"Gentlemen, feel free to speak your minds. There are no outsiders here, no need for secrecy," Xue Yuanzheng said, his tone remarkably polite. He was suggesting that these usually cautious ministers now had access to the War Cabinet.
However, no one spoke.
Seeing this, Xue Yuanzheng sighed silently to himself.
Eleven people were present, including two commanders-in-chief, yet not one of them took up the conversation, and their timid demeanor would make anyone's blood boil.
The problem primarily lay with Xue Yuanzheng himself.
Ten years ago, when he was elected Cabinet Chief under the constitutional amendments, Xue Yuanzheng was not yet fifty, which made him the youngest Chief in history after the amendments.
Though he had the support of his uncle Tang Zude and the Army, and had prior experience in the War Department, facing the raging great depression still made him appear somewhat inexperienced. To turn the tide, he had to take drastic measures.
