Chapter 2269 The Storm Is Unstoppable!

With the addition of millions of disabled veterans, the "Crying Tomb Incident" was completely escalated into a catastrophic storm that swept across the entire planet and even the entire empire.

And when the roar of the storm struck, the Prime Minister of the Real Human Empire, the Patriarch of the Dongfang Family, known as the "Iron-Blooded Prime Minister" Dongfang Wang, was at the Prime Minister's residence not far from the Senate, and aimed at the next year's special defense budget. Have friendly and constructive discussions with the heads of the Departments of Defense, Treasury, and other relevant departments.

To put it bluntly, they are caught in the vortex of numbers, and everyone is arguing!

Dongfangwang has been the prime minister of the empire for twenty years. Many people say that he is the prime minister of power in the empire in recent hundreds of years. The word "iron and blood" is by no means in vain.

Only in this way, Dongfangwang deeply understands how different it is for the prime minister of a huge human empire to coordinate and balance the interests of hundreds of worlds, thousands of resource planets, and countless forces, sects, warlords, and superpowers. easy.

On the bright side, he is an arrogant and domineering official who covers the sky with one hand, and even the glory of the emperor is overshadowed by him.

In fact, the other three major families firmly hold the military power in their hands and form their own systems in their respective territories. The orders from the prime minister's mansion are either obeyed or ignored, and some policies will touch their interests. Even if they just plucked a single hair from them, these people dared to pick up their sabers and fight him with their lives, and even fought in the senate. The two senators fought like rascals in the city!

The other three families are like this, even within the Dongfang family, why do they all listen to him as the "big patriarch"?

The Dongfang family has developed for thousands of years, and naturally there are many mountains and factions inside. There are seven worlds with the most developed heavy industry. Which world does not have a big boss in charge?

These bosses are all high-level or even peak-level figures in the transformation stage, some are his peers, and some are even his elders. He can become the head of the Dongfang family and even the prime minister of the empire because of the strong support of these people. Yes, how could he go all out and touch the interests of these people mercilessly?

Let’s just talk about the special defense budget for next year.

The Empire Strikes Back has lasted for more than ten years, with a total of more than billions of troops, and the occupation of so many new worlds. The accumulation of the national treasury in the past nearly a hundred years has been completely consumed, and the economic conditions of many worlds behind are extremely poor, and famines have even begun to break out in many places.

The war can no longer be fought, and the scale of the expeditionary force is bound to be reduced, but reorganization and disarmament involve a large amount of severance pay, retirement pay, and pensions. There are also many military tickets and shares that have been rewarded long ago, saying It is necessary to cash in after victory, and how to cash in is a big trouble.

Therefore, next year's defense expenditure will not only be indispensable, but will even be higher than in previous years. This can be regarded as "the labor pains of peace".

The problem now is that there is no money. Of course, it is not really that there is no money, but that there is no money in the treasury. The four major elector families still have money, but money belongs to money. How to use money to fill holes? a charter.

Dongfang Wang went to the other three families to get a charter, and the other three families looked at him very obediently, docilely, and obediently, boasting that their Dongfang family is the first family of the empire, rich and powerful, and their wrists are thicker than other families' thighs. The strength is more than twice that of other families, so the Dongfang family is still the one to make up their own minds about this regulation. Anyway, the Dongfang family will take the lead in filling this hole, and when it is almost filled, the other three families will continue to fill in, ensuring that no penny will be lost.

Dongfang Wang couldn't get any money out of it, pointing to their own starships and Colossus soldiers, and said that all the money was spent here to fight the Empire Strikes Back, so how could there be any leftovers?

Dongfangwang gritted his teeth, and went to discuss with the big bosses of his own family. The bigwigs said with beards and stares that Dongfangwang was chosen to be the prime minister at the beginning, and he was asked to do everything he could to get more benefits for the family. Why didn't the benefits come out now? Come on, do you have to pay out by yourself first? Is he the prime minister of the Dongfang family, or the prime minister of the Li and Yun families?

On the opposite side is a boss at the peak of the transformation stage who controls the entire world of heavy industry. Can Dongfang Wang kill him and ransack his home? It's not just negotiable!

After discussing and discussing, the big bosses of my family and other families have the same meaning. As for money and resources, if you dig hard in the cracks, you can still get a little bit of it, but you can't do it for nothing. You have to use the land, property rights, Development rights and management rights are exchanged.

After coming and going, the front line has not ceased fire, and several resource-rich core worlds in the Xinguangfu area have been carved up, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the peripheral worlds of the empire, thinking that their interests have been greatly violated.

So far, things have turned into an inextricable knot.

Without the support of the rich and resourceful interest groups in the four major elector families, the expeditionary force would not be able to complete the reorganization and dismantling smoothly, and the national economy would not be able to recover from the wartime system to the track of peaceful development. Disabled veterans and retired officers are not supported, and sooner or later there will be trouble.

However, the bleeding of these interest groups was at the expense of various rights and interests in the newly restored area, which naturally hurt the interests of many people and classes, and even betrayed the promises made to many local factions before the war. Shen, it is also the recent event of the blood alliance that is going to cause troubles in the world, the rise of the reformist faction, Lei Chenghu's rebellion, all because of this.

Standing in front of such an unsolvable endless loop, the "iron-blooded prime minister" Dongfang Wang also had a splitting headache and was helpless.

Many times he thought of his biggest political enemy, the "Silver Fox" Li Jiande who would not die for a whole hundred years.

A hundred years ago, the "Silver Fox" Li Jiande also served as the prime minister of the empire. He was exhausted in his tenure and became sick from overwork.

Dongfangwang had ridiculed that Li Jiande was really old at that time, why would he look so embarrassed when he became prime minister.

When he himself was roasted on this fire, he realized how hard it is to ride a tiger, and even faintly felt that perhaps Li Jiande's "sickness" is the best choice.

Perhaps, the star sea is too big, and manpower is sometimes poor. Even with the computing power and wisdom of the distracted period, or even the arrival of real gods and demons, there is no way to completely and effectively rule hundreds of worlds?

Or maybe, the boundless sea of ​​stars is still too small to satisfy the chaotic desires of every human being?

It was in such a state of mind that Dongfangwang received the report of the "Crying Tomb Incident".

He stared blankly at the report for a long time, as if he wanted to find clues from every line of dry text, resisted the urge to get angry, and asked the most critical question:

"Even if the generals and students of the Royal Senior Military Academy and the clans living inside and outside the imperial mausoleum were all 'spontaneously gathered', how did so many disabled veterans from the outer world of the empire get into the imperial capital? It's impossible to do it all at once. Xinghai jump, jump directly to the surface of the imperial capital, right?"

Dongfangwang smelled a conspiracy.

Some aides suggested that these people who gathered to cry at the mausoleum were lawless, rebellious, and suspected of treason. Should we send troops to suppress it immediately and arrest all the leaders?

Dongfang Wang glared at the staff member, pondered for a moment, and gave a few instructions.

First, immediately set up an interception line around the imperial tomb, allowing people to leave and not to enter, so as not to allow more people to flood into the imperial tomb.

Second, cut off all the spiritual networks and all communication signals near the imperial tomb to ensure that nothing that happens in the imperial tomb, not a word or a picture, can be leaked to the outside world. Of course, all media still in the imperial tomb must also You must control it, and you must not talk or act indiscriminately.

Third, immediately investigate the source of the millions of disabled veterans. We must find out how they were organized and mixed into the imperial capital as soon as possible. This is the most important thing!

Dongfangwang's response was not untimely.

This kind of standard procedure similar to suppressing riots is also often implemented by the imperial authorities, and it can be said that they are familiar with it.

But this time there were accidents one after another.

The Imperial Mausoleum is the territory of the Royal Forest Army, and there are many clans in the guarding the tomb, and they are all incited at this moment, and they are extremely resistant to the troops of the four major elector families.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, no matter how desolate and miserable the imperial army is, there are still hundreds of old rusty starships.

These starships were pulled into the vacuum of the universe to meet the fleets of the four major elector families. Naturally, they were seeking their own death. Even before others opened fire, they were paralyzed, torn apart, and lost temperature, pressure and weight.

But in the atmosphere, forming a circle around the imperial mausoleum and firmly defending the last piece of land, it is barely possible.

The Imperial Forest Army wanted to protect the disabled veterans, and the disabled veterans shouted the names of Emperor Shenwu and Black Star. The scene was really touching. Even if the fleets and crystal armor battle groups of the four major elector families arrived, what would happen? With the sun in full view and all eyes on, are you going to kill these clans and veterans?

The progress of the spiritual network and the media is also not smooth.

There are four groups that provide spiritual network services for Jitianjie and Tianjixing, and they happen to belong to the four major elector families. Network is the most important infrastructure of modern civilization, and the four elector families are naturally unwilling to be controlled by others in this regard.

With Dongfangwang's order, the Dongfang family's spiritual network service provider instantly disconnected from the Internet, and the other two followed suit, but the spiritual network base station belonging to the Li family remained silent for a long time, and it was still continuously transmitting information from the imperial mausoleum. information.

And the media, too.

The four major elector families all support a lot of media, and it is even said that all the "official media" in the empire have the endorsement of the four elector families, and the entire media is monopolized by the oligarchy.

With such a big event happening, the rest of the media naturally didn't dare to act rashly before receiving instructions from Shangfeng.

However, the many media supported by the Li family were quick to hear the news and released a lot of shocking news first!