Soon after Bai Nan returned to China, he had served as the Governor of the United China Special Administrative Region for many years and the Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Theater, and his status in the Tang Republic could be said to be extremely high. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After he returned to his homeland, the Presidential Palace and the State Council did not know what kind of position to assign to Paiknam. For example, in the former Great Republic, the new representative who is waiting to succeed will serve as the vice chairman in the second term, and the vice president of Datang is not the same thing, and at the same time, it is not a normal time for the change of office, and Bai Nam cannot take the place at will.

After all, Bai Nan still has a military identity, and has been stationed abroad for many years, and has led many victorious wars, and even some people in China call Bai Nan "New Tang Li Jing", which means to expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty. His military rank has also been promoted to admiral, and he is also the only four admirals in the entire Tang Dynasty. In addition to the Ministry of National Defense, which is a military department, there is also a more powerful National Security Council. The National Security Council also has not only military authority but also covers many aspects of the country's economy, foreign affairs, internal issues, and grand strategy. The heads of ministries and commissions of the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other ministries and commissions serve as members of the National Security Council, and the president serves as the chairman.

After Bai Nan returned, he naturally got the position of vice chairman of the Tang National Security Council, which is also more in line with his identity and status. In the Tang Army, the Minister of National Defense and the Commander of the Navy and Army are both generals, and his status as a general is greater than that of the Minister of National Defense and the commander of the Navy and Army after he is appointed vice chairman of the National Security Council.

After assuming his new position, the first national security meeting that Bai Nam attended was on the safety of the interoceanic railway.

With the expansion of the scale of the Tang state, the complexity of administration is also increasing. The earliest 130,000 crossed the crowd. It's quite a big township. You don't need too much administrative talent. Now the Tang Dynasty effectively controls millions of square kilometers of its territory, tens of millions of square kilometers of its territory, has a population of 10 million, and the scale of the central power has expanded many times. One of the most obvious manifestations of this is that in the earliest days, the National Council could be used as an office in a single building. Later, this has become an impossible thing, and the civilian office personnel in the Ministry of Defense alone began to be in the hundreds, from staff officers to logistics, from equipment to intelligence. The rest of the ministries were in the same situation, and everyone slowly moved out.

Even the relatively young National Security Council had an independent building at this time, which was not large, but it also had independent office staff and a large conference room for the national security conference.

Zhao Daling, as the chairman, sat in the center and presided over the meeting, and he said with a serious face: "We received news that yesterday afternoon, a slow freight train from Jiazhou to Pengzhou. Again attacked by the local Apaches. The damage was not serious, but we lost another train officer. You can see it from the icon in your hand. In recent times, there have been more and more robberies and thefts of our trains in this area, and the local Indians seem to have used pickpocketing as a way to make money, and we even have some circumstantial evidence that even the Spaniards and Mexicans were involved to varying degrees, not only assisting the Indian robbers in selling the stolen goods, but even going shirtless, personally organizing horse thieves, or cooperating with the Indians to steal our trains. Is it tolerable or intolerable? Our front-line railway transport department employees and train police officers are fighting for the interests of our country, and we cannot continue to sit idly by and watch this situation occur, so we have temporarily convened this national security meeting to make a radical change in this situation! ”

Bao Xun, Minister of Transportation, first said: "Here our transportation department wants to review our work, we do not pay attention to security and defense work, which has led to the loss of the country and the damage to human life, this is a dereliction of duty, and we will also take responsibility." ”

Zhao Daling said: "At this time, it is not a question of whether to pursue responsibility or not, the responsibility of the Ministry of Communications and the Railway Corporation cannot be shirked, but today we mainly discuss how to deal with it." ”

Defense Minister Xue Yue, who was already gray-haired, said: "People respect me for a foot, I respect people for a foot, if people offend me, I will offend people." Our West Coast Theater is inherently responsible for the security of our country, and we have discussed many times the formation of railroad troops and the sending of cavalry units into New Mexico to sweep the local Indians. Our Ministry of Defense has prepared a number of programs over the past two years, which are sufficient to help the country solve this thorny problem. ”

Zhao Daling said: "The troops must be moved, but even if we have done the eradication of the Indian tribes here, the problem of railway safety has not been completely solved." After all, this is the New Mexico of the Spaniards, and the Spaniards are still deliberately trying to make trouble for us, and as long as we don't have enough control here, there will be problems. ”

"If we send troops into New Mexico, it will provoke a strong reaction from the Spaniards, who last threatened us with the suspension of trade with our country, and if we do send troops in a big way, then our diplomatic relations with Spain will enter a full freeze," said Foreign Minister Su Liangxing. ”

Bai Nan said at this time: "This is also an unavoidable thing, we are in a state of separation with Spain, or most of the European powers, and we have obvious or non-obvious conflicts of interest. The Spaniards were making trouble around our railroads, and even their students were spying on all kinds of intelligence and technology in our country, but we were also in the Spanish colonies for the past two years, using the inspiration of internationalism to challenge the Spanish colonial rule. We had expected a complete fall out with the Spaniards, and New Mexico and Louisiana were both lands that we had been preparing to take for a long time, and we had been preparing for such a war. ”

Bai Nan's words came out, everyone was a little surprised, originally said that he wanted to solve the safety problem of the railway, but Bai Nan suddenly jumped to take New Mexico and Louisiana. Everyone looked at Bai Nan with great surprise, Bai Nan had been away from the central core for a long time, and everyone seemed to be used to the days when no one was "making trouble in the rain" at home, but as soon as they returned to their homeland, they actually proposed to start a war with Spain.

But everyone will not be surprised at all, because this is Bai Nan's logic, aggressive and aggressive. At the same time, Bai Nan was not bad, Datang had indeed been preparing for a war with the Spaniards for the land of North America for a long time. (To be continued.) )