Chapter 1778 The group fight of the court officials
But although Xie Yiwei was a civil servant, he was not a powerless civil servant. Speaking of age, he was several years younger than Deng Xide.
Although Deng Xide has been in the army for many years, his health has not been very good in recent years. Although he has a loud voice in his sixties, his fighting ability...
As soon as he rushed forward, he was blocked by Xie Yiwei.
When the guards on duty outside saw this, they all quickly ran up to break up the fight. However, looking at the expressions of these guards, they seemed to be very familiar with the situation in front of them. Three times and two times divided by two was enough to eliminate the two court officials who were still cursing.
The important ministers pulled away.
But as soon as he pulled away, he saw that Jia Wenbo and the navy men were also fighting.
Even Chen Lifu was not immune and got into a fight with a walking minister of the army, because he also advocated disarmament and then spent military expenditures on water conservancy and agricultural construction, especially since he had always wanted to build a Nanyang grain base and prepare to immigrate.
Tens of millions of people have gone there, and it can't be done without money.
In addition, Chen Lifu was already annoying. Taking advantage of the chaos, an army general and minister took the opportunity to kick him several times. Then Chen Lifu, not to be outdone, pounced on him and started a fight.
This extremely chaotic scene gave the guards on duty a huge headache. They could only control the more than thirty ministers on duty and walking ministers inside.
Otherwise, even though they are a group of old arms and legs with limited lethality, one of them might cause casualties.
After receiving the notification, Ji Yunze, the head of the Attendant Office of the Hanlin Academy, was helpless. He could only send more manpower to isolate the civil and military parties first.
But I didn't expect that just after the civil and military ministers were separated, the army and navy themselves started fighting again...
Then Chen Lifu and Jia Wenbo, who were on the civil service side, also started arguing and getting physical.
Seeing such a scene, even Ji Yunze, who had extensive experience in handling such matters, did not dare to act rashly.
Today, this matter has caused a bit of a big fuss, more so than in previous years.
Although there were quarrels and even fights at budget allocation meetings in previous years, there were still not many fights like today.
In the thirty years since the empire was founded, there have probably only been a dozen times that can be compared with today's scene...
Well, actually more than ten times is quite a few.
Anyway, I have to have a group fight every one and a half years.
Many people are used to it.
Didn't you see the many middle and low-level officials in the outer hall of the imperial study? You just pretended you didn't see them. Didn't you hear them all busy doing their own things?
The group fights in the Imperial Study Room were a regular drama. Besides, with the guards in the Attendant's Room present, there were no real casualties.
The fight in the imperial study room soon reached Li Xuan's ears, and Li Xuan had no special reaction.
First he asked: "How is the situation?"
The first secretary replied: "Nothing unexpected. It's just that Mr. Xie was besieged. He couldn't beat the four fists with two fists. He was hit around the corner of his left eye. I heard that he got a big black eye!"
"Well, let's pass it on. As an important official of the imperial court, it is unbecoming to participate in a fight. Anyone who participates in the fight will be fined for one year..." As he said this, Li Xuan felt a little inappropriate, as if he had just given away all the imperial officials last year.
The study ministers fined him for two years.
Then at the beginning of the year, several people were fined and fined again. If they were fined for another year, it is estimated that these important officials of the court would have been serving as officials for nothing and they would not be able to get a cent of salary.
So I temporarily changed my mind: "Forget it, I'll punish you every year and don't change it every year. I guess they won't feel sad either."
"No more salary, let's work overtime instead!"
The accompanying secretary didn’t know why: “Working overtime?”
Li Xuan said: "Don't there have to be people on duty in the royal study? In the past, there were only one or two people on duty, and they would be on duty only once every four or five days. Now let's change it and let them all be on duty for a period of time!"
Being on duty in the Royal Study Room is actually a hard job, because the Royal Study Room is in operation 24 hours a day.
All kinds of documents and telegrams continuously sent from all over the empire will be collected in the imperial study. Some of the ordinary matters can wait until the day to deal with them, but some urgent matters have to be handled by the ministers on duty and the ministers on duty overnight.
That's why there are only one or two ministers on duty in the imperial study room at a time, and they rotate every five days or so, otherwise they won't be able to hold on.
But now, Li Xuan puts them all on duty directly, which is not a light punishment.
There was another fight in the royal study. Many people heard about it, but most people didn't find it surprising.
There is always a fight during the budget allocation meeting every year, and it is normal to have a fight this year.
People are more concerned about the details of the fight.
For example, in recent years, there has been a version of the army that has been improved by the army itself. It is said that their army boss Deng Xide showed his power and defeated the navy with his left hand and the cabinet with his right hand. He defeated them all and the price surged.
Army majesty.
As for the actual situation, outsiders have no idea.
After all, this is something that happened at the center of the empire's power, and it involves the face of important officials in the court, but few people have the courage to leak it casually.
But no matter how noisy or noisy, time will still pass, and the empire's carriage is still moving forward.
This fiscal expenditure budget will always be determined. After a series of battles, the fiscal expenditure budget for the 37th year of the Emperor Xuanping of the Tang Dynasty was determined.
In this budget competition, Chen Lifu had the last laugh!
He successfully obtained sufficient budgets for many projects he presided over, including water conservancy facility construction, agricultural support, Nanyang granary construction and many other projects.
The army and navy became victims, and the military expenditure ratio was reduced to 21%.
In this regard, the army and navy, especially the army, were very resentful.
The Army is already very short of money. The military expenditure of tens of millions a year seemed like a lot, but it is very difficult to maintain an army of one million.
This million-strong army includes a large force with more than 300,000 infantry and artillery and nearly 100,000 cavalry.
These troops, totaling more than 400,000, are all fully equipped and ready for war, and every day costs a lot of money.
The remaining more than 500,000 people are local garrison troops in various places.
In fact, based solely on the military expenditure of the Army itself, it is already difficult to support such a huge army of one million people. This is why the Army has been relying on itself for so many years.
Change the salaries of soldiers to subsidies.
From the recruitment system to a new military service system that combines compulsory soldiers and volunteers.
Then to farming, vegetables, pigs, and chickens as a side business, the army also worked hard to support itself.
Otherwise, with the Army’s annual military expenditure of tens of millions, it would not even be enough for wages...
This was hard enough to begin with, but now the proportion of military spending has dropped even further.
Even taking into account economic growth and higher fiscal revenue, the army's regular military expenditures for the 27th year of Xuanping will still be less than last year.
It's just that this distribution ratio was discussed and approved by all the ministers in the imperial study. The Army was dissatisfied and had nothing to do. In the end, the Army could only shout the slogan of self-reliance.
In addition to saving money internally, we also need to open up new sources of funds!
For this reason, the Army plans to launch the Third Indian Campaign in advance. There is quite a lot of gold in those Indian princes and temples, and the Army plans to make a fortune as a response.
As for the disarmament that the cabinet hopes to achieve, the army of one million people will be reduced to about 800,000.
That's impossible!
Rather starve to death than disarmament, this is the attitude of the Army!