The palace fell deathly silent. His Majesty the Emperor stared wide-eyed at the ministers, but no one spoke.
Not even a breath could be heard.
Everything was utterly quiet.
No one could give the emperor an answer at a time like this, even if some of them knew it! Even His Majesty the Emperor knew the answer, but he could not say it himself!
At that moment, a minister stood and bowed slightly. "Your Majesty, the problem is money."
"With money, no problem is a problem. The Federation cannot and will not exchange numbers with us; they cannot afford such losses."
"We are finding it difficult to withstand the Federation's offensive. Ultimately, the problem is that we are short on funds."
The Minister of Finance also stood. "Your Majesty, ever since the Federation refused to allow the O'er into the international settlement currency system, our economic situation has been extremely dire."
"The war has nearly drained all our wealth, while also shrinking the market to its absolute limit."
"The greatest problem restricting our counterattack now, as... the minister said, is money."
"Money is vulgar, but for us, it determines everything!"
The war had already lasted more than three years. During those three-plus years, the Peng Joe Empire's foreign trade had rapidly declined.
At the same time, they had encountered two very troublesome problems.
The first problem was that Peng Joe had a relatively high copper output, so overall demand was not a major burden. However, the copper content of their export goods had been growing higher and higher.
They had not noticed the problem at first. By the time someone discovered it, they had already temporarily halted exports of copper products overseas.
That had also cut off the Peng Joe Empire's final export category.
At the same time as its