Chapter 2162 Desires Are Hard to Fill, Profit Makes Wisdom Faint

Li Yao took Li Linghai's words seriously.

Even the fanatical and idealistic expression on Li Linghai's face, he had seen on the faces of countless soldiers and federal soldiers.

In a country that has been fighting for years, or is facing serious military pressure and the threat of war, the military and the military can easily condense into a huge beast, an indestructible interest group.

At least that's the case in Star Federation.

The federal military has great power. It has its own mines, smelters, magic weapon refining factories, and various military-industrial complexes. It even has one-third of the seats in the federal parliament, and it can completely compete with the cultivators. .

One-third of the seats for the military, one-third of the seats for religious sects, and one-third for ordinary people. This is the approximate balance of power in the Federal Parliament.

Not to mention, the folk customs of the Star Federation are tough, they respect martial arts, and the social status of soldiers is extremely high. The tentacles of the "Disabled Veterans Association" reach out to every corner of the people, protecting the interests of soldiers to the greatest extent, and of course forming A virtuous circle promotes young people to actively enroll in the army, defending the Federation and cultivating civilization.

At least, during the hundred years from the birth of Li Yao to the birth of the new Federation, and the defeat of the Black Wind Fleet, the federal military, a colossal behemoth, has indeed made great contributions to the stability and unity of the Federation and the happy life of the people. Tragic sacrifice has positive value.

However, once this giant beast gets out of control, it may still cause unimaginable consequences. "The painful lesson.

And just a hundred years ago, there was an incident where the Federal Intelligence Director Lu Zui colluded with the important military figure "Tie Commander" Zhou Hengdao in an attempt to hijack the entire country.

There is an old saying, "With a sharp weapon in your body, you will be ready to kill." The soldier holds a chainsaw sword and a bolt gun, wears a crystal armor, steps on a starship, and is surrounded by comrades who fight side by side and share life and death. , it can gather into a torrent of steel that crosses the sea of ​​stars.

For the soldiers in this torrent of steel, surging ambitions are ignited, and they think that they have great responsibilities for the country, the nation, and the entire civilization. They are extremely eager to build martial arts and realize personal value while saving the country. It's a natural thing.

Therefore, the imperial soldiers are eager to end the current situation of being subject to nobles and clansmen, and to establish a unified, powerful, and "glorious" imperial army, which is nothing more than normal!

Perhaps the high-level commanders of the star sea fleets and elite crystal armor battle groups of the imperial army are all nobles and powerful people, so as to achieve a high degree of control over the army.

But those low- and middle-level officers, especially the grassroots officers who are going to charge the front line, may not all be nobles and powerful people, right?

Li Linghai also said just now that the high-level cultivators in the empire are living longer and longer.

If the aristocratic commander of a fleet really does not move his position for two hundred years, and it seems that he can live another hundred or two hundred years with a radiant face and a leisurely life, and Li Yao is a grassroots officer under his command who fought bloody battles on the front line and narrowly escaped death, Then Li Yao will rebel!

"Now the people of insight inside the empire, whether they are low-level immortal cultivators who can't see hope, or the world masters and mine owners who have been sucked blood and been sheared by industrial and agricultural scissors in the outer resource world of the empire, wander among the stars and suffer bitterly. Businessmen looking for business opportunities but still unable to enter the aristocratic monopoly industry, or as I just said, young officers in the imperial army who have ideals, aspirations, and desire to make contributions and save the country, all of them are nobles and nobles headed by the four major elector families. Clan, I hate it!"

Li Linghai carried his hands on his back, and from the depths of his crystal-clear eyes, rays of light piercing the sea of ​​stars shot out, and he said flatly, "From top to bottom, everyone can see the extremely sharp contradictions, everyone is lurking and their minions endure, everyone desires An earth-shaking, reborn transformation, completely smashing the old system that is rich in gold and jade, and building a glorious and great new empire!

"You should know that in the past ten years, the empire has launched a magnificent and devastating strategic counterattack against the Holy League. This is the largest offensive launched by the empire against the Holy League in the past five hundred years. It really exhausted the power of the entire empire. "

Li Yao nodded heavily.

It was this earth-shattering strategic counterattack that made the empire unable to find out the real situation of the Black Wind Fleet, and also unable to send a new expeditionary force to the Federation, which indirectly saved the Federation's life. How could Li Yao not know?

"Actually, at the beginning, the nobles and clans headed by the four major electors did not agree with such a drastic strategic counter-offensive plan. They have always been like this for the past five hundred years. In terms of strategic choices, they have focused more on defense, and even retreated. If you don’t come out, you will be beaten passively.”

Li Linghai narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "A lot of times, it's not a military issue, but a political issue, too aggressive a military strategy is very likely to lead to a complete loss and seriously damage the interests of nobles and powerful families.

"However, in the border areas, they can keep their own territories and interests safe and sound with strong walls and clear fields, and they can't retreat.

"As for the Great Thousand World where the frontier star field has been ravaged to the point of devastation? Anyway, it's not their territory, so they don't care. Instead, they can use the hands of the Holy League members to weaken the strength of the rising stars and prevent the emergence of new 'cake sharers'. Why? Why not do it for fun?

"One hundred years ago, in the star field on the border of the empire, a new armed force called the 'Black Wind Fleet' appeared. It survived the arduous war, and it became stronger and stronger.

"The Heifeng people shocked the entire empire with their rebelliousness, brutal methods, and daring to fight. They are very likely to become the 'people who share the cake', but in the end, they collapsed, and even their own mother world fell into the Of course, in the hands of the Holy League, it has now been recovered.

"The collapse of the Black Wind Fleet is certainly due to the rampant offensive of the Holy Alliance and the improper command of the Holy League, but is there any factor that the four major elector families refused to save them, or even killed them with knives?

"Anyway, I'm from the Li family, and I've seen too much about the various methods the Li family used to deal with competitors in the past thousand years.

"It's just that, now that the imperial calendar has turned a thousand years later, the internal conflicts are so acute that even the four major elector families can't pretend to be deaf and dumb and turn a blind eye.

"Foreign wars are always the best means of diverting internal conflicts.

"If we don't launch a large-scale foreign war and divert the resources, population, anger and ambitions of the conflicting parties, the empire will really erupt and the world will be turned upside down!

"This is why the nobles and powerful clans are uncharacteristically united with emerging warlords in the outer world, middle- and lower-level young officers in fleets and battle groups, and low-level immortal cultivators eager to make contributions to launch the 'largest strategic counter-offensive in five hundred years'." The deepest reason!"

The queen's eloquent and eloquent speech made Li Yao suddenly understand, and he had a deeper understanding of the current political ecology and power balance of the Real Human Empire.

"The original idea was very good."

Li Linghai observed Li Yao's expression, and said calmly, "The dozens of worlds, hundreds of fragmented worlds, and resource planets recovered during the strategic counterattack can all be distributed to the small and medium-sized ones that have only emerged in the last few hundred years. Nobles, rulers of remote worlds, young military officers at the grassroots level, and all other powerful people who did not get enough benefits in the first five hundred years, even the royal family can be divided into one or two Great Thousand Worlds to expand the scope of their direct territories.

"In this way, resolve the contradictions between each other and reach a new consensus of interests.

"but……

"Should it be said that the four major elector families are afraid that these emerging interest groups will continue to expand after they get new territories, and eventually threaten their dominance, so it is better to plan ahead and act first, or simply say them, dog change How about not eating shit?

"In short, in the beginning, under the banner of 'equal distribution of interests', the four major elector families encouraged young officers, small and medium-sized sects under their banners, as well as warlords and powerhouses from remote worlds to participate in this strategic counteroffensive.

"The Holy League is not a persimmon that is easy to squeeze. In the arduous war, it was these young grassroots officers, small and medium-sized sects, and emerging warlords in remote worlds who made the most sacrifices and suffered heavy losses to restore one world after another.

"However, now that the empire has regained all the territory it lost over the millennium, drove the Holy League back to their barren lair where the mountains and rivers were far away thousands of years ago, and initially stabilized the line of defense, when it is time to start 'dividing the cake', those great nobles And the powerful, actually...repented.

"Hehe, when these dozens of Great Thousand Worlds are still under the heavy defense of the Holy League, and it seems extremely difficult to conquer, it is very easy to make the decision to hand them over to others.

"And when these great worlds have all returned to the embrace of the empire, they are like cleaned cherries and lychees for you to taste, and then they are sent to other people's mouths. How can these stubborn nobles and powerful people... be willing to... Woolen cloth?

"Not only are they unwilling to stand on the sidelines, watching others divide up these dozens of great worlds like wolves and tigers, but they also think they have discovered an 'opportunity' cleverly.

"You know, in this tragic strategic counter-offensive, countless small and medium sects, the relatively independent Star Sea Fleet, and the world masters of remote worlds were all hit hard. Leaving his own base camp and going deep into the frontline where the environment is not very familiar, many war supplies have to rely on the continuous supply of the four major elector families, in other words, being choked by the big nobles.

"At this time, isn't it... the best time to annex them?

"Not only do you not have to hand over the newly acquired dozens of Great Thousand Worlds, but you can also swallow the territories of these small and medium-sized nobles and emerging warlords in one go. To ensure your dominance in the empire again, wouldn't it be for the four major elector families?" Kill two birds with one stone, a huge profit' deal?

"These pigs think so."