Although Tang Xiao's speech just now had seemed downright mad, everyone had already grown accustomed to his behavior. In truth, Tang Xiao had begun growing increasingly volatile and extreme ten years ago, and the change had been especially obvious during the Clone Wars.
Yet although Tang Xiao was mad, he had one virtue: he rarely intervened personally in the execution of specific matters. Of course, that came with one condition—that the matter itself had to align with his wishes.
What he wanted was simple: expand the military, prepare for war, and make defeating the Galactic Empire the ultimate goal. The entire Duchy of Dawn could reach a consensus on that point, so Tang Xiao did not have many conflicts with officials at any level beneath him in many matters.
At most, in order to cater to the Grand Duke's increasingly extreme temperament, many of the Duchy of Dawn's policies and military developments had now taken on a more aggressive style.
However, this time, Tang Xiao had bluntly proposed a terrifying plan—defeat the Galactic Empire within one year!
Strictly speaking, it was not a matter of defeating them within one year. When everyone saw Operation Zero, their first reaction was to be stunned by the sheer scale of the plan.
Even Sefrans Tann nodded slightly when she saw it. One had to know that she had always been quite at odds with Ling Liang, the plan's proposer.
Operation Zero was, in fact, an integrated plan encompassing economic, political, intelligence, industrial, military, and many other factors. The core of this plan was not merely military operations.
The plan was divided into three parts: a five-year mobilization plan, an intelligence plan that would likewise last five years, and finally, a one-year war plan.
The first two parts would proceed simultaneously, so the total