Imperial Capital, Privy Council.

Prior to the constitutional reform, the Privy Council was the body responsible for issuing edicts in writing to the executive branch of the Cabinet. After the constitutional reform, the Privy Council became independent and became the functional body of the Seal, and was also responsible for the correspondence between the royal family and the cabinet. Until now, the Privy Council has been more of a meeting arm of the Cabinet. During the war, many top-secret meetings related to military affairs were held here.

And there's nothing surprising about it.

The so-called Privy Council is nothing more than a small courtyard outside the south gate of the Imperial City, which is enclosed by a courtyard wall and guarded by the Imperial City Guards of the Praetorian Guard.

Even in peacetime, it is heavily guarded.

Not only because it is next to the palace, it is rumored that there is a hidden tunnel built by Emperor Shiwu himself, which leads directly to the internal strength. Legend has it that more than 70 years ago, Emperor Shiwu entered the imperial city through this secret tunnel and seized the imperial power overnight.

The secret meeting is arranged here, and the picture is quiet and confidential.

It's just that today's Privy Council is not quiet at all.

From early morning to morning, then afternoon, evening and night, it's almost early in the morning, not to mention tea or anything, just meals are delivered three times.

At 11:50 a.m., the staff sent supper into the conference room. Shousuke did not announce the adjournment of the meeting, nor did he mean to let everyone rest for a while.

Looking at Shousuke's posture, if you don't come up with a result, this will go on forever.

For supper, it is millet porridge with red dates and wolfberries, and a dish is boiled over a simmer with brown sugar water with white sesame seeds.

Although he didn't have much appetite, Zhu Shijian still slowly added some brown sugar water to the millet porridge and stirred it up carefully.

In fact, Zhu Shijian has been paying attention to Tang Zude, the first assistant in the chief position, and Ma Zhongyi, the commander-in-chief of the army opposite.

That is, a bowl of red dates, wolfberries, and millet porridge, Tang Dezu's preoccupied appearance seemed to be the dragon liver and phoenix gall bladder obtained from the banquet of the queen mother.

Ma Zhongyi, that's the other extreme.

Before the service staff went out, he drank all the millet porridge in three or two sips, and pushed the dishes to the side, with an indignant look like he had just drunk a glass of wine.

The other cabinet members, all their attention is on the rice bowl in their hands, and their expressions are varied.

The atmosphere was very eerie.

A few days earlier, following the Nuland Federation's proposal, the League had offered to consolidate the hard-won peace by signing a peace treaty.

It is no longer a matter of separate talks, but all countries, whether defeated or victorious, participate in the negotiations.

The war is over, what is there to talk about?

How can peace be perpetuated, and how can we ensure that the flames of war do not recur around the world in a few decades?

The Nuland Federation, the Kingdom of Bran and the Republic of Locke each proposed ways to disarm on a global scale, such as redividing the spheres of influence of the great powers, such as establishing a global international organization, but the core is the same, and the arms buildup must be strictly limited.

Because the Liang Xia Empire was not defeated, as long as it was related to the limitation of armaments, it could only be resolved through negotiation and negotiation.

This is the crux of the Nuland Federation's proposal for peace talks.

A global peace treaty was concluded, which imposed strict limits on the military power and armament build-up of all the powers, including the victorious powers of the Allied bloc.

According to President Nuland, who initiated the initiative, peace is guaranteed if the military is tightly controlled.

Obviously, this view is too idealistic to say naïve.

Military force is only a tool to defend interests, and what determines the international situation is actually the contradictions between the great powers due to the interests of colonies and other countries.

As long as there are contradictions of interests, peace will not last.

Any politician will scoff at the naïve ideas of President Nuland.

Civilians, as well as the press and public opinion, do not see it that way.

President Nuland's proposal to negotiate a global peace treaty and form an equally global international body that would include at least all the great powers to ensure that the peace treaty was implemented immediately ignited international public opinion and became the hottest topic of the day.

All of a sudden, the signing of the Global Peace Treaty and the establishment of the League of Nations became a golden bell jar for the defense of peace.

Now, even if you know that you are wasting your time, you must echo it loudly, otherwise you will be said by international public opinion to be a public enemy of peace.

The Great War, which claimed the lives of tens of millions of people, has just ended, and who would dare to act as a public enemy of peace?

Even in the Liangxia Empire, no politician dared to risk the world's greatness against the 40,000,000 people who desperately wanted a stable life.

And so it is.

After President Nuland's initiative, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Buran, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Locke, and the leaders of a number of other small countries immediately expressed their support. The prime minister of the Imperial State of Narrow-mindedness first expressed his opposition, but only after discovering that the signs were wrong changed his tune, expressing his willingness to participate in the peace talks if the national interests were fully guaranteed. Next, the Empire and the Republic of There successively expressed their willingness to send representatives to participate in the peace talks.

The Liangxia Empire did not delay and had agreed to send representatives to participate in the negotiations.

Subsequently, the alliance unilaterally decided to set the venue for the negotiations in Seba, the capital of the Rock Republic, tentatively scheduled for late April.

The key is actually the content of the negotiation.

Although President Nuland has pledged that the peace talks will not be directed against the Liangxia Empire, at most the Empire will be cut off, compensate for the losses suffered by the Locke Republic during the Great War, and will give the Liangxia Empire an equal status throughout the negotiation period to protect the core interests of the Liangxia Empire, the Liangxia Empire has been guaranteed to form an international coalition on the basis of the alliance bloc and support global disarmament.

League?

That's a joke.

Tang Zude made it very clear that even if the League of Nations was formed and the Liang Xia Empire became a founding member, it should not be expected to rely on this institution to defend the core interests of the empire.

As for disarmament, as long as it can be reciprocal, anything can be said.

This is also the basic principle of the empire: to be on par with the Nuland Federation, whether it is to sign a peace treaty, or to form an alliance and disarm, all of them are subject to the Nuland Federation.

According to President Nuland, the naïve and romantic idea of the idealist, all countries need to do is maintain a military force that maintains internal stability, at most border defense, and in addition to a navy that is used to deal with piracy and other illegal armed forces, equipped only with light ships.

In his words, without the military force that waged war, war would not have broken out and peace would have been eternal.

It's so idealistic that it's impossible to achieve.

It's just that it must be disarmed.

Not because of ideals, but because of a compromise with reality.

The war is over, and there is no need to keep so many troops, and to demobilize the military as soon as possible, so that the devastated social economy can be revived.

What needs to be taken into account is actually the scale of disarmament.

This is also the main purpose of the peace conference.

To this end, it is necessary to finalize the disarmament programme and, at the very least, to provide guidance for the peace talks before the peace conference begins.

Here's the problem!

Tomorrow, the Empire's plenipotentiary will present the relevant documents to the organizers of the peace talks, and the Imperial authorities will have to make a decision today, or before dawn, to be precise.