Chapter 775: No Traitor, some Jokes to Insult Du

Actors is the kind of person who people often say does not show his emotions. He can hide his emotions very well and is getting better and better at it.

In the process of dealing with the imperial prince, Jacob Kang, a member of the Umojan Council, has said in private many times that Arcturus Mengsk has been smiling since he was born, and even the shadow guards of the Protectorate cannot take off his mask.

When Augustus sent his officials away and looked over there, Arcturus's face was obviously not tense.

This powerful figure in the empire who is deeply trusted by the emperor is not without any emotions, but he is very good at hiding them. Arcturus still has his moments of rage, and usually his revenge will only come faster than his anger.

Arcturus's surprise is understandable. He is actually quite satisfied with his son, but he has never really understood him.

After killing the old federal elders, the Mengsk royal family is the largest noble family. As the next generation with high hopes, Valerian received a carefully planned elite education since he was young. Most of the people he met were either rich or noble, so he had a broad vision and was not surprised by praise or criticism.

Valerian is a qualified heir cultivated under this education system. He is polite and elegant. He occasionally does not realize his arrogant attitude towards others, but he is never arrogant, which is really precious.

In the past, if the old federal nobles did not have a strict family tradition, no matter how good the education was, they could only cultivate a bunch of useless things.

However, perhaps because of the delicate relationship between father and son, Valerian was always a little restrained in front of his father. Who knew that he secretly read the quotations of Augustus the Great, and when he wrote private letters, he not only quoted classics and talked a lot, but also included a lot of sharp comments on some senior generals of the empire. This must have come from his own mouth.

There is no doubt that this was influenced by Augustus, considering that Jim Raynor was almost the second person Valerian admired, and this person was not a serious person, and his speech was full of witty sentences, which was also related.

Arcturus almost suspected that there was also the influence of the villain Tychus Finley. Letting this dissolute scum live in this world may be the most wrong decision he has ever made in his life. The old team of the devils in heaven are farmers' sons, soldiers, criminals and even drug addicts, and have nothing to do with noble gentlemen.

The emperor's war room has never been really quiet. After a while, Imperial Senator Corbin Fash walked in.

Corbin's son Colin has been detected to have a strong psychic talent, and now he is seeking to let Colin enter the Ghost Academy in Tarsonis.

The function of the academy has now been separated from the Korhal Ghost Academy, mainly recruiting students with rare and special psychic talents, such as flame energy and mechanical induction. They will also provide excellent talents proficient in telepathy to the Imperial Judiciary to examine internal espionage, rebellion and conspiracy to subvert, and handle criminal cases, major cases and important cases.

If it were in the old Federation era, even the parliamentarians could not stop the members of the Ghost Project from taking their children away. But in the era of Augustus, psychic power has been more openly promoted by the Imperial Government, and it is not demonic. After all, the Empress of the Empire is a real telepath, and may also be the most powerful human known.

However, Corbin did not come here today to take the back door. As a parliamentarian elected by votes, even if his political views are shit before being recognized by the Emperor of the Empire, he does represent the interests of the people in the constituency.

Today Corbin came to the planet of Martell, which lives on mineral resources. Like other worlds, Martell hopes that his representatives in the Imperial Parliament can seek rights and interests for them, or get certain policy preferences.

They usually get what they want.

At this time, Arcturus sat beside the emperor and read his son's letter, pretending that he was reading the war report from the front, and occasionally had a glass of wine.

If Valerian was here now, Arcturus would probably criticize him a few words: You fought the battle wrongly, it should be like this and so on.

Old Monk's thinking is different. If the child has not been forged into steel, then he has not been beaten enough. He doesn't mind beating his son up personally to make him remember it, so as not to suffer at the hands of others.

But since Augustus asked him to read Valerian's letter, there must be a reason for it, and Arcturus really wanted to know his son's experience at the front, so he patiently read on:

Letter of November 17.

Dear Uncle Augustus, the communication base station between Tulasis II and Khar that was damaged by the fierce battle has been repaired, so I got the opportunity to send you the letter I wrote before.

We have rested in Tulasis. The personnel and materials have been transported from the huge industrial worlds of Korhal, Tarsonis and Moria through countless transfers.

Sun Tzu said that the military is a major event for a country, a place of life and death, and a way of survival and destruction.

This is an unprecedented grand occasion. I think there has never been such a scene in any previous era. Countless candidate officers, recruits and whole ships of power armor were unloaded in Braddock. Most of them are as young as me. They grew up in the ten years after the establishment of the Empire. The concept of the old Federation has become increasingly vague to these people.

Based on intelligent servers and transformation modules, the Imperial transport ships transport large mechas that are folded and packed like shipping containers, just to save space for carrying more armaments. Every new train car produced by Moria is filled with supplies and sent directly to the front line.

Speaking of Braddock, I think you should still have some impression. When you served in Tulasis, Braddock was just a small town, but now it is a huge city with millions of people.

It was the construction contractors of Korhal who changed all this. Then the arms company also built factories here, and other companies and individual merchants serving soldiers also began to move in. To this day, Braddock's military supply factory is still producing a large number of military uniforms, bedding and other necessities. In addition, the materials stored here have always been maintained at a very high level, but the ones I have seen are enough for my legion to use for more than ten years.

This helps to improve our morale.

The opening of the fertile new world, the new agricultural policy that encourages reclamation, and the progress of science and technology ensure that our people will no longer go hungry. Nowadays, few people join the army just for lack of food and clothing, but even someone like me who has never worried about food and drink since birth can't help but feel relieved when seeing such abundant reserves.

Your decision always makes sense.

The people of Braddock still remember you. There are still statues of the Heavenly Devils Squad and the vulture car that is said to have been driven by Emperor Augustus.

When recalling a great man, every word he said and every place he went to. In Braddock, I heard that since a brothel in Tarsonis claimed that the current Majesty had visited there, the business there has been booming almost overnight, and all the prostitutes in Tarsonis have become pretentious and must do things according to royal standards.

Below is a note from Augustus: From the perspective of the person involved, this is a rumor. I went there to get Tychus out and never really went in, and Raynor and Hank can testify for me. As we all know, Tychus is a jerk. I spent more money on this bastard than I did on my wife, and he is most useful when we fight in the tavern.

Arcturus saw this and looked at the date. He suddenly remembered that it was no wonder that Augustus suddenly called Governor Tarsonis out of bed and scolded him one day. When the confused governor personally led people to search the house and kill the witnesses the next day, he was shaking all over when he saw the plaque of the so-called Royal Strip Club.     However, Valerian only mentioned it and didn't know the truth of the matter. He didn't even know what kind of shock this incident caused in the empire, because there was no such thing as a legal brothel in the imperial law, so this was illegal, not to mention the felony of openly insulting the royal family.

Valerian had no burden when writing letters to his uncle, and there was no barrier. He just wrote whatever he thought of. Then he mentioned:

We received an order on this day that the Zerg appeared in Innisfree and needed an experienced Imperial Marines to perform the cleanup mission.

Well, I applied many times to go to Aiur battlefield or other more dangerous star regions, but all my applications were eventually ignored.

I think it has something to do with my father. He may be afraid that if I die, no one will inherit his title. But like you, I have no interest in inheriting the family business. I will create my own great cause.

November 30.

Our navy colleagues always have a bitter irony when naming their transport ships. "Angel of Peace" does not bring peace, and "Blonde Beauty" is full of men, just like wings are not always birds, but also magical girls.

This trip was not pleasant. The ship I took, the Space Express, was well named. It was built twenty years before the establishment of the Empire. It was old and broken, and it was as slow as a sprinting snail when it flew.

My subordinates thought that the Navy must have better ships, but they were jealous of the Marines and refused to give them to me.

Maybe it was because of the climate and climate. I got sick on the ship, a regional viral infection, but fortunately it was not contagious or fatal, but it was painful.

During my illness, I missed you, Uncle Augustus, my grandparents, my mother, my aunt, Louis and Charlotte.

I lay on the deck, half asleep for most of the day, talking nonsense, telling many embarrassing stories, and sleeping like a peaceful dead person for the rest of the time.

Unfortunately, I didn't recover until the ship arrived at Innisfree. By the time I really started to recover, the battle on the planet was already over.

My troops won a victory with almost no losses. For me, the commander of this unit, the trick was simple: do nothing.

The battle was not very bumpy. Innisfree was a newly reclaimed world. We didn't have much power there, but the Zerg didn't either.

In addition, the local residents were the most tenacious I had ever seen. They relied on fortifications and only used the Femaro SMG submachine guns and a few flamethrowers urgently issued by the colonial government to resist the incoming Zerg, which greatly consumed the enemy's strength. So when we, the regular troops of the Empire, arrived, the victory was almost easy.

My father once said in a speech that if the army and the people work together, they can defeat all enemies. He likes to say nice things, but no one can say he is wrong.

See, it is easy for me to win such a battle. By analogy, I also have the ability to be a general.

General Duke's most well-known saying in the Battle of Zev III was "Kill them", which was also the most important and only correct order he issued in the entire battle.

Seeing this again, Arcturus couldn't help shaking his head.

In fact, Duke had no problem with professional military literacy. In a sense, he was a giant in tactics and a dwarf in strategy. On the other hand, Duke lacked the ability to adapt to changes, refused to be flexible, and only played cards in a fixed order, which meant that people like Renault, who came from a wild background and did not play cards according to common sense in war, could often beat him to a pulp.

Therefore, Augustus would not give Duke command of a large fleet like Warfield and Horner, but he was still capable enough to command a smaller fleet.

In fact, Duke often lost battles in the past only because his opponents were tough guys like Augustus, Renault, Prior and UED. If he was really useless, he would have been fired by Augustus long ago.

If the petty General Edmund Duke heard what Valerian said, he would be red-faced and angry.

However, even Arcturus, who has been in Korhal for many years, knows that making up stories about Duke is an old tradition in the Imperial Army. The people who like to do this the most are Renault Tykes and his gang. The jokes they made to insult Duke are now very popular in the entire army.

For example:

General Duke claimed to everyone that he had experienced more than 30 major battles while defending Tarsonis, and the Tarsonis were the last to know about it.

Marshal Horner, who wrote teaching materials for the military academy, sat through a night and finally found a victory of General Duke. He was overjoyed and looked for the source and found that it was said by himself.

So the marshal had to write a negative teaching material, which was a great success.

Which is the thinnest hero biography in the Terran Empire? Answer: General Duke's glorious deeds.

General Duke prayed to the omnipotent God for victory, and God was horrified and asked him to convert to Allah overnight.

If each Imperial soldier particularly disliked an officer or general, he would replace Duke's name with that of the other party.

Duke's collection of bad jokes was so popular in the Imperial Army that it was said that their Daram Protoss allies also translated their own version with the original intention of academic research, but this news has never been confirmed.

However, no matter who it was, it would never dare to mention this matter in front of Duke himself.

Fortunately, General Duke was unusual in that he always felt extremely good about himself and never doubted these things. At the same time, he had an extremely aggressive personality and was full of energy. After all, not everyone could remain ambitious and confident after being defeated so many times.

Duke would be the kind of vicious dog your neighbor likes to keep the most. Even if someone dares to damage a piece of grass in the empire or rub off a layer of paint, no matter whether he can beat him or not, he will jump out to fight you to death in the name of the Terran Empire and the Emperor. You can't leave unless you kill me. (End of this chapter)