Imperial capital, Privy Council.

Before the constitutional reform, the Privy Council was a body that issued edicts within the imperial court, responsible for conveying the emperor's edicts to the administrative departments of the cabinet in writing. After the constitutional reform, the Privy Council was independent and became a functional organization for the seal control, and was also responsible for the exchanges between the royal family and the cabinet. To this day, the Privy Council was more like a conference department under the cabinet. During the war, many top-secret meetings related to military affairs were held here.

There is nothing strange about it.

The so-called Privy Council is nothing more than a small villa outside the south gate of the imperial city surrounded by the courtyard wall and guarded by the Imperial City Guards.

Even in peacetime, there is a lot of guarding here.

It is not just because it is close to the palace, and it is rumored that there is a secret tunnel built by Emperor Shiwu and directly reaches internal strength. According to legend, more than 70 years ago, Emperor Shiwu entered the imperial city from this secret tunnel and seized the imperial power overnight without bloodshed.

When the secret meeting is arranged here, the picture is quiet and confidential.

But today's Privy Council is not quiet at all.

From early morning to morning, then afternoon, evening and night, it is almost early morning now. Not to mention tea or something, I just delivered the meal three times.

At 11:50, the staff sent the midnight snack to the conference room. The Prime Minister did not announce the recess, nor did he mean to let everyone rest for a while.

Judging from the situation of the prime minister, if you don’t get any results, this will continue to be opened.

The midnight snack is millet porridge, with red dates and wolfberry added, and a plate made over low heat, with brown sugar water with white sesame.

Although he had no appetite, Zhu Shijian slowly added some brown sugar water to the millet porridge and stirred it seriously.

In fact, Zhu Shijian has been paying attention to the chief assistant Tang Zude in the chief position and the commander-in-chief of the army opposite Ma Zhongyi.

It was just a bowl of red dates, wolfberry and millet porridge. Tang Dezu's concentrating appearance seemed to be the dragon liver and phoenix gall obtained from the Queen Mother's banquet.

As for Ma Zhongyi, that is another extreme.

Before the service staff could go out, he drank all the millet porridge in a few sips and pushed the dishes to the side. His angry expression seemed to have just drunk a glass of poison wine.

Other cabinet members focused on their jobs, and their expressions were varied.

The atmosphere is very strange.

A few days ago, after the proposal was initiated by the Federal Republic of Newland, the Alliance Group proposed to consolidate the hard-won peace by signing a peace treaty.

It is no longer a separate negotiation, but all countries, whether defeated or defeated, participate in negotiations.

The war is over, what else to talk about?

How can peace last forever and how can we ensure that war does not rage the world again in decades?

The Newland Federation, the Kingdom of Bran and the Rock Republic each proposed methods, such as global disarmament, re-dividing the sphere of influence of the great powers, and establishing a global international organization. However, the core is the same and the construction of arms must be strictly restricted.

Because the Liangxia Empire was not defeated, any issues related to military restrictions could only be resolved through negotiation.

This is the key to the Newland Federation's proposal to hold peace talks.

Conclude a global peace treaty, which imposes strict restrictions on the military powers and arms construction of all powers, including the victorious countries of the alliance group.

According to President Newland, who initiated the initiative, military strength is strictly controlled and peace is guaranteed.

Obviously, this view is too ideal, and it is not wrong to say it is childish.

Military power is just a tool to defend interests. What determines the international situation is actually a contradiction between the great powers due to the interests of colonies and other interests.

As long as the conflict of interests remains, peace will be difficult to last.

Any politician would sneer at President Newland's naive ideas.

Civilians and news and public opinion do not see this way.

After President Newland proposed to sign a global peace treaty through negotiations and form an international organization that is also global, including at least all the great powers, to ensure that the peace treaty is implemented, international public opinion was immediately ignited and became the hottest topic today.

For a moment, the signing of a global peace treaty and the establishment of an international alliance became the golden bell cover to defend peace.

Now, even if you know that it is a waste of time, you must agree loudly, otherwise you will be described as a public enemy of peace by international public opinion.

The war that took tens of millions of lives has just ended. Who dares to act as a public enemy of peace?

Even in the Liangxia Empire, no politician dared to take the blame and became enemies with the 40 million people who were eager to live a stable life.

The same is true.

After President Newland initiated the initiative, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bran, the Prime Minister of the Locke Republic and the leaders of some other small countries immediately expressed support. The Prime Minister of the Nayi Empire first expressed opposition, but changed his words after discovering that something was wrong, expressing his willingness to participate in the peace talks when the national interests are fully guaranteed. Next, the Taman Empire and the Terres expressed their willingness to send representatives to participate in the peace talks.

The Liangxia Empire did not delay and agreed to send representatives to participate in the negotiations.

Subsequently, the Alliance Group made a unilateral decision to set the negotiation location in Seba, the capital of the Rock Republic, with the negotiation time being tentatively scheduled in late April.

The key is actually the negotiation content.

Although President Newland has made a promise that the peace talks will not be directed against the Liangxia Empire, and at most the Takaman Empire will be cut off and compensated for the losses suffered by the Locke Republic during the war, and will give the Liangxia Empire an equal status throughout the negotiations and protect the core interests of the Liangxia Empire, the Liangxia Empire must guarantee that it would agree to form an international alliance based on the alliance group and support global disarmament.

League of Nations?

That's a joke.

Tang Zude made it clear that even if the Liangxia Empire became a founding member state, he should not expect to rely on this institution to defend the core interests of the empire.

As for disarmament, as long as it can be equal, everything is easy to say.

This is also the basic principle of the empire: to follow the Newland Federation, whether it is signing a peace treaty, forming alliances and disarmament, the Newland Federation shall prevail.

According to President Newland, the naive and romantic idea of ​​the idealist, countries only need to maintain a military force that maintains domestic stability, and at most border defense is included. In addition, they only need to retain a navy used to deal with pirates and other illegal armed forces and only equipped with light ships.

In his words, without the military force to start a war, war will not break out and peace will last forever.

This is really too ideal, and it is impossible to achieve it.

But, there must be disarmament.

It’s not because of ideals, but because of compromise with reality.

The war is over, so there is no need to retain so many troops and demobilize soldiers as soon as possible so that the devastated social economy can be restored.

What needs to be considered is actually the scale of disarmament.

This is also the main purpose of the meeting.

To this end, the disarmament plan must be determined before the start of the peace meeting, and at least a strategic approach must be formulated to provide guidance for the peace talks.

The problem is here!
Chapter completed!