The white blood cells no longer sent out small teams to explore the rainforest, but began to build various defensive steel bunkers.
Obviously, the "New World" in their eyes has made them extremely fearful. They no longer act rashly, but first adopt a defensive posture to defend against the invasion of alienated people from the "New World".
But at the same time, they are still actively conducting aircraft experiments to find ways for flying devices to enter the "New World".
On the United Kingdom side, the experience of Arafat, an important member of the Joint Intelligence Agency, has led to a consensus among the top leaders of the United Kingdom.
However, competing for dominance in the New World has naturally become a new goal for each faction.
But because the New World side temporarily ceased operations, for a few months, they were in peace with each other.
At this time, Lu Ming came to the royal capital - New Newman City again.
The Banshanbao Military Club has become extremely lively in the past few days due to the arrival of the commander.
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Underground secret room, dim light.
It's not that Henry II didn't have the conditions to make this place comfortable and bright, but as a tradition for the king, holding a secret meeting with the closest ministers seems to be the only way to reveal the secret of the meeting and the close relationship between the king and the ministers.
Henry II was sitting at the head of the long table, and his expression was not very good.
Participating in this meeting were his eldest son, Archduke Peter of Neumannburg, and his second son, Prince Edward.
Logically speaking, the eldest son Peter has been awarded the title of Grand Duke of Neumannburg, which means that he is the legal heir of the United Kingdom.
But Henry II always loved his second son Edward very much.
This kind of secret meeting requires Prince Edward to attend, which is evident.
Edward's name was even taken from the name of the last emperor of the old empire, the father of Alice, the eldest prince William V, and the second prince Henry II.
Edward is the adopted son of Henry II. He is sixteen years old this year. He was a swaddled baby that Henry II picked up from a village during the war.
But it is said that Edward was actually the illegitimate son of Henry II. His mother committed suicide in order to allow her son to enter the royal court without exposing a scandal that would affect her son's future.
In this way, even if this scandal is spread, it will be Prince Edward who gets sympathy.
Not to mention, everyone is saying that Edward's mother is actually a member of the powerful Thorngrass family.
Edward seems to be very close to the Nansen family, the representatives of the Thorngrass family's worldly power.
His engaged father-in-law is one of the most important members of the Nansen Consortium.
The Nansen Consortium is the richest super consortium in the United Kingdom today.
The Imperial Continent, the independent department in charge of monetary policy, is the Imperial Joint Savings Committee and the Nansen Bank of the Nansen Group. It was one of the latest representatives to enter the committee ten years ago.
The Imperial Joint Reserve Committee was composed of independent representatives from the most powerful banks in the imperial continent.
The more well-known ones are Imperial Bank, Hoyin Bank, etc.
Even during the Civil War, the structure of the Joint Reserve Board never changed.
Because even the most stupid person knows that once the neutral nature of the Joint Reserve Committee is destroyed, no one will benefit, and the economic system of the Imperial Continent can only completely collapse.
The Joint Reserve Committee formulates an imperial coin issuance plan every year to determine the issuance quantities of various denominations. This plan is based on estimates of currency demand across the entire imperial continent and considerations of the balance between currency supply and demand.
It is somewhat similar to the Euro issuance process that Lu Ming knew in his previous life.
The difference is that in the empire continent, only the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Han, the Kingdom of East Grifenni and the Eastern Economic Zone headed by Donghai are the four core distribution areas.
Only these four core areas are eligible to receive the new imperial coins issued in the form of national bonds (regional bonds).
The confederations in other regions are just like some countries with economic collapse in previous generations. They do not have the credit and qualifications to issue currency, but they use foreign strong credit currencies as their currency.
To a greater or lesser extent, these four major areas will suck some blood, but from the perspective of overall economic development, becoming a circulation area for strong credit currency will still be more beneficial to ordinary people.
Otherwise, if the rulers who do not understand economics can print money as they please, they may seem to have independent sovereignty, but most of the results will be that the poor in the region suffer.
As for the Federal Reserve Committee, although being on the committee only represents the strength of the bank, there is no substantial benefit.
But no matter what, it is inevitable that the second prince, Prince Edward, will receive the support of the Nansen Consortium.
Except for Henry II and the two princes, the rest of the people attending the meeting were all ministers whom Henry II considered to be loyal.
Admiral Augustus, special military adviser to the Privy Council.
Member of the Privy Council and First Controller General Dönitz.
Member of the Privy Council, Commander of the Southern Military District, and Governor of the Gede District, General Bute.
Duke Siedler, Lord Chancellor of the Privy Council.
Lord Woods, Senior Counsel of the Privy Council and former Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench.
Lord Gurt, Advisor to the Privy Council on Commonwealth Affairs and former Speaker of the Privy Council.
Earl Morris, member of the Privy Council and Speaker of the House of Lords.
Member of the Privy Council, Member of the Cabinet, and Minister of Special Affairs for the Northern Territory, Anderson.
Lieutenant General Candice, Secret Intelligence Adviser to the Privy Council.
Nine people in total.
In fact, the membership of the Privy Council is extremely large, such as the Prime Minister and all cabinet ministers; the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and the House of Commons; all the Justices of the Court of Queen's Bench, the Commanders of the Joint Conference of Commanders, etc., are all legal members of the Privy Council.
However, these people do not actually attend Privy Council meetings. They only attend major ceremonies such as royal weddings and successions as members of the Privy Council.
For Henry II's true confidants, they were the permanent ministers in the Privy Council.
As far as the cronies among the cronies are concerned, it is these nine people.
However, most of them have no actual power.
For example, former Speaker Lord Gurt.
Generally speaking, after all, the former speaker was once the leader of an extremely powerful ruling party, and even if he steps down, he will still have considerable influence in the political world.
But Lord Gurt was the Speaker during the war. After the war, real democratic elections came, and his party soon suffered a disastrous defeat.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The only serving cabinet member is the Northern Territory Affairs Minister Andy Anderson.
For the Han Kingdom in the Northern Territory, the United Kingdom specially set up a minister of affairs in the cabinet to deal with all matters in the Northern Territory.
Because Andy has more than ten years of experience and qualifications in dealing with all aspects of the Northern Territory.
As a result, Henry II appointed him and he was able to stay in office during the two changes of prime ministers in the cabinet.
The convening of today's secret meeting was mainly due to a surprising piece of news brought by Anderson from the Northern Territory.
It is a secret letter written by His Majesty King Lu Ming of the Han Kingdom to Henry II personally, and brought back by Anderson from Xinjing.
Although he was a close confidant of Henry II, no one here had seen the original document. The documents in front of them contained several key points of the secret letter.
There are not many words, just a thin page of paper, but the message is astonishing.
The Han Kingdom of the Northern Territory unexpectedly discovered a secret passage to the New World from the northeastern sea. Moreover, after capturing people from the New World for research, they deciphered its language, which was similar to an ancient language of the people on the northeastern frontier of the Northern Territory Kingdom.
The letter gave a brief introduction to the situation in the New World.
Giant corporate culture, eradication of heretics, etc.
His Majesty Lu Ming finally proposed to launch an attack on the New World through the Northern Passage, but the United Kingdom and the continental federations would need to assume corresponding obligations.
To put it bluntly, it is human resources and material resources.
"We assume that the information in this letter is true and correct. Let's talk about how we should respond to this letter." Henry II's eyes swept across the faces of the ministers.
Lu Ming nodded inwardly. Henry II was very shrewd. If he didn't use this premise, he might have spent a long time arguing whether the information in the letter was true or false.
This kind of time-consuming debate is completely unnecessary. Regardless of whether it is true or false, the best solution is to come up with the best way to deal with it.
Candice glanced at Lu Ming for a few times, wondering what her mysterious friend's true intention was in writing this letter.
"The information in this letter is true..." Lu Ming was the first to speak.
Everyone was startled and looked at him.
Lu Ming continued: "Actually, two months ago, I discovered a passage to the New World."
Everyone was startled.
Lu Ming took out a map. There was a red line in the rain forest of southern Xinjiang.
Lu Ming continued: "This red line can be seen as the barrier that originally separated the New Continent and the Imperial Continent. The two continents are actually connected by a very narrow part, about tens of kilometers in the north-south direction. But now, the continents are connected.
Part of the barrier disappeared, and the bunkers and steel fortresses built by the New World's armed groups actually put these dozens of kilometers on complete alert."
"However, I have been thinking that these unknown barriers cannot be just a problem in the connecting part of the continent, so I have been sending people to explore along the red line." Lu Ming's hand slowly moved along the red line, and finally, at
The southern red line connecting the continents was designated at one point. "Sure enough, the barrier was not only broken in the part connecting the continents. From here, a very narrow passage also appeared. We originally thought that the east side of the rain forest was still a rain forest, but in fact it was not.
Yes, it turns out that, except for the narrow area where the two continents are connected, further south, the east side of our rainforest is actually a beach, with about a hundred kilometers of bay in the middle. On the other side of the bay is the fishing port of the New World, my
The subordinates secretly sneaked into the New World one after another, and also obtained some information that the Northern Territory seemed not to find out or was unwilling to share with us. I also went to the fishing port for a few days..."
After a pause, he looked at Henry II, "I just came back from the New World yesterday, and I came to the royal capital to report my findings to you."
"Oh, tell me, what did you find?" Henry II's eyes flashed with excitement.
Lu Ming took out a pamphlet from his document bag, stood up, walked over in person, and placed it in front of Henry II.
Henry II couldn't wait to look through it.
In it, Lu Ming generally described the form of civilization in the New World, including its horrific custom of purging people over the age of sixty.
After Henry II read it once, he read it again.
More than half an hour later, he nodded slightly, thought for a while, and signaled to send the pamphlet to Augustus first, asking everyone to circulate it.
Lu Ming continued: "As far as I know, although most people in the New World have received education since childhood, which makes them basically have no personality and reflect the collective will everywhere, they are not completely invulnerable, and there are still secret resistance organizations.
So, from what I can see, we can seize the initiative against the New Continent instead of handing it over to the Northern Kingdom easily."
Everyone listened to what he said with different expressions.
Lu Ming considered it and said: "Although the resistance organizations in the New World are very weak, and it is basically impossible for an organization with more than a hundred people to exist, because when the number of people is large, there will be more flaws and it is easy to be detected. However, if we put the New World over 60 years old
The truth is revealed that all the old people will be killed. I think the New World will soon be in chaos, the resistance will quickly increase in strength, and we can take the opportunity to support the resistance. In short, use the minimum cost to bring down the New World.
At the very least, its development and stability can be undermined. The longer the chaos in the New World lasts, the better it is for us."
"If the Northern Territory wants to go to war with the New World, that's up to them, but we don't have to provide any support to them. I think the best strategy is to create enemies of the enemy without fighting, and we can control them from behind. The Northern Territory's
People should also agree with my point of view.”
After a pause, Lu Ming said: "I have photos and videos to prove the lie about the nursing home. It can definitely cause a big disturbance in the New World."
Henry II pondered and said nothing.
Northern Territory Affairs Minister Andyson coughed and said, "Admiral Bit, I am definitely not against you, but His Majesty Lu Ming, wouldn't you have thought of this? He insists on starting a war, there must be a reason..."
The conference room fell into silence. Every time the king thought about his step-by-step journey over the past twenty years, it felt like a big stone was weighing on his chest.
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Lu Ming smiled, "If the Northern Territory is going to go to war, it is indeed the only way for them to take the initiative against the New Continent, because it is difficult for them to detect the internal intelligence of the New Continent, and it is even less possible for them to infiltrate too many people to support the resistance." There was a pause.
"In the information that His Majesty reported to us, it highlighted that the New World language is closely related to the ancient language of the aboriginal people in the northeastern region of the Northern Kingdom, but it downplayed the fact that the race of the New World people is more like us, and most of their hair is red.
Yes, although there are many Western ethnic groups living in the Northern Kingdom, it is very difficult to select a large number of red-haired spies."
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Admiral Augustus slammed the table, "I almost got deceived by this guy again! So cunning!" He looked at Lu Ming and nodded, with an expression that seemed to say, "Thanks to you!".
The atmosphere in the conference room immediately became lively, and everyone was excited to be able to take the initiative in the overt and covert battle with the Northern Kingdom for the first time.
Candice looked at Lu Ming helplessly. Only she understood what was happening in the conference room.
However, she couldn't figure out what her friend's intentions were.
Everyone discussed excitedly for a while, and they all agreed to act according to Lu Ming's plan.
In this way, not only can the army be firmly united with His Majesty the King through the fight against the New World.
It can even lead the joint military operations of the entire imperial continent in the next few years.
But in the end, Dönitz, who had been silent, sighed and said: "What if the Northern Territory does not recognize our leadership and must go to war with the New World? I think they would rather pay a lot of casualties to win the war than agree with everyone. Some of the conditions just discussed..."
As if a basin of cold water had been poured on him, the conference room fell silent.
Lu Ming nodded slightly, "So, we should adopt a cooperative approach. In fact, we also need the support of the Northern Kingdom. The secret passage we discovered in the Southern Territory, our special people and a small number of personnel can sneak through, but It would be difficult for a large number of military personnel, including supplies, to escape the inspections of the New World Sentinels. Therefore, we may have to rely on the channels of the Northern Kingdom. If they are willing to cooperate with us and help us transport personnel and supplies, we can truly Take the next step." After a pause, "Of course, the premise is that we need to send a small number of personnel in advance to uncover the truth about the nursing homes in the New World, find promising resistance organizations, and support them to establish secret transportation channels for supplies. Only then can we We need cooperation from the Northern Territory to help us transport supplies into the New World."
At this time, Candice nodded silently, probably finally understanding what her friend was going to do.
It is indeed necessary to unite the Kingdom and the Northern Territory to fight against the New World.
But basically, the Northern Territory only helps transport people and materials. The real consumption of materials, sacrifices, etc. all require contributions from the United Kingdom.
However, in order to support the resistance forces within the New World, it seems that the United Kingdom has more convenient conditions.
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In the secret room, Henry II only left Lu Ming alone, and the two princes also left.
"Communicate with Dumas, I hope you will participate." Henry II said calmly.
Lu Ming nodded slightly: "Your Majesty, it is my duty to do so."
"We can start talking with Beiyu now. I'll write a letter and ask Anderson to take it over, suggesting that Beiyu start teaching the New World language to our first batch of intelligence personnel now."
Lu Ming nodded. In some aspects, Henry II was indeed much better than the eldest prince, and this was indeed the most important thing.
Moreover, even because we have negotiated terms with the Northern Territory, we can use this to force the constitutionalists. For the welfare of all the people in the empire continent, we must now put aside our different political opinions and fully support the fight against the huge threat of a completely different civilization group.
The constitutionalists originally relied on votes to fight against the royal family. If they did not cooperate on this matter and were reported to the outside world, then the current cabinet would have no other end than the collapse of the government.
Henry II looked at Lu Ming again, "I heard that you are also a member of the Awakened?"
Lu Ming smiled bitterly: "I would rather be an ordinary person."
Henry II nodded understandingly. He looked at Lu Ming, his eyes full of trust and warmth, "I will appoint you as the commander-in-chief of this military operation that requires the support of the entire empire. Your Excellency, Commander, I beg you for everything!"
"
Lu Ming was helpless. Whenever the most powerful person starts talking to you like this, it means that he has begun to be afraid of you, but he can't live without you for the time being.
However, some powerful people have never reached the peak of power, so they misunderstand this as a kind of courtesy and respect, and some even rely on favor and are arrogant, which is not far from committing suicide.
There are many examples of this in the thousands of years of dynasty changes in my previous life.
I was thinking wildly, but I was too lazy to act, and I was not afraid to stand up and say something that I didn't mean. I nodded lightly: "Your Majesty, I will do my duty."
In fact, the military power he currently controls is not much of a threat to the huge military power of the United Kingdom.
But the problem is that Henry II fought hard with the constitutionalists and fought back and forth. As a result, he seemed to be his only hope.
Next, in order to control the military power more effectively, Henry II will use this opportunity to give himself more authority in the army. If he betrays him in the future, the consequences will be disastrous.
However, it seems that nowadays, he doesn't have many choices.
As for his indifferent attitude, it may not be a bad thing, and pretending to be grateful may not be good either.
