Chapter 101: Leaving in the Gloomy Past
The Imperial State, the Eastern Imperial Capital, and the Prime Minister's Office.
Before getting into the car, Nobube looked back again at the swaggering upstart who was standing on the balcony on the second floor and watched him leave.
That guy is not only an upstart, but also a genuine nobleman, the thirtieth generation head of the Wen family, one of the five wealthy families.
"Prime Minister......
"I'm not Prime Minister anymore, so please don't call me that anymore." After reminding the secretary, the letter department got into the car.
Outside, the streets were full of armed soldiers. Several armoured vehicles were parked outside the gates of the residence, as well as two barricades made of sandbags.
The commander was an army lieutenant general in his early fifties.
A small whisker in the middle of his upper lip, small narrowed eyes, and a bare head that could be used as a light bulb were so obscene that they were unbearable.
Before the car could run, it was stopped by the guards at the door.
When the window glass rolled down, he walked over and glanced inside. A pair of small eyes stared at Nobube for several seconds before the lieutenant general took two steps back and waved his hand very indifferently. The look and gesture were as if sitting in the car was a lowly pariah.
The Ministry of Information is not angry and is not qualified to be angry.
Half an hour ago, the upstart upstairs, that is, Wen Wei, came to the Prime Minister's Office with this lieutenant general, that is, the army of the British and Western commanders, and took out an edict stamped with the seal of the Emperor Sato, asking the Ministry of Information to immediately resign as Prime Minister, he was no longer a noble and respected Prime Minister.
Losing the status of prime minister, the Ministry of Information is at most just a lost veteran who does not have many people.
When he goes back to be a rich man, no one will come to embarrass him.
It's just that if you want to stay in the center of power and continue to dance with long sleeves, it is obviously unlikely.
The tune has changed dramatically, leaving the Ministry of Information only to fade away.
In fact, in the morning, after receiving the news from the sea minister, and learning that under the planning and organization of Gao Ye, the mobile fleet commanded by Lan Yun had successfully attacked the Chengjiang port of the Liang Xia Empire, and then fought with the Liang Xia Navy, the Ministry of Information knew that his career as prime minister was over.
Although he was an army general before entering politics and participated in the last war, the Ministry of Information never thought it was a wise choice to be an enemy of the Liang Xia Empire.
This political stance is closely related to his experience in the last war.
Later in the war, Nobube served as a front-line commander on the Icestorm Peninsula and personally commanded all large-scale combat operations in the final year.
Although there are no accurate figures, the number of soldiers killed under him is not a million, but 800,000.
In addition, several of his cousins and cousins, as well as many of his classmates at the Army Non-commissioned Officer and Military Academy, fell on the blood-stained battlefield, and became a stiff corpse in the ice and snow, some of which were blown to pieces, leaving not even half of the skeleton behind.
Not to mention anything else, the Ministry of Information buried more than a dozen colleagues and subordinates with his own hands.
In the most difficult times, especially in winter and spring, the officers and soldiers who had been soaked in muddy trenches for months, festering their toes, the suffocating smell of corpses, and the nightmares that would appear when they closed their eyes, often crawled out of the trenches in droves, sang war songs, and were torn to pieces by a rain of bullets.
In the months leading up to the end of the war, about 100,000 officers and soldiers sought relief in this way!
It was extremely cruel, and it could be said that the battle was extremely tragic, and the Nobu understood a truth.
It is absolutely impossible to defeat the Liang Xia Empire by military means!
It was for this reason that after the war, the Ministry of Information strongly advocated reconciliation with the Liangxia Empire and ensured the strategic security of the Saoyi Imperial State by signing a peace treaty.
It was during the reign of the Ministry of Shinbu that the Sagi Imperial State and the Liangxia Empire began to negotiate on the matter of overseas territories.
Unfortunately, not everyone thinks so.
In fact, the "main peace faction" like the Ministry of Information is only a minority, or even an absolute minority. In the Imperial State, the "main battle faction" that holds the right to speak accounts for the absolute majority. To put it more thoroughly, allowing a main peace faction like the Ministry of Information to come to power is also to serve the strategic planning of the main battle faction.
Reconciliation?
How can it be!?
Although in the Great War, the Narrow-Sized Imperial State only seized the opportunity to become a core member of the alliance group, and its real national strength and contributions were far inferior to those of other powers, but after the war, the ambitions of the main battle faction represented by Wenwei and Yingxi swelled sharply and became very arrogant and self-confident, as if in just two years, the Narrow-Sized Imperial State had become the number one power on the west coast of the Guia Ocean.
To put it mildly, the position of the Narrow-Dipping Imperial State in the Alliance was actually a reward for betraying the Liang Xia Empire.
These guys must not have thought that even the Liangxia Empire, with its vast territory, rich resources and large population, took half a century to complete industrialization, from a poor and weak traditional agricultural country to the world's largest industrial power, and then became a super hegemon.
Why did the Narrow Imperial State, which had much worse conditions, replace the Liang Xia Empire in just a few years?
Can those arrogant, arrogant guys blow tens of millions of tons of steel a year with their mouths that can blow cowhide into the sky?
In any case, the inflated ambition and the blind and arrogant confidence were on full display during the Seba Peace Conference.
If it weren't for the situation of splitting up in two, the main battle faction would definitely not sign that twenty-year lease with the Liang Xia Empire.
According to the point of view of the main battle faction, the whole world is indebted to the Narrow-Wing Imperial State, not to mention the return of the overseas territories that were not easy to get their hands on, and those colonies around the Yanhai Sea, the coast of the Fanyan Ocean, and even the Xuan Continent that were divided between the Bran Kingdom, the Locke Republic and the Newland Federation should all belong to the Narrow-Dimensional Empire.
Just because you can't talk about it doesn't mean you don't talk about it.
In the past few years, the Liangxia Empire has been making peace with the snake, in fact, to buy time.
The point is that after the "Hwaseong Treaty" and the "Luntai Treaty" were abolished, even if the Imperial State had already prepared, it would take time to expand its armaments. If it is completely at the level of the treaty period, then relying only on its own strength, the Sakuyi Imperial State is definitely not an opponent of the Liangxia Empire.
Taking the navy as an example, the main ships of the Narrow Navy are only seventy percent of the Liangxia Navy.
And the Army......
The army still don't mention it, because there is nothing worth mentioning at all.
While other powers were procuring tanks and chariots for their armies, the Narrow-Minded Army was discussing the materials and forms of bayonets, preaching the spirit of "sending the bullet to death" before stabbing it.
To this end, preparations must be made not only to expand armaments, but also to strengthen relations with allies.
But the problem is, it's not been three years!
Even if the army and navy had prepared for the worst, and the situation had begun to deteriorate three months earlier, the Ministry of Information had never imagined, or until this morning, that those guys from the main battle faction would be so impulsive, without even the slightest warning.
There must be a secret in it.
It's just that this has nothing to do with the Ministry of Information anymore.
Wenwei took over the cabinet, the main battle faction represented by Yingxi came to power, the door to peace talks has been closed, and the only thing left is to fight to the death with the Liangxia Empire.
What the Ministry of Information can do is pray that Wenwei and those guys in Yingxi will not fight an uncertain battle.
Perhaps, tomorrow will be better.
Who knows?