The Dorris Ryder Empire is also the capital star of the Golden Yao Empire.

Kraft XXIII, who should have been dying, seemed to be in much better spirits lately, much more energetic than before, and today he specially summoned the actual controllers of the Imperial Military Department, Lord Icke, and the Imperial Marshal Pendudoka.

There was no one else in the hall except for the three of them, so it could be said that it was a secret meeting.

Among the three, Marshal Pendudoca is about the same age as Kraft XXIII, but on the contrary, King Ik, who is the uncle of Kraft XXIII, looks young, who has so many children of the imperial family.

"I came here today to ask how the battle is going on on the front line?"

Kraft Twenty-three rarely cared about the front line of the empire, how did he care about it for so many years, with his uncle Wang here, no matter how bad the imperial military strength was, there was no big defeat, not to mention that the Jin Yao Empire occupied half of the river system, how to say that it was not bad, after all, the name of the first empire of Kamandor was not called in vain.

Inherited for tens of thousands of years, the empire has long been decayed, and the shelf of the empire is crumbling although it has not fallen. The various feudal realms within the empire have long been relatively independent, like a loose federation within them.

If it weren't for the fact that the Imperial Military Department was still in the hands of the Imperial Family, and for the loyalty of Lord Ike, the Empire would have fallen apart long ago. Even so, the Imperial Military Department was infiltrated and controlled by the other two major families, and there were many constraints when it came to execution.

The only one who can maintain neutrality is Marshal Pendudoka, but the old marshal is also too weak to penetrate deep into the bases.

Although the prince of Ike is the uncle of Kraft XXIII, he was raised by Kraft since he was a child, and the strife in the royal family made this mother family very ordinary The prince has not been treated well since he was born, and only Kraft XXIII raised him.

Kraft, who was still the prince at the time, was not too outstanding, on the contrary, this prince of Ike showed extraordinary military talent from an early age. He gave Kraft a great boost in his struggle for the throne, even when he was still a minor.

Who did Kraft XIII trust the most? That's definitely the Lord of Icke, even his princes are not as good as this little uncle.

"It's okay now, it's that the second largest empire that has been in conflict with us, the Doklea Empire, I don't know when it was replaced by the Kanabol Empire." Ike worried, "It is not easy for such a huge empire to be swallowed up and annexed in just a few decades. ”

"I've heard of it, but it's a pity that I don't have much control over the nine fortress bases on the front line." Marshal Pendudoka said helplessly.

"How is the Empire's armaments now?" Kraft didn't say anything about it, and he continued with his questions. That's his style.

"There are a million warships in each of the nine fortress bases on the front line, you know that this is the standard configuration of the empire, in fact, because the fortress bases controlled by the major families are far more than this number."

"Why is that?" It seems that Emperor Kraft has heard of this for the first time, after all, adding warships to the Imperial Fortress base costs money, and these families are not fools.

"To make a bigger profit, of course." Ike said with some disdain: "Those guys are not stupid at all, they know that the empire does not allow the major families to raise fleets, so they can expand their power in this way, and they can control the fortress base more effectively." ”

"And that's not thanks to His Majesty's princes, they are the ones who started it." Lord Ike was clearly unhappy with his royal grandchildren.

"Hey, hey." Kraft didn't say anything, just spat out a series of sneers, he didn't mind if Ike said that, it seemed that he wasn't ignorant of it either.

"Then how do they usually support such a large fleet?" You must know that 500,000 warships in a base is not a small number, almost half of the original strength of the fortress.

"Your Majesty, you don't know this? These families all control all areas of the empire, and this money is nothing to them. What's more......" Ike didn't continue, he was looking at Kraft's face and saw that he was not displeased, so he continued.

"What's more, they can smuggle with other countries outside their borders, smuggling in the urgently needed materials within the empire for huge profits."

"What?" Kraft's face turned very bad when he heard this, and he was almost furious.

"These guys are too bold, I said that the empire's finances have always been insufficient in the past few years, and I thought that the empire has consumed a lot of wars year after year."

"The lack of finances is also related to the years of border wars, and more importantly, these families have hollowed out the treasury in collusion with the princes."

"Ike, you're secretly investigating which princes and families are doing this, and when the time comes, hehe......" Kraft let out a sneer.

Ike also felt a chill in his back, you must know that every emperor of the Jinyao Empire stepped on the blood of his brothers to ascend to the throne, and he was not necessarily merciful to his children if he treated his brothers like this.

"I came to you today to study the war, and the war on the front line has dragged on for many years." Kraft's vision was a little blurry, apparently reminiscing.

"yes, if it weren't for ...... Unauthorized actions have aroused hostility from our neighbors, and we have a need to fight there. ”

The name of the person that Ike ignored was actually Kraft's eldest son, the prince at the time, who went to a neighboring country to plunder for his own selfishness, and even beat his mind to a mining planet on the border of the Doclarian Empire.

In order to quell the war, Kraft, who was in the prime of life at the time, led the fleet to conquer in person, which was considered to have calmed down the war, for which both sides suffered countless casualties, and Kraft personally killed his son in anger, and never established a prince.

Although the war has subsided, there have been many frictions since the incident, and in the past few years, several major battles have been fought, and both countries have suffered heavy losses, so it can be said that the enmity between the two countries has ended.

It was also since the time of Kraft's personal expedition that his body was getting worse day by day, and he had become so mediocre that he hardly asked about anything in the empire, and it was the first time in more than ten years that he had taken the initiative like today.

Kraft came back to his senses, stretched out his hand and pressed a position, and a huge star map was displayed, "The empire is too big, this is all the merit of the ancestors back then, let's not talk about expanding the territory, it is not easy to be able to hold this industry." ”

I don't know why Kraft has such feelings, it is very inconsistent with his usual appearance.

"Ike, tell me about the border war."

Ike did not hesitate, and introduced the situation of the border to Kraft on the star map, which was still easy for him, after all, the Imperial Military Department was in his hands, although the major families were constantly weakening his influence, but he had been following Kraft to fight, which made him gain a lot of prestige in the army.

"Oh,......, that's right."

While listening to Kraft, he kept nodding, "It seems that all these years, you haven't abandoned all the imperial troops I handed over to you." ”

Ike was stunned for a moment, then smiled, this is the trust that Kraft has in him.

"It's all for their own interests, who can think about the empire, fortunately, the imperial military headquarters was handed over to you at the beginning."

The old marshal Pendudoca didn't say much, but he smiled when he heard Kraft say this, and he was also the partner who fought with Kraft back then.

"Do you analyze which fortress is weaker now?"

“……”

Neither of them spoke, which was not easy to say, after all, Kraft was not easy to fool, he also knew a lot about interstellar warfare, and since he became emperor, he had fought a lot of wars, except for foreign wars, to quell the rebellion caused by his brothers and sons.

Seeing that neither of them squeaked, Kraft changed his words, "If you are the Kanapol Empire, where are you going to use as a breakthrough?" ”

Ike and Marshal Pendudoca exchanged glances, and Ike said, "If it were me, I'd attack from here." Ike pointed in the direction of the Fort Bannon base.

"Why?"

Ike looked at Kraft, "Your Majesty, do you remember the last time I reported to you?" ”

Kraft seemed to remember something, "You mean to investigate the missing planet?" ”

"Yes, you see, from Fort Bannon to here, the Empire has little to stop here, because it is close to the border and extremely deserted, and the Empire is not heavily guarded."

"More than ten years ago, we discovered the Divine Source Substance in the vicinity, and you rewarded the exploration captain with a big reward."

"Well, yes, yes." Kraft seems to remember the incident.

"At that time, the Imperial Research Institute believed that this kind of crystal had a significant role in the study of space, and as a result of the research, we found that it could generate space properties, allowing our warships to use some short-distance teleportation, and also greatly improved the transmission ability of the stargate. This allowed us to win the war with the Dokraya Empire. ”

Ike's remarks immediately aroused the excitement of Kraft and Marshal Pendudoca, all three of whom were involved in the war.

"But a mothership sent by the Military Department and the Imperial Research Institute to investigate actually disappeared along with that planet, and when this matter was reported to me, I sent someone to secretly investigate again. It was found that there were some anomalies around, that is, the divine source matter there was occasionally found. ”

"So I secretly sent troops to garrison, and the surrounding area of three light years was used as a forbidden area, in order not to attract attention, I did not send heavy troops to guard the surroundings, judging from the current form, this Kanapol Empire is gradually gathering heavy troops in this direction, I think it is likely to be going there."

"How so?" Naturally, Kraft had to ask.

"First of all, the battles in other fortress bases suddenly became compact and intense, but only Bannon Fortress only had small-scale battles, which was obviously to contain other fortress bases, and at the same time, according to the detection in this direction, the other party was still increasing troops there, and more importantly, in recent years, it has been discovered that some warships of the Kanapol Empire also have space teleportation capabilities, which may be stealing the space teleportation technology of the empire."

"Of course, it is also possible that someone sold these technologies to the Kanapol Empire."

"There is this possibility, these bastards, I will let you lead the secret agency that has always been subordinate to the emperor before, and find out who dares to do this, once you find out, you don't need to tell me, just kill." There was a terrifying glint in Kraft's eyes.

"It looks like I'm going to do it again this time." Kraft suddenly became helpless, "If this continues, the empire will really be hollowed out and destroyed by them." ”