The Nuland Republic secretly negotiated with the Liangxia Empire, which made Tigara's mood very bad.

After going to the conference room to adjourn the meeting, Tigara returned to his study and asked the secretary to leave behind the commander of the Western Theater of Operations, Admiral Chagit, who had only recently been promoted.

In the Van Roe Army, Chagit can be regarded as a henchman of Degara.

The reason is simple: when Tigara became prime minister, Chagit was a major in the army, and within a few years he was promoted to major general. Although his performance in the following years was mediocre, and he was promoted to lieutenant general before the outbreak of the Great War, he was promoted again after only a few short months, and then became the commander-in-chief of the Western Theater as an army general under the arrangement of Tigara.

Obviously, this is not an enviable position.

As mentioned before, the main battlefield is in the northwest, and the western battlefield only plays a connecting role, and there is an unclear relationship with the three adjacent battlefields.

To put it more seriously, the Western Theater itself is a microcosm of the power structure within the Van Rowe Army.

Some of the combat units deployed in the northern defense zone centered on Jaipur are from the Northwest Theater, and the senior officers are more or less related to the combat units in the Northwest Theater. The combat units deployed in the southern defense area, especially near Udaipur, mainly came from the southern battlefield, and most of the officers and men came from the southern provinces, and only the officers and men of Meng sold nationality accounted for 30 percent. The combat units deployed in Kota mainly relied on the northern battlefield, and not only did many officers and soldiers come from the Gangaro Plain, but even the supplies and supplies were highly dependent on the northern battlefield.

Although the main forces are almost entirely deployed near Jaipur, i.e., the northwestern faction is in the majority, it does not mean that the forces of the southern and northern factions can be submissive. In fact, factional strife has always been the most serious internal contradiction in the Van Roe Army.

As a result, orders issued by the Battlefield Command may not be carried out outside of Jaipur.

If anything, this is the key to Dejarra's reluctance to trust the military generals.

For those high-ranking generals from the aristocracy, the number one goal is not to win the war, but how to gain the benefits of the war.

This has been the case not just now, but for thousands of years.

In fact, this is also a characteristic of the Southern Subcontinent.

Whether they were conquered by the Aryans from the north, or during the reign of the Cripple Empire, or even enslaved by the colonists of the Bran Kingdom, the people of this land were still divided into high and low according to their origins, and the nobles who lived in the ruling class were always nobles.

Of course, Tigara is no exception.

The Gabala family is one of the oldest nobles in the Southern Subcontinent, dating back more than 1,000 years, and has always been a core member of the ruling class.

In other words, if there are tangible benefits, those who hold the lifeblood of the kingdom of Van Luo don't mind losing this war, even if they have to be ruled by foreign powers like hundreds of years ago, after all, it is always the lowest pariahs who suffer.

In fact, this is also the key to the fact that the country has not achieved industrialization for decades, and has not even touched the threshold of industrialization.

The main force that hindered industrialization came from the aristocracy, which held the lifeblood of the country, especially the major families who controlled large amounts of land.

To put it mildly, the aristocracy was able to exploit other classes by controlling the land, to earn a good income, to live a prosperous life, and to use the plundered wealth to build up an armed force to protect its own interests.

In other words, if the reform succeeds, it is still the ruling class, and if the reform fails, it may lose everything.

Since there is no way to get more benefits, there is no need for reform.

Crucially, industrialization is based on a large number of workers who are able to participate in the mass production of society.

This means that it is necessary to improve the quality of the people and to educate more people.

The emerging industrial countries, without exception, have completed the industrial revolution that took hundreds or even hundreds of years to achieve by traditional industrial powers in just a few decades through the development of education. If Van Luo wants to become an industrial power, it also needs to increase investment in education.

It's just that educated workers are not only workers on the production line, but also promoters of social system change.

Obviously, the industrial workers were by nature the sworn enemies of the feudal ruling class, and they were bound to act in their own interests.

It is precisely for this reason that compulsory education has been carried out for decades, but it has not been able to be promoted nationwide, and more than 80% of the people are illiterate.

There are not even workers, where can industrialization begin?

If it is the same as in the past, that is, the Bran Kingdom, which plundered resources and wealth through colonial rule, it is not a big problem. After all, before the colonial rule of the Bran Kingdom, the southern subcontinent was never unified, and most of the time it was enslaved by foreigners, and the big families still lived well, not saying that they could not live at all because they were enslaved by foreigners.

If anything, the colonial rule of the Bran Kingdom has brought great benefits to the nobility.

If nothing else, the advanced weaponry from the Bran Kingdom has given the ruling aristocracy a more powerful machine of violence, thus gaining absolute superiority in the internal class struggle, and completely depriving the ruling low-level pariahs of the ability to resist.

In addition, the emergence of a ruler at a higher level has also effectively alleviated the internal strife of the ruling class.

It was during the colonial rule of the Kingdom of Bran that the sphere of influence of the princely states based on the big family stabilized.

Compared with the past few thousand years, the more than 200 years of the reign of the Bran Kingdom was actually the most stable and prosperous period in the Southern Subcontinent.

At least for the ruling aristocracy, these 200 years have been living in paradise.

Unfortunately, this is history, and history will never repeat itself.

As early as more than 100 years ago, that is, after the Liang Xia Empire first seized the hegemony of Fanyanyang, the aristocracy of the Southern Subcontinent found that this new powerful existence was completely different from the Bran Kingdom, and the object of its plunder was not resources and wealth, but something more essential.

Labor to develop resources and create wealth!

Of course, the princely rulers were among them.

The point is that the number of rulers is so small that they cannot satisfy the appetite of the new hegemon.

In addition, the Liangxia Empire did not recognize the ruling power of the nobility, nor did it think of developing spokespersons, or plundering resources and wealth through the nobility.

Fundamentally speaking, the Liangxia Empire's retreat in the Southern Subcontinent was not colonial rule, but a national liberation movement!

It was in the following decades, before the outbreak of the First Global War, that the influence of the Liangxia Empire made the enlightened aristocracy of the Southern Subcontinent realize the importance of national independence, and gave rise to the idea of independent statehood and comprehensive national unification.

The Gabala family was one of the first enlightened aristocrats to support the national independence movement.

It's just that the enlightened aristocracy is only a very small minority.

The reason is also simple: the national independence movement will inevitably be accompanied by earth-shaking social change, and the ruling order on which the aristocracy depends will surely collapse. Even if the aristocracy were able to seize the opportunities of social change by relying on the accumulated wealth, as well as knowledge and culture that were more valuable than wealth, it did not mean that all the great families would have a place in the new ruling class.

In fact, the vast majority of the traditional aristocracy will be eliminated by this great change and reduced to the object of rule.

Obviously, this is the key to the reluctance of the ruling class of the Fanluo Kingdom to bow down to the Liangxia Empire.

The core problem is actually very simple.

Looking at the world, only the Van Luo Kingdom, the Southern Subcontinent to be precise, has the labor force needed to take the Liang Xia Empire to the next level.

Don't forget, the Liangxia Empire is still the most populous country in the world.

The huge population size has brought great benefits, such as the world's largest industrial strength, unparalleled war potential and super development momentum; There are also some problems that are difficult to solve, such as the fact that no country can undertake the low-end manufacturing industry transferred from the industrial upgrading of the Liangxia Empire, let alone provide the market needed to complete the industrial upgrading. As a result, the industrial upgrading of the Liangxia Empire has been slow, and with the development of productive forces, the internal contradictions caused by the gap between the rich and the poor have become more and more serious.

Specifically, the Liangxia Empire had both the most cutting-edge high-tech industries and a large number of labor-intensive light textile industries.

There is no doubt that aeronautical engineers must be paid far more than textile workers.

Although the Liangxia authorities have eliminated and narrowed the gap between the rich and the poor through taxation, policies and other means, at most they have only temporarily alleviated social contradictions, and have not completely resolved them. The point is that in the end, the intervention of the Liang Xia authorities will have to be paid by society.

The most obvious effect is to force local companies to move outward, especially in low-wage manufacturing.

To say, as early as a few years ago, the problem of the "industrial hollowing" of the Liangxia Empire had already emerged. It was only after Zhou Yongtao moved into the official residence of the first assistant that he began to devote himself to military reform and increase social investment through military construction, which did not make the problem of "industrial hollowing out" more serious.

Of course, this abnormal state of affairs will certainly not be able to be sustained for long.

Fundamentally, it is still necessary to speed up the pace of industrial upgrading.

Then, it is necessary to open up a large enough overseas market to promote industrial upgrading, and this overseas market must also assume the heavy responsibility of receiving low-end manufacturing.

To put it simply, there must be enough industrial population to participate in the large-scale production of society.

Obviously, this can only be the Southern Subcontinent.

Crucially, in order to be able to control this market more effectively, the only feasible way is to return the southern subcontinent to the era of the princely states, break it up into several, if not dozens of countries, and then integrate these scattered markets through a loose military-political alliance.

In fact, this is also the key to the Liangxia Empire's refusal to let go of the Fanluo Kingdom.

In this regard, Tigala had a very clear understanding, and had long realized that neither the enlightened nobles nor those old-fashioned nobles could gain a foothold under the rule of the Liangxia Empire, and the Van Luo civilization, which had lasted for thousands of years, was very likely to die out.

Don't forget, the Liangxia Empire is also an ancient civilization with a history of thousands of years, and most of the time it has maintained a unified situation, and its culture has basically not been broken. From a purely national and cultural point of view, the Liangxia Empire was a real traditional empire.

It is conceivable that along with the arrival of capital, industry and technology, there is also a cultural and ideological invasion.

If anything, the invasion of culture and ideas has already arrived.

After the Second Global War, under the vigorous promotion of the Liang Xia Empire, Eastern culture has overshadowed Western culture and become the mainstream of world culture.

If nothing else, Liangxia replaced Bran after the war and became the world's first lingua franca on the grounds that it was "the most widely spoken".

As for pop culture, not to mention.

Obviously, this is certainly not a good thing for the ruling class of the kingdom of Van Luo.

The key point is that after more than 200 years of colonial rule by the Bran Kingdom, coupled with the inertia of history, the national culture of the Van Luo Kingdom is more inclined to the West. Restricted by objective factors, especially geographical isolation, even in the same huge continent, the exchanges between the Van Luo Kingdom and the Eastern culture are not very close. In fact, over the past few thousand years, it has been the Brahma kingdom that has influenced Eastern civilizations, such as Buddhism, which originated in the southern subcontinent.

It is precisely for this reason that after the Second Southern Subcontinent War, the successive prime ministers of the Van Luo Kingdom all advocated an alliance with the Nuland Republic, relying on foreign aid to fight against the powerful Liangxia Empire, and protect their core interests, especially the hegemony in the southern subcontinent.

Unlike previous prime ministers, Tigara has been more proactive and has confronted the core issues.

No matter who it unites, if it wants to develop and grow, it must take its own development as the foundation.

Then, social reform is necessary.

As far as domestic reform is concerned, Tigara's number one enemy is not the Liangxia Empire, but the conservative elements in the country who hold real power and occupy high positions.

Among them, the senior generals of the army are the mainstay.

Obviously, this is also the key to Tigala's bitter ploy and to bring the kingdom of Van Luo into the war.

Only the largest war could give Tigara the opportunity to penetrate into the heart of the military's power, thereby removing the main obstacle to reform.

Of course, there is certainly a long way to go in the reform involving the national capital.

Although through the previous farce, Tigara had eliminated a large number of high-ranking generals and basically controlled the combat units in the northwest battlefield, but from the overall situation, especially in order to maintain the stability of the domestic situation, Tigara did not target the combat units in the other three battlefields.

Crucially, I didn't have the ability to do so at the time.

What Tigara can control now is actually only the combat troops in the Northwest Battlefield.

Even if the main force of the Vatican army, especially the main force of the army, is almost all in the northwest battlefield, in terms of the overall situation, the other three battlefields are also very important.

Among them, the western battlefield is the mainstay, or now the western battlefield is the mainstay.

After controlling the western battlefield, you can intervene in the southern battlefield and the northern battlefield!

It is in this way that Tigara reuses Chagit.

Although the Chajit family was the largest landowner in Madhya Pradesh, owning tens of millions of acres of land on the south bank of the Gangalo River, their political stance was similar to that of the Gambal family, and they both supported reforms, believing that they could make the country grow and gain more benefits.

The key is actually the influence of the Chagit family in Madhya Pradesh.

Let him go out of the way, at least he will be able to get the support of the northern faction.

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