Chapter 4167

And the three major empires want to balance the accounts, meaning that they don't want this money, just treat it as the budget for the Interstellar Council, and the principal and interest don't need to be repaid, just treat it as if this matter never happened.

As for why this happens, it must be mentioned that although the Interstellar Council was built by the three major empires, the three major empires are not a unified political entity, and even the relationship between the Skrull Empire and the Kree Empire definitely refers to England and France, just changing the Hundred Years' War to the Millennium War. These two are deadly enemies, but they look down on the Shi'ar Empire at the same time.

The Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire don't want to fight anymore and need to rest and recuperate; while the Shi'ar Empire doesn't want to be targeted by these two guys, so the three of them agreed to build a "United Nations".

But even on Earth, everyone is trying to manipulate the United Nations and wants the situation to be favorable to themselves, so how could the three major empires not do it?

So when the Interstellar Council handles interstellar affairs, this situation will occur: clearly something happened in the jurisdiction of the Kree Empire, and this matter should be solved by the Supreme Intelligence sending troops, but he just doesn't, and he insists on letting the Interstellar Council solve it.

Solving it by the Interstellar Council costs money, and spending money requires a budget. This is the purpose of the Supreme Intelligence: I have spent money to provide you with a budget, then the money I spent must be used by myself; even if I don't use it, I can't let my enemy use it, so I must use it first.

Each of the three major empires thinks this way. They will all think: I spent money, so naturally I should have a return; the budget is placed there, if I don't use it, others will desperately use it, then wouldn't it be that other empires are taking advantage of me?

So everyone is desperately using it: a small trivial matter, they have to let the Interstellar Council solve it. Even if the money spent is ten times more, this advantage must be taken, and the most important thing is not to let others take it.

In this way, no matter how much budget is given, it is impossible to be enough. Logically speaking, if the budget is not enough for anyone, just admit bad luck, but taking advantage is never enough. Moreover, there are indeed some things that only the Interstellar Council can come forward, and they also have to brush prestige for the Interstellar Council, and the quarter hasn't passed halfway yet, and the Council has stopped, which is not very decent, so they can only give more money.

But in order to deter the other side and not let the other side take advantage, the two major empires other than the Kree Empire also have to convince their internal personnel, so they covered it with a fig leaf, saying that the money provided later was borrowed.

But this kind of thing happened many times, and there must be pressure within the other two major empires: they don't want to provide funds to the Interstellar Council endlessly. Even if they don't want the borrowed money back, they don't want to borrow it anymore. The Kree Empire actually doesn't want to borrow it either, at least not before fighting with humans.

They have indeed been stable for a long time, and rest and recuperation are almost done. Although it is not to the point of fighting a cosmic war immediately, there is no need to maintain superficial peace through the Interstellar Council. Then stopping the funds and letting the Interstellar Council become an empty shell might be a good choice.

Unfortunately, they made the most wrong choice, which is to choose to be enemies with the Nine Realms. Humans first went to the Shi'ar Empire to make trouble, indirectly affecting the Great Portal Commercial Area, leading to the decline of the most prosperous star sector and commercial area of the Shi'ar Empire; immediately after, the other two major empires attacked the Nine Realms again, which was also a bone-breaking injury. Now all three are lying down.

This damage is no less than them fighting an interstellar war among the three. The war era has passed, and isn't it time to rest and recuperate again?

Then rest and recuperation need the Interstellar Council, so this model of the Interstellar Council must be maintained, and funds cannot be stopped. But the number of loans is indeed a bit exaggerated, and the opposition within the other two major empires is too strong. Even to suppress these voices, they have to find a way to paste this hole on the surface, so that they can maintain the operation of the Interstellar Council.

So the Supreme Intelligence was very embarrassed when he came to find Schiller. After all, they now need the Interstellar Council to maintain superficial peace, and it was thanks to humans, but now this account actually has to be balanced by humans.

It's not that the three major empires can't do fake accounts, the key is that they have a bad relationship with humans now, and they must use the Speaker's position to stabilize humans; but if they do fake accounts under the eyes of humans and are exposed, then humans won't laugh at them wantonly?

In the past, they could not care about interstellar observation, but if humans care, then they have to care too. This is the same truth as the arms race. What the other side has, you must have, otherwise you will fall into a disadvantage.

So the best way is to drag humans into the water. As long as everyone does it together, then don't talk about anyone. Although it seems that this work has no benefit to humans, the Supreme Intelligence came to find Schiller, which is waiting for him to propose conditions.

Unexpectedly, Schiller didn't propose conditions at all, and the Supreme Intelligence didn't know what he did. Anyway, he was confident, which made the Supreme Intelligence confused.

And by the time it was late, the Supreme Intelligence was even more stunned, because the Standing Secretary of the Ministry of Finance hurried to knock on his office door.

"Mr. Secretary-General," he said somewhat flustered, closing the door, "My Minister just approved the budget for the propaganda department."

"Oh," the Supreme Intelligence said, "Isn't this a good thing? Promoting the word 'environmental protection work' all over the universe and stuffing it into the eyes of various races will definitely cause a rebellious psychology..."

"The problem is, he approved 20 trillion!"

"How much?? ！！！！"

A silver figure flew past the corridor with a "whoosh", causing everyone to look sideways.

What happened? Did the sky fall? Those standing secretaries finally remembered that they were robots that could fly?

Although interstellar anti-discrimination work is done well, under normal circumstances, the robots of the standing agency will not show the characteristics of robots. They will behave very much like carbon-based creatures: even if they can fly, they take spaceships; even if things are urgent, they use their feet to walk; even before entering the universe, they have to hang a life-support collar on themselves, mainly looking like a human.

But this time, I don't know what happened, and they could actually see the standing secretary robot fly past with a "whoosh". Did humans attack? Or mutants?

The Supreme Intelligence didn't want to fly either, but because he was a robot, he accessed the database and found that the standing secretary of the Ministry of Finance didn't lie. This financial minister approved 20 trillion in propaganda funds!

Logically speaking, this is a good thing for the three major empires, because what needs to be promoted is environmental protection work, and this work was created by the Sorcerer Supreme, which is equivalent to him directly carrying this hole on his own back.

But in fact, it is not like this at all. The key lies in what Strange said at the meeting: as long as there are results, everything is worth it, and the Minister of Propaganda will not let me down.

If you approve a few million, or even tens of millions, to engage in news website headlines, video blogger advertisements, it's almost enough; but if you approve 20 trillion, it must be Mephisto and Vishanti holding hands singing environmental protection songs, the Temple of Eternity door posting a big sign, the Living Tribunal has to be pulled over to listen to lectures. If there is a single-celled organism that hasn't heard of environmental protection slogans, that belongs to dereliction of duty.

It seems to be pushing the pot to the Sorcerer Supreme, but in fact, it is pushing the pot to the Minister of Propaganda, and the Minister of Propaganda is their person. Tomorrow morning, the Sorcerer Supreme can directly fire the Minister because of poor propaganda results, or logically hand over the work to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have already turned to the Sorcerer Supreme.

"Damn Schiller! I knew he didn't have good intentions!" the Supreme Intelligence cursed in his heart. Although his name is "Supreme Intelligence", that's what he called himself. He is not the smartest person in the universe, and not even the smartest batch. Although he noticed that Schiller's attitude was a bit strange, he didn't expect him to be able to make such a big move!

Just entering the office of the Minister of Finance, he saw Schiller sitting there. The Supreme Intelligence was so angry that his main machine kept reporting errors, and there was nothing he could do except revving the cooling system.

"Good evening, Mr. Secretary-General," Schiller greeted him with a smile, "Why are you here so late?"

"Mr. Minister, I heard that you approved a budget of 20 trillion for the Minister of Propaganda?"

"Oh, yes," the Minister of Finance nodded and said, "The headline banner of a news website is 6 million, and it can only be placed for one day; those video anchors are even more expensive. If you want to find top anchors for propaganda, one video is millions, not to mention if you want to find stars, celebrities, singers, etc. for propaganda, this 20 trillion may not be enough."

At this time, the Supreme Intelligence remembered: the Minister of Propaganda is his own person, how could he dare to ask for so much?

"Budget application? Bring it to me to see."

The Minister of Finance handed the tablet over. The Supreme Intelligence looked at it, and it said the application amount was 40 million. He threw the tablet and said: "Doesn't it say 40 million here? How did it become 20 trillion?"

The Minister of Finance raised his eyebrows and said: "So you don't know? Oh, that's right, you haven't attended the regular meeting for several days, of course you don't know the instructions of the Sorcerer Supreme. Mr. Speaker's meaning is: environmental protection work is a long-term, continuous work, and the plan we formulated is also a 'ten-thousand-year plan', that is to say, in these ten thousand years, we must continue to carry out environmental protection propaganda. And the Minister of the Environmental Protection Department only applied for the funds for one quarter, three quarters a year, ten thousand years is thirty thousand quarters..."

"But that's only more than one trillion!"

The Minister of Finance seemed to have just figured it out, was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Oh, I seem to have calculated wrong... but it has already been approved, and the money has already been transferred..."

"Where did you get the money to transfer it?!!"

"I don't know, I transferred all the money, let me see... look, this account record, after the money was transferred, it was exactly 20 trillion in deficit. Now it should have all arrived in the account of the propaganda department; if there is no money in his account, then I don't know what's going on."

The Supreme Intelligence just wanted to say "there is not that much money in the account, so this money transfer is impossible", but if he said so, why is there such a large deficit in the account?

But in fact, the money borrowed from the three major empires, cash, and budget expenditure are not the same thing at all, but Schiller made fake accounts, the previous Minister of Finance has already rolled, and the new Minister of Finance is a confused person, so naturally it is whatever he says.

Moreover, because the quotes of these websites and anchors are indeed very high, and according to the long-term plan, it is very normal for the budget to be trillions. Although the number is slightly out of the ordinary, it is not outrageous, and it can be justified on the surface.

The Supreme Intelligence couldn't check either. Now the purpose is to wipe this matter away. On the surface, pretend that nothing happened. Naturally, it is impossible to turn over the old accounts and check them carefully. Then it is impossible to mention that there is a deficit, so he can only recognize it.

"Speaking of which, it is also the previous Minister of Finance who worked diligently to save so much money for the Interstellar Council," Schiller continued, "Don't worry about these, I will notify the Sorcerer Supreme to get the money back first."

After saying that, he went out and met Strange walking out of the office. Schiller said: "Done."

Strange showed a cold smile: "If there is no money in the account, then it was embezzled by the Minister of Propaganda. Let's see if the Supreme Intelligence is willing to spend so much money to fill the hole and protect his subordinates. If he is willing, we will have money to spend; if he is not willing, let's see who dares to work for him."

"He can't fill it," Schiller said calmly, "The reason why I would rather let the Minister of Finance admit his work mistakes than follow the budget plan of more than one trillion, but reach 20 trillion, is because he can't take out such a large sum of money, he has no chance of remedy."

"Let's go, go catch people." Strange flicked his cloak and said.

"Yes, Sorcerer Supreme."