Chapter 2172

Li Yao took Li Linghai's words seriously.

Even the expression full of fanaticism and idealism on Li Linghai's face had been seen on the faces of countless servicemen - Federal servicemen.

In a country that has been fighting for years, or is facing serious military pressure and threat of war, the army, the military, can easily form a huge beast and an indestructible interest group.

At least in starshine.

The federal military has great power. It has its own mines, smelters, magic weapon refineries and various military industrial complex enterprises. It even has one-third of the seats in the Federal Parliament. It can compete with the practitioners.

One third of the seats in the military, one third of the seats in the training sects, and one third of the seats in the ordinary people - this is the general balance of power in the Federal Parliament.

Not to mention, Xingyao Union has a strong civil style and takes military as its priority. The social status of military personnel is very high. The tentacles of "Disabled Veterans Association" reach out to every corner of the people and safeguard the interests of military personnel to the greatest extent. Of course, it also forms a virtuous circle, promoting young people to actively sign up to join the army and defending the Union and the cultivation civilization.

At least, during the more than 100 years from the birth of Lee yew to the birth of the new Federation and the defeat of the black wind fleet, the Federal Military, a huge beast, has indeed made great contributions and tragic sacrifices to the stability and unity of the Federation and the happy life of the people, which is of positive value.

However, once this giant beast is out of control, it may still cause unimaginable consequences - in the early days of Xingyao Federation, there were soldiers interfering in politics, subverting the regime, forming a "military government", forcing all the practitioners in the world to join the army, which is a painful lesson known as the "Red Dragon army".

Just a hundred years ago, the federal intelligence director Lv Zui colluded with the important military figure "Tieshuai" Zhou Hengdao in an attempt to hijack the whole country.

As the old saying goes, "if you have a sharp weapon, you can kill your heart." armed with chainsaw sword and arrow blaster gun, soldiers wear crystal armor and star warships, and are surrounded by comrades who fight side by side and share life and death.

It is natural for the soldiers who are in the current of iron and steel to have a surging ambition and think that they have a great responsibility for the country, the nation and the whole civilization. They are extremely eager to save the country and at the same time, build up military honor and realize their personal value.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal for the imperial soldiers to yearn to put an end to the current situation of being subject to aristocracy and sectarianism and to establish a unified, powerful and "glorious" imperial army!

Perhaps the high-level commanders of all the star sea fleets and elite crystal armor regiments of the Imperial Army are all aristocrats and gatekeepers, so as to achieve high control over the army.

But those officers at the middle and low levels, especially those at the grass-roots level who want to fight in the front line, are not necessarily aristocrats and powerful men, are they?

As Li Linghai said just now, those high-level immortals in the Empire are living longer and longer.

If the noble commander of a fleet does not move his position for two hundred years, it seems that he can still live happily for another one or two hundred years, and Li Yao is a grass-roots officer under his command who has fought bloody battles in the front line and died, then Li Yao will revolt!

"Now the men of insight within the Empire, whether they are the low-level immortals who can't see the hope, the world owners and mine owners who have been sucked blood and sheared wool by the scissors of industry and agriculture in the resource world outside the Empire, the businessmen who are wandering among the stars looking for business opportunities but still can't enter the aristocratic monopoly industry, or as I said just now, the imperial army has ideals, ambitions and talents The young officers who are eager to make contributions and save the country are all aristocrats and powerful men headed by the family of the four emperors and Marquises. They are disgusted! "

Li Linghai's hands are on his back, and his eyes are crystal clear. He says faintly, "from the top down, everyone can see extremely sharp contradictions. Everyone is latent and enduring. Everyone is eager for an earth shaking and radical change, and thoroughly smashes the old system which is beyond the gold and jade, Build a glorious and great new empire!

"You should know that in the last ten years, the Empire has launched a grand and decadent strategic counterattack against the holy alliance. This is the largest scale offensive launched by the empire against the Holy Alliance in the past five hundred years. It's really exhausting the power of the whole empire."

Li Yao nodded heavily.

It was this earth shaking strategic counterattack that made it impossible for the Empire to investigate the real situation of the black wind fleet, nor to send a new expeditionary force to the Federation, indirectly saving the life of the Federation. How could Li Yao not know?

"In fact, at the beginning, the nobles and powerful men headed by the four general election emperors did not agree with such a fierce strategic counter offensive plan. They have been doing so for the past five hundred years. They have been more defensive in their strategic choice, and even unable to get out of the way and passively attacked."

Li Linghai narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "most of the time, this is not a military issue, but a political issue. Too radical military strategy is very likely to lead to losing everything and seriously damage the interests of the nobility and the powerful men.

"But in the border areas, they can keep their own territory and interests safe.

"As for the devastated world of the frontier star field? Anyway, it's not their territory. They don't care. Instead, they can use the hands of the Sheng Meng people to weaken the strength of the rising stars and prevent the emergence of new "cake dividers". Why not?

"A hundred years ago, a new force called the" black wind fleet "appeared in the imperial frontier region. It even survived the arduous war and became stronger and stronger.

"The black wind people shocked the whole empire with their rebelliousness, ferocious means and daring to fight. They are very likely to become" cake dividers ". But in the end, they collapsed, and even their mother world fell into the hands of the Holy Alliance - of course, now they have been restored.

"The collapse of the black wind fleet is due to the rampant attack of the Holy Alliance and the improper command of itself. But is there any reason why the families of the emperors and Marquises of the four general elections could not save themselves, or even kill people with a knife?

"Anyway, I was born in the Li family. I really think too much about the Li family's various means of dealing with competitors in the past thousand years.

"But today, 1000 years later, the imperial calendar has turned to such a sharp degree of internal contradictions that even the families of the four emperors and Marquises can not pretend to be deaf and blind.

"Foreign war is always the best means to transfer internal contradictions.

"If we don't launch a large-scale foreign war and transfer the resources, population, anger and ambition of all parties to the conflict, the Empire will really erupt and turn upside down!

"This is the most profound reason why the aristocracy and the powerful men, the new warlords in the outside world, the young officers in the middle and lower ranks of the fleet and the battle regiment, and the low-level immortals who are eager to make contributions, unite as one and launch the" largest scale strategic counter offensive in five hundred years. "

The empress stripped the cocoon and told the truth, which made Li Yao suddenly realize that he had a deeper understanding of the current political ecology and power balance of the real empire.

"The original idea was very good."

Observing Li Yao's expression, Li Linghai said quietly, "the dozens of vast worlds, hundreds of fragmented worlds and resource planets recovered in the strategic counterattack can be given to the middle and small nobles, rulers of remote worlds, grass-roots young military officers and all the other strong people who did not get enough benefits in the first 500 years, Even the royal family can be divided into one or two big worlds to expand the scope of their direct territories.

"In this way, we can resolve their contradictions and reach a new consensus of interests.

"But

"Is it better to say that the emperors and Marquises of the fourth general election are afraid that these new interest groups will continue to expand after they have gained new territory and eventually threaten their dominant position, so it is better to prepare for a rainy day and start first, or simply say that they can't change their way of eating excrement?

"In a word, in the first four general elections, the emperors and Marquis families encouraged their young officers, small and medium-sized sects, as well as warlords and strongmen from remote countries to participate in the strategic counterattack under the banner of" sharing interests equally. ".

"Shengmeng is not a good persimmon. In the arduous war, these young grass-roots officers, small and medium-sized sects and new warlords in the remote world paid the most sacrifices and suffered heavy losses, and then recovered one world after another.

"However, when the Empire has recovered all the territory lost for thousands of years, once again drove the holy alliance people back to their barren old nest thousands of years ago, and initially stabilized their defense line, they can start to" divide the cake ", the great nobles and the powerful men actually... Repented.

"Ha ha, when these dozens of worlds are still under the heavy defense of the saints, and it seems very difficult to conquer them, it's very easy to make a decision to give them up.

"When all these great worlds return to the embrace of the Empire, they are like washed cherries and lychees. When you want to taste them, you have to send them to others. How can these inflexible nobles and powerful men... Be willing to?

"They are not only reluctant to stand on the sidelines and watch others divide up the world like wolves, but also think that they have cleverly discovered an" opportunity. ".

"You know, in this fierce strategic counterattack, countless small and medium-sized sects, relatively independent Xinghai fleets and the world leaders in the remote world suffered a heavy blow. They were defeated at the expense of their troops, exhausted and starved of ammunition and food, and left their base camp far away and went to the front line where they were not familiar with the environment, A lot of war materials were supplied by the families of the four emperors. In other words, they were strangled by the nobles.

"Isn't this the best time to... Annex them?

"Not only do you not have to hand over dozens of new worlds to others, but you can swallow up the territory of these small and medium-sized nobles and new warlords, and once again ensure your dominant position in the Empire. Is it not a business of" killing two birds with one stone and making ten thousand profits "for the families of the four general election emperors?

"That's what these pigs think."