Miss Star, spoiled by her father and brother

"You! You, you..." The thin red man pointed at Sifos who was sitting opposite him with trembling fingers, but he could only say the word "you".

The green fat man leaned over to his ear and whispered, "Minister, you haven't asked him how he got the money for this year. Did he falsify the money in previous years?"

"Right! General Sifos, why don't you explain how your army operated this year without funding? You can't be paying for it yourself, right? Look, why don't we both take a step back? I won't pursue your accounts from previous years, and you don't pursue the military expenses of that year, how about that?"

The thin red man thought he had something on Sifos, and his tone became calm again. Falsifying accounts to defraud the state of money was much more serious than his "work mistakes", and he was sure that Sifos would never dare to continue to pester him.

Sifos leaned back in his chair, a disdainful smile appeared on his lips: "You are right. The Fourth Army's expenses last year were paid from the Sifos family's account."

"What?! This is impossible!"

The thin red man and the fat green man widened their eyes.

"How is it possible... such a large number..."

The Sifos family was known for their military achievements, but few people knew what they had in private. Both the father and the son were not fond of publicity, so only a few old friends and old enemies knew that their family was not simple.

The annual cost of supporting an army of 80,000 people is not just about feeding them. The monthly salary, allowances, and bonuses of each soldier are already a considerable sum. What costs even more is the arms.

The cost of starting a medium-sized starship of the M series for one day is as high as 600 million star coins. The cost of a variable speed positioning missile is 5 star coins. The prices of other bombs, flash bombs, smoke bombs, etc. range from 50 to star coins. Even the simplest laser gun used by soldiers for training costs star coins per shot. It seems acceptable, but these things are consumables in the army. The daily consumption adds up to a terrible expense, not to mention a year.

This is why the two were certain that Sifos's accounts were falsified. If it wasn't a public account, it would definitely be a huge expense for a private person to bear this amount.

The thin red man suddenly looked up: "Could it be that your wife..."

The Capet family has been engaged in business for generations and is financially strong. They are much more famous in the business world than the Sifos family. As Ms. Tina's family, it seems reasonable for them to help their son-in-law...

The corner of Seaforth's mouth twitched. "What are you thinking about? I wouldn't ask my wife for such a small amount of money."

"Oh——" The fat red man and the thin green man nodded, but their attitudes were obviously extremely perfunctory, as if the word "disbelief" was written on their faces.

Sifos's fist hardened. Adjutant Qiu suppressed his laughter and pressed his shoulders from behind: "General, calm down. You and your wife are a family, right? No matter what they think, as long as you are willing to spit out the money, it will be fine."

Sifos exhaled, "Minister He has no patience. He only flipped through two pages of so many documents and then stopped reading them. The back of the documents clearly contains the financial statements of our Fourth Military Region for the past year, and the changes in the accounts are clearly shown at a glance."

The thin red man immediately pulled apart the pile of documents, found the one that Seaforth mentioned, and quickly flipped through it. The fat green man also leaned over. Both of them were accounting majors and were very proficient in bookkeeping. They called up the reconciliation program on the optical computer, scanned the information on the document, and fiddled with it for nearly twenty minutes.

Sifos did not rush them. He lowered his head to play with the child and sent a message to his wife to report his itinerary. He told her that there were some matters in the army that needed to be dealt with and he would be home later, so she should not wait anxiously.

Twenty minutes later, the two of them put away their things in silence. The thin red man sat back in his chair with lifeless eyes.

"Have you figured it out, ministers? Is there anything wrong with my calculations?"

The thin red man took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat: "Haha, General Sifos has always been a very upright person, how could there be any problem with your account?"

Xu Weiwei was very impressed by his flexible attitude, as if he was not the one who had just thrown dirty water on others. His tone could change in an instant.

"Since there's no problem, should you return the money to me?" Sifos asked with a smile.

"This, this... But this is really against the rules. It was my fault for the late approval last time. Please don't bother with me. I will increase your military budget appropriately this year. What do you think?"

Red Skinny was negotiating in a flattering tone. Are you kidding? If I really give him the money, wouldn't it be the same as admitting my mistakes? How can he stand in front of the leaders of the six divisions and twelve armies and the emperor in the future?

Hearing what the thin red man said, Adjutant Qiu withdrew his hand from his superior's shoulder, and Sifos immediately slammed the table and stood up.

"Ha, you are kidding me!!! This is one year's military budget! Don't you know how huge that is?! You want to give me some scraps to get rid of me. Are you stupid or do you think I am stupid? If you don't want to be the Minister of Finance anymore, you should step down as soon as possible and replace him with someone who is capable."

"I'm telling you, if you don't approve this money today, you'll spend the rest of the year trapped in an iron cage."

Sifos put his hands on the table, leaned forward, and spoke in a sinister tone.

The thin red man almost shrunk into the back of his chair, looking funny and pitiful. The employees lying outside the door also heard Sifos's rage and became nervous.

"What should we do? Should we go in now?"

"It seems that only the voice of the 'God of Plague' was heard. I didn't hear the minister speak."

“There was no sound of anything being smashed.”

"How about we wait a little longer?"

"Just wait a little longer..."

Two minutes later, Sifos came out of the door with a signed, stamped, freshly-made approval document in his hand. The people leaning against the wall were startled, and each of them turned their backs to the aisle and stood with their heads against the glass as if they were being punished.

It was not until the three of them took the elevator downstairs that everyone was freed from their quail state.

"Is this, done?"

"Ah~ I knew I couldn't avoid it. Why did I block him earlier? Isn't this just asking for trouble?"

After receiving a warning look from his colleague, the person who spoke realized that he was still at the door of the minister's office. He quickly covered his mouth, glanced inside guiltily, and then followed the group downstairs quietly.

Xu Weiwei was also quite shocked by what had just happened. Until the three of them walked towards the bank, all that was on Xu Weiwei’s mind was the last scene.

Sifos stepped onto the table and jumped to the other side in the horrified eyes of the red thin man and the green fat man. He grabbed the back of the red thin old man's neck with one hand and watched them sign and stamp.

The old man's hands were shaking, fearing that if he delayed for another second, his head would be dislocated.

Xu Weiwei remembered a joke she had seen before. Confucius had a sword called "De", so Confucius had always "conquered people with virtue".

What her father did once again proved that fists are still the most powerful force.