"Your Majesty, this is the list of all the local officials who have been confirmed and taken corresponding 'handling measures' in the past month, please take a look!"

In the imperial study, Su Shangqing presented a thick stack of documents to Yun Haoyu.

He took it and hurriedly skimmed through it, the first two pages were densely packed with names, positions, and families to which they belonged, and the rest were the confessions of these traitors, details of their collusion with the spies of the Pojiang Empire, and so on!

In addition, there are the results of the joint investigation of the major powerful departments of the empire, the analysis of the epidemic situation, and the best measures that the imperial government should take next, etc.!

I have to say that when the eyes of the entire empire, that is, the entire human world's top leaders, are focused on something, the effect is extremely amazing!

In less than two weeks, thousands of officials have been cleared! These traitors who were dragged into the water by the Bojiang heterogeneous in various similar ways were naturally immediately purged by the powerful departments of the empire mercilessly! Including the Bojiang spies who liaise with them.

Since the Imperial military has tightly sealed the border between the two countries, such a purge operation is waiting to be closed and beaten up! So far, nearly ninety percent of the black sheep have been found out and "disposed of", and the rest will probably not take long to clean up one by one.

Yun Haoyu's meaning is to first cut off the various channels for the Bojiang people to release and spread the virus at all costs, and then concentrate on cleaning up the interior, as long as these two measures can work, and then implement stricter lockdown and isolation actions on the major provinces where the epidemic is raging, the epidemic can be effectively controlled, and it will never continue to spread to the hinterland of the empire!

Then, it is necessary to concentrate resources in related fields to develop virus vaccines and various drugs to treat infected people as soon as possible!

So far, the first half of the plan has been achieved, but progress on vaccines and therapeutics is significantly behind the target! If you want to really come up with an effective potion, it will take at least another year and a half, which makes His Majesty the Emperor a little difficult to accept!

"Tian Qing, why is the progress of the research center's plan so slow? What went wrong? Yun Haoyu asked with some displeasure, "If you still need any resources, or additional funds, you just have to ask, and the entire empire will do its best to support you!" As long as you can produce results within the scheduled deadline! ”

Tian Song smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Your Majesty, there is no problem in terms of funds and resources, it's just that this virus mutates too quickly, and its metabolism and genetic laws are very different from all the species known to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, it seems to be ...... We have encountered a different kind of life! ”

"In short, the Empire wants to study it thoroughly and find a means to restrain it, and it simply cannot do it in a short time! Unless you can get the rare plant samples from the source of the virus from the Pojang Empire, and get the original information about how they cultivated this virus! ”

Yun Haoyu's face sank slightly: "Speaking of which, do you still have to fall on that group of aliens?" Case...... Then let Hou Yufeng go and slaughter a few of them first! Look at whether that crazy woman dares to be so arrogant in front of me! ”

"Humph! Isn't it just a virus? I don't believe that those aliens can destroy the entire human world just by relying on such unacceptable means! ”

As soon as the main army of the empire returned to the imperial capital, the emperor began to deploy the matter of destroying the Bojiang Empire, Hou Yufeng only stayed in the imperial capital for three days, and then he was ordered to start again, leading the two death star ships of the "Yingzhao" and the "Chaos" and the three million fleets to rush to the northwest frontier, and after converging with the military forces gathered there first, he was ready to attack at any time!

As long as the problem of the virus is effectively solved, His Majesty the Emperor will personally lead a large army to completely wipe out this arrogant and undead alien civilization from the Star Sea World!

Crassus was silent for a long time, and then said softly: "Your Majesty, since it is difficult for the Empire to come up with an effective solution to the virus within the predetermined time, then as for the future arrangements of the Northwest Provinces, maybe we will start preparing now!" ”

"Oh? I don't know what Qing plans to do? Let us know what you think! Yun Haoyu asked.

"The minister proposes that the cabinet first draw up a new immigration plan, and when the epidemic is over, a sufficient number of people will be relocated from the hinterland of the empire to fill the administrative planet of the Northwest Province and restore the local political and economic order!" The Prime Minister's voice was a little heavy, "The scale of the first batch of immigrants is tentatively set at 50 billion, and the relevant funds, passenger spacecraft, route arrangements, and the selection and formation of the administrative team must be handled as soon as possible, so that the negative impact of the epidemic on the empire can be eliminated as soon as possible!" I wonder what Your Majesty thinks? ”

Hearing the Prime Minister's words, the ministers' faces were a little gloomy.

Since the Empire is powerless to solve the epidemic, the only way to do this is to resort to the simplest, but most brutal, solution: completely lock down all infected administrative planets, abandon the treatment of those infestation, and let themselves die!

Wait until a year and a half later, when the epidemic is over, and all the people in the lockdown areas are almost dead, and then mass immigration from the interior will restore the administrative order of these provinces!

In this way, the empire will not have to continue to spend a lot of resources on those infected, as long as all the virus carriers are dead, the problem will be solved!

Such examples are not uncommon in the history of the human world in the past. Due to the continuous expansion of the human powers to the surrounding barbarian star fields, it is natural that they will inevitably encounter some strange beasts and virus species, which will cause disasters in the human world, large or small!

About 600 years ago, the Gnaslock Empire was in such trouble: a strange fungus from the Savage Star Domain was brought back to the empire by a group of explorers because of its delicious taste, and sold at a rare and high price.

However, it soon became clear that this thing had a terrible devouring and alienating effect on human chromosomes, and everyone who used it had undergone a terrifying mutation in the space of six to fifteen months! Genes disintegrate, sanity is lost, incapacitated, and the whole person is finally transformed into a huge, colorful mushroom-like poisonous creature!

This catastrophe lasted for almost three years, more than a hundred administrative planets, more than five billion people were infected, and the medical system of the imperial authorities was simply powerless against it!

In the end, the Imperial Government took a very cold-blooded approach, locking down all the infected planets, and then the military fleet went out in a big way to cover all the cities on these planets with artillery fire! to put an end to this deadly plague!

Because such things occur from time to time, the governments of major countries have later developed more mature emergency response mechanisms for such incidents.

When all efforts are declared null and void, this brutal purge will be listed as a last resort for the sake of the security of the entire country, and will be ordered to be carried out at the highest decision-making level!

Now it seems that the Starlight Empire has to face such a cruel choice! It's just that this time the plague spread to dozens of provinces, and the total number of infected people has exceeded 400 billion! If you can't do anything, you're afraid that none of these people will survive!

At that time, it was necessary for the Emperor to personally issue this cruel order to destroy all the cities on those planets with fleet fire, including the people inside!

However, this is, after all, more than 400 billion innocent people of the empire!

Although Yun Haoyu has killed countless people, there are already hundreds of millions of corpses under the emperor's throne! He is a veritable iron-blooded emperor, but after all, it is all aimed at the enemies of the empire and alien civilizations, and he really can't do it if he gives such an order to the people under his rule!

"Could it be...... Is there really no other way to think of that than to take this step? Yun Haoyu's voice carried a hint of imperceptible hardship.

Su Shangqing sighed and said, "Your Majesty, there is no way to do this!" Who would be willing to do such a cruel blow to the people of his own country until the last resort? ”

The world of the Star Sea is full of dangers, and human civilization has been able to overcome many difficulties and obstacles, stand out from the encirclement and interception of many viruses, fierce beasts, and hostile alien races, and have survived until now, and there are countless similar tragic experiences! However, for the sake of the country, and even for the overall benefit of human civilization, those leaders at that time made the most rational and realistic choice!

Yun Haoyu can refuse to give such an order that violates his conscience and moral bottom line, but he can't ignore his responsibility!

He is now not only the emperor of the Starlight Empire, but also the supreme king of the entire human world! On his shoulders, he bears the future and hope of human civilization, and his words and deeds affect the rise and fall of countless people in the empire.

If, in order to save these more than 400 billion people, it is undoubtedly even more irresponsible to put another tens of trillions of imperial subjects in danger!

Yun Tianque said calmly: "Your Majesty, whether you give this order or not, these infected imperial people are already difficult to preserve, it is just the difference between early death and late death!" But in this period of dozens of months, any accident can happen, and for the good of the entire empire, we really have no better choice! ”

Zhou Mengde added: "Or, we can also negotiate with the Bojiang Empire, as long as we can get a solution, it is okay to make more concessions, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks?" ”

"Enough!" Yun Haoyu's face turned cold, and he gritted his teeth fiercely and said:

"I have long said that neither the empire nor the royal family will ever make such a transaction with a foreign race that is detrimental to the interests of human civilization! As long as I am in this position, I will never bow down to those aliens! ”

He looked around, stared at the frightened ministers for a while, and said slowly:

"Inform the Imperial fleet in the vicinity of the lockdown to be prepared accordingly, and if that is not possible, ...... Let's go according to the plan! ”

"May our people ...... Be able to forgive us! ”