In early December, the smoke of war still enveloped Milanco, but after a few days, the county town quickly returned to its former hustle and bustle. Looking at the crowds and bustle outside, the cabinet members who were worried about fiscal revenue were relieved.

The rich minerals of Dagalo were all the merchants who were greedy for profit came from thousands of miles away, ignoring the open threats of the Ghana royal family, which also restored the county town to prosperity. However, the original trade route for transporting minerals through Rhodes had been abolished and could only be transferred from Gerbis. However, this route of Gerbis is not a completely safe way, and the Kingdom of Gerbis also regarded the wealthy tigers of Milanko.

As for the originally busiest maritime trade route, Xizhen Port, controlled by the Lin family, is not a frozen port. Every month, there is April, and the sea surface is frozen and cannot be navigated in winter. You can only wait for the sea surface to thaw in the spring next year and then re-activate this maritime trade route. However, the escort issue at that time will be placed in front of the cabinet members.

Milanco County does not have a permanent navy, only a very weak, or can be said to be a maritime guard only, and the escort is usually carried out by the Royal Ghana Navy, but now it is against the Royal Ghana and stands completely on the hostile standpoint. The escort problem of this maritime trade line is immediately put on the table, which makes the cabinet members feel very troubled.

This trade route is full of pirates. Even though it was escorted by the Ghana Navy before, the cargo losses were still heavy, not to mention the situation without armed escort in the future. Although hundreds of thousands of silver coins were temporarily prepaid in military expenditure, allowing the Xizhen Port Maritime Guard to expand its military equipment, it would take at least several years to establish a navy. It is still without any foundation and no talent. How easy is it?

Not only did the escort problem, but the countless problems that emerged after the war made cabinet members extremely troubled. Fortunately, in this case, the Milanco cabinet was able to maintain efficient operation. Cabinet meetings composed of five ministers were held almost every afternoon and often closed late at night.

In addition to the five ministers, there were also five ministers with only the right to speak and four senior members of the Lin family who participated in the cabinet meeting. The decisions of the cabinet were voted by a minority obeying the majority. If a two-to-two situation was formed, the senior members with only the right to speak also voted by a minority obeying the majority. The result was as one vote, and the final result was approved by Lin Xiaoru.

In the name of democracy, the cabinet also passed the "Milanko Supreme Decision-making Act" which was later called the "Drugship Act". The bill stipulates that Lin Xiaoru has almost unrestricted supreme power, can decide to start a war, truce, sign various agreements, and convene the cabinet on his own. He can promulgate various laws and regulations without the need for a deputy cabinet signing.

The most exaggerated thing is that Lin Xiaoru can forcibly appoint and remove officials below the deputy minister without the cabinet's deputy signing. Even if he wants to appoint and remove officials at the level of deputy ministers, he only needs to notify the cabinet in advance, and there is no need for a deputy signing of the cabinet. Although the appointment and removal of ministers must be discussed at the cabinet meeting and approved by the cabinet's deputy signing, when Lin Xiaoru's proposal cannot be approved for three consecutive times, Lin Xiaoru can forcibly remove or even forcibly disband the cabinet.

This bill immediately caused an uproar at the cabinet meeting and attracted opposition from both inside and outside. Even Lin Heyi, who came from the Lin family, expressed strong dissatisfaction, but Ding Xiaobai, who supported the bill, accounted for three of the five votes in the cabinet, which was enough to pass any bill. After bargaining, the bill was finally passed by an unanimous vote and submitted to Lin Xiaoru himself for approval.

Through the period of time they worked together at the cabinet meeting, Ding Ying couldn't help but look at Bai Yunhang's abilities with admiration. She originally thought that Bai Yunhang was just a martial artist, but she was also very talented in government affairs. With him, the minister who did not care about the help of the original minister, the originally chaotic government affairs were immediately orderly. No wonder Lin Xiaohui praised him for being able to "be the prime minister when he entered, and be the commander when he left."

The Army Department was originally an empty stance, and was temporarily formed by the Eighteen Mixed Association Department. Military affairs were temporarily represented by Deputy Minister Zhang Ziyin. Zhang Ziyin was meticulous and lacked courage, and everything should be stopped. Therefore, there was a lot of military affairs backlog.

Only after Bai Yunhang recovers from injury can such complicated military affairs be resolved smoothly one by one. Bai Yunhang has always been decisive in his work, and Zhang Ziyin's cautious care, no matter the replenishment of the troops, the distribution of materials, the distribution of pensions... no matter what is hard to deal with, it will be solved easily when Bai Yunhang's hands.

However, such a stunning talent has fallen to the point where he almost died of cold and hunger. I guess there is an unknown past?

The primary issue discussed by the cabinet is military issues, and the primary issue of military issues lies in military strength. In the first Milanko offensive and defensive battle, the Lin family army had brilliant results, but it also suffered heavy losses. More than 900 people died of death and frozen to death, and the total number of casualties reached 3,000. Almost all troops were incomplete, and the troops with the most heavy losses were even labeled as empty.

Although the Lin family believes that they have strong combat power and are not inferior to any town, the regular army of the Lin family is only one alliance and one battalion. Although they have expanded their troops many times, they have only more than 8,000 people in total. In addition, the informal army has only more than 10,000 troops, not to mention that the previous trauma has not recovered.

The Ghana Empire had a total of 45 towns of regular troops, totaling 710,000 regular troops. Even if the Henry army was directly facing, it had the strength of three towns and one alliance, and the regular troops reached about 40,000, plus the informal troops were estimated to reach about 80,000.

Due to the huge gap in military strength, the proposal to hire several large mercenary groups was also proposed at the cabinet meeting, but this proposal was immediately strongly opposed by Bai Yunhang. The reason is very simple. Bai Yunhang, who was born in a regular army, looked down on the combat power and loyalty of the mercenaries at all.

With the strong financial resources of the Lin family, several large mercenary groups could be hired. At that time, the "Northern United Mercenary Group" had tens of thousands of mercenaries, but this also caused an unprecedented mercenary rebellion in the history of the Ghana Empire, causing too much damage to the Lin family.

Because this incident left an impression, the cabinet members who had experienced mercenary rebellion fully agreed with Bai Yunhang's point of view. Because no matter how much reward the mercenaries were, they were not as tempting as the mercenaries brought to the mercenaries by the wealth of the Lin family. Who can guarantee that the mercenaries will be too big, and even be jealous of money, and then a blow will be done.

Of course, Bai Yunhang also made a counter-suggestion, requiring the Army Department to grant the power to temporarily hire a small number of mercenaries on its own, but the total number is no more than 600 people and the single mercenary group does not exceed 150 people. This proposal was finally approved in the cabinet after repeated discussions.

Bai Yunhang, who was born in the regular army, focused his main energy on recruiting the reserves. After his efforts, he successfully recruited 4,000 reserve base soldiers. Most of these reserve base soldiers are veterans and receive a month of military training in spring and autumn every year. Therefore, as long as you do a little restorative training, you can trust the combat power.

Both Lin Xiaoru and the members of the cabinet meeting gave a very high evaluation. Bai Yunhang temporarily added 2,000 people to each unit, and added the officers and soldiers who returned to the team after recovering from injury. The 18th Mixed Association basically restored its original combat power, while the remaining 2,000 people Bai Yunhang formed three independent battalions, and the non-commissioned officers were trained by the non-commissioned officers, and the officers team transferred a large number of officers to establish a command organization.

Another focus issue in military issues is the issue of command power. The Army Department can only command one alliance and one battalion of regular troops. Therefore, Bai Yunhang strongly demanded at the cabinet meeting that the Army Department will uniformly command all troops in the county, that is, the guards that were not originally under the command of the Army Department, and informal troops such as the Mining Self-Defense Forces shall be commanded by the Army Department.

This proposal was immediately hit by Ding Xiao and the others. The security team belonged to Ding Ying's Political Affairs Office, and the Mining Self-Defense Force was under the command of Xiao Yuya's Finance Office. Both of them wanted to give up the fat piece of meat in their bowls.

Bai Yunhang made this proposal three times, and was rejected three times in the cabinet meeting, but Bai Yunhang was not angry and proposed this proposal again. In the end, the two sides finally reached a compromise, and the relationship and affiliation of the informal army remained unchanged, but they needed to accept guidance from the Army Department in military affairs.

In addition to military issues, the most discussed financial issues at the cabinet meetings were financial issues, and financial issues were simply military expenditure issues. The military budget of 50,000 gold coins in a normal year was greatly overspent after the great consumption of the First Milanko Battle.

Within January, the Finance Department's military expenditure had been 15,000 gold coins, and 5,000 gold coins were also given in advance. Based on this, Xiao Yuya proposed a New Year's military budget of 120,000 gold coins, which immediately received praise from the cabinet members.

The Ghana currency is in the centre system. One gold coin can be exchanged for hundreds of silver coins. Tens of thousands of gold coins are converted into 12 million silver coins. It is enough to support six regular towns for one year. It is expected to support the eighteen mixed cooperation to survive a difficult next year.

Unexpectedly, Bai Yunhang also proposed a military budget of 320,000 gold coins. This budget immediately made him an isolated person in the cabinet, and he was called "grabbing money" and "preparing to embezzle military funds". Even his deputy Zhang Ziyin strongly opposed submitting the budget to the cabinet after receiving the budget.

When Bai Yunhang proposed this proposal again and again at the cabinet meeting, and was again and again surrounded by cabinet members, Xiao Yuya called him "to buy the military spirit and ignore the Lin family's career", Ding Ying cursed that "this budget is purely to realize his personal ambitions". Even his white-washed military uniform became a proof of bribing the military spirit.

But Bai Yunhang is really too stubborn on this issue. Bai Yunhang can always maintain a smile in rounds of confrontations. His resilience is really the imagination of a member of the Yuanqiang cabinet.

After scolding him as "Milanko's No. 1 sinner" for the seventh time, Xiao Ding and the others heard him repeating the budget amendment in a low tone for seven consecutive days. Their resistance finally collapsed. After several secret negotiations, Bai Yunhang was forced to compromise.

The next day, the cabinet meeting successfully passed the military budget amendment proposed by Ding Ying, with a total budget of 140,000 gold coins, but Bai Yunhang reimbursed Xiao Yuya for overspending, and the actual reimbursement was reported after approval, and the use of military expenditure was supervised by the cabinet.

On the last day of the 1,784th year of the Divine Calendar, under the cold moonlight, Bai Yunhang walked back to his home in the south of the city, with his right hand in mind, smiled faintly at the female guards, and then gave him a cheap New Year gift. His chic demeanor made these young female guards feel good.

Bai Yunhang's home is a white villa. This villa was rewarded by Lin Xiaohui after quelling the mercenary rebellion. It was only a hundred steps away from the first military camp. Whenever there was something important, he could return to the army to command immediately. However, he usually stayed at the headquarters of the association all night and rarely went home. These pretty female guards were also optional characters according to his wishes.

However, the pink villa opposite the villa was Zhang Ziyin's room. This deputy was not interested in staying with him at the headquarters all night. However, when the eldest lady was alive, the chief of staff claimed that he was not very proficient in the art of attack and asked for the addition of female guards.

According to Bai Yunhang's understanding, four or five street hooligans will be beaten by Zhang Ziyin. Unless eight or nine brave men come, they can solve this capable woman who doesn't seem to have much lethality. He has seen Zhang Ziyin beat four hooligans who teased her to death.

According to military rules, the security work of the Vice-General and the Chief of Staff was the responsibility of the guards, but there was no way. Zhang Ziyin asked for a special female guard to be added for her on the grounds that she was a woman. But the eldest lady also asked the guards to be skilled in fighting, but she also wanted to be a beautiful young woman, and she could only rack her brains to beat up a female guard.

Zhang Ziyin is not bad to her and asked these female guards to help her take care of her.

I have long been accustomed to being alone, so there are no servants in all this villa. But sometimes I have to be busy with housework. Therefore, for the cheap labor that comes to the door, they let them do some housework for themselves for free in accordance with the principle of not using it for nothing...

But I regretted it the next month, and I can say I regret it very much... The rumors about myself with these beautiful female guards are circulating everywhere... The ugliest sounds like it is...

While thinking about the past, I ran into the room with brisk steps. After closing the door, a deep feeling of fatigue immediately surged into my heart, making people unable to help but feel weak, and they wanted to lie directly on the floor of the living room and sleep.

So tired! Bai Yunhang, who was later called "unparalleled in diligence" and is actually a very lazy person, but he just bears too many heavy responsibilities on his shoulders and has to fight to the death.

Besides, I have been staying up for three consecutive nights, and today I am so exhausted. During the day, I took the cabinet members to various camps to express condolences to the officers and soldiers. I don’t know how many times the same speeches and actions were repeated. At night, I held a banquet to thank all the officers and above the officers of the association. After all this, I was still busy at the association headquarters for two or three hours.

I walked up to the second floor, opened the bedroom door, and saw that my bed was still messy, but there was an inexplicable fragrance. I walked to the bed, closed my eyes, lifted the quilt, and fell down directly.

Unlike imagined, the place where he fell was not a soft cotton quilt, but a feeling of pressing against the soft skin of the girl's surname, and a feeling of ecstasy and bone-aberding feeling came. Bai Yunhang was shocked and held the sword in his left hand. When he looked back, he found that there was a bright and charming woman on his bed.

The woman had a blond hair, bright eyes and white teeth, and only had a piece of underwear, which showed her delicate figure. Just looking at her exposed smooth shoulders, cold skin, and beautiful legs, she also knew how charming this woman was. What's more, she could see her snow-white and plump breasts from Bai Yunhang.

The woman seemed to be awakened from her sleep and opened her sleepy eyes, but found that she was having the closest contact with a strange man. She couldn't help but feel shy. After struggling, she accumulated strength and rushed to Bai Yunhang.

Seeing that the punch was not strong, Bai Yunhang did not dare to be careless, so he leaned up and avoided it. The woman punched again, but could not hold back. She hit Bai Yunhang's chest together. The woman's resistance became directly thrown into his arms. Bai Yunhang's soft and gentle jade was in his arms, and he couldn't help but automatically react as a male surname. However, if Bai Yunhang was not exhausted and lost his due vigilance, this extremely erotic scene would not have happened at all.

Looking at the woman's jade face that is good for being angry and happy, it makes people feel pitiful and vaguely familiar.

After searching hard in my mind, Bai Yunhang got an unexpected answer, and said in shock: "Princess Catherine? How could you be in my room?"

Seeing Bai Yunhang's bold gaze, Catherine screamed: "Don't touch me!"

The high decibel voice played an unexpected role. Bai Yunhang, who was calm in front of thousands of troops, immediately raised his hands and shouted to surrender.

Catherine quickly pulled the quilt to cover the part that was directly exposed to the air, and carefully observed the strange man opposite.

Seeing his military uniform that was a little white, Catherine remembered who was in front of her: "Are you the Vice-President of Bai Yunhang?"

Bai Yunhang was quite proud of the princess being able to remember herself in a hurry and replied: "Sir Bai Yunhang! Milanko's attack on the thieves and the acting commander of the Guard Army."

Catherine's rapid breathing gradually subsided, and she returned to her former peace. She asked, "There is a rebellion from the Eighteen Mixed Association, right?"

Listening to Catherine's words, Bai Yunhang stood up and said slowly: "For the honor of one surname, he led his troops to rebel, and brought the soldiers and civilians of Milanco County into the war, causing countless creatures to suffer..."

"I can only go to hell like this! How can I touch a noble princess..."

If he had been back then, he would have been with Catherine Hu Tian and Emperor Hu immediately. But that incident hurt him so deeply that he was so sad that he gave up a great opportunity to cuckold his future mortal enemy, Commander Gatlin.

After saluting Katherine, Bai Yunhang was about to walk out of the room, leaving his firm voice in the wind: "But no matter what, Bai Yunhang will not regret it in this life!"

"Don't leave!" The high-decibel sound attack sounded again, forcing Bai Yunhang to stop, turned around and asked, "What's going on? Do you want me to find a female guard to accompany you?"

Why did Bai Yunhang have no immunity to Catherine's scream? This ranks seventh in the so-called "Top Ten Incredible Milano". However, it was a problem that made later historical researchers feel bad about their brains. Unfortunately, even the parties involved could not make a reasonable explanation for this problem.

In Bai Yunhang's vision, Catherine had completely lost her calmness. She held the quilt and hugged in a corner of the head of the bed, crying in a low voice. Her face was covered with rainy tears everywhere, like a wounded kitten, making people feel pity.

He shook his head helplessly, walked back to the bed and sat down, and said, "Tell me! What's going on?"

Two red clouds suddenly appeared on Catherine's face, and it took a long time to cry intermittently and say, "The traitor Ding Ying... No... Lord Ding Ying wants me... to ask me to be her wife with this room... Otherwise... tomorrow... tomorrow will be sent to the military camp..."

Bai Yunhang smiled bitterly and said gently: "Don't worry, leave everything to me! Have a good dream! Happy New Year!"

As he said that, he was about to get up and leave the room. Catherine was very moved and said, "Thank you, Vice President! You are a good person! If you are defeated, I will find a way to forgive your crimes!"

Listening to Catherine's words, Bai Yunhang said coldly as he walked, "So what?"

In the living room, I tidied up my military uniform in front of the mirror, opened the door, and the shrill cold wind blew towards me, making people completely awake.

He saluted the female guard on duty outside and asked them to invite Zhang Ziyin over. The female guard looked embarrassed and said that Zhang Ziyin should have fallen asleep.

As he was talking, the two beauties had slowly walked out of the villa opposite, Ding Ying and Zhang Ziyin.

Looking at Ding Yingying's smiling face, Bai Yunhang couldn't help but grit his teeth. It was because she was unable to return home during the New Year, but she had to treat her with a smile: "Hello, Lord Ding Ying!"

Ding Ying sneered, "The New Year gift is good, but our vice-president is a little timid?"

Bai Yunhang replied promiscuously: "I hope this is the first and last time!"

Ding Yingying said: "It turns out that Lord Yunhang is lustful but not lustful. Don't worry, you're scared. What you said to Catherine was scaring her!"

"Oh! The method of rewarding beauties to improve loyalty has been used in the whole continent! Please think of some new tricks by Lord Ding Ying!" Bai Yunhang pointed out Ding Ying's intention without any hesitation.

"Isn't it beautiful enough? I don't know what type of vice-president wants?"

"Enough, enough, Bai Yunhang has anything else to offer to the young lady besides cheap loyalty?"

The colleague's answer was expected, and Ding Ying replied: "What do you think about Princess Catherine?"

This is indeed a very tough problem. Katherine Romanov is the sixth daughter of Romanov VII and is not very favored, but he is a princess of a country after all. If Bai Yunhang successfully lives with Katherine tonight, it would not be a problem. After all, winning over a general who has the power of the entire county is much more valuable than this princess with only a false reputation.

But as Zhang Ziyin expected, the damn Bai Yunhang had not touched Catherine's finger, and using the same method to win over others, according to Zhang Ziyin, would cause Bai Yunhang to rebound fiercely.

"A princess of a country! She will give her a fair treatment!"

Dante Ying then heard an unexpected answer in her ear: "Then make full use of her value and help me with housework! Let Yuya deduct her salary from my military pay!"

Ding Ying couldn't help laughing and let the princess help with housework. Is this the so-called fair deal? Is it Bai Yunhang's heart-willingness to Catherine?

At this moment, Bai Yunhang looked into the distance and said, "The New Year is here! This will be a year of blood and fire!"

What I saw with my eyes was white, and the cold moonlight seemed even more deserted. Although laughter and joy came from afar, the church in the distance also rang the New Year bell, the desolation in his heart could not be eliminated.

Only then did Zhang Ziyin say, "Happy New Year in Yunhang! Everything goes well!"

Although her relationship with Bai Yunhang is extremely close, and is known as Zhang Mou Bai Duan, there are few words of personal relationships in daily life, and it is always a matter of official business. Sending a blessing to the old and welcome the new is a unique thing.

Bai Yunhang frowned and asked, "It's so late, where does the sound of horse hooves come from?"

When the two girls heard it carefully, there was indeed a rapid sound of horse hooves coming, and it was getting closer and closer. Soon a strong horse appeared in sight. The horse knight was very sharp-eyed and saw Bai Yunhang at a glance, shouting: "Vice-General, emergency military information!"
Chapter completed!