As the governor of a state, you need to consider all aspects of work, and the economy is only one of them, but all affairs are more or less related to the economy. After the roundtable, the host arranged three themes according to the current development situation of the federation, hot areas and invited guests, namely local tax reduction and exemption policy, stabilization of the unemployed, development of infrastructure, and public security management, the first three of which are closely related to economic development.

During the discussion stage, governors can express their opinions and interact with the guests. Weiss, as a newcomer in the ranks of governors, spent most of his time quietly listening and taking careful notes, although some of the speakers were only rhetorical, but more people analyzed and discussed from many years of experience and professional perspectives, which gave him a lot of inspiration, and also understood how experts in public administration affairs analyzed, responded to, and resolved problems, so as to transform these skills into a way of thinking that can be used for reference in daily work, which is equivalent to making up a big lesson of "how to be a good governor". And it's free!

During the day there were round tables and thematic forums, and in the evening, the arrangement was similar to that of a salon. The organizers have prepared several adjacent lounges, where everyone can freely combine according to different styles and interests, and can sit on the sofa while drinking or chatting with tea, or go back and forth, in a free and relaxed form.

Military governors naturally came together, and in addition to Asker, Evans, and Weiss, the governors of the five federal states also retired from the army or left the army because of injuries sustained during the war. It is a common denominator that former military personnel have a way of thinking and a focus on defense and security matters. Here, they are talking more about the threat from the Norman Empire – although their analysis of strategy and defense may not be as professional as that of senior staff officers in the general staff and top professors in military academies, the general direction should be the same. From them, Weiss gained a clearer and deeper understanding of the international landscape after the war, especially what happened in the Norman Empire.

As we all know, the abrupt end of the last great war was directly related to the turmoil in the upper echelons of Norman power. Among them, Weiss played an important role - they attacked Slien and killed the Norman Crown Prince Joseph, and the news of the crown prince's violent death stimulated the old emperor Hohenstaufen IV, causing his already poor health to collapse all at once. Although he is still alive and well, he is no longer capable of handling complicated government affairs. The new crown prince fell into the hands of Albert, the second in line to the throne, but the new crown prince is said to be very weak from a serious congenital disease, which usually does not live to be thirty years old. In this way, the status of the third in line to the throne, Prince Barras, has suddenly improved a lot, and he has a good relationship with the new crown prince Albert. Perhaps there was some kind of tacit understanding or agreement between the two men, and in the midst of the chaotic power struggle, they always stood closely together to defeat other royal nobles who wanted to compete for core power, including Prince Louis, the brother of the former chief of the General Staff of the Emperor Lao.

This bloody and brutal power struggle, after several months of storms, finally ushered in the rain and the sky cleared. Albert began to preside over the affairs of the Empire, despite his physical weakness, and his close ally, Prince Barras, assumed the post of Chief of the Norman General Staff, becoming the second youngest Chief of the General Staff in the history of the Norman Empire. The first record is still the genius general of the last great war, Prince O'Hen, who was only 26 years old at the time, the shining jewel of the Hohenstaufen royal family and the star of hope for the entire Norman Empire. Guided by his brilliant strategy, the Norman army attacked with a storm, causing the combined forces of the Union and Wessex to be defeated one after another. Unfortunately, only two years later, an accident that is still controversial happened to him, and with the fall of this peerless star, the Norman army also lost a good situation under the counterattack of the Federation and Wessex. There was also a fierce power struggle in the Norman Empire, with Hohenstaufen IV taking the throne in an inconspicuous role. It's just that more than 20 years later, a similar scene appeared in the Norman Empire, as if it was the reincarnation of history, and it seemed to be the end of fate.

The governors agreed that the combination of Albert and Barras looked young, but in fact both men were very powerful characters: Albert was a political genius who quickly stabilized the war-affected Norman Empire with a series of post-war initiatives, and Prince Bath, after assuming the post of chief of the General Staff, began a series of seemingly simple but effective military changes. Although it was only a little more than a year, the power of the Norman Empire was greatly restored. More importantly, they used the war to successfully divide the Kingdom of Wessex in the North, the Federation's staunchest ally, and put half of the Wessex territory under their control, which meant that they had greater strategic depth and a strategic springboard, as well as more resources. You must know that on the planet Orens, Wessex in the north is the richest in minerals, but a considerable part of it is covered with a thick layer of ice. With the development of technology, many minerals that were difficult to mine in the past are no longer impossible. According to some grapevine, the Normans have more than doubled the rate of exploitation of Starstone resources compared to before the war.

With a steady production of steel, this almost meant that the Norman Empire could build flying ships at twice the rate it had before the war. In a few years, they would be able to recreate the formidable flying fleet of the pre-war fleet, which their Prince Richards had been in charge of for many years. Judging from the performance during the war, if it were not for the courage of the Union Army, which consumed the flight sites of the Norman Empire, and then turned the tide with new weapons such as airplanes. It was indeed difficult to stop the Norman fleet from running rampant over the Federation.

The rapid development of aircraft technology also made it impossible for the Normans to bury themselves in building the original heavy armor and heavy firepower combat ships. The governors expressed concern that the Normans were also building aircraft-carrying ships, or aircraft carriers. In terms of the performance of combat aircraft, although they lag behind the Federation, they have a unique development route, that is, to combine the Star Source Stone and aircraft technology. Although there is no direct evidence of how far they have developed, an indirect proof is that the prices of chemical acids and silver in the Norman Empire and even the Kingdom of Wessex have continued to rise abnormally, indicating that the consumption of chemical acids and silver has increased greatly compared with the previous period, and they are the main materials used in the manufacture of batteries. The role of the battery is to store and output electrical energy, the previous flying warships are converted into providing stable current output through boiler turbines to drive huge ships to fly in the air, the aircraft does not have such a complex power structure, it is difficult to provide enough current, and it must be combined with the internal combustion engine and the battery, which is the technical conclusion that the federal army has reached through the analysis of captured trophies during the war, and this is precisely the information that Weiss and Nikolai worked hard to get back...... Such a large amount of information is mixed together, and it seems to be a thousand things, but as long as a person with a normal military mind thinks calmly, it is not difficult to grasp the key main line - the threat from the Norman Empire not only did not disappear after the end of the war, but became bigger and bigger with the stability and development of the Norman Empire.

Worryingly, the war has caused unprecedented trauma to the Union. Not only have they lost a lot of economic resources. Millions of young adults have also been lost. The economic and industrial landscape underwent a geographical and technological reshuffle, and those industries that were forced to move to the east and back one after another after the war experienced a period of very unstable production. Some economists estimate that the war set back the economy and industry of the Federation by ten years, and the Norman Empire has not been invaded by the war because its homeland has not been invaded by the war, and its industrial resources have not only not regressed, but also under the stimulation of the war, there has been a deformed rapid development, coupled with the changes in the Kingdom of Wessex in the north, the Norman Empire is no longer inferior to the Federation in terms of industrial power. Once an authoritarian military state has an industrial power similar to that of a democratic country, the initial advantage of the war will be overwhelming! Traditionally, the Confederation and the Norman Empire had mainly used the Monamolin Mountains and several neutral countries as strategic buffers, while on the other side, the unusually violent ocean made it rare for the Normans to consider crossing the ocean from behind to attack the Confederation. One day, the Normans solved the capacity problem and used a large number of transports to land behind the Federation across the Raging Sea, forming a three-sided attack on the Federation, and the Federation may not have a third chance to turn the tide of the war......

The Federal Constitution is of course a major obstacle that makes it difficult for the Federal Army to preemptively strike, but in the eyes of many people of insight, institutional inertia and thinking inertia are the most difficult obstacles to overcome, a simple example is that the Norman General Staff has a number of operational plans for launching an attack on the Federation, and the General Staff of the Federal Army has prepared most of the defensive combat plans, although there are also plans for crossing the border to attack the Norman Empire, but only the most core generals and senior staff can do it clearly. Officers at all levels are completely unfamiliar with the world on the other side of the border, so they prefer to familiarize themselves with the enemy and wear them down in defense rather than actively attacking. The Norman Empire and the Confederation were two very different teams, the former advocating offense and tactics wide open, while the latter believed in defensive counter-attacking and was neither good at attacking each other.

The so-called existence is reasonable, on the football field, any kind of tactical style has its adaptability, as long as the power of this tactic can be brought into full play, there is invincible capital. Not long ago, Weiss had an interesting conversation with Nikolai and the director of operations of the Star Group, who saw that the industrial zones of the Norman Empire were mainly distributed in and around the capital area, and the relative concentration was relatively high, and they felt that if there was a way to carry out a large-scale bombardment of their three main industrial regions, it might disintegrate the enemy's war potential in the early stage of the war, forcing them to put away their greedy and endless desire for expansion.

During this salon, Weiss talked about this theory of strategic bombing. The crowd listened very carefully, because it was a completely new strategic idea. If we can think outside the old framework and open up a new and effective strategic model. Maybe it's the ideal way to break the problem. In this strategy of bombardment, a 2,000-mile advance across the Monamolin Mountains would allow the enemy's industrial heartland to be swept away, and it is obvious that the bombardment would be a departure point in the western federal states. Both the federal states of Cleve and the federal state of Neuchâtl have a large number of flat grasslands to build airfields, but the openness also means that it is difficult to defend, and the enemy can attack this airfield in the form of air assault, which is destined to be a tragic offensive and defensive battle. If Lorraine's strategic role can be brought into full play, then the three federal states will undoubtedly greatly increase the probability of success by supporting the development of strategic bombing with their own characteristics.

Most of the bigwigs said that Weiss's brief description was very enlightening and constructive, and then Hall Scott of the Federal State of Musbell asked an interesting question: the Federation has an advantage in aircraft technology and a breakthrough in artificial star source stone technology, why can't the Federation increase research and development efforts on small aircraft with star source stone providing floating force like the Normans? In the event of a war, the elite troops should be confronted by the elite troops, and the ordinary troops should be dealt with by the ordinary troops. Even if there is no war, it is an important strategic deterrent, and isn't it nice for the local government to have new industries and new economic drivers and new tax revenues?

This Scott chief was not a military man, but an active promoter of economic and industrial development. Weiss and he chatted for a while over dinner, and felt that many of their views were relatively similar. He entered this "salon" halfway through and was attracted by the topic of national defense strategy that they were discussing, and thus raised the questions just now. In Weiss's view, the main body of economic development and technological innovation is the enterprise, but if the state government can give the enterprise the correct policy guidance, it can play a positive guiding role, avoid the free market due to information asymmetry and the repeated investment and vicious competition, so that the economic development of various places to form a complementary pattern, and in the development of new military technology and production capacity, Lorraine just has a new Xingyuan stone mine, get rid of the embarrassing situation that there is no Xingyuan stone mine in the previous region, and get the addition of new equipment and new technology, the output is quite good, If you can get the support of Star Group, this will be a pretty good development path.