Admiral Quinn was able to work against the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, so he naturally had his confidence.

The fault line between the imperial government and the naval domination for more than 30 years is his greatest reliance.

For more than 30 years, the Navy used the military expenses of the Imperial Ministry of Defense as expenditure, except for the first few years, and for more than 20 years, it has been self-funded. Although the whole navy does not say anything, there are still some complaints about the Ministry of Defense and the cabinet in their hearts, if you don't give us food, then we will find food ourselves!

It is precisely on the basis of such a position of weak opposition that Admiral Quinn and even the young officers in the navy believe that the current navy can survive without relying on anyone, even if the other party is the Imperial Ministry of Defense or the cabinet.

This is also the main reason why the martial arts faction actively wants to expand the voice of the Imperial Navy in the sea - if one day the Imperial Navy really faces a difficult choice, they can still have a way out.

His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, who has a completely different idea from Admiral Quinn, believes that the Imperial Navy is the Imperial Navy after all, and even if there are more than 20 years of contradictions between the Navy and political subjects, the Imperial Navy is still the Imperial Navy, and this will never be shaken.

Now that some people in the Ministry of Defense have begun to reach out to the navy and negotiate a part of the agreement, this is a good sign, and once the navy is reintegrated into the empire as a whole, there will be further development.

Military spending is only one aspect, but also includes some advanced science and technology and various types of weapons.

In this era of rapid technological change, many new inventions will be made every day, and many old things will be obsolete, and if you can't keep up with the development of the times, even if the Imperial Navy is one of the strongest navies in the world, it is very likely to be eliminated soon. The change in military equipment often means that the war situation may show a one-sided trend, and if you don't want to be eliminated, you have to keep up with the development of the times, but the navy does not have the research ability, they do not have these backgrounds, and they lack sufficient funds to engage in military research.

Moreover, if you take 10,000 steps back, the composition of the navy is all citizens of the empire, and they all have their own families, parents, wives and children within the empire. With such a bond, even if the navy wants to make trouble, he will sit back and watch the differences between those martial arts factions and the empire grow bigger and bigger, and the last unlucky one will only be the navy.

It is impossible for the naval soldiers to choose to leave here with the generals and run to other places to struggle for survival, which dooms the martial arts faction to have no future and no way out.

At present, the biggest disagreement between the martial faction and the surrender faction (the name given to the commander-in-chief by the armed faction) is whether to accept the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, whether to return to the overall military system of the empire, and whether to disarm.

These are all contradictions, and it is precisely because of these contradictions that this small meeting has been promoted.

The commander-in-chief, who wanted to get closer to the empire, mentioned it in the Ministry of Defense and decided to clean up the chaotic business of the navy, at least not so chaotic, and to eat more restrained. This involves some business outside of their own duties, such as the shipping of the ship king, and the shipping of Durin.

With Thomas on the side explaining some contradictions and external pressures within the Navy for Durin, Doolin has a more thorough understanding of the current situation in the Navy, but at the same time he also breeds a doubt, that is, why is it at this time?

Why didn't contacts between the Ministry of Defense and the Navy start a few years ago, or a few years later, just at the time of the change?

This is actually not the best choice, and the power of a cabinet is about to transition from the hands of the new party to the hands of the old party, which also means that many things that the cabinet has promised the navy can be directly denied after the old party comes to power.

This is not a joke between friends, if you don't admit it, you won't admit it, it's about the internal security of an empire, and the mood of the Navy as a whole, they should choose a more appropriate time and the Ministry of Defense, and talk about these things with the ruling party, and not now.

Unless...... , the people who came into contact with the navy were not members of the new party, but from the old party!

Thinking of this, Durin seems to understand something, the contradiction between the navy and the empire is actually in the final analysis, there are only three participants: the original royal family, the current new party, and the navy itself. Of the three, the other two sides faced by the Navy appeared as "enemies" and did not have the conditions to cooperate. But the old party, which has never appeared, can appear in the image of a "friend", then all this makes sense.

If the old party proposes to negotiate the return of the Imperial Navy to the Empire on the grounds of "overthrowing the current cabinet and the Ministry of Defense", then this point in time seems to be normal, and they can negotiate everything before the change of office, and then quietly wait for the general election to begin.

If the new party is not overthrown, then everything that is being talked about now will be nullified, and everything will remain the same.

But if the new party is overthrown, the prime minister is gone, and the old party comes to power, then all these things they are talking about now will immediately begin to be fulfilled.

It's not a wrong time, it's a very good time!

So, does Maggs know these things?

Durin felt that Maggs knew, and that it was even possible that he had come up with the plan. His tenure had caused the current problems of the Imperial Navy, and as a man with a strong sense of responsibility, he would have set out to solve them before he retired. Even if he considered it from another standpoint, with the relationship between Mags and Kubal, it was absolutely impossible for him not to know that this old fellow was always in the habit of maximizing the effects of everything in pursuit of the greatest benefit.

The death of his son was like this, and the death of a loved one was used to promote the implementation and implementation of a series of policies, although some of them seem to have failed from the current point of view, but no one can guarantee that Maggs did not promote the passage of these policies in the first place, not to indirectly promote the establishment of other policies, such as the traffic law, which had been controversial until then, this kind of trick was often played by him.

Then in the matter of letting go of the scepter that he has held tightly for more than 20 years, he will inevitably use his retirement as the biggest bargaining chip to seek the maximization of interests, and solve the contradictions in the new party, some contradictions in society, and even some contradictions in the old party through his retirement, these are his plans. Such an old and cunning old man, if he can let the navy do nothing here, it is the greatest disrespect to him!

Maggs was a very special man, he had all the elements that all politicians need, he was the most terrible pure politician Dühring had ever seen, politically he had few weaknesses and he didn't miss any decisions!

When he thought of this, Durin couldn't help but continue to think deeply, since Magus was so great, why didn't he deal with the conflict left over from the navy and the imperial family, but instead intensified the contradiction and made the navy form such a big situation as it is now?

In an instant, he thought of the situation that the New Party faced when it first came to power, there was no money!

Perhaps, that makes sense.

The navy was forced to rely on itself to solve its financial difficulties, and after the defeat of the war, the limited funds were spent on the development of society, rather than on the army. Since the end of the Civil War, the Reich has had very little funding for military affairs, and it had been twenty years since the war before the Army began to reequip, which meant that the Army had not received much actual funding during these years.

He used an obvious "mistake" to solve the financial dilemma, and focused all on the development of the empire, and now the economic construction of the empire has achieved initial results, and the army began to change its equipment in large quantities, and then he used himself to be "ousted" to end his "mistakes", so that the navy returned to the arms of the empire during the old party rule, and then spent eight years to stabilize the emotional ...... of the navy.

Durin couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this, he admired Maggs very much, and at the same time he was extremely disappointed. He was disappointed that he was born too late, Maggs was born too early, if there is such an opponent who can look at the layout in a few decades, maybe his life will be more interesting!

Every smart person longs to have a terrible opponent and then go and defeat him.

Maybe Maggs is lonely because he lacks an opponent who can let him use all his strength to deal with carefully, and at the same time, Durin feels that he is also lonely, with eyes and thoughts that are many years ahead of this era, he can't even find an opponent, it's too boring!

Durin, who came to his senses, looked at Thomas and patted the non-existent dust on his shoulder, "I think I see, it's not a good thing, but it's a good thing, right?"

Thomas looked at Durin like a fool and said something he didn't understand at all, and then nodded convincingly, "You're right!"

Next, Thomas took Durin around the base, and by the way, he met a lot of young naval officers, most of whom had a good relationship with Thomas, after all, they were all young people, and they were all school officers. For these people, Durin was very kind, took the initiative to talk to them about these topics that everyone had a common language, and exchanged contact information with them.

Thomas didn't know why Doolin valued these officers, but Doolin knew very well that if his guess was correct, when the navy returned to the arms of the empire after the old party came to power, the first thing the Ministry of Defense would do was to purge the navy of the martial arts faction.

A large number of middle and high-level officers will be purged, and so many vacant positions of generals need to be filled, and most of the future admirals will be born from these young people, which is familiar in advance.

Even if you can't be good friends with these young officers in a few small talks, at least you won't become enemies with them!

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