Chapter 163: The monarch and his ministers are in harmony with each other in civil and military affairs
Faced with the indifferent Perficott, Princess Anne tried to persuade.
But until the carriage arrived at the palace, Princess Anne could not make Perfectcott waver at all.
Having no other choice, she could only take Purficott into the palace and walk towards the conference room where the royal meeting was held.
In the conference room, a group of imperial ministers had arrived. They were gathering in twos and threes and discussing their respective topics with smiles on their faces. The most mentioned thing in their words was that this battle lasted only a few seconds. to a month of war.
From the declaration of war on Victoria by France, Ross and Saint Romulus, to the urgent return of Perficott, the deployment of all the alchemists in Langton to create thermobaric bombs to launch air strikes, and then to the burning of four cities overnight, the Three Kingdoms Unconditionally surrendered within seventy-two hours, and this tragic war that was supposed to be comparable in scale to a world war lasted only seventeen days.
For the generals of the Empire, this is a way of war that they have never imagined, and it is also a way of war that they cannot understand.
It only takes an airship and a few bombs to destroy a country's capital or the elite army they have assembled. This is really a bit difficult for the veteran generals who spent the first half of their lives on horseback. Too exciting.
It's like the generals were charging with the knights just a moment ago, but then you changed hands and took out the two kickers to bloom thousands of trees on an east wind night.
But even so, the military has no resistance to the emergence of thermobaric bombs and airships, which are the super weapons of this era. Instead, they are very happy that they can master such trump cards.
After all, they had originally calculated this war. If the battle was fought under normal conditions, even if the Victoria Empire won, at least more than 600,000 soldiers would be killed, and the war would last for at least three years.
As for resource consumption and military expenditure, it is a huge astronomical figure, enough to drain the entire financial budget of the empire within the next ten years.
Before Perficott returned to the empire, the military and the noble council were even planning to borrow a sum of money from the bank to maintain the expenses of the war.
The battle plan they drew up at that time was to form a knighthood of all steam knights, and then use these knights as the spearhead to cross the strait and fight the French people, and finally penetrate all the way to the capital of the French people. Force them to sign an alliance under the city.
If the war starts according to this plan, then the Victoria Empire will have to form at least ten steam knights. This will be a very huge expenditure for the Victoria Empire, no less than building two new ships. Battleship.
The casualties on the battlefield can be reduced to about 60,000, which is only one-tenth of the casualties.
No way, the frontal combat capability of the Steam Knight is simply amazing, but its reliance on logistics is greater than that of an entire corps in the past, so a large number of ordinary soldiers are still needed to fill in the lines and occupy, and the casualties are It's inevitable.
But this plan was slapped to death by Purficott.
She only spent a week preparing, and then ended the war in one night.
Now the military has become her die-hard supporter, although the young officers within the military are quite critical of it.
After all, they were still children during the last war. They could only watch their father and brother go to the battlefield and win back those golden medals and glory.
Now it was finally their turn. They had finally waited for a grand war in which they could win glory and military exploits, but in the end they failed to win those golden medals. All they had was the legend that they destroyed the capitals of the three countries in one night and ended the war. , how can these young officers accept this?
But obviously, these young officers who are eager to make meritorious deeds are not qualified to appear at the imperial meeting. Therefore, the atmosphere in the conference room where the Imperial Council was held at this time was quite harmonious.
Even the civil service group represented by the Parliament of Nobles sided with Perfectcott this time. After all, she quickly ended the war and saved the empire a lot of military expenses. , this is great news for the civil service group.
After all, although they can make a lot of money through war, reaching their position is no longer just about pursuing money, but about gaining rights and other benefits.
War will spur the development of related industries, but it will also bring a series of problems to the entire country.
The consequences of a war with an estimated one million casualties are terrible. If Victor is not careful, a revolution will break out just like France did more than ten years ago. The royal family and nobles will be Overthrow and establish the so-called bourgeois republic.
Even if the revolution can be suppressed, the ensuing social unrest will still be difficult to deal with.
These will eventually fall on the heads of the civil service group and need to be dealt with by them.
Now that it can be avoided, how could the civil service group be dissatisfied with Perficott? As for the benefits, as long as the Guardian of the North is willing to share the benefits of developing the North, who will have trouble with money?
In addition, the war has been won anyway. To celebrate, the drinks in Langton City have been sold out in the past few days.
So it is not so strange that the atmosphere in the imperial meeting was cheerful and everyone welcomed the Queen's arrival in a state of harmony with cultural relics.
However, after the Queen and Princess Anne took their seats, the Queen did not announce the start of the meeting. Instead, she waved to Perfectcott and motioned for her to come to her.
Looking at this girl who was still underage even now, the Queen couldn't help but reach out and hold her hand, gently stroked the back of her hand and said in a very kind tone: "I can be like Anne Do I still call you Little Purficott? Anne treats you as her biological daughter. She even asked me to adopt you and add your name to the royal family, so you can treat me as your elder. Don't be too formal.
Sir Brandless contributed a lot to the empire back then, but now you are the only orphan left but you are still contributing your strength to the empire. What does a little preferential treatment mean?
If the title of princess could reward you for your contribution to the empire, then I would have named you the princess of the empire long ago. ”
The Queen’s attitude really surprised everyone, but then everyone felt that there was no problem.
After all, Purficott’s talent and ability are obvious to all. Of course, such a talented girl must be easily recruited, especially for the royal family. Talents who are naturally close to the royal family are too valuable.
In addition to fame and fortune, what the royal family can do is fight. Emotional card.
After all, although the Victoria Empire is still an empire, it has largely transitioned to a constitutional monarchy, and the status of the royal family is still somewhat delicate.
(End of this chapter)