In the following years, Zhu Lei and the officials of the Ming Empire were all preparing to send an envoy to the galaxy, after all, no matter what, whether it is around the solar system or around the Ocean of Light, it is the edge of the galaxy, and even the black bear star field where the black bear civilization is located is also the edge of the galaxy.

However, now the Ming Empire is strong, although it has now occupied the Ocean of Light, and has temporarily satisfied the current survival and living space of the Ming Empire, but the civilization wants to further develop obviously cannot be satisfied with the status quo, so it is necessary for the Ming Empire to move towards the big stage of the galaxy, and it is also a major strategic goal of the Ming Empire government.

And according to Zhu Lei's speculation, in addition to the known fifth- and sixth-level civilizations in the galaxy, there may even be seventh-level civilizations, after all, the entire galaxy is so big that it is impossible to not even have a seventh-level civilization, but because the civilization level has not reached, it is impossible to contact the existence of seventh-level civilizations at all, and of course, it is not ruled out that there is really no seventh-level civilization in the entire galaxy.

However, the galaxy is too big, more than 100,000 light years away, even a sixth-level civilization cannot be said to have explored all the places in the galaxy.

And Zhu Lei's first target of their mission this time is the closest prosperous star field to the Ming Empire, which is about 1500 light years away from the solar system, the Orion Nebula is actually a star manufacturing factory, although there is no black hole in this area, but the density of stars here far exceeds the ocean of light.

According to the estimation of the Ming Empire Space Center, the Orion Nebula is a remnant of an ancient star cluster, and its core diameter has reached a distance of about 20 light years, and the entire Orion Nebula is far larger than the Ocean of Light.

There are even several star clusters similar to the Ocean of Light around Orion, and according to the information obtained from Vena, the civilization that controls the Orion Nebula is also a fifth-level civilization, and even in the fifth-level civilization, it is also quite powerful, and its scientific and technological strength is almost the same as that of the Ming Empire, and in terms of military strength and civilization heritage, it far exceeds the current strength of the Ming Empire.

Therefore, for such a civilization, it is still necessary to visit the Ming Empire, a powerful fifth-level civilization.

After all, the entire galaxy is more than 100,000 light-years away, and the Ming Empire is only 1,500 light-years away from the Orion Nebula.

The most important thing is that, according to the exploration in the past few years, the wormhole 150 light-years away in the solar system leads to the direction of the Orion Nebula, but it does not reach it directly, and it still needs to pass through several wormholes in the middle to reach the Orion Nebula.

Therefore, although the Ming Empire is more than 1,500 light-years away from the Orion Nebula, if you go to the Orion Nebula by conventional navigation or warp speed navigation, then it will take at least nearly a hundred years to reach the Orion Nebula from the Ming Empire, but if you pass through the wormhole, then it will take a lot less time.

It only takes more than ten years to reach the Orion Nebula from the Ming Empire.

Although the first destination of the human mission is the Orion Nebula, this is not a simple task, even if there is a wormhole, according to the estimation of the scientists of the Ming Empire, at least three wormholes need to be passed, and in the middle of the three wormholes, it is also necessary to pass through the territory of several fourth-level civilizations, so although it seems that it only takes ten or twenty years to go to Orion, it is enough, but things cannot be seen like this, although these fourth-level civilizations on the road are not worthy of the attention of the Ming Empire.

However, in any case, the location of these fourth-level civilizations is very crucial, and it is the place where the Ming Empire must pass through to the Orion Nebula, after all, if you use the conventional warp speed navigation method, it will take too long, and if you take the wormhole, it is a shortcut, you must pass through the territory of several of their civilizations.

According to the data, the highest level of Chinese Ming of these civilizations is a quasi-fifth-level civilization, that is, a fourth-level top-level civilization, and the lowest level of civilization is only a civilization that has just been promoted to a fourth-level civilization.

However, since these materials are from four or five thousand years ago, it is uncertain whether these civilizations in the materials have successfully advanced to the fifth level civilization.

However, this probability is very small, after all, not all civilizations have cheats like the Ming Empire, and they can successfully become a fifth-level civilization from a third-level civilization in just one or two thousand years.

You must know which fifth-level civilization in the galaxy has not successfully advanced to a fifth-level civilization after hundreds of thousands of years of hard work, so the possibility of these civilizations wanting to advance to a fifth-level civilization in just a few thousand years is very slim.

But no matter what, the Ming Empire must control these civilizations to make them subordinate civilizations of the Ming Empire, or directly let these words disappear into the universe, after all, this route is too important for the Ming Empire, so important that it must not let this route fall into the hands of other fifth- or sixth-level civilizations.

Of course, in addition to the official forces, the private forces will also join the delegation this time.

After all, the development of a civilization does not only rely on the official, but also on the power of the people, and the Ming Empire has not ignored the existence of these forces, and this time the Ming Empire will naturally not ignore their existence.

And the galaxy strategy of the Ming Empire after the most important thing is to rely on civilian forces rather than military power or official forces, the official Ming Empire in addition to the current black bear civilization has not been solved, in the future, the Ming Empire's external expansion will be dominated by the civilian power of the Ming Empire, and the Ming Empire is not ready to participate in it more.

After all, the Ming Empire has now begun to work hard to climb to a higher level of civilization.

Before that, whether it was the occupation of the Kara galaxy when he just walked out of the solar system, or the occupation of the Ocean of Light later, it was mainly based on the official power of the Ming Empire, and the civil power could only be regarded as a subsidiary, or even a subsidiary, after all, the civil power of the Ming Empire at that time was too weak, and it was also quite loose, if it only relied on the civil power to occupy the Ocean of Light, it was impossible, so the civil power at that time had the heart but was powerless.

After all, the civil power of the entire Ming Empire was very weak at that time, even Zhu Lei's Yongan Group was actually a semi-official force, after all, he was the royal family of the Ming Empire, and he represented the Ming Empire, so in the eyes of ordinary people, his Yongan Group was actually the official and non-public force of the Ming Empire.