Chapter 21: Struggle
The word Upila is not a lingua franca, but comes from Adele, which means pasture in the language of the Piantes people, and the implication is that this is just a pasture of the Great Qin Empire, and it is no longer the capital of the Tinasin Empire.
More than 500 kilometers away from Pozia's palace, a complex of buildings not much smaller than the Empress's palace, of course, this is not a single person, a family, but the original Tinasin Empire family gathered here.
A small and extravagant room was crowded with people, most of them women, which had a lot to do with the social structure of the Tinasin, who were the heads of the major families of the original Tinasin Empire on the Capital Star and some nobles who could still stay on the Capital Star.
"Quiet." A woman who looked to be in her forties or fifties sighed in a deep voice, which was quite old for the Tinasins.
The crowd around them who were arguing fiercely about something closed their mouths when they heard her speak, and it didn't take long for the whole room to fall silent.
"Duke Spartia, what do you have to say?" An extremely delicate woman next to her asked at this time, quite flattering.
The Tinasin Empire is not without a king, almost all the lords who have territories are the daughters of the empress, and each has the title of a lord, but now none of them are on the capital star, the majesty of the empress cannot be challenged, and all the daughters who have the strength to threaten the status of the empress are all sent to their territories.
Without the Empress's permission, these lords were not allowed to enter the capital system.
So all that remains here are the lords of the previous generation who have lost their territories, and the nobles of the empire who control the various industries.
This Duke of Spartia is the sister of Empress Pocia, although she is a duke, she has no real power on weekdays, but only controls several huge military production bases in the empire, and has become a veteran nobleman with great voice on the capital star, and her processing enterprises are also all over the empire.
Since she did not threaten Pokia's throne, although she was strong, the empress ignored it.
The Duke of Spartia raised his slightly lowered eyelids, and his hand was still rubbing the medal that symbolized the imperial title.
"Guys, what problem can you solve by arguing like this?"
"Today we are here to discuss countermeasures, the Tinasin Empire is gone, what should we nobles do? Now the Great Qin fleet has blocked the Fulena system, and not a single ship is allowed to take off. ”
"Those Great Qin people have no foundation here, and they won't stay here at all, we should calm down, at most we will lose some property. Besides, we don't have all our inheritance here, and we don't have much to find interesting on the capital planet. ”
As she spoke, she yelled, "But who the hell let you assassinate Governor Chiklin? ”
"Although I also hate that guy who sees the wind and rudders, but now there is Daqin's fleet outside the capital star, and we don't even have a battleship that can take off, doesn't this drive us to a dead end?"
Everyone was silent, and even a few young girls on the periphery showed disdain.
"The older you get, the more afraid you are of death." I don't know who said it in a low voice.
"Who, who?" The Duke of Spartia was clearly enraged by this. She shouted angrily, "You are looking for death. ”
"Spartia, don't get excited."
A woman wearing heavy makeup, even in such a pleasant temperature as the Capital Star, was wearing an animal skin coat and hurriedly persuaded her, her gray face looking even more gray against the snow-white leather coat.
"We're here to discuss solutions, not quarrels."
"What's the best way to do it? The fleet of hundreds of thousands outside did not block Daqin's attack. I don't know who interjected.
"We can concentrate the power we have now!" The voice came from behind the crowd again.
"Our Rothchild family is willing to take out the two warships hidden on the capital star, and we have contacted the system where the family is located, where there are thirty warships of our family."
The Tinasin Empire has always allowed folk families to have a certain amount of armament, as long as it meets the requirements of the empire, but these armaments are not allowed to exceed the local garrison, whether overt or covertly, otherwise they will face severe attacks from the empire.
Of course, there are countless big families in history who think that they can compete with the empire and the empress if they control a certain amount of resources, but without exception, they have all been uprooted by the empire with the power of thunder, without any mercy, even those empresses' sisters.
The warships this person is talking about are not military warships, the empire does not allow the number of warships to exceed the standard, but it does not say that it is not allowed to exceed the regular fleet in terms of performance and quality, so these families are committed to building their own powerful warships.
Although the number is smaller, each of them has outstanding performance, and these thirty warships of the Rothschild family are enough to be worth a hundred fleets of the Empire.
When one person started, someone immediately chimed in: "My family is also willing to take out twenty warships." ”
"I'm willing to take out fifty battleships."
Now, for the sake of the family's survival and preservation of the existing wealth, these people have to concentrate the power at hand. Although it is a bit like a final struggle, if you don't even do this, I guess there will be no chance.
"But even if we gather the fleet, it's useless, there are still fleets inside and outside the Fulena galaxy that are controlled by the fleet of the Great Qin Empire, and even so many fleets of the empire can't resist it, so it doesn't seem that our fleet is of the best use."
Someone questioned it, and immediately there was a lot of discussion.
"Do we have to resist?"
"If you don't resist, do you still expect the Great Qin Empire to let us go?"
This sentence made everyone lose their voices again, they knew in their hearts that no one could guarantee this, just think about the surrounding territories that were encroached upon by the Tinasin Empire, which one was not completely looted by the Tinasin Empire.
Even the owners of those who had wealth with them became prisoners, and were even bought as slaves, although it is said that Tinasin is not a slave empire, but some of the surrounding areas are.
"I don't want to lose everything I have now." One woman said with a slight cry, "These are the riches I have accumulated all my life." ”
"What is your little wealth, our Rothel family is a family that has been inherited from the empire for thousands of years, and more than a hundred galaxies have our wealth, and now everything is gone. I'm not reconciled, I'm not reconciled! The ruler of House Rothier cried out in a frenzy.
"Don't howl."
At this time, the old duchess Spartia shouted again, her voice was slightly sharp, like the cry of a nighthawk, "What is your little wealth, what is there to cry about, although I have no rights in the empire, I am not short of money, I am not desperate now, what do you have to despair." ”
"You also know that I don't have any family, my family is royal, I don't have a territory, even if I have more wealth, it's royal, but I have warships, and there are five hundred warships in my construction base that have not been delivered to the empire."
Spartia's face also showed a subtle look, and she reached out and pressed down, quieting everyone down.
"Now that Empress Pokia has failed, and the Empire has no Empress, if we can succeed this time, I will become the Empress of the Tinasin Empire."
Spartia also spoke with a hint of majesty at this time.
On the one hand, she is a royal family herself, and now it is estimated that almost all of the territories of the lords outside the empire have been captured by the Great Qin Empire, and the fate of those lords does not want to know. Now the royal family that the entire Tinasin Empire has found in the capital star is estimated to be the current old duke Spartia, except for some young princesses.
Under the imperial system, only those in the royal family are eligible to become empresses, which has become a stereotype, and it is the inherent consciousness formed by the Tinasin Empire that has been inherited for tens of thousands of years.
Others are not qualified to challenge this yet.
This is what the Duke of Spartia has meant by now, she doesn't care about wealth, she wants to take this opportunity to be the empress again, although she didn't even have the courage to compete with Pocia for the throne back then.
Seeing that everyone did not squeak and did not object, the old duke was interested.
"I also know that Empress Pokia has an underground battleship base on the capital star, which has a hundred warships stored in it, and we can attack it inside and out."
"It's strange, the Great Qin Empire has occupied the Fulena system, but why hasn't it cut off the connection between the capital star and the outside world?"
"That's because they have no experience, I heard that this Great Qin Empire is just a small empire that has just been established."
"A small empire? The Small Empire is also able to defeat our Tinasin Empire. The man was speechless.
"Even if we have gathered two thousand warships now, we still can't resist the Great Qin fleet of the Fulena system, right?"
The old duke Spartia spoke again at this time: "As far as I know, the Great Qin Empire's fleet has begun to evacuate the Fulena system. ”
"What? Duke of Spartia, how do you know? ”
"What's so difficult about this, I bought the Governor of Chiklin who was assassinated by you, and I learned from her that the officials of the Great Qin fleet personally told the Cheklin that the fleet was withdrawing, and this place will be handed over to the Governor of Chiklin to manage."
Speaking of this, the Duke of Spartia scolded angrily again, "Who let you do it without permission, this place is already under my control, you fools will do bad things." ”
"Old Duke, ah, no, Your Majesty, we are in a hurry, and we have no choice, and that damned Governor Chiklin knows that he has come to blackmail us."
Her Majesty immediately made the Duke of Spartia lose his anger.
"Okay, you all take out the battleship, if we can subdue the Vlena system this time, I will give you a fief." Anyway, most of the territories outside have been lost, and there is no pressure on the Duke of Spartia to speak out.
Everyone cheered, knowing that it was not difficult to obtain a title in the Tinasin Empire, but it would be very difficult to obtain a territory, unless you were the daughter of the Empress, even the territory of the daughter of the previous Empress would be lost with the succession of the new Empress.
"Then your families will gather the warships in their hands and agree to launch an attack outside the Vlena system in three days, and more than a hundred warships on the capital star will also take the opportunity to take the remaining fleets in the capital system by surprise, and then we will call on the fleets of each territory to drive the Great Qin Empire fleet out of Tinasin."