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In any case, the Roman contract has finally silenced the war in the Balkans. How countries will deal with the current situation in the future will be a matter of the future.

But anyway, with the end of the war, countries have time to clean up their squeezed business.

As the most profitable Italy this time, there is now time to rectify the many things that have been brought down by this war.

Of course, no matter what, it can't compare to the post-war summary meeting held this time.

In the palace today, a large number of senior military and political officials gathered together, and they were all members of this meeting.

Many senior military and political officials gathered, and everyone naturally took advantage of this opportunity to communicate with each other.

As the absolute main force of the military, all five generals of the army are here. In a corner of the venue, the five generals representing the army were talking in low voices, but judging from their expressions, the results of the discussions were not very good.

Because a piece of news was told to the other four by the Minister of War, it made them unhappy, including Admiral Cadorna, who made a lot of contributions this time.

Because His Excellency the Minister of War brought them bad news.

In view of the performance in this war, the government decided to expand the size of the Praetorian Guard, from the current three regiments of the Praetorian Guard to two divisions.

Although the Praetorian Guards are also under the jurisdiction of the Army, the relationship between the Army and the Praetorian Guards can be seen from the expressions of several generals. It is no wonder that they are happy.

"Is this news confirmed?"

As one of the most outstanding generals in the army in this war, as soon as Admiral Cadorna asked this sentence, he knew that he was asking a silly question.

Sure enough, before he could finish speaking, Admiral Saragate, who brought the news, glanced at him and said. "I got the news that this matter has basically been determined, and the reason is to reward the outstanding performance of the Army in this war."

The reason given by Admiral Saragat, even if everyone is thick-skinned, still feels dry. Expanding the Guard for this reason is simply murderous.

"Is there no way to change it?"

In the face of the War Minister's words, someone wanted to try to stop the expansion of the Praetorian Guard.

In the face of this sentence, Admiral Saragate asked rhetorically. "How does this block it, and what is the reason for blocking it?"

Admiral Saragate is right, this time the Army has no reason to stop it, and the performance of the Praetorian Guards on the battlefield this time is obvious to all. The capture of Crete and the capture of Thessaloniki with the Bulgarian army made a great contribution to the encirclement of the main Ottoman forces. It then landed on the Asia Minor peninsula and flanked the Ottoman attack on the Bulgarian army. All these things can be seen by the big guys. The Army has no excuse to say that the Guards played poorly.

As for the Marine Corps, although the performance is also not bad, but due to the suppression of the Navy, and did not get the opportunity to expand. (It can be seen clearly by those below Admiral Gorek, the Minister of the Navy, that the Italian Navy is still in a weak position. If the Marine Corps expands, the contradiction between the land and the sea will be stimulated, and the Navy is currently unable to expand its influence on land. Their main purpose is to expand the size of the fleet so that the Italian Navy can show its influence in the Mediterranean. If the Marine Corps is expanded, it will inevitably squeeze the speed of the fleet expansion.)

Just as several big men in the army were worried about the expansion of the Guards, they only heard an announcement. "Your Majesty, come here!"

As this sentence came, everyone immediately lined up to welcome Carlo according to their respective duties.

After a brief greeting to the people present, after everyone took their seats, as the Prime Minister stated the purpose of the meeting, the meeting was officially announced.

Since it is a post-war summary meeting, the first thing you need to know is the cost of the war. After all, everyone present wants to know how much it will cost.

"Your Majesty... Ladies and gentlemen, this war is now over. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Finance, the current war with the Ottomans has cost a total of 997 million lire. Among them, the cost of purchasing various weapons and ammunition materials is 537 million lire to support allies. The cost of the occupied area is 89 million lire, and the cost of construction, maintenance, security and procurement in the occupied area is 272 million lire. The total cost of injury, medical care and funerals is 221 million lire, and the total expenditure is 1.119 billion lire. And we are in this war Among them, a total of 122 million lire was confiscated from various Ottoman industries. After offsetting the war funds we have raised so far, there is still a balance of 203 million lire.”

With the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Tejera, everyone present knew that the war money had not been spent. For this, the people on the scene basically have some estimates, but the specific numbers are only now known.

After all, no one expected that the Ottomans performed so poorly in this war. Although there were ups and downs later, it was still very smooth.

You must know that before the war, the Italian military believed that to solve the Ottomans, Italy needed to pay 50,000 to 80,000 casualties. The actual situation is that Italy only paid more than 30,000 casualties, much lower than expected.

After the Minister of Finance finished speaking, the other ministers then announced the performance of their departments in this war. After the government had spoken, Admiral Gorek, Minister of the Navy, spoke first. "During this war, the navy organized more than 30 operations and dispatched 759 ships of various types. It sank 79 Ottoman warships and transport ships of various types, and successfully completed various mission indicators."

Due to the weak Ottoman navy avoiding the war, the Italian navy did not perform very well in this war. So after Admiral Golek finished speaking, he sat back and waited for the report of the next person.

Don't think about it, the army must be next. In the face of everyone's attention, Admiral Saragate, the Minister of War, naturally stood up. "In this war, the Army mobilized a total of 590,000 troops, of which 319,000 were dispatched in the battle against the Ottomans, and annihilated a total of 179,500 enemies who captured 179,500. In addition, our army also suffered 31,200 losses. ."

After saying what he should report, Admiral Saragate sat back like Admiral Gorek.

After everyone reported it, Carlo spoke. "The victory over the powerful Ottoman enemy this time is inseparable from the concerted efforts of all departments, as well as the **** battle of the army and navy. Victory in this war is the best reward for us. But the war is over, Then our focus will shift to the planning and construction of new territories.”

As Carlo led the topic to the new territory, everyone present naturally understood.

This did not wait for Carlo to continue to speak, and saw Prime Minister Depretis speak. "Your Majesty, our government has made detailed plans. I wonder if Your Majesty is interested in hearing about it."

"Prime Minister, please speak."

With Carlo's permission, Prime Minister DePretis spoke out about the government's plans.

"Given that a large amount of coal, as well as commercially exploitable lead, zinc, chromium and its original silver mines have been discovered in the Kosovo region in the large tracts of territory that our country has acquired, our government believes that in order to To develop these minerals, our country needs to build a heavy-duty railway from the port of Durres to Pristina. In addition, in view of the efficiency of railway transportation, we believe that it is also necessary to build various smelters in the region to allow the resources of the region to be obtained. Reasonable use..."

Following Prime Minister De Pretis' speech, the government's plans for the newly occupied territories were also revealed. At present, Italy will mainly invest in Albania and Kosovo. Among them, the chromium ore resources discovered in Albania surprised the explorers, and the reserves of nearly 30 million tons of chromium ore are extremely rare in Europe.

Therefore, the government will put 93% of its investment in these two places, and the remaining 7% of the leftovers will be divided between Libya and the South Dodecan Islands. Don't blame the Italian government for favoring one over the other, who makes Libya seem like a barren land at present. Apart from producing some agricultural products such as livestock and dates, the only decent thing to order is well salt, which adds up to less than 5 million lire's worth of exports. Can pay attention to it.

In addition to this development plan, the military also talked about plans for public security and security.

It wasn't until the end of the meeting that Carlo asked another question. "For those locals, how do you plan?"