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Everyone attending the meeting noticed that there was a heavyweight missing from the National Unity and Peace Conference, which was almost absent from the high-level leaders of the Northwest Political Axe, that is, Su Qin, director of the Northwest Foreign Affairs Agency. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 During the few days of the meeting, it was his assistant Wang Yu who received Su Qin and discussed matters related to diplomatic liaison with the representatives of various ethnic groups. This made many people have a lot of ideas, and some people even thought that it was not Su Qin who had lost power.

In fact, Su Qin had left Qingyang a few days before the meeting and embarked on the journey to Lesk, the capital of the Heathrow Empire. His trip this time was decided after careful discussion by Wu Feng, which even involved major changes in the direction of diplomacy, so the matter was very secret, even in the northwest, only a few people such as Wu Feng, Xiao Tang, Ling Tianfang and Wang Yi knew about it.

After receiving the message from Angel from Yanjing, Wu Feng lost no time in expressing to the Siathrow Empire that he could negotiate with the Siathrow Empire on relevant matters, which made the Siathrow Empire's diplomatic attaché in the Northwest, who had been suffering from not being able to access the high-level in the Northwest, overjoyed, and quickly conveyed this important diplomatic progress to his own country. Soon the Siathrow Empire authorized their diplomatic attaché in the northwest to invite Su Qin, the head of the Northwest Foreign Affairs Agency, to visit the Siathrow Empire in the name of the Siathrow Empire's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was of course a secret visit.

In the face of the olive branch thrown by this powerful neighbor in the north, Wu Feng and Su Qin combined the information obtained from their own side to confirm that the foreign policy of the Siathrow Empire would be greatly adjusted.

Not only is the Sithroy Empire facing major famine pressure this year, but the prime minister, who did not perform well in the last throne crisis, has stepped down and been replaced by the former finance minister, Duke Pokaninsky, a confidant of Emperor Fili V, and Prince Mercator, who was implicated in the throne crisis, and his confidant General Kidman, the military commander of Nuremberg, have been severely reprimanded, Kidman has been transferred to a remote fortress in the north as commander, and Pokaninsky's old friend Viscount Hall has served as military commander in the southern town of Nuremberg。

The new prime minister, Duke Pokaninsky, was born in a noble family of the Sithro Empire, is good at finance, good at financial management, and is a close friend of Emperor Fili V who grew up together, and his political tendency is reflected in the strategy of governing the country is to advocate shrinking the military power, concentrating on the development of his own national economy, gradually strengthening his national strength, and opposing the easy use of foreign troops, which is significantly different from the policy of the previous prime minister of the empire, and he also opposes excessive dependence on foreign forces, and advocates maintaining the relative reading surname of the policy of the Sithlo Empire, which is particularly prominent in the tendency to form alliances with the Kaman Empire。

When Prince Mercardo's attempt to monopolize power during the illness of his brother Filip V during his illness was successfully quelled, the recovered Filip V immediately appointed a close friend who had behaved well in the crisis as prime minister, and Prince Mercardo and Kidman went south to attack the northwestern Ganlan fortress without permission, which also made Ficari V very dissatisfied and determined to punish him severely.

These news made Wufeng, who originally planned to take military measures to teach the Sithro Empire a certain lesson, to reconsider the issue of relations with the Sithro Empire, especially when Wufeng was preparing to march into the Central Plains, if he could make an accurate positioning of the relationship with the Sithro Empire, it would be beneficial to his strategy on the Eastern Front.

Therefore, after some urgent consultations, Su Qin accepted the invitation of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Sithro Empire and secretly set off from Qingyang to the Sithlo Empire via Nuremberg.

In the dead of night, the lights in the study of His Majesty the Emperor in the Toulon Palace in the city of Lensk are still bright, two figures are reflected on the window lattice, the guards hold halberds, and are still standing on the sentry in high spirits, it has been two hours, and the Prime Minister has still not come out of His Majesty's study, which makes the guards very surprised, His Majesty the Emperor rarely discusses government affairs with people until late at night, and has never been after recovering from illness, and today seems to be an exception.

"Pol, tomorrow Li Wufeng's diplomatic chief will be in Lenssk, are we ready?" Fili V's ruddy face was bright, showing that his body had fully recovered, and he affectionately greeted Duke Pokaninsky, who was now the ruler of a country, by his childhood name.

"Well, rest assured, Your Majesty, I don't think Li Wufeng wants to make relations with us too stiff at this time, as long as we give an explanation to Kidman's unauthorized attack on the Ganlan Fortress so that they can go down the stairs. His eyes are now on the territory of the Tang River Empire, and he doesn't have much to do with us. Duke Pokaninsky smiled confidently on his round face.

"I am a little worried that Li Wufeng will disobey the yin and instigate the Namot and Tubu people to plunder our western region, you can also see, now those guys in the west are quite dissatisfied with the defense of the empire, thinking that the empire's military focus is on the southern and northern defense against the Baiyin, and ignore their interests. Fili V sighed softly.

"Your Majesty doesn't need to be too anxious, in fact, even if Your Majesty doesn't say it, the minister is also thinking that maybe it's really time to revise the foreign policy of the early stage of the empire. Pokaninski pondered for a moment before saying.

"Oh? "Philip V was suddenly interested.

"The minister feels that we have placed too much emphasis on territorial expansion, especially to the south. Over the years, the empire has spent countless amounts of money and grain, but what has it gained? Not an inch of land has been gained! And the empire's national strength was not enough to sustain such frequent wars, and once the harvest was not good and natural disasters were encountered, not only would the finances be stretched thin, but it would also immediately arouse the dissatisfaction of the people at home. Some people in our country are angry that the Kamans have occupied the northern part of Gerok and captured Jiayuguan, so they blindly follow the example of the Kamans and expand their armaments, but they ignore one of the most important factors, that is, the Kamans have developed steadily in the past 20 years, and agriculture has hardly suffered any huge natural disasters. And what about us, when a natural disaster strikes, we are helpless, either tightening our belts ourselves or borrowing money from the Kamans, who will pay it with the blood and lives of our soldiers!

"Go on, Pol. Fili V was expressionless.

"Look at ourselves, every time we encounter a good harvest year, we think about paying off our debts or expanding our army to fight, and when we encounter a disaster year, we repeatedly borrow or cut other expenditures, so that after a long period of accumulation, how can our national strength be improved? How can we cope with a large-scale war?" In the minister's opinion, some people use the excuse of expanding the army to fight, in fact, they are full of too much personal selfishness, and the purpose is nothing more than to expand their power and prestige, but it is counterproductive, every war always loses troops and loses generals, except for the deterioration of relations with the surrounding neighbors, I do not see even the slightest benefit to the empire!"

Pokaninski's words hit the sore spot of Fili V, who had been listening silently, he knew that his only son's surname was a little cowardly, and he was not very suitable for the role of emperor, and he was also trying to change this, he also knew what his brother was thinking in his heart, and hoped that he would be able to pass the throne to him in a hundred years, but the crown prince was his own son after all, and he did not want to pass the throne to anyone except his own son, and he could not tolerate any other attempts and ideas.

The choice of Duke Pokaninsky as the new Prime Minister was to carry out his intentions, and of course, at such a time, Fili V could not make any indications, and he could only keep silent with a gloomy face.

"Your Majesty has also seen that the Motts are our old enemies and have been harassing our western region all along, but why did this Mott people surrender to the feet of Li Wufeng, who had only been in the northwest for a long time, in just a few years?

"What do you think?" Philip V did not reply, but a touch of reluctance fell into the other man's eyes.

"Some people say that it was Li Wufeng's good luck, and he just defeated the combined forces of the Luope and Mott people in one battle, where is there so much good luck in the world? Without him, Li Wufeng focused on rebuilding the economy of the northwest, and in just a few years he has made great achievements that have attracted the attention of the world, according to the statistics obtained by the minister, the population of Qingyang alone has risen from less than 200,000 to more than 1 million in two years, what kind of miracle is this? If Li Wufeng hadn't devoted himself to developing the economy, even if the Tang River Empire gave him more financial support, he would not have been able to afford such a huge army now, and the salaries of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and officers alone would have been enough to make Li Wufeng bankrupt more than ten times!"

There was a brief silence in the study, as Fili V pondered the opinion of his close friend, while Pokaninski pondered what to say in order to get His Majesty the Emperor to accept his claim.

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