Chapter 2184 A Group of Bastards!

"Elder!"

Seeing Dongfang Tuo coming, the military and political officials of Qinglanxing who were chatting and laughing on the parade platform immediately stood at attention, clenched their fists with their right hands, pressed them close to their hearts, and bowed slightly to salute him.

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

Dongfang Tuo's face sank like water, nodded to everyone, and waved his hand casually, signaling that everyone should not be so nervous.

Qinglanxing is the logistics transfer base of the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

"Military supply and logistics" is such a critical and lucrative field that it is naturally controlled by nobles and powerful people.

Therefore, all the military and political officials who are qualified to stand on the parade stand today to greet the triumphant return of the army are all from the four major elector families and their vassal forces, and they are all "our own people".

Since you are "one of your own", you can talk freely about many topics.

Unlike the "Long live the Empire" that the fanatical people in the surrounding streets and alleys kept shouting, there was not much joy in the whispers of these military and political officials.

"Another 'brilliant victory', a new resource planet, hehe, it's a pity to hear that the Holy League implemented the strategy of 'clearing the walls and resisting the scorched earth'. Before retreating, all the mines were blown up, and even used The very insidious method has polluted all the underground mine veins. It is estimated that the pollution control work will take several years, and I don’t know how much money will be spent. What kind of resource planet is this? It’s a bottomless pit!”

"That's right, there are also those people left by the Holy League, all of whom have been severely brainwashed and have great resistance to the empire. Without a long period of enlightenment, I'm afraid they won't be able to become a good labor force for the empire, but it will take a lot of money A large amount of food is used to feed them, so we can’t kill them all, can we? Kill all the people in the dozens of Great Thousand Worlds that have just been recovered? 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 much you 'motivate', you will not be able to inspire greater potential. Instead, the accident rate continues to rise, and small-scale riots are also happening one after another. However, most of the power of the empire is concentrated on the front lines. , there was no way to suppress the riots in the rear, so that, the day before yesterday in the Wuying world of the poisonous scorpion star cluster, there was a terrible incident in which a cultivator destroyed the entire starry sky battle castle, and even the cultivator invaded the spiritual network, and the whole process was broadcast live , What a shame, it is simply a great shame to the empire, that a little cultivator..."

"A small cultivator can't make too much trouble, but the inflationary pressure we are facing now is too great and has reached the critical point of collapse. If the war continues, the vicious depreciation of the imperial crystal currency will be inevitable. We After a detailed deduction, if the war continues for another year with the current intensity and the current supply of resources, then, by February next year at the latest, the Imperial Crystal Coin will depreciate by at least 300%, and 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, his face was expressionless, seemingly indifferent to the discussions around him, but he heard every word clearly.

He also knows that the discussions and complaints of these Qinglanxing military and political officials are largely intentional to him, hoping that he, as the elder of the empire, will 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 officials thought that the Senate did not want to quickly end the war with "decency", but how could the Holy League, which had just been torn off a large piece of blood dripping with blood, easily give the empire this "decency" Woolen cloth?

"Those Qiuba on the front line don't care about the hard work of operating supplies at the rear. They only know how to fight, fight, fight! If we continue to act recklessly like this, our logistics system will collapse!"

"That's right, I heard that the 27th Fleet stationed in the 'Sky-Moon Star Field' has recently had a mutiny incident. The young officers in the middle and lower ranks are a little unstable and unwilling to carry out the order of 'stand still'. I also want to continue to attack, expand the results of the battle, and further extend the front line."

"What do these guys with well-developed limbs and simple minds want to 'expand the results of the war'? After expanding the results of the war and recovering the new planet, are they going to feed the highly brainwashed people on it? What a bastard!

"These nonsense guys only think about their own military exploits and medals, but they never think about the overall situation of the entire empire. Once their blood boils and their heads go to their heads, they can do anything, and now there is a A very worrying phenomenon is that young military officers from different worlds seem to be connected in series and communicate with each other. They seem to have formed many organizations like 'clubs and federations'. They don't know what to do. It's really worrying. .”

"It's all connived by those world masters. Those world masters in remote worlds of the empire are a bunch of ambitious, selfish, short-sighted, greedy bastards who never think about the overall situation!"

Dongfang Tuo sighed again.

As the president of the Imperial Exploration Bank and the logistics leader of the Expeditionary Force who manages astronomical military resources, he is very clear about what everyone is talking about.

Swallowing dozens of Great Thousand Worlds in one go, the empire has reached the limit of phased expansion, and if it continues to expand blindly like this, it will become an infinitely inflated monster, eventually crushed by its own weight as if stranded on the beach whale, exploding from the inside out.

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

But the front-line military officers who are eager to make contributions, especially those young and middle-aged grassroots officers who are ambitious and passionate, and have been severely brainwashed by the slogans of "the empire is invincible" and "long live human civilization", don't think so.

They are eager to make contributions, eager to expand their territories, eager to leave a name in history, and eager to become glorious heroes in the rise of human civilization!

In a space war that spans dozens of worlds and stretches for tens of thousands of light years, it is extremely difficult for the rear to be effective against the frontline deep space fleets floating in the depths of the boundless star sea. controlling.

Every deep space fleet has a super starship with a length of more than ten kilometers, a self-circulating air and water purification system, and often stores enough to supply it for ten or twenty years. Although the smell is unpleasant, it can satisfy Synthetic food for basic energy needs.

With these things, each deep space fleet is a self-sufficient small entity, even without supplies, it can persist in combat for several years. The so-called "deep space" means to go deep into the starry sky and independently explore, fight and conquer .

In many cases, what the deep space fleet is doing on the front line cannot be observed all the time from 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 elector families.

The empire is too huge, and the vast sea of ​​stars determines the extremely high difficulty of centralizing power. It is impossible for His Majesty the Emperor to completely control the entire empire, and the four major elector families cannot do it either.

At this moment, only half of the hundreds of fleets stationed on the front line are directly under the four major elector families, while the other half come from the relatively independent peripheral world of the empire.

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

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

After all, if one more resource planet can be laid down, these warlords themselves can accumulate a little more military exploits.

And before others came, they could still plunder the newly recovered planet first. Even if the Holy League really implements the "scorched earth strategy", as long as they are willing to dig three feet, they can find some broken copper and iron.

For these warlord troops whose nests are 108,000 light-years away, they didn't even think about controlling these front-line resource planets for a long time at the beginning, but they had the mentality of "grab it and go". Acting even more unscrupulously, it is a gang of robbers.

As for how to deal with these planets that were first implemented by the Holy League, and then were smashed to the bone and marrow by the Imperial Army, how to hold on to the ever-extending front, and the pressure on logistics supplies doubled... These messy problems, just Leave it all to the "Expeditionary Army Headquarters" and even the "Imperial Senate" to have a headache. Anyway, they just pat their butts and bring a lot of military exploits and medals. "Triumph" is here!

Thinking of this, Dongfang Tuo agreed in his heart with the comments of the military and political officials around him on those Qiu Ba on the front line, a bunch of bastards!

At this moment, an impassioned march sounded, and the shock of the air and the ground became more and more intense. The crowds in all directions, like a volcanic eruption, roared heart-piercingly: "Long live the Empire! Long live the Imperial Army! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Long live human civilization! Long live! Long live!"

The triumphant army appeared.

In the sky is a ground attack ship like a floating mountain, slowly floating over like hundreds of dark clouds made of cast iron, and on the ground is a full-crystal armor battle group with helmets and armor, full of murderous aura, With the beat of majestic drums, march towards the main road and the parade platform.

"Conquer! Immortal cultivators! Conquer all evil spirits, demons and heretics!"

"Let's rule! True humans! Rule this dark sea of ​​stars, the icy universe!"

"The battleship skims the rolling waves! The glory of the empire shines forever!"

"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.