Chapter 2161 Fight for His Majesty the Emperor!

"I once heard a little story from the ancient Xiu era. It said that the prince of a certain planetary empire rebelled and tried to kill his father. The reason he used was 'how can there be a prince of sixty years in the world'?"

Li Linghai said calmly, "Hehe, in today's real human empire, resources are abnormally concentrated, and various magical powers to prolong life are popular. Don't talk about the '60-year-old prince', even the '360-year-old prince' is still the same." It is possible.

"Think about it, you are a young immortal cultivator with outstanding talent, tyrannical strength, and great ambition, and you really want to do something, but the world you live in, including the world lord, suzerain, presidents of major groups, local garrison commanders, fleets, etc. Commander-in-chief...almost all the high-level people haven't been replaced for a hundred or two hundred years, and the group of fairy-like, white-haired and young-looking old men who are entrenched above your head seem to be able to live comfortably for another two hundred years. What are you doing? Feeling? Do you feel that your eyes are dark, your future is bleak, and you are extremely hopeless?

"What's more, as a person's lifespan grows, concepts will inevitably become obsolete, and thinking will definitely become rigid. They will resist accepting new things and brand-new cultivation concepts, and cling to the old ones. Interests have greatly hindered the progress of the entire society.

"These old immortals have ten thousand ways to kill those young cultivators who may pose a threat to them, but are unwilling to be drawn and corrupted by them, so as to ensure their absolute rule.

"And once the young immortal cultivators are eroded by them, they will inevitably fall into the endless cycle of ranking seniority and suffering. They will be enslaved and squeezed by them wantonly, and they will be in the same dust as the light, and they will grind away their edges and corners. In the end, they will become these interest groups. components."

Li Yao was silent.

If you think about it carefully, if a society always abides by the concept of "the strong eat the weak and the winner takes all", and does not form a relatively stable rule for the replacement of the old and the new, then the situation Li Linghai mentioned will definitely appear.

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

Li Linghai narrowed his eyes, and a cruel smile curled up on the corner of his mouth, "They can waste countless precious resources and barely keep their own lives, but they can never maintain their fighting power at its peak forever.

"Fist is afraid of the young, it is the most reasonable saying. The combat power 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, and there is no such thing as 'the older you are, the better you can fight'" In other words, when the life and realm have climbed to the golden cross, it is the peak stage of a cultivator, but once this stage passes, it cannot be recovered.

"So, many of the scary-sounding 'four-hundred-year-old Nascent Soul, five-hundred-year-old Huashen' in the empire are actually empty shells. Maybe the vision, experience, and realm are still there, but if you really do it, It's definitely not me, and it may not even be your opponent.

"One day, these reincarnated corpses that should have decayed a long time ago will taste the vitality and unstoppable power from the younger generation. I firmly believe this!"

Li Yao grinned and said, "If you give me a chance to beat dozens of high-ranking cultivators in the empire into pig's heads, I won't object."

Li Linghai smiled lightly: "Don't worry, we had such a pleasant chat, we must cooperate with each other very well, 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, do the dozens of most developed industrial worlds in the center of the Star Sea squeeze and suck blood from the hundreds of resource worlds on the periphery of the empire? Need a detailed explanation?"

Li Yao shook his head.

The exploitation and blood-sucking of the backward resource world by the developed industrial world is an almost unsolvable problem. Even the Star Federation is facing the same problem, which is the so-called "old three realms" and "new four realms" dispute.

The three core Great Thousand Worlds, Tianyuan, Blood Demon and Flying Star, have relatively advanced technology and a complete large-scale industrial magic weapon refining system. They are all in the same country and have no tariffs or trade barriers. The crystal, nether world, tree sea and other resource worlds are dumped, completely destroying the lackluster, primitive and rough backward industrial systems of the crystal, nether world, and tree sea, and finally turning the crystal, nether world, and tree sea into industrial products forever dumping grounds, and supplying grounds for primary resources.

Because of this core conflict, before Li Yao and the ancient sages returned to the federation, there were great differences between the old three realms and the new four realms, and even formed two camps headed by Ding Lingdang and Jin Xinyue, facing each other tit for tat. Not giving in to each other.

Of course, the Star Federation is a very young country, just like the real human empire thousands of years ago, it is full of vigor, forge ahead, and flourishing day by day.

On the one hand, the federation has a total of less than ten Great Thousand Worlds, and with a short history of a hundred years, it is too late to form a strong fortress of interests. "A small boat is easy to turn around", and any conflicts can be easily resolved through negotiation.

On the other hand, at that time, the Federation was facing a huge threat from the Black Wind Fleet, and it was at a critical moment of life and death. This kind of long-term contradiction of dumping and sucking blood from the industrial world to the resource world, earning scissors, could only be considered as a secondary consideration.

In the third aspect, under the leadership of Li Yao, the Federation successively discovered rich worlds such as the Ancient Sacred Realm, the Kunlun Ruins, and the Skeleton Dragon Star, as well as prehistoric advanced technologies. , Played a great lubricating and easing effect.

In addition, the leaders of their respective interest groups, such as Ding Lingdang and Jin Xinyue, used great patience and wisdom to temporarily put aside disputes and resolve conflicts, including Jin Tuyi and others who took control of the overall situation behind the scenes. The world can unite and successfully defeat the Black Wind Fleet.

Even so, it is hard for Li Yao to imagine how the ever-expanding Star Federation will solve the problem of unbalanced regional economic development, the "siphon effect" of the industrial world is getting worse, and the scissors gap is getting bigger and bigger after hundreds of years.

Therefore, many experts from Star Federation even asserted that for the federation, the best state is the current one, with no more than ten Great Thousand Worlds.

This is the limit of scale effect and comprehensive national strength. If we continue to expand blindly, we will really suffer from indigestion, and even support ourselves to death.

The real human empire with hundreds of great worlds, even if it hasn't exhausted itself, at least it has exhausted itself.

Almost all the favorable conditions 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 elector families would show mercy to the frontier resource world that the empire later opened up one after another.

It must be, suck as much blood as you can, and dump as much as you can. It is best to use large-scale and cheap magic weapons produced by assembly lines to completely submerge these remote worlds to ensure that they will never develop any magic weapon refining industrial system. Being able to act as a primary resource provider for the four major elector families fell into the trap of "exchanging 500 tons of raw ore for a crystal armor" and couldn't extricate himself.

Then, the rulers of these remote worlds, who are also ambitious world lords, warlords, and fleet commanders, will they be willing to let their world become forever a backcountry full of mines but without half a magic weapon factory? Is the Elector's family squeezing, dumping and sucking blood?

This is the struggle between the "old three realms and the new four realms" that has intensified and expanded tenfold in scale!

In the Federation, Li Yao, Ding Lingdang, Jin Xinyue and others used the method of making peace with the struggle between the industrial world and the resource world to temporarily fool them.

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

Li Linghai observed Li Yao's expression calmly, saw that he was really thoughtful, raised his evaluation to another notch, nodded and said: "Very good, as expected of a person who has been the special envoy of the Speaker, he can tell a little bit about it, It's not a simple martial artist."

"You can understand the contradiction between the industrial world and the resource world caused by the uneven development of the regional economy, so as a combat-type deity powerhouse, the contradiction between the 'military' and 'family, sect, and interest group', Can you understand it better?"

Li Yao was slightly taken aback: "What is that?"

"It's very simple. Now all the armies 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-industrial complex are not in the military's hands. hand.

"In fact, it has been eroded by nobles and warlords for hundreds of years. Except for the powerful Imperial Forest Army in the imperial capital Jitianjie and Tianjixing, there is no real existence that can be called an 'imperial army'.

"The vast majority of the star sea fleet and crystal armor battle group, which can be called elite, have command, financial power, and control of military industrial groups, all in the hands of nobles, warlords, and world masters.

"In other words, the imperial army is just the private soldiers of the nobles, they are just old dog legs.

"The simplest example is 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 all."

Li Yao nodded slowly.

In the end of the dynasty when the imperial power declined and the warlords rose, this kind of thing is a matter of course.

Nominally they should belong to the country, at least they should belong to the emperor's army. In fact, they are all private soldiers of nobles and warlords. It is the nobles and warlords who provide money, people, crystal armor and starships to support them. Can safeguard the interests of nobles and warlords.

"However, not every imperial soldier is willing to spend his whole life as a nobleman's private soldier, servant, and lackey, dying for nothing in the struggle for power and territory among the nobles, especially for those who are full of vigor, ambition, and wealth. Lofty ideals and aspirations, even... especially for grassroots young officers who firmly remember the glorious history of the Imperial Army in the era of the Black Star Emperor!"

Li Linghai's eyes were red, and he said murderously, "Gather together the private soldiers scattered in various worlds, nobles and clansmen, and form an incomparably powerful, real imperial army, so that the 'military' can issue its own The sound, the roar of thunder!

"From now on, only fight for the interests of the empire, only fight for human civilization, and only fight for His Majesty the Emperor!

"This is the passionate ideal of countless young military officers. They are willing to fight to the death for this ideal!"