Chapter 2236 Scarlet Cloud Elegy!

Real Human Empire, New Restoration Area, Third War Zone, the edge of Xilan Realm, No. 223 resource planet with no atmosphere and extremely harsh environment.

The Xilan Realm is a small realm with a diameter of 3 billion kilometers. The stars here are still in their youth, so the seven planets around the stars are all involved in the violent gravitational changes, and it is impossible to form a dense atmosphere. There is no habitable planet.

And the ever-changing gravity and crustal movement, as well as countless planets being torn apart, and the material exchange caused by various meteorite impacts, have made several satellites in Xilan Realm rich in rare metals and rare crystals.

Xilan Realm is the remotest small realm in the third war zone, and resource planet No. 223 is the most remote planet in Xilan Realm.

It is rich in a kind of precious "nickel fusion spar vein", which can be refined into high-explosive bombs, which can greatly enhance the destructive ability of shells, and even increase the destruction radius by more than 100%.

Therefore, after the empire regained the Xilan Realm from the Holy League, it also sent a small fleet to station on Resource Planet 223.

The task of this fleet is not to hold on to the base camp of the No. 223 Resource Planet Expeditionary Force in the possible counterattack of the Holy League. They never thought they could do this.

They are just "engineers", responsible for cleaning up and rebuilding the mining bases that were wrecked by the Holy League in a barren world with an extremely harsh environment.

This is the mission of the Ninth Fleet of the Third Theater of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, also known as the "Chiyun Fleet".

The Scarlet Cloud Fleet is a motley crew, local armed forces, or to use the contemptuous tone of those dignitaries and powerful people in the imperial capital, "a mob put together by a bunch of country bumpkins", it is the epitome of thousands of motley troops.

The Scarlet Cloud Fleet came from the Scarlet Cloud Realm, a world that was not conquered by the Empire until five hundred years ago, at the end of the "Era of Great Exploration of the Empire", or to put it more pleasantly, "joined the Empire".

Because at that time, facing the mighty army of the empire descending from the sky, the ruler of the Chiyun Realm chose to surrender very wisely. In addition, the Chiyun Realm itself was a land with poor mountains and rivers and extremely poor resources. Except for the billions of hungry people Besides, there is nothing of value. Therefore, the empire generously gave the Chiyun Realm a considerable degree of autonomy, as long as the Chiyun Realm paid taxes and soldiers regularly, and obeyed the orders of His Majesty the Emperor and the Senate when the Empire needed them. Order, send troops to attack the enemy together with the empire.

Even with such "generosity" and "benevolence", the past five hundred years have been extremely difficult for the people of Chiyun Realm and even for immortal cultivators.

The tax burden of the empire is increasing day by day. In addition to the tax directly paid to the court, the four major elector families are also constantly setting up clever names and using various "fees" and "special taxes" to absorb the marrow.

And from the dozens of extremely developed industrial worlds in the center of the Star Sea, magic weapons and industrial products produced continuously on a large number of assembly lines poured into the Chiyun Realm like a tide, completely destroying the Chiyun Realm, which was originally rough and backward, but relatively The independent industrial system has firmly tied Chiyunjie to the bottom of the interest chain of the powerful and powerful, and reduced it to an insignificant component on the assembly line.

Five hundred years ago, even though the technology was relatively backward, Chiyunjie could still refine large quantities of crystal armor, armed battle shuttles and even starships by itself, and even one or two of the simplest magic weapon units for star sea jumping.

However, today, on the surface, the various magic weapons used by Chiyun people are more exquisite, gorgeous and powerful, but there is no crystal armor that is Chiyunjie's own brand. All the crystal armor factories in Chiyunjie are all destroyed. The sectarian acquisitions under the four major elector families smashed all the "outdated" assembly lines, and replaced them with brand-new assembly lines with "generous donations and free donations" by the powerful and powerful.

Naturally, the core technologies of these magic weapon assembly lines are all in the hands of those dignitaries in the center of the Star Sea, and will never be known to Chiyun people.

What's more, these magic weapon factories can no longer produce a complete set of crystal armor, they can only refine 5% of the components on the crystal armor, and the remaining 95% have to be shipped from the center of Xinghai, and then assembled on the spot.

As a result, the independent industrial system of Chiyun Realm completely collapsed, lost all bargaining power, and was choked by the powerful and influential people in the center of Xinghai, and became the place where the opponent's magic weapon was dumped and resources were provided.

What's even more sad is that apart from manpower, Chiyun Realm doesn't have any resources that are rich enough to supply the entire empire.

The labor price here has been suppressed to an appalling level. The lords from the Central Star Sea said that they set up the magic weapon factory here because the manpower in Chiyun Realm was cheap and the workers were honest and willing to work. Otherwise, the lords could Clap your ass and leave, open factories in other great worlds, and even replace all human workers with psionic puppets.

They are here to feed the workers, and to do good deeds for the sake of the fellow empire!

When they said these words without shame, these high-spirited gentlemen completely forgot that it was during the century-long dumping that they used all kinds of despicable and shameless tricks to defeat the major sects and magic weapon factories in Chiyun Realm , so that hundreds of millions of workers are destitute and desperate.

It's just that the gentlemen didn't say these words in empty teeth, but sat on the bridge of the heavy cruiser and said these words. Even when they landed on the ground, there was a whole crystal armor battle group around them to "guard the factory", What about the workers in Chiyun Realm?

A strong Chiyun worker worked hard for a year in the magic weapon factory owned by the four major elector families. He vomited blood and even shrank his lungs. Chongyang went to "work" in the entertainment clubs opened by the powerful and powerful in the central Xinghai, and used money full of humiliation and stench to support his family. Such human tragedies abound in the Chiyun world in the past hundreds of years.

The dignitaries and aristocrats in the center of the Star Sea even extended their tentacles to the agricultural field of the Red Cloud Realm, using various secret methods to prepare, genetically improved "spiritual rice, spiritual wheat" and exotic crops to replace the native rice and wheat in the Red Cloud Realm grains.

Because these "spiritual rice and spiritual wheat" are indeed extremely high-yield, have an excellent taste, and are rich in various nutrients and calories. At the beginning, the grain groups controlled by the four major elector families also gave high subsidies, so that those factories Workers who work hard and earn meager wages can only afford the food they provide.

Therefore, the expansion of these foreign grain groups in Chiyun Realm is extremely fast. In just a hundred years, they have annexed the small and medium-sized grain groups in Chiyun Realm itself, and bought large tracts of land from farmers, just like they did to Chiyun Realm a hundred years ago. The magic weapon industrial system of the cloud world did that.

The Chiyun Realm is called "autonomous", but it is a part of the empire after all, and there is no way to formulate independent laws to prevent outsiders from attacking the city. They can only watch these foreign grain groups dominate.

When most of the land and seed sources are controlled by foreign food groups, these guys finally see it. They wield the sword of law and use secret methods to change the genes of spiritual rice and spiritual wheat, so that all seeds can only be harvested. once, but cannot sow again.

In other words, Chiyunjie has lost all its own crop seeds. If it needs to sow seeds, it can only continue to purchase from outside food groups.

Even though the Chiyun people wanted to secretly experiment and cultivate their own excellent seeds, they were surprised to find that the "exotic economic crops" that were gifted to them by foreign groups in the past, allowing them to plant them on a large scale and recover their fruits at high prices, turned out to be It has the effect of greatly changing the composition of the soil!

Polluted by these alien economic crops for a hundred years, the most fertile soil in Chiyun Realm is only suitable for planting seeds from foreign food groups. If other seeds are sown, even if they can sprout, they will only die on a large scale.

At the beginning, outsiders paid a high price to buy the sour and astringent "cash crop fruit" from them. When they said that the rich people in the middle of the Star Sea like to taste this taste the most, the Chiyun people laughed and laughed. The rich people in the middle of the star sea are really strange.

To this day, Chiyun people wake up like a dream, and finally know what this "bitter fruit" is like.

What the rich people in the middle of Xinghai tasted was not the juice of this fruit at all, but the taste of their blood.

This awakening came too late.

From industry to agriculture to the entire cultivation system, Chiyun Realm was invaded and destroyed by outsiders in the center of the Star Sea, and fell into their hands.

Even if the leader of Chiyun Realm still has the nominal "autonomy", what's the point?

This is even worse than outright aggression.

Because after direct aggression, it is necessary to establish a government, which has the obligation to govern and protect the local people.

But now, everything is an economic act, and it is all done by the folk sects. They devoured all the benefits, and all the "obligations" are still on the self-government of the Chiyun Realm, on the heads of those stunned masters.

The life and death of the Chiyun people, they don't care about the affairs of the Central Star Sea, they only care about the "ruthless and oppressive" local lords. Relief supplies, that's all.

Ordinary people in Chiyun Realm lived a life of starvation, precarity, and struggling on the verge of life and death.

And the immortal cultivators in Chiyun Realm are not much better than ordinary people, or even worse.

In the past, when there was an independent industrial and agricultural system, various fields in Chiyun Realm required a large number of immortal cultivators to support them. Immortal cultivators had a very high status and great benefits, and they were indistinguishable toubob.

But now, with the surging tide of foreign capital and technology, the first thing to wash away is the dignity and dreams of the local cultivators.

My sect was overwhelmed by the foreign giants, and I had to swallow my anger and work for the foreign giants, but even if I worked loyally for the rest of my life, and even made my children and grandchildren work for the foreign giants for the third and fifth lifetimes, I was still a country bumpkin in the eyes of others, even a poor country A dog like a dog will never be able to enter the core management of these giants, and the management will always be airborne from the center of Xinghai!

This is the fate of Chiyun immortal cultivators for five hundred years.