Chapter 2182 The Power of the Reformers!
According to Li Linghai, although the Deep Sea Fleet is still a "rebel army" that has not surfaced, it is full of talents and generals. The quality of the commanders at all levels is far beyond that of the Imperial Deep Space Fleet of the same level as the Empire.
Especially the grassroots commanders on the front line are definitely elites who have survived a hundred battles.
There are various reasons for these elites to join the Deep Sea Fleet, but in the final analysis, it is nothing more than the blocking of the ascending channel, as well as the injustice caused by the monopoly of nobles and powerful families.
This kind of injustice is magnified countless times by the fierce war, and in many cases it is even related to the life and death of young officers, so it will naturally cause fierce resistance.
The boss is incompetent and self-willed. In order to gain military exploits for himself and his family, he disregards the life and death of the lower-level officers and soldiers, and consumes precious human lives as worthless cannon fodder. Even when there is no hope of victory, he still drives Soldiers going to death just to earn themselves a reputation as "brave and courageous" has been a common occurrence in the "Empire Strikes Back" of the past decade.
And the young officers at the grassroots level and the low-level immortal cultivators who had no connections fought a cruel and bloody battle with the Holy League. In the rear, what awaits them may not be medals, contribution points, cheers and flowers, but more likely to be the scapegoat pushed by colleagues and superiors.
If he refuses to plead guilty honestly and helps his powerful colleagues and superiors take the blame, the cold and ruthless military court will open its bloody mouth and swallow up the bright future of countless young military officers.
Anyway, in the real human empire ruled by nobles, vassals, and warlords, medals, honors, and military exploits never depend on how much credit is achieved on the battlefield, but on the background, backing, and roots.
Low-level immortal cultivators who have no background, no backing, and are unwilling to kneel on the ground and bow their heads to the nobles, no matter how much blood they shed, how much meritorious deeds they make, and how many enemies they kill, they will never be able to succeed. .
This is the story of Tu Zhengdao, the deputy head of the deep-sea battle group.
He used to be the supreme commander of a very famous crystal armor battle group in the Imperial Expeditionary Force. Step by step to the position of Major General of the Imperial Army.
He is a legend of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, and he has also received olive branches from the four major elector families.
But at that time, he was loyal to the world lord of his hometown, and thought that the world lord would definitely take care of his "loyalty" and would do his best to protect him and support him no matter what the situation was.
But he was wrong.
In an extremely dangerous battle, the entire battle line completely collapsed because of the retreat of another crystal armor group on his flank. It was he who fought to the death and almost wiped out his own troops, so as to preserve the vitality of the friendly army to the maximum extent. .
But the crystal armor battle group that fled first was one of the four major elector families, a direct descendant of the "Wu Chuan Yun Clan", and its commander was a descendant of the main line of the Yun Clan.
Naturally, among the four dignified families of the Electors, the pillars of the empire, there will never be any cowardly and fleeing people.
And the other commanders of the troops who were rescued by Tu Zhengdao were also frightened by the Yun family's despotic power, and did not dare to tell the truth.
What's more, most of the investigators of the military committee responsible for investigating this matter are composed of nobles and descendants of powerful families. Even if they tell the truth, who can they tell it to?
In the end, the blame for "running away and causing the entire front to collapse" was firmly pinned on Tu Zhengdao.
And the backer who once swore to him, the lord of his hometown, was also annoyed that he had spent all the soldiers brought out from his hometown, which greatly damaged the strength of his side, the Great Thousand World, and he did not dare to disobey the will of the four major elector families. Where is he willing to help him?
In this way, Tu Zhengdao fell from a legend in the imperial army, one of the youngest major generals, on the golden road with a bright future, to the bottom of the endless abyss. At least, if Li Linghai hadn't rescued him, this would be Tu Zhengdao's only ending.
After being secretly rescued by Li Linghai, Tu Zhengdao led the surviving death squads and joined the deep sea fleet without hesitation.
The story of Tu Zhengdao is just an ordinary episode in the blood-stained history of countless officers and soldiers of the Deep Sea Fleet.
There are countless military officers who suffered the same as him, even more aggrieved and tragic than him.
These people are determined to overthrow the rule of the four major elector families, establish a new empire, and a powerful imperial army!
Not only the soldiers, but also countless experts, scholars and civilians like Master Jin Tianzong were also squeezed out and crushed by nobles and powerful people in their respective fields.
Either you can’t see the path and space to rise, or you have accumulated decades of hard work and career by others, or you are attacked by open guns and hidden arrows in seemingly fair competition, and your reputation and even your family are ruined. On a dead end called "innovation".
"The rule of the nobles and clans over the empire of real humans has reached the point where the sky is full of anger, the world is boiling, and it will explode at any time."
Li Linghai said to Li Yao, "The more nobles and elites expand and monopolize more interests, the more they compress the living space of most people, push most people to their opposites, and finally form a powerful 'rebel'." alliance'.
"The accusation by thousands of men ends without a problem. Now, the nobles and powerful families headed by the four major elector families have already been accused by thousands of men.
"After a hundred years of brewing and fermenting, at this moment, the strength of our revolutionary faction is more than just the 'Deep Sea Fleet' you see before your eyes!"
According to Li Linghai, there are five major parts of the power that the reformers can use now.
The most important armed force is naturally the Deep Sea Fleet. In the world of cultivating immortals where the weak prey on the strong, without strong armed force, it is impossible for any idea to be upheld.
Secondly, there is the Myriad Worlds Business Alliance, which is the main source of information and funds for the reformers.
Li Yao is no stranger to the name "Ten Thousand Worlds Business Alliance", because his nominal deputy, the deputy commander of the Black Wind Fleet, Di Feiwen, is a businessman and has inextricable connections with the Ten Thousand Worlds Business League.
According to Di Feiwen, before he left the empire, the merchants and small and medium-sized business alliances that had been operating in the remote star fields of the empire gradually awakened, eager to compete with the monopoly business groups supported by nobles and powerful families, and even participate in the politics of the empire go in life.
There are more crystal coins jingling in the pocket, and it is only natural to want to forge and hold sharper swords to defend one's wallet.
Money itself is a bloodthirsty beast. The power of capital is often even greater than the power of cultivators and immortals. If there is a chance, these jingling crystal coins will come alive and want to control the whole world.
More than a hundred years ago, the Wanjie Business Alliance was still quite weak, and could only infiltrate some remote worlds, or the Black Wind Realm, which was in the vortex of war, had a complex environment, and was relatively independent.
Unexpectedly, today, more than a hundred years later, the Ten Thousand Worlds Business Alliance has become involved with Her Royal Highness the Empress, the center of the empire, and its ambitions are clearly revealed.
The third force is the "Heavenly Devil Tribunal" located in the imperial capital "Extreme Heaven Realm, Celestial Extreme Star".
Under this slightly weird name is a terrorist organization that was once daunting and even frightening hundreds of years ago.
As the name suggests, the "Ocean Demon Tribunal" is a special force specially designed to deal with the invasion of demons and the descending of demons.
It is said that the Tribunal of the Heavenly Demon has raised a group of "witch hunters" who have cultivated with cruel secret methods since childhood. They have an extremely keen perception of the heavenly demon and a natural ability to counteract it, which is equivalent to the "Devil Execution Department" in the Secret Sword Bureau of the Xingyao Federation. .
As early as six or seven hundred years ago, the Tribunal of the Heavenly Demons had a horrible history of expansion. Their hunting targets were not limited to the Heavenly Demons or those who were possessed by the Heavenly Demons, but also those cultivators who harmed the public, corrupted or conspired against the law. , It became a bloody tool in the struggle between the emperor of the empire and the big-tailed dignitaries at that time.
"A true immortal cultivator should be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and dedicate everything he has to the empire and human civilization!
"Anyone who is corrupt, detrimental to public welfare, greedy for money and power has all been invaded by demons, and their brains have been polluted by demons. They must be purified most thoroughly!"
In the past, there were countless "witch hunters" who chanted such slogans, galloped across the world, and carried out merciless "purification" of those enemies of His Majesty the Emperor.
If the whole brain is burnt out, naturally there won't be any demons left, right?
There has been such a "black history", and in the last five hundred years of imperial history when the emperor was completely suppressed by the nobles, the four major elector families called the wind and rain, and the power was overwhelming, it is conceivable how the Heavenly Demon Tribunal will be suppressed and weakened .
Today, the Heavenly Demon Tribunal has been reduced to an insignificant existence like a cecum in the huge and cumbersome bureaucratic system of the empire.
If it weren't for the sporadic incidents of the small-scale celestial demons descending, requiring a large amount of cannon fodder to die with the celestial demons, this organization would have been abolished long ago.
However……
No matter how desolate they are, there are still a large number of "witch hunters" who are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and have been soaked in cruel secrets. They are dormant in the dark, carefully guarding all kinds of secrets and dark powers they have obtained from fierce battles with demons for thousands of years. .
The Empress of the Empire, Li Linghai, discovered the value of the Tribunal of the Heavenly Demon, and invested a lot of resources to wake up this dark beast that had been dormant for hundreds of years and become her right-hand man.
Just like Guo Chunfeng's Secret Sword Game, Jin Xinyue's Dark Moon Foundation, and Long Yangjun's Ghost Painting Organization, they are her sharpest dark blades!