The Lord of the Worlds of Civilization

Luo Ji, who confirmed this information at the time, undoubtedly took a deep breath.

I think the effect of this elixir is too buggy.

But then he thought about it again, and found that this was normal, because the difficulty of obtaining this elixir medicine was also very high.

If you don’t believe me, let me tell you.

Leaving aside other rare medicinal materials, the core medicinal material for making elven elixir is the sap of the ancient elven tree. herbs.

Under this premise, the formula of the spirit medicine is also a gold-level item. If you can't open it, you can't get the complete formula. Whether you can get the formula is another huge question of character.

If you want to obtain these two things, it is already surprisingly difficult to take them out individually, but if you want to mix the spirit medicine, you must have both, which can only be said to be too difficult.

But once it is achieved, the rewards will be extremely generous, and it will directly allow you to obtain an extremely important life-saving medicine in a stable manner.

The elven academician and the dean of the medical school who received the formula retreated with excitement on their faces. They couldn't wait to rush back to the medical school to develop the elven elixir.

Luo Ji, who had finished ordering these two things, returned to the Palace of Political Affairs in a leisurely manner, and began to process the documents sent in the afternoon with Lu Yang and the other three.

The current time is 37:[-] in the afternoon. As long as the four of them share the remaining documents, Lu Yang and the others will definitely be able to get off work on time.

This is indeed the case. There are still 13 minutes before the end of get off work, and all the documents they should review have already been reviewed.

In the next few days, as Henry Boll gradually adapted, his work efficiency also gradually improved. Now the work at the Palace of Parliament can basically be completed in advance.

Under this premise, Luo Ji, Lu Yang, and Ye Hua subconsciously took away more documents that were delivered every day, so as to give Henry Ball some time to take over and understand what needs to be done in the secretary's office. Everything was carried out in perfect order.

Maintaining this rhythm, the time blinks to the last day of autumn.

On this day, according to the practice of his Myriad Worlds civilization, there will be a court meeting.

Walking into the Hall of Supreme Harmony, under the throne, the left and right sides are already full of ministers.

During this period, the resentful eyes of the old Minister of Finance fell directly on him.

Luo Jichun pretended not to notice this, and immediately announced the start of the court meeting after he quickly sat on the throne.

Every time at this time, it was the most noisy time in his Hall of Supreme Harmony. The ministers in suits and leather shoes below all blushed and had thick necks from the noise, and sometimes even stroked their sleeves.

And this court meeting is even more so.

Because today's Ten Thousand Realms civilization has just ended a war, the current internal financial funds of the civilization basically have to be used for some post-war work and the settlement of new populations and new cities.

In other words, the quarterly funds that the following departments can obtain suddenly become less, which directly leads to this court meeting, which is far more intense than in previous years!

As for Luo Ji's applications from various departments, he also pondered and pondered over and over again. He only had such a small amount of financial funds in his hand, so he couldn't be careless.

Not to mention that these departments want to apply for funding, even he still has a lot of projects in his hands that have not been arranged.

In this way, at the court meeting, they had been arguing for a long time before they came to a conclusion.

Afterwards, Luo Ji would conclude with a few words, that the morning meeting was almost done.

Just when he was about to ask someone to say, "If there is something to do, we will leave the court if there is nothing to do", the old minister of the Ministry of Finance suddenly walked out in two steps.

"Your Majesty! The old minister has something to play!"

"Please tell me, old minister."

"Your Majesty, our Myriad Worlds civilization has just experienced a great war, and our finances are already tight, and the large number of cities that have been newly taken over are now in a state of ruin and need to allocate a lot of funds."

Having said that, the old minister paused slightly, and after taking a breath, he spoke again...

"Under this premise, a large number of warships were manufactured during the previous war, and now the regular maintenance costs alone have cost an astronomical sum. Here, the old minister made a request to decommission a batch of warships, so as to relieve our tens of thousands of dollars. The financial burden of world civilization!"

Chapter 1950, Late Autumn Court Meeting ([-])

Hearing the old minister's words, all the ministers and officials below were shocked, and subconsciously glanced at Guo Jia and the minister of the military and political department standing there.

Needless to say, the position of Chief of Staff Guo Jiaguo in their Myriad Realms civilization, the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs is also a behemoth among the departments.

From the past to the present, military funding has only increased, not decreased.

Of course, this time the old minister did not mean to cut military funding, but to retire warships.

It is no small matter that this matter fell into the ears of the ministers below. Doesn't it make it clear that it is going to hurt the military?

All of a sudden, the people below were also full of thoughts. Even the old head of the construction engineering department, who had been huddled in the corner and looked at the ceiling, was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to pull his old classmate down.

During this period, Luo Ji, who was sitting on the throne, after a short moment of stupefaction, had a meaningful expression on his face, and then looked at Guo Jia with a smile and asked...

"Guo Jia, what do you think of this matter?"

Guo Jia, whose name was called by Luo Ji, stepped forward in two steps, and then respectfully said...

"Your Majesty, the maintenance of warships does require a lot of money, and now our Myriad Worlds civilization is financially strained, the old minister's statement is not unreasonable."

Speaking of this, Guo Jia took a light breath, and then said that "but".

"However, military strength is the foundation of a country's foothold. Retiring too many warships rashly will obviously weaken the maritime combat power of our Myriad Realms civilization. If foreign enemies invade in the future, it will be difficult to guarantee territorial security!"

Listening to Guo Jia's remarks, Luo Ji laughed from the beginning to the end.

Unlike the group of ministers below, Luo Ji wasn't worried at all that Guo Jia would fight the old minister.

For so many years, he knew these two people too well.

To put it bluntly, they are just standing on their own positions and expressing their own ideas, and they don't mean to be tit-for-tat.

There is nothing wrong with Guo Jia's words, but the old minister's words are also very reasonable.

In fact, after the war, in order to relieve the pressure on the country's finances, it is very normal to properly decommission some weapons and equipment, or even reduce the size of the army.

Today, the Civilized Navy of Myriad Worlds has three fleets, namely the South China Sea Fleet, the West Sea Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet.

There are a total of 69 battleships in service alone!In addition, there are a large number of light cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, transport supply ships, landing ships and other ships, with a total of 340 battleships!

Imagine, after the end of the war, to maintain three fleets of this size, how much money would he have to burn every year?

The old minister said before that the maintenance cost alone is an astronomical figure, and that is really not an exaggeration at all.

"What Guo Jia and the old minister said makes sense. The navy's warships are still being researched and developed by various departments. I believe that it will not take long to develop new and more advanced warships. Warships with backward technology will be used in future battles. It is difficult to come in handy, and proper elimination is also necessary."

Hearing this, Guo Jia below already understood.

Sure enough, Luo Ji said rather bluntly...

"How about this, on the naval fleet side, let's decommission [-] warships first, reduce financial pressure, and then look at the situation, what does the old minister think?"

This matter has to be done step by step. With the development of science and technology in the future, the replacement of warships is inevitable, but you have not yet landed your new warships, so you have to dismantle all the old warships?This approach was obviously too stupid, so Luo Ji planned to decommission fifty ships first.

"Your Majesty is wise, the old minister has no objection!"

"My minister has no objection either."

"Well, that's it. As for how to deal with the decommissioned warship..."

How to dispose of decommissioned warships is a difficult problem for many modern countries.

Many countries will choose to use those decommissioned warships as targets for maritime military training, and just sink them like this.

This makes many people who don't know the situation very strange.

Why do you want to do this?How expensive is a battleship!After retiring, do you want to sink it directly?That would be too prodigal!

Even if it is dismantled and sold for scrap iron, it is more cost-effective than sinking it directly, and at least it can pay back some money.

But in fact, this is not the case at all.

It is not so easy to completely disassemble a battleship.

To completely disassemble a battleship, you have to spend a lot of time. It is definitely not something that can be done in ten days and half a month. Even for some large warships, it is not uncommon for you to dismantle them for several years.

Afterwards, even if you succeed in dismantling it, do you really think you can sell it for a lot of money after skimming off the unsalable items and the remaining pile of scrap iron?

There are real cases that prove that in the process of dismantling a warship, the labor costs and equipment costs have already exceeded that figure, and this is not counting the time cost.

In other words, if you want to dismantle a warship, not only will you not be able to make money, but you will have to pay back money.

This is the root cause.

In addition, there are actually other reasons. For example, during the dismantling process, it is easy to expose some information of one's own warship to the enemy and so on.

Of course, Luo Ji basically didn't have such concerns, but he didn't intend to dismantle all those battleships, that would be too bad.

According to his idea, it is to dismantle half of the warship. After dismantling all the weapons and important equipment on the battleship, some armor plates are removed to reduce the load, and the rest will be reserved for transformation and converted into transport ships or civilian ships. They are the official merchant ships of Myriad Realms Civilization, transporting goods and resources, and operating maritime trade, are they not more useful than directly sinking them?

In addition, because of Ye Qingxuan's existence, Luo Ji could actually choose to sell the eliminated warships to those rookies of the silver rank, and he could also make a lot of money.

In this way, one thing is quickly finalized.

And the list of the first batch of [-] warships to be decommissioned was quickly sent to Luo Ji.

What is surprising is that, in addition to 41 small and medium-sized warships, there are actually nine battleships in the decommissioned list!

Undoubtedly, this is naturally what Luo Ji meant.

Otherwise, the military will definitely take out some small boats and decommission them first, and the battleships that are the backbone of the fleet will never be able to get their turn!

"Your Majesty, to decommission some of the battleships to ease the financial pressure, I can still understand it, but to decommission nine battleships directly, please forgive Guo Jia for not being able to understand!"

In the Hall of Political Affairs, Guo Jia, who was full of doubts, asked Luo Ji directly.

Regarding this, Luo Ji smiled and then slowly opened his mouth...

"Guo Jia, the era of big ships and cannons is over."

Guo Jia frowned slightly when he heard this, and his expression seemed to be thoughtful.

As for Luo Ji, who stood up, he continued unhurriedly...

"In the previous large-scale naval battle on the fourth continent, the air force of our Myriad Worlds Civilization was almost unable to fight back against the hundreds of steel warships from the opposite Europa camp."

"So, Your Majesty plans to train the Air Force next?"

"Half right, next, we're going to build an aircraft carrier!"

Chapter 1951, Unexpected Connection

As we all know, with the development of air power, the emergence of aircraft carriers can be said to have completely announced the end of the era of large ships and cannons. Since then, battleships have basically lost their dominance over the ocean.

In the naval battle of the next era, its value is less than one-tenth of an aircraft carrier, and the chance of being able to play is also small.

As a player, Luo Ji naturally had to prepare early.

In the current situation, it is necessary to quickly retire some battleships, save some money, free up funds, and then start research and development of aircraft carriers.

Although the air force of his Myriad Realms Civilization basically takes off vertically at present, even if it is on a landing ship, it can be dispatched as usual, but if it wants to engage in sea fighters and bombers, then the aircraft carrier is indispensable.

It is the technological crystallization of an entire civilization, and it holds a strategic position in the naval battles of the next era.

To put it bluntly, in modern society, if you want to talk about the strength of naval warfare in various countries, then the easiest way to compare is which country has more aircraft carriers, which country is better, it is as simple and rude as that.

For their majesty's foresight, Guo Jia undoubtedly had great trust.

After all, after so many years, their majesty never said they missed it.

While talking, Luo Ji also told Guo Jia about the aircraft carrier.

To be honest, just from the simple words of their Majesty, Guo Jia can already feel that he is a big guy.

Of course, we will have to wait until the official start of research and development.

A great battle had just ended, no matter how anxious Luo Ji was, it was impossible for him to directly invest in such a huge project.

Because if he does this, the finance and economy of his Myriad Realms civilization will really collapse.

Wait a few years and take a breath before talking.

Guo Jia, who understood the situation, did not stay in the political hall for too long. After reporting some things to Luo Ji, he left quickly. Obviously, their military still had to be busy.

Time continues to flow, after the end of autumn, the season will soon enter winter, and the weather is getting colder and colder.

On this day, Luo Ji solemnly changed into his black double-breasted military overcoat, military cap, and high black military boots, and left the palace in a car.

The car drove all the way and finally stopped outside their cemetery in Mingjing City.

After getting out of the car, the howling cold winter wind, mixed with some snowflakes, blew on Luo Ji's face, making his already solemn expression even more serious.

What will be held here today is a military funeral.

After the war, the arduous work of confirming identities made this batch of ashes of soldiers who died in Mingjing City whose household registration was not sent back until today.

After confirming this matter from Guo Jia, Luo Ji, as the supreme ruler of the Myriad Worlds Civilization, also personally attended the funeral to see off these soldiers who had died for their country.