It was just a bowl of millet porridge, yet Tang Zude took a full fifteen minutes to savor it slowly.
Dragging it out this long was also to let everyone cool down.
The meeting had been raging since the early morning, with the Navy and Army, as well as the ministers split into two factions, almost coming to blows.
What they were contesting was not the scale of arms reduction but the time limit for restricting armaments.
In the words of Tang Zude, without the need for the Empire to say a word, the Great Powers of the Alliance Group would not agree to the disarmament plan proposed by the Newland President.
Without military strength, how could one defend the war dividends that were just acquired?
