40,000 Years of Cultivation

"I once heard a short story from the ancient repair era. It was said that the prince of a certain planetary empire rose up to rebel and tried to kill his father. The reason used was,'Is there a prince in the world for sixty years'?"

Li Linghai said calmly, "Hehe, in today's true human empire, resources are abnormally concentrated, and all kinds of magical powers that prolong life are popular. Don't say the'Prince of Sixty Years', even the'Prince of Three Hundred and Sixty Years'. It may appear.

"Think about it, you are a talented, powerful, and ambitious young immortal cultivator who really wants to have something to do. But the big world you are in includes world masters, sovereigns, presidents of major groups, local garrison commanders, and fleets. Commander-in-chief... Almost all the high-levels have not changed people for a hundred or two hundred years, and the group of fairy-style bones, crane-haired and young-looking, immortal, who are entrenched above your head, seem to live in comfort for two hundred years without any problem, what are you? Feeling? Do you feel that your eyes are dark, your future is slim, and you are extremely desperate?

"What's more, as people live longer, their concepts will inevitably be stale, their thinking must be rigid, they will resist accepting new things and brand-new cultivation concepts, and stick to the past. In the end, it is more than just a simple vegetarian diet of corpses, even in order to maintain their own power and power. Benefits greatly hinder the progress of the entire society.

"These old immortals have 10,000 ways to kill young immortals who may pose a threat to them, but are unwilling to be wooed and corrupted by them, to ensure their absolute rule.

"And once young immortal cultivators are eroded by them, they will inevitably fall into the endless cycle of seniority and suffering. They will be enslaved and squeezed by them, and they will be in harmony with the dust, grinding away the edges and corners, and eventually become these interest groups. Component."

Li Yao was silent.

Think about it carefully. If a society always abides by the concept of "the weaker eats the strongest and the winner takes all" and does not form a relatively stable replacement rule between the old and the new, then the situation Li Linghai said will almost certainly occur.

"However, these old immortals have a fatal weakness."

Li Linghai squinted his eyes, and a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. "They can waste countless precious resources and barely keep their lives, but they will never be able to maintain their combat effectiveness at their peak forever.

"Fist is afraid of being young. It is a well-known saying. The combat effectiveness of the immortal cultivator will increase with the improvement of the realm, but it will also decline with the extension of the life span. The real world is not a novel story, and there is no such thing as'the older you are, the more you can fight'. It is a matter of fact, when life and realm both climb to the apex and form a golden cross, it is the peak stage of a cultivator, but once this stage has passed, there is no way to catch it back.

"So, many of the '400-year-old Yuan Ying, 500-year-old Transformation God' and the like in the empire that sound very scary are in fact empty shelves. Maybe the vision, experience and realm are still there, but they really start. It's definitely not me, not even your opponent.

"One day, these decayed soul-returning corpses will taste the vitality and unstoppable power from the younger generation-I firmly believe this!"

Li Yao grinned and said: "If I were given a chance to beat dozens of high-ranking imperial cultivators into pigs, I would not object."

Li Linghai smiled faintly: "Don't worry, we have such a pleasant chat, and we must be very close to each other when we work together. There is definitely a chance.

"As mentioned above, the contradiction between high-level cultivators and low-level cultivators is the fundamental contradiction facing the empire today.

"In addition to the fundamental contradiction, there are naturally other contradictions, large and small.

"For example, the dozens of most developed industrial worlds in the center of Xinghai squeeze and **** blood from hundreds of resource worlds on the periphery of the empire-do you need a detailed explanation?"

Li Yao shook his head.

The squeezing and blood-sucking of the backward resource world by the developed industrial world is a problem that is almost impossible to solve. Even the Star Federation faces the same problem, which is the dispute between the so-called "Old Three Realms" and "New Four Realms".

The three core big worlds, Tianyuan, Blood Demon, and Feixing, have relatively advanced technology and a complete large-scale industrial magic refining system. Under the condition that they are in the same country and have no tariffs and trade barriers, they can face each other in minutes. The world of resources such as crystal, nether, and tree sea has formed dumping, completely destroying the lackluster, primitive and crude backward industrial system of crystal, nether, tree sea and other worlds. In the end, the world of crystal, nether and tree sea, etc., will forever become industrial products. The dumping ground of the country, and the supply place of primary resources.

Because of this core contradiction, before Li Yao and the ancient sage powerhouses returned to the federation, the old three realms and the new four realms were extremely divided, and even formed two camps headed by Ding Lingdang and Jin Xinyue, diametrically opposed to each other. Not giving way to each other.

Of course, the Star Alliance is a very young country, like the real human empire thousands of years ago, as vigorous, aggressive, and prosperous.

On the one hand, the Federation has less than ten big worlds in total. In just a hundred years of history, it is too late to form a strong fortress of interests. "The ship is small and it turns around." Any contradiction can be easily resolved through negotiation.

On the other hand, the Federation was facing a huge threat from the Black Wind Fleet at that time and was at a critical juncture. This long-term contradiction of the industrial world dumping and sucking blood to the resource world and earning a scissors gap can only be considered in the second place.

In the third aspect, under the leadership of Li Yao, the Federation successively discovered fertile worlds and advanced technologies such as the ancient sacred world, the Kunlun ruins, the bone dragon star, etc., which is equivalent to obtaining a large amount of start-up funds out of thin air. , Played a great role in lubrication and relaxation.

In addition, the leaders of their respective interest groups such as Ding Lingdang and Jin Xinyue used great patience and wisdom to temporarily set aside disputes and resolve contradictions. Jin Tuyi and others were behind the scenes to control the overall situation. In the end, the old three realms and the new four Only the world can unite and successfully defeat the Black Wind Fleet.

If so, it is difficult for Li Yao to imagine how the ever-expanding Star Federation will solve the imbalance of regional economic development, the increasingly serious "siphon effect" of the industrial world, and the increasing scissors gap.

Therefore, many experts in the Star Federation even asserted that the best state for the Federation is that it has no more than ten great worlds.

This is the limit of scale effect and comprehensive national strength. If you expand blindly, you will really suffer from indigestion, and you will even make yourself alive.

The true human empire with hundreds of great worlds, even if it has not crushed itself to death, at least has crushed itself.

Almost all the advantages of the Federation are not available in the Empire.

Li Yao didn't think that the developed industrial world under the rule of the four major electoral families would show mercy to the frontier resource world that the empire would later open up.

Surely, they can **** blood as they can, or dump as they can. It is best to use the large-scale cheap magic weapons produced by assembly lines to completely submerge these remote worlds to ensure that they will never develop any magic weapons refining industrial system, and only Being able to act as a primary resource provider for the four major electors’ families, falling into the trap of "500 tons of raw ore for a crystal armor" cannot be extricated.

Then, the rulers of these remote worlds, who are also ambitious landlords, warlords, and fleet commanders, would be willing to let their world be forever reduced to a poor country with many mines but no half of the magic factory, and forever be four Does the electorate family squeeze, dump and **** blood?

This is the "old three realms, new four realms" controversy that has intensified and expanded tenfold!

In the Federation, the battle between the industrial world and the resource world was temporarily fooled by Li Yao, Ding Lingdang, and Jin Xinyue, etc., using the method of making a lot of mud.

Today’s empire, I’m afraid it’s not that simple, even if a civil war breaks out, it doesn’t seem strange.

Li Linghai calmly observed Li Yao's expression. Seeing that he was really thoughtful, he raised his evaluation by another level. He nodded and said: "Very well, you deserve to be a special envoy of the Speaker. It's not a simple takeover."

"You can understand the contradiction between the industrial world and the resource world caused by the unbalanced regional economic development. Then, as a fighting god, the contradiction between the'military' and the'family, sect, and interest group', Can you understand it better if you want to come?"

Li Yao was taken aback for a moment: "What is that?"

"It's very simple. Now all the troops in the real human empire are called the'Imperial Army' in name, but in fact there is no unified command and operation system. Even the financial power and the control of the military industry group are not in the military. Hands.

"In fact, it has been eroded by nobles and warlords for hundreds of years. Except for the imperial armies of the Imperial Capital Heaven Realm and the Celestial Star, there is no such thing as an ‘imperial army’ in the true sense.

"The overwhelming majority of the elite Xinghai Fleet and Crystal Armor Group, their command, financial power, and military-industrial group control power are all in the hands of nobles, warlords, and world masters.

"In other words, the imperial army is just the private soldiers of the nobles.

"The simplest example, the army brought by Li Lingfeng that we eliminated earlier, can those people be called the'Imperial Army'? No, they are just the'Li Family Army', or even Li Lingfeng's private soldiers, the term is called'Jia Ding' That's it."

Li Yao nodded slowly.

In the end of the dynasty where the imperial power declines and the warlords rise, this kind of thing is taken for granted.

It should belong to the country in name, or at least the emperor’s army. In fact, they are the private soldiers of the nobles and warlords. The nobles and warlords provide money, people, crystal armors, and starships to support them. They naturally have to maintain them, and only Can safeguard the interests of nobles and warlords.

"However, not every imperial soldier was willing to serve as a private soldier, family member, and dogleg of the nobles for a lifetime, and died worthlessly for the struggle for power and territory between the nobles, especially for those who were vigorous, ambitious, and The lofty ideals and ambitions, even... the grassroots young officers who keep in mind the glorious history of the imperial army in the era of the Great Black Star in the past, this is even more so!"

Li Linghai's eyes turned red, and he said murderously, "The private soldiers scattered in the hands of the nobility and the nobles in various worlds will be gathered together to form an extremely powerful and true imperial army, so that the'military' can issue its own. Voice, roar like a thunder!

"From then on, only fight for the benefit of the empire, fight only for human civilization, fight only for the emperor!

"This is the ideal of countless young officers, they are willing to fight to death for this ideal!"