 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 the outside world knows, the empire's military expenditure data in recent 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 investment has been increasing. of."

Yes, this is like a certain rabbit in Yu Lian's hometown who frequently disarms hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands and merges large military regions. Institutions and personnel have obviously been streamlined a lot, but military spending has been increasing. The gameplay of the Imperial Chancellor is quite similar.

Yu Lian couldn't help but praise the work ability of Major General Lal and his friends. To be honest, considering the audacity of the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country and considering the behavior of the central governments of the past dynasties, the intelligence department of the Imperial Embassy in the Empire has absolutely no power to do anything wet. Then, this set of real imperial military expenditure data must have been obtained 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 Watt Rall and others.

"You have really worked hard..." Yu Lian was moved and held the general's hands and shook them vigorously.

The general was startled for a moment, and then he sighed heavily, and squeezed Yu Lian's warm hand, and there seemed to be a little tears in the corners of his eyes.

It's all said and done.

After the two parties had a wordless exchange with their eyes, and after confirming 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 It also increased investment in infrastructure construction and welfare. In the first two years alone, the welfare expenditures of the imperial citizens and national classes increased by 15% and 20%... With such high financial support, the imperial government There is actually no imbalance in the fiscal revenue. Is this through the oppression of criminals and civilians, the colonial exploitation of the Fairy Nebula, or the national debt and inflation?"

General Lal shook his head: "The empire has not issued large-scale national debt in the past two years, nor has it planned to print large-scale money. In addition, there is indeed no fraud in the empire's finances."

"oh?"

"There is absolutely no problem with this information. We have some connections with the Imperial Treasury and the Central Bank of Tirello. Counselor Bliss is personally responsible for this. After getting along for a long time, you will understand that this is a very reliable comrade-in-arms. "

"oh."

"...As long as you have some contacts in the business and financial circles, you will know everything about this kind of thing." General Lal quickly squeezed out a simple and honest smile and added seriously, although it was a bit superfluous.

Yu Lian took a deep look at each other, 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 a heavy burden!