"Guys, if you have an idea, just say it. There are no outsiders here, so there is no need to hide them. ”

Xue Yuanzheng's words can be said to be quite polite. It is also a hint that these ministers, who are usually cautious, have already received tickets to the wartime cabinet.

It's just that no one spoke.

Seeing this, Xue Yuanzheng secretly sighed.

Eleven people, including the two commanders-in-chief, did not answer, and they looked timid and afraid, and anyone would be angry.

If you want to say it, you can't blame others, the problem is mainly Xue Yuanzheng.

Ten years ago, when he was elected as the first assistant to the cabinet, Xue Yuanzheng was not yet 50 years old, thus becoming the youngest minister after the constitutional reform.

Although he has Tang Zude's uncle, as well as the support of army officers, he has also worked in the Ministry of War before, and has some political experience, but in the face of the frenzied Great Depression, Xue Yuanzheng, who is not even fifty years old, still seems a little immature, and if he wants to turn the tide, he has to use extraordinary means.

Xue Yuanzheng did have extraordinary means.

As soon as he came to power, he immediately embarked on a strategy of "inland development". In the northwest and southwest regions, railways, highways and other infrastructure will be built, and heavy industries concentrated in the coastal areas in the east and south will be moved inland along the Nanjiang and Guangdong rivers, so as to promote the economic development of the inland areas, and at the same time, by expanding government deficit expenditures, issuing treasury bonds, financing, etc., to expand social investment and stimulate domestic consumption.

During this period, Xue Yuanzheng performed major surgery on the cabinet, removed almost half of the cabinet ministers, and also removed several new departments. In order to promote the relevant legislation, he also extended his hand to the two chambers of the council, and achieved absolute control over the two houses of the council by various means.

Step by step, Xue Yuanzheng became the iron-blooded chief assistant of the empire.

In the past ten years, those who dare to do it against him have long become white bones.

Those who stayed were either his cronies who cultivated and supported, or the good old people who had no opinions, or the old fritters who were very deep in the city.

On this critical issue, these people certainly don't just give their opinions.

"Since you haven't figured it out yet, I'll say a few words."

After Xue Yuanzheng said this, the others raised their heads and looked at him, and a few short-sighted ministers pretended to push their glasses.

"I said a few years ago that a jackal's belly will never be filled." Xue Yuanzheng's gaze swept over the ministers attending the meeting, and he habitually knocked on the table a few times. "Twenty-two years ago, when the Barbarian Empire suddenly declared war on us, and sent troops to occupy the Sadou Islands in the north and south, and to blockade and control the Watcher's Strait, we should have thought that something similar would definitely happen again, and even more tragically. What happened today not only proves this speculation, but also warns us with the blood and lives of an entire fleet and thousands of officers and men that any unrealistic illusions about the enemy can only lead to a miserable defeat in the end. ”

This is a very serious remark, and it is clearly aimed at certain cabinet ministers.

Although after the end of the war, for some well-known reasons, such as the issue of overseas territories, the relationship between the empire and the narrow imperial state became very tense for a while.

At that time, during the Seba Peace Conference, the two sides almost collapsed.

Finally, it was only after the other powers intervened, especially after the Nuland Federation took a stand, that the two sides reached an agreement on the dispute over overseas territories known as the "Twenty-Year Lease", that is, twenty years after the formal conclusion of the treaty, the Narrowyi Imperial State returned the illegally occupied overseas territories to the Liangxia Empire.

However, the two sides did not formally conclude a peace treaty.

In other words, the legal validity of this agreement is questionable.

Until now, many islands such as the Northern Horse Islands, the Suomon Islands and the Sinka Islands, which belonged to the Empire before the outbreak of the last war, or were actually controlled by the Empire, as well as some colonies in the southern part of the Yanhai Sea, are still occupied by the Narrow Empire and have not been returned to the Empire according to the agreement.

In the past few years, the empire has been proposing to the Sagi authorities through diplomatic and other means to settle disputes over overseas territories in accordance with the agreement reached during the Seba Peace Conference, and demanding that the Sagi Imperial State return the overseas territories that were illegally occupied during the Great War by the end of the 100th year of the new calendar.

For this reason, many of the Empire's subjects had illusions that they could negotiate their overseas territories back.

The point is, even some cabinet ministers are so naïve!

If anything, the overseas territories that had been forcibly seized by the Narrow Imperial State had little economic value at all. Almost all of the valuable colonies fell into the hands of the Bran Kingdom, the Locke Republic, and the Newland Federation, and what the Narrow Imperial Kingdom received was some leftovers.

The Northern Horse Islands in the Guia Ocean, the Lock Gate Islands and the Nueva Islands in the Southwest and Eastern Oceans are all sparsely populated and resource-poor islands, most of which are desert islands. Not to mention the colonizers, there are not even a few natives. In peacetime, the occupation and control of these islands is a loss-making business.

To say, it has a little bit of value in wartime, but it is not very obvious.

From the standpoint of the Empire, it is nothing more than an opportunity to gradually recover the overseas territories left behind in the Great War through negotiation and negotiation.

After the concessions of the Narrow Yi Imperial State, can the Bran Kingdom and other powers still occupy it?

In addition, it is the internal contradictions of the transfer empire.

It is precisely because of this that the relationship between the Liang Xia Empire and the Sayi Imperial State has always been full of gunpowder. For more than a decade, the two sides have been preparing for a showdown.

Saying this is actually a great elevation of the Narrow Imperial State.

Land area, population, economic strength, number of resources, industrial scale, science and technology, military combat power, which of the Narrow Yi Imperial Kingdom can be comparable to the Liang Xia Empire?

Or is it qualified to call out to the Liangxia Empire!?

Of course, this is also deliberate.

Even in peacetime, the empire needs a reason to maintain its armament build-up and develop its military power.

Xue Yuanzheng emphasized the wolf-like ambition of the Narrow Imperial State here, in fact, he was warning those ministers who still had illusions that it was time to wake up.

As for why the Narrow Yi Imperial State launched a war by sneak attack, Xue Yuanzheng didn't say, and the other ministers didn't ask.

Then, Xue Yuanzheng raised the core questions of the meeting.

After being attacked by the Sagai Navy, the next step is to declare war on the Sagai Imperial State.

So, how long will it take, and at what cost, will it take to completely defeat the Narrow-Sized Imperial State?

Obviously, this is not one problem, but a series of problems.

Fortunately, in the top-secret document, a plan has been formulated for this situation, and what needs to be discussed is actually to adjust and modify the plan according to the actual situation.

After six o'clock, Xue Yuanzheng left.

It's not that meetings aren't important, but there are more important things for him to do.

According to the arrangement, the two houses of the Chambers will convene an emergency plenary meeting at 6:30 a.m., and Xue Yuanzheng will make a crucial opening speech on behalf of the cabinet.

As expected, Xue Yuanzheng would propose to declare war on the Narrow-Sized Imperial State, asking both houses of the Debate to grant him a war mandate.

The next step was to form a wartime cabinet and mobilize for war step by step.

Either way, the war machine of the Liang Xia Empire has been activated.

It is not only the Imperial Kingdom that should tremble, but the whole world!

At this time, in the northeastern waters of the Yanhai Sea, a huge war machine is preparing for the upcoming war, and the one who controls this machine is the White Stop War.