Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Diffievin smiled slightly, “Rather than an empire of scattered sand, the sea of stars is too vast, far beyond the limits of an effective unified government in terms of the technology available to mankind.

“My king, you should know that the distribution of human civilization in the 3,000 great worlds is not entirely due to our own conquest, but rather to the ‘spread’ of ancient and feminine civilizations, in other words, we are not ‘naturally' extended to the 3,000 worlds, but are ‘thrown' out in a very short time with their help.

“Then, after the collapse of the Pangu and Lady civilizations and the destruction of their communications and transportation systems, ‘scattered sand, isolated and helpless' should be the norm, except for any unified government or dynasty.

“In fact, at the current level of technological and social development of human civilization, a central government's effective rule of up to a dozen or twenty great thousand worlds is the limit, which Speaker Ding must have learned. ”

“Exactly. ”

Ding Zheng seemed to have some headache in mind and frowned, “In our Federation, even with advanced star jumping technology and ultra-regional communication capabilities, jumping and communication consume a lot of resources, every day astronomical digital crystal stones are sent to various star ports and ultra-regional communication base stations, and between spiritual fluctuations, wasted in vain.

“Even so, the Confederation's resource planet for remote stars is long gone, and it is extremely difficult to exercise effective rule, often relying on local sects to maintain basic order - a sectarian management system that works well now, but who knows what will happen over time when these sects have local, intertwined relationships and deep-rooted interests?

“Moreover, the vastness of the universe and the power of the human race itself have led to the changing environment of inhabitable planets, and even to changes in human subspecies, such as primitive worlds such as the tree sea boundary, and wasteland worlds so heavily polluted as the underworld, which cannot be managed in exactly the same way, given the different terroir humanities, even unified laws are extremely difficult to achieve.

“Thus, now the Confederation has a very strong regional autonomy.

“Even if more and more worlds join the Confederation in the future, as in the ancient Holy Communities, because they are further away from the core of the Confederation, more complex environments and races, basically difficult to come under the direct authority of the central Government, there is a greater likelihood of regional autonomy. ”

When Ding Zheng took over the "Patriot Organization" from Lu, he was a resolute regional autonomist, believing that the Federation was unlikely to rely on a strong army to rule the Star Sea, and could only spread the idea of a practitioner throughout the universe.

Her point of view coincided with Diffrey's.

Di Feiwen nodded: “Speaker Ding is right. The problems you encounter, that is, the problems encountered by the Empire, although the Empire is much stronger than the Federation in terms of integrated national power, there is no essential difference between jumping from the star sea and hyper-telecommunications technology.

“If effective federal domination of the Ten Great Thousand Worlds is the limit, then the empire's most powerful interests, with the most advanced technology, that is, effective domination of the Twenty Great Thousand Worlds, more, are indigestible.

“Even the strongest and most brutal dinosaurs will continue to grow throughout their lives, and their size will be limited. Too large an empire needs to be ruled by expanding bureaucracy and armies, but bureaucracy and army expansion will in turn suck the empire dry and crush it, as is the case with the Star Sea Empire, and why not the Real Human Empire? ”

Li Yao couldn't help laughing: “Then use your ideas to summon the immortals of the Empire. Don't you also have the noble idea of 'all for human civilization’? ”

Di Feiwen also laughed: “The so-called ‘noble idea’, looking all over the universe is extremely rare luxury goods, in this regard, everyone is half a pound of eight taels, which means' Big Brother doesn't laugh '!

“It is as if in the Federation of Stars and Glories, although the propaganda caliber refers to the practitioner as the 'knife of war' of human civilization, to fight for the ‘guardianship of ordinary people', how many can truly do nothing to disadvantage themselves, the profiteers, the reformers who have forgotten their lives and have given everything selflessly? My king, even you or Speaker Ding, can you really have no desire at all? If you want to nationalize your Yao Shi Group now, will you be indifferent and have no complaints at all? ”

Li Yao and Ding Zheng glanced at each other and smiled: “You don't have to push us. Of course we're not that noble anymore. Except for the puppets of the Alliance, who can look at the universe without a little lust? ”

“That's it. ”

"Ideally, the battle between the Confederation and the Empire is a battle of ideas, a battle of righteousness and evil, a battle of avenues between 100% of the fixers, but in fact both sides have a common enemy, not the Alliance, but ‘humanity'.

“The cultivators have humanity, and the cultivators have humanity, which is the biggest difference between us and the Allies.

“The first element of humanity is selfishness, the genes are selfish, and they have to be passed down at all costs. This‘ selfish gene 'conflicts with the‘ noble idea 'of the fairy practitioner, with the result that the' idea ’is doomed to defeat.

Li Yao Rao asked with interest: "What can I say? ”

“In theory, the philosophy of" superiority and inferiority, weak meat fortification "of the immortals is not a problem, as long as it can truly achieve equal treatment, ensure the smooth passage of the ascent channel and the harsh elimination mechanism, that is fair, but in real life, this is simply not possible. ”

Diffievin said, "Everyone is selfish, regardless of whether the cultivator or the cultivator, even if the voice ‘as long as the weak who cannot awaken the roots of the spirit, even their children, will be ruthlessly eliminated', but how many can truly do it in the heart of iron stone?

“Besides, in a world of weak meat and strong eating, it is possible for all people to betray in minutes, a little more true loyalty, that is, their relatives and children, even if they cannot awaken the roots of the" original people ", can arrange some hidden work," eliminate "their own people for nothing, not weaken themselves, cheap others?

“The rules are human and can always be found. Perhaps at the beginning of the empire, the system was strictly enforced, but with the passing of light and shadow, all the great tribes of Haumen expanded rapidly, and it was simply a dream to achieve the efficient allocation and utilization of resources with the words' weak meat fortification ’. ”

"" Where's the emperor, "said Li Yao," does the emperor have no problem with this situation of aristocracy, warlord splitting, big tail loss? ”

“Don't imagine the emperor's power too strong, not every emperor is the ‘Black Star King’ of the past. ”

“Even Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi relies on many of the great gates that have been ingrained since the time of the Republic of the Stars to seize the hegemony of the universe," Di Feiwen said.

“In the depths of the empire, there is even a very secret assertion that the original Black Star Emperor was merely the ‘spokesperson’ of the old hawks of these star republics, creating an 'emperor' in order to completely consolidate their illegally plundered interests, although the ambitions and power of the emperor were largely unexpected and somewhat out of control.

“The Black Star Emperor, though out of control, is less powerful than his descendants. For millennia, these Imperial Gates have unleashed various means to provoke discord within the royal family, create contradictions, use the 'emperor’ as bait, spark civil strife among the Wuying clan, take the opportunity to consolidate their power and overthrow the entire 'extreme heavens, celestial stars'.

“By now, the four most powerful families have even been given the title of 'Chosen Emperor'. Think about how you can restrain the emperors if they choose them? ”

Li Yao sighed: “This seems different from what Su Changfa told me about the Empire in the past. ”

“Su Changfa is a college student. He is a professor at the" Imperial University of Development ". He was nourished in the ivory tower and naturally embraced the imperial enchantment propaganda. ”

Di Feiwen lowered his head deeply, “My subordinates are small merchants who crawl out at the bottom of the empire. ‘Theoretically’ my subordinates don't know how. My subordinates just tell me everything they see, originally.

“In short, when the Black Wind fleet left the empire a hundred years ago, this was the situation in the empire, close to a dozen or twenty great thousand worlds of 'extreme heaven, celestial stars', nominally under the direct authority of His Majesty the Emperor, under the direct authority of the bureaucracy sent by the Royal Court - of course, no less than the intervention of the four great 'elect emperor' families.

“Comparing the three or four grand thousand worlds on the periphery is the hereditary territory of the family of the four electorate emperors, and there are also royal enclosures, with each family ruling at least seven or eight worlds on average. Given its strength and weakness, it is difficult for the Royal Court to interfere in its internal affairs in respect of its obligations to tax and troop contributions only.

“Hundreds of millions more peripheral worlds have been divided into smaller pieces, basically one ruler in every thousand worlds and even two or three inhabitable planets, and each planet will have a ruler, either a hereditary nobleman, an emerging warlord, or an old day ruler who surrendered voluntarily on the path of the Empire's conquest of the universe - for example, when the Black Wind fleet arrived, if the Federation chose to surrender, it is likely that several boundaries would have been chosen to maintain local autonomy, which is not a generous imperial house, purely a whip, as Speaker Ding has just said.

“These methods of domination of the peripheral world, which are ever-changing and at will, will not necessarily be severely repressed, but some will adopt a soft policy and are more moderate in their approach to domination; but if they are brutal, they are far more brutal in their domination than those under the emperor's rule and those who elect him to rule. ”