Walk alone in the abyss

On the returning Dongfeng.

Yang Ming listened to Her Royal Highness Princess Daphne's new album, and browsed through the backlog of information in the past few months.

He is in a pretty good mood now.

Law has upgraded again, and already has the 'soft power' that perfectly matches that senior mechanical thinking body. What is lacking now is a bit of hard power-computing power.

Law is currently sorting out the massive amount of information they brought back. For safety reasons, Law is now only using the server group in Dark Star, and the processing speed is a little slower.

Yang Ming could only fiddle with the information by himself.

As for Yang Ming's tricks of cheating on the examiner for a period of time, he really got a little bit of benefit.

He got the core technology of sub-light speed flight that can be used by small and medium-sized ships!

In other words, as long as Lun digests the vast amount of technology given by the omnic Twilight, there is a high probability that Feinan will be produced in batches!

Of course, the cost of this kind of spaceship would probably be very expensive for a dark star whose technology is not yet mature. It can only be used as a special ship and cannot be mass-produced.

That old man, cough, these three teachers of Omnic Twilight are still quite talkative.

A certain omnic twilight examiner who was annoyed enough to almost revise his own peace agreement to give Yang Ming a few big blows, silently began to look for other resonators in the Milky Way.

"There is no fighting."

Muttering to himself, Yang Ming turned over a page of the projected document, the smile on his mouth gradually receded, and his expression gradually became serious.

In the past few months when he was away, although Luofeng, Dark Star, and Saka Star had all remained calm on the surface, there were some small problems inside.

Dark Star is the most stable of the three forces, and there was only an uprising of the thinking body in Dark Capital.

The essence of this uprising is very simple. They realized that the world is a fictional thinking body and carried out a protest and demonstration.

They want to understand the truth of the world, not be "low-cost enslavement" by the government of the dark capital.

It's pretty good, the thinking body maintains a high fighting spirit, which makes him, the 'father', very gratified.

So Yang Ming gave instructions:

[Let them face the reality, if they break down, they will go back to the furnace and rebuild. 】

He had made the same decision before.

Compared with the small uprising in the dark capital of the dark star, the troubles encountered by the star Saka are relatively difficult.

The aristocratic class of the empire was really fed up, and after more than a year of repairs, they began to make troubles for him again.

It was not the nobles who made trouble this time.

——The small group of nobles headed by that Prince Jinuofu now wished to stay as far away from Saka as possible.

In the final analysis, the nobles who tried to come to Saka to provoke were either instigated by the fire or hinted by the Imperial House of Elders.

The Heart of the Elder's House will never die if it wants to engage in white ghosts.

At this stage, Yang Ming's high imitation stand-in lives in Saka, and Godoy Saka, Hanyin, and Hanxiang come forward for all kinds of daily affairs, and there is Reville's help outside Saka, the overall situation is basically Controllable, not to the point where he has to show up.

Now that he has been released from Omnic Twilight, there will naturally be no major problems in the follow-up.

In the worst case, just follow the same pattern and jump to the gang to exchange feelings with these nobles.

But Luofeng's situation made Yang Ming not happy at all.

A lot of things went wrong as he expected.

The stamina of the old emperor's handwriting was still there. The Foreign Affairs Bureau and the military department of the Sherman Empire did not directly attack Luofeng. The Foreign Affairs Bureau also issued a letter of commendation, creating a scene of harmony.

But secretly, several government departments of the empire have begun to cooperate with the Foreign Affairs Bureau.

Luofeng's multinational companies in the Sherman Empire began to encounter frequent troubles. In just a few months, two large multinational companies have closed down.

At the same time, the business territory of the Luofeng Royal Family began to be frantically plundered by its original competitors. The interest groups that originally had business ties with various group companies under the Luofeng Royal Family are now rapidly moving away from related enterprises of the Luofeng Royal Family.

The messenger behind all this is naturally the government department of the empire.

The new Federation, which has not recovered from the aftermath of the war, has taken on a new lid.

"The old emperor is really useless."

Yang Ming clicked his tongue.

He concluded that it was still only the Sherman family elite who dominated the Foreign Affairs Bureau who were targeting Luofeng.

These are resources that the Foreign Affairs Bureau can reasonably mobilize.

If the old emperor wanted to deal with Luofeng, he didn't need to set his face on the bright side and hide his back. The old emperor would most likely dispatch more than one battle group directly to serve as Edwang's escort formation to 'protect' Edwan when he went to the emperor. Star 'Play'.

Edwan should be very anxious now.

Yang Ming thought quietly.

Edwan doesn't know much about military affairs, but he is most sensitive to the economy. On weekdays, when the economic index drops when the wind blows, he will work overtime and think until midnight.

In the past few months, Luofeng's private capital and royal capital have suffered successive setbacks, which will have a domino effect and directly affect Luofeng's people's livelihood and private operations.

Therefore, Yang Ming glanced at the progress of the analysis given by Lu, and found that only 30% had been completed, so he decided not to disturb Li, and dialed the number himself, using the communication equipment on the Dongfeng and the information relay of the Dark Star No. 2 base. Station, dialed the communication to Edwan.

The busts of the two appeared in front of each other.

With dark circles under his eyes, Edwan lowered his head and swept two mouthfuls of food into his mouth, then threw the beautifully shaped lunch box aside.

"You know everything?"

Edwin said:

"They have begun to strangle our economy, but it is generally controllable at this stage. We still have a lot of foreign exchange reserves. With the resources and wealth of the United Kingdom of Nonal, we generally have little impact."

Yang Ming laughed: "I don't understand economics, you can deal with it as you see it, and if you have any difficulties, you can come to me."

"Compared to this, what really matters is the deterioration of the political environment."

Edwan pondered a few times:

"The various dependent countries of the Sherman Empire seem to have received orders, and they began to draw boundaries with us.

"Although the investment boom in our Luofeng has not subsided, but because the external environment has become harsh and the countries in the federal camp continue to attack, the growth trend has begun to slow down.

"The prices of imported materials necessary for our country have risen to varying degrees, and our business routes are also threatened by small groups of pirates.

"The good news is that we have received a large sum of war compensation in the treasury of the United Kingdom of Nonar.

"We don't have any obvious economic problems for the next decade, but we don't depend on that."

Yang Ming said softly: "Can the property of the Luofeng Empire's royal family be transferred from the Sherman Empire to the outside?"

"No," Edwan shook his head. "Most of our investments are in industries, which are highly tied to the local area. This is also a way for dependent countries to gain part of the right to speak."

Both of them were thinking, Yang Ming lowered his head and finished flipping through the electronic document in his hand.

Facing the economic strangulation of the Sherman Empire, both of them felt strong pressure.

The other party put everything in the dark.

Next, the foreign affairs bureau didn't know where to start, causing more trouble for Luofeng.

"And one more thing."

Edwan hesitated, but he still said:

"You know Ming, we plundered the United Kingdom of Nonar because they deserved it, and it was also out of consideration that they would not be able to threaten us again in a short time.

"This is a self-defense counterattack. I don't think there is a problem, but if you suck blood in the United Kingdom of Nonar for a long time, it will be their citizens who will suffer in the end... Is there any difference between us and the Sherman Empire?

"Well, I just personally think so. From the standpoint of the emperor, I want to make the lives of the people of our country happier."

Yang Ming smiled and said, "You mean to say that this kind of happiness can be achieved through struggle, not through plunder and aggression?"

Edwan said with firm eyes: "Yes, that's it."

"You are a pacifist, Edwan, that's great," Yang Mingwen said, "Now we need an extra resource to get through the difficult stage, so we will go to the Seizing his resources, this will not be our normal state, just rest assured."

Edwan asked directly: "Ming, how should we fight back against the economic strangulation of the Sherman Empire? Or, how should we deal with the current troubles?"

"There is no way to fight back for the time being. Compared with Sherman, Luofeng's size is really far behind."

Yang Ming pressed his hands and fingers together in front of him, and said slowly:

"To be honest, even if we can come up with some subversive technologies for people's livelihood, under the all-round sniping of the Sherman Empire, it is unlikely to get too good benefits.

"At the end of the day, it's all about our military being far inferior to Sherman.

"Edwang, we must be prepared for hard work. Even if the quality of life of the Luofeng people has declined, according to our previous arrangements and preparations, the basic life will not be affected."

Edwan said in a low voice: "There will be public grievances."

Yang Ming said: "We can also transfer these pressures to the United Kingdom of Nonar by means of transfer."

"This is a bit too inhuman."

"Ed Wang, you are the emperor of Luofeng," Yang Ming's eyes became sharp.

Edwan stared at Yang Ming, then closed his eyes and sighed: "Yes, I am the emperor of Luofeng, and I shouldn't show sympathy to the citizens of Nonal."

"There were differences between us, that's normal, we were all under too much pressure."

Yang Ming smiled and said:

"I will return to Star Ilando soon, and we will have a good chat at that time. On the way, I will think of a way, how to let Luofeng find a chance to stand out from the encirclement."

"I have been insomnia for half a month."

Edwan yawned and stretched again:

"It's strange, after chatting with you, although I didn't get any substantial progress, I am not so worried in my heart.

"I'm going to have a good sleep and wait for you to come back."

There was a beautiful figure on the side, Gui Na in a secretarial suit, the Terminator TXX robot.

Judging from a little detail, she and Edwan got along fairly well.

...

Now, the Sherman Empire Foreign Affairs Bureau has completed all-round arrangements for the strangle operation against the subordinate country Luofeng.

Militarily, the Sherman Empire was looking for the next medium-sized country to conflict with Luofengqi, and according to the current intelligence analysis, it was very likely to be another subsidiary country of the Sherman Empire.

As a vassal state, it can hedge against the political influence of the Sherman Empire, and it is also convenient for the Sherman Empire officials to cut into the situation at any time.

In terms of diplomacy, the small distant countries that had good relations with the Luofeng Empire seemed to have received some kind of warning.

Along with the chain effect, Luofeng's commodity exports continued to drop.

Economically, the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Sherman Empire joined forces with several groups of the Treasury Department of the Sherman Empire to directly exert strong pressure on the businessmen from Luofeng nationality.

This is the rhythm of wanting to push Luofeng directly into the second-level civilization.

Actually, Yang Ming didn't need to be so anxious.

He only needs the existence of the country Luofeng to cover up the existence of the dark star. The dark star will then open up the No. 4 base in the no-man's land of the Milky Way. The number of mechanical thinking bodies is constantly expanding, which can keep his dark star power developing at a high speed.

The examiner was right, in this case, as long as he was given enough time to develop, he could cultivate the second most powerful fleet in the galaxy in the no man's land of the galaxy.

But the problem lies in this 'time'.

Faya's game will start in twelve or three years at most. Before that, according to Yang Ming's own plan, he must establish his own influence and deterrence on the civilization of the Milky Way.

The expansion of Luofeng is a necessary cover for the normal activities of the dark star.

If Luofeng can break through the siege of the Sherman Empire, it will be the best situation for Yang Ming.

In that way, he would have Luofeng and Dark Star, one bright and one dark, and it would be no problem to protect the small civilization on his home planet.

The best forerunner is to let the human beings on the mother star integrate into the galaxy with dignity.

On the Dongfeng ship's bridge where most of the lights were turned off, Yang Ming leaned in the captain's seat, with his legs resting on the edge of the operating panel, quietly staring at the starry sky outside the window.

In the emperor's bedroom of the Ilanduo Star Palace, Edwan lay flat on the big bed, his eyes about to close were still staring at the star projection on the ceiling.

The giant beast walking in the darkness seemed to devour Yang Ming's spaceship.

The dark starry sky seems to be gradually dimming, trying to blow out the bright city lights on the surface of Ilanduo star one by one.

Sherman.

Mighty Sherman.

Sherman does not allow subject states to break away from control.

Sherman has existed in the Milky Way for tens of thousands of years and still has a long-lasting trend.

Military and technical barriers have made ordinary people lose the possibility of resisting the imperial power. In the entire galaxy, no strong anti-imperial power alliance has been formed. The lives of the people of the Sherman Empire are not inferior to those of other powerful countries. .

How can we deal with this powerful empire?

Yang Ming recalled the moment when he faced a choice when he was in Emperor Star.

'Will you regret it? '

Yang Ming smiled and shook his head, slowly closed his eyes, a slightly bold idea appeared in his heart.

Edwan suddenly thought of the fierce dispute with his father when he was nineteen years old. His father scolded him as an idealist who would drag the country into the abyss, but he refuted that such a regime that oppresses the people does not exist. significance.

Yes, he was brainwashed by the idea of ​​democracy.

But what he pursues is real democracy, not a "democracy" that is arbitrarily dressed up by capital and various forces and uses policies to fool the people to win votes.

If the time were to start over again, Edwan would still make the same choice.

'Father, I will not let Luofeng fall into darkness. '

Edwan closed his sleepy eyes, and his breathing quickly became calm.

At the foot of the bed, Gui Na stood and closed her eyes, under the eyelids there was a slightly flickering indicator light.

‘The balance within the Sherman Empire must be upset. '

Yang Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, the thought in his heart had grown wildly, like a ball of flame, about to explode.

drop--

"Boss, the overall analysis has been completed."