"Destroying is always much easier than building, gentlemen. It only takes a few seconds for us to fire a few large-caliber shells, but if we want to build a building, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to complete it in a year or even more. I believe that all gentlemen here understand this simple truth."

Seeing the officers nodding their heads frequently expressing their approval below, Xu Jun took a deep breath and continued.

"The dream of establishing a modern Roman Empire is indeed very tempting. But how was the Roman Empire established? Relying on force?

Indeed, the Roman legion was invincible, sweeping across Europe, and the empire even extended to the inland Africa and Asia.

The Roman Legion relied on excellent tactics and equipment ahead of that era, trained soldiers and advanced military concepts to gain powerful force far superior to his backward and stale enemies, all of which were surprisingly similar to the advantages we have now.

But does this mean that we can build a second Roman Empire with powerful force? My answer is no, we will never be able to accomplish this undertaking by force in this era."

Xu Jun stopped, he put down his scepter in his hand and picked up the cup on the table and took a sip of water. The officers all looked at him with their breath holding their eyes.

"I think some of the gentlemen here have thought of it for a long time. I want to hear your opinions."

Xu Jun looked at the three giants in the commander sitting on the left.

"My Head, I understand what you mean. What you said before is also the problem that has been bothering me until now. I am very worried about our current situation, my Head."

Chief of Staff of the Operations Department, Yodel, said respectfully.

"Indeed, Marshal Braushichi and I also know this, and this is why we are determined to follow you firmly. As we have always told our subordinates, only you can clearly see the existence of the crisis, and only you can save Germany from danger and lead us to the true path of rise, my head."

Keitel hurriedly continued, and the smart chief of staff of the commander also said the one from Von Braushizi.

"You have talked to us about this issue specifically. My Head of State, I still remember the scene at that time, and I am extremely impressed by your profound insights and the keen and profound vision and strategic thinking contained behind it."

Feng Brauxizi quickly climbed up the ladder.

"We do not have the strength to build what Hitler called the Millennium Empire. As the Head of State said, this is just a crazy dream."

The person who spoke was Halder, the Chief of Staff of the Army, had just been given a lesson by Xu Jun.

Halde, who was a little stubborn, was frightened by the strategic thinking that was ahead of the entire era and the analytical ability and judgment that surpassed his imagination.

He saw a guy who looked more like Superman than Hitler. During those hours, the Chief of Staff of the Army acted like a rookie who had just entered the military academy, listening to the young leader's deception with his eyes straight. Oh no, it should be a teaching.

When Halder walked out of the office of the head of state, the Chief of Staff of the German Army had become the most staunch admirer and follower of the head of state Reinhart, following Von Braushizi, von Keitel, Yodel, Guderian, Reeder, von Longdested, von Bloomberg, von Manstein, von Loeb, and von Bock. After another victim who was deceived by Xu Jun with advanced knowledge.

"My head of state, let's talk about our army first. I immediately started investigating the questions you raised when you met me alone last time. As you said, those problems not only exist but also are very serious. If it were not for your reminder, we might still be immersed in the dream of victory in the French Battle. If these problems were exposed in the next battle, we might have suffered irreparable huge losses.

The Army General Staff is developing a comprehensive improvement plan as you want. I really want to stop the time now and hopefully it will be too late to start this plan."

Yodel said earnestly, but his words caused a whisper among the generals below.

"I also hope to catch up with General Halder, our enemies will not sit there and wait. We can only deal with future crises by doing our best and making all-round preparations."

Xu Jun nodded and replied.

"I mentioned the Roman Empire before. The Roman Empire was not established by simple force. The Romans spent countless time and energy to create a safe surrounding environment for themselves, which gave them a strong space for development.

Most of the time the Romans relied on wisdom and perseverance. Their endless diplomatic and political tricks were often more effective than the killings of the Roman legions.

The Romans knew at that time that force could only be used as a last resort, and force could not solve all problems. But now we actually think that it is really ridiculous to conquer the whole world by force alone.

Now, we have taken the first step. Although we are forced by the situation, we have reached a point where we cannot turn back. We can only continue to move forward. I just hope that we all work together to make Germany truly rise in Europe and the world.

Before that, we must re-examine ourselves and the world so that we can find the right advanced direction in Germany.”

"Hitler once said that the Germanic nation is the best nation in the world. It should be the ruling nation, not the Germanic nation must accept the rule of the Germanic nation. In my opinion, this is completely a daydream.

We are indeed an excellent nation. As an excellent nation, we should have a clear mind instead of crazy words like believing that we are the ruling nation.

In this era, it is impossible for a nation to easily enslave and rule another nation. The continuous development of technology has made the earth smaller and narrowed the gap between nations.

The two countries with cultural and technological differences between the two peoples before, such as dozens or even hundreds of years, could not happen again. It was difficult to oppress another nation to surrender with force and killing. Moreover, we are facing a highly developed civilization now.

I really can't imagine that we can rely on force to truly surrender all European nations who have long been accustomed to seduction.

If we continue to consider the issue of European unification in our original way of thinking, what I know now is that the occupation plan formulated by the German government was not as good as Napoleon of that year, I can imagine what the final consequences would be.

I know that all the senior officers here are, and everyone can look at this issue rationally. This is also the reason why the German team has not been completely eroded by such crazy ideas.

I hope this situation will continue and will lead the whole of Germany to restore sanity, which is a task that the military chiefs must keep in mind.”

“We embark on the road of war to survive.”

Xu Jun paused his scepter and continued: "What is living space? Why do we lack living space? Everyone should have some understanding of this.

The failure of the last war caused Germany to lose all its influence in Europe. Germany was suppressed by Britain, France and their allies for a full twenty years, fearing that Germany would rise again.

But they were stupid and wanted to get more benefits from Germany, while bankrupt Germany could not give them any benefits. Driven by this greedy desire, they gave Germany an opportunity to rise again, and at the same time, they were cowardly and built a solid cage for Germany.

Germany is poor in resources, and we do not have a stable and reliable source of resources, and everything is in the hands of the Allies that are wary of Germany.

In order to regain dignity and honor, we must re-arm ourselves, which was the ideal and belief of all the Germans at that time.

In order to realize his crazy ideal, Hitler had to re-arm Germany. After he came to power, he was eager to turn his ideal into reality.

However, arming oneself must obtain more resources. The Allies certainly will not help us re-arm ourselves. They do not want to see Germany's re-emergement.

If they regard Germany as a threat, we will lose most of our resources, and Hitler's national economic policy has made our already narrow import channels narrower. This is the essence of his so-called German living space crisis and the best reason for him to speed up the pace of re-arming Germany.

So we, who are poor, launched a war in order to seize resources and expand our sphere of influence. If we want to win the war and protect the fruits of the war, we must continue to strengthen our army. If we strengthen the army, we must continue to seize more resources. Therefore, we continue to launch another war, and we are trapped in a terrible vicious cycle.

In the end, the fear of the possible interference of the Allies in our actions and the hatred that had been accumulated over decades made us unable to resist the campaign of Europe.

You should be very clear about our situation now. We cannot continue to follow the crazy plan formulated by Hitler at that time. That is to destroy ourselves.

We cannot obtain the living space we need with our existing power alone, and we should not want to enslave any nation. If we do that, we will induce attacks from all sides, politically, military, economically, any field that may harm us, and our hidden enemies will not give up this opportunity to attack Germany openly.

And everyone knows how powerful the power of resisting oppression will be, because we ourselves are the best role models.

By then, unless all the rebellious nations are killed, you will never try to calm the flames of resistance. If the intervention of foreign forces is also accompanied by the intervention of foreign forces, when the hidden enemies come out of the scenes and take the opportunity to launch an attack on Germany, it will be the beginning of the disaster, because the weak enemies will not dare to challenge us, and this struggle may turn into a protracted and bitter battle.

Previous experience has made us realize that Germany is better not to fall into a protracted war. Our existing troops cannot guarantee that while fighting against powerful enemies, and to prevent the flames of resistance in the rear and protect the smoothness and stability of those resource channels. I do not doubt your determination to be enemies of the whole world for the sake of Germany's revival, but determination and reality are two different things and cannot be confused.

So, what we need to do now is to do all our efforts to build a truly German living space, a stable and safe living space, before other countries with ulterior motives intervene in European affairs. Remember, both politically and militaryally, they must be stable and safe."

"My Head, now I think all the gentlemen here understand what you want to tell us, and you have clearly seen the crisis that is about to come to Germany. This has strengthened our determination to follow you. I thank God for letting us choose to support you fully instead of Hitler. I thank God for giving us a sober and wise leader, because only you can lead us out of our predicament.

Please tell us what the Navy should do at this time, what difficulties we will face, and the Imperial Navy will obey all your orders as always, and eliminate all superficial and potential enemies."

Navy Commander-in-Chief Redell finally made his first speech at this meeting, and by the way he showed his determination to be loyal to the end.

"I am about to discuss with you the strategic concept of the future of the Navy. When this regular meeting is over, I will meet with you alone, members of the Navy General Command and several fleet commanders. Marshal Redell. I am very grateful for your loyalty to the Empire and to me personally. I will always remember this."

Xu Jun nodded to Redel with approval. It seemed that the sweetness given to the navy did satisfy the navy commander-in-chief. Even when facing Hitler and Marshal Raidel, he had never said such a disgusting statement.

"My head of state, our Air Force is the same. You don't have to doubt the infinite loyalty of the Luftwaffe to you. As long as you point out the direction, the Luftwaffe will eliminate all enemies for you without hesitation."

Mirchi, the current deputy commander of the Air Force, finally couldn't help but speak. Because Xu Jun had been dealt with severely, the Imperial Aviation Minister, who had always been a bit arrogant, has now become much more low-key in his work.

"I understand, General Mirchi, I am full of confidence in the Air Force." Xu Jun nodded with a smile. Mirchi suddenly felt much better, and even his waist seemed to be a little straighter.
Chapter completed!