499 The Melting Emperor
[Shocking! The banquet of all dependent states of the empire is about to be held, and the white ghost suddenly released a live broadcast preview! 】
[The white ghost is really not dead!] 】
[The White Ghost is about to return!] 】
In the huge Sherman Empire, various portals, regional websites, and hot search entries on social media were 'shuffled' within ten minutes.
The White Ghost suddenly released a live broadcast trailer through the White Ghost's only designated official media, the White Ghost Galaxy Support Association, which directly made the somewhat silent imperial online world boil again.
The official Sherman Empire was silent.
Inside and outside the Emperor's Circle, people took to the streets, not marching, just running through the streets, shouting for the return of the ghost.
But soon, the White Ghost Galactic Fan Support Club took the initiative to cool down and issued a simple announcement.
[The White Ghost has not yet completed its own reorganization.]
[But what is happening in the empire is no longer able to make the white ghost continue to endure.]
[The prosperity of the empire should not be built on the basis of the blood sucked by the vassals and the doom of tens of billions of human beings in the vassals.
[The Empire should respect every form of government, whether strong or weak.]
[In this live broadcast, there will be no direct voice from the white ghost, but we will show the latest situation of the white ghost for everyone who cares about the condition of the white ghost.] 】
This announcement was put in the top three positions of the major hot search lists by the law of its own water army.
The political statement of the white ghost successfully gathered the attention of the people of the empire to the Jin Rongxing dinner that had officially begun.
The live broadcast counts down to fifty minutes.
Although the Sherman Empire officials remained silent, several princes, princes, and officials with high national attention jointly issued a "Letter to the People".
The announcement explains:
The relationship between the Sherman Empire and its vassals was based on suzerainty treaties recognized by all vassals;
The Sherman Empire provided military asylum and economic assistance to the vassal states, and never coerced the vassal states politically;
Now that the Sherman Empire is suffering from a once-in-a-millennium crisis, the vassals have extended a helping hand as a sign of respect for the suzerain, and it is also a clause clearly stipulated in the suzerain's treaty.
When the Empire returns to normal order, it will continue to provide protection to these subjects.
This is not the so-called blood sucking, this is just a normal circulation of resources, a guarantee of a happy life for the people of the empire.
In addition, the second half of this announcement directly tore apart the white ghost.
Because there are too many supporters of the white ghost, they don't dare to scold directly, but just secretly make some position statements.
'The competition between interstellar polities is related to the security and development of each polity, and sometimes this kind of competition is extremely cruel, and the truly responsible and responsible individual members should consider the problem from the standpoint of the polity.
Are some of the so-called heroes of the empire still on the side of the hundreds of billions of people in the empire?
We need to put a question mark on that. ’
After the release of this "Letter to the People", the direction of public opinion seems to have changed somewhat.
——Behind it is naturally the official navy of the empire and the interest groups of the nobility of the empire engaged in team building.
However, the trend of public opinion was just about to be taken away by them, and Xiaolu made a decisive move.
The live broadcast counted down to forty minutes, and the White Ghost Fan Support Association made another brief announcement.
[The interests of the collective are not the interests of the small collective, and the interests of the small collectives are often based on the exploitation of the collective as a whole.
[The blood-sucking vassal states of the empire are to ensure military spending, foreign expansion, and plunder, and the people benefit less than three percent, and the main aristocratic class benefits thirty percent, and the Sherman family and its vassal forces will take away most of the wealth that should belong to the people and the people of the empire's vassal states.
[The emperor of the vassal state can be regarded as a great nobleman outside the empire.
[Please stop this persecution, the largest wealth group in the empire is the big aristocratic forces in the empire, to suck the blood of vassal countries and persecute tens of billions of people, it is better to decompose the big aristocratic forces, and the empire can smoothly survive ten crises.
[The source of the crisis is the greed of the great aristocratic forces! 】
This has already begun to harden head-on.
Imperial officials have already taken various ways to try to ban the voice channels of the White Ghost Fan Support Club, but many technical teams of the Imperial military have come to a unified conclusion - unless the Imperial network is completely paralyzed and completely dead, they cannot completely ban the White Ghost Fan Support Club.
The Imperial Guard system is not activated, and they do not have any advantage in domestic public opinion.
The two voices of the White Ghost Fan Support Association have become two sharp swords.
With these two swords, the New Federation, the United States of the Liberty, and the Güell Alliance began a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of the Empire's official naval army.
Demonstrations took place throughout the empire;
Public opinion, which had been strongly suppressed by the imperial military, began to rebound again.
The major forces in the galaxy have judged that the white ghost is trying to stop the empire's blood-sucking vassal states in this way, and this kind of public opinion offensive in front of them is already the 'climax' of tonight.
However, except for Yang Wei, who was sitting in the bedroom of Emperor Elandor, and a very small number of executors of the "Challenger" plan such as Ritsu, Molly, Mimiri, and Kolev, no one knew that these announcements and live broadcast trailers were actually some leftovers.
They're just just pressuring;
And the Empire, at this moment, under this pressure, has begun to speed up the pace of their harvest.
In Edwang's dormitory, Yang Wei stood by the windowsill with his hands in his hands, looking out at the garden below.
"Ritsu, how's the banquet going?"
"The speeches of several guests have been temporarily canceled, and they should have taken out the blood-sucking treaty in advance and entered the signing process."
"Tsk," Yang Wei shook his head, "Control the rhythm and don't let them go too fast." ”
"Understood...... The Terminators are ready......"
"Li, I'm actually a little hesitant," Yang Wei said in a low voice, "If we do this, will it damage Edwang's reputation?" I don't want to tarnish his reputation. ”
"Boss, it's too late for us to revise our plans."
"It's good to keep pushing," Yang Wei sighed, "I'm just...... It's okay, Edwan shouldn't blame me. ”
Ritsu asked softly, "Would you like Emilia to come and accompany you?" ”
"It's okay, let her come over, it's not bad to watch the fireworks together."
……
Sherman Empire, Jin Rongxing, Sea Banquet Venue.
The music stopped suddenly, and the dim lighting, which had been created to create an ambiguous atmosphere, gradually became blurred.
The crowd on the dance floor walked to the edge of the dance floor to take their seats, and the few mild epidermal cell exchange rituals that had been going on were forced to come to an end.
The round platform in the middle of the dance floor slowly rose, and the second-ranked elder of the Sherman Empire's House of Elders, and Prince Kinofu, the representative of the Sherman Empire's nobility, walked to the round platform from left to right.
They opened the most important program of this banquet.
The more than 20 emperors of the vassal states and more than a dozen heads of government of small polities, sitting in the most conspicuous position in the hall, were all a little nervous at the moment.
Of course, they know the process today;
But they don't know what kind of treaty awaits them.
Those vassal states that have long been not of the same mind as the Sherman Empire, and their leaders are extremely ugly at the moment;
The leaders of those vassal states that were counting on the survival of the Sherman Empire were mostly nervous.
The vassal country system, to put it bluntly, is the empire's 'raising dogs and killing dogs', and the leaders of the vassal countries in the latter situation all hope that because of their previous complete loyalty, they can exchange for today's small reduction.
The spotlight fell, and the elders and princes on the round platform in the center of the dance floor showed a gentlemanly and charming smile at this moment.
When the Sherman Empire does this kind of pickled thing, it must be as beautified as possible.
The Elders praised the history of the great empire;
The Prince made everyone stand and pay the deepest respect to the great contemporary emperor of the Sherman Empire;
Then, singing and singing, they raised their butcher knives.
“…… The empire is powerful, I think you all have an intuitive experience, this government that has existed for tens of thousands of years has made an indelible contribution to the prosperity of human civilization in the galaxy. ”
"The political struggle between the stars is extremely cruel, a polity is a civilization, and each civilization wants more resources so that they can become stronger, feed more people, and then go in search of more resources."
"Our Sherman Empire completed this process of expansion tens of thousands of years ago."
"In the next tens of thousands of years, our territory has hardly changed, we have abandoned a lot of administrative stars, resource stars, and developed more administrative stars, resource stars, from this point of view, the empire is definitely the most peaceful and stable in the galaxy, and it is also the government that has made the greatest contribution to human civilization."
"However, there will always be new forces that will rise up and want to challenge us."
"They are in a cycle of expansion, just exporting the culture and ideology of their civilization to the outside world, and taking pride in plundering more resources."
"They don't know that these are things that we have experienced tens of thousands of years ago, and they always say that we are backward, but they are the ones who are really backward."
"Now, the empire is experiencing some difficulties...... Although it is a little difficult to speak, the imperial heroes cultivated by the empire have deliberately detonated the class contradictions within the empire. ”
"Every government has class contradictions, and our empire is actually one of the most respectful of the people, which is far better than a new federation that implements policies that fool the people and control public opinion."
"If there is a problem, we have to solve it, and the new federation has become our biggest threat, and the continued bloodletting of the new federation and the rapid decline of its national strength are the most critical decisions for us to solve internal and external contradictions."
"Today, let Your Majesty and leaders gather here to discuss how to solve these problems."
The butcher's knife began to slip down.
Prince Kinofu let out a long sigh and said:
"You will understand the Empire's suffering, and our promise to you will not expire.
"First of all, you're going to get a copy, a contract that we've tailored to each of our subordinate governments."
At the edge of the field, two teams of hostesses stepped forward and placed metal contracts and special laser pointers in front of the emperors of the subject countries.
Many people hesitated before bowing their heads and reading carefully.
The entire banquet hall could be heard of pins dropping.
About thirty seconds later......
"Impossible!"
A gray-haired, rich old man shouted in a trembling voice:
"Doesn't the empire need us to continue to exist? We have been paying the Empire in full! We still have 2.6 billion people! We...... This can't be done! ”
Someone spoke out, and other emperors spoke out one after another:
"That's too harsh!"
"The Empire didn't help us when we faced the threat of the Bug Tide, and now, the Empire has given us this contract, which requires us to surrender ownership of all resources and properties...... We are a vassal state, not a slave state! ”
"Is the Empire's move too radical?"
"Could it be that in the judgment of the Empire, we have lost any value?"
The banquet hall suddenly became more noisy with discussions.
Some grovel and beg the empire for tolerance;
Someone pushed the contract to the ground, and his expression was full of coldness and hardness;
Some people tried to persuade the nobles and lords of the empire to open up and leave a little dignity and dignity for their country.
Revell sat in the corner and watched the 'farce' in front of him carefully, sighed slightly, and clinked glasses with his buddies beside him.
A few of their young nobles muttered in a whisper:
"What if they don't sign?"
Revell smiled: "Do business, it must be asking for a price to pay back on the spot, the empire will definitely reduce a little space, if you start with sixty, they will also react like this, but if you ask for two hundred first, and then reduce it to sixty, and then promise them that they can enter the Sherman Empire and get some titles, then most of them will gladly accept." ”
"It's basically the same routine."
"What a sad thing these little countries are."
"Look, look over there," Revell pointed to the other corner.
There, Her Royal Highness Princess Rona, who was dressed up for the banquet, got up with a group of deputy directors of the Foreign Affairs Bureau and walked to the side of the emperor of the vassal country in charge.
With a relaxed smile, Princess Lorna sat down next to Edwan, who had been silent, and said something in Edwan's ear intimately.
Revell raised an eyebrow slightly.
This Edwan Majesty really has a problem.
He, betrayed his country and the Falling Wind Alliance?
If that's the case, that's a ...... It's indescribable.
In the spotlight, Princess Rona whispered in Edwan's ear:
"The contract you got is the most demanding of these, do you know what to do?"
"Of course," said 'Edwan' chuckling, "isn't the purpose of my existence to be now?" ”
Lorna smiled softly, "How about a drink with me tonight?" I'm very curious about you. ”
"Oh, this...... We are different, Your Highness," Edwan frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "Let's talk about this contract, if I sign it, not only will the Falling Wind Empire suffer a huge blow, but the Falling Wind Alliance will also become the Empire's bag, right?" ”
"This is a piece of fat, and if the Empire can swallow it, it will have the necessary energy to survive this crisis."
"But, isn't it too unjust to implicate those innocent members of the Falling Wind Alliance?"
Lorna's pretty face was a little cold: "Put yourself in your place, Edwan." ”
"Of course, oh, of course I'll get in my position, I'll sign," Edwan sighed under his breath, "but I still think ...... Are the people of a subject inherently inferior to the people of the empire? Or is it that the commoner class is equal regardless of whether it is a vassal state or an empire, and everyone is a domestic animal raised by the aristocracy? ”
"There's no point in you thinking about this," Rhona said softly, "and now it's time for you to stand up and announce that you accept all the conditions." ”
'Edwan' nodded.
He pursed his lips tightly and read the first few pages of the contract again, then smiled wryly and slowly got up.
"Is independence worthy of a basic right to life?"
He muttered and slowly got up.
The fixed-point amplifier had locked onto Edwan's mouth, and Daodao's eyes looked towards the emperor of the empire's largest vassal.
'Edwan' said, "I praise ......"
Buzz –
Ping-pong ping-pong!
The banquet hall was filled with a cacophony of noise, and the sound of crystal cutlery shattering one after another rang out.
'Edwan' looked stunned, he was the source of the noise.
He raised his hand and touched his face, the blood-red imitation of flesh sticking to his fingers;
He looked down at his chest, where a mass of 'flesh' exploded, revealing a silvery-white metal structure within.
The hands and feet made of bionic materials are like dissolved wax figures at this moment, and they begin to dissolve rapidly.
'Edwan' turned his head to look at Rhona and said in a trembling voice:
"I—What's wrong with me?"
Rhona's face turned pale, and she ducked to the side helplessly, lest she might get dirty.
The entire banquet hall could hear a pin drop for a few seconds, but then there was a scream, and the emperors of the seven vassal states also stood up in panic, their bodies beginning to melt in unison.
In Ritsu's mental space, hundreds of clones in different costumes are busy behind imaginary consoles.
The corners of Ritsu's mouth twitched slightly, and he pressed the button in front of him.
The video of Edwan's body suddenly dissolving and exposing the mechanical body appeared simultaneously on the servers of the intelligence departments of the major polities in the galaxy.
At the same time, the clones around the law have started a series of operations.
The top brass of the new federal CIA has not yet finished watching this video, which is spreading to the online world inside and outside the empire at a very fast speed through the channels of the new CIA's subordinate agencies.
This is their first offensive.
The second update! It's still 12 o'clock!
(End of chapter)