1911 An Important Day

Capital has never been complicated. It has only one core goal - more profits.

No matter how this war develops in the future, the victorious country will have the best chance.

If the Federation can win, international capital will flow into the Federation.

If Pengjiao can win, international capital will pour into Pengjiao.

It has no more choices, and no one is willing to use their wealth to satisfy the plunder of others.

Capital and capitalists just want more money.

There is no doubt that the Federation is a country with great potential, especially the fact that the Pengeo government took the lead in proposing armistice negotiations, which has deepened the international capital's view of this outcome.

The Pengeo Empire is about to admit defeat. At least from the current stage, they do not have any advantage!

Tens of billions of foreign capital continue to pour into the federation, and their investment in the federation will soon be converted into income for upstream and downstream enterprises, as well as wages for workers.

These inevitable links will generate taxes.

Judging from the current higher tax rate, after a short period of circulation of one hundred yuan, at least thirty-five and up to seventy yuan will enter the tax account and become part of the national finance.

External funds can fully support the Federation's current high-intensity war, and it will not take three to five months, nor will it take one or two years!

According to the views of relevant departments, the current investment in the war is actually much less than in the early stages of the war. If the war continues for another five years, there will not be much financial trouble.

This gave Mr. Trueman greater confidence to continue fighting.

He also knew that a truce now was not a good option. It was like two strong men fighting.

The giant named Federation has put the knife against the chest of another giant named Pengeo, and has pierced his skin.

With just a little more force, the giant can be stabbed to death.

But at this time, the giant named Pengeo said that he had given up and was willing to surrender. Is this appropriate?

Obviously inappropriate!

Because the Federation has not caused any actual, irreparable damage to Pengeo!

After a few years, when they regain their national strength, they will once again become the biggest threat to the Federation!

If they want to admit defeat, they can at least break their hands and feet!

The best way is to stab it directly to death so that Pengeo will no longer be able to provoke a war!

Only in this way can the Federation be the absolute leader and dominate the world in the next thirty years, or even in the next half century!

The Federal Eagle also attended the meeting. He sorted out the materials and asked after Mr. Trueman and other cabinet members finished speaking——

"Mr. President, what is our bottom line in this negotiation?"

Mr. Trueman frowned, "I'm thinking about whether we need to negotiate, because we all know that now is not a good time to negotiate."

"We just broke through their blockade and haven't had time to do any substantial damage to them."

"But the hatred between us has been buried, and it is very deep and very much."

"Once the war ceases, when they develop again and have the strength to challenge us again, they will definitely start a war again brazenly."

"My idea is to keep fighting and completely cripple them!"

The Federal Eagle also agreed, "I have the same view as you, but we have to consider the people's thoughts."

"Now people are a little tired of the war. In three years, many families have been broken, and the mainstream consciousness of society is changing."

"The people of the Federation actually hope that we can sit at the negotiating table more than the Penteo people..."

Mr. Trueman sighed with a headache after hearing this. How could he not know what the federal people were thinking?

At the same time, he also understood the meaning of the Minister of International Affairs, forced the Pengeo people to leave voluntarily from the negotiating table, and then turned all this into society's hatred of Pengeo.

In this way, the war can continue and there will still be a strong foundation.

He pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "Discuss the specific figure for compensation, so that they can't come up with it."

"Find two places within their country and nearby to establish military bases."

"Since they lost, they accept the result and adjust the tariffs to turn them into a dumping ground for federal goods."

"By the way, let them hand over the main war criminals, ministers, chief of the army, and their emperor..."

Except for a few cabinet members, everyone else's expressions were very strange!

There is no doubt that this is obviously impossible for the Pengeo people to agree to.

Now they have no money in their hands, but they have to compensate the federal government for huge war reparations. They can't solve this problem at all.

Either introduce tariffs and cooperate with the dumping issue below, which is enough to completely destroy the Penteo people's light industry and part of the heavy industry system.

If it was a small country, it might just bite the bullet and agree. Anyway, there is no industrial base in the first place.

But for a big country, this is not just a matter of industrial technology and foundation.

With so many businesses affected, more people will lose their jobs.

As the unemployment rate grows faster, the government's burden will become even heavier!

It is impossible to establish a military base or anything. This poses too great a threat to Pengeo. The Federation can launch military operations at any time to attack important locations in Pengeo.

This is equivalent to putting a knife on their necks first, and the Pengeo Empire will never agree to it.

As for letting their nobles and even the emperor stand on the trial bench of war criminals, it is completely impossible!

They themselves are the rulers of Pengeo, so how is it possible for them to agree to hand over themselves to the Federals?

It's not a war to destroy the country, so in the end these conditions will definitely not be negotiated.

As long as there is no agreement, the war will continue.

Moreover, if these conditions are rejected after being beautified, the people who were originally war-weary will turn their possible dissatisfaction with the federal government into hatred towards the Pengeo Empire.

The Federation has proposed such a good armistice agreement, why haven't these people signed it yet?

The Minister of International Affairs nodded and started drawing in his notebook. He already had a rough idea of ​​the negotiation.

The meeting lasted until the afternoon. At noon, everyone had something to eat and then continued the meeting.

In fact, there is not much external work content. The military's current strategic plan is very complete and has taken into account many details.

The federal military and the Ministry of Defense grew rapidly during the war, and with their well-equipped equipment, the number of soldiers is still sufficient and their trial and error capabilities are stronger.

Local failures will not shake the results of the entire theater, but can add a lot of valuable experience to other teams.

In this regard, Mr. Trueman need not worry.

What he has to worry more about is the domestic situation.

A large amount of capital has flowed in, and a wave of development peaks have appeared in various places, which has also given rise to many new problems.

Almost all states are submitting something new, such as expansion, such as the construction of interstate highways, such as the addition of new sections connected to the national railway network...

Many matters need to be addressed or resolved by the presidential office.

For example, if there is a river and a lake between two states, this is related to the issue of water resource utilization.

Everyone thinks that their own development is more important. If we build a hydroelectric power station, how will the electricity be divided?

How to solve the problem of water conservancy utilization in upstream and downstream?

Who owns the management and governance rights of the lake?

Various problems may seem inconspicuous, but if they are too many, they can become a headache.

Maybe, this is the trouble of a powerful country?

The next day, the federal government actively responded to various matters to be negotiated.

The Minister of International Affairs, as the leader of the negotiation team, formed a team of negotiation experts to conduct negotiations in the selected neutral areas.

The whole world seems to have huge expectations for this negotiation, and therefore all fighting seems to have stopped.

The long-lost peace just appeared around people.

People have never cherished it before, but at this moment, they have never felt that peace is so beautiful!

Even on Gefra Island, the atmosphere has relaxed a lot.

Everyone is looking forward to the fact that once the war is over, the Pengeo people are likely to retreat.

Although the weather is cold, there is sunshine in people's hearts.

The Secretary of War sat in the warm room, where the fire from the burning logs licked the bricks.

He fiddled with the poker twice, and sparks rose up, making the flames burn more intensely.

Since the main members of the royal family and other nobles died in the shipwreck, there are now only ten nobles on the island of Gefra.

The Minister of War is the one with the highest title!

At the same time, he lost these "political opponents" and no one could accuse him of being a traitor. This made him live a pretty good life during this period.

The only troublesome thing is that the Pengeos seem to know that he stole the royal collection and have been investigating around him.

Countless wealth!

Regardless of whether he will stand on the judgment seat in the future, this money is enough for him and his family to undergo qualitative changes!

Fortunately, the previous plan was done well, and now those people are just guessing about him without getting any real evidence.

He hung the tongs back on the hook by the fireplace and turned to re-lay the blanket around his legs. "As soon as the war is over, the Pengeos will withdraw."

"There will definitely be riots then!"

"You should all know very well that everything I do is for this country, but those stupid lower-class people don't understand!"

"They think I am an executioner and a traitor, and I don't expect every one of them to understand why I do what I do."

"Ghafra cannot afford any more damage, especially civil unrest."

"So I ask you that once similar riots or mutinies occur somewhere, immediately dispatch the army to suppress them."

"Sacrificing a small number of people and retaining the foundation for re-emergence is worth it!"

"As for me……"

There was a strange smile on his lips, "...I will lead it to be strong again."

"But before that, I have one more thing to do..."