Star Sea Lord

Northern Underworld Prison Emperor Capital.

The cardinal shrine with a strange style and a blood-red tone still stands quietly, unchanged for thousands of years, silently witnessing the vicissitudes of this ancient civilization.

In the secret room deep in the Cardinal Temple, the Pope and Yan Li looked worriedly at Mullenhilde on the central throne.

The aura of this super strong man is much darker than before. It can be seen that the experience in the sanctuary, coupled with the failure of the previous negotiation in the Chinese imperial capital, has indeed hurt him a lot.

Of course, with the power and resources he possesses, it is not too difficult for him to fully recover.The point is, it takes time!

However, the crisis that the empire is now facing is unprecedented. In the north and southeast, two superpowers are attacking at the same time. Such a difficult situation has never happened for thousands of years!Therefore, the current Great Lord Chiyue simply does not have the chance to recuperate and recover with peace of mind!

"Has our legion on the front line in the northern border been almost wiped out?" Murunhild's hoarse and sad voice echoed in the secret room.

"Yes, father!" Yan Li replied softly,

"Marshal Berosrontate has tried his best, but he still can't resist the attack of the Huaxia Army. Even the newly arrived reinforcements..."

Although we managed to get the two empires, Huaxia and Qingqiu, to agree to a temporary ceasefire and return to the negotiating table to resolve the issue, but because the Beiming Prisoners did not have much sincerity at all, only two days later, the Huaxia Legion launched a large-scale offensive again. !

Due to the two-day buffer time for the prisoner in the North Underworld this time, and the arrival of some reinforcements, Berosrontate still organized a decent counterattack.Unfortunately, the decline still failed to recover.

After Lin Yixiong broke through the defense line of Beiming Prisoners.No more scruples.Make a massive assault!Dozens of star fields were successively conquered within a week, and the Qingqiu Empire launched a large-scale offensive on the southeastern border. More than fifteen star fields fell.

Although the current Northern Underworld Empire still has enough strength, the effect of the general mobilization is gradually showing!However, they have already lost their strategic opportunity, and all parties in the Star Sea are not very optimistic about the course of the next battle.

So now even some small and medium-sized forces around the empire are already trying to send troops to take advantage of the fire!Although their power is limited.They won't be able to get in for a while, but if this trend continues, the situation for Beiming Prisoners will only become more and more severe!

Mulunhild was silent for a while, and said: "How much strength do we have available, can we support two large-scale wars at the same time?"

The Pope bowed his head and thought for a moment, before answering: "Our elite legion in the northern border of the empire is running out, and there are currently more than [-] fleets dispatched from all over the country to that strategic direction. Human forces are much stronger! But whether we can repel them is still in doubt!"

"The number of legions transferred to the southeast border is about the same! Adding up the two sides, this is already all the elite troops that our empire can use at present!"

"Of course. During the period after the general mobilization began, we formed nearly a hundred legions. It was just formed in a hurry, and the combat effectiveness could not be guaranteed at all! For the time being, we can only let them guard the place and replace those elite legions to go to the battlefield !"

Mulunhild said: "That is to say, if the current situation continues, if the war does not stop, our losses will be even greater! Is that so?"

Yan Li sighed, and said dejectedly: "Father, I don't doubt the strength of the empire. With our family background, as long as we delay for a while, we can always recover, but the loss is impossible to estimate! The star fields visited by the legions of a big country have basically been reduced to scorched earth, and our people... have suffered too many casualties!"

According to the estimates of the temple, when the civilization of the North Hell Prison has a firm foothold and really starts to recover from the decline, at least more than [-] provinces will be captured by the legions of these two big countries. Although they will eventually be captured, but Don't expect that there are many useful things left on these sites, including the people!

Such a heavy loss, even for the deep-rooted Beiming Prison civilization, is also a traumatic level!Don't even think about recovering in hundreds of years!

"So, the only option we have now is negotiation?" Mulunhild said bitterly,

"Accept their unreasonable demands, and only then can the losses be controlled within a certain range! Buy enough time to recover your strength!"

The Pope didn't say anything. Such a big matter must be decided after consultation with His Majesty the Emperor and several other big figures who can't live in seclusion.Of course, as long as the great lord of Chiyue and the guardian saint of the North Hell Prison civilization nods, the next thing will be much easier!

There are few real fools who can be in the top position. Under the current situation, even if the price of the peace talks is land cession and compensation, they can only choose to accept it!After all, this approach can at least ensure that more people will not be slaughtered by the opponent's legion!

Half a day later, several bigwigs who lived at the pinnacle of civilized power in Beiming Prison reached a consensus, so the Foreign Minister Mandeltainer, who was still in the imperial capital of China, immediately made an emergency meeting with Tang Xudong, and once again made a request for peace talks.

This time, the Beiming prisoner's attitude softened a lot, and he promised enough benefits to show the sincerity of the negotiation.

"My lord, this is your last chance!"

In the conference room, Tang Xudong smiled and said to Mandeltainer: "I don't deny that the terms of the peace talks are very harsh! But you have no choice. If you let our soldiers take it by themselves, what you lost will definitely be lost." More!"

"Failures like this, just a few more times, maybe you won't even have a chance to negotiate! Don't forget, there are many racial forces who want to get your ideas! They are no easier to deal with than the empire!"

"So, in order to protect your country and people, don't hesitate! The patience of our Huaxia Legion is limited!"

Mandeltainer said tactfully: "Your Excellency, Grand Consul, I can understand your request! But the matter is very important. Can we reach an agreement first? That is, the military forces of both sides must stay at their current positions. It is best It's disengagement. There must be no further hostilities, so that the next negotiations will be easier, won't it?"

"This is impossible!" Tang Xudong said decisively,

"This time, we can only give you three days at most. If we can't reach an agreement, then we don't need to negotiate anymore! Don't try to use delaying tactics, we won't accept this trick!"

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After getting Xichen Qinglan's approval.Xiao Junling's mind had already begun to shift to this important matter. Except for the routine practice every day, the rest of the time was basically looking up various materials in the wild star field.

The lordship system has been implemented for thousands of years, and a huge industrial system has already been formed. Forty percent of the empire's annual fiscal revenue comes from the many overseas territories directly under the empire!And it is possible to purchase all kinds of rare resources produced in those private territories almost unlimitedly at a relatively low price!

It is precisely because of these resources that the empire has established a finished product strategic resource reserve that is superior to the entire star sea world, and almost all resource planets in the galaxy are in a sealed state.As a property left to future generations.

In other words, even if many overseas territories of the empire stopped sending resources to the mainland of the empire.The existing resource reserves can fully meet the needs of the imperial government for 50 years!

Overseas lords are basically divided into two types, one is to prepare funds, equipment and manpower by oneself, and go out to find and open up unfamiliar star fields; the other is to rent out the sites that have been conquered by the lords but have not yet been developed. , I paid for the equipment myself, mined and refined various resources on the territory and sold them to the imperial government!Most of the income obtained each year is turned over to the original lord, and the rest is owned by himself.

This type of people is called "second lord". Relatively speaking, the benefits they can obtain are not as great as the original lords, but the risks they have to bear are much smaller and the income is stable.For those who are unwilling to take risks but have the ability and funds, the "Second Lord" is undoubtedly a more suitable choice.

Xichen Qinglan originally wanted him to be the "second lord" so that he would not have to take risks. Of course, his future development achievements would naturally be limited, so he refused.

A man's path must be walked by himself after all, and it is impossible to take shelter under the wings of others forever.

"Master, you have a visitor, do you see it or not?" The biochemical maid asked respectfully at the door of the study.

"Let them in!" Xiao Junling put away the documents on the table and ordered casually.

After a while, two young men and women with gorgeous clothes and elegant temperament walked in.The man is unparalleled in beauty, and the woman is beautiful, and the appearance of the two is surprisingly similar!

"Your Excellency, we meet again!" the woman saluted softly and greeted.

Xiao Junling sighed, and said: "Although these words are a bit abrupt, I still want to ask, what should I call you now? Mr. or Miss?"

These two are Su Yuqian's number one confidantes and his concubine!The charming and lovely girl in the white dress is actually a beautiful boy with male and female appearance, named Su Yaming; while the boy who is dressed as a man next to him is a beautiful girl named Su Yaxuan !

Su Yaming, who was dressed in a dress, looked at her sister, and said indifferently, "You can call her whatever you want! We are here this time because we have something important to discuss with you!"

"Oh? If it happened last time, then there's no need to speak up?" Xiao Junling smiled lightly.

This is not the first time for this couple to visit him, and the purpose is also very simple, to recruit him for their young master of the Su family, and by the way, there is some kind of request that is not humane, he naturally cannot agree!

If it wasn't for the fact that that guy was already dying, he wouldn't have been patient and pretended to him!

Su Yaxuan hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Of course not this, we came here this time only for the future of our siblings!" (To be continued...)