Lian Xusheng's opponent wasn't the nouveau riche leader who had just moved into the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Saiyi Imperial Kingdom; it was Rofuss on the other side of East Ocean, preparing for his third presidential election bid.
This wasn't about diminishing one's own prestige or enhancing someone else's spirit. The Empire's war plans were indeed influenced by Rofuss.
Seven years earlier, this Democrat who had once served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Governor, and who could only keep company with a wheelchair due to polio, had drawn significant attention from the Imperial Intelligence Agency upon announcing his participation in the presidential election, and they deemed him one of the most threatening foreign politicians.
It wasn't an overestimation of him.
