walking with the devil

Chapter 42

What Aitian wants to do usually does not meet any opposition. After he led the alliance through countless difficulties, the people of the alliance looked up to him, "write the plan in detail, and try to take into account all kinds of problems. The situation, the people of the empire may not be very good on the battlefield, but their eloquence is good."

Luo Rui from the news department said: "Anyway, no matter how the process goes, we just need to achieve the result, right?"

"Yes." Ait'an said as he glanced at Luo Rui. Luo Rui, like Xu Wu's head of guards, Woody, had silver-gray hair. He was upset just looking at it. The corner of Ait'an's mouth curled up, and he said coolly , "You, sit in the back."

"..." Over the years, Luo Rui has become used to Ait'an coming here and there from time to time. He has never understood why Ait'an would be annoyed to see him occasionally. He looked back to find a vacant seat, and some colleagues stood up and changed places with him tacitly. .

The people in the office are very speechless, and their commander is really childish sometimes.

Spike of the Ministry of National Defense looked at the three-dimensional map in front of him and said, "Is the empire really willing to negotiate? Even if it is willing, it can go back on its word when it comes time to negotiate."

Julie fiddled with the small planets on the galaxy map, "Anyway, His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire agreed."

Spike reached out and clicked on Blue Star, "It's not Theodore who has the final say on the empire alone. His ministers, who have done more than fail, don't know how much more they can do."

Aitian said: "Find out what they like, and try to meet their requirements."

This means bribery, the finance minister Wang Chuanfeng's face was crying again, before he started howling, Aitian said: "Okay, shut up, what a big deal, how much they take away, you have to spit it out later More, take the long view."

Wang Chuanfeng immediately laughed into a flower like a face-changing technique, "I feel at ease with the commander-in-chief's words." He also wanted Aitian to issue an IOU or something, but he didn't dare to say it. Tean was amused.

Zhu Li took a sip of tea comfortably, "I think our tea is pretty good."

Someone laughed and said, "It's Zhenyunxing's special product, the best tea in the Guanghai galaxy."

Aitian said, "Julie, prepare some for me."

"Okay." Zhu Li smelled the tea and smiled, "I will also prepare some other specialties."

Aitian said: "Very good." What he is most satisfied with Julie is that Julie will always try to make things more perfect.

Spike said: "Some nobles in the empire who only have interests in their eyes may be able to be bought, but the people in the imperial military have a good style, I'm afraid we can't do anything about them."

Zhu Li smiled and said, "Do all the military belong to His Majesty? His Majesty will persuade them."

Spike sighed: "The question is why Theodore agreed to negotiate?" Negotiations have just been put on the conference table on the alliance side. If things can develop according to the alliance's expectations, then the peace talks are very important It is very beneficial to all civilians, but it will harm the interests of His Majesty the Emperor and the nobles. He cannot understand why His Majesty the Emperor is willing to negotiate, "If it were me, I would not agree to negotiate. Anyway, it is difficult for us to break through Cassander Pulling the planetary belt, it may not be easy for the empire to collapse."

Someone said with a smile: "Don't let others be ambitious, after all, it's just that the emperor was scared by us..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard Ait'an sneer, "Oh? Who's talking?"

The meeting room fell silent, the man hesitated to stand up, but he was just joking.

Zhu Li was the first to say: "Boss, you're not from the military, so it's understandable that you don't know anything about the battlefield."

The alliance puts a lot of emphasis on martial arts rather than literature. People in the military will be said to be outspoken if they make mistakes when talking about political affairs, but if people involved in politics express their opinions on military affairs, they will usually be ridiculed.

In the early years, there were many visionaries with good theories in the alliance. For the sake of their prestige and wealth, Aitian also tolerated them for a while. Later, those people dared not be polite when it came to the development direction of the alliance. Pointing fingers, finally angered Ait'an, and the furious Ait'an brought a spiritual person when he spoke, so that his anger was engraved on everyone's hearts like a brand.

The people who were present at the time were most impressed by Ait'an saying, "This is not an empire. In the empire, His Majesty the Emperor may be willing to offer you trash. In the alliance, if your tongue is too long and your hands and feet are too long, I am very willing." Come and help you shorten it yourself."

Later, the laws of the alliance became more and more perfect, and very detailed laws were also formulated in terms of cheating, spreading rumors, and slander. Many people who rely on their tongues for food are miserable.But the staff who wrote the legal clauses were not paying attention to the talkers, who had long suspected that Aitian had been victimized by rumors.After all, it is said that Aitian and His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire had some past events.

Everyone wanted to think about it, but few people talked about the past of Aitian and Theodore.Julie would wonder, is Aitian satisfied with the result or regretful?

Aitian restrained the anger on his face, his eyes drifted to the ceiling, and began to recall the past, "I have lived with His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire for 11 years and four months. I know who he is, and he tends to be soft-hearted. Soft-hearted The people who will lose will lose, whether it is in wartime or peacetime.” Does Xu Wu have a soft heart, maybe it doesn’t count, but compared with him, his heart is much softer. "He is a person who is used to taking care of the overall situation. In his view, the Gwanghae galaxy is his responsibility. He doesn't like war, and he doesn't want the Gwanghae galaxy to decline because of the war. So, don't think too highly of yourself, don't put other people's Compassion counts as cowardice."

The people in the alliance are a little uncomfortable. Their slogan is: Fight for freedom and equality.They want to overthrow the corrupt empire, but their commander told them that the master of the empire is not what they imagined, and the enemy has a very bright image, this kind of thing is not easy to accept.

Someone whispered: "People will change..."

Ait'an rested his chin and said in distress: "Indeed, now he sees that I can't even eat. It didn't happen before."

"..." Everyone present heard that Aitian robbed His Majesty of his breakfast, and some people began to sympathize with His Majesty the Emperor.

Aitian sighed in his heart, Xu Wu had indeed changed.He used to say: Of course we can succeed.Now what he's saying is: You can't have everything.But he will soften his heart sooner or later. In the past, he occasionally complained that Xu Wuyi's soft heart was too obvious a weakness. He never thought that one day he would have to rely on this weakness to turn himself around.

No matter what Aitian thinks of Xu Wu, in the eyes of the imperial people, no one thinks their emperor is a soft-hearted person.The nobles didn't feel it either, because they saw that the things they were holding were decreasing day by day.They don't know yet that their Emperor His Majesty is planning to make them lose even more.

Theodore was on his way to Chuxue Fleet at this time. He was sitting in the main control room looking at the boundless starry sky outside the window. After returning, he especially liked the scenery. The universe is as vast as any trouble is dust, and there are countless years of memories Theodore felt that he was still not generous enough.

Woody saw that Theodore was not in good spirits, so he tried to talk to Theodore to distract him, "Your Majesty, the news spread quickly, and no one has expressed their attitude towards the peace talks for the time being."

Theodore laughed and said, "Oh? Let the news out that I am going to increase the investment in national defense. Unfortunately, I have encountered a difficult situation and am temporarily short of money, so they have to spend some money."

As soon as everyone heard that they wanted money, why did they continue to fight? Everyone hurriedly negotiated and went to sleep.

Woody laughed, "It seems that many people will not be able to sleep tonight."

"Here we are." Now that he was not far from Chuxue's fleet, Theodore saw dozens of spaceships lined up in front of him to meet him, and he shook his head slightly, "Ivan always likes to make such ostentations."

Woody said with a smile: "He just wanted to express his respect to His Majesty."

Theodore smiled and said nothing.

Theodore's spaceship was welcomed to Arze star by the stars.

After the cold Ivan saw Theodore, a little smile appeared in his eyes, "Your Majesty, you look very good."

Theodore looked at these people in Chuxue Fleet, everyone was in a good state of mind, "I'm fine, and you all look good, everyone has worked hard recently."

Ivan didn't intend to continue the politeness, "Your Majesty, I heard the rumor that you want to negotiate peace with the alliance?"

Theodore smiled and said, "I'll talk about this later, let's go, it's quite cold here."

When I arrived at Ivan's office, Ivan said directly: "I don't support peace talks."

Theodore knew that Ivan had such a blunt personality, "Can you tell me the reason?"

"If you negotiate with the alliance, how can you be worthy of the imperial soldiers who have died?"

There was a continuous wave of sorrow in Theodore's heart. The death of tens of thousands of people had already become a huge rock on his heart. "Then what about the peace talks, let more imperial soldiers continue to sacrifice?"

Ivan said stubbornly: "We will not lose."

"There is never a winner in a war." Theodore sighed, "What we need is not to defeat the alliance, we need the Guanghai galaxy to restore peace, so that there will be no more unnecessary sacrifices."

Ivan frowned and said, "Even if we want peace, it must be based on our victory."

Theodore said: "How many years later will it be? How much more military spending will we have to invest? How many more soldiers will the empire have to sacrifice?" The situation can easily get out of control, so we must seize the opportunity.

Ivan frowned tightly, and he raised his head so that tears would fall so easily, "I'm not reconciled." The Chuxue Fleet has been at the forefront, and the personnel renewal rate has reached 50.00%. So many people have been sacrificed for peace talks what?Ivan suddenly looked at Theodore, "You can't exchange our sacrifices for your power."

Woody shouted in a low voice: "Marshal Yiwen, do you know what you are talking about?!"

Theodore felt as if his internal organs had been stirred by a knife, he raised his hand to stop Woody, his face didn't seem to change at all, but his eyes became darker and bottomless, "Ivan, what I have decided, you just need to obey the order That's it."

Ivan looked at Theodore with a blank face. After a while, he saluted Theodore and turned to leave.

Theodore leaned on the sofa dejectedly, "It only takes one minute to hate someone, and Ivan and I have no friendship since then."

Woody comforted in a low voice: "Your Majesty, maybe Marshal Yiwen will figure it out in one night..."