Rebellion in the southern frontier of the Empire. It's been going on for almost a year.

Twelve provinces, a total of more than 300 star fields, equivalent to the entire territory of a first-class power! Hundreds of billions of people and countless resources, if all of them can be used by the empire, it is obvious that the national strength will be improved!

However, under the secret instigation of certain forces, coupled with the corruption of many imperial officials, they have done evil! It seriously damaged the image of the imperial government and intensified the contradictions between the local people and the government!

The rebellion, unsurprisingly, broke out!

At that time, the emperor had just died, Fang Yuqing ascended the throne, and the hearts of the people in the government and the opposition fluctuated. In the eyes of those forces, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Using the rebellion to contain the actions of the Imperial Legion and deplete the Empire's national power, it can also effectively damage the Empress's prestige. As long as things develop in this direction, it won't be long before the empire can fall into the quagmire of southern Xinjiang without getting out!

At that time, the empress, whose prestige had plummeted, was afraid that she would not be able to keep her seat! The overall situation of the empire will develop in the direction they most want! The best outcome is to take its place; If you are unlucky, the royal family will also be hollowed out; Even if it is the last result, your own family will gain more power and benefits!

As for what kind of consequences the empire will face as a result, they will not care!

The reason why the rebellion turned into a burning prairie in a very short period of time was all because of their covert support, otherwise it would have been impossible for the rebels to do it with their own strength!

However, the Empress, though young, is not as weak and deceitful as they think! In addition to decisively ordering troops to quell the rebellion, the intelligence network of the royal family and the Imperial Security Department has not been idle!

After a period of careful investigation, the empress, who had obtained enough evidence, began to launch a fierce counterattack!

The twelve newly appointed governors of the provinces were all stripped of their positions and titles, all fiefs and possessions were recovered, and then publicly hanged! Along with them are a large number of middle- and lower-level officials! Even Chen Yinjie, the imperial prime minister who has always shielded and connived at them, has lost his official position!

Then, the empress ordered the mobilization of heavy troops, with Marshal Xue Chunfeng to lead the army, and make every effort to encircle and suppress the rebels in southern Xinjiang. Another great purge in the imperial capital! All the clan forces associated with the rebels have been harshly suppressed!

The power struggle has no family affection and benevolence to speak of, and the empress's approach is an inevitable reaction that any qualified monarch will make!

After months of encirclement and suppression, the rebels, who had lost the vast majority of external aid, suffered heavy losses and lost their momentum!

Two months ago, on her way to visit the Starlight Kingdom, the Empress inspected the southern frontier and ordered the Praetorian Guard to participate in the battle to encircle and suppress the rebels!

After more than a dozen fierce battles, the rebels lost one after another, and were compressed to a limited number of small star systems! The Empire's armies have surrounded it, and its total annihilation is just around the corner!

However, during this time, the intelligence department has investigated more and more shady scenes! Almost forty percent of the wealthy families in the imperial capital have been implicated, especially the heads of the six major families! There are also local family forces in southern Xinjiang!

The rebels' warships, energy crystals, weapons, logistics supplies, etc., are all secretly provided by them through some foreign companies! Even the military has some people who secretly inform them of the movements of the Imperial Legion to suppress bandits!

The Imperial Legion headquarters building is heavily guarded.

The ones who are on guard are no longer the elite of the Imperial Ability Legion, but a group of royal guards dressed in black heavy enclosed light armor, holding heavy halberds, and exuding a dignified, solemn, and cold aura all around them!

Among them, the area close to the underground command center is the palace guard with a higher status and strength! The ice blue light armor outlines smooth and undulating soft lines, and under the sealed mask, it is impossible to see what the woman inside is, but just looking at the slender figure is enough to make any male who sees them faintly feel instinctive restlessness in his heart!

Of course, looking at the entire empire, any man with a normal IQ would not think of the idea of beating them, which is tantamount to directly provoking the majesty of the empress!

In the large conference room, at the end of the long mahogany conference table, the young empress was dressed in military uniform, sitting on the main seat with a cold expression, and a shocking cold glint flashed in her dark eyes from time to time! Never far from her side was still the mysterious manager Yan.

On both sides of her head, dozens of senior generals sat precariously with respectful expressions, and they didn't dare to come out!

A Praetorian Guard officer with the rank of Major General was standing to report the situation:

“…… Your Majesty! That's the way it is today! There are four rebel armies, two of which have been completely wiped out, and the main leaders have been captured or killed! The remaining two have been split into several divisions, which have been surrounded and blocked by the Imperial Army, and their current range of activities is limited to three small star systems......"

The empress listened for a while, her head lowered, and her beautiful eyes under her long eyelashes began to pay attention to a thin paper document placed on the table, white and beautiful, and her elegant jade hand gently flipped.

The document is not thick, only a few pages, and the content is not complicated, it is just a name, and each name is followed by a concise language to explain it. For example, the identity of the name owner, family lineage, local influence, etc.!

This is the information collected by the joint investigation of the Imperial Security Department and the Imperial Intelligence Agency, and the people on the list are all people with heads and faces in the twelve provinces and more than three hundred star fields, and most of their origins are from long-standing families!

The rebels in southern Xinjiang, which once threatened the star field in the heart of the empire, once had millions of warships at its peak, conquering cities and conquering cities, invincible! The organization is so tight, and the combat power is so strong that even the regular army of the empire is not as good as it!

The counterinsurgency army sent by the empire on the first two occasions suffered defeat because they did not know the true strength of the opponent! The government and the opposition were in an uproar, and the whole country was shaken!

The investigation of the imperial intelligence department showed that the reason why these rebels were so difficult was that in addition to the secret help of the forces of the imperial capital, these local families were also indispensable!

Originally, this was once the territory of the Xuanluo Federation, and after the empire incorporated it into its territory, the interests of these aborigines were inevitably damaged to a greater or lesser extent! It's just that the strength is not good, even if you are dissatisfied, you can only swallow your anger!

However, the misdeeds of the new governor and other officials have radicalized these contradictions, which could have been slowly resolved over time! Coupled with the change of the supreme ruler of the empire and the support of certain forces in the upper echelons of the empire, these aborigines have seen hope!

The slogans of the rebels were at first to punish unscrupulous officials, demand certain autonomy rights, and so on; Later, after defeating the imperial army one after another, their appetite became more and more inflated, and they openly played the banner of self-reliance, and even had plans to attack the empire!

However, all these ambitions have come to naught with the queen's resolute and ruthless counterattack!

Fang Yuqing looked at the list in front of her, and said nothing with a cold face.

Now the situation has stabilized, but the impact of this rebellion on the empire is far from over!

Millions of troops went out on the march, labored and paid, and the consumption of resources in all aspects was a staggering number! And this is all paid by hundreds of millions of people under the rule of the empire!

The Empire's war machine wasted almost a year on this! As a result, the long-drawn plan for the external attack had to be postponed completely! This has caused a series of negative effects, as well as various tangible and intangible losses!

The empire has so much to lose for such a rebellion!

Now, all the rebels are about to be destroyed, and peace will be restored to the twelve provinces of southern Xinjiang, and from then on they can truly integrate into the empire and become an inseparable part of the empire's territory! This is the opinion of some optimistic scholars.

But is that really how things are going to go?

At least, only a tiny fraction of the family consortia that once openly and covertly supported the rebels were punished! Most were spared.

The reason is also very simple, that is, these family forces are intertwined, and they affect the whole body, if they catch too much, it will inevitably affect the stable development of the local area! The situation that has finally calmed down has been twisted and turned!

The empress sneered in her heart: these wastes who only know how to settle things are full of innocent and beautiful fantasies! It's still self-righteous!

Why don't they want to think about it, those families dare to support the rebels unscrupulously because they are afraid of it! Now tolerate and condone them, and if they make trouble at home again when the empire goes to war with foreign countries in the future, won't it be a fire in the backyard?

If you want to do it once and for all, you can only ...... She couldn't help but clench the papers in her hand.

At some point, the Major General's debriefing was completed. All the generals set their eyes on the empress who was still stunned.

"Your Majesty! What other orders do you have for the next actions of the Imperial Army? Xue Chunfeng coughed lightly, stood up and asked.

"How long will it take for Qing to wipe out the remnants of the rebels?" The Empress had already made up her mind and asked.

Xue Chunfeng looked at the other colleagues and promised in a solemn voice: "A week at most!" ”

"That's good! However, as far as I know, the last planets they entrenched in were all the own territories that the families that led the rebellion had been running for a long time? Almost all of the people living on it are their people, right? The Empress asked calmly as she stared at the famous general who had been loyal to her.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xue Chunfeng looked at her face and asked tentatively:

"Do you want to exile all the people on these planets as a price for their clan's support of the rebellion? As was customary, they were supposed to serve at least thirty years of hard labor! to be forgiven! ”

"Exile? Slavery? Fang Yuqing sneered, "Don't you think it's too cheap for them?" ”

"Then Your Majesty, what do you mean ......"

"My meaning is very simple, there is only one way to deal with these rebellious ministers and thieves-" The empress slapped the table lightly, and two words popped out indifferently from her bright and moving red lips: "Slaughter Star!" ”

"By this time tomorrow, I don't want any living humanoids on that planet!"

"And the people on this list, even their families, don't have to continue to exist! Everything, Xue Qing, you can watch and deal with it! Luo Han Xing will cooperate with your actions! ”