The talks went very well.

Of course, Zhao Xinglan understood the thoughts of this envoy of the Shagron Empire, so when he sent a list of gifts and promised to provide the Zilan Empire with armaments and materials at a preferential price in the future, as well as various development resources, she happily gave the promise he wanted as the empress of the empire.

For the nascent Zilan Empire, the best situation is to remain neutral and keep the right and left. And Zhao Xinglan, who has a thirteenth-order mother emperor, is already fully qualified for neutrality. As long as she doesn't make strategic mistakes, this favorable situation will last for quite some time.

The brand-new fleet with a total size of 50,000 is all ships with the technical level of a fourth-level interstellar civilization, and the most important war fortress is already a war weapon that only a fifth-level interstellar civilization can be capable of making. These are all good things that Zhao Xinglan needs at the moment.

“…… How large is it reasonable for an old fourth-level interstellar civilization country to have a military force?" Zhao Xinglan suddenly asked.

Luo Yuan's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "Taking the many vassal countries of our empire as an example, a fourth-level country that has been stable for more than a hundred years has a territory of about a thousand star fields. Natural resources are relatively abundant, the economy is stable and prosperous, and a series of important indicators such as population, education level, and industrialization level are relatively ideal. Such a country can maintain a fleet of two million and about one and a half million army of Exotic Warriors all year round......"

"Due to the relatively complete industrial system, most of the warship equipment can be produced by itself, of course, for various considerations, the rulers will definitely try to purchase a small number of fifth-level interstellar warships and special equipment to be used as the elite military of their own country. ”

"Moreover, the fourth-level countries with strong strength and good foreign relations will more or less have some territories in the Dark Barbarian Star Domain, and they will be able to obtain a lot of additional benefits every year to promote the development of their own countries. ”

Zhao Xinglan bowed slightly, she herself had already read a lot of interstellar civilization development history, combined with the analysis results given by the mother emperor, she could roughly determine the unified galaxy, and it was completely able to refer to the above criteria to develop military strength.

Although with the current situation of the empire's industrial system, all the main battle equipment can only be purchased at present, but she has the mother emperor in her hands, so she doesn't have to worry about being stuck by which force. Moreover, it can ensure that the actual force of the Zilan Empire will directly catch up with the fifth-level interstellar civilization countries.

In this way, after the foundation of the Zilan Empire is solid, she can let the Mother Emperor Legion go to the Dark Barbarian Star Field, easily seize a large territory, and use the rich resources produced there to inject new vitality into the rapid development of the empire.

In the end, Zhao Xinglan hosted a banquet in the imperial palace to entertain Luo Yuan, and when he left, he gave him a purchase list of 100 billion star yuan, so that the other party was satisfied.

With the tacit approval and support of the two super-empires, the rest was much simpler, and after the initial digestion of the newly laid territory, the empire's fleet struck again two months later. It took more than three months to advance from the third cantilever arm of the Milky Way to the first spiral arm, and then bulldoze some scattered small star clusters and star belts nearby.

During this period, the imperial fleet did not encounter any decent resistance at all, and many small forces simply surrendered on their own initiative, so after half a year, when Zhao Xinglan's personal strength broke through the eleventh order, the Zilan Empire had actually completed the reunification of the galaxy.

Her Majesty the Empress now has a territory of 1,200 star fields, more than 7,000 administrative planets, millions of resource planets, and a total population of more than 35 trillion. In terms of scale, it already belongs to the standard fourth-level interstellar civilization country.

It can be said that she is the human with the highest career achievements since the birth of human civilization in this era, of course, in terms of connotation, this nascent galactic empire is still far behind, and it needs to go through many years of persistent internal affairs construction to live up to its name.

However, with the support of foreign powers, and Zhao Xinglan is no longer short of development funds, this development process will be greatly shortened.

In the well-documented historical records, there have been many generations of civilizations before and after the Milky Way, and there have been a total of 16 completely unified records except for those warring states era. In the most glorious of these, the Empire occupied hundreds of large galaxies in and around the Milky Way, radiating hundreds of millions of light-years away and lasting tens of thousands of interstellar years.

It's just that the alternation of rise and fall, reincarnation and decline is the supreme law of providence, and no matter how powerful an empire is, it will one day go into decline. These countries, which were once prominent in history and developed brilliant civilizations, have been lost in the long river of time, leaving only history books and a few relics for later generations to mourn.

And the Zilan Empire is the seventeenth unified Galactic Empire, and Zhao Xinglan is fully confident that the country born in his hands will go one step further and be promoted to a fifth-level interstellar civilization country in the near future.

As for the sixth-level interstellar civilization, there are too many harsh conditions required, and even an ultimate form of the mother emperor is not enough to support such an imperial foundation, so he has to find another opportunity.

A month later, under the joint recommendation of the Blue Dome Empire and the Shagrons Empire, the Zilan Empire successfully passed the assessment and became a member of the Human Civilization Alliance.

The so-called Alliance of Human Civilizations is somewhat similar in form to the United Nations on the earth, and is composed of a large number of human countries and regions. It's just that the scale is much larger, and the authority of the alliance's leadership is quite heavy, and it is a place that speaks entirely by strength.

The original intention of the establishment of this alliance was to unite all human civilization countries and power organizations to jointly deal with the challenges of other powerful alien intelligent civilizations in the Star Ocean World.

After hundreds of thousands of interstellar years of development, this alliance currently has fifteen sixth-level interstellar civilization nations, as well as four super organizations of equal strength, which together constitute the dominant class of the alliance. Its status is equivalent to that of the five permanent members of the United Nations.

Next is more than two hundred fifth-level interstellar civilization countries and dozens of power organizations of equal strength, and thousands of fourth-level interstellar civilization countries, which are the indispensable backbone of this super alliance.

As for the countries and organizations further down, there are too many to count, except for a very small number of well-developed third-level interstellar civilizations, most of them are not even qualified to join the alliance, and can only exist as vassal forces of great powers.

According to the charter of the alliance, once a large-scale bloody war breaks out between human civilization and foreign civilization, all human countries must contribute troops and contribute one-tenth of their financial expenditures to the war.

In order to compete for living space and defend the fundamental interests of human civilization, there have been more than 100 overall racial wars in history. Due to the advantage of population size, coupled with the warlike nature, most of the time it ended in the victory of the alliance, making the overall strength and influence of human civilization in the Star Sea World more and more great.

(End of chapter)