"Elder!"

As soon as Dongfang Tuo arrived, the Qinglanxing military political officer who was chatting and laughing on the parade immediately stood at attention, clenched his fist with his right hand, pressed his heart tightly, and bowed slightly to salute him.

The empire's five hundred elders have extremely respectable status. Even if they do not hold positions in the army or government, they still have the majesty and power that surpasses everyone, just because they are the empire!

Dongfang Tuo's face was as deep as water, nodded to everyone, waved his hand casually, signaling everyone not to be so nervous.

Qinglanxing is the logistics transit base of the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

"Military logistics" is a critical and oil-friendly field, and is naturally controlled by the nobles and aristocrats.

Therefore, today's military and political leaders who are qualified to stand on the parade platform and welcome the triumphant victory in the army are all from the four electoral families and their vassal forces, and are all "people of their own".

Since you are "our own people", you can talk about many topics freely.

Unlike the "Long Live the Empire" that the fanatical people kept roaring in the streets and alleys, these military and political officials did not have much joy in the whispers.

"It's another 'glorious victory', a new resource planet, haha, it's a pity that I heard that the Holy Alliance implemented the strategy of 'clean walls and clearing the fields, scorched earth resistance'. Before retreating, all mines had been blown up, and even polluted all the underground mine veins in a very sinister way. It is expected that the work of controlling pollution will take several years. I don't know how much money it will cost. What kind of resource planet is this? It's another bottomless pit!"

"Yes, the people left behind by the Holy Alliance have all been seriously brainwashed and have a great resistance to the empire. Without long-term education, I am afraid that I will not be able to become a good labor force of the empire, but I have to spend a lot of food to support them. I can't kill them all, right? Kill all the people of dozens of worlds that have just been restored? Who dares to make such a decision? It's really... distressing!"

"The support of the people in the rear has reached the limit. No matter how much it is 'inspired', it cannot stimulate greater potential. Instead, the accident rate continues to rise, and small-scale riots are also coming one after another. However, most of the power of the empire is concentrated on the front line and cannot suppress the riots in the rear. So, the day before yesterday, in the Wuying Realm of the Poison Scorpion Star Cluster, there was a terrible incident in which the cultivators destroyed the entire Star Wars Fort, and they were even invaded by the cultivators to broadcast the entire process live. It's a shame, it's simply a great shame for the empire, and it was actually a small cultivator..."

"A small cultivator cannot cause too much storm, but the inflationary pressure we are facing now is too great and has reached the critical point of collapse. If the war continues, the vicious depreciation of the imperial crystal currency will be inevitable. We have conducted detailed deductions. If the war continues for one year at the current intensity and the current resource supply, then, by February next year, the imperial crystal currency will depreciate by at least 300%. By the end of next year, it is very likely to depreciate ten times. The disastrous consequences are more serious than the appearance of ten thousand cultivators!"

"So, the most important question now is how to end this war with a decent amount!"

Dongfang Tuo narrowed his eyes slightly, his face blankly, and seemed to be indifferent to the discussion around him, but he clearly heard every word.

He also knew that the comments and complaints of these Qinglanxing military officials were largely deliberately told to him, hoping that he would propose a proposal in the Senate as a senator and end the war quickly.

only……

Dongfang Tuo sneered in his heart. Do these military and political officials think that the Senate doesn't want to end the war with a "decent" quickly, but how could the Holy Alliance, which had just been torn off a large piece of meat, easily give the empire this "decent"?

"Qiu Ba on the front line did not understand the hard work of operating supplies in the rear. He had only one stubborn mind and knew how to fight, beat, beat! If we continue to do this, our logistics system would collapse completely!"

"That's right, I heard that the 27th Fleet stationed in the 'Sky Moon Star Field' has had a mutiny recently. The middle and lower-level young officers were somewhat unstable and were unwilling to implement the order of 'staying in place'. They also wanted to continue attacking, expand the results of the battle, and further lengthen the front line."

"What do these guys with developed limbs and simple minds want to do, 'expand the results'? After expanding the results and regaining the new planet, are they coming to support those highly brainwashed people above? It's really a bastard!

"These nonsense guys are only thinking about their military achievements and medals, but they never consider the overall situation of the entire empire. Once their blood is boiling and they are blinded, they can do anything. And now there is a very worrying phenomenon. Young officers from different worlds seem to be connected and communicate with each other. They seem to have set up many organizations like "clubs, federations," and they don't know what to do. It's really worrying."

"It is all condoned by those realms, and those realms in remote worlds of the empire are all a bunch of ambitious, selfish, short-sighted, and greedy, and never consider the overall situation!"

Dongfang Tuo sighed again in his heart.

As the president of the Imperial Development Bank and the logistics leader of the expeditionary army who operates astronomical military funds, he is very clear about the topics everyone is talking about.

It swallowed dozens of worlds in one breath, and the empire had reached the limit of phased expansion. If it continued to expand blindly, it would turn into an infinitely expanding giant beast, and eventually it was crushed by its own weight, like a whale stranded on the beach, exploding from the inside out.

Therefore, from the perspective of the overall interests of the empire, whether it is "decent" or "indecent", we must quickly end this imperial counterattack that has lasted for more than ten years.

But the officers who were eager to make achievements on the front line, especially those middle-aged and young grassroots officers who were ambitious and passionate, who were seriously brainwashed by the slogans of "Invincible in the Empire" and "Long Live Human Civilization" did not think so.

They are eager to make achievements, to expand territory, to keep their reputation in history, and to become heroes who shine brightly in the rise of human civilization!

The king's orders are not accepted outside. In a cosmic war spanning dozens of worlds and tens of thousands of light years, it is extremely difficult to effectively control the deep space fleets floating in the depths of the vast starry sea in the rear.

Each deep space fleet has superstarships with a length of more than ten kilometers, with air and water purification systems that can circulate themselves. It often stores synthetic foods that can be supplied for more than ten or twenty years. Although the taste is bad, it can meet the basic energy needs.

With these things, each deep space fleet is a self-sufficient small entity. Even without supplies, it can persist in fighting for several years. The so-called "deep space" means going deep into the starry sky, exploring independently, fighting and conquering.

Many times, the deep space fleet does what it does on the front line and cannot be observed at all times in the rear. Even if it is observed, it cannot be stopped.

More importantly, the Deep Space Fleet is not directly controlled by the four electoral families.

The empire is too large, and the vast sea of ​​stars determines the extremely difficult difficulty of centralization. His Majesty the Emperor cannot completely control the entire empire, and the four elected emperors and marquis families cannot do it.

At this moment, only half of the hundreds of fleets stationed on the front line are directly affiliated with the four major electoral families, while the rest are from relatively independent empire peripheral worlds.

Although the "Expeditionary Force Base Camp" was established to unify and coordinate all fleets, the essential controllers of these fleets were the real masters of the outer world, and were rebellious and insatiable warlords.

These warlords are often happy to see the radical performance of the middle-aged and young officers under their command.

After all, if you can conquer one more resource planet, these warlords can accumulate more military achievements themselves.

Moreover, before others arrive, they can still plunder the newly restored planet before they can plunder the newly recovered planet even if the Holy Alliance really implements the "scorched earth strategy", as long as they are willing to dig three feet of the ground, they can at least find some broken copper and iron.

For these warlord troops whose nests are 108,000 light years away, they didn't even think about controlling these frontline resource planets for a long time at the beginning, but they were more unscrupulous in their minds of "get a handful and leave", and they were completely a bunch of robbers.

As for these, the Holy Alliance first implemented the scorched earth strategy, and then the Imperial Army was sucked by the bones and marrows. After the planet was plundered, how to deal with it, how to stick to the extended front line, and the pressure of logistics supply increased exponentially... These messy problems were all handed over to the "Expeditionary Army Base Camp" and even the "Imperial Senate" for a headache. Anyway, they patted their butts and brought a lot of military achievements and medals, and "triumphant" came!

Thinking of this, Dongfang Tuo was very convinced by the military and political leaders around him about Qiu Ba’s comments on the frontline. A group of bastards!

At this moment, an intense march sounded, and the shaking of the air and the earth became more and more intense. The crowds of people from all directions, like a volcano erupting, shouting heart-wrenchingly: "Long live the empire! Long live the imperial army! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Long live human civilization! Long live! Long live!"

The triumphal army appeared.

In the sky were raiders like floating mountains, floating slowly like hundreds of dark clouds cast by steel. On the ground were helmets and armor-plated, murderous all-crystal armor battle groups, stepping on the majestic drum beats, advancing towards the main road and parade platform.

"Conquer! Cultivator! Conquer all the ghosts and monsters, evil demons and heretics!"

"Rule! Real humans! Rule this dark sea of ​​stars, the cold universe!"

"The warships pass by the rolling waves! The glory of the empire will always shine!"

"Glorious, Empire! Glorious, Empire Army!"
Chapter completed!