The two originally wanted to go to the restaurant for lunch, but after the last espionage scandal, the restaurants run by military families in the Navy Command also closed their doors. As a result, Tan Renhao and Chang Jianxin could only go to the officer's canteen at the headquarters to make a boxed lunch, and then went to the large garden outside and found a remote place to sit down. During the meal, Tan Renhao told him what he heard from Gan Yongxing, the trouble Hao Dongjue caused in the Second Task Force, the conflict between Lei Shaoqing and Jiang Zhongmin, and his speculation that something major had happened in the navy, and Gan Yongxing reminded him not to interfere with Lei Shaoqing and Jiang Zhongmin's advice, and Tan Renhao did not tell Chang Jianxin.

"Hao Dongjue is indeed a bastard." Chang Jianxin put the lunch box on the flower stand next to him, and then took out a cigarette, "This kid is mixed up, I'm afraid no one can cure him except you." The chief of staff's words are not alarmist, we are very clear about the principal's skills, if the principal is really provoked, it is still a trivial matter to remove Hao Dongjue from his post and investigate it, maybe, and he will be charged with shaking the morale of the army and spreading rumors to confuse the public, then Hao Dongjue, the bastard, will not be able to eat and go around. ”

"I'm not very worried about this, at least judging from the words of the chief of staff, the principal doesn't have the energy to deal with Hao Dongjue now, or the principal thinks that Hao Dongjue is just naughty at most. Even if the principal wants to deal with Hao Dongjue and has the chief of staff to help him say good things, the problem should not be very big. Tan Renhao also put down his lunch box, "What worries me now is that judging from what the chief of staff told me in the morning. In the months we have been on to the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic, something very important has happened, otherwise the headmaster would not have rushed to the capital the day before yesterday. ”

Chang Jianxin nodded slightly, and after taking two puffs of cigarette, he said: "I also think there is a problem, if the chief of staff really has something that he hasn't told you, it must be a very important matter." And the principal put aside the affairs of the navy at this time and rushed to the capital, there must be very troublesome things that he must deal with personally, otherwise, the principal has no reason to leave the naval headquarters at this time. ”

"I think so, too, but the question is, what is there that is serious enough for the principal to deal with personally?"

Both fell silent. And they are all trying their best to guess the reason why the principal went to the capital at this time.

It stands to reason that now the counterattack of the US military in the Pacific is about to begin. And the combat operation to attack the Australian continent is about to begin. The Navy has been working hard in the Pacific for more than four years, and it is now possible to achieve a major victory, a big strategic step forward. Whatever the reason, the headmaster should stay at the Navy Command at this time and coordinate and direct the combat operations of the Navy, instead of leaving him behind to go to the capital with many things that need to be dealt with. Moreover, the annual wartime cabinet meeting was also held at the end of October or the beginning of November, and now it is only the beginning of May, so what is the need for the rector to return to the capital?

The two thought of a lot, but they rejected them one by one. And in the end, both of them thought of one thing, and that was that something big had happened! Moreover, it is related to the situation in the country, and even the situation in the government, and it is a major matter that can directly affect the development of the navy, otherwise, the principal has no reason to go to the capital.

"Maybe it has something to do with the last espionage case."

"This is unlikely, the investigation has been closed, and most of the officers involved have been proven innocent, and the prime minister has made it clear that he will not allow the investigation to affect the combat operations of the army. Even if there is any trouble, the principal will not go to the capital. ”

Chang Jianxin nodded slightly, "So, what is there that can make the principal have to go to the capital?" ”

Tan Renhao shook his head, and then sighed, "It's useless for us to guess here, the principal will be back tonight, and we'll know tomorrow." ”

"Well, I hope our worries are unnecessary, and if something bad happens at this juncture, it's not just a loss for the navy."

Tan Renhao smiled bitterly, he thought so too, but who knows if they are worrying about it?

After talking to Chang Jianxin, Tan Renhao didn't think much about it. That afternoon, he focused his energy on the war reports, because his wife had several surgeries to do in the hospital and did not go home to sleep at night, so he was busy until midnight that night. Through the battle reports submitted by various units on the front line, Tan Renhao also had a general understanding of what had happened in the Pacific theater in the past few months. As he had guessed on the way home, the situation in the Pacific theater was not optimistic, and the US military was still not completely defeated, and there was still a chance to turn the tables. Whether the Imperial Navy can take a big step forward strategically depends on whether combat operations in the Southwest Pacific and the Central Pacific are smooth in the next few months.

After Chang Jianxin went to contact the Third Task Force in the afternoon about repairing the battleships, he also spent a lot of time to understand the changes in the battle situation in the Pacific Theater in the past few months. That night, he still lived in Tan Renhao's house, but he went to rest at about eleven o'clock, instead of staying in the study in the middle of the night like Tan Renhao.

In the early hours of the morning, when Tan Renhao was about to go to rest, the phone rang, and as soon as he picked up the phone, he heard the familiar voice of the principal.

"Okay, I'll come right over!" Tan Renhao put down the phone, and then let out a sigh, the principal had rushed back, and asked him to go over now.

Before going out, Tan Renhao drank a cup of strong coffee, he didn't alarm Chang Jianxin, nor did he ask Duchen to drive, but walked to the other end of the villa area. When he came to the villa where the principal lived, he saw that the light in the study was still on, but only one person was photocopied on the window. The principal's adjutant was guarding the door, and after Tan Renhao arrived, he immediately took Tan Renhao to the study. Sure enough, as Tan Renhao guessed, there was only the principal in the study, and it seemed that the principal had just rushed back.

"Sit down, what do you want to drink?" Nie Renfeng's spirit was a little tired, he went to make two cups of tea, "When I started to pass by outside your house, I saw that the light in the study was still on, and I thought that you hadn't slept yet, so I called you over." Didn't affect your rest, right? ”

"Headmaster, I don't have the habit of going to bed so early." Tan Renhao told a lie, "You just came back?" ”

Nie Renfeng nodded. After putting the teacup on the coffee table, he sat down on the sofa opposite Tan Renhao. "I just arrived, I went to the capital this time, and I didn't have a good rest for a few days, but now I'm in good spirits."

Tan Renhao nodded, he didn't know what to say, and he was afraid that he had said the wrong thing.

"When I met the prime minister yesterday, the prime minister also praised you and Chang Jianxin, and asked me to reward the two of you, and the prime minister will personally issue commendation orders to the first task force and the third task force." Nie Renfeng smiled slightly, "Your victory in the South Atlantic is very critical and timely, it can be said that this just saved the navy's emergency." Otherwise, I really don't know how to report to the Prime Minister on the Navy's combat operations in the past few years. ”

Tan Renhao frowned slightly, he wanted to endure it. But in the end, I couldn't help but ask: "Headmaster, what happened?" ”

"Hey! What an eventful time! Nie Renfeng sighed, "This matter is not big, it is not small, it is very troublesome to deal with, how well do you know about the wartime mechanism of the empire?" ”

At this time, Tan Renhao was a little puzzled. The wartime mechanism of the empire is relatively special, it can be said that for hundreds of years, since Prime Minister Zhang Shaoting, the empire has summed up a lot of experience in hundreds of years of war experience, and this includes how to manage the country well in wartime, and let the country play the greatest combat effectiveness in the war. The wartime mechanism of the empire was born in response to war, which is very different from the political system of peacetime.

In peacetime, the political system of the empire was divided into three important parts, one was the cabinet, the second was the parliament, and the third was the Supreme Court. The Cabinet dominates the executive power, and the Prime Minister, who is elected by universal suffrage, is the supreme head of the Empire. The Parliament oversees the Cabinet and dominates the legislative power, while the Speaker of the Cabinet is the leader of the majority party, and the members of the Cabinet are distributed according to the proportion of the population of the provinces, and are elected by the provinces in general elections. The Supreme Court is responsible for interpreting the laws of the Empire and supervising the implementation of the laws, while the nine justices of the Supreme Court are recommended by the Parliament and the Cabinet and are finally appointed directly by the head of the Empire, that is, the Emperor, and only the Emperor and the Parliament can remove the justices with the support of a majority, so the Prime Minister has no right to intervene in the personnel of the Supreme Court justices. The three institutions are checked by each other, so the prime minister has no absolute power, and the parliament only needs 50 members of parliament to jointly submit a motion to impeach the prime minister (no confidence), and if two-thirds of the members of parliament support it, the prime minister and the cabinet government have to resign en masse, and the nine justices of the Supreme Court will appoint suitable people to form an interim cabinet, and then an early general election will be held to confirm a new cabinet government. After this system was established during the tenure of Prime Minister Zhang Shaoting, there were only some minor changes in the past few hundred years, and there was no change in essence, and the history of hundreds of years has also proved that this is a relatively effective political system, which not only gives the prime minister enough power, but also restricts the prime minister's behavior and avoids the phenomenon of centralization.

The wartime system is completely different from the peacetime political system. If the empire is threatened with war, then the prime minister has the right to introduce a bill to enter a state of war, and the prime minister can declare the empire in a state of war as long as two-thirds of the members of parliament support the bill. After the empire officially entered a state of war, the parliament will be temporarily dissolved, and some of the main members of the parliament will form a wartime parliament, and the wartime parliament has no actual legislative power, and the empire has entered a special time, and the prime minister has become the supreme commander, holding all military and political power. In other words, at this time, the power of the prime minister is very huge, and in times of war, the prime minister is the supreme leader of the country, and even the parliament has to stand aside. To end the state of war, then the wartime parliament must submit a formal written request to the Supreme Court to lift the state of war, and finally the justices of the Supreme Court will vote, and if the final majority is in favor, then the Supreme Court will remove the prime minister from wartime powers, and the emperor will declare the end of the state of war and the return of the empire to a normal state. After the prime minister handed over wartime power, parliament resumed its normal activities, the Supreme Court also delegated power to parliament, and the empire entered a period of peace. And this system ultimately decided that even if the prime minister wanted to use the state of war to gain great power, and under the constraints of the Supreme Court, the emperor and the parliament in wartime, it was impossible for the prime minister to keep the empire in a state of war, and as long as the war ended, the empire would return to normal.

For Tan Renhao, these political issues are not his concern, so his understanding of the empire's wartime mechanism is also relatively superficial, and in Tan Renhao's impression, over the past few hundred years, the empire has experienced no less than 20 large-scale wars, since Zhang Shaoting, to the outbreak of the war, the empire has declared five times to enter the wartime state, and each time it returned to normal after the end of the war, so in Tan Renhao's view, the peacetime and wartime political systems established by Prime Minister Zhang Shaoting are not much of a problem, If anyone wants to make a fuss about this, then the first few wars have already dragged down the empire.

"Maybe you don't know much about politics, but you should know about wartime parliaments, right?"

Tan Renhao nodded, "I know this, but ......"

"A wartime parliament is completely different from a normal parliament. In wartime, the number of seats in parliament is determined by the number of seats occupied by the major political parties in parliament, and its size is only one-tenth of that of the peacetime parliament. Nie Renfeng's expression gradually calmed down, "And in wartime, the parliament has no decision-making power, only the right to make suggestions." In other words, even when it comes to ending the state of war for the Empire, the wartime parliament only has the power to submit recommendations to the Supreme Court. On other issues, the wartime parliament has only the power to make recommendations to the prime minister, but not to make decisions. ”

This point is still clear to Renhao, in wartime, the prime minister is the de facto boss of the empire, and the emperor is only the nominal head of the empire, a symbol.

"The problem lies in the right to make recommendations, and although the prime minister is generally not influenced by the wartime parliament, the advice of the wartime parliament still has a very important role."

Tan Renhao was secretly shocked, and when he noticed the principal's expression, he immediately understood that there was indeed a big problem this time.

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