"Very well, since the navy is so confident, I am looking forward to it and waiting for the navy to report victory. I would like to ask Chief of Staff Yan to send a telegram to Commander Sa that in this battle, the destruction of the combined fleet of the Indian Ocean Entente is the top priority, and we should not hesitate to sacrifice, strengthen our will, give full play to the superiority of our army, remove in one fell swoop the biggest obstacle to the maritime communication of the German, Austrian, and Turkish allies, and smash the other side's strategy of trying to contain the main force of our navy in the Indian Ocean and wait for the US navy to resume a joint counterattack. As for the Pacific theater, until the Indian Ocean decides the winner, we will temporarily use the existing naval strength to deal with it, and hope that the fleets of all sides will actively cooperate with the land forces in the theater, deploy more suspicious positions, bluff, and do their best to obstruct them, so as to maintain the current front as the mainstay, and if necessary, they can take the initiative to move in, abandon secondary strongholds, and ensure the fundamental points -- I also ask Chief of Staff Yan to convey the commanders of the fleets of all quarters on his behalf. ”

"On behalf of all the officers and men of the East Asian United Navy, I would like to thank the emperor for his encouragement——"

With Yan Fu bowing his head and sitting down respectfully, even if all the military orders of the army and navy within the scope of the chief of the general staff's authority are over, the next step will be the business of "commander-in-chief" carried out with the supreme command power in a broad sense, in addition to military orders.

Under the premise that the whole country unanimously conducts a general war and the National Assembly is suspended and relinquishes power, in the capacity of the emperor and supreme commander, with the authority of a coup d'état, bypassing the constitution and the cabinet, and directly facing the military-related committees to carry out work, including actual administrative affairs, who would dare not say a word?

At this point, there is no government agency that does not have such and such a relationship with military affairs, and all government departments have joined this and that military-related committee, and the control of each committee is actually equivalent to the control of the entire imperial central government, which is equivalent to depriving the prime minister of the statutory powers.

In fact, before Liang Gensheng and Pan Guochen's counterinsurgency army entered the city. Yang Zhengjin has been in front of Zhang Zhigao and his wife. Xiang Qianhua promised to give up the dominance of government affairs from now on, and set up a foreign affairs committee led by him to oversee foreign affairs, and the committee was directly responsible to the supreme commander - the emperor was determined to govern himself. Isn't the regent moving his seat in a hurry?

Of course, necessary compensation is indispensable, but fortunately, Yang Zhengjin does not have the same ambition as Liu Bailiang and Zhang Yaoqian, at least he seems to be an easily satisfied person-

Thinking of this, Qianhua subconsciously glanced at Yang Zhengjin, only to see that he was looking down for the materials in his briefcase. It's a diligent appearance. The heart is slightly relaxed. Picked up the crystal cup on the table, took a sip of water, and turned his expectant gaze to Zhang Zhigao: "Now I ask the Internal Affairs Committee to brief on the current situation of domestic politics, public security, public opinion, etc., for the reference of the Ministry of Resources and Military Affairs and other committees." ”

Zhang Zhigao got up according to the order, propped up the table with both hands, and said eloquently: "Yes - the internal affairs are huge and complicated, and there are many clues, so I will choose to give a briefing, and there are mistakes and omissions." I also hope that the emperor and you will correct the point. ”

"First of all, the political situation: since the transfer of power to the National Assembly, members of various political parties have continued to stay in Beijing, write articles in newspapers and magazines, give speeches in school squares, gather officials, gentlemen, businessmen, and people, and liaise with celebrities and celebrities in various provinces. Judge political affairs and wars. Each has its own insights, and the mainstream is certainly positive. People who are inclined to the government, however, have their own intentions, and there will inevitably be remarks that hinder the overall situation...... Despite the persuasion of the government in various ways, a small number of legislators and celebrities still rely on the Constitution as the backing, speak out unscrupulously, and have a bad influence, and have no choice but to arrest and detain a number of leading figures for crimes such as obstructing national security. In particular, before and after the current rebellion, the major political parties were generally skeptical of the government's sincerity in returning power to the Diet after the war, and hoped that the Diet would play a more active role in wartime......

"The second is public security: Since the beginning of the war, in order to prevent espionage and chaos and stabilize the people's minds, the police, national security organs, and the military police headquarters have cooperated to carry out a nationwide public security purge, severely cracking down on criminal gangs in various localities, making all-out efforts to suppress all kinds of political and religious violent groups, and executing a number of serious and habitual criminals who are extremely angry and harmful to the people, and cracking a number of major and extraordinarily serious espionage cases with the assistance of the people...... After more than half a year of intensive rectification, the sharp deterioration of public order since the three-year economic crisis in Chengxian has been fundamentally reversed, and the public order situation in the whole country is the best in the past 10 years. Of course, in the course of the rectification, some lower-level organs have overdone the correction and arbitrarily expanded the scope of the crackdown, and some law enforcement personnel have abused their power for personal gain and solicited bribes to avenge their personal revenge from time to time, causing some negative effects in society, but this is secondary and can be corrected. On the basis of the achievements made, the focus of the Commission's work in the area of public security is now shifting to maintaining the status quo and preserving the results, and at the same time correcting unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in a limited and principled manner to eliminate the negative impact. ”

"For the sake of the people again: According to the survey statistics of the relevant departments for more than half a year, the people's support and enthusiasm for the war are far lower than expected. The broad masses of peasants, including the small peasants who have been granted land by the state in installments to grow their own crops and have enough food and clothing, the middle peasants who are already self-sufficient, and the rich peasants who live a prosperous and stable life, are generally resistant to conscription and tax increases. Those who actively joined the army in the cities were also unemployed workers who had been cornered by the economic crisis, followed by some students and intellectuals who were deeply influenced by the military and national consciousness, and of course, there were also a small number of students and intellectuals who were influenced by absolute liberalism, socialism, and pacifism and opposed the war. The industrial and commercial petty bourgeoisie has both those who actively join the army, and those who resist joining the army and are unwilling to pay more taxes -- the former mostly benefited directly from the war, such as the owners of all kinds of small factories and workshops who received military orders, and the latter were unable to benefit from the war because of their undertakings, but had to bear heavy taxes, such as the operators of cultural and entertainment industries who were severely restricted during the war. The big capitalists are both active in paying taxes and in responding – and of course, they have the greatest benefits. Although China's agricultural output value has long been surpassed by the industrial output value, the peasants still account for more than 80 percent of the country's population, and how to enhance the enthusiasm of the vast number of peasants for the war is an issue of greatest concern to the committee at present. "In terms of public opinion: the wartime public opinion monitoring organs, which were established by decree of the wartime cabinet and the Ministry of the Interior in cooperation with the Intelligence Department of the General Staff, carried out a system of random inspection and review of major newspapers and magazines, and regularly dispatched patrols to major printing houses, telegraph offices, and broadcasting companies, categorically closed down some newspapers and magazines that violated the wartime press censorship law, and imposed state-run or military control measures on some media enterprises or units that had major problems in guiding public opinion. However, on the whole, the government has controlled most of the channels of public opinion propaganda in the country, and can make good use of various channels to vigorously publicize the justice of the empire's participation in this war, publicize the heroism and civilization of the imperial army and navy, inspire and spur the people, establish the belief in victory, actively join the army and pay taxes, and strive to do their own work well......"

"The above is a brief summary of the work of the Internal Affairs Committee in all aspects over the past six months, and I hope it can be helpful to the decision-making of the emperor and the committee members."

After Zhang Zhigao finished speaking, he nodded to Qianhua with a smile and sat down.

Qianhua crossed her hands on the table, and her thoughts swooped and turned like a roller coaster.

Zhang Zhigao is too benevolent, not hot-handed, and a legalist, always trying to solve problems within the scope of the existing law, but it is precisely because of this that he presides over the internal affairs committee, so as not to turn internal affairs into tyranny and push the broad masses of the people to the opposite side of the government.

At present, stability is everything, both for the government and for the broad masses of the people, but we cannot but solve the problems that have arisen; although it is not a big problem for the time being, it will sooner or later cause trouble for the henchmen if it is allowed to breed and spread.

Rather than letting them wander around outside and make trouble, it is better to let them return to the Congress, forcing them to hold meetings every day, quarrel every day, and the outside will be clean.

There is nothing to say about public security, the world war, the decisive moment of the national fortune, any crime that affects social stability, whether it is stealing chickens and dogs, or murder and arson, must be doubled and tenfold severely, and it is better to kill by mistake than to miss it!

The greatest wish of the Chinese peasants for thousands of years is to have their own land, enough to support themselves, and to marry wives and have children, and then most of the wives and children are satisfied, forcing them to leave their land and go to some hellish place that they have never heard of, for the liberation of the Asia-Pacific region that has little to do with them, and to carry forward the national prestige.

Public opinion, there is no problem, countries are roughly like this, news censorship, the need for secrecy, more good news and less bad news, is also the norm, at least until now, there is no need for the base camp to lie to the people in terms of the results of the war.

Therefore, it boils down to two problems, parliamentarians and farmers, but Zhang Zhigao obviously did not think of a deeper problem......

Before opening his mouth to ask for the opinions of the ministers, Qianhua already had a fixed opinion in his heart.

Five minutes later, the results were in.