cosmic hegemony

Chapter 342, the hidden danger of too large a territory
The imperial base camp of the Centaur Galaxy Yanhuang Star, a private spaceship flies from Yanhuang Star to space, and soon arrives at a space port in space, and soon, there is another medium-sized anti-gravity universe The spaceship flew rapidly from the space port towards the outskirts of the Centaurus galaxy.

Both the private spaceship and the medium-sized anti-gravity spaceship have an ancient symbol drawn on it. Anyone who is familiar with the empire knows that it is popular within the empire to design some symbols for their own families, and some use traditional characters as their own family symbols. , some use some geometric patterns, some use some animal patterns and so on.

In short, in the empire, from the imperial family to the ordinary common people, basically every family has its own unique family pattern.

The family pattern represents the entire family, and it is also the representative of the honor and reputation of the entire family. Its rise is slowly rising along with the citizens in the empire attaching importance to their own honor and the honor of their own family.

At first, it was just some individuals or families, companies, etc. who were engaged in business to design some of their own patterns. Gradually, because everyone cherished their feathers, once the family crest was stamped, it meant absolute reliability, so gradually the entire empire They all started to learn.

From imperial royal families to ordinary common people's families, basically every family will have its own unique family crest, and some credible and highly recognized families are slowly spreading within the empire, often as long as they report their own family's emblem. Name, others will be in awe.

The ancient symbol on the spaceship, this ancient symbol is from the Tai Chi diagram of Chinese Taoism, but in the middle of this Tai Chi diagram, there is a character 'Li'.

Obviously, the family emblem of a family surnamed Li, the surname Li is a large, large and small family does not know how many, but within the empire, all the families surnamed Li are very tacit, and they will never be in their own The word 'Li' appears on the family coat of arms because the Imperial Royal Family has the surname Li.

Whether it is out of respect or out of fear of the imperial family, although there are countless Li families in the empire, everyone knows that when you see the word "Li" written in the middle of the Taiji picture Yes, there is no doubt that this must belong to the imperial royal family.

Moreover, the members of the imperial family have always been very low-key. Only when the emperor Li Fu travels will the family crest be stamped on the spaceship and so on. As for the other princes and so on, although they are all excellent, they have never Neither will use the family crest.

In this spaceship, Li Fu seemed very excited at this time. He was still reviewing documents in the imperial palace. After receiving Chen Bin's news, Li Fu hurried to space.

The anti-gravity spaceship that Li Fu was on was a high-tech spaceship built with the latest technology of the empire. Its speed was the fastest among the countless spaceships in the entire empire. In less than an hour, the speed of the spaceship had already accelerated to 800 kilometers per hour. The terrible speed of seconds.

However, although the speed is quite fast, even the speed of light is quite slow for the vast universe. This time Li Fu is going to the Space-Time Ocean Current Research Branch of Kyushu Star Empire Academy of Sciences, because Chen Bin has a major technology here. As a result, even Li Fu was so excited that he couldn't sit still, and hurried over as soon as he heard the good news.

A few days later, in a space port outside Kyushu, Li Fu's spaceship slowly parked, and soon a small private spaceship departed from the space port again, heading straight into space A huge space city left.

This space city is very huge. It looks a bit like a huge space continent from the space. The buildings on each floor are divided into two sides, each side is very prosperous, and there are various small private universes. The aircraft is constantly rising and falling. This is the Institute of Space-Time Ocean Currents of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, a scientific research institute dedicated to the study of space-time ocean currents.

Li Fu's spaceship directly landed in this huge space city through layers of identification. The spaceship had just come to a stop when Li Fu hurriedly got off the spaceship and walked towards the center of the Space-Time Ocean Current Research Institute.

"Chen Bin, tell me quickly, what exactly have you researched that can shorten the time for a spacecraft to pass through space-time ocean currents by more than ten times?"

Before the people arrived, Li Fu's excited voice came in. Chen Bin, who was dressed in a white coat, couldn't help laughing at the scientists around him who were also wearing white coats. As he expected, Li Fu heard the news. , will definitely rush over day and night.

Soon, as soon as the voice fell, Li Fu's figure appeared in everyone's field of vision, and everyone quickly became respectful, especially the younger generation of scientists, all of them looked at Li Fu with adoring eyes, looking very respectful. excitement.

"Of course I have researched something good, otherwise I wouldn't dare to call you over."

Chen Bin smiled to tell the truth. He knew Li Fu's mood very well. It was probably like being scratched by a cat's paw, and his heart was very itchy.

"Hurry up and tell me, I came here in a hurry from Yanhuangxing just to find out what it is, and you're still telling me that I won't go back unless I make you poor."

Li Fu threatened helplessly. Obviously, this kind of threat has no practical effect. Instead, it made the younger generation of scientists next to them couldn't help laughing, some of them even covered their mouths. Fu has no airs, and you will know it's true only when you see it.

"Then I can't say anything more. Anyway, we haven't met for a long time. We have a few bottles of good wine hidden in the house. We can't leave until we drink them all."

Chen Bin also had a hippie smile on his face, completely lacking the seriousness of the past president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

"Let's put aside the drinking and talk about it quickly. I couldn't sleep when I heard the good news about you, so I rushed over here in a hurry."

Li Fu seemed very anxious. When he heard Chen Bin say that he had developed a technology that could shorten the time for a spacecraft to pass through space-time ocean currents by more than ten times, he was not calm at all.

Over the years, the empire has continued to expand outwards, spreading in all directions from the Centaurus galaxy at the center of the empire. The farthest galaxies are the Temple galaxy and the Worst galaxy recently acquired from the Karan Empire. These two galaxies are more than 50 kilometers away from the empire. Light years, even through space-time ocean currents, one by one galaxies are transferred.

From the Centaurus galaxy to the Aquila galaxy, then from the Aquila galaxy to the Ara galaxy, then to the Boyle galaxy, and finally to the Temple and Worcester galaxies through the Boyle galaxy .

There are three transit points in the middle, the Aquila Galaxy, the Tiantan Galaxy, and the Boyle Galaxy. Even through space-time ocean currents, it will take nearly ten years to reach the distant galaxies of the Empire.

Such a long time, on the one hand, is not conducive to the communication between the various galaxies within the empire, and on the other hand, it is not conducive to the empire's control of the outlying galaxies. As the saying goes, the emperor is far away. Over time, problems will gradually arise.

So even though Li Fu ambitiously proposed to dominate the entire Orion spiral arm, he seemed helpless with the current situation of the empire, because the distance is too far away, and only more than 30 galaxies have already made the imperial government think about it. , how to develop and consolidate the empire's rule over these outlying galaxies.

There are more than 30 galaxies and nearly 40 living planets. This kind of territory can only be regarded as the bottom existence among the civilizations with many Orion spiral arms. However, for the empire, or for human beings, this is unprecedented in human history. Territory, there was no experience in governance at all before.

In addition, the distance is too far, and the communication is very constant, so Li Fu, Fang Zheng and other upper echelons of the empire have always been troubled, how to strengthen management and rule, how to consolidate the territory of the empire, only 30 galaxies are enough. This is already the case, how to consolidate the territory when it develops to 100, 200, 1000, or even more galaxies in the future.

This problem is placed on the table of the high-level empire, and it has always been a problem that has troubled the high-level empire. Of course, this problem is not only a problem in the empire, but also in countless civilizations on the entire Orion spiral arm. .

The larger the territory, the more difficult it is to effectively control one's own territory, and the signs of internal divisions will emerge. In the history of Orion's spiral arm, many powerful civilizations were not destroyed in the hands of external enemies, but in the hands of external enemies. The internal divisions fought against each other, and the civil war continued, and finally slowly declined.

On the other side of the starlight, the civilization that once ruled the other side of the starlight is not actually the Kolov Empire, but another powerful and invincible civilization. In the end, the internal division of this civilization allowed the Kolov Empire to take the opportunity to rise rapidly and eventually replaced it. Overlord above Orion's spiral arm.

Knowing the history of many civilizations on the spiral arm of Orion, combined with the development history of countries in the world on this side of the earth, Li Fu, Fang Zheng and others are very clear about how important it is to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between internal galaxies.

However, with the continuous expansion of the territory, it takes longer and longer for the communication between the galaxies of various countries, which has seriously hindered the development of the empire, so when Li Fu heard the news from Chen Bin, he immediately hurried come over.

It can shorten the time for the spacecraft to pass through the space-time ocean currents by more than ten times, that is to say, it takes less than one year from the Centaur galaxy of the Empire to the most remote Temple galaxy. This is really very meaningful to the current empire. It's important.

(End of this chapter)