"On October 11, the Mongolian Front launched a diplomatic breakthrough operation as planned, and the assault forces of all directions are progressing smoothly, and the 2nd Raider Group has successfully destroyed a 500-meter-long railway line on the shores of Lake Baikal yesterday......"

"The 1st Army of Chita has launched a counteroffensive against the enemy in front of it on October 12 according to the scheduled plan, and by yesterday night, it had advanced 20 kilometers on the main assault area, captured 8,700 enemy men, and it has now been ascertained that the enemy's main force is retreating to the line of the Onon River, and the 1st Army has launched a follow-up pursuit in an effort to destroy the enemy in the Oloviana area......"

The sonorous and powerful voice of General Hook, chief of the Operations Division of the General Staff, swirled and spread in the cold air, constantly shattering the sleepy insects that occasionally scurried over someone's head.

This is the Zhongnanhai Annex, the base camp conference room, October 14, the eighth year of Guangxing, close to 12 o'clock at noon.

The dry, cold wind stirred the blue velvet curtains, but no one offered to close the windows, as if everyone cared more about the fresh air than the cold wind.

"Alright, that's it, Prime Minister, can you rest?"

Minister of National Defense, Wuwei Gong Liu Yun "asked" the Prime Minister and Zhide Gongwen Yi in an unquestioning tone.

Wen Yi nodded and announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Everyone lazily exited the conference room, and Wen Yi habitually searched through the crowd, trying to find the figure of his most loyal student and closest friend Zhang Zhigao, but saw Zhang Zhigao quickly flash out of the conference room, and there was no intention of waiting for him at all.

Wen Yi felt a little unaccustomed, but he didn't catch up, he just stayed in his seat, slowly put away the documents on the table, handed them to the secretary who came to help, and walked towards the door unhurriedly.

A hand grabbed Wen Yi's shoulder.

"Let's go for a walk? I'm going to walk with you today. ”

There was a meaningless smile on the face of the person who spoke, and in Wen Yi's view, this smile was between sincerity and danger.

The two of them left the Greek-style bungalow and walked towards the back garden of the courtyard, not by the route that Wen Yi and Zhang Zhigao frequented, but by a bluestone path that led directly to the edge of the Nanhaizi, through a verdant pine forest, around several gurgling waterery, vine-paved rockery, extending to the water's edge full of chrysanthemums, and terminating in front of an elegant octagonal pavilion.

I don't know why, the footsteps of the two are unusually fast, not like a walk at all, but it has become a race walking competition, and after a while, they entered the octagonal pavilion near the water, and the blue ground and gold-edged plaque on the pavilion reads "Qingzhi" two big characters.

The two of them only talked about some inconsequential trivial matters along the way, but when they arrived at the Qingzhi Pavilion, they both seemed to expect something, and suddenly kicked those trivial things out of the Nine Heavens Cloud.

It was Liu Yun who opened his mouth first.

"Recently, we have rarely communicated, probably because I didn't take the initiative to consult you, mainly after the outbreak of the war, the military situation on the front line was tense, and I focused on accusing the troops, and I didn't pay much attention to other issues......"

Wen Yi immediately interrupted his cliché: "I know that you have a question to ask, just say it." ”

Liu Yun took off his marshal's hat full of gorgeous feathers, put it in his hand, stared at the hat, as if he wanted to question the hat, and said, "What is the matter with military and national education?" Why does the Ministry of Education not know what to do with the Ministry of Defense? Did Russell Lan do what you instructed? ”

Wen Yi didn't hesitate too much, and replied bluntly: "Since you will ask these questions, then you must have also learned the answer to the first question from your Eagle Wolf team. I can answer the last two questions together, and Luo Sulan did what I wanted, and I don't know what the Ministry of Defense did, just because a specific plan had not yet been formulated, and after the specific plan was brought out, I would naturally take it to the regular meeting of the Cabinet and announce it. ”

Liu Yun patted his hat, shook his head and said, "I know that you have something to say, just say it, I think neither of us likes useless clichés." ”

"You want to say I'm doing this against you?"

"It's not a question, I just want to know what you think."

Wen Yi suddenly felt as if his heart had been hit by something, and it was sour for a while, but a black cloud roared in, covering everything in his heart.

Liu Yun took a step forward, patted him on the shoulder, and said to him in the tone that he had been familiar with since childhood: "Tell me everything as before, I don't care what you think, I just want to know the truth." I know that I am not an open-minded person, but I feel that I still have a little consciousness to fight for my ideals, and I hope you will not confuse me with the tools I use. ”

"Of course," Liu Yun's smile flashed with a hint of playfulness that did not match his age, "If you want to take revenge on me for breaking your two ribs more than thirty years ago, I have nothing to say, so I have to let you break my two ribs." ”

Wen Yi calmed down, and wanted to press back the memories and touches that had just surfaced, but they were all like gourds, holding down this end and floating the other.

"Did I think too badly of him? No, you can't be emotional, Liu Yun is Liu Yun, Wu Wei Gong is Wu Wei Gong, the two are one, but not one, and the person with power is always the first suspect...... But it didn't matter anymore, and now he had to make everything clear, and no matter what he thought of it or how he would deal with it in the future, there was no need to think about it. ”

Some messy thoughts flashed through Wen Yi's mind, breaking through the dark cloud that had just covered everything, and repeatedly beating, swaying, and shattering in front of his eyes.

"In fact, my idea is very simple, the greater the power, the greater the suspicion of doing evil, the original bad character of the people, often because of the convenience and sense of security brought by the power and mischief, and the good character of the individual often can not resist the corrosion of power, even if the power can stick to their moral bottom line, but it is also likely to do bad things with good intentions, from their own opinion, so that the majority of the people suffer."

"You and I have reached the pinnacle of power, so we are all suspects, and we all have a great possibility of doing evil deeds that will bring disaster to the country and the people, and it is conceivable that we may also cause disasters to countless people for the sake of what we think is justice. The evil deeds we can do are far from being comparable to ordinary criminals, and sometimes the harm caused to society by a single word we say may not be comparable to the bad deeds done by tens of thousands of murderers. In the history of our time and space, a certain great leader was hot-headed, shouted a few slogans, set a few targets, and tens of millions of people jumped into the sky in the unprecedented Great Leap Forward, turned into starving ghosts, and died when they died, and the evildoers did not have to pay any price, but only designated the cause as a 'natural disaster' in the history textbooks. ”

Liu Yun spread his hands and said with a smile: "I know all these things very well, so we must practice democracy, give the people knowledge, give the people power, and use the power of the people to curb the evil deeds of those in power." ”

"Yes, we have established a constitutional monarchy, promulgated a constitution, opened a parliament, elected parliamentarians, produced a cabinet by the National Assembly, and the cabinet directly administers the country, and we have gradually achieved judicial independence. All this can be carried out normally because of the army in your hands, the army firmly in your hands, which extinguished the counterattack of the old guards at the most critical moment of reform, and then eliminated the bandits and created a peaceful and stable domestic environment. But now, this army, whose main purpose is to be loyal to the individual rather than to the country, has become a huge hidden danger of the democratic system, and this army is not universally loyal to a specific person, but is loyal at all levels, relying on each other, full of cultivation and gratitude, and densely woven a network of relationships between the same levels, and colluding with each other between the military, government, and business, so that it is very likely to form an unstoppable warlord power, and once the restraint at the highest level is lost, the warlords will fight each other for interests, and the civil fight will not be able to come to the armed fight. There is no development in this country. ”

Liu Yun exhaled lightly and shook the hat in his hand, the smile on his face had long since dissipated.

"I know, you're saying that my officer corps has jeopardized democracy and must be eliminated. And you don't think you will personally destroy the officer corps, which I have always relied on, so you plan to build a line of defense among the people against the expansion of the warlords' power in the form of military and national education. ”

Wen Yi nodded hesitantly: "Probably, that's what it means." ”

"Do you think I'm going to let the warlords expand for the sake of their power?"

Liu Yun stared at Wen Yi tightly, without too much emotion in his eyes.

Wen Yi did not answer.

"For what? Because of Wu Dingguo? Because I knew about the collective corruption of the old officer corps and did not interfere? ”

Wen Yi's eyes looked at the water surface that was swept up by the wind, but still did not answer.

"Then let me tell you, Wu Dingguo must be tried publicly, and he must pay the price for what he has done, but now I can't touch him, it's a time of war, and it's time to employ people, I can't put most of the senior cadres in the whole army in prison, and I can't affect the emotions of other people because of the punishment of Wu Dingguo alone. However, even after the end of the war, except for Wu Ding, I still won't move anyone else, Wu Dingguo is too out of line and is resented by many people, it doesn't matter if he disappears. But I can't expand the purge, in that case the blow to the army will be too serious, the empire needs those people, after all, they are from the year 2025, just like us, no matter what their talents, even with their seniority and prestige in the army, if they are eliminated at once, I'm afraid the army will be in chaos......"

Wen Yi couldn't help but interject: "Then don't clear them, slowly, remove their military powers, and then disrupt the middle and lower levels through the large-scale transfer of personnel across regions, arms and services, so that each other's allegiance and relationship will lose their practical significance." ”

"In this way, I will no longer have the power to fight."

"Do you care?"

"Everyone has lost protection, if someone wants to carry out a military coup like Ding Jieyun again......"

"As long as no one holds the power like Ding Jieyun anymore, then a coup d'état of his magnitude will not be possible."

Liu Yun's lips twitched nervously: "So, you want the military to get out of our control and let the boring politicians in Congress play with it?" ”

"The military of a democratic country should not be subordinate to someone or a party. The army belongs to the state, the army belongs to the people, the Congress is the representative organ of the people, and there is nothing wrong with the Congress supervising the army! Professional politicians are certainly boring, but they are better than warlords who are not boring, and military interference in politics is the real scourge! ”

Liu Yun showed a trace of contempt on his face: "Congress? You yourself know that according to the Electoral Qualifications Act, the right to vote is only possible if the amount of tax paid reaches a certain level, and the qualifications of the electees are also regulated according to the amount of tax paid and the level of education, and the total number of registered voters in the country at the time of the general election in 1900 was less than 30 million, and the number of citizens over the age of 18 in the country was almost 300 million at that time, and the voters elected by only one-tenth of the total number of voters of the appropriate age. Can you also call yourself a representative of the people? ”

Wen Yi felt a little incredible, he didn't think that this question was still necessary to explain - especially for people like Liu Yun, but since the other party asked, he still had to answer positively: "There is indeed a tax limit in the electoral qualifications, which is mainly to prevent the occurrence of bribery and improve the quality of elections, I think it is also easy to understand, the people who have reached a certain level of tax payment obviously have a certain amount of property, and they also have more opportunities to receive secondary and higher education, and have more leisure and ways to understand current affairs and politics." In this way, it is not easy to be bought by small favors, and they will have the initiative to participate in politics, and they will also treat the election with a more serious and responsible attitude. Of course, illiterate people cannot be legislators, and what is the use of people who can't write bills and can't understand the constitution when they become legislators? Those who can only deceive the public with false words and have no real talent are even more a disaster for the country! ”

"Elite governance, this is what you have always been obsessed with, but in this way, how can the interests of the lower classes be safeguarded? Don't the poor lose their power? Of course, the elites will defend the interests of the elites, even if it is to the detriment of the interests of the common people! The constitution can only be regarded as the constitution of the tenth of the people, and the congress can only be regarded as the parliament of the tenth of the people, is this democracy and freedom? Is this democracy? ”

Democracy is not a religious belief, democracy is only a political system, this system does not contain the meaning of absolute fairness, its main significance lies in freedom, to put it bluntly, it is to try to protect the people from the encroachment of power, to ensure that the people give full play to their wisdom and talents to create spiritual and material wealth. Fairness is the principle of democracy, but it is not the goal, the purpose of democracy is to guarantee the freedom of citizens. If great democracy is immediately launched now, and 300 million people are elected to each other without discrimination, a large number of voters with a low level of knowledge can easily be instigated by scoundrels who have no talent and no virtue but are good at verbal disputes and intrigues, and a large number of poor voters can easily be bought by landlords and rich businessmen for a few small sums of money, and how can the freedom of the broad masses of the people be guaranteed if those who are immoral and incompetent are elected to the parliamentarians? As for the power demands of the people of the lower classes, with the development of the economy, more and more people will be eligible to vote, and after the popularization of education increases, more people will also be eligible to be elected......

Speaking of this, Wen Yi's face changed and he raised his voice: "Liu Yun, don't you already believe in this system?" Want to break it up? ”

"I'm just afraid that this system will turn into a bad democracy that oppresses the majority. After all, China is different from Europe and the United States; even after more than 10 years of transformation, 300 million of the more than 400 million people still remain in the rural areas, and most of them have neither money nor education; although many peasants have subleased land, they are also burdened with heavy state debts, and they may not be able to repay them in another 10 or 8 years. Many farmers also became workers in agricultural companies, but were paid a meagre salary, barely enough to support their families. As for the industrial workers, the standard of living is also very low, and the coal miners of the famous Han Yeping Company do not pay enough for a month's salary to buy rice to sustain two people. The vast majority of your so-called elite nationals live in the cities, without worrying about food and clothing, they do not know the countryside, and they have little enthusiasm to care about the lives of the rural people, and all the business elites think about is to buy raw materials from the countryside at the lowest possible price, and then sell industrial products of varying quality to the peasants at the highest possible price. What is the attitude of the elite citizens even towards the workers around them? Look at the newspapers run by the business tycoons, full of bungalows, restaurants, horse races, and tours, which show no concern for the condition of the workers, and the state-run newspapers only pretend to show concern and sympathy for the 'victimized workers' in the event of a major accident, and the elites of the National Assembly have never put forward a bill to improve the lives of the workers, and I remember that someone in the Hunan Provincial Assembly once proposed such a bill, but it was rejected......"

Wen Yi's face was flushed with a faint cyan: "Now we are in the period of primitive accumulation of capital, in order to allow the country's industry to take off quickly, it is also the general practice of most countries to use the scissors difference in the price of industrial and agricultural products to deprive farmers of developing industry." During such a period, the standard of living of industrial workers is kept at a low level, which is conducive to maintaining the price advantage of industrial products, and is of great significance in blocking the invasion of foreign industrial products......"

Liu Yun put the majestic marshal's hat on his head.

"And then?"

"What?"

"What will happen if it goes on like this, have you thought about it?"

Wen Yi was surprised, looked Liu Yun up and down, and nodded: "That, isn't it the rapid industrialization of the country and the rapid development of industry......

Liu Yun shook his head in disappointment: "You don't understand, the next thing is that the peasants and workers who have been brutally deprived are getting poorer and poorer and can't afford to buy industrial products that are mass-produced, and then there is overproduction, factories are closed, workers are unemployed, and the so-called economic crisis is coming." How to solve the economic crisis? The first is to subsidize by the state, destroying surplus goods and production equipment, while at the same time the state will take in the construction of labor-intensive infrastructure projects such as road and dam construction to absorb unemployed workers, which will impose a heavy financial burden on the state and will also waste a lot of social wealth. The second way is to pass on the crisis to the colonies, dumping surplus goods into the colonies and economic vassals, but countries that do not have enough colonies cannot do so. The third method is to militarize the national economy, put the surplus production resources into arms production, and then seize the colonies with strong military strength, and use the resources and markets of the colonies to solve problems, but the risks are too great, and if we really start a war, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses or simply complete failure, and if we do not fight, the armaments produced will gradually become obsolete and obsolete. When none of these three methods can solve the crisis, revolution and unrest will break out, the poor will demand equity in terms of property, careerists or opposition forces will demand a redistribution of power, and the poor will often be used by careerists or opposition forces to create a new society that, although authoritarian, can temporarily meet the needs of the majority of the poor. ”

Wen Yi subconsciously twisted the second button of the suit on his chest, he had some ominous premonitions, and some pictures flashed in front of him, like a movie rewind, and the things in these pictures have fallen back to their original places.

"Then, the new ruling power will gradually form a new elite, using the power in its hands to start a new round of dispossession and oppression of the civilian class for various purposes."

Wen Yi said, put his hand back in his pants pocket, turned around, and wanted to go back.

Liu Yun grabbed his shoulder.

"Do you know why I want to control the army firmly? Because I believe what a great leader said – power comes from the barrel of a gun. I know that I want to see a country that is rich and democratic, but for me, prosperity is the most important thing, democracy is secondary, and I do not believe that a democracy maintained by a few elites can make this country dominated by peasants continue to prosper, and if something happens, I need to control the situation with the army in my hands, and if necessary, I can end this system and create a new system that suits the situation at that time. ”

"The kind of thing you expect, it shouldn't happen. As long as the main body of the current system remains unchanged in 20 years, China will no longer be a country dominated by peasants, at least the industrial population will exceed the agricultural population, and at that time, the elite will not be just one-tenth, but will gradually increase to one-fifth, one-third, one-half, this change will take time, the environment, and the most important thing is still the protection of the system. I have nothing to say if you insist on retaining control of the army, but I would like to ask you, do you think that the judgments and decisions you make in the days to come will be absolutely correct? ”

Liu Yun let go of his hand and began to walk back, a gust of cold wind swept by, and the pine waves rose, but he couldn't hide his sonorous and powerful answer: "I have self-confidence and can stick to the bottom line of my ideals." ”

Wen Yi returned him with a sneer.

"As I have already said, good intentions can do bad things, and mentally believing that you will never make a mistake is the most terrible mistake. Moreover, justice is always relative, and the more emphasis is placed on justice, the greater the possibility of doing evil, and absolute justice is absolute evil, because the essence of every absolute justice is to require unlimited bloodshed. Your ideal is to build a prosperous and strong country, and democracy and freedom are secondary, but if there is no democracy and freedom, this prosperity and strength can only stay on the surface. I ask you, what is the purpose of prosperity? Conquer the world? Isn't it for the sake of a better life for the people? If this wealth and strength are only to satisfy the ambitions and selfish desires of a few, then how long can this wealth last? Aren't the lessons of the German Empire and the old Japanese Empire enough? ”

"As you say, the German Empire and the Japanese Empire were ultimately defeated, but they made history and left a glorious page in history, and they quickly recovered after the war as economic powers. What does it matter to us how the people here live? Have you forgotten? We are in another world, where everything is our tool, the tool for accomplishing our dreams. We can't wait any longer, the empire needs to be fully militarized, and resources must be concentrated on the military aspect, because the cost of democracy is too high, and the decision-making efficiency is too low, which is not suitable for China's national conditions, and it is a burden that hinders China's outward expansion. ”

Wen Yi turned his head and stared at Liu Yun strangely: "You're not joking, are you?" Are you going to militarize the country? ”

"What's so bad about militarism? From now on, it will take ten years to completely militarize the country, comprehensively expand its armaments and warfare, take advantage of the opportunity of the World War to rush into the troubled waters, seize the colonies of the European powers around our country, annex Siberia, and if possible, advance to the Middle and Near East, join forces with the German-Austrian-Turkish alliance, defeat the Entente, and re-divide the colonies of the world! ”

Wen Yi froze, he didn't expect this kind of thing to exist in Liu Yun's head, he originally thought that he knew Liu Yun very well, but now he had to admit that he was really a failure.

"Ten years? Are you saying that in ten years, we will be able to defeat the Entente together with the Allies and change the order of the world? ”

"What's wrong with that? What is there to doubt about what China was like thirteen years ago, and how much we have achieved in thirteen years? ”

"Well, let me tell you, thirteen years ago, the total tonnage of the Chinese Navy ranked tenth in the world, with a total of 78,000 tons, while the total tonnage of the Japanese Navy, which ranked eleventh in the world at that time, was only 45,000 tons. Thirteen years ago, China's annual fiscal revenue was 780 million taels of silver, more than three times that of Japan. Thirteen years ago, although the Chinese Army did not completely adopt a Western-style establishment, its main force was basically equipped with Western-style guns and artillery, and its equipment level was on par with that of the Japanese Army, but far surpassed that of the other side in numbers. The Qing Empire did not lack foreign guns and artillery, nor did it lack ironclad warships, and the empire's factories could make guns, ammunition, and cruisers by themselves, and they also had the money to buy ironclad warships, and the crux of the problem was the rigidity and decay of the political system, which made it impossible for China's vast manpower, material resources, and financial resources to be transformed into the actual combat effectiveness of the army. The main point of our reform lies in the change of the political system, supplemented by a comprehensive reform of the economy, military and culture, and the integration of the original manpower, material, and financial resources, so that they can be effectively used in the military field, thus defeating Japan, but the role of the change in the political system in promoting the economy cannot be sustained forever......

"Don't we still have super-advanced technology? You can just use it all! ”

Wen Yi let out a long sigh and responded to Liu Yun's question with an extremely painful expression.

"If Zhong Xiahuo asked this question, I would have laughed at most and finished, I didn't think you would do such a thing...... Before that, Zhong Xiahuo complained more than once, complaining that there were no automatic rifles and automatic grenade launchers, no armored combat vehicles, no combat helicopters, no laptops, no helmet displays, no satellite locators, no nuclear missiles and the like, and I had nothing to say. For material products, it is one thing to know how to make them, but it is another thing to be able to make them cheaply. Just like in our time and space, the principle of computer chips is not a secret, but it took decades for our country to reach the point of independent research and development, and the manufacturing process of nuclear bombs is even made public on the Internet, but in fact, how many countries can build nuclear bombs that can be used practically? The most important scientific and technological projects for economic development, such as biotechnology to improve the yield and quality of agricultural products, require a long process of infrastructure construction and technology popularization, because what we bring from 2025 is not hundreds of tons of rice seeds and biopesticides, but only a few agricultural and forestry textbooks and a few samples of hybrid rice seeds. Another example is the production of steel, the so-called advanced technology is just a few pages of formula information copied from a research institute of Harbin Institute of Technology, used in production, can only reduce costs and improve quality to a certain extent, to improve output, fundamentally or increase capital investment, and funds do not fall out of thin air, but to rely on a little bit of accumulation on weekdays, even if it is a debt, it must be paid off with interest. In the manufacture of weapons, it may be possible to give full play to the advanced nature, but weapons are not means of production or consumer products, they are purely consumable things, and it costs money to manufacture weapons, and the more complex the weapon, the more expensive it will be. For ultra-simple weapons such as small mortars, it doesn't matter how much is made, while machine guns and automatic rifles are much more complicated, and mass production also involves the supply of ammunition, and the few arsenals left by the Qing Empire can still produce cheap and durable Mauser rifles, so now the main weapon of the infantry is still the Mauser rifle, which is mainly from an economic point of view. The most important thing in the development of military strength is financial strength, relying on feudal squeezing and looting can not maintain a modern army with high consumption, the overall prosperity of the national economy is the right way to increase fiscal revenue, the militarization of the national economy is an evil way, it can only make the economy develop abnormally, resources are concentrated in heavy industry related to the military, it does not produce superfluous consumer goods, its main product is munitions, arms can only be consumed in war, if the war stalemate, national wealth and national resources will be continuously exhausted in the war, This is tantamount to using the power of the whole country to create a flower that continues to bloom. ”

Liu Yun let go of the hand on Wen Yi's shoulder: "Why do you only think about the stalemate in the war?" What if the war is constantly won? As long as the benefits seized exceed the war losses, isn't it? ”

"What if the war is lost? In the first month of the war, the weapons reserves were exhausted, the newly upgraded combat reserve divisions could not receive a single artillery, the ammunition consumption of the participating troops exceeded the expected level, and in the first month they consumed twice as much ammunition as the ration, and the ammunition that was originally estimated to last for one year is now estimated to be only available for half a year, and the arsenal had to produce reserves at full capacity. In the first month of the war, most of the surplus of previous years was eaten up, and even if all the measures to increase taxes, fees, and currency issuance were used, if the war dragged on and did not end by the end of next year, we would have to rely on foreign debts to get by. And I'm sure that even if we win, the Russians won't pay the reparations, because when they have to negotiate, it's when the banks of any country won't borrow money from them anymore – not that they won't pay, but that they don't have any money to pay. Isn't it necessary to risk the fortunes of a country to fight against Russia, let alone a world war on a much larger scale, and to stand in the same league with the doomed Germans? ”

Liu Yun shrugged, waved his hand and smiled: "I found that you really have no imagination at all. You have to remember that we are creating a whole new history, a time and space in which Germany was not destined to surrender in 1918 because of the emergence of a powerful China. World War I finally broke out under the impetus of the irreversible tide of history, and the Chinese Empire, as a member of the Central Powers, made great trouble in the Far East, devouring the vast colonies of the British Empire in the southwest, and attacking the Russian Empire in the northwest and the German Empire. The Imperial Expeditionary Force went out to the Caspian Sea, joined up with the allies of the German Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, swept the Middle East, swept North Africa, carved up the main colonies of Britain and France in Asia and Africa, and completely depleted the war resources of Britain and France......"

"Prior to this, the United States joined the side of the Entente in order to prevent the Allies from dominating the world, and finally won the victory for the Entente with its world-leading industrial production."

"It looks like we have a big disagreement."

"Democracies, or militaristic states, seem to be fundamentally divided."

Liu Yun lifted the stubble on his chin, and his eyes penetrated with contradictory emotions.

"In this way, there is one person who has to step down, or else he will become an obstacle to another."

Wen Yi's cloudy pupils met Liu Yun's gaze without hesitation: "At this time, of course, the dying person will automatically withdraw, but I am sure that even so, the obstacle is far from being eliminated, and I am afraid that it will continue to grow and spread, covering the world like a vine on that rockery." ”

"You've been aware of this for a long time?"

"Yes, I have long realized that I want to do something for hundreds of millions of Chinese, not just sacrifice something for an ethereal idea."

Liu Yun looked at Wen Yi's uncompromising stubborn expression, and finally made up his mind.

"After this war is over, I will run for the post of prime minister, hoping to use the power of the Chinese People's Party."

"After this war is over, I will retire from politics, and it will not matter to me whether it is the prime minister or the Chinese People's Party."

"Aren't you going to be an advisor to the new prime minister or a position like home secretary?"

"I need to rest, and I find that I've been too tired to be worth it for more than a decade."

After Wen Yi finished speaking, he took a step, Liu Yun hurriedly quickened his pace to keep up, and shouted in his ear: "You care so much about the so-called people here? They are people from another time and space, it has nothing to do with us at all, as long as they are used, whether they are free or not, whether they live happily or not, is it necessary to care so much? ”

Wen Yi did not stop, and only spat out a small string of sharp words in his mouth: "They are all Chinese like us." ”