Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Yes, rather than the dozens of great thousand worlds and hundreds of resource planets spit out by the Alliance are bones with meat, they are meat with pricks - the Alliance presses these planets very hard, and in the short term, they all turn into heavy baggage, hot potatoes, which have to invest a lot of resources to get them back on track. ”

"But the yam is hot again, the hungry people will still do whatever it takes to rob you of my life. The strong people's desire for territory, population and resources is unlimited. Since the Alliance is now so weak and so overwhelming, the ‘Fear Alliance' for thousands of years will instantly collapse and become extinct.

“What, then, would happen if the Allied armies reacted unexpectedly when all the roads in the Empire and all the powerful fought for this only 'hot potato' and the bayonet was red? ”

"Is there any evidence to support your assumption? ”

Diffievin shook his head and nodded: “There is no direct evidence, but there is a very interesting thing - repeatedly mentioned in the 'Gestures' from the Emperor - about how many sizes of the Alliance's army were killed and how many senior Alliance generals were not killed or captured.

“My king should know that, in order to inspire morale, it is easy to falsify the news of how many enemies have been killed, but it is not so convenient to falsify the death of those famous generals.

“Besides, three or five years is too short, even if the Alliance starship is run by a bunch of pigs, waiting in line to kill, isn't it that easy to kill them all?

“Therefore, the subordinates highly doubt that the Alliance has taken the initiative to withdraw in an orderly fashion from many thousands of worlds, throwing these heavy ambitions to the Empire, while preserving its vitality to the greatest extent possible, lying deep in the core region awaiting a deadly blow. ”

Li Yao shrugged: “Such a simple strategy, even in the corner of the star sea, we can see clearly. Does the high level of the empire understand ignorance? ”

“We stay out of this, and naturally we can be highly calm to analyze the whole situation. ”

"But in the Bureau, one can't help oneself. The trophies of these dozens of thousands of worlds are so tempting, who can ignore and endure impulses to fix fairies, regardless of their powerful nature?

“Besides, ‘solidarity’ is a matter for both sides, even if there is a certain way of thinking of nobles or warlords that is clear enough, calm enough, knows that the great enemy has not been removed, and needs to be highly united - but how can he not join this game of greed when everyone else is fighting to divide the land and seize the spoils? If he doesn't rob, he becomes relatively weak. If the weak are in the Empire, he will receive the harshest punishment! ”

Li Yao said with some toothache: “So, what the Alliance is playing with, is it another decent place, and it's not up to you to make a fool of yourself? ”

“It's a mastermind, and it's an amazing bet. ”

"If the subordinates' analysis is correct, then the leader of the Alliance is now truly a world-class hero, who has judged the Alliance's 'strong offensive strategy' over the past millennium to be wrong and bold enough to voluntarily abandon the gains of the millennium and implement the most radical strategic adjustments.

“If the Alliance really exists, how is it possible to sit around and watch the Empire not mess up? After all, the dozens of worlds he spits out do have enormous potential, and if the empire can absorb them and fully integrate them into the imperial military system, it will happen to be awkward to leave the Alliance in a state of total annihilation.

“Therefore, he must still have a series of extremely powerful backhanders who have proactively provoked contradictions and struggles within the Empire, forcing the Empire to wreak havoc!

“Today, he throws out dozens of great thousand worlds as bait, so what exactly could it be that he wants to ‘hunt’ and 'devour’ prey? ”

“In sum, my men do not know whether our greatest enemy is the Empire or the Alliance in the next phase of the offensive, whether we are going to overthrow the Empire, or whether we are going to help the Empire in secret at a time when there is a thousand shots. ”

Diffievin talks here, and the four of them are silent.

Li Yaoyu sighed for a long time: "My head is huge. ”

“My king does not have to be too sad, even if the current host of the Covenant League is really a rare hero of the millennium, spending the past few years and dozens of great thousand worlds to play the next amazing game of chess, at least one factor that he would never have expected, is the Starlight Federation. ”

Di Feiwen's face was full of sincerity, “The Star Glow Federation, led by such wise men as my king and Speaker Ding, is hopeless, invincible, scolding the wind, and the incompetent Gestapo - an unexpected piece of chess that will definitely shake the whole game! ”

Li Yao crooked his head for half a day and nodded slowly: “... that's true. ”

……

Understanding the general dynamics of the Empire, Li Yao spent the next half of the month studying the details of the "Sky Eye Plan” and the "Sky Eye Plan” with senior executives of intelligence systems and strategic fraud centers such as Ding Bell, Golden Heart Moon, Di Fei Wen and Chunfeng.

After repeated trade-offs, they decided to set the first jump point on the Scorpion Constellation.

Without stargate guidance, it is difficult for a large formed force to cross such a long distance at a time, truly crossing the past, and the resulting powerful space ripples have a great chance of being discovered.

So the smaller the first batch of jumps, the better. In Li Yao's case, it's best to be alone.

At his level, 99.99 per cent of intelligence agents and the strong have all become burdensome in carrying out infiltration and surveillance missions.

If it is Dingbell, the peak of this class of Yuan Baby, it is a huge burden on the starship and logistics supply - each of the mighty is a golden beast, a bottomless hole in resources, and after reaching the enemy, two strong men close to God, where do you get all the resources needed for daily practice?

Finally, Li Yao and the others discussed the plan to first jump to the depths of the Scorpion Star Club and make a preliminary inquiry into the situation there to see if it would be appropriate to act as a springboard for the Federation into the Empire, but also to find the "Star Light” of the Resistance of the Realists, and the legend that lived for more than a thousand years, the "Lost Realists”.

Whether or not “Starlight” and “Lost Fixers” are found, he will find ways to send signals to the Federation whenever the environment is right.

Once his signal is received, the elite intelligence team, comprised of the Strategic Fraud Centre, the Secret Sword Bureau and the Dark Moon Foundation, jumps over a second wave to establish a longer-term and professional intelligence workstation.

If Scorpion Constellation's environment is harsh, unsuitable to serve as a springboard, and valuable intelligence cannot be gathered, then Li Yao will find a way to move to the periphery of the Empire, where the "World Alliance of Commerce” operates more frequently, and gather some information through the intelligence network of traders. It is best to find a way to step into the core circle of the Empire and find a "springboard” suitable for infiltration by the Federation.

In Li Yao himself, there is also a little bit of selfishness.

He still hasn't forgotten "Li Linghai”, a woman suspected of being an old mistress of a righteous father.

More than a hundred years ago, Li Linghai was the princess of the human empire.

According to the information received by the Black Wind fleet intermittently over the last hundred years, the original princess has become the queen of Mother Earth.

Since the death of Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi, there has never been a more powerful emperor in the millennium inheritance of the Emperor, even if not a puppet, at least in the grip of nobility, ministers and warlords.

So, the mere status of "queen” is no big deal.

But Li Yao also knew through the mouth of Di Fei Wen that the Queen Li Linghai was a "Cang Li family” person.

The Cang Li family has lived for thousands of years since the era of the Republic of the Star Sea. There was a tremendous wealth of nobility. When the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi was able to overthrow the republican system and establish the imperial system, the Cang Li family could not fail.

“One of the four election emperor families” is the best proof of the strength of the family.

Li Linghai is obviously one of the core figures of the Cang Li family, otherwise how can she be the Empire Queen?

How could such a mysterious and powerful woman get along with Li Yao's father-in-law, an exile from the Alliance?

And the godfather gave him half of something similar to the key. He had to hand it over to Li Linghai, and promised that Li Linghai would guarantee the security of Li Yao and even Xingyao Federation. What does that mean?

Anyway, Li Linghai and the Lan Lijia line deserve to be touched.

Since the Empire is not a piece of iron, the Cang Li family must also have their own ambitions and interests, and it may not be known that the two sides can enjoy a certain degree of cooperation - at all costs, to help the Federation to fight for another decade or two of golden development, more than a decade or two later, the Federation's sharpest claw teeth will grow.

That's what Li Yao is for.

Basically, he now has a triple identity.

The first is naturally intelligence agents, who are responsible for finding suitable springboards for subsequent major forces to "step on”.

Secondly, the "diplomats”, whose relations with the Empire are now very delicate, do not necessarily continue to be fought at first sight, even if it is not possible to coexist peacefully with the Empire as a whole, or at least to make compromises and make deals with certain forces within the Empire.

Who else is more qualified to represent Xingyao Federation and conduct diplomatic activities than Li Yao?

Finally, in extreme circumstances where no one is willing to meet him, he is once again the most dangerous “powerful man” responsible for carrying out “war beyond limits”, “asymmetrical strikes” in the territory of the Empire and for maximizing reprisals against all acts of aggression by the Empire against the Federation.

Of course, the Federation does not place all hope on him alone.

It was agreed that if he did not return within six months, there would naturally be a second group of "powerful men of heaven", united by “intelligence agents, diplomats and destroyers”, who would set out to infiltrate the empire.