In the days that followed, the wayward Darren completely disappeared from his brother's eyes, and his secretary said that he was going to deal with the disputes of his councillors, but how could Parr not know that this guy had always left this kind of troubles to his secretary to deal with, and he just didn't want to see his brother.

Since he did not come to provoke himself, Parr also dismissed the idea of talking to him about the marriage, and after sitting on the adjoining star for a day, he received a few speakers, and urged the "Parr" to leave and continue to the fortress of freedom.

Behind the Garden Galaxy lies an icy space with no human habitation, dead and silent, with interstellar clouds of dust, hydrogen, nitrogen, and other ionized gases, and the graves of countless ships.

The nebula that permeated the entire galaxy blocked the two nodes of the Garden System and the Fortress of Liberty, and also affected the stability of the subspace shipping lane, forcing it through the node would only cause the Imperial ship to fall into the nebula. This is also the reason why the Garden System has been slow to be incorporated into the Imperial Star Field by the United Empire. Until the large nebula cluster of this nebula galaxy was explored, the space exploration ships on the side of the Liberty Fortress were never able to find the node of another subspace shipping lane, and they stayed in the outer layer of the nebula at most, not daring to explore deeply.

For thousands of years, everyone thought that to the west of the Fortress of Liberty was an endless mass of strange and super-large nebulae, and in the core of which should have been stars, countless meteorite clusters, a galaxy with chaotic magnetic fields, and all space exploration ships that tried to cross the nebula galaxy would be lost in it, becoming one of the countless scrap iron in this vast space graveyard.

Until 2,300 years ago, the "discoverer" Maggie. Valen, the traitor who was wanted by the royal family at the time, circled back and forth in the nebula, and finally found the node on the other side of the galaxy, and decades later, the Empire's galaxy catalog, the piece of the node on the west side of the Fortress of Freedom, was renewed, and the regrettable breach was reconnected.

In that era when Valen's royal family was slaughtered, the "discoverer" Maggie. Valen fled to the Garden System with a large number of Valenians who were considered traitors, and discovered many colonizable systems with neighboring stars as the core, which saved the Vallean royal family from an existential crisis. This is another venerable Valian after the "Unifier".

"The original discoverer wandered in the nebula for two years to find this node," Sfronkonen couldn't help but feel as he gazed at the meteorites floating outside the dense crystal glass cover in the lounge, the dust, and the occasional scrapped ship or two of the indefinite microparticles that could not be distinguished by the naked eye, "and now we only need seven days to return, and for thousands of years, we have always stepped on the shoulders of our predecessors and walked forward,"

"It's never too late to leave the feeling until the Fortress of Freedom," Benny snorted, "Count, it's been a long time since you've seen your faithful wife, and I remember that your daughter also studied at the Royal University of Fortress of Freedom?" ”

"My daughter has never liked me as a father," the Chancellor of the Exchequer giggled, "and my wife is not happy to see me, a man who can only go back once or twice a year, Benny, if I were to go back, lest I be choked to death by her temper, and where else would I have the heart to see the beauty of this place." ”

The prince sighed, "All over the Empire, people have spoken of Madame Franconen's love for you. And your daughter, she is a brave and fearless explorer, I remember that she just graduated from the School of Planetary Exploration and Colonization Management of the Royal University, and then joined the most famous private explorer team in the whole of the Empire, "Galactic Storm", the Gaia galaxy of the Empire was discovered by this group of elite explorers, Benny, you are afraid to go back? It's amazing, if my daughter could be so active, I wouldn't just put her in the Federation far away from the Empire, and I'm sure Ciri would have dreamed of joining Galactic Storm. ”

"How can she not be good enough," the Minister of Finance twisted his chin with a small handful of his only beard, "it is because she is so good that I dare not go back, and look, what do I do when I return to my little home and see my daughter return with honors?" I ought to be happy for her, but you know, before I am pleased, my dear lady will gush upon my daughter's accomplishments, and begin to count me, oh, Mr. Sfränconen, Minister of Finance of the Second Fleet, look at your daughter, and look at you......."

"She loves me," the ever-shrewd minister swore like a complaining old woman, "but she loves me more than she will give up as commander-in-chief of the Second Fleet, and I know that she has treated me like her only one before, now?" Twenty years, her love for her daughter has long overshadowed me, who told His Royal Highness that he would not let his dearest subordinates go home to reunite with his loving wife, if I can only see my husband twice a year, or in the spaceport in full view, I am afraid that I will find a man in Violet Star. ”

His words made Benny, who had always been strict, couldn't help but show an ambiguous, echoing smile, and the prince was dumbfounded, and he couldn't find good words for a while.

His men had been on his expedition to Gaia for too long, years enough to squash the love of one for another, not everyone as consistent as Ji Rui and him, and especially among the glitzy nobility of the Empire. Some of them liked young girls, and their wives were changed from wife to wife, and some of them were married simply for the sake of marriage, and there was no affection for each other, and as far as he knew, more than one of his right-hand men had complained to him that her husband had come back too rarely, and most of them were members of their Valian family, and the elders whom he had to respect had complained about it.

"This is a helpless move, sir, the Second Fleet needs your coordination," he still listened to the complaints of his subordinates, "The safety of the western border of the empire is in your hands, if you are not in your own duties, it will be difficult for me to deal with it, bear with me, the Galactic Center has sent an envoy, didn't you also receive the news, wait until next year, I will transfer the Second Fleet, soon, you can meet your wife every month, I dare to guarantee, it won't be long before you get bored." “

His words made the Minister of Finance smirk, "That must be a disaster." ”

"We're facing disaster," Benny wasn't amused by his joke, "let's get down to business, Parr, about the Emperor's illness." ”

"I have verified this news through several old friends in many ways, and there is no doubt about it," Sfrunkonen shook his head, and his tone was full of disbelief, "It seems that no one discourages his madness, and a fool knows about the act of overtaking Dream Spore Powder, but he fell ill because of it, what do the medical doctors at the Royal Sanatorium say?" ”

Parr picked up the encrypted data file, which was the information provided by his intelligence officer in the Freedom Fortress, "The doctor gave the conclusion that there is no big problem, he said that he had dissuaded him, but the emperor did not listen at all, and now the emperor is lying in the sanatorium for treatment, but his condition is ....... It's not getting better. ”

"The Emperor had a history of drug addiction as a child," Sfrunkonen scoffed, "and it would be impossible for him to relapse again, but who provided him with the Dream Spore Powder, if I remember correctly, is the latest "psychotherapy" in the Empire. Industry (the biggest boss of the Umbrella of Eternal Life) took years to develop, and it was not easy to get hold of this contraband in the palace. ”

"What's not easy," Parr sneered, "Michel. Deputy Speaker Hill holds nine percent of the shares of the Umbrella of Eternal Life, with the exception of Stark. Industry, the largest shareholder outside of "Xingling Pharmaceutical" and "Xingling Bio Industry", even the Leonner family holds the same stake as him, and it is as easy for him to get the Dream Spore Powder as you want to move the money from the arsenal. ”

The Minister of Finance looked at the Prince innocently and plaintly, "I have never embezzled money from the military treasury for my own personal gain. “

"But you used it to open the harbor," the prince noted, "and I quarreled with my wife for a long time about it. ”

"It does bring a lot of money," said the Minister of Finance, rather innocently, "to ease the annoyance of the soldiers, to obtain revenue, to meet the professional needs of women, and to learn through the mouths of women countless news that we did not know, and to do almost no harm, Your Highness, I have done everything for you." ”

"Of course I know, otherwise you would have gone to the deep space black prison to repent of your sins," Parr glared at him angrily, "You shouldn't have been so flamboyant, in order to attract customers, you actually set up the sign of the Theater near the port, and my subordinates' wives and daughters are secretly discussing my affairs about the Harbor Theater, including my elders, who accuse me of letting the girls into the Second Fleet, and think that I am insulting the royal family, insulting them, just because of your carelessness, I have incurred such an unwarranted disaster, my Minister of Finance, Should I push you out and say that you have embezzled the arsenal to open a courtyard without permission, so as to wash away the stain on me? ”

Sfränconen was speechless, and even Benny couldn't help but hang his head and concentrate on silence.

"Forget it, leaving aside the topic of the maid," Parr also found that it was not good to talk about this at the moment, and cleared his throat, "I have reason to believe that it is Michel. Hill provided the Emperor with medicine, and may have even done something shady in it. Sfränkenen was noncommittal.

Benny. Vallejan shifted his ass uneasily, hearing Michel. Hill, the famous deputy speaker, is so famous that even a person like him, who is usually calm, would think about it.

The Hill family is a well-known nobleman in the Fortress of Freedom, with a history of tens of thousands of years, and is also a well-known nobleman in the Southern Star Field.

Forty years ago, one of the Evening Civilizations, the Isolated Legion was angry over border issues, and in one fell swoop destroyed the Levinvalen's family, which once controlled the fleets of the two empires, and destroyed the former First Fleet and the former Second Fleet of Megatron Galaxy, which were then under the banner of Levenvalen, and burned thirty colonial planets, turning the power of the entire empire upside down.