Standing on the small gentle slope by the seaside of the mulberry tree, when he heard that the young imperial officer beside him did not have a trace of anger, he only asked questions that were contemptuous and mocking. The rapid coughing sound returned to calm.
"Decades have passed, and there is no point in arguing about who started the war." Xu Le rubbed the wound around his itchy shoulder through his silk shirt, and suddenly said: "But if I remember correctly, you insidiously blew up the Federation's scientific research spaceship back then."
As for who caused this bloody and protracted cosmic war, and who should take the responsibility of opening the Devil's Box, both young and old historians in the Federation and the Empire have their own firm narratives, because the two star domains are far apart. , the war is raging, and the relationship is isolated from communication, so there is no too lively academic war.
Huaicao Shi gave him a cold look, unexpectedly did not express any opinion on this, but walked directly down the hillside with her back to Songhai and walked into the city.
Xu Le reluctantly glanced at the green mulberry forest like a sea for the last time. Hearing those graceful rustling sounds, he turned around and followed.
After that, Huaicao Shi went to several other places, and during this process, he kept silent. Xu Le didn't know the identity of this young imperial officer. Although he had some guesses in his heart, he lacked sufficient evidence, but now he can basically guess that this person's status in the empire is quite respected.
So he didn't understand why this man wanted to take his mortal prisoner to continue this absurd sightseeing tour. Could it be that the imperial people really just wanted the heroes created by the Federation to recognize the Federation in front of the entire universe. sin? This speculation really makes no sense.
If Xu Le knew about some changes under the surface of the imperial political arena, and if the imperial officer was really the legendary figure he had guessed, maybe he would be able to know why the other party deliberately delayed the date of returning to Tianjing.
In the afternoon, a strange visiting team composed of two thin young men and hundreds of camouflaged plainclothes soldiers beside them came to Libanxing Sangzhi State University.
According to the special decree of the emperor of the year, Libanxing has become the only administrative planet in the empire that implements indiscriminate education. That is to say, on this planet, whether you are a noble or a commoner, or even the lowest serf, as long as you The children of those who work hard enough and are good enough can get a fair chance of education, and even the best ones can get special scholarships provided by the royal family.
The plan, known as the Interracial Education Pilot, drew angry opposition from the entire imperial aristocracy as soon as it was launched. Every time they think of the thirty-eighth generation heirs of their glorious family, they will study in the same classroom with the son of a certain muddy-legged son, the imperial aristocrats feel that they smell a certain stench and feel that their dignity has been greatly humiliated. , As a nobleman, how can he live with the commoners, even slaves
In this matter, the emperor of the empire, who has always used gentle methods to appease the nobles and bloody methods to suppress the pariahs, has shown surprising persistence and strength. Under the strong suppression of the Emperor of the Empire, the nobles of the Imperial Council of Elders, watching the soldiers at the door and the officials of the Royal Intelligence Service, swallowed their breath and passed the law, confirming Libanxing as a pilot area for interracial education.
This is the case. When the son of the first serf walked into the gate of Libanxing Huangshanji College with a nervous and fearful face, he still needed the protection of imperial soldiers with guns.
On that day, the dean of Huangshanji College resigned angrily. In the following year, the nobles on the Liban star sent their descendants to other planets one after another. They would rather spend a huge amount of wealth than have their children accept purity. rather than endure the bad behavior of His Majesty the emperor on the whims of the emperor on the Liban star.
For the continuous wealth generated by the territory, these nobles themselves will definitely not leave Libanxing, but this does not change a certain trend - as more and more commoners enter various new universities, the atmosphere in the air of this planet has become More and more active, or dangerous.
Of course, these young people, who have become more capable and confident because of their exposure to more knowledge, are extremely loyal and fanatical to His Majesty the Emperor who gave them all this.
In the center of the first floor of the largest building in Sangzhi State University, there is a huge portrait of His Majesty the Imperial Emperor, Huai Fuchai. Every time students pass by, they will immediately stop the fierce academic debate and stand at attention with serious faces.
Xu Le retracted his gaze towards the portrait, and frowned slightly when he heard the quarrel coming from behind. His imperial language is not very good, and he can only barely hear that the students seem to be discussing the issue of engine output power monitoring. At that time, no one could have imagined that in Imperial University, there would be so many civilian students discussing academic issues in a relaxed atmosphere.
He has always believed that the biggest advantage of the Federation over the empire lies not in the economy, but in education, technology, and the most fundamental way of thinking. Now the empire seems to be making changes quietly. With the empire's terrifying population base, it wants to catch up with this kind of The difference may not be too difficult.
Huai Cao Shi noticed that he frowned and remained silent with an expressionless face, and led him up to the third floor.
In the conference room at the top of the third floor, there was a big history class, and hundreds of plainly dressed young men from the Empire were listening quietly and hungry to the professor on the podium.
Courseware playback equipment, progressive scanning filter light curtains, and old-fashioned laser stylus stylus all seem a bit shabby in Xu Le's eyes, not to mention compared with the First Military Academy or Ewha University, even with the university conditions in his hometown Donglin In comparison, the empire is also far behind.
But he listened carefully, because the imperial professor was emotionally teaching the cause of the war many years ago. The professor used standard imperial aristocratic language, and he could barely understand most of it.
This history professor from Sangzhi State University did not know that there were two more young listeners with special identities among the crowd listening to the class today, and he would not expect that the history he was teaching at this moment would have any impact on the future history. He just told the youth of the Empire about the cruelty and insidiousness of the Commonwealth in accordance with the standard teaching materials formulated by the Imperial Royal Education Agency.
"For a shameless political conglomerate controlled by businessmen like the Commonwealth, what can make them spend a huge amount of military expenditure to launch a long-term war? The glory of the country? No, they never know how the word "glory" is written. "
The professor waved the laser pointer on his fingers emotionally, and red dots of light danced quickly on the ceiling of the conference room, like the most common silk moth on the planet.
"It's interest! Only interest can make this businessmen's consortium crazy. It's crystal mines! Only crystal mines can maintain their infinite star field expansion, thereby alleviating the deep internal contradictions!"
"Two hundred years ago, the federation's crystal ore resources were nearly exhausted, and there were only two paths in front of them. One was to find or invent new alternative energy sources as soon as possible, or to find new crystal ore resources immediately, otherwise they would use crystal ore resources. All mine-based space vehicles will be disabled, all space weapons will be disabled, in other words, the Federation could collapse at any time."
"However, the federal people have spent more than a hundred years and have not found new crystal ore resources. The time that could have been used to develop new energy sources has also been wasted. Why? Because of one of the businessmen who control the federal government. With the legal right to extract crystal ore resources, and relying on this power to obtain a lot of benefits, if the Federation develops a new type of energy, the special status of this family will be gone, and they cannot allow this to happen.”
"Why would the federal government allow this to happen? Because you never forget that government is literally in the hands of these families."
"The Federation does not have crystal mines, but the Empire has crystal mines. When those few federal exploration spaceships that should be cursed came to the Empire by mistake, and discovered this fact, war could no longer be avoided."
"The robbers come to the door, they don't need a reason to rob, so what we can and must do is simple."
The history professor lost his initial calm, clenched his fists and said angrily: "Kill these robbers to death."
Xu Le has no doubt that if his identity as a federal citizen is known, he will definitely be torn to shreds by hundreds of angry imperial students in the conference room in the next moment. Fortunately, his black hair and black eyes are the same as the imperial officer beside him. Although somewhat striking, it attracted a slightly awe-inspiring look.
After listening to this history class, Xu Le followed the other party out of the campus. He was silent for a moment at the door, and made a rare request for a cigarette.
In the smoke, he said to the imperial officer: "It's very similar to our history class. The records in the history books I've read about this passage say that the emperor of the empire tried to ease your internal anger. Race and class contradictions, blatantly launched wars."
Silence and cigarettes are good companions for thinking. The reason for thinking is that Xu Le must admit that this lesson on the history of the empire, for him, really looked at the origin of the war from another perspective, especially the cause of the war caused by crystal mines. It was the first time he had heard of war.
The family that can control the government is naturally the Tai family of Mochou Houshan.
"Schiller said that people have their own right and wrong." He squeezed the cigarette, held it in his palm, looked at the black-haired imperial officer and said, "And I am not a saint, although I am afraid of death, I am not too afraid of death. So... you don't have to expect me to defect."