Chapter 2187 Elder Li!

Li Yao felt like scratching his head.

Why does it seem that wherever I go, accidents always happen?

It's just that this time, the situation of the True Human Empire is more confusing and complicated than the situation of the Flying Star Realm, the Blood Demon Realm, the Federation and the Ancient Sacred Realm in the past.

This is a huge vortex involving hundreds of great worlds and tens of thousands of star sea warships.

Frowning, Li Yao felt that the "Blood Union Incident" was not simple.

However, he was more interested in the content of the leaflets distributed by the Blood League, thought for a while, and asked, "By the way, this leaflet says that Dongfang Tuo intends to make peace with the Holy League, so he is a traitor to the empire, despicable and shameless." Surrender faction, is this true or false?"

"Whether Dongfang Tuo made peace with the Holy League, or even secretly contacted the Holy League, this is naturally unknown, but he is indeed a peacemaker. He has repeatedly proposed in the Senate to end the war as soon as possible, and even got stuck in logistics and cooperation. The delivery of military supplies is to curb the mindless advance of some fleets, so it also offended many front-line officers, perhaps because of this, the blood alliance will regard him as the number one assassination target."

Li Linghai said, "Of course, Dongfang Tuo is only a representative of the overall interests of the four major elector families. The current situation is that the four major elector families want to end the war as soon as possible, while the small and medium-sized nobles, world masters and emerging warlords on the periphery of the empire But they still want to continue to attack, the two sides are at a stalemate, and the contradiction is intensifying day by day."

Li Yao was slightly startled: "Why?"

"It's very simple. If the four major elector families want to carve up the dozens of great worlds that have just been recovered as soon as possible, determine and solidify each other's interests and even spheres of influence, and want to carve up the benefits they want, they naturally need a stable environment. If the frontline Still fighting fiercely day and night, there is no way to distribute benefits."

Li Linghai explained, "However, for the small and medium-sized nobles and emerging warlords in the peripheral world of the empire, they don't have much confidence that they can take too much advantage when dividing up the benefits, even if they are given a few resource planets. The lairs are too far away, and they don't have enough power projection and material transmission capabilities to guard and operate these planets, and they will still be taken away by others sooner or later.

"In other words, more than half of the dozens of Great Thousand Worlds that have been painstakingly restored in the past ten years are destined to fall into the bellies of the four major elector families.

"But continuing to attack is different.

"Recovering a new planet, you can dig three feet into the ground, search for all the resources on this planet, hide it in your fleet, or transmit it back to your lair through secret channels.

"Not to mention the accumulated military exploits, they can also be used as bargaining chips, and they can also falsely report the battle losses and get a lot of supplements from the rear.

"As for the subsequent construction and operation of this planet, it has nothing to do with these warlord fleets.

"Think about it, if you were a world lord of the outer world of the empire, a warlord with a motley fleet, would you continue to plunder like this, or end the war and go back to your backcountry to drink the northwest wind?

"In many cases, the Holy League may not even implement the 'scorched earth strategy' on the planets they abandoned, but the emperor who recovered these planets, carried out devastating plunder, and then lied that this planet has long been a scorched earth expedition What can we do with these greedy and rebellious guys?

"All the miscellaneous armies and local warlords do this. Can the direct descendants of the four major elector families wipe out all the miscellaneous armies and local warlords?"

Li Yao thought about it for a long time: "Understood, the four major elector families hope to use the motley army and local warlords to rush to the forefront, to expand the territory for the empire, that is, for them, and to weaken the power of the motley army and local warlords by the way. ; but the miscellaneous army and local warlords are neither good nor fools, but they preemptively squeezed out the use value of the newly recovered territory, and then lied about how many warships they lost, urgently needed supplies and even supplementary ordnance, and finally returned with a full load, but called The four major elector families are scapegoating, and all in all, neither side is a good bird."

"Yes, although the language is vulgar, you summed it up very correctly."

The corner of Li Linghai's mouth couldn't help but twitched into a sarcastic smile, and said, "The four major elector families have ruled the empire for hundreds of years, but they treat others as monkeys and pigs, thinking they can play with the world at will.

"Perhaps at the beginning of the war, they did have what you just said, hoping that the mob army and local warlords could 'be the king's vanguard' and fight the Holy League to lose both sides, and they would be able to reap the benefits.

"But they underestimated two points. The first is the insatiable greed, cunning and cunning of the mob army and local warlords, and the second is the will of the Holy League to resist.

"During the hundreds of years when the real human empire expanded its territory, it has encountered several powerful cultivator countries and independent regimes, and finally defeated the enemy. Judging by the standards of these former enemies, dozens of industrial worlds After being captured, the main fleet was defeated and defeated again and again. The so-called "will to resist" should be nothing left, and they must surrender obediently.

"But the Holy League is clearly not any country that the Empire has ever conquered.

"The members of the Holy League can be said to be fanatics of the Pangu clan who absolutely believe in their true god; they can also be said to be a flesh and blood machine that has obliterated humanity, without the concept of fear and pain.

"Whether fanatics or flesh-and-blood machines, how could they choose to surrender?

"So, even if dozens of Great Thousand Worlds were lost, even if several main fleets were defeated and turned into a mess, there is still no sign of instability within the Holy League. It seems that this millennium war will continue for another millennium. It doesn't matter at all."

Li Yao said: "But the empire can't take it anymore?"

Li Linghai smiled bitterly and said, "That's right, no matter how many differences there are between cultivators and immortal cultivators, at least we are all people with emotions and desires and free thinking. We will suffer and resist. The empire has shed too much blood in this war. , the national economy is on the verge of collapse, so no matter what, the war must be ended as soon as possible, otherwise, not only will the current front line be unable to hold, even the dozens of Great Thousand Worlds just acquired may be lost again, and even endanger the hinterland of the empire !

"Although I appreciate the patriotic enthusiasm of the young officers on the front line, on this point, I hold the same position as Dongfang Tuo, the four major elector families. I am not a fanatical warmonger. The war must end. If there is any possibility of making peace with the Holy League, I will try it."

Li Yaoqi asked: "Is it possible to make peace with the Holy League people?"

"Why is it impossible?"

Li Linghai said indifferently, "The thousand-year war between the Empire and the Holy League is not fought every year. The two sides always stop to take a breath. Otherwise, no matter whether they are from the Empire or the Holy League, they would have been wiped out long ago."

Li Yao could accept Li Linghai's statement intellectually, but he still couldn't accept it emotionally: "I just think it's a bit weird that the people of the Empire and the members of the Holy League are talking about peace."

"Then, isn't it surprising that a cultivator and a cultivator are chatting on the flagship of an 'Imperial Rebel'?"

Li Linghai glanced at Li Yao, "Whether I or the four major elector families, there are a lot of realists. For a realist, 'ideas' is never the first consideration, 'benefits' ’ That’s right, as long as there are enough interests, let alone members of the Holy Alliance or cultivators, why can’t even the heavenly demons from outside the territory cooperate, at least temporarily truce?”

Li Yao was speechless.

It seemed that he should be thankful that the Empress of the Empire, Li Linghai, was not a "fundamentalist" immortal cultivator.

If it is really the purest kind of cultivator, if you see him as a cultivator for the first time, you should draw your sword and kill him, right?

After sorting out some messy thoughts, Li Yao nodded and said, "Understood, what should we do now?"

Li Linghai's eyes were deep, he stared at Li Yao for a long time, as if he had made up his mind to put all his eggs in one basket, and said word by word: "Can I trust you absolutely?"

Li Yao said frankly: "If what you do, as you said earlier, is of great benefit to all ordinary people in the empire, then you can absolutely trust me."

"good!"

Li Linghai shrank his eyes, as if they had turned into two swords that had been covered in dust for a long time, but when they were unsheathed, they were still blown hairs and hairs. more beneficial.

"But with the 'Blood Alliance incident' such a commotion, our career is in jeopardy!

"This time I secretly left the imperial capital to kill Li Lingfeng, and left a specially trained stand-in in the imperial capital, which can handle normal situations, but when encountering such troubles, it will definitely show its flaws.

"We have been cornered and have no choice but to show our cards ahead of time!

"Our strength has not yet accumulated in place, so the risk of an early showdown is naturally extremely high, and the next is very likely to be an extremely dangerous series of bloody battles. At this time of life and death, you, a strong man with dual talents in fighting and refining, Undoubtedly, it is a trump card of our side, possessing the power to turn the world around!

"Vulture Li Yao, in the name of the Empress of the Empire, I can promise you that as long as you are willing to work together with our fellow Taoists of the 'Reformist' to tide over the difficulties and seize the entire empire, you can do whatever you want I will not be stingy if I get it, and even have unexpected benefits for you!"

Li Yao blinked: "Uh, for example?"

"for example……"

Li Linghai smiled slightly, and said, "Three days ago, just one of the imperial elders unfortunately passed away. It is estimated that in the next year or so, hundreds of imperial elders will fall one by one. The 500 seats of the Imperial Senate, There may be more than half of the vacancies, and new veterans are urgently needed to fill them in.

"Have you ever thought about becoming a veteran of the empire?" r