Mermaid [Interstellar]

The magnificent palace, the empty and remote corridor, the waiter pushed open the heavy wooden door and ushered in the person: "Your Excellency, this way please."

With her hands in her trouser pockets, Alice stepped into the door with her outstretched legs, her knees bent without a slight arc.

She crossed her legs and sat down, took a sip of tea from another waiter, and then asked slowly, "When will Your Majesty come?"

A waiter went out and whispered a few words, and came back soon: "Your Majesty will be here soon."

"Yeah." Alice responded lightly, propping her head on the table with one hand, and just half-closed her eyes watching her drink the remaining half cup of tea.

It was late at night when she arrived at Emperor Star, and after reporting the news of her arrival, the emperor asked her to enter the palace immediately.The yellow-green tea soup was swaying, casting shadows in Alice's eyes.

With a sound of "click", a group of people filed in after the sound of the thick wooden door. Alice cheered up and nodded: "Your Majesty."

The emperor waved his hand, and the people behind put down their things and went out immediately, leaving only a few standing by the door.

"Thanks for your hard work," the emperor sat on the sofa opposite Alice, "I called you for urgent business this time."

Even if it's urgent, you can talk directly, Alice complained in her heart, wouldn't it be a waste of time to have to meet directly!

Thinking so, Alice's face remained unchanged: "Please speak, Your Majesty."

"Philip was robbed by the star thief."

"Oh..." Alice responded habitually, the crown prince is always fun, wait...

"He was robbed by the star thief?!" Alice looked at the emperor with flickering eyes.

The emperor nodded: "It's true, the other party has come to ask for a ransom."

"Uh..." So?Your Majesty, are you here to ask me for money?

Alice paused, thinking that it would be bad if the emperor asked her for money. She didn't want to give any money, and it wasn't her son!She said: "I just came from Yunhaixing, and I haven't heard about it yet."

Of course, it was impossible for her to hear about it. If something like this happened, she must have blocked the news from the beginning.

Emperor: "He was kidnapped from Blue Star."

Alice blinked: "Are you sure?"

Emperor: "Sure."

"Blue Star is an autonomous planet." The corners of Alice's lips curled up in a sarcastic arc, "According to the laws of the empire, the entry and exit of an autonomous planet needs to be applied for by the star field master and approved by the autonomous lord. I don't remember His Royal Highness giving me Has the application been submitted, or is it that His Royal Highness knows the law, broke the law, and wants to provoke a dispute between the empire and the autonomous planet?"

In fact, the entry and exit of the autonomous planet only needs the permission of the autonomous lord, and the more significance of submitting the application of the star domain lord is that the autonomous lord reports to the star domain lord.

Self-governing lords have autonomy, and star domain masters are more of a supervisory role.

When each autonomous planet was conquered by the empire, it was because the natives in it were too strong. The empire could not attack for a long time. question.

Alice didn't say that instigating a war is already showing face to the emperor. Every star domain lord doesn't like having an autonomous planet under his rule. It's like a thorn in the side. You can't be angry and coax the other party. If you feel a little unsatisfactory, you still need to refer to the book, but the star field under her jurisdiction is the star field with the most autonomous planets in the empire!

"He did enter illegally," said the Emperor, "but so did the Skeleton Squad who robbed him."

"Your Majesty, are you joking? Have you ever seen Star Pirates submit an entry application? Oh, don't talk about entry applications. It would be nice for them to pay stamp duty when they buy things." If possible, Alice really wants to learn from the current Emperor Star The popular "giggle" laughter is said to be necessary for noble ladies, for no other reason than to confuse the emperor.

Every time she hears such laughter, she finds it particularly piercing and irritating to her ears!

The emperor was silent for a moment, and said: "You are always responsible."

Responsible?The corners of Alice's lips curled up even more. What does the emperor mean by wanting to hold her accountable and make her pay for it?

Think beautiful!

"With regard to the Star Thief Group, you should understand my difficulties. I believe that the Davis star field where I am located will not have any good solutions. If you don't believe me, you can do it yourself. I can let bit, absolutely nothing."

The star domain she governs indeed occupies a full fifth of the empire's territory, but it covers almost 90.00% of the empire's nine autonomous planets, especially the empire has been expanding outwards for centuries, and the newly acquired autonomy The planets were all on her side.

The indigenous lords of these autonomous planets are used to being emperors, and suddenly they sent someone to control them. They were not convinced. In order to let them merge into the empire, the empire promised too much benefits to the autonomous planets, so that they would face her directly. It is not false.

"Philip is going to Blue Star, and the star field you pass along the way is also under your jurisdiction."

"According to the laws of the empire, if His Royal Highness is inspecting these places, he does not need to report to me," Alice laughed angrily. In order to get her to pay, the emperor really did everything he could to make excuses, "Of course he wants I have no objection to the report. In fact, before you summoned me, I didn't even know that the crown prince had gone to my star field, and he didn't report to me before he left, so I naturally defaulted to inspecting it now."

The children of the royal family can only manage their own fiefdoms after the age of one hundred, but it does not mean that they did not participate in politics before. The children of the royal family before the age of one hundred are more like interns learning how to deal with state affairs. After the age of one hundred, they are more like inheriting the family business and starting to work.

Inspection is the unique right of the children of the royal family. In order to ensure that they see the "real situation", they do not need to apply for a report from the star domain master before going to each star domain. They can go to the planet he wants to go to for field inspections - this right actually includes The royal family has the right to supervise the star field master.

As long as she doesn't go to an autonomous planet, Alice doesn't care which planet Philip wants to go to.

"Your Majesty, as I said a long time ago, I have no problem with which planet His Royal Highness wants to go to inspect. As long as he doesn't go to those autonomous planets, it will be really difficult for me to deal with any accidents."

Racial conflict is a problem that has existed since ancient times. Alice has always eased this problem, and never thought of solving it in the past. So many great men have failed to solve it. What can she do?

"You have to know that some autonomous planets have conflicts within themselves, and some are fighting among several autonomous planets." As long as there are no major problems, she will turn a blind eye to these problems.

The emperor said in a gentle voice, "Thank you for your hard work, Alice."

"It's good that you can understand." Alice nodded in agreement, as long as you don't make me responsible for this matter.

The emperor's voice changed: "I heard that the autonomous planet and these star thieves also have occasional connections. Although it is said that the autonomous lord is not easy to control too much, but the star thieves... If this is not the case, what happened to Philip would not have happened. You Look, isn't that bad?"

"This is indeed a problem." Alice readily admitted, and kicked the ball back, "Please give me instructions on what to do. You come up with a regulation that can take care of both ends, and I will definitely implement it."

The Emperor Bafeng didn't move: "This still needs a long-term plan. Later, I will submit this to the Senate and ask them to come up with a specific plan."

"Okay, then I'll wait for everyone's collective wisdom to come to fruition." Alice smiled on her face, and sneered in her heart. The emperor was not alone in the House of Representatives.

In order to maintain his majestic and upright image, the emperor will never be easily involved in racial conflicts. The bill of the House of Representatives needs to be signed by the emperor to take effect. How long does it take for this plan to come out? Isn't he the one who has the final say?

Tsk, it's as if he didn't start the war to expand the empire's territory.

The emperor picked up a cup of tea, took a sip slowly, and said, "But Philip was indeed robbed by the Star Thief at Blue Star, right? I remember——you negotiated with Blue Star back then, right?"

Alice nodded: "I was indeed in charge. At that time, the Empire and the Mermaid King made an agreement to make Blue Star an autonomous planet."

The emperor took another sip of tea: "The proposal to make Blue Star an autonomous planet...who proposed it?"

"House. I just do what I'm asked to do."

"..." The emperor stopped talking, rubbed his fingers on the rim of the cup, and said for a while, "Alice, I still want to leave this matter to you, Philip."

"Your Majesty, this is unreasonable. I'm just a star domain master, and I don't serve in the central government. At most... assist. Besides, the kidnappers demanded a ransom. Your Majesty might as well..." It's better to give the money to the person and get it back.

The emperor lowered his eyes: "The kidnappers directly kidnapped the entire 'Endeavour' ship this time, and many nobles were on it...and did not ask for a specific amount of money. I don't know how much they will give before they are willing to release them."

"The price of His Royal Highness...cough..." Noticing the emperor's sudden look, Alice also felt that it was wrong to discuss his son in front of Lao Tzu as if he was going to the vegetable market to buy pork and sell it by the catty. Great, "It's probably because they can't set the price well, so they let us pay it ourselves. Anyway, we can make a steady profit. Let us estimate the price ourselves. If we give less people or come back, we will feel distressed if we give too much..."

Especially if you don't want to pay for it yourself and just want us to pay for your bastard son.

Even more distressed.

Alice: "The crown prince of the empire, it's not appropriate for people to value him at will."

The emperor couldn't help nodding: "It makes sense, I want people to pretend to negotiate and then send people to find and rescue people as soon as possible."

Alice put down her raised legs and pulled the skin for a long time, the point finally came——

The emperor said slowly: "I think that since you have negotiated with Blue Star before, you must be more familiar with it than others. I think the autonomous lord who came to Blue Star is also willing to assist you. If you are responsible for rescuing Philip this time, it will be easier to think about it." success."

Alice has nothing to do, she didn't say whether to answer or not, but changed the subject: "Your Majesty, I seem to have said that I came from Yunhaixing, right?"

The emperor said yes.

Alice slowly raised the corners of her lips: "As the capital of the star field I manage, Yunhaixing has a transition point that can directly reach Emperor Star, so I can come here quickly. But, do you know why I am in Yunhaixing?" ?"

Although Yunhaixing is the capital of the star field, it is newly relocated. After the reconstruction project of Yunhaixing is completed, she is not there most of the time.

"Before I knew that His Royal Highness was hijacked by star thieves for ransom, His Royal Highness sent me an order in the name of inspection—he asked me to personally sort out all the materials of the Yunhaixing reconstruction project and hand them over to him as soon as possible."

Because she had to sort out the data, she didn't notice his abnormality. If your own son committed suicide, what could she do?