If divided according to the traditions of those primary civilizations, the three major institutions of the Holy Empire, the Seer Academy, the Enlightenment Association, and the Execution Corps, can probably correspond to scientific institutions, government institutions, and military institutions.
Yes, the reason why the Enlightenment Association can compete with the other two huge organizations as a "spontaneous" "association" is essentially that in an empire without the concept of government, the vast majority of those who maintain social authority are
From the Enlightenment Society.
And among these three, according to the principle of fair recommendation, they formed the Supreme Council that decided the affairs of the entire empire's civilization.
Unlike the three major institutions that are permanently located on the home planet, the Supreme Council is located on the star ring.
To be precise, under the promised land.
The melodious bells echoed throughout the star ring, marking the end of today's parliamentary time.
Countless citizens of the Empire who live in the star ring belt do not have any suspicion or interest in the bells. For most people, the war between the Empire and humanity is very far away - far away from the 30th galaxy, which is far away from the motherland.
Stars are hundreds of millions of light years across.
What must be admitted is that the farthest places most ordinary people have traveled to are only a few surrounding servant stars. They even only traveled during the schooling stage and then returned to the star ring to live.
There are no material worries or mental worries, so why worry about so many things?
But there are also a small number of ordinary citizens who have realized the power of human civilization and threaten the rule of the empire.
So, when the bell rang, a large number of citizens eager to get first-hand information gathered at the door of the Supreme Council Hall, waiting for the supreme councilors to come out and ask what happened.
But today... it's been a long time since the bell rang, and still no member of Parliament showed up.
…
Prophet Klin walked into the temporary lounge with a tired look on his face.
The area of this lounge is not large. There are only a few chairs and a table, so there is no extra space. Moreover, the decoration on the walls and the style of the carpet are extremely old. If you are not careful, you can give people the impression that they have traveled through thousands of years.
of feeling.
Indeed, the decoration and layout of this lounge have not been changed for thousands of years.
While waiting, footsteps were heard one after another, and then several congressmen walked into the room one after another.
"Klin, don't tell me that you want to accept human conditions."
The speaker was the president of the Enlightenment Association and the deputy speaker of the Supreme Council, Cordolan.
Cordolan looks to be in his early 100s this year, very young, but in fact, he is already over 200 years old, several years older than Prophet Klin.
"I don't want to accept human conditions, but we must clearly realize that now we are completely at a disadvantage." Prophet Klin looked up at his senior, and then glanced at the gloomy face sitting next to him.
Xin'dorei, the legion commander nearby: "Xin'dorei and I saw with our own eyes how humans destroyed tens of thousands of our warships."
As soon as he said this, everyone present fell silent.
Especially the commander of the Sin'dorei Corps, who has a terrifyingly dark face - three months ago, humans suddenly launched a ghost attack on the satellite system where Base 32 is located. Although in the previous battle, after discussions by the Seer Academy,
, succeeded in detecting the enemy's ghost weapons, but...even if it detected the curvature wave like water waves, the fleet was unable to do anything with human weapons.
They could only watch helplessly as the fleet turned into debris that filled the sky.
If Lianna, who stayed on the human side, hadn't reminded them, the two of them wouldn't even have had a chance to evacuate.
Because this time, the human attack goal is to completely clear the entire star field.
After suffering such a huge defeat, even though they still had tens of thousands of warships in their hands, Sin'dorei already knew that these warships of the legion were just a piece of cake under human attack.
In silence, Xin'dorei took a deep breath and looked up at everyone: "Everyone, I think, no matter how difficult it is, we must admit one thing, that is... as Lianna said, the technological level of human civilization.
At the very least, the use of war weapons exceeds the gap between us at one level of civilization."
"Under the current level of human civilization, we are just like the low-level civilizations encountered in countless incidents carried out by the Legion in the past ten thousand years... without any power to fight back."
Following Sin'dorei's voice, a look of pain appeared on everyone's faces at the same time.
Especially Prophet Klin, in just a few months, he seemed to have aged ten years, and his facial muscles had completely relaxed.
Silent, Prophet Klin looked back out the window.
Outside the window, you can just see a corner of the paradise.
For thousands of years, the Paradise has been hanging high here, protecting all the people of the entire empire.
"There is no hope for the Promised Land." Prophet Klin retracted his gaze and exhaled slowly: "So, for the continuation of the empire, we must accept the fact that humans are more advanced."
"But the conditions of human beings..." Kodolan looked painful and said in a deep voice: "You don't have any contact with government affairs, and you don't even know how low-level civilizations deal with... I'm telling you this, humans are now going to
Empires transformed into their model of rule and governance!”
"I can admit that humans are technologically advanced, but I don't think that humans' governance model and distribution model will be better - the empire has been stable for thousands of years!"
"And those low-level civilization communities are unimaginable even for hundreds of years, let alone a thousand years of stability."
"If you understand the history of known civilizations in the entire universe, you will know that the history of low-level civilizations is essentially a history of war."
"And with the establishment of human resources division of labor, trade system and currency system, how can our citizens... how can they have such a life anymore?"
"Moreover, humans also require us to abandon the Servant Star and disband the fleet... This means that we will completely lose the right to rule the entire universe."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Cordolan stood up, supporting the table with both hands, and separated his eyes left and right, one eye staring at Prophet Klin, and the other staring at Sindor
Lei, this action made him look very scary: "Klin, you are a prophet, let alone your pursuit of knowledge and science, human science is tempting to you. But what about Sin'dorei? You are the commander of the legion.
!You know what will happen when we disband the fleet..."
Sin'dorei also stood up and stared at each other: "The question is, what else can our fleet do now? Or in other words, what else can I expect you to do?"
"Compared to the improvement of human force in just a few years, what about our weapons? There has been no improvement in ten thousand years!"
"You found the blueprints for the antimatter propulsion spacecraft from the Promised Land and built the ultra-high-speed spacecraft. But what happened? You used it to travel across the universe, but you refused to give it to us."
"You and the Seer Academy have always been wary of the legion. You have always believed that the legion's power is too great and will threaten you."
"But you haven't thought about it. The source of the Legion's power is the Promised Land. How could it threaten you?"
"And during the past few years of the war, what kind of help did the Prophet's Academy give us? There was no help at all."
"Or to be more precise, how can the Promised Land help us?"
Sin'dorei took a deep breath, with a touch of despair in his words: "The chief scientist of mankind said that their scientific and technological progress relies on the constant pursuit of innovation and status, while our progress... depends on archaeology."
"For the past ten thousand years, we have always believed that the Paradise is omnipotent and the Empire is omnipotent. But now... we all know that the Paradise's omnipotence is just an illusion. It is only omnipotent within the rules it knows."
"My grandson is capable of everything in the field of elementary number calculations!"
"So you surrender?"
"I didn't say surrender, I just hope you can think of a way."
"What if there is no way?"
"If there is no other way, then..." Sin'dorei looked around at everyone and said one word at a time: "I will surrender."
Hearing the word surrender come out of the mouth of the head of the Enforcer Corps, everyone fell silent again.
Finally, Prophet Dolei, who had been silent all this time, lightly tapped the table.
Prophet Dore is the new president of the House of Prophets and the current speaker of the Supreme Council.
"We'd better establish a basis."
"What basis?"
"It's just...do we still need...them?"
Prophet Dore said, he did not look back, he just raised his finger and pointed out the window.
Following the direction of his finger, the brilliance of the paradise remained, so bright and sacred that it was impossible to look directly at it.
Everyone was silent again.
Finally, Prophet Klin let out a long sigh.
"How about we first apply for a truce from humans, and then...send envoys to each other to learn more about each other before making a final decision?"
Everyone looked at each other.
"Would humans agree?"
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Brain-computer center.
The snow has stopped long ago, but as the saying goes, if it snows and it doesn't get cold, it becomes cold. Therefore, the heating in the entire brain-machine center was turned on so much that after Ye Ming drank a cup of hot coffee, he still felt the cold after taking off his coat.
It's so hot.
Director Niu pushed open the door and walked in. When he saw Ye Ming's appearance, he couldn't help it: "Good guy, your heater is too full, isn't it?"
"Well, now I can understand why you can eat ice cream in the winter in the north..." Ye Ming walked out from behind the chair, made a cup of tea for Director Niu alone, poured himself a cup of cold water, and then sat down with Director Niu
Opposite of.
Taking the tea cup, Director Niu blew the tea foam comfortably and asked casually: "Have you read the opinions on how to deal with the empire?"
"seen it already."
"Do you have any other suggestions?"
"You are the professionals, I won't join in the fun." Ye Ming chuckled and leaned on the back of the sofa.
Judging from his posture and expression, it is obvious that he is quite satisfied.
After humans fought two battles in which almost nothing was exchanged for tens of thousands, even if everyone in the empire was a fool, they also knew that humans were an existence that the empire could not compete with. Therefore, the desire to negotiate peace with humans began
Intensified as never before.
And now that the enemies know it... then humans themselves must know even better... that the empire is no match for them.
Putting aside the meaningless sighs, today's human beings fighting empires are like the Wuchang establishment in the early 21st century traveling back to ancient times.
Yes, in terms of weapons alone, the empire has been reduced to a "primitive" civilization in front of mankind.
And this is just a small application that mankind has just touched the threshold of the fourth-level civilization - if human beings can obtain the most important multi-dimensional coordinate unification technology of the fourth-level civilization...
Then in just the blink of an eye, human warships can fly directly from the dock to the sky above the empire's home planet.
Just thinking about such technology is scary.
You will feel... how childish and ridiculous all battleship battles are.
And such technology can't even be found in the empire!
Such a gap has forced mankind to start thinking about how to deal with the empire.
The solution was very simple, which was to accept the empire's "conditional" surrender.
The "conditions" here do not mean that humans have to accept the empire's bottom line, conditions, etc., but that humans can let the empire put forward requirements, and then see whether these requirements are in line with human habits, traditions, rules, and whether they are consistent with human beings.
and even the benefit of the entire universe.
If it is consistent, then humans will agree.
If it doesn't match, just call it back.
For example, the four principles that humans have set out for the empire are:
First, liberate all slave systems.
Second, disband all fleets.
Third, open up trade with the human world and incorporate it into the human trade system.
Fourth, enter the human-dominated universe governance system.
As long as these four points are met, humans can accept it.
The biggest request made by the other party right away was to master human technology.
Regarding this... I can only say that when I want to sleep, someone brings me a pillow.
——As we all know, all human science and technology are built on supercomputers centered on Aita.
Once they accept human technology, it means that they will fully accept human... oh no, Aita's rule!
"Well, they added another one."
"What was added?"
"They hope to cease the war first and send prophets to each other." Director Niu held the teacup and looked at Ye Ming with a smile.
Ye Ming was startled for a moment, then his eyes lit up: "Then what?"
"Then, the above is unified in principle, but there is also a special opinion, so you don't have to be curious."
Ye Ming immediately closed his mouth and stopped talking.
Director Niu smiled and took a deep look at Ye Ming.
He knew that Ye Ming's greatest desire and motivation, which has driven human technology to this day, may be the unknowns in the universe.
The "promised land" that carries the consciousness of the enemy's ancestors is the greatest unknown that can be seen with one's own eyes.
It is difficult for a scientist to resist such a temptation.
"There is always a chance, Mr. Ye."
"Yes... there is always a chance." Ye Ming sighed softly. After a moment, he slowly exhaled: "I don't have to go, but Eta has to go."