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"Your majesty, the Rostok empire has declared war on the Karaman empire. Their stated reason was to liberate the holy city of Miklagrad and liberate our sisters and brothers in faith. The Rostok ambassador in our country is requsting us to fulfill our end of the deal by declaring war on the Karamanites." said Felix.

The entire cabinet was assembled today except Franz as he is still on his way back. I really didn't expect the Rostok empire to declare war so soon. Anyway, now it means that I can start my plan to unify the Gretan region. Maybe not all of it, but atleast a part of it.

"Declare war on the Karaman empire but don't conduct any major offensives as taking land from the Karaman empire is not our main plan. Just procarstinate on this front and provide support for the Rostok empire. Place most our strategic supplies and soldiers on the panube river to facilitate quick movement to the west." I said. I was quite happy that my plan was coming together at last.

As I was speaking this, I saw the minister of army looking dissapointed and unhappy. The soldiers on the frontline probably want to earn some merits by participating in the war but they can't now. Anyway, they will have plenty of chances to earn some merits in the future due to colonization and a war I have planned.

"Don't be worried. The soldiers will get their chance for merits in the near future. Who knows, while our strategy is being carried out we might have fight against the rest of the world on our own." I said to him with a smile.

He looked suprised but then slowly nodded as he understood what I was saying. The plan I was doing has a chance of us being declared on by the rest of the world. But it won't probably happen, I think. Even if it happens, I have confidence to hold for some time. This is not because I think that we are stronger than the rest of the world, but because they will be infighting within their coalition and won't have time to deal with me. I would rather not fight the world, as I will eventually lose and my country will be destroyed. But sometimes you need to take risks to get stronger, don't you.

"Tell the princess of the western empire to start our plan to install her on the throne, while we are doing that we will attack the Gretan region to unify the eastern part." I said to Felix.

"Your majesty, it will take some time to implement the plan as the princess might try to pit us on the way." said Felix,

"We want it to take some time as we need the Miklagrad conflict to intesify and the Kildarians and the Lombardians to declare war and send troops to help the Karaman empire. We also want to reveal our intention of unifying the Gretan region so that the population can support us."

Felix nodded and left the meeting to executed the tasks I gave him.

"How many troops can we mobilize in a short amount of time." I asked Conrad, the minister of war.

"Your majesty, we can mobilize 65,000 troops in one month and another 120,000 troops in three months."

Our country has a standing army of 55,000 troops and we can mobilize another 185,000 which means our army can go to 240,000 troops. The Rostok empire has the biggest standing army in the world with 10,000 troops.

"Extend the retirement of army personnel for another year and start mobilizing 25,000 troops and send them to the eastern front. Make sure to be ready to mobilize another 50,000 troops at moments notice." I said to Conrad.