In the chamber, more than a dozen cabinet ministers, namely the foreign secretary, the minister of industry and commerce, the minister of finance and taxation, the minister of science and technology and education, the minister of mines and resources, the minister of agriculture and water resources, the minister of culture and publicity, the minister of traffic and transport, and the secretary of state of the overseas territories, a total of 11 members of the wartime cabinet have been waiting for a long time.

The informal body formed by the head of the cabinet and the eleven ministers is also known as the "Imperial Cabinet".

During the reign of Emperor Shiwu, the Imperial Cabinet was the core authority of the empire. It was only after the constitutional reform that the subsequent cabinet was formed by expanding the number of seats.

Inside the room, there were also two non-cabinet veterans.

One of them is Zhu Shijian, the former commander-in-chief of the Navy who returned to his hometown ten days ago, and the other is Ma Zhongyi, who left the Army Headquarters more than ten years ago.

Relatively speaking, Zhu Shijian's mental state is much better than Ma Zhongyi's.

Not only because he is a few years younger than Ma Zhongyi, but also because of good living habits. Zhu Shijian not only does not smoke or drink, but also lives and works very regularly, and also knows how to be self-disciplined, even after returning to his hometown, he still insists on getting up early and exercising for half an hour in the morning.

In addition, I wish Shijian a smooth ride in his life. As for Ma Zhongyi, he suffered a lot of unfair criticism after the war.

Every cabinet minister has a document in his hand, the content is exactly the same, but it is actually a copy of the same document.

It's just that Zhu Shijian and Ma Zhongyi don't, it's not that they don't have enough authority to deal with secrets, because this top-secret document was drafted by them more than ten years ago.

Eleven cabinet ministers were seeing the top-secret document for the first time.

Although they were all shocked, none of the cabinet ministers dared to deny the authenticity of this document, which was stamped with the dragon seal and the seal of the Eight Great Pillars. This has nothing to do with legends or anything, because these nine seals represent the nine beings who created the empire.

Even now, the descendants of these nine beings still have a non-negligible influence in the empire.

In fact, the thirteen people sitting in this room, as well as Xue Yuanzheng who came at the end, are all inextricably linked to the forces behind these nine seals.

After Xue Yuanzheng arrived, the discussion was not affected.

The point of contention is no longer the document itself, but how the plan outlined in the top-secret document can be realized.

Difficulty, that's not ordinary!

In fact, what was revealed through the document was only part of the plan, and many sensitive content, or content that could not be made public for the time being, was erased with black ink.

Even if it's just the part that is shown, it's very scary.

How scary is it!?

The Liang Xia Empire wants to single-handedly challenge the whole world!

At least, at the time of the plan, around the year 85 of the new calendar, none of the empire's decision-makers thought of forming alliances with other countries.

According to the document, one of the most important conclusions drawn when summarizing the last war was that it was dragged down by the allies.

Almost all of the defeats suffered are related to the allies!

In order to keep its allies, the empire suffered a lot of unnecessary losses, and after hard work, it was not rewarded accordingly.

Since allies are useless, what do you want allies for?

If you go it alone, can't you win?

It is that, after the Great War, all the strategic plans of the Empire, as well as all the long-term construction, are in the service of this set of plans.

This includes the construction of infrastructure throughout the country after Xue Yuanzheng came to power, especially the construction of railways and highways in the western region, the transfer of heavy industries related to arms production to the interior through policy guidance, and even the military reform of the army and navy.

Later, the reconciliation with the Luosha Federation was not in the plan, which was considered an accident.

It is precisely because of this that the Liangxia Empire has not yet signed a real alliance treaty with the Luosha Federation, and the so-called alliance is actually a friendship treaty with no binding force, many key provisions have multiple interpretations, and the central content and core meaning are ambiguous.

Even now, the top brass of the empire did not consider the possibility of forming an alliance with the Luosha Federation.

If anything, the Luosha Federation is also a drag bottle, and it has contradictions with the empire that are difficult to reconcile, and can even be said to be impossible to resolve.

Among other things, after the conclusion of the Treaty of Friendship, the Lockham Federation continued to reassert its sovereignty over the area east of Yenisei-Balkash, repeatedly proposed to the Empire to negotiate for this purpose, and repeatedly made a fuss about it, and even planned to link it to oil exports.

All of these warn the imperial authorities that the Luosha Federation has not forgotten that humiliating history, and has never regarded the Liangxia Empire as an ally.

If it needed allies, the empire would also go to a powerful country like the Empire, which had no territorial disputes.

In fact, the empire maintained friendly relations with the Locksa Federation only for the purpose of producing oil from the Badong oil fields in the northern part of the open sea, which was one of the most important oil-producing areas on the vast mainland and western continent except for Posha Bay, and could transport the oil directly to the western part of the empire by railroad and pipeline.

Of course, maintaining friendly relations with the Luosha Federation can also greatly reduce the threat from the interior.

If ground warfare can be avoided, or more accurately multi-fronted, then the empire will be able to devote more resources to building its navy.

In addition, the implementation of this plan lasted until the beginning of the 105th year of the new calendar.

What do you mean?

It would be better to delay it for another five years, that is, twenty years from the 85th year of the new calendar, so that the empire can be sure enough to defeat all the powers in a global war on its own. If it is only fifteen years, the empire may not be able to gain a sufficiently clear strategic advantage before the war begins.

Obviously, that's the key.

The Great War has already broken out, and it is certainly impossible to drag it out for another five years.

Thankfully, this was to be expected.

Nothing strange.

For more than a decade, the empire has been preparing for a big war, and other powers have not?

In addition, the Great Depression ten years ago completely destroyed the world order built on the "Peace of Seba" and laid the groundwork for the next major war.

How long can peace last?

When will the flames of war be rekindled?

Seeing through this, the first thing the Western powers should do is to keep an eye on the Liangxia Empire and adopt a development strategy that closely follows the Liangxia Empire.

The New Deal of the Nuland Federation is a typical representative of this strategy.

The contradiction between the three countries of the Gulf and the Sea and the Luosha Federation is actually a ghost played by the Western powers behind the scenes.

If it weren't for the instigation of the Western powers, would three small countries with a combined population of less than three million have the courage to challenge the behemoth-like Luosha Federation?

In the morning meeting, Xue Yuanzheng emphasized.

The Western powers imposed war on the empire, and the empire had no choice but to bravely face the strong enemy and meet the enemy's challenge!

Actually, that's exactly what we're talking about.

How can we win this unprecedented war when we are not well prepared and a lot of pre-war work is not in place?

It is actually more accurate to say that it is to grasp the initiative in the war.

After all, the war has just broken out, and victory is still far from victory.