"I once heard a little story from the ancient cultivator era.
It was said that the prince of a certain planet empire rebelled and tried to kill his father.
The reason he used was 'How can there be a prince who has been sixty years old'?"
Li Linghai said calmly, "Haha, in today's true human empire, resources are abnormally concentrated, and all kinds of magical powers that extend life are popular.
Let alone the '60-year-old prince', even the '360-year-old prince' is also It's possible.
"Think about it, you are a young immortal cultivator with outstanding talent, powerful strength, and great ambition who really wants to achieve something.
However, the world in which you live includes world leaders, sect leaders, presidents of major groups, local garrison commanders, and fleets.
Commander in chief...almost all The top management has not changed in a hundred or two hundred years, and the immortals with fairy-like demeanor and gray-haired faces sitting above you seem to be able to live comfortably for another two hundred years.
How do you feel?
Black, with a bleak future and extremely hopeless?
"What's more, as people live longer, their ideas will inevitably become stale, and their thoughts will definitely become rigid.
They will resist accepting new things and new cultivation concepts, and stick to the past.
In the end, it will be more than just a simple meal in the corpse position, and they will even stick to their own power and power.
Interests have greatly hindered the progress of the entire society.
"These old immortals have ten thousand ways to kill those young immortal cultivators who may pose a threat to them but are unwilling to be won over and corrupted by them, so as to ensure their absolute rule.
"Once young immortal cultivators are eroded by them, they will inevitably fall into an endless cycle of seniority and suffering.
They will enslave and exploit them at will, become acquainted with the light and dust, and polish off the edges.
Eventually, they will become a small figure in these interest groups. ’s components.”
Li Yao was speechless.
If you think about it carefully, if a society always adheres to the concept of "the weak eats the strong, the winner takes all" and does not form a relatively stable rule of alternation between the old and the new, then the situation Li Linghai mentioned will definitely occur.
"However, these old immortals do have a fatal weakness."
Li Linghai narrowed his eyes and raised a cruel smile at the corner of his mouth, "They can waste countless precious resources and barely save their own lives, but they will never be able to maintain their combat effectiveness at its peak state forever.
"The boxer should be afraid of the young.
It is a wise saying.
The combat effectiveness of immortal cultivators will increase with the improvement of their realm, but will also decline with the extension of their life span.
The real world is not a novel.
There is no such thing as 'the older you get, the better you can fight'" Things, when life and realm have climbed to the point of forming a golden cross, it is the peak stage of an immortal cultivator, but once this stage passes, it can never be recovered.
"So, many of the scary-sounding 'four-hundred-year-old Nascent Soul, five-hundred-year-old gods' and the like in the empire are actually just empty shelves.
Maybe the vision, experience, and realm are still there, but when it comes to taking action, It’s definitely not me, and it may not even be your opponent.
"One day, these soul-returning corpses that should have decayed long ago will taste the vitality and unstoppable power from the younger generation.
I firmly believe this!"
Li Yao grinned and said, "If you give me the opportunity to beat dozens of high-level immortal cultivators in the empire into pig heads, I won't object."
Li Linghai smiled lightly: "Don't worry, we had such a pleasant chat, we must have a good understanding of each other and there will definitely be a chance.
“As mentioned above, the contradiction between high-level immortal cultivators and low-level immortal cultivators is the fundamental contradiction facing the empire today.
“In addition to fundamental contradictions, there are naturally other contradictions, large and small.
"For example, do the dozens of the most developed industrial worlds in the center of the star sea squeeze and suck blood from the hundreds of resource worlds on the periphery of the empire need a detailed explanation?"
Li Yao shook his head.
The exploitation and blood-sucking of the backward resource world by the developed industrial world is an almost unsolvable problem.
Even the Star Federation faces the same problem, which is the dispute between the so-called "Old Three Realms" and the "New Four Realms".
The three core worlds of Tianyuan, Blood Demon and Feixing have relatively advanced technology and a complete large-scale industrial magic weapon refining system.
Under the circumstances that they are the same country and there are no tariffs and trade barriers, they can fight against each other in minutes.
Crystal, Netherworld, Sea of Trees, etc.
Dumping has formed in the resource world, completely destroying the mediocre, primitive and backward industrial systems of the realms of Crystal, Netherworld, and Sea of Trees.
Eventually, the worlds of Crystal, Netherworld, and Sea of Trees will forever become dumping grounds for industrial products and primary resources. supply place.
Because of this core contradiction, before Li Yao and the ancient saints returned to the Federation, there were great differences between the old three realms and the new four realms, and even formed two camps headed by Ding Lingdang and Jin Xinyue, tit for tat with each other.
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Not giving in to each other.
Of course, the Star Federation is a very young country, as vibrant, enterprising, and prosperous as the True Human Empire a thousand years ago.
On the one hand, the Federation only has less than ten worlds in total.
With a short history of only a hundred years, there is no time to form a strong fortress of interests.
"A small ship can easily turn around", and any conflicts can be easily resolved through negotiation.
On the other hand, at that time, the Federation faced a huge threat from the Black Wind Fleet and was at a critical moment of life and death.
This long-term contradiction of dumping blood from the industrial world to the resource world and earning a scissor difference could only be considered secondarily.
Thirdly, under the leadership of Li Yao, the Federation has successively discovered rich worlds and advanced technologies such as the Ancient Sacred World, the Kunlun Ruins, and the Skeleton Dragon Star.
This is equivalent to obtaining a large amount of start-up funds out of thin air, and the conflict with the increasingly acute , which plays a great lubricating and relaxing effect.
In addition, leaders of their respective interest groups such as Ding Lingdang and Jin Xinyue used great patience and wisdom to temporarily shelve disputes and resolve conflicts, including Jin Tuyi and others who took charge of the overall situation behind the scenes.
In the end, the old three circles and the new four circles Only then can the world unite and successfully defeat the Black Wind Fleet.
Even so, it was difficult for Li Yao to imagine how the Star Federation, which would continue to expand hundreds of years later, would solve the problems of uneven regional economic development, the increasingly serious "siphon effect" in the industrial world, and the growing scissor gap.
Therefore, many experts from the Starry Star Federation even assert that the best state for the federation is the current one, with no more than ten worlds.
This is the limit of scale effect and comprehensive national strength.
If we continue to expand blindly, we will really suffer from indigestion and even stretch ourselves to death.
The true human empire, which has hundreds of thousands of worlds, has at least damaged itself even if it has not stretched itself to death.
Almost all the favorable conditions of the Federation are not available to the Empire.
Li Yao didn't think that the developed industrial world under the rule of the four Electoral Prince families would be merciful to the frontier resource world that the empire later opened up.
It must be that you can suck blood as much as you can and dump it as much as you can.
It is best to use large-scale cheap magic weapons produced by assembly lines to completely submerge these remote worlds to ensure that they will never develop any magic weapon refining industrial system and will always only have magic weapons.
Being able to serve as a primary resource provider for the four Electoral families, he fell into the trap of "exchanging five hundred tons of raw ore for one crystal armor" and was unable to extricate himself.
So, are the rulers of these remote worlds, who are also ambitious world lords, warlords and fleet commanders, willing to let their world forever become a backwater with many mines but not even a magic weapon factory?
Are the Electoral Houses squeezing, dumping and sucking blood?
This is the struggle between the "Old Three Realms and the New Four Realms" that has intensified and expanded tenfold in scale!
In the Federation, the battle between the industrial world and the resource world was temporarily defused by Li Yao, Ding Lingdang, Jin Xinyue and others by making peace with each other.
Today's empire is not that simple.
Even if a civil war breaks out, it would not be surprising.
Li Linghai observed Li Yao's expression calmly.
Seeing that he was really thoughtful, his evaluation of him improved to another level.
He nodded and said: "Very good.
He is worthy of being a special envoy of the Speaker.
He can tell the truth.
Not a simple martial artist."
"You can understand the contradictions between the industrial world and the resource world caused by the imbalance of regional economic development.
As a combat-type god-turned-powerful man, the contradictions between the 'military' and 'families, sects, and interest groups', It becomes more understandable when you think about it?”
Li Yao was slightly startled: "What is that?"
"It's very simple.
Now all the armies in the True Human Empire are nominally called the 'Imperial Army', but in fact there is no unified command and operation system.
Even the financial power and the control of the military-industrial group are not under the control of the military. in hand.
"In fact, it has been invaded by nobles and warlords for hundreds of years.
Except for the imperial guards in Jitianjie and Tianjixing, there is no existence that can be called an 'imperial army' in the true sense.
"The vast majority of the elite Star Sea Fleet and Crystal Armor Battle Groups have command, financial power, and military-industrial group control, all in the hands of nobles, warlords, and world lords.
"In other words, the imperial army is just the private soldiers of the nobles, they are just those old and stubborn losers.
"The simplest example, the army brought by Li Lingfeng that we eliminated earlier, can those people be called the 'Imperial Army'?
No, they are just the 'Li Family Army', or even just Li Lingfeng's private soldiers, the term is 'Jia Ding' That’s all.”
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Li Yao nodded slowly.
In the end of the dynasty when the imperial power declined and warlords rose, this kind of thing was taken for granted.
The army that nominally belongs to the country, or at least the emperor, is actually the private army of the nobles and warlords.
The nobles and warlords provide money, people, crystal armor and starships to support them.
They naturally have to maintain it, and only Can safeguard the interests of nobles and warlords.
"However, not every imperial soldier is willing to serve as a private soldier, servant, and legionnaire of the nobles throughout his life, and die worthlessly for the sake of power and turf competition among the nobles, especially for those who are energetic, ambitious, and capable.
The lofty ideals and ambitions, and even... this is especially true for grassroots young officers who firmly remember the glorious history of the Imperial Army in the era of the Black Star Emperor!"
Li Linghai's eyes turned red, and he said murderously, "Gather the private soldiers scattered in various worlds, in the hands of nobles and clans, into an extremely powerful, real imperial army, so that the 'military' can issue its own The voice, roaring like thunder!
"From now on, we will only fight for the interests of the empire, only for human civilization, and only for His Majesty the Emperor!
"This is the passionate ideal of countless young officers.
They are willing to break their bodies to pieces and fight to the death for this ideal!"