While the little people were fighting for their own destiny, Edel and Pullesan were inspecting the newly reorganized 10th Division.
As the area hardest hit by the army's conspiracy, the 10th Division had only one division commander participating in the operation that year. However, there were many officers who fell for corruption, which gave Major General Jacques, who took over as the division commander at the time, a headache. After four years of his
After rectification, coupled with Principal Prossi's strong support in the allocation of officers, we are finally doing something in a good way.
"Your Highness, please look, these are soldiers conducting shooting drills." Commander Yakocha pointed at the soldiers who were shooting and said to the Crown Prince and the Chief of General Staff.
Both of them looked in the direction of his finger. A platoon of soldiers were conducting shooting training such as standing, lying down, and moving.
These soldiers still had standard postures in their movements, but when they picked up the binoculars to check the results, they both shook their heads secretly. The results were worse than those of the previous divisions, which was also shown when they checked the results later. Division Commander Jacques saw this
When I handed over my transcript, I felt ashamed.
"I disappoint His Highness. I will definitely let you see the brand new Tenth Division next time."
"Commander Jacques, I know the situation of the 10th Division. I don't blame you. The training needs to be strengthened." Edel told him.
Chief of the General Staff Pleshan had told him before that it was not feasible for this year's reorganization costs to be exactly the same as in previous years. The reorganized army needs training to ensure combat effectiveness, plus the cost of purchasing weapons, so the final tenth reorganization
The training expenses of the 14th, 17th and 17th Divisions will be reduced this year. Eder has known this for a long time. The old Prime Minister had already said this when he helped the Prime Minister issue national bonds.
Now Romania's fiscal revenue has gradually increased from 252 million lei in 1905 to 451 million lei in 1909 (50 million lei higher than in history). Among them, oil exports and automobile manufacturing accounted for 41.3% of the increased tax revenue.
The absolute main force in Romania's fiscal revenue increase. Others are obtained from the increase in corporate tax, commercial tax, import and export duties and inheritance tax. The increase in traditional agricultural tax is not too small, but it is increased by 87.4 million lei in 1905.
to RON 96.14 million
However, in terms of expenditure, Romania is also growing rapidly, with 27 million lei repaying foreign debt every year. In infrastructure construction such as roads, docks, railway stations, dredged waterways, etc., it accounted for 61.57 million lei in 1909. This is
Due to the weak infrastructure in Romania, the expenditure on public security and medical security in 1909 was 47.6 million lei. In 1909, a total of 86.4 million lei was spent on education funds, the bulk of financial expenditures, and 35.9 million lei was spent on government personnel and office expenses.
Wanley.
The bulk of current financial expenditure is military expenditure, which is 97.1 million lei, of which the navy spends 10.75 million lei and the army spends 86.35 million lei. This can completely show Romania’s defense focus. The salary of personnel in the army is 1567
Ten thousand lei, training costs are 18.7 million lei, weapon and equipment procurement costs are 34.7 million lei, other equipment procurement costs are 10.78 million lei, and the remaining 6 million lei are daily living expenses.
In terms of specific training costs, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the ten divisions that were previously reorganized, the amount of training cannot be reduced. This year's training funds are only so much, and the funds for the reorganized three divisions can only be reduced.
It can be seen from this that military expenditures account for 21.5% of fiscal revenue, while Army expenditures account for 19.1%. This year’s weapons and equipment procurement expenses are accounted for by the Army, which accounts for 40%. It can be expected that with the completion of the Army’s reorganization this year, the government
I will breathe a sigh of relief, even if I have to repay more than 17 million lei to Germany every year, this is much better than now. At least the loss of weapons is not as large as the purchase, and 10 million lei every year is good.
Edel and Plesan also fully realized in the subsequent exercises that the lack of training funds still had a great impact on the 10th Division. This was especially prominent in the technical arms, among which the artillery shooting performance was the worst in the past years.
Yes, the machine gun shooting results were not much better. This made Edel and Pleshan secretly sad, and division commander Jacques almost shed tears when he saw it.
"General Yakcha, don't be discouraged if the results of this exercise are not satisfactory. I can give you one year and make up for it next year." Chief of General Staff Plesan said to the unlucky division commander.
"Thank you to the Chief of General Staff for your trust. I will definitely achieve excellent results next year and regain the face I lost today." Division Commander Yakocha quickly assured Puliesan.
"Well, I'll come and watch your drill next year. If it's still this bad, you'll be punished."
After hearing what Puleshan said, Commander Yakecha said in a panic, "Chief of General Staff, please rest assured. If the situation is still so bad next year, I will resign and leave."
"Then let's see how good your results are next year."
After Plesan finished speaking, he got into a car with Crown Prince Edel who was standing aside and left, leaving Yakocha secretly furious. It can be imagined that the officers and soldiers of the 10th Division must have had a difficult time this year.
Chief of Staff, what's wrong? Who told you that you can't get a good report card?
Sitting in the car, Plesan told the crown prince, "Your Highness, I'm so sorry for letting you watch a terrible drill."
"You don't have to be like this, Chief of General Staff. I know this is not your responsibility. The main reason is that the financial revenue is insufficient to support it, which leads to the current results." Edel comforted Plesan. The crown prince himself did not expect that the shortage of training funds would be so obvious.
As a result, the Prime Minister's complaints previously made the Crown Prince aware of the government's financial pain, and now the performance of the military has made him aware of the importance of training.
No wonder the armies of several major powers can show overwhelming advantages even when facing the armies of other countries with the same equipment. This is all a function of training. When the cost of a 75 artillery shell is more than ten lei, the training cost is also
It is directly related to combat effectiveness. Nowadays, weapons and equipment are becoming more and more advanced, and the requirements for personnel are getting higher and higher. If you want to reach the level of the great powers, considering the level of the people, it is impossible for the Romanian army to achieve it without a lot of training. (Russia
Except for the army, which is a quantitative entity.)
"Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness. I will pay attention to this situation in the future to avoid it happening again."
As for General Plesan, Eder is still very satisfied with his performance as Chief of General Staff. Although there are some minor problems, they are not serious. Who can live without some problems?
The two returned to Bucharest by car, and sure enough, the 14th and 17th divisions that followed had these problems. This made Edel couldn't help but sigh, there was really no money and nothing could be done.
(This chapter was very painful to write. I checked a lot of information. Fortunately, I have the annual inspection statistics form given by Wutong)
