Red Blood Dragon Knight

President Brad closed the door of the office after receiving the help letter sent back from the front line by the expeditionary army. He was writing and drawing on his desk alone, not knowing what he had done. When Brad walked out of the office, with a mysterious smile on his face, he told his staff to inform the Senate and House of Representatives to meet that he had very important things to discuss with the members of the Parliament.

At 2:30 in the afternoon, members of the Senate and House of Representatives arrived at the conference hall on time.

More than a thousand parliamentarians from the Semitic Republic gathered together.

Taking advantage of the gaps in the meeting that have not yet started, the lawmakers are talking a lot, asking each other, what whimsical ideas did President Brad have?

What's the matter of finding everyone here in such a hurry?

Now, isn't this old thing struggling with General Merlot's mischief?

As a result, as soon as I inquired, no one knew. No one heard the wind beforehand, not even the subordinates in President Brad’s faction.

Although the congressmen can't figure it out, it is certain that Brad has done such a good job of secrecy, it must be a big deal.

While the parliamentarians waited patiently, President Brad walked into the conference hall half an hour later. He did not say hello to the parliamentarians, but walked directly to the center of the front row.

When the members saw his appearance, they stopped talking.

The lobby suddenly became quiet, and only occasionally a soft cough sounded.

President Brad glanced at the congressmen at the meeting, couldn't help but move the corners of his mouth, smiled slightly, and said loudly: "Everyone knows that we have encountered difficulties in the military operations of Thunder Flash."

Members of the House of Representatives suddenly started talking, and there was a low buzzing sound in the whole hall—it really was the matter.

Having said that, in the current affairs of the Republican Political Axe, there is nothing more important than the expedition to Thunder Flash.

"Under the leadership of General Berendi and General Merlot, we have achieved a gratifying and huge victory. It can even be said that it is a glorious victory that has never been seen in our two thousand years of history..."

The councillors couldn't help but talk again.

The old thing Brad is too shameless. Although it praises the victory, the meaning behind it is self-evident, except that it is not clearly stated that the current glorious victory is under his wise leadership. , This was obtained.

Among the following members, many people are very disdainful: If I had a beautiful daughter, I could win this kind of victory.

However, the current President Brad has secured his seat, holding the two major weapons of the State Administration of Taxation and the newspaper. Among the Semis, he is really Quan Yanxun, and no one dared to provoke face to face.

"But..." Brad coughed slightly, changed his tone, and continued: "But our military strength is severely insufficient, which restricts our progress.

The expeditionary force has fallen into the quagmire of thunderbolt people. If it is not resolved as soon as possible, the expedition that we spent huge military expenditure on will most likely fail. "

President Brad has said that the situation is so serious that many congressmen can't help but be moved. If you think about it carefully, it is indeed very possible.

If the status quo is not changed, the expeditionary force may be forced to retreat and return without success, and the republican axe becomes a big joke.

The public opinion that had just been inspired by the victory of the people of the flash will soon be lost, and the flash of flash will once again become the object of ridicule by the flash of lightning.

More importantly, if a few more careerists jump out to confuse them and hold them accountable for those congressmen who demanded to start the war, maybe they will be elected the next time they are elected.

This situation must not happen anyway!

Seeing that everyone fell silent again, President Brad continued: "So, this battle must go on until we win!"

Hearing his decisive words, the members of the council were all excited at the moment and stood up and applauded vigorously.

Some people even yelled loudly: "Good words, good words."

"Long live President Brad!"

"Long live the gleam!"

"..."

Just now, what they worry most is that President Brad’s subsequent war will be unfavorable and cancel this expedition. President Brad has good reasons to do so. He was forced to initiate this expedition.

As the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Republic, he also has this right. Fortunately, President Brad's firm statement relieved everyone.

This battle looked like a bad battle, and he jumped out to wipe everyone's buttocks at this time. It was really no better.

"The expeditionary force needs reinforcements. I have ordered all localities to squeeze out the troops as much as possible and rush to the battlefield." President Bullard said aloud his efforts just now, following the conversation, saying: "But this is far from enough. It is conservatively estimated that we still need 200,000 to 300,000 troops equipped with artillery, and the war plan will be extended to one year."

Parker and Hawkes in the audience nodded slightly. The root cause of the expeditionary force's current predicament is still insufficient strength.

In fact, with only tens of thousands of elites and hundreds of thousands of auxiliary troops, it is simply unrealistic and wishful thinking that they want to defeat the Thunderbolt with a population of 30 million and vast land.

Probably only the most optimistic...only the craziest general would think so.

Parker and Hawkes are therefore unwilling to lead the army. If Brad gives them half a million people, and half of them are equipped with machine guns and cannons, they will be happy to do this job.

General Belendi should have seen it too, so he went passively all the way.

Even General Merlot knew this, but in order to gain fame and merit, they bit their heads.

President Brad looked at the congressmen who were discussing in the audience, suddenly smiled secretly, and said loudly: "For the new expansion plan, for the victory of this war, I ask the Parliament to agree to pass a new fiscal bill. To raise military expenses."

There was a humming in the hall.

The congressmen could no longer hold back and talk loudly with the people beside them: It turns out that this is Brad's purpose this time.

This old boy hides deep enough!

President Brad paid no attention to the clamors of the lawmakers, and raised his voice: "In this new fiscal bill, Zheng Axe will first issue bonds worth five million gold coins, and raise at least two hundred and fifty by the end of the year. Expenditures to support the operations of the expeditionary army.

Then, starting from January next year, the agricultural tax will be increased by 5%, the commercial tax will be increased by 8%, and the basic consumption tax will be increased by 3%.

It is estimated that in the next three years, the tax revenue of 10 million gold coins can be increased for the political axe. "

The congressmen are noisier.

Many people stood up, waved their fists, and yelled at President Brad on the stage. If you were more careful, you could see the smear stars spraying out of their mouths.

"This is impossible!"

"Our average tax burden has reached 26%, and it can't be increased."

"The common people's tax burden pain index is No. 1 in the world, plus how can people live."

"This is, we firmly oppose it."

"..."

President Brad sat steadily behind the podium, watching the councillors screaming and flaring like cats with their tails stepped on, and couldn't help but laugh secretly.

He shrugged and said loudly: "A tax increase is a last resort. It is to raise military expenses for the war. After the war is won, the tax rate will be adjusted back to the original level."

However, his words were drowned in the angry opposition from the lawmakers.

President Brad shrugged and said: "I will raise this taxation bill to a vote of both houses."

Then he stood up, and walked out dashingly amidst the protests of the full hall.

Up to this moment, the members of the Caribbean faction have not understood what happened and why the president suddenly asked for a tax increase.

Even if the military budget is insufficient, you can communicate with them beforehand, and everyone can work together to ensure the smooth passage of the tax increase bill.

How can this matter be handled by President Brad alone from start to finish? This is unreasonable!

President Brad left a tax increase bill to Parliament, flung his sleeves, and returned to his presidential palace with ease.

Put on a symphony disc, pour a glass of old red wine, pour it on the oval office chair, draw and pat in the air with one hand, and close your eyes to enjoy the exciting and high-pitched music.

This makes the president's staff very puzzled. The president does not seem to worry that the tax increase bill he worked out behind closed doors will be rejected.

Sure enough, two hours later, the House of Representatives rejected the tax increase bill submitted by President Brad on the grounds that it was immature.

Hearing that the tax increase plan was rejected, President Brad was not surprised at all. He just waved his hand to let Dorennie who came to report the letter go out.

After closing the door, President Brad raised his glass to greet him and said with a smile, "Cheers."

Then he drank it, threw down his glass, and murmured: "These guys, they usually say beautiful, and they all pee immediately. They are really not patriotic at all."

The legislators of the Republican political axe are no longer the impoverished fugitives when Madolins had just run away, nor were they the little people in the Caribbean city, the little nobles, little merchants, and little intellectuals who had no ambitions.

They are the congressmen of the Republican government, and they are privileged.

In the new round of shuffling, wealth naturally flows into their hands.

Whether it's buying a house, opening a shop, restaurant, or hotel, or building a workshop from a bank loan, engaging in an engineering team to undertake political axe projects, or bridging businessmen with a 20% agency fee...

With power, money will naturally come to the door.

In other words, members of Congress are now rich people, with personal assets ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Even millions.

President Brad's tax increase plan was first added to them, just stepping on their tails, and naturally they were swiftly rejected.

Even if there are some people who really worry about the country and the people, they feel that it is okay to add a little tax in order to win the war, but they are also submerged in a negative vote.

Subsequently, the newspaper changed its tone of "victory, victory and victory," and publicly reported on the current difficulties of the expeditionary force and the current financial difficulties of Zhengxue.

The sudden change made the people very surprised. Only then did they realize that the situation of the battle was not as optimistic as they thought, and the Republican government was short of money to continue fighting.

President Brad's new tax increase plan did not get the support of the people. The war-damaged life was just a little bit better, and taxes were suddenly increased. As a result, prices would have to skyrocket.

Therefore, compared with wages, inflation, white rice in the rice bowl, new clothes for wives, lollipops for children, etc., it seems that Lei Shan has nothing to do with the unification two years later...

Some newspapers publicly called on all the Netherworld citizens to donate to the war. The reporter optimistically calculated a figure. As long as 60 million Netherworld people donate five silver coins per person, there will be a full 3 million gold coins, which can fully support the battlefield. Hit it down.

The first respondent was the famous girl army in Lingshan, the Pink Panther.

The girls of noble origin not only donated their own donations, but also actively set an example.

In this cold weather, they wore beautiful clothes with their long thighs and large white chest muscles exposed, carrying donation boxes, and took to the streets to collect donations from the people.

In this winter, it has become a beautiful scenery on the streets of Akadrin.

President Brad even planned to go to the streets himself, to promote a fundraiser-this kind of prestige campaign, Brad is very keen recently.

But Lord Lorraine asked Fiona to say something: It's almost all right, it's too hilarious to be seen carefully.

This dismissed President Brad's propaganda plan.

As the dilemma of the expeditionary force was exposed, the battle situation seemed to take a turn for the worse. In the propaganda of the newspaper, the expeditionary force could fail at any time.

The topic of troop withdrawal or defeat has become popular among political axe and civilians.

Just when the Lingshiren felt uneasy and hesitating, General Belendi in front of him sent back a news that shocked everyone, and the Thunderman requested peace talks.

After receiving the news, Brad Zhengxue, who was in internal and external troubles, hesitated very much. They held the government affairs meeting for several days and were forced to accept the Thunder Flash people's request for peace talks.

As a result, everyone was speechless.

After continuous reports in the newspaper, everyone knew that President Brad was opposed to sending troops. However, because a small group of congressmen and soldiers with ulterior motives strongly demanded, they were forced to take care of the overall situation, and then announced the dispatch of troops.

Later, the progress of the matter was no different from the original judgment of the far-sighted President.

But despite this, the president did not gloat for misfortune, but did his best for the soldiers of the expeditionary army.

Almost every day, the lights in the president's office are on until late at night. Every day, he is thinking about the changes in the world's political landscape and guiding the frontline soldiers in the battle against Thunder Flash. Concerned about whether they can eat and wear warm clothes...

Later, for the sake of the soldiers on the front line and the future of the Semitic, he painstakingly and exhausted himself and proposed a tax increase bill.

But the result was rejected by that group of lawmakers.

Political axe has no money, and no more troops fill the hole in the thunder flash.

Although the President is wise and wise, with a torch-eyed look, and put forward many good suggestions, he has been repeatedly restrained by those lawmakers. Facing the current situation, he is powerless.

The expeditionary force is now deep in the quagmire, unable to move a single step in the flash of lightning. Peace talks and a decent end to this war seem to be the best choice right now.

Even the people of the black band who want to oppose the most can't come up with past reasons to stop the peace talks, unless they can get millions of military expenses and hundreds of thousands of reinforcements to let Melo continue to fight.

At this time, some smart people finally woke up, they were played by Brad, and the old boy had made up his mind to negotiate.

Taxation bills and fundraising are all tricks to deceive them. Brad played a big game of mahjong and disguised himself as a victim.

But even if they knew it, they couldn't say anything. They vetoed the tax bill personally. From that moment on, they had fallen into the pit dug by Brad.

Everyone couldn't help but sighed: This old guy was not stupid before, when did he become smarter, can it be said that being an official can really train people?

In mid-November, amidst the falling snow, the negotiating team from Thunder Flash traveled a long distance and finally arrived in Akadrin.

This time it was a large group of thirty people.

At the same time, the Expeditionary Army and the Thunder temporarily ceased fire.

The expeditionary army stayed in place, waiting for orders. Because he was worried that General Melo would make small moves in the dark to start the war again, he was also transferred back from the front by President Brad to participate in negotiations with the Thundersand as the deputy leader of the negotiation team.

The negotiations between the two sides started with a strong smell of gunpowder~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Seeing Merlot appearing on the negotiating table, the Thunderbolt immediately quit. Dozens of people glared at Merlot at the same time, and the aura was very strong. .

But Melo didn't care, as if he hadn't seen it, with an arrogant attitude.

The furious Thunder flashes first demanded that Merlot be punished for war crimes. They also did their homework before coming. They knew what the republican political axe was popular now, and directly shouted the supreme slogan for the protection of human rights.

However, he was unceremoniously rejected by the Flash, and the first day of negotiations broke up after a big fight.

The two sides quarreled directly for the question of whether Merlot was eligible to participate in the negotiation.

Melo understood it, and Brad pulled him back, not to make him scare the Thunderbolt, but to let him pull the hatred and let the Thunderbolt spit wildly.

Three days later, the Thunderbolt had acquiesced to Merlot's participation, and then quarreled for two more days about whether to negotiate with the Thunderbolt as the premise.

The negotiation process was quite intense and exciting. The negotiators on both sides suffered from exhaustion and had to rest.

Brad intends to allow as many people as possible to participate in this negotiation. The ministers in the political axe and the party leaders in the parliament took turns to experience the fun of bargaining with the Thunderbolt.

But it also led to unrestrained delays in the negotiation process. The two sides just reached an agreement on a trivial issue yesterday. After a change of boss, when people were upset, they were overthrown.

The result can only be a group of people exhausted, but dumbfounding.

Everyone began to doubt the intentions of President Brad. This old boy tried his best to pull everyone to the negotiating table with the Thunderbolt, but he used means to deliberately delay the negotiation process. What is the intention? (To be continued.)