Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Chapter 114: Upgraded to a Navy Think Tank

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Grandfathers, Qingxuan knows very little about the navy. His last intrusion into the cabinet meeting was a coincidence. How could he offer suggestions on the Imperial Navy's strategy?"

Chen Jiehua looked around at everyone before answering. After Togo Heihachiro spoke, everyone stopped chatting, put down their wine glasses, and looked at him. He probably really wanted to listen to his advice, otherwise they would not have let him in.

So Chen Jiehua retreated to advance and laid the groundwork for subsequent needs.

As expected, Prince Bogong was very dissatisfied with Chen Jiehua's modesty. "Boy, just tell me what you think. There is an old Chinese saying that those who are involved are often confused, while those who are on the sidelines can see things more clearly. Just treat yourself as a bystander."

As mentioned earlier, in Japan, being overly modest and hiding one's shortcomings is not in line with the traditional style of the Yamato people. So Chen Jiehua thought about it and expressed his thoughts based on the chat records he heard throughout the process and the history books he read in the past few days, combined with the sporadic memory fragments in his mind.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, the Marshal, and all the grandfathers, then Aoki will not be polite. Let me tell you what I think."

"First, I would like to ask Your Excellency, what is our ultimate goal? Is it to abolish the London Naval Treaty, right?"

"Yes, there is no doubt about that."

"Look, our ultimate goal is to abolish the treaty. The key point is abolition. Now that the treaty has not been formally passed, there is no abolition at all. Therefore, we have no reason to prevent the signing of the treaty!"

"Ha, Aoki, the way you put it, it sounds a bit like the Chinese people being sophistry and nitpicking."

"Yes, I was inspired by what His Excellency said just now. Now, the signing of the treaty is generally in the interests of the Empire. The Emperor and the Cabinet both hope to sign the treaty. While controlling military spending, it can also curb the arms race and slightly limit the expansion of the American Navy."

"Over the past two days, Aoki has been walking the bustling streets of Tokyo and listening to the opinions and ideas of many citizens of the Empire. Most of them support the signing of the treaty. After all, it will take time for the Empire's economy to recover."

"So, at present, signing the treaty is the general trend. If we prevent the signing of the treaty at this time, the resistance and losses will be huge."

"We might as well make some adjustments to our strategy from here. On the surface, we'll pretend to prevent the signing of the treaty, but some of us will be less resolute. Ultimately, we'll force the other side to make concessions in the tug-of-war and achieve our goals step by step, such as who to abdicate, who to resign, who to promote, etc., to maximize our benefits."

"Once the treaty is finally signed, our small goal will have been basically achieved. We will gradually lay out our plans, placing our people in important positions, gaining control of the discourse, and gradually guiding the people of the empire and the junior officers who support us in terms of public opinion, politics, national defense, and security. Gradually, naturally, and gently, we will achieve the goal of abolishing the treaty."

"We just need to divide the work and cooperate, who will play the hardliners, who will play the weak-willed ones, who will be responsible for proposing conditions, and who will finally pretend to side with the treaty camp. It can be done with a little acting."

"In the end, we got the important and critical position and achieved our goal. What was our loss and effort other than time?"

After Chen Jiehua finished speaking, the entire banquet hall fell into an unusual silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop! The maids responsible for pouring the wine were trembling with fear beside them! "If you say this in front of us, will His Royal Highness silence you? Probably, right? I'm so scared!"

Seven naval bosses plus a little-known unknown person named Shibayama Masao, stared at the war god Shimazu Chen Jiehua and Aoki Qiao with sixteen eyes. No one spoke for three full minutes.

"Mr. Aoki, this is truly a wise and prudent statement for the country!" Here, in this atmosphere, apart from Marshal Heihachiro Togo, Prince Hiroyuki was probably the only one who could speak, so the prince thought for a long time and gave a qualitative description to Chen Jiehua's "suggestion".

He was talking about "Aoki-kun". The prince no longer regarded him as a child, but as a colleague and partner with whom he could discuss research.

After saying this, the prince suddenly realized that in addition to the nine people attending the meeting, there seemed to be nine maids pouring wine, so he frowned!
"Someone come!" Prince Bogong was about to call Deadpool in through a codeword. Several maids who knew the rules heard it and were already trembling. Now that the evidence was confirmed, they quickly begged for mercy, "Your Highness, please spare us. We won't say anything more. Please spare us!"

Oh my god, Chen Jiehua thought to himself, damn it, I spoke without thinking and did bad things to hurt people. It seems that the prince is planning to silence these nine maids!

Alas, if I don’t go to hell, who will?
"Your Excellency, wait a minute. This isn't a secret. You don't have to execute these maids. Besides, Aoki hopes that the content of today's meeting can be disseminated after the treaty is finally signed!"

"What? Aoki, what did you say? You hope it can be spread? Why?" Kato Kanji asked. This was very strange. If it was spread, you were the proposer of the plan, wouldn't you become the target of public criticism?
"Grandpa Kato, that's right. Aoki hopes to use them to spread some of the contents of this secret meeting to the public after the treaty is finally signed! But it must be after the treaty is signed."

"Why is this?" Prince Bogong didn't understand why. Self-deprecating? That's unnecessary, right?
"Aoki has a brilliant plan! But please allow Aoki to keep it a secret for a while. The prince and the grandfathers won't have to wait too long."

"Yoshi! It seems our Shimazu think tank has another plan. Okay, then it's up to you. We'll wait and see the results of the second step. I hope it's a big surprise! These nine maids are in your care. Everything is up to you."

"Okay, go down, no need to come in!"

"Thank you, Your Highness, and thank you, Lord Aoki!"

"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you. Just wait for me outside."

"Your Excellency, Marshal, and all the Grandfathers, since we've just discussed our ultimate goal and the direction for tomorrow's meeting and the period ahead, Aoki will delve a little deeper and summarize the ultimate goals of the generals and the navy. Grandfathers, please listen and see if Aoki's summary is correct."

"The ultimate goal of our secret meeting just now is to abolish the treaty. This should only be the ultimate goal, but not the ultimate goal, or the long-term goal. A treaty that can be torn up at any time is not worthy of being the ultimate goal of our great Imperial Japanese Navy!"

"So, what is the ultimate goal of the Imperial Navy? To make it the most powerful navy in the world! Only when we are strong enough will England, Red Russia, and America not dare to continue to use a treaty to constrain us!"

(End of this chapter)