Chapter 286: The “Sinking Island” Plan

After breakfast, Xiao Jie came to Duille Palace. Although it was just 8:30, most of the people who were going to attend the meeting were here. Seeing that Xiao Jie was coming, everyone saluted and greeted him. Xiao Jie also smiled and nodded in response.

At 9 a.m., all the cabinet members arrived. Government Prime Minister Conbaceres walked onto the rostrum. With his support, the first cabinet meeting of the French Empire in 1826 officially began. Conbaceres is 68 years old this year, and his heavy work makes him look particularly old. Xiao Jie is now planning to retire him, otherwise he will definitely not be able to hold on.

The first item at the beginning of the meeting was Xiao Jie's speech. Over the past 10 years, he had experienced too many such occasions and was familiar with this speech. Xiao Jie first asked everyone for a happy new year, and then affirmed everyone's work in 1825, so he had to encourage everyone to achieve better results in the new year.

Then the ministers of each ministries reported on the work achievements of each ministries in the previous year and the plans for this year. As a key department, the Ministry of Finance ranked first in this report. Xiao Jie's father-in-law Marquis Otov walked onto the rostrum, saluting Xiao Jie first, and then turned around to salute the cabinet members attending the meeting. Then he began his report: "In 1825, my country's economy increased by 11% again compared with 1824, with GDP reaching 25 billion francs. Among them, fiscal revenue reached 8 billion francs. Last year's fiscal expenditure reached 8.5 billion francs, mainly

It was the military's emergency funding that brought the fiscal deficit to 500 million francs. In the fiscal expenditure last year, except for military expenditures accounting for 20% and a total of 1.7 billion francs, other expenditures also increased slightly. Among them, social security expenditures have increased significantly due to the increase in the hoarding of food and other strategic materials. It is expected that the GDP this year will reach about 28 billion francs and fiscal revenue will also reach 9 billion francs. However, since there are many military plans to be implemented this year, the finance will be tilted towards the military. It is initially estimated that this year's military expenditure will reach 35 to 40% of fiscal expenditures."

After Otov's report was over, most people took a breath. From Otov's report, it was not difficult for them to find out that the military would make big moves, otherwise how could it be spent so much military expenditure? After so many years of calm, peace is finally over.

Afterwards, other ministers also made relevant reports, but the center around them became this year's military operations. However, they all knew that the military would take big moves, but no one knew what was specifically due to the need for confidentiality.

The meeting ended at 11 o'clock, and Xiao Jie kept the chief and deputy ministers of the four ministries: the internal affairs, finance, foreign affairs and police.

"I believe everyone knows more or less that the military will launch a huge war plan this year. I hope that everyone's work center will arrange this year's work center. During the military's plan implementation, all departments must do their best to provide support to the military." Xiao Jie said seriously. After enduring for so many years, it was finally time for an outbreak. He could not tolerate any mistakes that made the military's plan fail.

Seeing Xiao Jie so serious, everyone nodded to show that they would definitely cooperate with the military's actions.

Xiao Jie nodded and then began to assign specific tasks. "First, the various resources mastered by the Ministry of the Interior should be used immediately to provide intelligence support to the military, and work with the Ministry of Police to ensure domestic stability. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues to provoke relations between European countries, and it is best to let them go to war with each other so that they do not have the energy to take into account French military operations. The Ministry of Finance prepares a large amount of war funds to provide material support to the military. Other departments are fully led by the chief and deputy prime minister to provide the greatest support for the military's operations."

"Your Majesty, can you tell us what the military's actions are? In this way, we can have a clear idea in order to cooperate with the military's actions." Otov couldn't help asking. Judging from the information reflected in all aspects, the military has been preparing for this action for a long time and the movement is very big, but the cabinet members do not know at all.

Xiao Jie nodded, thinking that it was time for the cabinet members to know the military's plans, and that these are important officials of the empire and trustworthy, so he said: "This plan is actually very simple, that is, to eliminate the empire's biggest enemy."

"The biggest enemy of the empire? Britain!" Deputy Foreign Minister Kompeny immediately reacted.

"That's right!" Xiao Jie nodded: "Our navy is now very powerful, enough to launch a full-scale war with the British navy. If it is operated well, it is entirely possible to completely eliminate the British navy. As long as the British navy is defeated, I think the later landing operation will be much easier."

Everyone only knew the military's plan. They had thought that the military was going to attack Austria or Prussia because it was very easy for France to defeat Austria or Prussia. But they had never thought that the military's plan would be Britain, and Xiao Jie also planned to land in the UK and kill the UK completely. Everyone was shocked because in their opinion, the military's plan was too arrogant. You must know that since the British navy became stronger, no army from other countries has been able to successfully invade the British Isles for hundreds of years.

After looking at the expressions of everyone, Xiao Jie smiled helplessly: "Everyone is still not confident! In fact, you don't have to worry at all. Now the power of the empire is far superior to that of the United Kingdom. As long as we can kill the British Navy, our army will easily defeat Britain completely."

"Your Majesty, but other countries will definitely not sit idly by. At that time, we will definitely face the dilemma of fighting on both sides again." Grigoo said with some concern.

"Don't worry, my Foreign Minister. The Army will completely block the enemy abroad in the east of the empire until we completely occupy Britain." Xiao Jie said confidently.

Next, it was lunch time. After that, Xiao Jie took a break for a while before coming to the General Staff to attend the military meeting. This military meeting was very important, so all senior generals of the army returned to Paris except those with tasks, which made Paris shine for a moment.

As soon as he walked into the conference room of the General Staff, Xiao Jie saw that there were all shiny pieces below. Seeing these, Xiao Jie was also very happy, because it means that he had countless generals, most of them were very young generals. From their faces, Xiao Jie saw a look of fanaticism. They probably had heard the wind and knew what orders they would mainly issue for this meeting.

At 2 pm, the meeting officially began. Chief of Staff Marshal Eck walked onto the rostrum. Under his presidency, the meeting officially began. Of course, Xiao Jie's speech was indispensable at the beginning of the meeting. Xiao Jie walked onto the rostrum, looked at the large piece of head below, took a deep breath, and said: "It's been 12 years. My marshals and generals have been 12 years since the 6th anti-French alliance occupied Paris. In these 12 years, we have been enduring. I have to say that endurance is a very painful thing, but for the sake of the development of the country, we have to endure it. But today is different

I can proudly tell you that after 12 years of construction and development, the French Empire is now very powerful, so strong that we can get back what we lost in the last war. Gentlemen, the situation is now very obvious. The contradiction between us and the anti-French alliance has reached an irreconcilable point. Instead of being passively beaten, it is better to take the initiative to fight back. Therefore, I can tell you clearly that this year, we will launch a large-scale military operation against the anti-French alliance. Warriors of the Empire, are you willing to get back what we lost 12 years ago for the Empire?" Xiao Jie shouted.

Everyone's morale was adjusted, and they stood up and shouted: "As you wish, your Majesty!"

He nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Very good. Next, Marshal Ek will arrange the combat missions of all legions and units for everyone."

Eck walked up to the rostrum with a thick book of plans, calmed down his excitement, and then said: "In fact, since 1823, the General Staff has secretly formulated a huge plan. Now, the time has finally ripe, and our plan is about to be ready to start implementation."

Everyone held their breath and was about to listen carefully to Eck explaining this two-point plan. Many people also took out their notebooks and prepared to record the key points.

After looking at the expressions of everyone, Eck continued: "The code name of the plan is called "sinking island" by us. The "island" means the British islands, which means that the target of our plan is Britain. The combat goal is to completely defeat the British navy, then land in the UK, and completely defeat the UK."
Chapter completed!