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"I need to make some economic explanations for this problem," Shangwen said.

"At present, a large part of the government's expenditure comes from military expenditure. Although we have worked hard to carry out two large-scale reductions in military expenditure and personnel reduction, for now, Qin's military expenditure is still very large," Shang Wen said.

"According to our previous data analysis, our military expenditure accounts for nearly half of the total financial expenditure. If you add the royal family's expenditure," Shang Wen looked for a pair of glasses and put it on and said here. He deliberately paused and pushed push glasses

"It's going to be more than 60.00% and that's a terrible expense. These expenses have caused an extreme deterioration of the entire financial situation," Shang Wen said.

"Then why do we still have so much money for us to fight?" Wang Jian asked

"Huh" Shangwen let out a heavy breath and said

"It is the role of government bonds. Without these bonds, I am afraid we will not be able to continue to support them," Shang Wen said.

"Currently, the government has issued a large amount of bonds. The amount of bonds issued is more than twice that of our fiscal expenditure, and this number is still growing rapidly. Just as we speak, Shang Wen looked at his clock and said.

"Our government already owes about [-] and a half notes," Shang Wen said.

"I admit that Qin's current military expenditure is not too much compared to the country's security system, but Qin's current financial situation cannot support such a large defense expenditure. Qin needs to readjust to help the economic situation continue to improve. The development of the situation,” Shang Wen said

"This" everyone is looking at the attitude of the military. They need to reach a consensus with government representatives at this meeting. The result of this consensus is that the military will formally submit a plan report on reducing military expenditures by the military staff. It is independent and the king of Qin has the final veto power Shang Wen needs to persuade the military first before reaching further opinions

"Huh la la" said that the military representatives here feel that there is some truth. They know that the current situation is that the military will have to reach a compromise with the government representatives.

According to the political system of the Qin State, the prime minister is the head of all officials in the Qin State, and Shang Wen has certain powers. Part of the interference in the military is mainly in financial expenditures, but the army is still an independent system because it involves national security and the army is only loyal to the king of Qin, not the prime minister.

"If this situation continues to develop, then Qin State will be heavily in debt, and if these debts cannot be cleared in time, then Qin State's credit rating will decline. What is the consequence of the credit rating decline? Qin State's national prestige will decline. Qin will not be able to get the funds we most want through bonds. Without funds, we will not be able to win any wars. This is a new situation. This situation I need you soldiers to understand and understand our current situation. We need common cooperation and understanding to overcome the difficulties of Qin State," Shang Wen said

"What the prime minister said makes sense, judging from the military expenditure sent by the prime minister, we do need to make some concessions," said a staff officer on the side

And Wang Jian, the military representative sitting at the front, didn't say anything at this time. Although the military has held several special military meetings to discuss how to reduce military expenditures, the military has been arguing for a long time and has not come up with a plan. Unable to get Qin Fang to come up with a feasible plan and provide it to Shang Wen

"I want to ask a question" Wang Jian asked at this time

"Please explain," Shang Wen said directly

"How much is our fiscal revenue and our fiscal revenue mainly depends on taxes, but our current taxes are maintained at a low level, so can we provide a tax threshold so that the problem can be solved?" Wang Jian said directly

Although Shang Wen knows that the military is likely to mention such a plan, because such a plan has not been mentioned but someone has mentioned it, but Shang Wen believes that it should not be adopted.

"This issue is much broader and I need to make some special statements," Shangwen said.

"The current rapid economic development of Qin State mainly depends on Qin State's low tax rate. If the tax rate is raised, Qin State's economy will be weakened a lot. This is like we are raising chickens to lay eggs. We used to have only one chicken," Shang Wen said.

And the people around are holding back their laughter at this time

"Look at our prime minister who has learned how to raise chickens," an officer sneered, and Wang Jian, who was not far away, turned his head to look at the officer.

"We need to understand a lot of things, why can such an unmotivated officer become a staff officer of the staff department?" Wang Jian said to the people beside him, obviously Wang Jian was very dissatisfied with such words

"In the beginning we only had one chicken that could only lay one egg a day, but we need a lot of eggs to do a lot of things, what should we do?" Shang Wen said

"We need to make cakes, egg custard, and some scrambled eggs, but chickens can only lay one egg a day. We can't meet the current demand, so we need to temporarily restrain our current ** and make a long-term investment," Shang Wen continued. And the people around are listening to Shangwen telling this relatively easy-to-understand story

"We need the chicken that lays an egg to hatch a chick, and the chick grows into another chicken. One chicken hatches an egg and the other chicken provides us with various food," Shang Wen said.

"I think everyone should understand what I mean by this time," Shangwen said

"We need a lot of eggs but chickens only lay one egg a day. We need a lot of chickens that can lay eggs to meet our growing demand. If we kill the chickens at this time, we will have nothing," Shang Wen said.

"Similarly, if we raise the tax rate today, then tomorrow we will have no enterprises that pay taxes," said Shangwen.

"Our ultimate goal is to get an egg, not a chicken. If we kill the chicken, we will have nothing," Shangwen said.

"En" Wang Jian nodded in approval

"Wow!" All the people present began to applaud. They expressed their admiration for Shangwen's easy-to-understand explanation.

"The prime minister is right, but I think our point of view is also correct to a certain extent." Wang Jian said to the army chief of staff at the side.

"We can't cut too much, and we give up too many problems, which will lead to more and more demands from the government. We can't make too many concessions for our own consideration." At this time, Wang Jian clearly expressed his opinion. view

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Although Shang Wen tried his best to explain his point of view, the meeting between the government and the military still failed to reach a unified opinion

"During this meeting between the government and the military, there are still great differences between the two sides. Although the military has not clearly stated that it will cut military expenditures, the military has already made a preliminary compromise in terms of the performance at the meeting and the requirements that the military will cut. Military expenditures," Xianyang Times reported

"Although this meeting did not reach a major agreement, the government and the military will conduct preliminary discussions on military expenditures in accordance with King Qin's request, and then submit a report from the minister to King Qin for signing, but judging from the results of the current meeting, there are still serious differences between the two sides. But judging from the content of the meeting, the military put pressure on the government, and the prime minister needs to carry out some reforms according to the requirements given by the military.” The economic column of "Express" gave a simple prediction

"According to the description given to us by an expert who participated in the meeting, we can draw such a conclusion that the military has taken countermeasures and required the government to take their measures before they can adjust their military spending. This time, the military spending cut plan of different scale is very disgusting," the Economic Analysis Daily reported.

The people of Xianyang have already learned a little about the conflict between the military and the government from newspaper reports, but judging from the attitude of the people in Xianyang, Xianyang people are more supportive of the military. They think that the current national defense awareness of Qin is not too strong and Defense spending needs to increase further

"Our state of Qin now has a vast territory. We have increased a lot of places. Many newly occupied places still have a lot of barbarians. They pose a serious threat to our occupation and control of new places, such as this riot in the north." Army News "One article wrote

"Our national territory has expanded a lot and our enemies are also increasing. Our new neighbors are very unfriendly to us." In fact, Qin State itself is not friendly enough to its neighbors. Their understanding is only based on the knowledge of the trophies. They never took the initiative to launch a peaceful diplomatic strategy to deal with those new neighbors. Although Shang Wen had such an idea, the soldiers always rushed to the forefront of the diplomatic personnel, and they always took the initiative to attack. The envoys sent by the other party did not accept it at all.

There is such a story that can be reflected. It is said that the soldiers of the Qin State ambushed a team of troops on their own initiative, and the peace envoys officially sent by that team of troops are the peace envoys of a certain country in the Western Regions. They did not take the initiative to participate in the Allied Forces of the Western Regions. They wanted to make good friends with Qin by virtue of this, but the soldiers of Qin gave full play to their imagination. They organized a company and took the initiative to attack it. They captured a lot of prisoners and treasures. Those troops took the initiative. Putting down their weapons, they hoped to use this friendly way to gain the favor of Qin soldiers, but they obviously didn't understand what the Qin people thought. The Qin people captured a lot of prisoners of war and got a lot of treasures. These treasures are gifts for their relatives. However, the soldiers of Qin State divided up these treasures and locked these diplomats into slave camps. In the end, no one knows who knows what measures those slave traders will take. Such legends show that the development of Qin State's diplomacy is very It's bad, especially Qin's diplomatic situation with the North and the Western Regions. There are no diplomats here to carry out the diplomacy here, which prevents Qin from using cheap diplomacy to offset high military expenses. Qin needs to mobilize quite a lot of power to maintain The current security situation Shang Wen doesn't know anything about the diplomatic situation here and has no intention of thinking about it because the country is full of dreams of continued expansion.

Cheap peace diplomacy cannot be carried out, which directly leads Qin to choose high military expenses, and Qin will now have to face the issue of military expenses and development.

"We need more troops to keep our homeland safe, our cattle and sheep need to be protected, we need some armed men to guard those slaves who are not loyal to us, and we need to send quite a lot of men to defend our borders and those Huns Humans, barbarians, and elusive mountain people may appear in our place at any time, and we need to be vigilant against them." "Army News" wrote that they wantonly exaggerated to describe these things. They hope that the public can understand that their current situation is not safe. they need security at the cost of not being able to cut military spending

"Protest against the government's reduction of military expenditure" Some people spontaneously organized outside Prime Minister Shang Wen's residence to protest the government's excessive reduction of military expenditure

"We want to be safe" was written on a huge banner. Although there were not many people protesting, the Marine Corps still sent a battalion of troops to strengthen the defense here. The protesting crowd was about five people away from here. About [-] paces away, but the voice of protest can still be heard Shangwen holding a telescope to check the slogan on it, he is very helpless about it

"Security Qin State needs a safer place. The safest place in Qin State is at the border and the most dangerous place is here," Shang Wen said.

"If there is no economic support from the government, the army will collapse no matter how strong it is. We will have to make a lot of sacrifices to maintain an army. These sacrifices mean that we have to make some reforms that are difficult to make up our minds," Shang Wen said to Meng Yi.

"However, the current problem is that the military expenditure cannot be reduced a lot, and the king's intention seems to be the same. At present, Qin has expanded many places, and these places need troops to defend some places. The defense of some places is completely handed over to the local militia to deal with the regular army. The strength is so weak that we cannot rule out the reserve team, which is very bad for us," Meng Yi said to Shang Wen

"That means we can't further reduce military spending," Shangwen said.

"Yes" Meng Yi replied

"If the military expenditure cannot be further reduced, then our financial situation is still not optimistic," Shangwen said.

"So we need to find a way, my opinion is" Meng Yi said at this time

"We might as well think of a way on the issue of taxation. We can't blindly cut expenses. We need to increase expenses and increase some income," Meng Yi said at this time

"This..." Shang Wen is obviously hesitant. He is opposed to increasing taxes. He has always believed that reducing tax rates can strengthen Qin's economic strength and further stimulate Qin's rapid development.

"Sooner or later we have to do this and we just adjust the tax rate to impose high taxes on some industries and lower taxes on others so that we can optimize the profit ratio between those industries. The overall market is very chaotic right now." Meng Yi said at this time

"The construction cost and operating cost of iron and steel and light industry textiles are the same in terms of taxation, so the threshold of the industry will be lowered. In terms of profitability, many people will choose to invest in the textile industry instead of the steel industry because the input cost of the steel industry will be high, while the textile industry. The industry will be very low, which will lead to fierce competition in the textile industry, while the steel industry has developed fairly stable but slow growth. Although they are optimistic about the stock and financial markets, the growth rate is not very fast,” said Meng Yi.