Chapter 774: No mole, let’s make some jokes to humiliate Du
Arcturus is the kind of person who is often said to be invisible in emotion and anger. He can hide his emotions very well, and he is getting better and better at it.
In the process of dealing with the Imperial Prince, Jacob Kang, a member of the Umoyan Council, said on many occasions in private that Arcturus Mengsk should have been born from his mother's womb.
He would fake a smile, and even the shadow guards of the Protectorate Army couldn't take off his mask.
And when Augustus sent his officials away and looked over there, Arcturus's face clearly showed an uneasy expression.
This powerful figure in the empire who was deeply trusted by the emperor was not without any emotions, but he was very good at hiding them. Arcturus still got angry sometimes, and usually his revenge would only come faster than his anger.
Arcturus was understandably surprised. He was actually quite satisfied with his son, but he had never really understood him.
After killing the elder families of the old federation, the Mengsk royal family became the largest aristocracy. As the next generation with high hopes, Valerian received a carefully planned elite education since he was a child. Most of the people he came into contact with were either rich or noble, so
Keep your horizons wide and don’t be surprised by favors or disgrace.
Valerian is a qualified heir trained under this education system. He is polite and elegant. He occasionally is not aware of his arrogant attitude towards others, but he is never arrogant, which is really commendable.
If the aristocrats of the old federation in the past had poor family traditions, no matter how good their education was, they would only be able to produce a bunch of useless people.
However, perhaps because of the delicate relationship between father and son, Valerian has always been a little bit reluctant to let go in front of his father. Who knows that he secretly read the quotations of Augustus the Great, and wrote private letters not only quoting scriptures, but also making hilarious remarks?
, and it also contains a lot of sharp comments about some senior generals of the empire. This must have come from his own mouth.
There is no doubt that this is influenced by Augustus, considering that Jim Raynor is almost the second person that Valerian admires, and this person is not a serious person, and his speeches often make wonderful sentences, and are also out of touch.
It doesn't matter.
Arcturus almost suspected that there was also the influence of the villain Tychus Finley. Allowing this dissolute scum to still live in this world may be the worst decision he has ever made in his life. The boss of the Demon of Heaven
The team members are farmers' sons, soldiers, criminals and even drug addicts. They have nothing to do with nobles and gentlemen.
The emperor's war room never really gets quiet, and after a while, Imperial Councilor Corbin Fash walked in.
Corbin's son Qorin has been detected to have extremely strong psychic talents, and now he is seeking to enroll Qin into the Ghost Academy in Tarsonis.
The functions of the Academy have now been differentiated from the Korhal Ghost Military Academy. It mainly recruits students with rare special psychic talents, such as pyrokinesis and mechanical telepathy. They will also provide outstanding telepathic talents to the Imperial Judiciary for review.
Internal espionage, rebellion and subversive conspiracy, handling criminal cases, major cases, and important cases.
In the old federal era, even members of the Congress could not prevent members of the Ghost Project from taking away their children. But in the era of Augustus, psychic powers received more open, non-demon propaganda from the imperial government. After all, the empire
The Queen is a true telepath, and possibly the most powerful human being known.
However, Corbyn did not come here today just to go through the back door. As a member of parliament elected by ballot, even if his political views are nothing until they are approved by the emperor, he does represent the interests of the people in the constituency.
Today Corbin is here for the planet Martell, which lives on mineral resources. Like other worlds, Martell hopes that his representatives in the Imperial Parliament can seek their rights or obtain rights.
Certain policy tilt.
They usually get what they want.
At this time, Arcturus sat so naturally in the emperor's hands and read his son's letters, pretending that he was reading the battle reports from the front line, and sipping a glass of wine from time to time.
If Valerian were here now, Arcturus would probably have to criticize him: You didn't fight this battle correctly, what should you do?
Lao Meng's thinking was different. If the child hadn't been forged into steel, it was because he hadn't been beaten enough. He didn't mind giving his son a beating with his own hands so that his son would have a long memory, so as not to suffer disadvantages at the hands of others.
But since Augustus asked him to read Valerian's letters, he must have a point. Moreover, Arcturus really wanted to understand his son's experience when he was on the front line, so he read on patiently:
Letter of November 17.
Dear Uncle Augustus, the communication base station damaged by the fierce battle between Turasis II and Korhal has been repaired, so I have the opportunity to send you the letter I wrote before.
We have rested in Turasis, and our personnel and supplies have been transported through countless transits from the huge industrial worlds of Korhal, Tarsonis and Moria.
Sun Tzu said that soldiers are the major affairs of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival.
This was an unprecedented occasion, and I don’t think there has ever been such a scene in any era before. Countless officer candidates, recruits, and shiploads of power armor were unloaded at Braddock. Most of them were as young as me.
They all grew up in the ten years after the establishment of the empire, and the concept of the old federation has become increasingly blurred to these people.
Based on intelligent servers and deformation modules, imperial transport ships transport folded and boxed large-scale mechas like transport containers, just to save space to carry more armaments. Every train carriage newly produced in Moria
They were all stuffed with supplies and sent directly to the front line.
Speaking of Braddock, I think you still have some impressions. When you served in Turasis, Braddock was just a small town, but now it is a huge city with a population of millions.
It was Keha's construction contractors that changed everything. Then arms companies also built factories here, and other companies and individual merchants serving military personnel also began to move in. To this day, Braddock's munitions factory still produces a large number of military uniforms.
, quilts and other necessities. In addition, the supplies stored here are always of a very high level, but the ones I saw are enough to last my legion for more than ten years.
This helps improve our morale.
The opening up of a fertile new world, new agricultural policies that encouraged reclamation, and scientific and technological progress ensured that our people would no longer go hungry. Today, few people join the army just for lack of food and clothing, but even people like me have had food and drink since birth.
People who see such abundant reserves can't help but feel at ease.
Your decisions always make sense.
The people of Braddock still remember you. There is still a statue of the Demon Squad of Heaven standing here, and there is still a Vulture car said to be driven by Emperor Augustus.
When recalling a great man, every word he ever spoke is reflected in every place he visited. At Braddock, I was told that ever since a brothel in Tarsonis claimed to have been visited by his present Majesty, it has been almost
Business boomed overnight, and all of Tarsonis' prostitutes became pretentious and required to conduct themselves according to royal standards.
Below is a note from Augustus: From the perspective of the person involved, this is a lie. I went there to fish out Tychus and never actually went in. Both Reynold and Hank can testify for me.
As we all know, Tychus is a bad guy. I spent more money on this piece of shit than I did on my wife, and his biggest use is in gang fights in taverns.
When Arcturus saw this, he looked at the date again, and suddenly remembered, no wonder Augustus suddenly woke up Governor Tarsonis from the bed one day and cursed him. When the bewildered governor second
Tian personally led people to search his house and kill him. He was trembling when he saw the plaque of the so-called Royal Strip Club. However, Valerian only mentioned it and did not know the truth of the matter. He did not even know that this matter was
What kind of shock it caused in the empire, because there is no such thing as a legal brothel in the imperial law, so this is illegal, not to mention openly insulting the royal family, which is a serious crime.
Valerian wrote letters to his uncle with basically no baggage and no barriers. They just wrote whatever came to mind. Next he mentioned:
We received orders on this day that the zerg appeared in Innisfree, and an experienced Imperial Marines were needed to carry out the cleanup mission.
Well, I applied many times to go to the Aiel Battlefield or other more dangerous star fields, but all my applications ended up in vain.
I think this has something to do with my father. He may be afraid that if I die, no one will inherit his title. But just like you, I have no interest in inheriting the family business. I will create my own great business.
November 30th.
Our Navy colleagues always have a bitter sense of irony in naming their transport ships. "Peace Angel" does not bring peace, and "Blonde" is full of men, just like those with wings don't always bring peace.
It's an Asuka, or maybe it's a magical girl.
This trip was very unpleasant. The spaceship I took, the Space Express, was well-named. Its construction date can be traced back to 20 years before the founding of the Empire. It was old and broken. When it flew up, it was as slow as a sprinting snail.
My men thought the Navy must have a better spaceship, but out of jealousy of the Marines, they refused to take it out.
Maybe I was acclimatized, so I got sick on the ship, a local viral infection, but fortunately it was not contagious and not fatal, but it was very painful.
In this illness I miss you so much, Uncle Augustus, and my grandparents, mother, aunts, Louis and Charlotte
I lay on the deck all the time, half asleep for most of the day, talking nonsense, shaking off countless embarrassing things, and sleeping like a peaceful dead person the rest of the time.
Unfortunately, I still didn't recover until the ship arrived at Innisfree. And by the time I really started to recover, the battle on the planet was long over.
My unit won the battle with almost no losses. For me, the commander of this unit, the trick was simple: do nothing.
The battle didn't have many twists and turns. Innisfree is a newly reclaimed world. We don't have much power there, but neither do the zerg.
In addition, the local residents are the most tenacious I have ever seen. They relied on fortifications and only used the Fimaro G submachine guns urgently issued by the colonial government and a small number of flamethrowers to resist the incoming zerg, which greatly consumed the enemy's strength.
.So when we regular Imperial troops arrived, victory was almost easy.
My father said in his speech that if the army and the people work together, they can defeat all enemies. He likes to say nice things, but no one can say what he says is wrong.
See, it is easy for me to win this kind of battle. By analogy, I also have the ability to be a general.
General Duke's most well-known saying in the Battle of Zev III was "Kill them", which was also the most important and only correct order he gave in the entire battle.
Seeing this again, Arcturus couldn't help but shake his head.
In fact, Duke has no problem with professional military literacy. In a sense, he is a giant in tactics and a dwarf in strategy. On the other hand, Duke lacks the ability to adapt to changes and refuses to change. He only plays cards in a fixed order.
This means that someone like Renault, who comes from a wild background and doesn't follow common sense in battles, can often beat the shit out of him.
Therefore, Augustus would not give Duke the command of a fleet as large as Warfield and Horner, but he was still capable enough to command a smaller fleet.
In fact, Duke often lost battles in the past simply because his opponents were ruthless characters like Augustus, Reynold, Pryor and UED. If he was really worthless, he would have been fired by Augustus long ago.
If the petty-minded General Edmund Duke heard these words of Valerian, he would inevitably blush for a while and start shouting with rage.
However, even Arcturus, who has been on Korhal all year round, knows that arranging Duke is an old tradition in the Imperial Army. The people who like to do this most are Renault Techus and his gang, who created the humiliating Duke.
Bad jokes are now very popular throughout the military.
For example:
General Duke claimed to everyone that he had fought more than thirty major battles in the defense of Tarsonis, and that the Tarsonis were the last to know.
Marshal Horner, who wrote the instructional materials for the military academy, sat there all night and finally found a victory of General Duke. He couldn't help but be overjoyed. He looked for the source and found that he said it himself.
So the marshal had no choice but to write negative teaching materials, which was a great success.
Which is the shortest biography of a hero in the Tyranid Empire? Answer: The Glorious Deeds of General Duke.
General Duke prayed to the omnipotent God that he could win the war. God was so shocked that he converted to Allah overnight.
If each Imperial soldier particularly disliked an officer or general, he would replace Duke's name with the other's.
Duke's collection of bad jokes was so popular among the Imperial military that their Durham protoss allies were said to have adapted their own versions for academic purposes, but this has never been confirmed.
But no matter who it was, there was no way they would dare to mention this matter in front of Duke himself.
Fortunately, what is unusual about General Duke is that he always feels extremely good about himself and never doubts these things. At the same time, he has an extremely aggressive personality and is full of energy. After all, not everyone can be defeated so much.
After this, I can still remain ambitious and confident.
Duke will be the kind of vicious dog your neighbor likes to keep. Even if someone dares to touch a piece of the Empire's turf and wipe off a layer of paint, regardless of whether he can beat him or not, he will definitely fight in the name of the Terran Empire and the Emperor.
I'll jump out and fight you to the death. You can't leave until I'm beaten to death. ()