40,000 Years of Cultivation

"Elder!"

Seeing Dongfang Tuo's arrival, the Qinglan Star military and political officials who were talking and laughing on the parade immediately stood at attention, clenched a fist with his right hand, pressed close to his heart, and leaned slightly to salute him.

The five hundred veterans of the empire are extremely respected. Even if they do not hold positions in the army or the government, they still have the majesty and power above everyone else, just because they are the empire!

Dongfang Tuo's face sank like water, nodded at the crowd, and waved at will, indicating that everyone shouldn't be so nervous.

Qing Lan Xing is the logistics transit base of the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

"Military logistics" is such a critical and oily field, naturally, it is controlled by the nobles and lords themselves.

Therefore, today the military and political leaders who are qualified to stand on the parade stand to welcome the triumph of the army are all from the four major electoral families and their vassal forces, and they are all "owners."

Since you are "owner", you can speak freely on many topics.

Unlike the "Long Live the Empire" that the enthusiastic people in the streets and alleys around, there is not much joy in the whispers of these military and political leaders.

"It's another'brilliant victory', a new resource planet, hehe, it's a pity that I heard that the Holy League implemented the strategy of'firm walls and clear fields, scorched earth resistance'. Before retreating, all mines have been blown up, and even used A very insidious method that pollutes all the underground mineral veins. It is estimated that the pollution control alone will take several years. I don't know how much money will be spent on it. What kind of resource planet is this, and it is a bottomless pit!"

"Yes, and those people left by the Holy League are all seriously brainwashed, and they are very resistant to the empire. Without a long period of indoctrination, they will not be able to become a good labor force for the empire, but it will cost more. To feed them with a large amount of food, you can't kill them all, right? Kill all the people in the dozens of large worlds that have just been restored? Who dares to make such a decision? It's really... distressing!"

"The support of the people in the rear has reached its limit. No matter how'incentivized' it is, it will not stimulate greater potential. On the contrary, the accident rate is rising, and small-scale riots are also one after another. However, most of the power of the empire is concentrated on the front line. , There was no way to suppress the rear riots, so that the day before yesterday in the Wuying world of the poisonous scorpion star cluster, there was a terrible incident of the cultivator destroying the entire Star War Castle, and even the cultivator invaded the spiritual net and broadcast the whole process. , Shame, it is simply a great shame to the empire, it was actually a little cultivator..."

"A small cultivator can't make too many storms, but the inflationary pressure we are now facing is too great, and it has reached the threshold of collapse. If the war continues, the vicious devaluation of the imperial coin will be inevitable. We Detailed deductions have been made. If the war continues at its current intensity for another year and the current supply of resources is still present, then, by February next year at the latest, the Empire Coin will depreciate by at least 300%. By the end of next year, it is very likely to depreciate. Ten times, the catastrophic consequences are more serious than the appearance of 10,000 cultivators!"

"So, the most important question now is how to end this war decently!"

Dongfang Tuo narrowed his eyes slightly and his face was expressionless. He seemed indifferent to the comments around him, but he heard every word clearly.

He also knew that the discussions and complaints of these Qinglan Star military and political officials were deliberately told to him to a large extent, hoping that as the empire veteran, he would propose a motion in the Senate to end the war as soon as possible.

only……

Dongfang Tuo sneered in his heart. These military and political leaders thought that the Senate didn't want to end the war "decently", but how could the Holy League, which had just been torn off a large piece of flesh by blood, easily give the empire "decent" What?

"Those who are on the front line do not understand the hard work of operating supplies at the rear. They only know how to fight, fight, and fight! If they continue to do this kind of brutality, our logistics system will collapse!"

"Yes, I heard that the 27th Fleet stationed in the'Sky Moon Star Territory' recently had a mutiny incident. The middle and lower-level young officers were a little unstable and were unwilling to carry out the order of'holding in place'. I also want to continue the offensive, expand the results, and further lengthen the front."

"These guys with well-developed limbs and simple minds, what do they want to do,'expand the battle'? After the expansion of the battle and the restoration of the new planet, will they come to feed the highly brainwashed people above? What a jerk!

"These stubborn guys only think of their own military exploits and medals, but they never consider the overall situation of the entire empire. Once they get boiled and dazzled, they can do anything, and now there is another one. A very worrying phenomenon-young military officers from different worlds seem to be connected in series and communicate with each other. They seem to have established a lot of organizations like'clubs, federations', and they don't know what they are going to do. People are worried."

"It's all condoned by those world masters. Those in the remote world of the empire are a bunch of ambitious, selfish, short-sighted, insatiable **** who never consider the overall situation!"

Dongfang Tuo sighed again.

As the president of the Empire Development Bank, the logistics leader of the expeditionary force with astronomical military resources, he is very clear about the topic everyone is discussing.

Swallowing dozens of large worlds in one breath, the empire has reached the limit of phased expansion, and if it expands blindly, it will become an infinitely expanding behemoth, and will eventually be overwhelmed by its own weight-as if stranded. The whale on the beach exploded from the inside out.

Therefore, from the perspective of the overall interests of the empire, whether "decent" or "indecent", we must quickly end this imperial counterattack that has lasted for more than ten years.

However, the frontline officers who are eager to make contributions, especially those young and middle-level military officers who are ambitious and passionate, and who have been seriously brainwashed by the slogans of "Imperial Invincibility" and "Long Live Human Civilization" do not think so.

They are eager to make contributions, eager to expand their territory, eager to stay in the history, eager to become a glorious hero in the rise of human civilization!

It’s going to be outside, and the king’s fate is somewhat limited. In a space war that spans dozens of large worlds and lasts tens of thousands of light years, it is extremely difficult for the rear to be effective against the deep-space fleets floating in the depths of the endless star sea. controlling.

Every deep-space fleet has superstarships with a length of more than ten kilometers, and a self-circulating air and water purification system. They are often stored for more than ten or twenty years. Although the smell is unpleasant, it can satisfy you. Synthetic food for basic energy needs.

With these things, each deep-space fleet is a small, self-sufficient entity that can fight for several years even without supplies. The so-called "deep space" means going deep into the starry sky, exploring, fighting and conquering independently. .

In many cases, what the Deep Space Fleet is doing on the front line cannot be observed at all times in the rear, and even if it is observed, there is no way to stop it.

More importantly, the Deep Space Fleet is not directly controlled by the four major electoral families.

The empire is too large, and the vast sea of ​​stars determines the super difficulty of centralizing power. His Majesty the Emperor cannot completely control the entire empire, and neither can the four major electoral families.

At this moment, only half of the hundreds of fleets stationed on the front line are directly under the families of the four major electors, and the remaining half are from the relatively independent outer world of the empire.

Although the "Expeditionary Army Base Camp" was established to unify and coordinate all fleets, the actual controllers of these fleets are the realm masters of the outer world, rebellious and greedy warlords.

These warlords are often happy to see the radical performance of the young and middle-aged officers under their command.

After all, if they can lay one more resource planet, these warlords can accumulate a little more combat exploits themselves.

And before others arrive, they can also preemptively looting the planet that has just been recovered-even if the Holy League really implements the "scorched earth strategy", as long as they are willing to dig three feet, they will be able to scavenge some broken copper and iron. Come.

For these warlord troops, whose nests are one hundred and eighty thousand light-years away, they didn’t even think about controlling these front-line resource planets for a long time at the beginning, but they were thinking of “getting a hand and leaving”. Acting more unscrupulously, completely a band of robbers.

As for how to deal with these after the scorched earth strategy was first implemented by the Holy League, and then by the imperial army, how to deal with the empty planet, how to stick to the ever-extending front, and the pressure of logistical supplies to double... these messy problems, just All of them are handed over to the "Expeditionary Army Base Camp" and even the "Empire Senate" to get a headache. Anyway, they pat their buttocks, with a lot of military exploits and medals, "Triumphant" is coming!

Thinking of this, Dongfang Tuo agrees very much in his heart with the comments of the military and political officials around him on the frontline members-a bunch of bastards!

At this moment, the impassioned march sounded, and the air and earth turbulence became more and more intense. The crowds on all sides, like a volcanic eruption, roared heartily: "Long live the empire! Long live the imperial army! Long live the emperor!" Long live human civilization! Long live! Long live!"

The triumphant army appeared.

In the sky is a floating mountain-like assault ship to the ground, floating slowly like hundreds of dark clouds made of steel cast iron, and on the ground is a full crystal armor battle group with a helmet and a murderous spirit. Stepping on the majestic drum beat, marching towards the main road and the parade.

"Conquer! Immortal cultivator! Conquer all demons, evil spirits!"

"Rule! Real humans! Dominate this dark sea of ​​stars, the cold universe!"

"The battleship flies over the rolling waves! The glory of the empire will always shine!"

"Glory, Empire! Glory, Imperial Army!"

The battle song of the true human empire, accompanied by the cheers of the people, resounded through the sky and the earth, in all directions.