Chapter 2698 The Sword of the Holy League Seals the Throat!
Li Yao was full of anger, but he couldn't express it. Thinking about it carefully, the current Xinguangfu area is like a hot potato, and no one will feel comfortable if it falls into anyone's arms.
The two emperors supported by the reformist faction and the four major elector families are vying for the legitimacy and legitimacy of the supreme throne of the empire, and as a real human empire that "preys on the weak and the strong respects martial arts", illustrious martial arts are orthodox and legal If Li Jialing loses a large area of land just after taking the throne, it will indeed disappoint hundreds of millions of people, and even make countless powerful people change camps.
The guys from the four major elector families have something to say—why a year ago, when the Xinguangfu area was still under the control of the four major families, it was so impenetrable and indestructible. Was it broken by the Holy League?
It is okay to say that the enemy has occupied several Great Thousand Worlds, but it is not a traitor to sell the country if you have to voluntarily withdraw from dozens of Great Thousand Worlds without even firing a single shot. Such serious political consequences will even lead to the collapse of the newly born innovative regime, which no one can afford.
"I have to say that the timing of the holy alliance is too good."
Lei Chenghu said with a gloomy face, "I thought that they would come out when the Battle of the Seven Seas and the Battle of the Imperial Capital were in full swing, but I didn't expect them to be able to bear it so much, and they insisted on waiting until the new king came to the throne, and the empire appeared" Shuangri Lingkong ', only when the two emperors confronted each other.
"Shuangsun volleys in the sky, and the confrontation between the two emperors means that the reformists and the four major families have no room for compromise. They must eliminate each other. It is impossible to join forces to fight against the members of the Holy League!"
Li Yao was silent and had to admit that Lei Chenghu was right.
In a country with the highest imperial power like the True Human Empire, even powerful ministers like the four major electors have to exercise their power through the imperial power, so they are particularly sensitive to the imperial power.
To put it bluntly, they can even compromise on the road - for example, Lei Chenghu, a cultivator of immortality, can also temporarily cooperate with a cultivator of truth, Li Yao.
After all, the Star Federation represented by Li Yao does not have an emperor, only a "speaker", and the relationship between the speaker and the emperor can be vague and perfunctory. It doesn't matter if the federation is a "special administrative region". Regardless of the Dominion of the Black Wind King, in short, it will not jeopardize the glory of the imperial power.
During the Battle of the Imperial Capital and the Battle of the Seven Seas, the reformers and the four major families had not yet elected their respective emperors. No matter how fierce the struggle was, there was still room for compromise and harmony.
If at that time the main force of the Holy League came out with great fanfare, maybe under the pressure of strong military pressure, the reformists and the four major families would temporarily truce, share the same hatred, and unite to the outside world?
This is a situation that the Holy League members never want to see.
But now, both sides have established their own emperors, so they can only kill one soldier and wipe out the other party completely. Even if they know that the main force of the Holy League is watching, there is no way to stop.
"Of course the members of the Holy League know how to choose the best time, because the entire empire has been infiltrated by them, and their secret spies are everywhere. Information about the military, politics, and economy of the empire is coming every day. A steady stream of things are flowing into the Holy League, and we, the Demon Hunter Association, can't catch them no matter what."
It was Long Yangjun who spoke.
She can be regarded as a "minister of the dragon" who has made great contributions to the establishment of the new king, so she naturally regained her original status and became her "President of the Demon Hunter Association" as usual. The leader, Yue Wushuang, was involved in Wu Yingqi's conspiracy. She was secretly investigated and assigned to the second line, making her temporarily the controller of the largest secret service in the empire.
However, the fake name "Dongfang Mingyue" does not need to be used anymore. Anyway, "Dongfang" is not a very popular surname among the reformers. The big family changed their names and surnames due to the evil rule, stayed dormant for decades, made great contributions, and so on.
Now, Long Yangjun's main job is to deal with the secret spies of the Holy League who infiltrated the empire. Because of her special blood and inheritance, this job is very handy, like a fish in water.
Li Yao had seen the horror of the secret spies of the Holy League in the Kunlun Secret Realm more than a hundred years ago. They have no emotions themselves, but can simulate the most vivid emotions of human beings. They cheated again and again.
The decay and decline of the empire itself and the rule of darkness have created the best conditions for the breeding of secret agents of the Holy League. It can even be said that for the people living in the bloody mud at the bottom of the empire, if there is no avenue of cultivation and innovation If the road can be chosen, it is not a bad idea to choose to go to the Holy League!
Therefore, there are so many secret spies of the Holy League in the empire, and they are inexhaustible, causing extremely serious harm.
Conversely, because of the characteristics of the social structure of the Holy League and the evil of "the way of the best, the three original principles", it is difficult for imperial agents to break into the Holy League.
In the past, it was not that the imperial military had never selected agents with clean backgrounds, strong will, and powerful abilities to infiltrate the Holy League, but almost none of the agents could withstand the repeated brainwashing of the Holy League. Instead, he confessed many core secrets of the empire, which made the empire lose more than it gained.
Because of the characteristics of the members of the Holy League, even if they have fought against each other for thousands of years, the imperial people still don't know much about the internal situation of the Holy League. Apart from the simple social structure, army composition and technical strength, many deeper areas are still big. A large piece of blank space - this is also an important reason why the Holy League people have been able to deal with the empire for thousands of years with a relatively remote world and poor resources, and still stand firm.
"In short, in the struggle for righteousness and fame, we have no possibility of compromise with the four major families. No matter how rampant the attacks of the Holy League members are, the original crusade plan must still be carried out as scheduled!"
Lei Chenghu slammed the table heavily, and said stiffly, "As the saying goes, 'No joke', when His Majesty ascended the throne, he personally issued the "Mobilization Order for Rebellion" to the whole world, how could he abolish it without a fight, making everyone laugh What’s more, our army has been making corresponding military preparations for the past six months, and now that the arrow is on the line, we have to launch it. Even if there is an abyss in front of us, we will only fill it with the corpses of soldiers from the empire!”
Li Yao silently knew that the battle between the reformists and the four major families must be fought.
This is not just the words "You have no jokes", but also involves a deeper level of military, political and even the spread of the concept of governing the country.
On the one hand, the four big families are centipedes, dead but not stiff. They are desperately licking the wounds caused by the Battle of the Seven Seas and the Battle of the Imperial Capital. They are recovering every day and becoming stronger than yesterday.
In time, after they healed the wound, it would be even more difficult to deal with.
On the other hand, and more importantly, Li Jialing's just released "Amnesty Order" and "Abolition of Slavery Order", including a series of more enlightened and benevolent policies of the reformers, are all based on the corpses of the four major families!
Abolition of slavery is not a simple word. Li Yao, Long Yangjun, Xiaoming and Wenwen are building a "Future Technology Demonstration City" in the former big iron factory area under Tianjixing ", then how much infrastructure funds will be invested? The initial investment of a large iron factory alone is astronomical. Looking at the entire empire, how many subterraneans are waiting for rescue, and how many "big iron factories" need to be renovated and rebuilt?
Li Yao is a cultivator, of course ten thousand people support the innovation movement of the empire, but he can't squeeze out the oil from the bones of the revolutionary cultivators like Lei Chenghu, Li Linghai and Li Jialing, they are really sincere now If you are willing to make innovations, what about the money? If you don’t kill the four major families and boil oil from the fat corpses, where will the money come from?
Without money, the so-called "Amnesty Order", "Abolition of Slavery Order" and a series of reform policies that will be rolled out one after another have become empty papers or even a joke, which is bound to shake the foundation of the reformers and interrupt the innovation of the empire progress, and even reversed, which ultimately threatened the national interests of Star Federation.
Therefore, Li Yao could only agree with Lei Chenghu's opinion - even if the army of the Holy Alliance really turned the new recovery area upside down, the "battle against rebellion" against the four major families is still imperative!
"So, we are going to fight on two fronts?"
Li Yao looked at the map of the star field behind Lei Chenghu and said, "Do you want to face the military pressure from the Holy League and the four major families at the same time?"
"Yes, ideally—"
Lei Chenghu said, "If the Expeditionary Army can find a way to delay the advance of the Holy League in the new recovery area, and the Rebel Army under my command can destroy the last fighting force of the four major families with a thunderous force. If you are not a soldier, then you can calmly return to the defense and attack the main force of the Holy League."
"But since the members of the Holy League chose such a delicate time to appear, they obviously won't sit back and watch us solve the four major families."
This time it was Li Linghai who spoke, and she coughed lightly, and said, "I doubt whether the target of the Holy League is the newly liberated area - if they really only want these dozens of Great Thousand Worlds, then a few years Before that, they would not voluntarily withdraw, and implemented the 'scorched earth strategy' to turn hundreds of rich planets into ruins.
"Such scorched earth ruins, even if they fall into their hands again, is there any point?
"The Marquis of Liao Hai once inferred in his report to the Senate that the members of the Holy League were implementing a grand strategy of 'complete all their achievements in one battle'. I very much agree. If this is the case, the goal of the Holy Leaguers will not be the new recovery area It's as simple as the expeditionary army, and it may even be - under our feet, the imperial capital!
"That's right, skipping the hundreds of Great Thousand Worlds in the middle, and going straight to the heart of the empire's most fortified defenses, sounds like an incredible suicide strategy, which is absolutely impossible in normal times.
"However, now, our army must mobilize most of its forces to fight against the rebellion of the four major families, and the remaining forces have to be scattered in dozens of worlds in the newly restored area. During the decisive battle, the imperial capital will be in an unprecedentedly weak state, and that is the best time for the Holy League members to seal their throats with a sword!"