July 4, 106 of the Holy Gu Calendar.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Golden Beetle Empire has finally passed away suddenly. Leaving this world with the secrets of the past, after all, did not agree to the temptation proposed by a certain being, and walked very chicly.

Before swallowing the last breath, an edict, like throwing toilet paper, was thrown to the successor who knelt in front of him.

As soon as he left, the fuse was lit, and the sparks moved quickly towards the barrel.

The new king, the eldest son of the former emperor, succeeded to the throne by Zheng Xin. But his succession was not secure.

The rule of the old emperor was stable, not only because of the strong military power directly under the old emperor. Under the feudal system of human rule, the old emperor suppressed all parties and kept them in their positions.

However, Zheng Xin inherited the rule of the empire, and it was unable to effectively suppress the factions of all parties.

First of all, he couldn't suppress his faction. After he came to power, the faction that originally supported him lost the repression of the old emperor and wanted to lean outward. And even if his faction doesn't, the other factions are already preparing. (Similarly, the courtiers of the Cao family forced Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the throne, and after Cao Pi ascended the throne, he had to divide a large amount of land among his subordinates.) ）

His Majesty the new Emperor must be determined to integrate himself both internally and externally in order to re-establish order in the Empire.

But some people don't give him time.

First of all, after congratulating his eldest brother on becoming the emperor, the second child asked for a seal. - Meaning, I support you as emperor, and you want to support my political power to have a special status within the empire.

This former second prince, the fief is in the south. With dozens of class Gu nests, it belongs to an absolute powerhouse.

The old emperor, who had died, gave military power to his sons in this regard. The idea is probably that if his sons occupy the whole world, no one else is qualified to rob it. However, this is leaving a huge hole for the next heir.

In the face of his younger brother's congratulations, where does Zhengxin not understand? He didn't promise.

Because the second child is obedient on the surface, but in fact, he is a naked demolition. Once the needs of these two brothers are satisfied, then the prestige of the central imperial power will plummet, and anyone can say: "I obey you, but you have to let me have a certain degree of autonomy, if you don't agree, I won't support you." ”

Imperial power is majestic only by intimidating princes. Once the imperial power can only be stabilized by the support of the princes, then it is not far from being abolished by the princes at will.

In his reply, Zheng Xin first praised his younger brother's support for his brother, and then emphasized the need for the new imperial court to maintain fairness and support, and quietly rejected his non-trivial demands.

The new emperor handled it in a way that was not in a proper manner, and did not escalate the conflict.

However, this second child seems to have been in business for many years, and when he saw that the eldest brother was not interested, he directly put away his smiling face and closed his territory. At the same time, the sheriffs under the imperial system were kicked out one by one. He openly inserted his cronies into local management positions, and he had the intention of splitting the ground and fighting against him.

In the eyes of outsiders, the second prince was stubborn and self-serving, so he was the first to jump out.

In fact, the second prince didn't want to make a wave, but he also had a hard time.

The battle for the throne is a winner-takes-all, after the new monarch ascended the throne, he, as the original second heir to the throne of the empire, was the most powerful faction except for his eldest brother, and now everything has fallen short, and it seems that he has become the biggest loser.

He must give an account to those below. Prove that when the new monarch ascends the throne, he still has great power in his own territory. If you don't prove this ability at this time, then the hearts of the people in your forces will be turbulent, and there will be no shortage of betrayals of the old lord to seek glory for the new king. And then decades of business are gone.

Similarly, the first leader of the unit stepped down, and the second-in-command was originally ready to be replaced, and a large number of people in the unit came over to flatter. At this time, a new boss was parachuted above, and the originally hot second-in-command would immediately become a cold loner if he didn't show his 'irreplaceable ability to work'.

However, it was the second prince's urgent move to consolidate his power that caused the condemnation of the world. This "man of the world" is actually a nobleman in the world, and it seems to be a reprimand, but in fact, he magnifies the problem to His Majesty the Emperor.

The nobleman said in his heart: Your Majesty the Emperor, if you acquiesce, then we will do the same in the future.

Under this kind of fueling, the contradiction between the second prince and the new monarch has reached an irreconcilable point.

The new emperor, who was firmly seated in the imperial capital, was furious when he received the news, and immediately declared his brothers in the south to be rebellious, and ordered a requisition.

The flames of war between the central imperial power and the local princes and kings were finally ignited. And behind this, there is a series of powder kegs.

On the plains hundreds of kilometers outside the imperial capital, in dozens of fortress-style concrete buildings, huge chimneys began to roar and steam white from here. This is the underground Gu nest producing at a high speed, and the groundwater is cold and emitting a dense fog on the surface.

After a few hours, the underground entrances to these fortresses, dozens of tons of steel gates, were slowly pushed open, and the heat wave was surging, making the Imperial knights who opened the doors couldn't help but retreat.

As the screeching metal gates opened, there was a metal clanging sound in the tunnel. A large number of metal Gu worms with a diameter of one or two meters poured out of the cave and lined up in the square, forming rows of large phalanxes with a flickering metallic luster, moving in the direction of the imperial capital.

And the imperial capital is the melodious whistle of the train.

Outside the train station, in the midst of the flag-waving and shouting of the people in the imperial capital, one by one the mighty and thick beetle beetles and beetles stepped onto the steel plate of the train. The eight-ton body made the sound of heavy metal grinding when it stepped on the train.

In addition to these biological weapons, heavy artillery and batches of ammunition were also transported south along the train, announcing the determination of the new emperor in the eyes of various forces in the imperial capital.

……

In addition to the crusade to the world, the central royal family made private correspondence with nobles large and small, and of course, the strategy was more flexible.

The center is co-opting and appeasing the powerful nobles - because the new monarch knows that he is ordering them to send troops, and if they want to send troops, they will find all kinds of excuses.

For the small aristocracy, it is a direct coercion and temptation: if you go, you will be rewarded, and if you don't go, you will settle accounts after the autumn.

As for the Celestial Tour, it belongs to the latter.

November 5, 106 of the Holy Gu Calendar.

The sheriff from the Giant Horn Capital sent an official document to Zhou You, ordering Zhou You to lead his troops south quickly and follow the emperor to attack, and his attitude was extremely arrogant.

This is a simple order, and you can take it or not. Receiving the order is equivalent to standing on the side of the new emperor. If you don't accept the order, once the emperor wins the war - in the emperor's opinion, if you can't beat the Burning Locust family, can't you still beat you.

Putting aside the emotional interference brought by the uncleaned herald in the imperial capital, calmly analyze the impact and opportunities of this war on the Ranlun Group. The Ranship is located in an island city, and when the war starts, the procurement of raw materials in various regions will be affected. Now that the war has just begun, and this war is very likely to affect the entire continent in the future, if there is no stable raw material control area, and there is no prestige to stabilize the shipping routes, the island economy will inevitably be in trouble.

So now there are two options for the Celestial Tour.

First, stand on the emperor's side and participate in the war to prove that you are not weak and expand your voice.

Second, he did not respond to the call, but in the future, he had to deal with the harassment and plunder of other princes in the emperor's faction, and he had to fight a war to prove his neutrality.

Two lines, and one must be torn again.

……

On the northeast side of Trade Wind City, a 15,000-ton aircraft carrier slowly departed port.

The ship has a speed of twenty-three knots and can take off a drone weighing two tons. The UAV's flight system is a Gu worm, and the armament on board is a 12mm caliber machine gun.

The aircraft is so light, so this aircraft carrier is positioned as a reconnaissance aircraft carrier.

In fact, in the Mediterranean Sea with a total area of 5.84 million square kilometers, this Hangma indicator is enough. It's not the Pacific Ocean, it's thousands of kilometers to search for the location of the enemy's fleet.

In the Mediterranean region of the earth, there is no country that has stubbornly held back aircraft carriers. Even at the height of the glory of World War II aircraft carrier fighters, the Mediterranean Sea was a battleship bombardment.

The most important reason why battleships were eliminated was not that they did not fight far enough, but that they could not maintain the right to control information on the sea. The Japanese battleships of Pillar Island were in the dark in the Pacific Ocean. - Bombed by planes, they don't even know where the enemy is.

The Gu worms in this world are all in a low-speed state. And a two-ton fighter can rely on a rotary engine to soar to subsonic speed, that is, there is no problem in speed dominance. As for signal locking, shore-based radar networks do not yet exist in this world.

In the concept of sea domination of the sea of the sea tour.

After the aircraft carrier obtains the information, it will let another kind of 'firepower ship' launch a black-and-white image-guided rocket - in short, this guidance concept, pick up a big ship and bomb it, anyway, the big ship that does not belong to itself in the strike zone in this era will not be blown up.

Of course, so far, this aircraft carrier is also the largest unit price of the fuel ship.

Its ship shafts, as well as diesel-electric generators, are specially supervised by Zeyo. There is even a specially modified Linlong Brood inside,—— other functions are greatly weakened, and the telecommunication function is strengthened. No, it's in the ship's tower, which is used to guide the half-biological drone for long-range cruise.

Sitting on this 10,000-ton battleship, in the command room.

In the distance, you can see clusters of white mist, like thermal energy towers of small volcanoes on the sea. He exhaled and slowly tossed a coin upwards.

Two seconds later, Zhou You rubbed the front of the silver coin and said faintly, "Okay, then choose to join the emperor's side." ”

After making this decision, Zeyuyu returned to the city and began to set up.

The first is to come to his own high academy, recruit a hundred disciples in the school to the front, and take out the prepared electromagnetic secret key. These keys correspond to the control of each Gu Nest core.

But as long as the secret key in the hand does not fall into the hands of outsiders, the control of the brood platform cannot be broken.

Of course, there is no need for the universe, and the matrix is directly connected to the inside of the Gu nest. The purpose of this secret key is to allow people other than themselves to control their own systems.

One by one, Zhou You distributed the secret keys of the Gu Nests of each power station, the Metal Resources Refining Gu Nest, and the War Beast Production Gu Nest to these students, and finally handed over the secret key of the total Gu Nest to Yu Qian. The young lady of the Burning Locust family paused, then grabbed the crystal with both hands and nodded violently to Zhou You. His expression was like receiving an offer from Prince Charming.

Uh-

Zhou You handed over the general secret key to this Yu Qian, which meant to ensure the stability of the rear when he was out fighting, so that the Feathered Flame Locust family would not have other ideas. Of course, after Yu Qian gets this secret key, it is estimated that she will also see this place as her basic plate with complete peace of mind. At the same time, we should also break away from the old thinking of the family and think independently about some issues from the perspective of our own interests.

Then Zeyo turned his gaze to the other side.

He took out another tray and said to the core plant and other students: "Next, you guys, this time go on an expedition with me." I'm going to teach you how my faction is going to fight. ”

Zeyu opened the cloth in the tray and distributed the crystals to them. Then he took a red crystal and said, "This is the war secret key of this Gu Nest." You will be deeply involved in the war. ”

……

10 hours later.

Zheng Xin woke up from his sleep and put on his armor to cover the insect plates on his body. His Majesty the Emperor had never slept well since he ascended the throne, and of course, his second brother was no different.

The knight on the side took the papers. The emperor was careless, but in fact asked hopelessly: "The text has been spread, what is the response of the various families?" ”

The knight paused and said, "Your Majesty, it's mostly a wait-and-see now. ”

The Emperor sent a call to action against the various factions.

The various local factions did not refuse, and even many of them packed tickets to respond to the call, but they all said "it will take some time".

Obviously, this 'some time' argument is a delaying tactic.

The emperor took the envelope in response, opened it one by one, and threw it away. He became less and less interested in reading these perfunctory things, and prepared to read the military reports on the front.

The knight on the side said: "Your Majesty, one person said that he will arrive on the west coastline before the eighth of next month and launch a landing attack on the rear of the rebels. ”

His Majesty's hand stopped, and he looked up and asked, "Who?" Where is it? ”

The knight took the document in the emperor's hand and found out the report of the expedition, while the attendant opened the map of the coastline.

The Emperor carefully looked at the war report of the Celestial Tour, as well as the corresponding map coordinates and locations.

In the report of the Celestial Tour, it accurately proposed the total number of troops to be dispatched at the current stage, as well as the time limit for the arrival of troops, and asked the Imperial Northern Fleet to maintain the safety of the shipping lanes and take care of the side support, so that the Burning Ship could increase the scale of the troop dispatch and speed up the arrival.

The emperor paused, thought of something, pulled out the letter from the floating family to himself from the pile of old papers, and saw the vague promise of his traditional subordinates who were still buckling the rope to "prepare for sending troops", and couldn't help but sneer: "Okay, very good." ”

His Majesty the Emperor frowned at this time and asked, "Why is his document placed under this?" The implication is why I read so much nonsense in front of me.

The knight explained in a low voice, "Your Majesty, Zeuryu is now only one of the fourteen immortal viscounts of the Burning Locust Family. ”

In the imperial etiquette system, there is a strict formulation of respect and inferiority, and the documents on the table of the nobles of high status must be in front of the documents passed by the nobles of low status. As for the Celestial Tour, strictly speaking, it does not belong to the nobles directly canonized by the imperial family.

Strictly speaking, only the imperial royal family is eligible to canonize nobles, and the big nobles below are not eligible to canonize nobles.

But the great nobles also had a way of coping, and they recruited retainers and attendants. These are the so-called non-hereditary titles. In fact, these non-hereditary titles are hereditary, and they have also served the great nobles who canonized them for generations. For example, marriage, or sending heirs and heirs of great nobility to accompany them, all kinds of strengthening relationships.

However, with a strange style like Zeuyou, the Lie Locust family has always been uncertain.

In the past few years, Zhou You ran to Xia Hong Island, just like the mixed river dragon, not only did not pay tribute to the feather-winged locust family, but also recruited a large number of 'mud snails' as students while accepting Yuqian as a student, and did not regard the fierce locust as the master at all. All this made some of the elders of the Feathered Flame Locust family slander many times in internal meetings.

His Majesty the Emperor raised his hand and knocked on the table in front of him, and ordered with a shocked breath: "His title will not be that viscount soon." ”

The so-called danger sees people's hearts, and the tour actually wants to use the emperor's camp to verify its own military war system.

But in the emperor's eyes, Zhou You can support himself at this moment, and he is a staunch royalist and a great loyalty. It must also be greatly appreciated for the needs of the golden city.

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