Chapter 124 military spending

At this time, inside the Royal Palace of Madrid, Alfonso was sitting right above the throne, and the ministers of various departments stood on the lower sides in turn, discussing the financial budget for this year.

As Alfonso’s first year, Spain’s revenue has recovered slightly.

But the maintenance of railways, the construction of schools, the construction of several shipyards and the construction of a large steel forging plant, have greatly increased the financial pressure.

If it weren’t for the railway and the investment of such a large number of capitalists, it is not certain whether Spain’s finances can sustain the past.

The sale of military weapons can be said to solve the urgent needs of the Spaniards.

In addition to the pensions for the soldiers, the fiscal revenue and expenditure are basically the same, and it is almost necessary to issue national debts to survive.

The next few years were a time when the Spanish government’s revenue continued to increase, and the local basic industry began to slowly recover.

Textiles, paper making, glass, leather, furniture, these light industries that require low capital and no technical content are also slowly recovering from the end of the war.

Because of the initial influence of Miss Coco, Encounter, and other brands, the textile industry is one of the industries with the fastest revival momentum, with wool that is abundant in Spain and cheap cotton in the Americas.

Greatly promoted the development of the textile industry.

Compulsory education has promoted the development of the paper industry, and a large number of paper textbooks have been put on the desk, which has led to a large number of factories attached to education.

And the most rapidly developing heavy industry, steel plants and shipyards, because of the direct investment and support of the state, coupled with a large number of railway steel demand.

Steel mills quickly turned from losses to profits, while in Spain, with the huge number of coal and iron mines that have been discovered, the acreage in the mountainous country is insufficient.

But this also means that the territory has a huge amount of mineral resources.

The ancient Granada region in southern Spain is exceptionally rich in coal and steel reserves, and the Basque region in the north is also exceptionally rich in iron ore.

The unique mineral resources conditions allow Spain to effectively maintain self-sufficiency in the development of heavy industry of this scale today.

The two most important things in the steam period were nothing more than coal and iron.

In Spain today, there is no need to worry about the lack of raw materials for coal and iron for the time being.

Even oil, another lifeline of the future industry, Spain has also acquired an isolated land in Kuwait overseas, and its huge reserves can fully support the development of Spain.

Even its neighbor Morocco has oil shale reserves of more than 100 billion tons, containing 6 billion tons of crude oil.

The military budget of 1877 is completely incomparable with that of 1876. The military expenditure of only 6.72 million to match the tower made the ministers of the army and navy who were present blushed.

As the two generals who made the greatest contribution to Alfonso’s accession to the throne, Arsenio was named Minister of the Army, and Castro was achieved for the Navy.

After removing about one-third of the maintenance and operation costs, the remaining 4.4 million competition towers were the military expenses that the army could use in 1877.

A Castile-class fake is as high as 1.6 million competition towers.

No way, if you want to fully recover and develop the domestic economy, military spending is obviously not as important as you think.

After all, Spain has an expected war. Except for the indigenous people of Morocco, there is no possibility of it happening in a short time.

“Your Majesty, the navy now has only four Castile-class ships, and we have to protect the mainland, Cuba, and the Philippines, three regions with huge distances.”

“And we lack frigates, and the Navy can’t fight a war just by relying on warships.”

“The Navy is preparing to build a new Castile-class, and about 20,000 tons of frigates, a total of 34,000 tons of naval warships.”

Castro did not take into account the eyes of his old boss at all, and he asked for a budget of more than three million, which is equivalent to leaving a million to the army.

Before Alfonso could answer, Arsenio, the Minister of War, stood up and stared at Castro with a livid face.

Then turn around:

“Your Majesty, the Army had to be expanded in 1877. Today the Army has only 140,000 active troops, of which two cavalry divisions are sent to watch over the Moroccans.”

“And it is foreseeable that there will be a war between our country and Moroccans soon, and it is absolutely impossible for a 120,000-strong army to take care of colonial and foreign wars at the same time.”

The Spanish army’s elite line, the popularity of machine guns and rapid-fire artillery in the army is extremely high, which also causes huge maintenance costs.

For Mark Qin and Miss 75, the ammunition is similar to the rain. One-third of the Spanish military expenditure is the maintenance cost. In addition to the maintenance of the battleship, the army’s ammunition consumption is also a bottomless pit.

“I think the Spanish Army needs to expand to at least 200,000 people in the next year to be able to deal with various threats!”

Italy has 240,000 people, Britain has 250,000 people, and the Spanish army has only 140,000 people. It is no wonder that the Minister of War is so aggressive.

France, which was just defeated by the Germans next door, also had a standing army of 500,000 people, but the Spanish army of 140,000 people was somewhat stretched.

“…Palacides, can the Treasury squeeze out some budget to meet their needs?”

Some helpless Alfonso did not answer the questions of the two ministers, but asked Palaciides, the Minister of Finance.

“Your Majesty, the Ministry of Finance really can’t take out that much money. If according to their two ideas, at least 2 million military budget needs to be increased, which is not a small amount!”

Palacides spread his hands, directly expressing his powerlessness.

“Would you like to suspend the construction of a Castile-class? General Castro, I think it is completely possible to design it now, and start the construction after the new warship drawings come out?”

Alfonso tentatively asked Castro, the new battleship is just a joke, and the Castile class was made by Alfonso’s golden finger.

Without 4.5 years, it is difficult for these warship designers to design new models.

Once the 1.6 million Castile class is freed, the expansion of the army is not a problem.

“Your Majesty, the navy is really urgent. We originally had a fixed number of 5 Castile-class ships~www.readmtl.com~ and one of them was sold to the French before it even started service.”

There were indeed 5 ships, and one of them, together with a huge fleet, was packaged directly to the French, and the Admiralty did not see a penny of the money sold.

All of them are invested in compulsory education. For Castro, it is like the child has been sold and the money has not been received…

“The army must also expand!”

Before Alfonso even looked at Arsenio, the voice came.

“Ugh.”

Alfonso shook his head helplessly, both sides were talking about just need, and rejecting either side would have an impact on one side.

Alfonso, who always likes to do what he says, is bent over by money for the first time.

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