In the conference room, more than a dozen cabinet ministers, namely, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Industry and Commerce, Finance and Taxation, Science and Education, Minerals and Resources, Agriculture and Water Resources, Culture and Propaganda, Transportation and Transport, and Overseas Territory Affairs, plus the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, a total of eleven members of the wartime cabinet had been waiting for a long time.

The informal organization formed by the chief minister of the cabinet plus these eleven ministers is also called the "Cabinet of the Imperial Palace".

During the reign of Emperor Shiwu, the imperial cabinet was the core authority of the empire. After the constitutional reform, the later cabinet was established by expanding its seats.

Inside the room, there are two non-cabinet veterans.

One of them is Zhu Shijian, the former commander-in-chief of the Navy who had just retired and returned home ten days ago, and the other is Ma Zhongyi, who left the Army Command more than ten years ago.

Relatively speaking, Zhu Shijian's mental state is much better than Ma Zhongyi.

Not only because he is a few years younger than Ma Zhongyi, but also related to good living habits. Zhu Shijian not only does not touch alcohol, but also has a regular life and work, and is also very self-disciplined. Even after he retires and returns home, he still insists on getting up early and exercising for half an hour in the morning.

In addition, Zhu Shijian was able to be smooth sailing throughout his life. As for Ma Zhongyi, he suffered a lot of unfair criticism after the war.

Every cabinet minister has a document in his hand, and the content is exactly the same, but it is actually a copy of the same document.

However, Zhu Shijian and Ma Zhongyi did not have it, because they did not have enough confidentiality rights, because this top-secret document was drafted by them more than ten years ago.

This is the first time that eleven cabinet ministers have seen this top-secret document.

Although each of them was extremely shocked, no cabinet minister dared to deny the authenticity of the document stamped with the dragon seal and the seals of the eight major power pillars. This has nothing to do with legends, because these nine seals represent the nine existences that created the empire.

Even now, the descendants of these nine existences still have an indifferent influence in the empire.

In fact, the thirteen people sitting in this room, as well as Xue Yuanzheng, who came last, were closely related to the forces behind these nine seals.

After Xue Yuanzheng arrived, the discussion was not affected.

The focus of the debate is no longer on the document itself, but on how to implement the plan mentioned in this top-secret document.

The difficulty is not very big!

In fact, what is displayed through the document is only part of the plan. Many sensitive content, or content that cannot be disclosed for the time being, were wiped out with black ink marks.

Even the part that was just displayed was very scary.

How scary!?

The Liangxia Empire wants to fight the whole world alone!

At least, when the plan was drawn up, around the 85th year of the New Calendar, no one of the decision makers of the empire had ever thought of forming an alliance with other countries.

According to what is mentioned in the document, the most important conclusion I came to when summarizing the last war was to be dragged down by allies.

Almost all of the losses suffered are related to allies!

In order to save allies, the empire suffered a lot of unnecessary losses, and after making hard work, it did not receive corresponding rewards.

Since allies are useless, what do you want to do?

Can't you win if you do it alone?

That's why after the war, all the empire's strategic plans, as well as all the long-term construction, were serving this plan.

This includes the infrastructure construction carried out across the country after Xue Yuanzheng came to power, especially the construction of railways and highways in the western region, and the transfer of heavy industries related to arms production into the inland through policy guidance, and even military reforms of the army and the navy.

Later, it was considered an accident that the settlement with Luosha Federation was not in the plan.

That's why the Liangxia Empire has not signed a truly alliance treaty with the Luosha Federation so far. The so-called alliance is actually a friendly treaty with no binding force, many key terms have multiple explanations, and the central content and core meaning are ambiguous.

Even now, the senior officials of the empire have not considered the possibility of alliance with the Luosha Federation.

If you want to say it, the Luosha Federation is also a burden, and it has irreconcilable with the empire, and it can even be said to be a contradiction that cannot be resolved at all.

Not to mention anything else, after the conclusion of the friendship treaty, the Luosha Federation continued to reaffirm the sovereignty of the region east of Yenisse-Balkash, and repeatedly proposed to the empire to negotiate for this, and made many efforts to make a fuss about this matter, even intending to link it with oil exports.

All of these warned the empire authorities that the Luosha Federation did not forget that humiliating history and never regarded the Liangxia Empire as an ally.

If allies are needed, the empire will also look for a powerful country like the Thaman Empire that has no territorial disputes.

In fact, the Empire and Luosha Federation maintained friendly relations just to produce oil from the Bakuo Oilfield in the northern part of Kuohai. It is one of the most important oil-producing areas on the Huo Continent and Western Continents besides Boshawan. It can directly transport the oil produced to the western part of the Empire by railways and pipelines.

Of course, maintaining friendly relations with Luosha Federation can also greatly alleviate the threat from the inland.

If ground wars can be avoided, or to be precise, multi-line combat can be avoided, then the empire can use more resources to build a navy.

In addition, the implementation time of this plan lasted until the beginning of the 105th year of the New Calendar.

What's the meaning?

It is best to delay another five years, that is, starting from the 85th year of the New Calendar, it will take twenty years before the Empire can be confident enough to defeat all the powers in a global war with its own abilities. If it is only fifteen years, the Empire may not be able to gain enough obvious strategic advantages before the war begins.

Obviously, this is the key.

The war has broken out and it is certainly impossible to delay another five years.

Fortunately, this is also expected.

There is nothing to be strange about.

For more than ten years, the empire has been preparing for the war. Didn’t other powers not?

In addition, the Great Depression ten years ago completely destroyed the world order built on the "Seba Peace Treaty", laying the inducement for the next great war.

How long can peace last?

When will the war be reignited?

Seeing through these, the first thing the Western powers had to do was to keep a close eye on the Liangxia Empire and adopt a development strategy that followed the Liangxia Empire.

The New Deal introduced by the Newland Federation is a typical representative of this strategy.

The contradiction between the Three Kingdoms of the Bay and Sea and the Luosha Federation is actually the Western powers behind the scenes.

If there were no Western powers to instigate them, three small countries with a population of less than three million would have the courage to challenge the Luosha Federation, which was like a behemoth?

During the morning meeting, Xue Yuanzheng emphasized.

Western powers imposed war on the empire. The empire had no choice but to face the strong enemy bravely and face the enemy's challenges!

In fact, this is exactly the issue being discussed now.

How can we win this unprecedented war without sufficient preparation and many pre-war work not in place?

It is actually more accurate to take the initiative in war.
Chapter completed!