"What we should pay attention to is not someone."

It was Li Qing who said this. Although he drank a lot, his expression and behavior did not seem to be high. Maybe he really didn't drink high.

Bai Zhizhan's eyes immediately turned around, and Li Yunxiang also looked at him with a scrupulous look.

If you were still skeptical about Li Qing's identity at the beginning, Bai Zhizhan and Li Yunxiang knew about these few rounds of wine.

Why?

The other few young officers didn't drink much, and rarely talked, and kept paying attention to those who tried to get close to Li Qing.

The look of looking at people was as sharp as a knife, as if it could see through people.

These guys are clearly the bodyguards of the big inner bodyguards.

"You don't think about it. Even without the cripple Lofos, there will be blind Hofos or deaf TOFOs. As I began, the key is not someone."

"What is that?"

Because Bai Zhizhan didn't say anything, Li Yunxiang pretended not to understand and asked. No matter what, someone must follow the topic.

"Benefit."

Li Yunxiang pursed his mouth, as if he didn't know what to say. Judging from his expression, he obviously drank too much, and he might not be drunk for a long time.

This answer is definitely correct, but it is too general.

For thousands of years, disputes have arisen due to interests, without an exception.

The Liangxia Empire was unveiled and rapidly developed into the world's most powerful country. The contradictions with the Western powers were also concentrated on interests. In the past few decades, every war and every conflict were related to interests. The last global war was the general outbreak of contradictions.

To put it into practice, that is to say more specifically, how should this "interest" be explained?

Li Qing did not explain more, nor did he need to explain more.

Such a clue had already appeared twenty years ago.

At the end of the last war, the two countries that first participated in the war, the Bran Kingdom and the Rock Republic, parted ways. Although everyone believed that the main reason was the uneven division of spoils, and the differences between the two sides could not be compensated on whether to send troops to interfere with the military chaos of the Luosha Empire, fundamentally speaking, it was actually a war that lasted for more than four years, burning all the wealth accumulated by the two old empires for hundreds of years.

In short: common interests no longer exist.

Of course, there are also reasons for the Liangxia Empire.

Because the war did not end with the complete defeat of the Liangxia Empire, in other words, the alliance group did not achieve real victory, so after the war, it was difficult for several so-called victorious countries to obtain the war dividends of completing reconstruction and could not quickly recover their vitality after the war.

These old Western empires, especially the Bran Kingdom and the Rock Republic, are the defeated countries.

Due to its own size, it is impossible to make up for the losses suffered through colonial expansion and plunder overseas interests. Therefore, in the great development after the war, especially during the "Golden Decade", whether it is the Kingdom of Bran, which regains the title of the world's largest colonial suzerain, or the Rock Republic, which has made some efforts in external expansion, it is actually unable to compete with two super hegemony with huge sizes.

At the end of the war, this situation had already emerged.

The most representative one is that the Liangxia Empire actually participated in the Seba Peace Conference as a reciprocal, and was also a formal party to the "Seba Peace Agreement". During the subsequent "Huacheng Negotiations", the Liangxia Empire gained an equal position with the Newland Federation and the Bran Kingdom, and had a slight advantage in specific distribution. Several other victorious countries, such as the Nayi Empire and the Rock Republic, became second-rate powers.

These are all the main factors that caused the collapse of the First Alliance Group after the war.

In any case, the situation at that time was that the Liangxia Empire, which was originally a "defeated country", successfully preserved its foundation and laid the foundation for its re-emergence twenty years later. On the side of the Western powers, after more than four years of fierce war, the only one who could continue to fight against the Liangxia Empire was the Newland Federation.

The reality before the Western powers is: either abandon some overseas interests, remain neutral, and give up the ambition of external expansion; or surrender to the Newland Federation, form an alliance with the Newland Federation, jointly fight against the powerful Liangxia Empire, and safeguard its core interests.

Obviously, different countries have made different choices.

It was also from this time that the old empires represented by the Kingdom of Bran were precisely the interest groups that controlled these old empires and began to undergo painful transformation, transferring core interests to the Newland Federation, and rebuilding the interest network with the Newland Federation as the base.

The most representative one is the birth and development of the Western Continent. When it was during the Locke Empire, it moved to the Kingdom of Bran. It took more than a hundred years to build the Kingdom of Bran into the world's largest colonial sovereign country, the "Son of the Rose" family, the world's first financial hegemony in the industrial era, and the Youzu consortium represented by this family, which controls the lifeline of the Western powers by financial means.

The "golden decade" after the war was related to this great transfer of wealth.

After twenty years of hard work, although there are still many problems, such as the free and casual Newland people are still deeply influenced by isolationism, and many anti-war groups are still reflecting on the impact of the last war, in the financial and economic fields that determine the core interests of the country, the Youzu Consortium represented by the Sons of the Rose has successfully integrated into the Newland Federation and has also grasped the lifeline of the Newland Federation.

For example, the core financial institution of Newland Federation, the Federal Reserve Bank, is in the hands of several major families of the Youzu Consortium.

In this way, can we still expect the Newland Federation to be a wall to observe?

In fact, there is no doubt about this problem at all.

When formulating the war plan, from Xue Yuanzheng to Baizhi's war, everyone thought that in order not to allow several major allies, such as the Nayi Empire and the Bran Kingdom to be quickly defeated after the war, the Newland Federation would definitely send troops to participate in the war before it developed to an irreversible level.

It can be seen that the enemy of the empire is not the Naoyi Empire, but the Newland Federation.

Since he was destined to go to war with the Newland Federation, the best choice for the empire is to quickly defeat the Nayi Empire, which was in trouble.

Any act of delaying the speed of the offensive will pay a very heavy price.

After realizing this problem, Bai Zhizhan figured out a truth.

The strategy he advocated in the past was to first go south to attack the Tuk Fortress, expand the empire's local defense circle in the name of attacking the Nayi Empire, and establish another strategic defense line outside the North-South Sadou Islands, which is a waste of time and may not have good results.

If so, even if the two main teams were not annihilated near the Watcher Strait, the aircraft carrier would not be lost. The Navy Command would still adopt the eastward advance strategy led by Liu Xiangzhen. First, concentrate troops to attack Liuhuangdao in the volcanic islands. After obtaining a springboard to attack the Sayi land and completing the strategic encirclement of the Sayi Empire, then consider whether to go south to attack the Tuk Fortress, or go north to attack the Sayi land.

Army offensive on Icestorm Peninsula?

Obviously, from a strategic perspective, unless you directly attack the land of the Sayi Empire and land in the west of the Sayi Empire, the army will only be supporting roles.

The decisive battle is still on the ocean.
Chapter completed!