"Impossible, absolutely impossible! How is this kind of thing possible!?"

"Alice, what's wrong?"

"Reply...Report to Your Majesty, this mutated elf dragon egg is absorbing all the elemental powers on the magic core at the same time! This is completely unreasonable!"

It can be said that what happened in front of him at this time has completely subverted her previous attempts.

"Elements are also mutually exclusive. How can a single individual absorb so many elements at the same time?"

However, the facts were right in front of her, and she couldn't do it even if she couldn't.

It seems that she has studied these things.

However, for Xia Qi, it is a good thing.

Since this mutated elf dragon egg can absorb the power of all attributes, he does not need to worry about the insufficient number of magic cores of some attributes.

After all, after the elemental power in the magic core is exhausted, it will take a lot of time to recover naturally, so the quantity is also very important.

The next thing was easy to deal with. Xia Qi directly found a side hall in the palace and placed the mutated elf dragon egg.

Then he found the spell master of the elf clan and carved the spell to speed up the recovery of elemental power on the ground of the palace. At the same time, he also made up his mind and placed a total of thirty-six around the dragon egg.

A first-level magic core!

If one first-level magic core of each attribute can only be said to be gorgeous, then at this time, thirty-six first-level magic cores of each attribute are piled up together, and the scene is quite spectacular.

After settling the mutated elf dragon egg, Alice hurriedly left the palace, intending to go back and read the classics of the grassland elf clan to see if she could find any clues.

The monster that can absorb the power of all attribute elements, let alone see it, she has never even heard of it before.

Afterwards, Xia Qi also returned to the service hall and began to process the documents sent in the afternoon with Du Ruhui and the other two.

With a few minutes left before get off work, they rarely finished all the approved documents.

After a few days, as Alber gradually adapted, his work efficiency gradually improved. Now the work in the Office of the Political Affairs Hall can basically be done in advance.

In this case, Xia Qi, Du Ruhui and Zhang Liang subconsciously took away more documents sent every day, so as to give Alber some time to take over and learn about what needs to be done in the secretary's office.

It is carried out in an orderly manner.

Maintaining this rhythm, time will reach the last day of autumn in the blink of an eye.

On this day, according to Daxia's convention, a court meeting will be held.

Walking into the Hall of Political Affairs, under the throne, the left and right sides were filled with ministers.

At any court meeting, the hall of government will become noisy. The gentle ministers below in suits and ties were blushing, and some even wanted to roll up their sleeves and fight.

Fortunately, they were worried that Xia Qi was still there, so they didn't start.

The same is true for this court meeting.

Because Daxia has just ended a war, the current financial funds within the civilization have basically been spent on some post-war work and settle new populations and new cities.

In other words, the quarterly funds that the following departments can obtain suddenly become less, which directly leads to the fact that this time, the Chaohuiyuan is more intense than in previous years!

Xia Qi also considered the application of various departments again and again.

The financial funds in hand are just that little, it’s not okay to be cautious.

Not to mention that these departments want to apply for funds, even he still has a lot of projects that he has not arranged.

In this way, it took a long time to make a comeback to the court meeting. Then Xia Qi summarized a few words, and this time it was almost done.

Just as he was about to end this court meeting, the old minister of the Ministry of Finance suddenly stood out from the crowd.

"Your Majesty! The old minister has something to report!"

"Please say the old minister."

"Your Majesty, now our Daxia has just experienced a big war, and the financial funds are already tight, and the large number of newly acquired cities are now in a time when everything is in trouble, and a large amount of funds need to be allocated."

"The large number of warships built during the previous wars now have to consume astronomical figures just for regular maintenance. Here, the old minister requested to retire a batch of warships to reduce the financial burden of our Daxia.

!”

Hearing the old minister's words, the ministers and officials below were shocked and subconsciously glanced at the Minister of Military Affairs standing there.

The Ministry of Military Affairs can be said to be a giant among a number of departments.

From the past to the present, the military's funds have only increased, but not decreased.

Of course, this time the old minister did not mean to cut military funds, but to retire the warships.

This matter is very small when it falls into the ears of the ministers below. It is clearly a matter of being a foul in the military.

For a moment, everyone below whispered to each other, and even the old minister of the Construction Engineering Department who had been huddling in the corner and looked at the ceiling, was shocked.

During this period, Xia Qi, who was sitting on the throne, had a meaning flashed in his eyes after a brief moment of daze.

"Zhang Liang, what do you think?"

Zhang Liang, who was named by Xia Qi, stepped forward two steps forward and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I think the old minister's statement is not unreasonable. The maintenance of the warship does require a lot of money. Now, Daxia's finances

More nervous..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Liang paused for a moment, and then said again: "However, military power is the foundation of a country. Retiring too many warships rashly will directly lead to the weakening of our maritime combat power at Daxia. If foreign enemies come in the future

If you commit crimes, it is difficult to guarantee territorial security!”

Listening to Zhang Liang's words, Xia Qi did not react at all from beginning to end. Unlike the group of ministers below, he was not worried that Zhang Liang would fight with the old minister at all.

After so many years of monarch and ministers, he knew these two people very well. They fought just to express their own ideas from their respective positions, and they did not mean to confront each other.

There is no problem with Zhang Liang's words, but the old minister's words are also very reasonable.

In fact, after the war, in order to alleviate the national financial pressure, it is very normal to properly retire some weapons and equipment and even reduce the size of the army.

Today, the Daxia Navy has three fleets, namely the South China Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet and the Xiahai Fleet. There are only 71 battleships in service!

In addition, there are a large number of light cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, transportation supply ships, landing ships and other ships, with a total of 359 warships!

After the war ended, he had to maintain three fleets of such a size, and he had to burn a large amount of his financial funds every year.

The old minister’s statement before is not an exaggeration at all.

"What both of you say makes sense. All departments of the Navy's warships are still continuing to develop. I believe that it will not take long to develop a more advanced new type of warship. Warships with backward technology will be difficult to come in handy in future battles.

Appropriate elimination is also necessary.”

Hearing this, Zhang Liang below suddenly realized his heart.

Sure enough, Xia Qiru said: "In this way, the Navy Fleet will first retire fifty warships to relieve financial pressure, and then look at the situation. What do the old minister think?"

This matter has to be done step by step. In the future, technological development and warship renewal is inevitable. However, before the new warships are settled, they will dismantle all the old warships. I am afraid they are not fools. Therefore, Xia Qi plans to retire first.

Let’s talk about fifty ships.

"Your Majesty is wise, the old minister has no objection!"

"I have no objection, either."

"Okay, that's it. As for how the retired warships deal with this issue..."

How to deal with retired warships is a difficult problem for many modern countries. Many countries will choose to use retired warships as targets for maritime military training and directly sink.

This makes many people who don’t understand the situation very surprised. The cost of a warship is so expensive, so why is it sunk directly? This is too much of a waste of money.

Even if it is dismantled and sold scrap iron, it is more cost-effective than sinking directly. It can be more rewarding.

But in fact, this is not the case at all. It is not that easy for a warship to be completely dismantled.

It takes time and even years to completely dismantle a warship.

After that, even if the dismantling is successful, the remaining pile of scrap iron will not be sold for much money except for the things that cannot be sold.

Even if the previous costs are not counted, the labor and equipment costs spent in dismantling the warships have long exceeded that number.

In other words, if you want to dismantle a warship, you not only won’t make money, but you also have to pay for it.

In addition, there are other reasons, such as during the disassembly, some information about one's own warships can be easily exposed to the enemy, etc.

Of course, Xia Qi had no such concern, but he did not intend to dismantle all the warships, as that would be too much of a loss.

According to his idea, he should first dismantle half of the weapons and important equipment on the warship, then remove some armor plates and reduce the load. The rest will be left for transformation and transformed into a transport ship or a civilian ship.

It forms the official merchant ships of Daxia, transports cargo resources, and carries out maritime trade.

In this way, this matter was finalized.

The first batch of fifty warships retired were quickly sent to Xia Qi. What is surprising is that in addition to forty-one small and medium-sized warships, there are also a lot of them in this list of retired warships.

Nine battleships!

And this is exactly what Xia Qi means.

Otherwise, the military would definitely take some small boats out to retire first, and it would not be the turn of the battleship as the backbone of the fleet.

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He breathed fresh air in his mouth, and his chest trembled.
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