This was a mad gamble!
Everyone present found it hard to understand why Tang Xiao placed such high hopes on a plan like this. Indeed, the plan was supported by a vast amount of data, and the final calculated chance of success was 70%.
While explaining the operational plan, General Ling repeatedly stressed that this success rate was the genuine result of the calculations. As long as key technologies could achieve breakthroughs over the next five years, and industrial output and mobilization plans could be carried out, then yes, such a chance of success truly was possible.
But in reality, everyone still felt that knocking a zero off that success rate might be a little more believable.
However, this was the decision of Tang Xiao, Grand Duke of Dawn! That alone was enough!
On one hand, it was because of Tang Xiao's personal prestige and the terrifying deterrence brought by his immense power. On the other, as Tang Xiao himself had said, the Duchy of Dawn's development to this day was itself a miracle! A miracle woven by Tang Xiao's own hands!
From a colony of barely a hundred people to ruling over 83 billion people in just over twenty years—what kind of growth rate and expansion of power was that?
Throughout its development, Tang Xiao had led them through one miraculous reversal and victory after another. Every time, he had proven his wise decisiveness and unparalleled foresight. Thus, many in the Duchy of Dawn now held an almost blind faith and worship toward Tang Xiao.
And so, they believed that this time, Tang Xiao would still lead them to another victory! Even if that victory seemed so inconceivable, so difficult to believe in, they still believed that a miracle would happen once more!
Seeing Tang Xiao's near-madness and the