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Because Datang used diplomatic means to purchase the entire Portuguese colonies on the west coast of Africa and several Spanish colonies in South America at an apparent price of millions, in fact, at a price of less than one million.

Behind these colonies, there are also large tracts of colonial interests.

Such a low price made the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stand out, so much so that the slogan that it is better to buy is shouted in the hall.

This makes the army and navy, especially the navy, feel malicious.

Although the army side is also very unhappy, there is still a western front to support it. Whether it is the Tatars or the future Ottomans, as well as the Safi dynasty and the Mughal dynasty, these are all meals of the army.

But for the navy, it's hard.

Originally, the navy was an unscrupulous enemy, and now the most thing it does is to **** the merchant fleet around the world, and by the way, the entire colony port and so on.

As a result, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did well and directly bought a large area of ​​the colony, which made the Navy embarrassed.

What's the use of keeping such a huge navy?

This is a question, and an extremely important one!

In the winter of Xuanping's thirty-six years, the military, especially the navy, was quite nervous, and even came up with some alien threat theory, all of which represented the military's concerns.

And these concerns are gradually becoming a reality.

In the imperial allocation meeting at the end of the 36th year of Xuanping, Xie Yiwei, Jia Wenbo, Chen Lifu and other cabinet civil servants demanded that military expenditures be reduced.

They demanded that the conventional military expenditure be reduced from 25% of Xuanping's 36 years to 20%.

Conventional military expenditure, that is, the maintenance cost of the army in peacetime, such as personnel salaries, training costs, the cost of equipment replacement, the construction of military bases, etc., also includes the cost of small-scale wars.

However, it generally does not include the temporary cost of launching a large-scale war.

For example, in the Third Western Expedition, Li Xuan had promised to pay 50 million to the army. This 50 million is not included in the regular military expenses, but will be paid extra.

The military's conventional military expenditure has been stable at about 25% of the budget for many years. Although it is more or less in some years, it is only one or two percentage points.

But now, the cabinet wants to continue to reduce the proportion of conventional military spending, trying to reduce it to 20%.

This caused severe dissatisfaction with the military.

However, the reason why the cabinet is so unified is that it has produced detailed data.

That is, they came to a conclusion after careful analysis of Datang's military strength and the military strength of other opponents around the world.

That is, Datang's military power is already seriously surplus!

Continuing to maintain such a large army is a waste of money, and it is time to disarmament.

And people are not talking nonsense, but they have directly produced a lot of evidence.

For example, the most important weapon: guns.

The combined rifles equipped by the army and navy have been ahead of the Tatars and other indigenous peoples by at least two generations.

Today, the Tatars and Ottomans are still using flintlock guns. As for the Mughal Dynasty and other indigenous peoples, they are still using arquebuses. As for other indigenous people who are not in the mainstream, they are still in the age of cold weapons.

But what weapons did the soldiers of the Tang Army and Navy use?

They used a combined rifle, which was a rear-loading rifle with an effective range of more than 400 meters and a rate of fire of more than 12 rounds per minute.

In terms of artillery, other natives are still using smoothbore guns, while the Tang Army and Navy have already used rear-loading rifled guns.

In guns and guns, Datang's army and navy almost occupied an absolute advantage.

Not to mention the naval battleships, not to mention those battleships that exceed 10,000 tons, not even those armored cruisers of 7,000 or 8,000 tons.

Even those cruisers with only two or three thousand tons or even frigates with more than one thousand tons can sweep the world.

But the point is, there are simply not so many enemies for your navy to fight, why are you building so many expensive large-tonnage warships?

If you want to maintain global sea power, it's as simple as building a few thousand-ton cheap frigates. You don't need a ten-ton battleship or a thousand-ton armored cruiser.

All in all, the cabinet believes that the military has a serious excess of strength, and there is absolutely no need to maintain a huge military investment every year, and then build a lot of expensive warships or artillery.

That is pure waste!

With this money, it is better to invest in construction of transportation, water conservancy and other aspects.

This directly blows up the Army and Navy.

The army jumped out first!

Deng Xide, the army general, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and the minister on duty in the imperial study, patted the table and sprayed furiously: "In order to control and defend the territory of the empire, our army has fought fierce indigenous people all over the world. And buried in the hands of barbarians~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and you, you actually want to cut the military expenditure of our army, you treacherous, even if this old man is trying his life, he will beheaded!"

"In the early years, you said that you would engage in construction, and let our army endure a little or two. Our army is not ignorant of the general situation and disregarding the overall situation, so we endured and maintained a million army with those tiny military expenditures every year. At the same time, fight for the interests of the Control and Guard Empire around the world!"

"For the sake of the overall situation, our army's million-strong iron-blooded men, the most elite talents of the contemporary empire, put down their guns and put on hoes for farming. In the past ten years, all the meals for our army's million soldiers have been eaten by us. I planted it myself and raised it!"

"But now, you guys are going to have to go even further!"

"I'll put it here. If anyone dares to lose a big man in our army, I'll take artillery into their heartland. I want to see if your bones are hard or my cannonballs are hard!"

Deng Xide's remarks directly detonated the atmosphere in the imperial study!

As the representative of the civil service, Xie Yiwei, the absolute supporter of disarmament, did not show any fear, and sneered: "Millions of troops, tell me when the time comes, what's the use of your army to maintain this million-strong army?"

"Come and tell me, that barbarian is worth your army to use a million troops!"

"Or else, all the new guns and guns that you have used for countless equipment are all fire sticks, and you need to pile up the number of people! In this case, I doubt whether you still need to continue to equip these advanced guns!"

When Deng Xide was sprayed like this by Xie Yiwei, his blood suddenly surged, and he stood up and shouted: "Bold thief, this old man beat you to death..."

Then, seeing him rushing up to discuss his fist, he greeted Xie Yiwei.