Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1272 - 484: Decaying Empire (Part 2)

As for other areas that are not Liu An’s territory, they are slightly better, but still significantly affected by the continuous personnel exchanges and genetic exchanges over thousands of years. The culture has become rather martial and less scholarly.

This societal atmosphere brings obvious benefits to Liu An, as he can always recruit high-quality soldiers, and these soldiers are particularly fervent on the battlefield, fearless of death.

Of course, there are also drawbacks; there are always some extremists in the Nanxiang Star Cluster who refuse to be restrained even unto death, extremely difficult to control. They become space pirates, harassing planets, plundering resources, and committing robbery on trade routes.

Liu An has the military force to quickly eliminate space pirates. With the assistance of the Empire Super Network, this is not difficult.

However, so far, the space pirates are still active, only to be regularly surrounded by Liu An’s piracy eradication fleet and conscripted as a Suicide Squad on the battlefield. Liu An promises that if these pirates can establish military achievements, they will be pardoned and even appointed to special operations fleets with high autonomy, supplied with ample resources and good food.

This is the current situation of the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

After this general introduction, Ren Zhong couldn’t help but think that in order to achieve one man’s military goals, shaping the character of tens of trillions of people across thousands of planets into what he needs, and changing the atmosphere of the entire star cluster’s civilization, one must admire Liu An for his boldness.

Ren Zhong tapped the table lightly, "We will stop here with the intelligence on the Nanxiang Star Cluster. I’ll state my position first, then you each analyze."

Pausing, Ren Zhong continued, "Previously, we only indirectly contacted Liu An through Viscount Nan Jiu, Sosgate Augustus. He once sent us a message that I remember very clearly, ’They are unworthy’, these were Liu An’s original words. Now, he has dispatched an escort fleet. The facts prove that we are indeed worthy."

"But perhaps we are too worthy, I have some doubts in my mind. Additionally, with a large number of fragmented space pirates present in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, I think this is the Nanxiang Marquis’s method of fostering a toxic environment. He does not care about the civilians who are burned, killed, and robbed, but is more enamored with the bloodthirsty soldiers honed from a life of licking blood from the knife edge in the space pirate’s career."

"Liu An’s character can be seen through this. So now, I hope each of you will express your position and analyze and speculate about the mission of Liu An’s special operations fleet, what identity they come with, and how we should respond. Should we trust them or plan independently? Think for ten minutes, then enter your thoughts into the document, and speak in order from Isu Rock. During your individual analysis, there will be no sharing of opinions. I want to hear each of your independent thoughts. Your speech must completely match your document, and you should not change your opinion after hearing others’ views."

After speaking, Ren Zhong stopped talking and closed his eyes for rest.

The others then lowered their heads and wrote fervently.

Half an hour later, everyone finished expressing their thoughts.

Isu Rock, Vincent Fanhuoyi, and Xiao Xingyue believe that Liu An is very dangerous and must be cautiously guarded against, even considering him as an adversary is not too much. The fleet should not enter the Black Mist Zone as per Liu An’s instructions and should detour it, even if it takes 18 years to cross 1.8 light years instead of 5 years to directly pass through 0.25 light years, it is worth it. Isu Rock specifically put forward, after collecting a large amount of explosion residue from star C1915, the fleet’s nuclear fusion energy reserves are sufficient to support this detour.

Liang Qifa, Gao Ya, and Tang Youyun believe that Liu An should be cautiously approached, the Black Mist Zone can be entered, but with high alert maintained throughout.

Zheng Dafa and Donald Alson hold that regardless of Liu An’s temperament, Ren Zhong is now a prospective Earl and an official Viscount of the Empire, protected by Imperial law, so there is no need for undue worry.

Ren Zhong smiled and said, "Very good, my intention is to get you to think, and also hope that you’ll think for yourself first, so that when I announce my decision later, you will more or less understand my true intentions. It doesn’t matter if you say something wrong, what’s important is the thought process, allowing you to grow."

"First, I’ll announce my decision: detour. First of all, you can look again at the star map of the Nanxiang Star Cluster. Although this star cluster contains more than 3,400 stars and over 16,000 planets, the distribution of stars is not regular, more inside and less outside. There are 2,800 stars close to the center area and another 600 or so outside."