Empire Conquest-Chapter 886 - 113: Internal Conflict

Although the decision-making power is in the hands of the government, when it comes to war, the military’s opinion must be considered. In the face of strong opposition from the military leaders, Digalla did not insist.

The meeting finally concluded at dawn.

Since no consensus was reached, Digalla announced that a high-level meeting would be convened again in two days to continue discussing the deployment of troops for war.

After seeing off the attending officials and generals, Digalla did not rest but made more than a dozen phone calls in a row.

At this stage, reaching consensus within the government and military is impossible; the hope can only be placed on the parliament.

In fact, Digalla knows where the problem lies.

To be honest, the foundation of Fanluo Country is not bad.

Though its national territory cannot compare with superpowers like the Liangxia Empire, Fanluo Country possesses the Gangaro Plain, with extremely ideal conditions of light and heat, and is remarkably fertile. Even in terms of natural resources, it is not entirely lacking, with certain mineral resources ranked among the top, it cannot be considered barren.

The crucial factor is that it has the second-largest population in the world.

Unfortunately, even after independence and the baptism of two large-scale wars, Fanluo Country still failed to develop.

During this time, two Prime Ministers were "sacrificed," including Digalla’s father, former Prime Minister Niru Gambala.

To be honest, it was only after his father was assassinated that Digalla entered politics.

From the beginning to the end, his goal was to achieve the ideals that his father could not realize.

To integrate Fanluo Country into a truly modernized nation.

Actually, this is the root problem of Fanluo Country.

Despite having a population of over seven hundred million and a land area of over three million square kilometers, historically, the Southern Subcontinent where Fanluo Country is located has never been unified under one regime.

For thousands of years, the entire Southern Subcontinent was composed of numerous local territories, each an independent kingdom.

Even during the periods of several powerful empire dynasties, such as the Maurya Dynasty over two thousand years ago, and the Timurid Empire established by the crippled, comprehensive unification was not achieved, let alone true centralized control, as the territories under their rule still acted as independent kingdoms.

To say nothing else, in thousands of years, even the language and script across the Southern Subcontinent were never unified.

Almost every territory had its own language, and some large and populous territories even had their own written scripts.

Ironically, it was only after colonial rule by the Bulan Kingdom that all the territories, under the threat of guns and cannons, accepted the colonial government of Bulan and adopted the Bulan Language as the official language, unifying language and script for the first time, which became the universally used official language.

Only then did Fanluo Country become a nation in the modern sense.

From this perspective, Fanluo Country inherited the mantle of the Bulan Kingdom’s colonial regime.

In reality, this is also Fanluo Country’s "destiny," or rather, what politicians like Gambala consider as "destiny."

Since independence, the high-level officials of Fanluo Country have always regarded the unification of the Southern Subcontinent and the establishment of a highly centralized central power as their primary mission.

The most representative of this mission is the Gambala family.

Up to Digalla Gambala, the Gambala family has produced four Prime Ministers, over twenty ministers, and nearly a hundred parliament members!

Moreover, in the decades following the establishment of Fanluo Country, the ruling party, led by the Gambala family, remained in power, with less than ten years when a non-Gambala politician served as Prime Minister. For over thirty years, the individual giving orders at the Prime Minister’s Mansion was named Gambala.

In the words of outsiders, the Prime Minister’s Mansion has become the Gambala family’s backyard.

Digalla grew up in the Prime Minister’s Mansion.

His father, Niru, was the former Prime Minister. His grandfather and granduncle were also Prime Ministers, collectively serving for over twenty years!

To be honest, this is where the problem lies.

On the Southern Subcontinent, in addition to maintaining the thousands-of-years-old local territories, there is also the intertwined social system.

Take Digalla, for example. Born into the Gambala family, he was not only able to receive an education, pursue further studies in the Bulan Kingdom, and smoothly enter politics as an adult, but also, with the support of his family, unsurprisingly became the Prime Minister of Fanluo Country.

Of course, Digalla not only went to the Bulan Kingdom.

During his studies, the relationship between the Bulan Kingdom and the Liangxia Empire was still very close, and the first national independence movement had passed. So, as an exchange student, he spent two years in the Liangxia Empire, gaining deep understanding of this powerful neighbor, worthy of admiration.

The key is, during those two years in the Liangxia Empire, he majored in history!

It was through studying the history of the Liangxia Empire that Digalla obtained a deeper understanding.

The key is simple: the Liangxia Empire has had a very glorious history. However, before Emperor Shiwu founded the nation, the modern history of the Liangxia Empire was also full of humiliations.

Yet, under the leadership of Emperor Shiwu, the Liangxia Empire not only washed away these humiliations, but also developed into the most powerful nation in the world.

Importantly, it’s not just because Emperor Shiwu was extraordinary, nor solely due to Chen Bingxun’s invincibility, nor solely due to the outstanding contributions of the Eight Pillars.

The core factor that made the Liangxia Empire dominate globally was fundamentally one.

During the decades under Emperor Shiwu’s command, the Liangxia Empire underwent a revolutionary transformation, achieving great success in external wars, and through internal reforms, abolished an ancient order that had existed for thousands of years, laying the foundation for the New World through what was almost revolutionary reform.