Liang Tian remembered that in his previous life, Lanxing had a very interesting idiom "a blind man touches an elephant".

Elephants are so large that it is difficult for a blind person to imagine the full picture of an elephant when they touch it with their hands. But Liang Tian has always felt that there is another explanation for this idiom, "When a behemoth appears in front of you, no one can ignore it, not even the blind."

Right now, the Elven Empire is like this for the True God Cult.

In the beginning, when the power of the True God Cult was limited to the bottom, the arrogant rulers of the Elven Empire could not detect it. Because these arrogant rulers disdained to bow their noble heads.

But as time passed quietly, the size of the True God Cult began to swell, and even if they were still unwilling to bow their noble heads, the True God Cult would inevitably enter the field of vision of these arrogant rulers.

Now, faced with such a behemoth that spans two-thirds of the empire's cities and villages. The rulers who are high above, such as members of the Imperial Diet or the Prime Minister of the Empire, have also had to be cautious and cautious about the organization.

But will they allow this organization that has risen from the bottom of the sludge to share their precious power with them? Of course not.

Therefore, Lin Shui didn't know that when he was ambitiously planning to extend the tentacles of the True God Sect to those elven mages. At the highest level of the Elven Empire, the Emperor, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Elven Empire are trying to figure out how to eliminate them.

"The quickest way to kill your opponent is to pierce the elf's heart with a sharp blade, and then chop off the elf's head with an axe. In this way, the enemy will die in an instant, and there will not even be time to struggle!"

The Imperial Prime Minister of the Elven Empire now looked at his emperor and the speaker who was on his equal, and said such a thing with a murderous face. And when the middle-aged prime minister said this, the meaning contained in his words was naturally obvious. With regard to this "cult," which has developed somehow, the prime minister obviously advocates the implementation of decapitation tactics.

That is, to draw the elite forces of the Empire and attack the headquarters of the True God in Lando City and Orred City before the True God can make preparations. However, the intelligence officers of the Elven Empire have already investigated for their rulers, and they know that Lando City and Orred City are the two most important hubs of the True God Cult.

"As long as our army exterminates the cult members in these two cities in the shortest possible time, the cult members in the other cities will immediately lose their command. In this way, we will deal with them as easily as a corpse. ”

The middle-aged prime minister spoke eloquently, and he obviously did not take the True God Cult in his eyes. So his tone was light-hearted, not like dealing with a behemoth with hundreds of thousands of formal members, but like discussing how to slaughter a lamb.

So after he said that, his strategy was immediately met with the Speaker's objection. Unlike the prime minister of the Elven Empire, who is in the prime of life in middle age, the current speaker of this imperial parliament is already an old elf with white hair.

Therefore, his thoughts and thoughts are more cautious and conservative than those of the prime minister. So at this moment, he coughed lightly and said, "Prime Minister, you think everything is too simple.

This Cult of God is not a lamb to be slaughtered, they are a behemoth that spans two-thirds of the empire and has hundreds of thousands of adherents. And according to the intelligence officers of the Empire, this group had been building up its own armament years earlier.

At the grassroots level of the Empire, countless wandering samurai are in their service. In addition to the wandering samurai, they also bribed a large number of serving samurai and officials with money.

Even in some cities of the Empire, even the city lords appointed by His Majesty the Emperor were their followers. These people swear allegiance to their organization, and they have a strong centripetal force.

Therefore, if we act rashly, a terrible civil war awaits us. At that time, the flames of war will spread to two-thirds of the empire in an instant. And once such a situation becomes a reality, it may bring a fatal blow to the empire!"

The Speaker of the House said with a solemn face. Therefore, after hearing his words, the face of the emperor, who was about forty years old, suddenly became gloomy.

However, the old speaker didn't care about this. He only paused slightly, and then continued to talk eloquently: "If we want to avoid a large-scale civil war, we should slowly plan for this True God Cult.

The mages of the Empire are still pure, and they have not been corrupted by the Cult of the True God. We can now mobilize the power of the mages in the country to clear the cities that have been corrupted by the True God Cult.

Once all the corrupted cities have been cleared, we'll deal a fatal blow to the Cult of God. That's the right thing to do. ”

"Hahaha, it's ridiculous!"

The Speaker's words made the Prime Minister laugh angrily. But after sneering at him, he stared at the speaker in front of him with his eyes and said, "Elder, if you follow your suggestion, do you know how long it will take us to destroy this so-called True God Cult? Is it one year or two years, or five years and ten years?"

"No matter how long it takes, we can always achieve our goals safely and smoothly. This involves the life and death of hundreds of thousands of elves, how can you not be cautious!" The speaker also widened his eyes, and at this time he was not at ease.

So after the two of them glared at each other angrily for a while, they had no choice but to turn their gaze to their emperor.

And His Majesty, the Emperor of the Elven Empire in front of him, his name is Estelle Morningstar. He was the fourteenth Emperor of the Morning Star Family, and had been on the throne for twenty years.

As such, he is definitely a mature politician. After all, I have lived in such an environment since I was a child, and I have been exposed to it since I was a child, and then I have a twenty-year career as an emperor. Then as long as there are no intellectual and character defects, it is enough to be self-taught in political matters.

So when both of them turned their eyes to him, he first pretended to think about it. But in the end, he still unsurprisingly supported his prime minister. After all, compared to the Imperial Parliament, which constrained the imperial power, the prime minister, whose power came from the emperor, was his own person. Then in such an important matter, the emperor naturally has to support his own people.

The old speaker was not surprised by this, as a qualified politician, he had long known what the emperor would choose. But this does not prevent him from arguing for this, otherwise, how can he seek other interests for himself.

So, what the three of them were going to discuss was just beginning. The Emperor of the Elven Empire has already achieved a victory, and the proposal of the Imperial Chancellor has been approved. But in order to turn the prime minister's proposal into reality, the emperor would have to make concessions on other fronts.

You can't have it both ways. Compromise is a necessity in politics.

It's just that the emperor's concession is a concession to the parliament, or to the speaker himself, or both. It's up for discussion again.

Because of this, the Emperor, the Prime Minister, and the Speaker, the three elves argued for a full day. Then, three more days later, the plan proposed by the Imperial Prime Minister was submitted to the Imperial Diet.

Then the parliament debated it for seven more days, and the prime minister's proposal was passed with difficulty.

But neither the emperor, nor the prime minister, nor the speaker, could have thought of it. Even before the Prime Minister's plan was submitted to the Parliament, the True God Cult had already received the news. So with Lin Shui's order, the True God Sect, which was already a behemoth, was ready early.

Under the personal auspices of the Prime Minister of the Elven Empire, the Royal Mage Regiment, which numbered only eight hundred, was mobilized by three hundred. So the 8,000 guards who were directly loyal to the emperor were mobilized with 3,000 men.

Each of these guards soldiers was a samurai who had received military training from an early age. So each of them was armed with gorgeous armor, sharp swords and spears.

Then the 3,300 elves were divided into two teams. One team of 2,200 men went to attack Lando, and the other team of 1,100 men was responsible for attacking Orient.

Both teams operate at the same time. So on the third day after the Imperial Diet approved the Prime Minister's plan, the two armies stormed the slums of the two cities at the same time.

They thought that a fierce war awaited them in the slums, but they did not think, "Nothing!"

In the slums of Landau City, the elven archmage who led the team blasted open the door of the True God Cult's headquarters with a fire blast. However, the so-called headquarters compound was indeed empty, and there was no one in it.

This made the face of the elven archmage who led the team sink, and he immediately knew that the news had leaked.

"What should we do, are we going to return like this?" asked an assistant beside the archmage with a gloomy face. The face of the elven archmage, who had made his already calm face, couldn't help but become more ugly at this time.

Now, he hated to raze the huge courtyard and the entire slum in front of him. But the reality obviously did not allow the archmage to do this, so he had to grit his teeth and say: "Search, give me an inch by inch search." I don't believe that those damn guys are going to suddenly disappear from the world. ”

The archmage said this, but he had no faith in his heart. After all, if he thinks about it from another perspective, if he is a member of the True God Sect, how can he continue to stay in Lando City at this time.

The reason why the archmage who led the team is still doing this is just to make a show, so that he can communicate to the top.

But what happened after that proved him right. Heavily armed warriors centered around the compound and searched almost a third of the slums. But nothing was found.

These low-level elves living in the slums of Lando City look no different from the most ordinary oppressed low-level people. Whether it's the look, the physique, or the way they look at them.

Therefore, after searching around, the samurai were all disgraced. When they first entered the slums, they didn't feel anything, but now, they were fed up with the environment. There are no sewers in the slums, so even walking down the streets can be seen everywhere with filthy excrement. As the guards who belonged directly to the emperor walked through the muddy and dirty streets, they felt like they were walking on a dung heap.

Therefore, after the samurai searched casually, the archmage also gave the order to retreat with a gloomy face. The samurai of the Guards could not tolerate the conditions in the slums, and the mages of much higher status than the samurai naturally found it even more unbearable.

So they left a few hours later, swearing. The archmage who led the team also had a gloomy face, and he understood that returning in vain would definitely attract the dissatisfaction of the prime minister and the emperor. So he's thinking about how to shift that responsibility.

"Judging from the actual situation, it is certainly impossible for the news to leak from me. After all, I just got the news three days ago. That being said, the news is most likely leaked from the Parliament. Oh, then put all the responsibility on them. ”

The archmage who led the team muttered like this, and he already had a plan in his heart about how to explain to him.

So after a few more days, a long tussle began. The Prime Minister of the Reich openly rebuked the Reichstag, saying that "there are traitors hiding in the Reich who have betrayed the interests of the Reich, and all members of the Reichstag must be examined!"

But this accusation naturally angered all the members of the Reichstag at once, and even they knew that the Prime Minister's accusation was not groundless. But if it is scrutinized, how can parliament and parliamentarians maintain their existing detachment?

Politically, this precedent cannot be set in any way. For once such a precedent was set, the entire Imperial Assembly would be completely reduced to a vassal of the Emperor.

So in the next step, the council naturally adopted the skill of beating a rake. In order to get rid of the suspicion of their own people, they began to turn around and blame the prime minister for leaking the news.

When the prime minister heard this, he couldn't help but scold at the moment. As a result, the two sides naturally entered the stage of mutual abuse and blame for each other. And when they entered this stage, the two sides began to oppose for the sake of opposition.

For a while, the center of the entire Elven Empire became a miasma. So in the end, in order to get everything back on track, the emperor had to come forward in person and deal with the city lord of Lando City and the city lord of Oride, which had nothing to do with this matter, so that the turmoil could be calmed down.

But the dismissed city lords of Lando City and the city lords of Oride are not really innocent, and things always happened under their rule. Therefore, the emperor of the Elven Empire had wanted to deal with them for a long time, and now he just had an excuse.

However, this also responded to that sentence, the eldest and the second child fought, but it was the third child who was killed.

But in the present, "weakness is the original sin". Now Lin Shui has understood this truth, so he decided to change his strategy, "I have to show my fangs, so that the same thing will not continue to happen." ”