Although Mu Yunshang is not a person who particularly cares about current affairs and the latest cutting-edge scientific and technological information, he knows some of the progress of human beings on Earth in space exploration.

- Although these news certainly do not include the hidden parts of various countries, just the news that is exposed to the public eye makes Mu Yunshang know that even those countries on the earth that seem to be completely indigenous to the scientists of "Xuanli" have launched a lot of detection equipment into outer space as long as they have the strength to some extent.

Taking NASA as an example, NASA, which has not even mastered controlled nuclear fusion and high-speed thruster technology in vacuum environments, has launched many unmanned exploration spacecraft to every planet in the solar system.

According to this development trend, before mastering the faster-than-light engine, human beings on Earth can at least grasp all kinds of information about the planets in the solar system in more detail.

However, looking at the current empire of Mu Yunsheng, it presents an extremely strange situation.

First of all, this empire mastered the sub-light engine long ago.

Secondly, the empire has recently managed to break through the technical difficulties of the jump engine and build the first jump engines, opening the door to the sea of stars.

In this case, the empire has only all information about its capital star, its moon, and the nearest planet in its vicinity, but very little research on the other planets in its own system.

It's incredible, even without a jump engine, an empire with a sub-light engine is more than capable of using the entire star system as a backyard.

Faster than 90% of the speed of light but less than the speed of light is called sub-light, and with such speed, the Imperial warships and research ships are perfectly capable of walking within the star system - but they seem to be limited by some strange 'power', and have no tendency to explore outward.

(How is this possible...... ）

Mu Yunshang furrowed her brows, always feeling that something was wrong.

With doubts in his heart, Mu Yunshang simply stopped dealing with government affairs for the time being, and began to check the details of the entire empire through the highest authority of his empire.

The more she looked, the more weird Mu Yunshang felt.

The scientific and technological development of the empire has always been carried out at a relatively fast pace.

Although there are occasional bottlenecks, this state is often broken within half a century, and then the empire ushers in a technological explosion.

However, this changed a century ago.

A hundred years ago, after the empire successfully developed the sub-light engine, the empire fell into a strange "period of stagnation".

After entering a period of stagnation, all other scientific and technological developments except for the power engine almost completely stopped, population growth became extremely slow, the number of troops did not grow, and foreign expansion was completely interrupted.

This is not normal – especially for a militaristic empire with a strong desire to expand.

Even if there is no jump engine, the empire relying on sub-light engines should have its territory spread throughout the star system.

- After all, Mu Yunshang discovered that the empire had mastered the planetary transformation technology, and in the empire's data reserves, there were still two other solid planets in this star system that were fully capable of transformation.

But the empire stuck to the only planet and did not take a single step outward.

It's like......

"...... the Fallen Empire?"

Mu Yunshang remembered the setting of a certain computer AI empire in the 4X game she played before.

"No, if this is a Fallen Empire, the level of technology is obviously too low - many of the technologies of the Fallen Empire are completely black technology in the eyes of the initial player. But if it weren't for the fallen empire, how could this 'stagnant development' be explained? It's like ......."

The timeline of the empire is locked into a certain segment.

The more she thought about it, the more her head hurt, and Mu Yunshang simply gave up thinking.

"Let's just hope that this situation doesn't exist anymore, right? After all, even the jump engine has been built, and the first scientific research fleet will be sent out today, so I don't think the empire should stand still. ”

Suppressing the discomfort caused by this strangeness in her heart, Mu Yunshang packed up her mood and began to sort out government affairs again.

Stamp, agree, stamp, agree, stamp, agree......

Mu Yunshang felt as if she was an answering machine, and she only needed to sign and agree to the various documents reported below and order them to be executed.

“…… Judging from the current situation of being blind, this should be the best way to deal with it, after all, the professional officials below are not stupid. ”

As for the government system of the Empire, is there any corpse food and corruption?

Mu Yunshang originally believed in this.

— but he soon overturned this idea, and it was then that he really understood what an incredible state could be created when an extreme idealism was added to the imperial ideology of extreme militarism and ultra-collectivism, and that he himself was the object of the faith of all the subjects of the empire.

“…… It's strange that there is no record of factions. ”

After dealing with government affairs, Mu Yunsheng, who checked the various information of the empire again, scratched his head thoughtfully.

According to the records of the state archives, all subjects of the entire empire are the same faction - or there is no such thing as a faction in this empire.

"Have these guys been brainwashed into being fools? It would be nice if that were the case......"

Mu Yunshang laughed stupidly, because it meant that his rule would be extremely easy.

Mu Yunsheng, who is still thinking about the behavior of the "fantasy species" that make up this empire with the habitual thinking of human beings on the earth, has never been able to believe that there is not a single opposition and dissident in the huge empire.

"Whew...... It's finally done...... It's still quite relaxing. ”

Mu Yunsheng, who finished dealing with today's government affairs, stretched her arms by sinking her back into a soft backrest.

Dealing with government affairs for the first time brought Mu Yunshang a huge gain, at least he had a general understanding of the relevant imperial functional departments in the process.

looked left and right, and found that the time was still early before he went to participate in the expedition ceremony of the scientific expedition team, and the boring Mu Yunsheng's original nature as a dead house began to be exposed.

"I really want to see it...... It's okay to have a game to play...... That's right! Night Raven! Night Raven, are you there!? ”

"Your Majesty, what do you command?"

"Now, is there any game you can recommend for me to play?"

『………… Your Majesty, maybe your subordinates misheard, you mean...... Games?'

"Yes, yes, yes! It can't be that the whole empire is left without entertainment, right? Are you kidding? Could it be that the group of civilians below eats and sleeps every day in addition to production work? ”

『…… I'm sorry, Your Majesty, of course your subjects have their own entertainment, and if Your Majesty is also interested, your subordinates can call out all the electronic entertainment items in the Empire for you to choose from."

"That's great!!"

Mu Yunsheng's eyes lit up, and she couldn't wait to play the alien game.

However, a few minutes later—

"What the hell are you on your lungs! No matter how delicate the picture is, no matter how superb the technology is, and it gives people an immersive feeling, it can't change this thing, and even Tetris can't compare to the entertainment, hey!!! You told me that this is the most popular entertainment game in the empire right now!? Fool you!!! ”

"Your Majesty, my subordinates are not deceiving......

The embarrassed Mu Yunshang rolled around on the floor of the office with his head in his hands.

"No way!"

Suddenly getting up from the ground, Mu Yunsheng clenched his hands into fists, and his eyes burned with a raging fighting spirit.

"This empire must change! I've got to bring them all sorts of fun stuff! Whether it's a new anime, Super Marie, Pokemon, Kisan, a king, a poison, an ass, and a pioneer, you have to have it! No anime, no fun games, I'm dying......"