2447, Hari Seldon Reform (I)
The next day, Tang Xiao convened the Kingdom of Dawn's highest-level military conference. The meeting focused on discussing the next stage of the war plan. After deliberation, Tang Xiao made several extremely important decisions.
First, they would continue expanding wartime production, impose additional war taxes on all affiliated planets, and continue issuing war bonds.
Then came military expansion: recruiting 100 million soldiers for the army and 20 million for the navy.
Third, they would continue converting civilian enterprises toward military production and reduce the variety of consumer goods available domestically.
Finally, major corporations and planets would be encouraged to form their own private armed fleets, while the military would open sales channels for certain retired second-line warships.
This confirmed that the Kingdom of Dawn would continue burning through its own war potential, determined to fight this war to the end until it and the Galactic Empire settled things in a fight to the death.
Based on the Galactic Empire's current military deployments, the conference also preliminarily formulated an operational plan named Operation One.
Operation One consisted of three parts: annihilating Death Squadron, annihilating the Empire's Northern Fleet, and annihilating the Empire's 12th Army stationed in the Eastern Territory. Unlike Operation Zero, which sought to achieve everything in a single decisive battle, Operation One would focus on eliminating the Galactic Empire's living forces.
This plan was not in a hurry to secure victory as quickly as possible. Instead, it aimed to tighten the noose around the Empire's neck step by step, forcing the Empire into even more severe internal unrest under the pressure of war.
The operational plan was handed over to Marshal Matt Horner for refinement and formulation. Before that, all fronts of the Kingdom of Dawn would shift fully into a defensive posture.
Afterward,