"But the vast majority of people from the Eagle Continent are proponents of peace. You could say that aside from the vast majority of us from the Dragon and Bear Continents, most of the others in the Federation are peace proponents."
"Their reasoning is that the Federation's economy is on the brink of collapse. We can sustain a war effort at the current levels, but as the distance between the alien planet and the Azure Star decreases, the Empire will inevitably bring more powerful forces than ever."
"If we increase our investments and the economy collapses, we lose. If we don't increase our investments, we lose all the same."
"They believe that the Empire is not an incurable disease. Given a period of peace and enough time to recover, we could defeat the Empire—or at the very least, coexist peacefully with it."
Tu Yuan, who had been listening intently, couldn't help but scoff internally: Ha.
Li Anbang didn't hear it; he continued.
