Hearing the words of the black shadow, Yu Hongbo rolled his eyelids disdainfully, and smiled disdainfully: "You can only lie to the ghost with these words!" ”

The voice of the black shadow remained unchanged: "We are sincere enough, as long as the empire can withdraw its troops, we will sign a contract immediately, and completely withdraw from the scope of the empire's power, and from now on, there will never be any infiltration and harassment from now on!" ”

"Can you please refrain from insulting human intelligence like this?" Yu Hongbo said coldly,

"Although I'm a half-cut person, my brain is not confused, fooling me with these words that are no different from farting, do you still think that I am the ancient and noble high-ranking civilization?"

The black shadow said without guilt: "The nobility of our bloodline has been proven by eternal time and endless glory! Although human civilization is powerful, by the standards of our race, it can only be regarded as a new upstart in the Star Sea World! ”

"Your Excellency, as a young and emerging civilization, it is your duty to maintain the necessary respect and humility to the ancient and noble forerunners, and only in this way is it truly beneficial to you, and you must not make a mistake about it!"

Yu Hongbo just sneered, and didn't even bother to open his mouth to refute the other party's ridiculous views.

The black shadow finally became a little angry, and his voice became sharp:

"Your Excellency, don't forget how much you get from us every year! If nothing else, just the fact that you have private contact with us is made public, and it is enough for you to be ruined and never recovered! ”

"You think you're qualified to threaten me?" A look appeared on Yu Hongbo's face, and his voice suddenly became gloomy and cold.

Several obscure and deep breaths silently emerged from all corners of the study, locking on the dark shadows in the distance.

The black shadow's momentum froze, and his voice softened: "Your Excellency, I didn't mean that!" I mean, since we have always had a good friendship and cooperative relationship, why don't we continue this friendship? ”

"If our civilization dies, it will undoubtedly be good for the empire, but what is the point for you? Thinking about how many years we have supported each other and helped each other, how many interests of your family need our secret care to be guaranteed, are you willing to lose all this in vain? ”

This is true, although this group of unsightly creatures makes him hateful, it is undeniable that he and his family do profit a lot from them, and without them, how could his family business become one of the most well-known conglomerates in the empire in just a few decades?

Yu Hongbo's face softened slightly: "Your point of view is not unreasonable, but you also have to think about it, how big is the basket you poked out this time?" Dozens of dominions, tens of billions of imperial people, in just over a month, were actually killed and plundered, all the wealth was plundered, since the empire rose, how could it have suffered such a big loss? ”

"Those hard-liners don't talk about it for the time being, even those moderates and neutrals, they all have very big opinions about you at this time, and they want me to speak for you at this time, do you wish I was drowned by the saliva of the people of the trillion empire?"

Some things are well known to both sides, human civilization has expanded all the way, rising in the course of the conquest of blood and fire, during which it has not encountered strong enemies, and several times it was even almost forced to the brink of extinction, but in the end, they all survived, and the price was that those strong enemies were wiped out one by one and disappeared in the long river of time.

Since the Gambino royal court has made such a big move this time, there is no need for it to continue to exist! At least among the Empire's highest decision-makers, this view has gradually gained the support of most of the bigwigs.

Of course, what Yu Hongbo is most annoyed about is that these guys act without even saying hello, and wait until the matter is big and out of control before they think about coming to him for help, but how can he help with such a big matter?

The black shadow was silent for a moment, and said:

"Yes, we did it this time! But this was only an unauthorized action of Sagusnocchi's subordinates, and the elders of the royal court were not aware of it in advance, so they ......"

"This is your internal problem, I don't care," Yu Hongbo said coldly,

"I just want to know, how much are you willing to pay this time to facilitate the withdrawal of the Empire? Remember, everyone understands people, and it's not the first time we've worked together, so you don't have to fool me with those high-sounding, nonsensical words! Go straight and don't waste time! ”

The black shadow's voice choked for a moment before continuing: "The forces of Sagusnocchi's troops can be completely handed over to the Imperial Legion, of course, it can't be given to the Empire itself, because our Council of Elders of the Royal Court wants to arrest it and go back to discuss the crime. ”

"The property and population they have captured this time can be completely returned to the empire, and the royal court will cede the fifteen resource star fields of the province of Liujin, and pay the war reparations of 20 billion imperial energy points!"

"Eventually, the royal court will issue a public statement apologizing to the Empire for the accident and promising that similar problems will never happen again in the future! What do you think of such conditions? ”

"It can't be!" Yu Hongbo flatly refused,

"With this trivial benefit, you want to resolve the crisis of extermination? Do you want food when you are an Imperial Legion? Perhaps I should remind you again that tomorrow evening the Supreme Council will meet to discuss the situation in the northwest, and it will be too late to say anything! ”

The black figure shook slightly for a moment, seeming to be a little surprised, and only after a few seconds did it say, "So, how about doubling the amount of compensation?" ”

Yu Hongbo sneered and said, "It seems that you really don't cry when you don't see the coffin, it's okay, you go find someone else!" I don't care about it! ”

"That'...... What kind of conditions are needed to satisfy the top of the empire, why don't you tell us about the regulations! "The black shadow is helpless.

Yu Hongbo sat up straight, stared at each other with cold eyes, and said, "First of all, Sagusnoch must die, and in addition, your royal court will have to sacrifice the lives of at least two elders; Secondly, the royal court must cede to the empire a total of 139 star fields in the six provinces near the northwest side of the empire! ”

"Third, in addition to returning all the captured imperial citizens and property, the royal court also has to bear all the reconstruction costs of dozens of dominions, and pay an additional 300 billion imperial energy points!"

"Finally, the royal court must make a public statement, at least formally recognizing the empire as its suzerain!"

The black shadow was stunned for a while before he reacted, his voice distorted from excessive anger: "This is too harsh, we will never agree!" Instead of that, we might as well fight with all your might! ”

Yu Hongbo said stiffly: "Then let's fight!" With the strength of the Imperial Legion, it won't be too difficult to get these things on the battlefield, and you will get more! I look forward to the bravery of your warriors on the battlefield! ”

"This ......," the black shadow couldn't help but stop for a while.

Yu Hongbo knocked lightly on the table and said indifferently: "Compared with the crisis of extermination, this condition is nothing at all, if you don't even want to take out this little benefit, then you don't need to trouble me to speak!" Because the end result will not change in the slightest! ”

"Well, such a condition is beyond my authority, may I ask for advice?" The dark shadow asked.

"It's up to you, but you're running out of time, and I hope we can get results soon! Also, you must not only entrust me alone, but also have some relationship, you don't need to keep it at this time, just look for it if you can! One more person will speak for you, and you will have a greater certainty. And ......" Yu Hongbo leaned forward slightly, stared at the other party and said word by word:

"You have to come up with 100 billion energy points alone as the price of my hard work for you!"

"Your Excellency, your appetite is bigger than I thought!" The black shadow said in shock and anger, "I just don't know if such a big benefit from Lu Dao will ruin your appetite!" ”

He smiled: "This doesn't bother you to worry, my appetite has always been very good!" ”

The black shadow was speechless, bowed silently, and turned to leave.

Yu Hongbo looked at the back of the other party leaving, a touch of mockery appeared on the corner of his mouth, picked up the tea cup on the table, and drank the already cold tea.

That night, in the center of the empire, many mysterious figures ran around, secretly visiting countless big people with overt or covert powers, hoping to win a chance for their people to survive.

……

"Your Excellency, do you have any advice on the outcome of tomorrow night's meeting?"

In the command center of the Imperial Ministry of Defense, in the top-secret interstellar communication room, Marshal Qin Weigeng was standing in front of a projection screen. Xue Cangyun inside asked him after reporting the battle situation on the front line.

I haven't seen him for many days, and the first person in the imperial military looks much haggard, and there is a lot of hoarfrost between his temples, which shows that the changes on the northwest front will not be a small blow to him.

Hearing his subordinate's question, he smiled reluctantly and asked, "What do you need me to do for you?" Just say it! Anyway, I won't be in this position for long, and it would be nice to use my spare heat before going to court-martial. ”

Xue Cangyun sighed secretly in his heart and said, "I want to get the authorization to attack the royal court in an all-out way, for the sake of reducing and expecting casualties, it is best to increase some troops!" I wonder if there is a problem with this requirement? ”

"Originally, there was no problem," Qin Weigeng smiled bitterly,

"But those restless alien civilizations are ready to move again, especially the Northern Hell Civilization has recently deployed troops on the border line, and it seems that there are plans to launch a large-scale offensive, so the attention of the high-level to the northwest is no longer as important as expected."

"Are they going to withdraw like this?" Xue Cangyun asked in disbelief,

"So many imperial civilians have died, so many losses, and it is just like this? What the hell do those damn politicians think? ”

Qin Weigeng shook his head, not wanting to discuss too much on this discouraging topic: "Politics is like this, and the best results are usually difficult to appear, but there may not be no workarounds. ”

"How?" Xue Cangyun's eyes lit up and asked.

"I will try my best to delay the resolution of the Supreme Council on the handling of the situation in the northwest, so that you can act cheaply before the dust settles!" Qin Weigeng is categorical,

"Since those damn dog crumbs dare to brush the tiger's beard, they must have the consciousness to pay a heavy price!"

"Okay, I see!" Xue Cangyun nodded and said no more.