The Imperial Capital of the Northern Hell Prison.

The Temple of Cardinals, with its strange style and blood-red tone, still stands quietly, unchanged for thousands of years, silently witnessing the ups and downs of this ancient civilization.

In the secret room deep in the cardinal's temple, the Pope and Yanli looked worriedly at Twilight Hilde on the central throne.

The aura of this super powerhouse was much dimmer than before, and it could be seen that the experience in the Holy Domain, coupled with the failure of the previous negotiations in the Huaxia Imperial Capital, had indeed hurt him a lot.

Of course, with the power and resources at his disposal, it is not too difficult to fully recover himself. The point is, it takes time!

However, the crisis facing the empire is now unprecedented, and the two superpowers in the north and southeast are fighting at the same time, such a difficult situation has not occurred for thousands of years! Therefore, the current Blazing Yue Great Lord does not have the opportunity to recuperate and recover with peace of mind!

"Is our legion on the Northern Frontier front nearly wiped out?" Twilighthild's hoarse voice echoed through the chamber.

"Yes, Father!" Yan Li replied softly,

"Marshal Belosrontet has done his best, but he still can't resist the offensive of the Huaxia Legion, and even the newly arrived reinforcements are ......"

Although they managed to get the two empires of Huaxia and Qingqiu to agree to a temporary ceasefire and return to the negotiating table to solve the problem, because the people of the Northern Hell did not have much sincerity at all, only two days later, the Huaxia Legion launched another large-scale offensive!

Due to the two-day buffer time for the Northern Hell Prisoners, and the fact that reinforcements had already arrived, Berosrontet organized a decent counter-offensive. Unfortunately, it still failed to recover the decline.

Lin Yixiong after breaking through the defense line of the Northern Hell Prisoners. No more scruples. Wave the army and assault! Dozens of star fields were captured in a week, and the Qingqiu Empire launched a large-scale offensive on the southeastern border, the defense line was torn apart two days ago, and the Northern Hell Legion was scattered, and more than fifteen star fields have fallen so far.

Although the current Northern Hell Empire still has strong enough strength, the effect of the general mobilization is gradually showing up! However, they have lost the opportunity in terms of strategy, and all parties in Xinghai really don't have much optimism about the next battle process.

So now, even some small and medium-sized forces around the empire are already trying to send troops to take advantage of the fire! Although their strength is limited. It won't be able to get in for a while, but if this trend continues, the situation of the people of the Northern Hell will only get more and more severe!

Twilight Hilde was silent for a long time, and said, "How much strength do we have available to support two large-scale wars at the same time?" ”

The Pope bowed his head and pondered for a moment, then replied: "There are not many elite legions left in our northern frontier of the empire, and the fleets currently transferred from all over the country to that strategic direction add up to more than thirty legions, which in absolute terms is much stronger than the strength of the Huaxia people!" But whether they can repel them or not is still between the two! ”

"The regiments transferred to the southeastern border are about the same number! Taken together, this is already all the elite military power that our empire can currently use! ”

"Of course. In the period after the start of the general mobilization, we formed almost a hundred more corps. It's just that the army was formed in a hurry, and the combat effectiveness cannot be guaranteed at all! For the time being, they can only be allowed to defend the place and replace those elite legions to go to the battlefield! ”

"In other words, if the current situation continues, if we don't stop fighting, our losses will be even greater!" Is that so? ”

Yan Li sighed and said gloomily: "Father, I don't doubt the strength of the empire, with our family background, as long as it drags on for a while, we will always be able to ease our breath, but this loss is impossible to estimate at all!" All the star fields that have been patronized by the legions of those two great powers have basically been reduced to scorched earth, and our people ...... There are too many dead and wounded! ”

According to the estimation of the temple, when the Northern Hell Civilization gains a firm foothold and really begins to recover its decline, there will be at least more than thirty provinces that will be captured by the legions of these two great powers, although they will all be taken back in the end, but don't expect many useful things left on these territories, including the people!

Such a heavy loss is also a level of nerve-wracking for the profound Northern Hell civilization! Don't even think about recovery in a hundred years!

"So, the only option we have now is to negotiate?" Twilight Hilde said bitterly,

"Agree to their unreasonable demands, and then you can control the losses within a certain range! Gain enough time to regain your strength! ”

The Pope didn't say anything, such a big matter must be decided after consulting with His Majesty the Emperor and several other reclusive dignitaries. Of course, as long as this Blazing Great Lord and the guardian saint of the Northern Hell Civilization nodded, the next thing would be much easier!

There are few real fools who can get to the top, and in today's situation, even if the price of peace talks is land reparations, they can only choose to accept it! After all, such an approach can at least ensure that more people will not be slaughtered by the opposing army!

Half a day later, several bigwigs at the pinnacle of power in the Northern Hell civilization reached a consensus, so Foreign Minister Mandetena, who was still in the imperial capital of China, immediately made an urgent appointment with Tang Xudong and once again put forward a request for peace talks.

This time, the attitude of the people of the Northern Hell has softened a lot, and they have promised enough benefits to show the sincerity of the negotiations.

"Your Excellency, this is your last chance!"

In the conference room, Tang Xudong said to Mandetena with a smile: "I don't deny it, the conditions for peace talks are very harsh!" But you have no choice, and if we let our soldiers take it ourselves, you will surely lose even more! ”

"If you fail like this a few more times, maybe you won't even have a chance to negotiate! Don't forget, there are still many races that want to fight your mind! They are no easier to cope with than the Empire! ”

"So, in order to save your country and people, don't hesitate! The patience of our Huaxia Legion is limited! ”

Mandetena said tactfully, "Your Excellency, I can understand your request!" But the stakes are high. Can we come to an agreement first? That is, the military strength of both sides must remain in their current position. It is better to disengage. There must be no more hostilities, so that the negotiations will be facilitated, right? ”

"It can't be!" Tang Xudong said categorically,

"This time, we can only give you three days at most, and if we can't reach an agreement, then we won't have to negotiate anymore! Don't think about delaying the army, we don't eat this set! ”

…………

After getting the approval of Xichen Qinglan. Xiao Junling's mind had already begun to shift to this important matter, and in addition to his routine cultivation every day, the rest of the time was basically spent consulting various materials in the Savage Star Domain.

The lord system has been implemented for thousands of years, and a huge industrial system has already been formed, and forty percent of the empire's annual financial revenue comes from many overseas territories directly under the empire! And at a relatively low price, almost unlimited acquisition of all kinds of rare resources produced in those private territories!

It is thanks to these resources that the Empire has established a reserve of finished strategic resources that is proud of the entire Star Sea Realm, and almost all the resource planets in the galaxy are in a state of mothballing. as a legacy to future generations.

In other words, even if many of the Empire's overseas territories stopped sending resources to the Empire itself. The existing reserves of resources can fully meet the needs of the imperial government for fifty years!

Overseas lords are basically divided into two kinds, one is to prepare their own funds, equipment and manpower, and go out to find and open up unfamiliar star fields; The other is to lease the territory that has been taken down by those lords but has not yet been developed as a whole, and pay for the equipment themselves, and mine and refine all kinds of resources in the territory and sell them to the imperial government! Most of the annual income is handed over to the original lord, and the rest goes to himself.

This type of people are called "second lords", and relatively speaking, they can obtain less benefits than the original lord, but they have to take much less risk and have stable returns. For those who are not willing to take risks, but have the ability and funds, the "Second Lord" is undoubtedly a more suitable choice.

Xichen Qinglan's original intention was to let him become the "second lord", so that he didn't have to take risks, of course, the future development achievements were naturally limited, so he refused.

After all, a man's path must be walked by himself, and it is impossible to take refuge under the wings of others forever.

"Master, you have a guest visiting, I don't know if you see it or not?" At the door of the study, the biochemical maid asked respectfully.

"Let them in!" Xiao Junling put away the documents on the table and ordered casually.

After a while, two young men and women with beautiful clothes and elegant temperaments walked in. The man is handsome, the woman is beautiful and beautiful, and the appearance of the two is strikingly similar!

"Your Excellency General, let's meet again!" The woman bowed softly and greeted.

Xiao Junling sighed and said, "Although this is a bit abrupt, I still want to ask, what should I call you now?" Sir, or Miss? ”

These two are Su Yuqian's number one henchmen, and they are also his favorite concubines! The girl in the white dress, who was born charming and cute, and had no matchless beauty, was actually a beautiful boy with a male and female appearance, named Su Yaming; And the boy who dressed up as a man next to him was a beautiful girl named Su Yaxuan!

Su Yaming, who was dressed in a skirt, looked at her sister and said disapprerovingly: "You can call it whatever you want!" We are here this time because we have an important matter to discuss with you! ”

"Oh? If it was last time, then you don't need to speak, right? Xiao Junling smiled faintly.

This is not the first time this pair has visited him, and the purpose is very simple, to recruit him for the young master of the Su family for them, and by the way, there is some kind of request that is not enough for outsiders, so it is naturally impossible for him to agree!

If it weren't for the fact that that guy was already dying, he wouldn't have been patient with him!

Su Yaxuan hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Of course it's not this, we came here this time just for the future of our sister and brother!" (To be continued......)