Russia's long winter has made the world extremely quiet, and Soviet Russia, which is actively seeking peace negotiations, is certainly not willing to fail, and is also organizing a larger defense line in the Volga River basin, hoping to use the wide Volga River to block the iron hooves of the empire.

Russia is a very magical place.

Many people think that Russia is a cold place, but in fact it is not as serious as imagined, take Moscow as an example, the average temperature throughout the year is similar to Harbin, but the extremely low temperature will be lower.

As long as you can adapt to the climate of the Northeast, you will have no problem adapting to Russia.

Russia is a larger eastern province, and the land is vast and boundless, especially in the European part of Russia, and the land of 2,500 kilometers from Moscow to Novosibirsk, which is completely endless plains and fertile land.

In Russia, there is no such thing as a bottom line of arable land, and its arable land is the largest in the world, so much so that most of the arable land can be protected for pastoral development.

It is also a very strange thing that the Soviet Union was able to toss a food crisis on such a vast plain, and of course, in the era of the republic, there was also the tragedy of a three-year crisis.

It's really too big, and the resources are too abundant.

Russia has the world's most extensive forestry and water resources, and its diamond ore reserves are several times that of other countries in the world.

Before the development of oil in the Middle East, the Soviet Union had about half of the world's oil production capacity in just one oil region in the Baku region of the Caucasus, supplying the oil needs of the whole of Europe, in exchange for funds to import machinery and equipment from the United States and Europe, in exchange for the rapid development of heavy industry.

Even in the Russian era after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia did not have to worry about basic industrial resources such as coal, iron, copper, lead, and oil, and its own resources could be used for hundreds of years with its industrial scale and production capacity needs.

This is very different from the contemporaneous republics.

If some people look down on Russia and think that Russia is a declining country that only relies on the sale of resources to make a living, then it is really a big mistake, because its people's living standards and welfare have always been much higher than those of the Chinese people, and it does not need to develop large-scale industry at all, nor does it need to engage in large-scale agricultural production, and it can easily feed the entire population.

Its resources are the richest, the industrial level is first-class, its natural environment is the best, there is no pollution, a hundred years later, Russia is still Russia, and what China has been polluted into, and whether the Chinese people can continue to survive, I am afraid it is a difficult question to answer.

China says it wants to take the road of sustainable development, but for Russia, it has always been truly sustainable, and there has been no crisis of resources, environment, or technology for hundreds of years, or even a crisis of major political, institutional and social changes.

So, never look down on Russia.

Russia is a religious state inherited from the Roman Empire, as long as the Orthodox Church is still there, Russia will never be willing to be dull, and will always pursue the status of world leadership, they are even one of the successors of the Golden Horde, why Russia still has a strong force in the Soviet era to annex Mongolia, the root of which lies in the continuation of this Great Khan's thought.

Russia is a terrible country.

It is a terrible thing to be mortal enemies of such a country.

Song Biao's understanding of this has long been very clear, so even if this war must be fought, he has not been prepared to completely offend Russia for a long time, and he does not hesitate to become a mortal enemy with Russia, so that the preparation for the war is very sufficient, and the command is also very decisive, but the goal has not been very clear, making many people mistakenly think that he is just to defeat Russia instead of going to war.

The warlike nation is strong, but it will perish.

To a large extent, Tang Shaoyi also continued to try to stop the emperor's behavior, but he didn't dare to be the enemy openly, so he had to secretly find a way to contain it.

Now everything is clear.

It was in this splendid Ibatev Palace that Song Biao made up his mind that he would not hesitate to become an old enemy of Russia for centuries, but also to dismantle Russia, to separate the Asian part, to swallow what he could swallow, and to complicate it if he could not, leaving behind a problem that Russia could not solve for centuries like the Indo-Pakistani crisis.

The possibility of forcibly annexing and dividing a large area of Russian territory is too low, and not only will Soviet Russia refuse to obey to the death, but Europe, the United States, Britain, France, and other countries, seeing that the situation is not right, will also turn to support Soviet Russia and restrict China, and will absolutely not allow China to expand to that extent.

So, the best thing to do is to dismantle Russia.

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A few days after the end of the training meeting at the Ibatyev Palace, Song Biao took a two-day rest to clear his mind, and then immediately reconvened the joint meeting of the military departments to make new, more perfect, and prudent arrangements for the military preparations of the empire.

The initiative of the Sino-Soviet war has been firmly controlled in the hands of the empire, whether to fight or not, when to fight is the empire's final say, Soviet Russia can only passively defend, which is very beneficial to the empire.

In fact, the only country that can really defeat Soviet Russia is China, because once China sends troops, although the supply line is very long, it can gradually encroach on the strategic defense space of Soviet Russia, and gradually advance from the weakest eastern offensive of Soviet Russia to the heart of Soviet Russia.

In addition, both Napoleon and Hitler underestimated Russia's ability to fight a long war, and this nation was not easily conquered by foreign peoples, and only the Golden Horde did it in history.

Since the initiative is in his own hands, Song Biao can calmly set the second offensive for mid-May next year, do a good job of abundant supplies and preparations, and further strengthen his superiority in military equipment and tactical advancement.

According to his plan, he will launch a second offensive starting in May next year, cross the Volga River all the way, annihilate the Russian Army on the Southern Front, join up with the Polish army in the Lipetsk and Kursk regions, and make defensive and operational preparations from October; if it is not possible to force Soviet Russia to accept the peace treaty at this time, then it will continue to launch three offensives until April next year, completely occupy Moscow, unite the navies of other European countries to destroy the Soviet Russian navy, and occupy St. Petersburg.

To this end, the empire must strengthen the armament of tanks, airplanes, and trucks and new research and development, seize the time to launch a series of new equipment next year, and use the empire's superior production capacity in the military industry at the present stage to suppress Soviet Russia; at the same time, it must continue to maintain its traditional military superiority, strengthen the deployment of military horses in Central Asia and the four northern provinces, as well as in the Russian-occupied areas, and ensure the transportation capacity of cavalry units and baggage troops; on the other hand, it is also necessary to ensure the normal operation of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Northern Railway, the Far Eastern Railway, and the Xinjiang Provincial Railway.

At the end of the First World War, due to the huge debt owed to China, according to the agreement between the countries, the two remaining dreadnoughts, several cruisers, submarines and more than 20 auxiliary ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were given to China as compensation, which was also the compensation of all the warships obtained by the empire from the First World War.

Previously, Song Biao had considered preventing the German Navy from implementing the Rainbow Plan, but at the Paris Peace Conference, because Britain dominated the right to split the entire German High Seas Fleet, the empire could only allocate two King-class battleships, and said that instinct was assigned four Bavarian-class super dreadnoughts.

The ships compensated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy are still in Istanbul at this stage, and belong to the Central Navy's Expeditionary Combined Fleet, which is a bit insignificant compared to the Soviet Russian Red Navy with 14 battleships, but in theory, it can also cooperate with the White Navy to threaten Soviet Russia.

At this time, Soviet Russia was already convinced that it was impossible to defeat the Imperial Army and was willing to accept more stringent conditions for peace talks, but it still felt too harsh and could not accept the Reich's proposal to assign the entire region west of the Ural Mountains to "Free Russia" and establish an East Slavic Republic.

After January, the conditions for peace talks put forward by the empire have been fixed, that is, on the conditions for the return of all territories invaded by Russia, the northern boundary between the two countries will be drawn from the 108th parallel of east longitude with Lake Baikal as the boundary, which is tantamount to allowing Russia to give up the entire East Siberian region, as well as the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotz, and the East Siberian Sea, which is equivalent to an additional 5.93 million square kilometers of territory, plus the Far East and the Balkhash region, which must be returned de jure China will add more than eight million square kilometers of territory at a time.

In addition, Soviet Russia must not only recognize Russia's debts to China during the period, but also pay 3 billion yuan in military compensation within 20 years, recognize the reading power of the East Slavic Republic, and recognize the reading power of Kazakhstan and other Central Asian regions and countries in the southern Caucasus.

This was an extremely harsh condition, and it was impossible for Soviet Russia to agree to it in any case, even Lenin was unwilling to accept such a clause, and the conditions put forward by Kalinin, the special envoy of the Soviet Russian side, were that Soviet Russia agreed to the reparations and demarcation line demands of the empire, and recognized the reading power of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and other places, while the East Slavic Republic was limited to the Sino-Russian border area in the area around the city of Novosibirsk.

In this entanglement in which both sides could not retreat, time slipped by slowly, and in the spring of 1920 slowly arrived in the Ural region and Yekaterinburg, Soviet Russia continued to actively deploy in the Volga River valley, and all the domestic cement was used in this area, but in Artur. With the assistance of General Martos and Britain and France, the newly established Second Polish Republic is also ready to move, and is about to attack Kursk and northern Ukraine with a million troops under the situation of the European Expeditionary Force of the United Empire, and the Empire's tanks on the Russian Eastern Front have increased significantly to 4,000 units, the number of trucks and military horses is increasing, and the number of civilians drawn from Central Asia has increased exponentially, and a larger-scale two-front offensive is about to begin.

At such a critical juncture, the leader who was able to lead Soviet Russia out of the predicament stood up again.

To Song Biao's great surprise, Comrade Lenin made a request to go to Yekaterinburg to talk to him in person. Accompanied by General Brusilov, such sincerity really made Song Biao unable to refuse.

After Song Biao agreed and promised to guarantee the safety of Comrade Lenin, on March 22, 1920, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia, Vladimir. Ilyich. Mr. Ulyanov personally arrived in Yekaterinburg.

Although the Reich and other foreign countries have not yet recognized this regime, after deliberations, the General Administration of the Inner Court and the Reich Foreign Office decided to give President Ulyanov the ceremonial treatment of a national leader.

Foreign Minister Ouyang Geng, who was in charge of talks with the Soviet Union in Yekaterinburg, was in charge of greeting Chairman Ulyanov at the railway station. Accompanied by General Brusilov, they went to the Ibatyev Palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor of China.

In the past few days, the palace of Ibateev has been extremely nervous, and it is the first time that the empire has received foreign leaders here, and it is a foreign leader of a belligerent country, not to mention that the empire has never encountered such a situation, and foreign countries may not have such examples.

As the emperor of China, Song Biao's heart was full of strange feelings, and he didn't know what kind of plan Chairman Ulyanov had.

If the conditions of the empire cannot be accepted, then what is there to do?

Song Biao was noncommittal.

On the afternoon of March 22, 1920, Chairman Ulyanov arrived at the Yekaterinburg railway station, held a meeting with Ouyang Geng, and continued to receive him with a state banquet for the cabinet of foreign ministers in the evening.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by Jiang Zuobin, Chairman Ulyanov and General Brusilov had the opportunity to enter the palace of Ibateev to meet the emperor.

I don't know when, Song Biao, as the emperor, was already the master of the Ibatyev Palace, and he received two special guests in the Ural Hall of the palace.

Song Biao did not deliberately maintain the noble etiquette in China, but entered the Ural Hall with Chairman Ulyanov through two passages, and met him in the center of the hall, where they first bowed to the emperor and then shook hands with each other.

When Song Biao walked into the hall, he saw the real Chairman Ulyanov for the first time, and he was accompanied by the familiar General Brusilov.

Ulyanov was at the age of fifty at this time, because he had suffered a successful assassination two years ago, and his body was theoretically inferior to before, but at first glance he seemed quite energetic, and he was happy to come all the way.

Song Biao didn't even have the emperor's dragon robe, after all, he was on the battlefield, he continued to wear the generalissimo's military dress of the supreme military commander, and after he stopped in the center of the hall, Ulyanov and General Brusilov, who had come before, bowed and saluted together, expressing their respect for the imperial family and His Majesty the Emperor.

After they bowed, Song Biao stretched out his hand and shook hands with Chairman Ulyanov and General Brusilov, who continued to walk up.

General Brusilov is a real old friend, and one of the founders of the Imperial Cavalry and the Far East Military Academy, war is war, personal friendship is personal friendship, when shaking hands with him, Song Biao said with a little emotion: "It's hard to imagine that we will become enemies on such a battlefield." ”

General Brusilov replied without humility or arrogance: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, if it were not for your insistence on invading our country, I would not have had to be your enemy at all. ”

Song Biao didn't feel embarrassed, but nodded slightly, and said: "Russia has invaded our country too much, it's rare to let us invade, so that you Russians can also experience what it's like to be invaded!" ”

Hearing this, General Brusilov was a little embarrassed.

Song Biao was accustomed to inviting General Brusilov and Chairman Ulyanov to sit down, and in the Ural Hall, a rectangular mahogany desk was arranged in the inner court, Song Biao sat on the north side, which has always been the emperor's characteristic, and General Brusilov and Chairman Ulyanov sat opposite the south side.

Song Biao is proficient in Russian, and General Brusilov is familiar with the northeastern Chinese, so there is basically no need for an interpreter to accompany him, because Chairman Ulyanov's proposal expressed through General Brusilov's relay is to hold secret talks first, so the fewer people present the better.

On the Soviet side, there were only the two of them, and on the imperial side, only Song Biao was in charge of negotiations, and Jiang Zuobin and Zhang Futian led several second-class chamberlains and a number of first-class guards of the Secret Service accompanied by the periphery.

Although it is impossible for these two to have weapons hidden on their bodies, if they plan to assassinate the emperor with their bare hands, then it is not possible, even if this is looking for death, the Secret Service cannot be completely relieved.

As soon as Chairman Ulyanov sat down, he couldn't wait to say to Song Biao: "Your Majesty, on behalf of all the people of Soviet Russia and all the Bushviks in the world, I would like to express to you the highest respect, you are the most important forerunner and model in the world on the road of leading the poor people to resist the hegemony of European imperialism, and it is under your leadership that an ancient civilization like China can shine with new brilliance and win a great victory over the hegemonic empires of Britain, France, and Germany. We, the People's Commissars of Soviet Russia, very much hope to join you and China in continuing the struggle against the imperial hegemony of Britain, France and the United States. ”

Chairman Ulyanov is obviously not simply wearing a top hat and patting on the back, he is the leader of the people's movement, he speaks righteous words, and he is very passionate, contagious, and sincere.

Song Biao nodded slightly when he heard this, but said: "China is a country with many disasters and difficulties, and we are facing very huge pressure on the survival of the nation, simply put, our population is too large. Therefore, I regret to say that China must not only recover from Russia the territories that we have lost and occupied, but also seek the conditions for active migration to the central and eastern regions of Russia. There are just and unjust parts of war, and this war is obviously unjust for Russia, and it is also a helpless move for our country, and I, as an emperor, cannot sit idly by and watch hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger. It's unjust, it's not fair, but I have to win this war, and I'm very good with the country. General Brusilov, we have known each other for many years, and I think that with what you know about me, you can also believe that I am really ready for everything this time, although I cannot clearly state my battle plan with you, but if Soviet Russia adopts a long-term strategy of attrition, the final outcome will be very cruel. You fight the war to fight the population, in fact, I welcome you to fight like this, I fight my own population of two million without any damage at all, fight your population of five million, Soviet Russia will basically collapse, and my bottom line is how many people to fight, this data can not tell you, but it is certainly much higher than the number of two million, because I have always been not afraid of any sacrifice, nor do I fight uncertain wars. ”

What he said was very direct, and he basically did not give the other side any room for maneuver, that is, he wanted to completely deal a blow to the other side's negotiating confidence.

General Brusilov and Chairman Ulyanov both shuddered when they heard it at this time, because they knew very well that normal Russia could be blocked, but the current Russia could not be stopped at all, not to mention that there were still the White Army and the Allied Allied forces on the Western and Southern Fronts.

After thinking for a moment, Chairman Ulyanov took the initiative to propose: "Your Majesty, please let us consider each other's difficulties, from the perspective of the entire international situation, China and Russia must cease the war as soon as possible and jointly resist the aggression and oppression of European imperialism, and we need to ...... joint forces." ”

Song Biao waved his hand to interrupt his words and said: "Your Excellency, the reality is very cruel, the existence of Soviet Russia itself can disperse all kinds of pressure in Europe in the process of China's rise, and I don't want Soviet Russia to be completely wiped out, but survival is higher than development, and between survival and development, we can only give priority to survival." Therefore, if you want to negotiate peace, you can only accept our country's conditions, this is the only way, of course, in other areas, we can still maintain very close cooperation, if the Soviet Union agrees to our armistice conditions, I can now secretly sell you a large amount of military equipment hoarded in Omsk, so that you can have the ability to resist the invasion of the British, French and White armies. ”

That's a very interesting thing for him to say.

Chairman Ulyanov is a red leader who is very proficient in and good at taking advantage of the international situation, and he does not go to Britain and France for peace talks, but is eager to find peace talks with China precisely because he sees that the contradictions within the Entente countries are also very fierce, and the mutual suppression and counter-suppression between China and Britain are also very powerful.

After thinking about it for a while, Chairman Ulyanov proposed: "Your Majesty, can we choose another path?" First of all, I propose that China and Russia take the Yenisei River as a permanent national border, and that there will always be no dispute between the two sides, and that in the region from Omsk to Irkutsk, our country will establish a special autonomous region that will allow the Chinese to enter the region for reclamation and industrial production. On the matter of reparations, the Council of People's Commissars hoped that China would take into account the current situation of Russia, reduce the total amount by half, and appropriately extend the period of reparations to 30 years; with regard to Central Asia, the Council of People's Commissars would like to recognize the reading power of the Turkic-speaking peoples in the southern region adjacent to Iran; with regard to the Caucasus, in consideration of the long-standing friendship between the Russian people and the Caucasus people, the Council of People's Commissars hoped that China would withdraw its troops and maintain peace in the region, but the People's Commissariat would guarantee China's interests in the oil fields of the Baku region. Finally, of course, with regard to Eastern Europe, I hope that His Majesty and China will remain more neutral, especially with regard to the Brest Treaty, which the German Empire forced our people to sign. ”

Lenin's proposal was already clear: Germany was defeated, and he was immediately going back on the Brest Treaty with Germany, for which he could make more concessions to China, in exchange for China's support for Russia's renunciation of the contract, and also to take advantage of China's desire to contain European imperialism in Eastern Europe.

Lenin was also reluctant to give up the Baku oil field, which was indeed too important, and in 1913 the production capacity of the Baku oil field accounted for almost 40% of the world's oil production capacity, and according to the estimates of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, the scale of oil production capacity here reached 100 million tons per year can be maintained for a long time.

The Russian revolution needed money, and this money naturally went to the Baku oil fields.

For this reason, Soviet Russia made a big concession that it took the initiative to cede all the areas east of the Yenisei River to China, but what is the point of this region? Basically, it is a large no-man's land, and the so-called designation of South Siberia as a special autonomous region to allow Chinese immigration and reclamation is actually just a trick.

Once Soviet Russia is strong, will they admit it?

Don't look at Lenin's previous remarks that are above board, in fact, he is also very ruthless, ostensibly agreeing to Germany's conditions and ceding a large amount of territory, but regaining it in the form of a member state by exporting revolution, Azerbaijan does not accept the export of revolution, and forcibly sends troops to occupy the country as soon as the civil war ends.

What about the so-called leaders?

The more you deal with this kind of person who is above board and vicious on the outside, the more cautious you must be.

Song Biao thought silently for a while before finally replying: "Unfortunately, Your Excellency Ulyanov, I know very well what kind of country Soviet Russia is, and what you are planning. I thought you were very sincere in coming here to discuss peace with me, but it seems that this is not the case, although you may not admit it, but these policies you have pursued are just a delaying tactic, and one day, you will lead the Red Army to fight back, expel us, and even as long as you can protect yourself, you will be eager to export your revolution to other worlds, including my country. There are two kinds of exploitation in the human world, one is economic exploitation, which is what you call the exploitation of surplus value, and the other is political exploitation, which I can simply call the exploitation of the right to freedom of life. Freedom is the most important foundation of life, and without freedom, it is a slave society that is inferior to even a feudal society. No matter how noble your revolution may be, from the moment you forcibly deprive the Mensheviks of their political rights, I can be convinced that the new Soviet Russia, which you lead, is a politically exploiting state that deprives others of their human rights and freedoms. What you call capitalist and capitalist exploitation of surplus value is essentially just a kind of exploitation, as a free person, you can choose to be used, or choose not to be used, but in the new regime you have established, everyone can only choose to be ruled and participate in the rule, there is no personal right to speak of, this is anti-human progress. ”

Song Biao originally did not want to discuss such a philosophical question with a philosopher, nor with Comrade Lenin, but he decided to say it anyway.

At this point, he paused for a moment, took out a Cuban cigar from the humidor and lit it, smoking in silence, reminiscing about the misfortunes in human history.

Lenin.

Vladimir. Chairman Ulyanov intellectually and brilliantly explained the revolutionary theory of the proletariat, as if he were treating Song Biao, the emperor, as a debater, with a low voice and a slow speech, but with great seriousness and convincing.

No matter what he was saying, Song Biao didn't listen to a word, he seemed to suddenly shut down his Russian translation function, thinking about what he wanted to consider.

Ultimately.

About in Vladimir. Chairman Ulyanov debated for several minutes, roughly finished talking about the meaning of the revolution and the value of human beings, and was waiting for His Majesty to refute it, or for His Majesty to be unable to refute it.

Huahuang.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Emperor Shenwu.

Song Biao put the cigar that he had just smoked half on the copper plate shelf, let it extinguish itself, and finally looked at this great Lenin leader to some extent, and replied: "For the freedom of the Chinese people, for the freedom of Asia, for the freedom of Europeans, for the freedom of the world, I am willing to give up the territorial and interest claims needed by the empire, and even share the interests of the Azerbaijani oil region with Britain and France, destroy your revolution at all costs, and re-conclude a peaceful Sino-Russian friendship treaty, I will not occupy an inch of more territory, but I will ask Russia to allow our nationals to freely emigrate to the southern Siberian plains of east-central Russia, in order to alleviate the crisis of our population's survival, even if it is to become a citizen of Free Russia and contribute to the Russian economy, which is one of my basic tasks as the emperor of the Chinese nation. In the end, I think our secret talks have failed, because you are not as sincere as I expected, only hypocritically trying to take advantage of our greed, in fact, we are not as greedy as you think, although our country is becoming a new big empire, but it also has its own values and a long ancient cultural heritage. ”

Speaking of which, he finally met with Alexei. General Brusilov said: "We will come to this point, my friend, and if you will, I will convey on your behalf the greetings of General Madenidolph and Commander Kolchak, and I hope that you will convey on my behalf to all the Russians who are still willing to call for freedom. ”

Alexei. General Brusilov was really embarrassed at this moment, and deep down, he couldn't wait to welcome the secret negotiations between the Chinese Emperor and Lenin to end in this way, but he could only be silent and speechless at this moment.

Vladimir. His Excellency Chairman Ulyanov was equally silent.

Only the wall clock made by the Russian craftsmen continued to ring, and the pendulum clicked regularly in the Ural Hall of the Ibateev Palace, where the Tsar usually met with the leaders of the Buryatia and Tatars on his vacation, and where Tsar Nicholas II received the Mongol princes, just as his ancestors had met the envoys of the Golden Horde in Moscow.

The marble and mosaic floors are mirror-smooth.

Several chamberlains accompanying the hall were also silent, and Jiang Zuobin, the first chamberlain in charge of foreign affairs, quietly stepped forward, stopped beside General Brusilov and Chairman Lenin, and was respectfully silent, but used his body language to tell the two that the emperor's reception time had ended.

When Lenin tried to deceive the feelings of the Chinese with his supposed wisdom, the matter was already doomed irreversibly to the side of no benefit to either side.

The attitude of the Chinese emperor is so firm, if he can't reap the benefits he needs, then he will directly eradicate Soviet Russia for nothing.

When Lenin and General Brusilov were forced to get up to leave, Song Biao did not even salute or look at them, allowing them to exit the palace in silence and difficulty, while he took a copy of the latest military arrangements from the wide mahogany desk, knowing that if there was no breakthrough in Lenin's last two days of leaving Yekaterinburg, he would finally sign a general mobilization decree aimed at the complete elimination of Soviet Russia, expanding the total number of army members in the country to six million, And to ensure two million follow-up reserves.

According to the same scale of the plan, the empire will continue to increase troops in Poland and the Caucasus, lease and purchase battleships from Britain and France, strengthen the control of the Soviet Russian Red Navy, destroy the Soviet Russian revolution in an unstoppable posture, and completely rewrite the fate of the entire human race, even if this is not the real intention of the empire.

(To be continued)