Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Section 27 Transformation

Everyone who participated in the meeting noticed that the National Unity and Peace Conference, where almost all senior officials of the Northwest government were absent, lacked a heavyweight figure, that is, Su Qin, director of the Northwest Foreign Affairs Bureau. During the few days of attending the meeting, it was his assistant Wang Liao who met and discussed diplomatic relations with representatives of various ethnic groups on Su Qin's behalf. This caused many people to have a lot of thoughts, and some even thought that Su Qin had lost power.

In fact, Su Qin left Qingyang a few days before the meeting, and embarked on the journey to Lensk, the capital of the Sithrow Empire. His itinerary this time was decided after Wufeng's careful discussion, and it even involved a major change in the direction of diplomacy, so the matter was very confidential. Even in the Northwest, only Wufeng, Xiao Tang, Ling Tianfang and Wang Liao waited for few people to know.

After receiving the information from Angel from the imperial capital, Wufeng expressed to the Sithrow Empire that he could negotiate with the Sithrow Empire on related matters without losing the opportunity. The Siluo Empire's diplomatic commissioner in the northwest was overjoyed, and quickly conveyed this major diplomatic progress to his own country. Soon the Heathrow Empire authorized their diplomatic commissioner in the Northwest to invite Su Qin, director of the Northwest Foreign Affairs Agency, to visit the Heathrow Empire in the name of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Heathrow Empire. Of course, this was a secret visit.

Facing the olive branch thrown by the powerful neighbor in the north, Wufeng and Su Qin combined the information obtained by their own side to confirm that the Sithrow Empire's foreign policy will undergo considerable adjustments.

Not only is the Heathrow Empire facing a major famine this year, but the prime minister who performed poorly in the previous crisis of the throne has stepped down and replaced by the confidant of Emperor Philip V, the former Minister of Finance Pokanins Duke Ki, Prince Mercado who was involved in the crisis of the throne, and his confidant Nuremberg military commander General Kidman have all been severely reprimanded. Kidman was transferred to a remote fortress in the north as the commander, and Pokaninski's old friend Viscount Hall served as the military commander of Nuremberg, an important southern town.

The newly appointed Prime Minister, Duke Pokaninski, was born in a noble family of the Sithrow Empire. He is good at finance and good at managing money. In terms of strategy, it advocates shrinking military power, concentrating on developing its own national economy, gradually strengthening its own national strength, and opposing the easy use of troops abroad. This is significantly different from the policy of the previous prime minister of the empire, and he also opposes excessive reliance on external forces and advocates maintaining the Sith The relative independence of the Romanian Empire's policy, which is particularly prominent in the tendency to form an alliance with the Kamanian Empire.

During the previous period when Philip V of the Heathrow Empire fell ill and failed to govern, Pokaninski gradually replaced the former prime minister who had fallen out of favor with Philip V. After his brother Philip V was ill and the crisis of the throne caused by monopolizing power during his illness was successfully subsided, the recovered Philip V immediately appointed a close friend who performed well in this crisis as prime minister, and Prince Mercado and Kidman Philip V was also very dissatisfied with going south to attack the Ganlan Fortress in the northwest without authorization, and he was determined to punish him severely.

These news made Wufeng, who originally planned to take military measures to teach the Sithrow Empire a certain lesson, to reconsider the relationship with the Sithrow Empire, especially when Wufeng was preparing to enter the Central Plains. Make an accurate positioning of the relationship between the empire, which will benefit your strategy on the Eastern Front.

So after some urgent negotiations, Su Qin accepted the invitation of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Heathrow Empire, and secretly set off from Qingyang to the Heathrow Empire via Nuremberg.

In the dead of night, the lights in His Majesty's study in the Toulon Palace in Lensk City are still brightly lit, and two figures are reflected on the window sills. However, the Prime Minister still hasn't come out of His Majesty's study, which surprised the guards. His Majesty seldom discusses government affairs with people until late at night, especially after recovering from illness. Today seems to be an exception.

"Boer, Li Wufeng's head of foreign affairs will be arriving in Lensk tomorrow, are we ready?" Philip V's ruddy face was full of energy, showing that his body had fully recovered, and he used it affectionately The childhood title greeted Duke Pokaninsky, who is now the ruler of a country.

"Well, don't worry, Your Majesty, I don't think Li Wufeng wants to make our relationship too tense at this time, as long as we give an explanation to Kidman's unauthorized attack on Ganlan Fortress so that they can go down the steps. He is now His eyes are fixed on the Tanghe Empire, and he doesn't have much thought about our side." A confident smile appeared on Duke Pokaninski's round face.

"I'm a little worried that Li Wufeng is going against the law and instigating the Namot and Tubu people to plunder our western region. As you can see, those guys in the west are quite dissatisfied with the defense of the empire and think that the military center of the empire They are all focused on defending against the Boyin people in the south and the north, while ignoring their interests. At the last court meeting, someone proposed to amend the current strategic policy and change our current strategic situation. I am also under great pressure Ah." Philip V sighed lightly.

"Your Majesty don't need to be too anxious. In fact, even if Your Majesty doesn't say anything, I'm thinking that maybe it's time to revise the foreign policy of the empire in the early stage." Pokaninski said after a moment of consideration.

"Oh? Let's hear it." Philip V suddenly became interested.

"The minister thinks that we put too much emphasis on the expansion of the territory, especially to the south. Over the years, we have spent a lot of money and food, but what did we get in return? We didn't get an inch of land! Maintaining such frequent wars, once the harvest is bad and natural disasters occur, not only will the finances be stretched, but it will immediately cause dissatisfaction among the domestic people. Some people in our country are jealous that the Kamans have occupied the northern part of Terok and Jiayuguan. Following the example of the Kamans, they expanded their armies and prepared for war, but they ignored one of the most important factors, that is, the Kamans have developed steadily in the past 20 years, and their agriculture has hardly suffered any huge natural disasters, even if they encounter bad weather a few times , but the irrigation and flood control facilities that the Kaman people spent a lot of money on also played a big role in avoiding large-scale agricultural failures. And what about us? In case of natural disasters, we are at a loss. Borrowing debts from the Kamanians, and the Kamanians have to pay back with the blood and lives of our soldiers! This situation has become a vicious circle!" Pokaninski's voice gradually became louder.

"Continue, Bohr." Philip V remained expressionless.

"Look at ourselves. Whenever there is a good harvest, we try to repay debts or expand the army to fight wars. When there is a disaster, we repeatedly borrow money or cut other expenses. In this way, how can the national strength be improved after long-term accumulation? Can it handle a large-scale battle?!" Pokaninski knew his old friend's temper, and now that he was in this position, he needed to clarify some words, "In my opinion, some people make excuses Expanding the army and fighting wars is actually filled with too much personal selfishness. The purpose is nothing more than to expand one's own power and prestige, but it is just the opposite. A little bit of benefit to the empire!"

Pokaninski's words hit the sore spot of Philip V, who had been listening silently. He knew that his only son had a cowardly personality and was not very suitable for the role of emperor. He was also working hard to change this. He also knows what his brother is thinking, and hopes that he can pass the throne to him in a hundred years, but the crown prince is his son after all, and he doesn't want to pass the throne to anyone other than his son~IndoMTL .com~ Any other attempts and ideas are not tolerated by him.

The choice of Duke Pokaninski as the new Prime Minister was to carry out his own intention. Of course, at this time, Philip V could not make any statement, he could only keep a gloomy face and remain silent.

"Your Majesty has also seen that the Mott people are our old enemy and have been harassing our western region for a long time, but why did this Mott people submit to Li Wufeng who has only been to the northwest for a long time in just a few years? But our repeated conquests have made no achievements, what do you think is the reason, Your Majesty?" A look of jealousy crossed Pokaninski's face.

"What do you think of Boer?" Philip V did not answer, but a touch of unwillingness fell into the other party's eyes.

"Some people say that it was Li Wufeng's good luck. He just defeated the coalition forces of the Luobei people and the Mot people in one battle. Where in the world is there so much good luck? Why did good luck never fall to us in Heathrow?" What about people's heads?" Pokaninski's words already implied disdain, "Without him, Li Wufeng focused on rebuilding the Northwest's economy, and in just a few years he made great achievements that attracted the attention of the world. According to the statistical data obtained by the minister, the population of Qingyang Prefecture alone has risen from less than 200,000 to over one million in two years. What kind of miracle is this? If Li Wufeng hadn't devoted himself to developing the economy, even if the Tanghe Empire had No matter how much financial support he has, it is impossible for him to afford such a huge army now, and the salaries of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and officers alone are enough to make Li Wufeng go bankrupt more than ten times!"

There was a short silence in the study, Philip V was thinking carefully about the opinion of his close friend, while Pokaninski was thinking about how to say the following words to make His Majesty accept his proposition.