Chapter 2617 The only way to stop the fall
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Accompanied by Wu Yingqi's "straightforwardness", those black spider-like neural networks also invaded Li Yao's spiritual flames in a wisp and drilled into his body along his pores.
No matter how much he stirred up the spirit flames or waved his arms, he could not get rid of these maggot-like things. Instead, he felt that Wu Yingqi's words were like coming from the depths of his eardrums, which could inspire him to think completely new from completely different angles.
"You... are completely crazy!"
Li Yao tried his best to fight against the black nerve bundles that invaded his brain, and said reluctantly, "Will you call it a 'treatment' that will cause so many deaths and even destroy the entire world?"
"This is the treatment, which surgery does not require bleeding at all, and which drug has no side effects at all? Even when it is difficult to recover and is in a terminal state of illness, it is helpless to have to remove most of the body organs and replace them with spiritual prosthetics and artificial hearts."
Wu Yingqi smiled slightly, his voice became more and more sincere, and even a soft glow burst out from his body. If it weren't for the strange black water droplets and the neural network around him, he would be like a doctor who was worried about the country and the people. "The reason why you think this is difficult to accept is nothing more than a cognitive gap, just like an ancient man who lived tens of thousands of years ago. If he saw a modern doctor waving a scalpel to cut the patient's chest and abdomen, remove the lesion tissue, or even lift the skull with a bone saw, and performing craniotomy surgery, he would be shocked. He thought that the doctor was a demon that swallowed the heart and brain, but modern people mastered the basic medical knowledge and naturally knew that doctors were treating and saving people. Even if they would bleed during the treatment, they would be injured, and even had a certain mortality rate, and they would leave many sequelae after recovery, but... this is acceptable.
"Don't rush to refute, please think calmly, think about everything you saw after coming to the empire, think about how you once agreed with Li Linghai's judgment of the four major families, admit it, Vulture Li Yao, today's real human empire is at the end of the dynasty and has long been extremely corrupt, internal and external troubles are plagued by serious illnesses, and relying on small-scale improvements is simply helpless. Without using thunder means, the empire will fall apart in an instant, and hundreds of millions of people will be turned into powder!
"The court was bloated and powerless, warlords rose up everywhere but killed each other. The powerful ministers controlled the government and only considered their own selfishness. Even the four electoral families were full of selfish and ridiculous struggles. However, the fair, open and fair elite screening methods and channels for the lower-level elites that I designed for the empire a thousand years ago were all blocked and rotten, and were eroded to the point of being riddled with holes, and even the surface articles were inappropriate!
"A huge empire, which clearly occupies the most abundant planet in the sea of stars, has the most abundant resources and the most numerous talents, but has been chaotic by these snakes, insects, rats and ants, and has fallen apart and turned into a mess. Not only can they defeat the Holy Alliance, they can't do anything to the reformists. They are not even able to deal with the stinky peddlers and pawns of the Wanjie Merchant Alliance, and even a few cultivators can't kill them. What kind of empire is this!
"Shame, this is a great shame for the cultivator, a great shame for the empire, and even more a great shame for me! When I returned to the empire, I saw the glorious empire established by the thorns that were only built thousands of years ago and struggling to make it look like this by these unworthy descendants. I really hate it so much that even if I throw all the entire sea of stars, I can't extinguish my anger!
"From that moment, I swear to the stars of the sky that I will use any means to heal the empire at all costs, restore it to its former vitality, and truly be qualified to represent the great human civilization.
"As long as we can reawaken the responsibilities and glory of every immortal cultivator, as long as we can restore the glory of the empire and human civilization, I am willing to try any kind of therapy!"
More and more black nerve bundles penetrated Li Yao's pores and wandered under his skin like nematodes, causing wisps of black gas to emerge all over his body and face.
The black gas even attacked Li Yao's eyes and danced in a strange place around his pupils.
Li Yao gradually lost the ability to refute, and his expression gradually became trance and hesitant, listening to Wu Yingqi's indoctrination.
"I have spent decades thinking about why the empire fell into what it is today, who is the culprit, and where is the root of the problem?
"Should we blame the four electoral emperor families? Of course, they are all guys who are obsessed with greed, short-sighted, and unsatisfied with desires. They are not worthy of the title of true immortal cultivator at all. But this is just an appearance. Everyone has a selfish heart. Selfishness is the source of disaster, but it is also the strongest driving force for civilization to move forward. It is an extremely sharp double-edged sword.
"The root of the problem is the vast sea of stars, the distance between the various worlds at hundreds of light years, and the terrain and landforms that are very different from different planets, just like some kind of amplifier, amplifying the defects of human selfishness to the extreme!
"In the ancient times, the rulers occupied only one planet, and at most a few planets close to the vast world. No matter how selfish and blind the people under their rule were, and no matter how domineering the powerful ministers were, they could be very convenient to mobilize troops to suppress them, holding everyone and resources tightly in their hands.
"However, in the Xinghai civilization era 40,000 years later, due to the unchanging communication and transportation, the vast world with one side of the world is very likely to form trade. Military and even political barriers will transform into selfish interest groups, becoming a cancer that cannot be completely removed and slowly erode the whole.
"What's worse is that in different worlds, many habitable planets have completely different terrain and landforms, which gave birth to different ethnic groups with very different customs and habits and even appearances. These ethnic groups find it difficult to have a sense of identity with each other, a common historical memory and a sense of honor. They often only know that they have their own small world, but do not know that there is an empire and His Majesty.
"To put it bluntly, based on the human brain capacity, communication methods, technological development level and historical origins, we should not establish a huge empire covering the three thousand worlds at all, but should be divided into hundreds of small countries. Each small country ruled one or at most three or five large worlds, which was the most natural state.
"We were originally a kind of 'sub-civilization' or 'sub-civilization' created, but our creators died prematurely. We were like orphans whose parents died. Before we could fully grow up, we were forced to break into the cold world. We clumsyly imitated the appearance of our ancestors in the wilderness, trying to unify the entire sea of stars like the "Pangu Civilization Alliance", but completely ignored or completely unaware that we were not ready at all and took on such a heavy weight!
"The empire was not destroyed by the hands of the four elected emperors, but was crushed by its own weight and defeated by this vast universe!"
Li Yao was fascinated by the hearing and murmured: "The former Prime Minister of the Empire, Dongfang Wang, once said this, and he said... Our common enemy is the universe!"
"Yes, Dongfangwang is a true wise man. I have also communicated with him in depth these issues in a very secret way before."
Wu Yingqi said, "It's a pity that Dongfang Wang can see it, but still can't see it. As the helmsman of the Dongfang family, he has been carrying it for hundreds of years and has been deeply embedded in flesh and blood. There are too many things that cannot be given up. He can't make up his mind to scrape his bones like me.
"Even if you really see through it, with the cruel and cruel nature of human beings, they will split into hundreds of small countries, and they will still fight and fight each other endlessly, just like the ancient times of cultivation forty thousand years ago, blood flows endlessly.
"What's more, you and I know very well that staying in this small closed universe, even if it develops to the extreme, is just a repeat of the mistakes of Pangu civilization and countless ancient civilizations. We must find a new path and become the first civilization to completely rush out in tens of billions of years!
"If you want to become the first civilization to break out of your shell, a unified empire with all resources, talents and the planet is necessary. This is the contradiction, which is almost impossible to resolve between the "big" and the "small".
"If I just want to eradicate the four electoral families, it is actually very easy. I have a hundred ways to completely destroy them, but this is a treatment of the symptoms but not the root cause. Today, I destroyed the four electoral families and even all warlords. However, as long as human communication and transportation methods cannot make rapid progress, as long as the empire still has an astronomical population, as long as these people are still selfish and greedy, then, it will not take long to be a second "four major families" or even the "eight major families" will be born, just like a virus that can't be killed no matter how hard it is!
"Li Yao, in the country of your cultivators, do you also have the stubborn problems of class solidification and interest groups? Oh, I guess your country will not be too large. I just defeated the Black Wind Fleet and received a development dividend. I should be in a thriving stage, so you may not have a deep understanding of this issue.
"But think about it, one day, when your cultivator country expands to hundreds of worlds, with a population of trillions or even tens of trillions, and even the number of cultivators reaches tens of billions, how do you maintain the purity of these cultivators? How do you ensure that the authority of the central government can be recognized by the powerful people on the border? How do you insist that your so-called education system and upward channels will not be distorted and eroded by interest groups?
"It's impossible, Li Yao, I tell you that I have thought about and practiced all methods long ago, and cannot stop the transformation and degeneration of a great country. Even if I don't destroy your cultivator kingdom and let you develop freely and grow vigorously, one day you will be crushed by your own weight.
"The demon dynasty that ruled Xinghai for 30,000 years was crushed by itself, the Xinghai Empire was also crushed by itself, the Xinghai Republic was crushed by itself, and the real human empire is also repeated, and it is about to be crushed by itself. Can your cultivator kingdom break out of the cycle of the rise and fall of this dynasty, not be defeated by the universe, or be crushed by itself?"
A weird smile appeared on Wu Yingqi's face.
But what made Li Yao feel extremely frightened was not this smile, but that he actually believed Wu Yingqi's words without realizing it!
Yes, many powerful people in the Federation agreed that for the Federation, the most suitable size is eight to ten thousand worlds. Joining more worlds will cause various unexpected problems, and ultimately the Starry Federation will be crushed!
However, the Federation can maintain its current size, can the Empire?
If not, what should we do to keep the empire in a state of status quo and not split so that most people can live at least?
"There is only one way to completely reverse such a damn fate, so that the empire can ensure the loyalty, selflessness and unity of all citizens while maintaining great unification."
Wu Yingqi pointed to his temple gently, "The revolutionary new way of education is what you call 'brainwashing'."
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