"Grand Duke Sarto of Franmore? Oh, that famous good man!" This name is not unfamiliar to Yu Lian at all. Of course, it will be in the future.
"His Royal Highness Sarto is indeed a great wise king! His death can be said to be a loss to the entire galaxy..." Counselor Bliss sighed heavily, as if he was really mourning the other person's passing: "It's just,
If he dies like this, the Franmore Galaxy, and even the entire Fermo Star Region, will probably fall into turmoil again."
Mr. Qi also sighed. His condolences were probably more sincere than those of Counselor Bliss, but he commented unceremoniously: "You are wrong, Bliss. He is a good man, but he is not a wise king.
"
Yes, merit is actually an objective evaluation. But good and bad are just relative concepts. Yu Lian thought.
Don't get me wrong, although Yu Lian has killed many people, he is still a hero with a reputation throughout the galaxy. You can't just meet someone in this life who was your enemy in the previous life.
In fact, not only is His Highness the Archduke Sarto of Franmore not an enemy, Yu Lian still has some respect for him. Of course, it is not that he admires his character or ability, but his outlook and methods of doing things.
, with astonishing admiration.
The so-called Grand Duke of Flanmore, as the name suggests, is the ruler of the Flanmore Galaxy. However, this happened many years ago. In the era of Emperor Enaridor 1,400 years ago, the imperial colonists came
He recognized the planet that had just entered the era of earth-moon exploration and naturally included it in his own territory.
The Flanmors are not "the same race" as humans, nor are they a race of gifted warriors. However, in the face of the empire's overwhelming advantages in all aspects, this race without any innate advantages is still rising up to resist.
This made the bloodless and tearless imperial family feel a little moved.
Considering that the Franmore Galaxy is the only way for imperial forces to enter the small cantilever, long-term instability is not conducive to the empire's hegemony. While increasing the intensity of suppression, the empire's top brass at that time also made many very rare decisions.
Soothing measures.
The Flanmore people were the first foreign race to have imperial citizenship, and a considerable number of Flanmore elites were awarded imperial noble titles. As for the former resistance leader who held a high status among the Flanmore people, he was actually canonized directly.
Archduke Franmore.
Such a move plunged these respectable and unyielding resisters into chaos.
Many resistance fighters believe that this is a sign that the empire has given in. If they continue to fight, they may be able to gain independence. However, there are also a considerable number of knowledgeable people who point out that the half-year-long resistance has reduced the population of the Flemors.
Nearly half, but the empire's garrison is getting more and more. If this continues, the entire nation may disappear into the universe.
Now that the empire has shown goodwill, the Flemish people should be able to continue to exist as a vassal state of the empire.
In the era of large spaceflight, the era of hiding in one's own galaxy and living a small life slowly climbing the technological tree is gone forever. If late-developing civilizations want to find a chance to survive in this universe, they always need to find a way to survive.
A boss.
In this case, what is the difference between pronouncing "ally" and writing "lackey" and vassal state?
Of course, there are many angry and passionate young people who call these "sane people" traitors, but the split of the resistance is already a foregone conclusion.
Then, the Grand Duchy of Franmore was really established. The leader of the resistance army who was regarded as the savior by the people was also the ancestor of Sarto.
After that, over a thousand years, even such an unyielding nation would be slowly boiled to death by the empire.
First of all, the third generation Grand Duke Franmore and his heirs died due to an "unexpected accident". The central government believed that this was a conspiracy by local radicals, and in order to protect the young grandson of the Grand Duke, they took him to live in the imperial capital.
During this period, all military and political power in the Grand Duchy was taken over by the Imperial Advisory Group.
Twenty years later, when this child grew up and returned to the country to take the throne, except for his appearance, he had grown into a thoroughbred high-ranking nobleman of Tirello.
Therefore, it has become a tradition for each generation of Grand Dukes of the Grand Duchy of Flammore and the heirs of their high-ranking officials to receive education in the imperial capital from an early age.
Later, the eleventh Grand Duke Lanval showed excellent scientific research talent when he was a student. He studied for a doctorate in the imperial capital and later became a famous medical scholar. The emperor at that time was known as
Emperor Yvena the Great, who had made great contributions to racial equality in the empire, awarded the academician the title of academician and appointed him minister of health and life sciences.
Archduke Lanval was so moved that he felt that he could only repay Her Majesty the Queen's great kindness by devoting his whole life. And he did exactly that. As an excellent technocrat and an outstanding medical biologist, he
It also left a considerable reputation in history.
It's just that this academic master has lived in the imperial capital almost all his life, and has only returned to his hometown five times in total, and the total time is less than two years.
From that time on, it became normal for the Dukes of Franmore to hold important positions in the center of the empire and even in the army.
It is difficult to find any legal problems with the Flemish people and the Alliance. You must know that the empire recognizes dual nationality (empire and vassal state). As long as you have imperial nationality, you are of course qualified to serve in the imperial government and army.
of office.
In addition, the empire has not treated Archduke Franmore badly, who serves in the central government. In the history of a thousand years, there have been three generals and two ministers, which can definitely be regarded as the inspirational ceiling for non-human races in the imperial officialdom.
More than four centuries later, the Grand Duchy of Flanmore almost only had a legal concept. Although its administrative officials at all levels would have an adviser, in fact, they basically followed the personnel appointment and removal procedures of the Prime Minister's Office.
As for the permanent population in the galaxy, less than 50% of the Flammore people are left, while the Tireluo people have exceeded one-third. This means that the Flammore galaxy has been completely
Complete the localization of the empire.
There is no way. The geographical location of this galaxy is too important. It is a very important interstellar transportation network node.
Once this area becomes a hostile force, the four military districts on the front line of the confrontation between the Feimo Star Territory and the Alliance will lose the largest transportation volume among the three transportation arteries connected to the mainland.
In addition, the empire's core territory located on the first cantilever will also lose the most convenient direct transportation connection with the star sectors in the smaller cantilever. That includes thirty naturally habitable planets and has a population of more than 100 billion.
A vast land to live in.
Let’s use an inappropriate analogy. The Franmore Galaxy is roughly equivalent to the Hexi Corridor of the Galactic Empire. As long as the empire’s senior officials are not collectively subdued, they will never allow such an important position to remain an awkward vassal state.
of.
Times have changed, and today, the Flemish people are still resisting vigorously, but the various national salvation organizations are far less powerful than their ancestors who lived more than a thousand years ago, both in scale and combat effectiveness.
Through the last Galactic War, the Flanmore Liberation Organization, which took advantage of the internal and external difficulties of the empire, rose up. Even though it was the largest Frenmore uprising in the past five hundred years, it was still easily suppressed by the empire.
However, although the Franmore Liberation Organization did not have the momentum of its predecessors, it possessed a resilience that their predecessors did not have. Although they were defeated, they did not perish and went underground to continue their struggle.
After nearly half a century of resistance, the empire still succeeded in killing three generals. The number of regular army casualties also reached six figures. The empire was immediately furious, and the military did not even wait for the order from the base camp to be issued before starting spontaneously.
an act of revenge.
Without the current Grand Duke Sarto, the Franmore Galaxy would probably once again become a turbulent Shura cemetery. Needless to say, what a miserable situation ordinary people would be in.
"You are Imperial citizens, and you actually point your guns at the citizens of the Empire? You should be ashamed! Be ashamed!" He stopped the Imperial soldiers who wanted to retaliate against ordinary Flemish civilians, and ran to the garrison commander
Ministry, asking the empire's generals to restrain their subordinates.
"If you can't do it, then you are no longer worthy of wearing the glorious imperial uniform." The Grand Duke took his cane, turned it into a sword, and beat up all the imperial generals who spoke rudely to him.
"I am still a senator of the Imperial Royal Council, a director of the Imperial Shipping and Trade Commission, and one of the senior national policy advisors of the Prime Minister's Office. You are so rude, you are despising His Majesty and the patriarchal clan of the empire! Even if you are treated as if you were killed, there will be no
No one dares to pick on me."
From a legal point of view, what Grand Duke Sarto said was indeed right. In addition, the fact that he, a civil servant serving as an adviser, was so capable of fighting had a considerable impact on the imperial generals present, and they all just obeyed orders.
In this way, the people of Flammore were finally spared from the emperor's revenge.
If he were only here, Grand Duke Sarto's style would be relatively normal. However, he later found the guerrillas of the liberation organization and said to them: "Your resistance will not only bring more hatred and war.
, it really doesn’t make any sense. Please believe that hatred is impossible to achieve results. Please let go of your obsession and stop fearless resistance."
"We have coexisted with the empire for more than ten centuries, and we have been a member of this big family for a long time. However, the head of the family is unfair. We can argue with him, but there is no reason to destroy this family.
.”
"I will request His Majesty the Emperor, I will go to the Privy Council and the Prime Minister's Office to protest, and I will also work hard in the Royal Parliament! The people of Flanmore will definitely be treated fairly, please believe me."
... It is really difficult for Yu Lian to understand such three views. However, after a long period of struggle, the Franmore Liberation Organization has also run out of ammunition and food. Most people may not be able to persist any longer, so they really agree with the Grand Duke.
Require.
The last resistance forces of the liberation organization walked out of the mountains in the wilderness and the underground waterways of the city and surrendered to the emperor. Due to His Highness the Grand Duke's arguments, only a few senior members were sentenced to exile, and most of them only served three to ten years.
The sentences ranged from 1 to 10 years, and a few lucky ones even gained freedom after only serving one year of hard labor.
In addition, Grand Duke Sato really wanted to fulfill his promise. During the more than 20 years since the dissolution of the Franmore Liberation Organization, he had been working hard in the imperial capital and indeed won many votes for his briefing.
Reduce policy and investment deviations.
The past twenty years or so have indeed been the period of fastest development in the Franmore Galaxy. In terms of purely secular contributions, the benefits that Archduke Sarto has brought to his hometown elders are almost as much as those of all previous Franmores.
The sum total of Archduke Moore.
Of course, even after making so many contributions, his grand dukedom is really just a decoration. He has no territory, no palace, and no army. The tax revenue in the Franmore system has always been turned over directly to the Prime Minister's Office and will not be given to him.
Every cent.
Even so, the Grand Duke is still regarded as a saint in the world by the elders in his hometown. If he returns to Flanmore, he can pull out an army far larger than that of the Liberation Organization at any time.
Fortunately, Grand Duke Sarto is indeed a selfless good man, with neither political ambitions nor strong material desires. Now, his whole family relies on their own noble annuity, as well as the subsidies of parliamentarians and consultants to live. Even if he is a
Normal middle-class nobles like the Viscount and Baron live more luxuriously than him.
But no matter what, he is still deeply loved by the people of Flemore, and he is the most important link between the empire and the Flemore galaxy.
Yu Lian vaguely remembered that this Asasi, Grand Duke Sato, who I hope everyone can "understand each other", was a birthday boy. He seemed to have lived to be one hundred, twenty or thirty years old. It was during his reign that the empire was completely
Tamed the Flemorians.
Later in the Queen's Era, Brunhilt imitated her ancestors and directly formed three Flemorian stormtrooper regiments, and even promoted two Flemorian admirals. And in the Prime Minister's Office presided over by Marshal Humorai
, the Commercial Affairs Officer in charge of interstellar trade, is also a Flemorian.
However, all of this disappeared before it happened. The butterfly wings tonight fanned away more than just Miss Wen Na’s future!
“In any case, Grand Duke Sarto’s appeal in the Flemmore system is too high. Bliss, do you think it is possible that the empire is afraid of his reputation and secretly takes action?” Mr. Qi suddenly said.
So, tonight's assassination was self-directed and staged? Bliss shook his head, feeling that this was not the Empire's style of conduct.
“Moreover, the one who values Grand Duke Sato’s life the most is the imperial government.” Yu Lian also added.
"You see, this is the problem. Most people think that Grand Duke Sator is a thorn in the side of the empire. As long as he dies, and if he dies in an unexplained assassination, there will definitely be a lot of waves in Flamore." Qi
The gentleman looked at Bliss and whispered: "So, is there something hidden behind this assassination that we don't know about?"
Counselor Bliss frowned and nodded.
“From the perspective of who benefits and who is the most suspicious, no matter how you think about it, it’s all the Alliance’s doing.” Yu Lian said with a smile.
Although it was Yani who wiped out all the Fourteenth Workshop in her previous life, but who knows if that girl was killing people and silencing them?
Mr. Qi nodded, but said with a smile: "But, I also found that since you came to the imperial capital, the empire seems to have been in bad luck? I don't really believe in coincidences. Therefore, these things will not go together.
Does it matter to you?"
Yu Lian giggled hahahaha. He
Confirm again that all people who can establish a sect in an industry are not fuel-efficient lamps. At least such people's imagination and intuition must be much stronger than ordinary people.
Fortunately, Mr. Qi is joking, please keep asking.
"For follow-up matters, I will occasionally follow up with Major General Lal. As for Lieutenant Colonel Yu Lian, it is better to focus all his energy on the God of War Festival." Bliss spoke earnestly and looked at Yu Lian as if
A silly son who left home for the first time to live on campus: "Just now, I have contacted the branch of the Explorers Association in the Imperial Capital to help you find a few teammates. How about you meet tomorrow?
"
Yu Lian feels that with this work efficiency alone, Mr. Bliss would not be considered unworthy of his talents even if he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs.