Thinking of this, Li Yao exhaled a mouthful of foul air, feeling rather helpless in his heart.
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He did not expect that the situation in the Ancient Sages Sector would be so chaotic.
Without a government that had absolute control, it was barely possible to talk about a long-term alliance or cooperation. Even if he did persuade the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty, who could he turn to if the Great Qian Dynasty was destroyed by the White Lotus Uprising, the Heaven Battering King, or the Ghost Qin in a few days?
Besides, when the dynasty rose, the people suffered, and when the dynasty fell, the people suffered even more. The more competitive the world was, the more miserable the people would be. After a protracted change of regime, too many innocent people had already died, were dying, and would soon die!
Li Yao was not exactly a compassionate man. The Ancient Sages Sector was thousands of lightyears away from his motherland, the Xing Yao Federation. They were two unrelated worlds in the first place.
But this didn't mean that he could just watch as his own kind, those old people, babbling babies, budding girls, and youths in their prime … died miserably under the flames of war, and he couldn't do anything about it.
Weapons were not the only things that could kill people. In the Ancient Sages Sector, it was not unusual for people to eat their own children.
In such an environment where ghosts were singing in every household, all kinds of immoral and tragic things could happen. It was not just human beings themselves that were trampled into the dust but also all the dignity of the civilization of mankind.
If possible, Li Yao did not want such a tragedy to continue.
From the perspective of his belief, the spirit of the Federation, and the national interests of the Xing Yao Federation, it would be beneficial for him to interfere with the internal affairs of the Sector, help the Ancient Sages Sector to settle the chaos quickly, and even support a regime that was close to the Federation.
However, it did not mean that Li Yao had to take the Great Qian Dynasty's side.
Li Yao had received the basic history education of the Xing Yao Federation. He was also familiar with the classics. He knew the rise and fall of at least hundreds of dynasties in the three thousand Sectors.
The peasant insurrections such as the White Lotus Cult and the Heaven Battering King were not necessarily the embodiment of justice.
The Ghost Qin from the Northern Plains was more likely to be a brutal and heartless barbarian.
However, that did not mean that the nobles of the Great Qian Dynasty were good people.
Usually, at the end of a dynasty, it was not an external threat that defeated the dynasty, but the internal corruption. At this time, it was a compliment to call the nobles and most of the bureaucrats "scum".
Judging from the Great Qian Dynasty's desperate situation right now, Li Yao was very suspicious that the federation would not be able to save the situation if it invested tremendous resources to support them.
After all, the federation was too far away from this Sector. What if the Great Qian Dynasty was truly a piece of mud that could not be helped? Li Yao would not have been able to do anything about it, either.
Besides, even the Great Qian Dynasty, which considered itself a great power at the center of the country, might not be convinced by the 'kindness' of the Federation!
It seemed that the Great Qian Dynasty was not the Federation's only potential partner.
The White Lotus Cult, which was flourishing in the southeast of the Great Qian Dynasty, and the Heaven Battering King, who was marching in the northwest, were both targets that deserved further investigation.
Getting to the bottom of it, the peasants in the medieval times were the most obedient and patient people. Who would be willing to risk their lives and fight the fully-armed elites of the emperor's army without pushing them into a dead end?
It was only because they were too hungry and had eaten up all the barks and roots that they decided to raise their arms and fight to their heart's content.
As for solving the problem of famine …
It happened to be the specialty of the modern Cultivation civilization.
In the pure military field, the ancient Cultivation civilization and the modern Cultivation civilization had their own specialties and could compete with each other in certain aspects. However, in the field of civil Cultivation technology, the ancient Cultivation civilization was a complete mess and a total failure.
The essence of the modern Cultivation civilization was not chainswords, crystal cannons, or crystal warships.
Instead, it was the integration of training arts and magical equipment into every household, producing pesticides that could increase the unit yield of crops and kill pests, automatic harvesting facilities such as' wooden oxen ', and meteorological magical equipment that could predict the weather and even summon clouds and rain in the sky.
With the help of the civil magical equipment and spiritual medicines, the famine problem that had plagued the civilization of mankind for tens of thousands of years was completely resolved. The population was growing exponentially!
Only when the population exceeded the threshold of hundreds of trillions would the infinite possibilities of the civilization be realized!
It was the same for the modern demons. The Fire Ant, as a typical specialist in the refinement of demonic plants of the Blood Demon Sector, did not produce ferocious carnivorous plants at the beginning but hybrid rice, wheat, barley, cassava, and bananas that were resistant to cold and drought and had a high unit yield.
Where did the overwhelming beast tides come from? They were fed by the hybrid rice, wheat, barley, cassava, alfalfa, and countless other demonic plants!
The development of any civilization was in the shape of a pyramid. However valiant the experts at the top of the pyramid were, they had to be supported by the enormous foundation at the bottom.
The more stable the foundation at the bottom was, the more likely it would be for the experts at the top of the pyramid to break the limits of the civilization!
The modern human beings and the modern demons understood the logic, but the ancient Cultivators might not have understood it.
Therefore, in many worlds of ancient Cultivators, when the mortal world was full of starving people and turned into a living hell, the Cultivators often turned a blind eye to it and lived a carefree life!
It seemed to be easier to support the White Lotus Cult or the Heaven Battering King than to support the Great Qian Dynasty.
Li Yao did not know how far the space cruising technology of the Xing Yao Federation had developed after the hundred-year exhibition.
However, once he established the space gate, it should not be a problem to dispatch a few carriers from the Federation that were loaded with high-yield, genetically modified, drought-resistant, and cold-resistant crops, as well as tremendous humanitarian assets.
With food, he would be able to calm the people down and exert the influence of the Federation on the rebels. He could even ship the population that the Ancient Sages Sector could not accommodate to the Federation. On one hand, he would be able to relieve the population pressure in this place, and on the other hand, he would be able to increase the strength of the Federation. Wouldn't it be a win-win situation?
If the Great Qian Dynasty, the White Lotus Cult, and the Heaven Battering King were all hopeless, even the Dark Cloud Ghost Knights in the north could be potential strategic partners, too.
For this Sector, Li Yao was an alien who did not have the slightest concept of 'rightness of the central plateaus'.
For him, there were only two things that mattered. The first was the right of survival and development of the people in this place, and the second was the long-term cooperation between the local government and the Federation and the possibility that the local government could be directly incorporated into the Federation.
Generally speaking, when an 'alien' invaded the 'central plateaus', it was often accompanied by barbaric slaughter and bloody suppression.
However, when the 'iron knights' riding on dragons and wolves were armed with bows and hundreds of crystal warships were hovering above their heads, things might be different.
'Dark Cloud Ghost Qin', the alien race in the north, was probably the last backup plan that Li Yao came up with when he had no other choices. After all, it did not matter who claimed the 'central plateaus'. As long as the speed was fast enough, it would be better than a hundred years of fighting.
Of course, there were two prerequisites for the Federation to intervene in the politics of this Sector.
Firstly, Li Yao had to figure out what the mysterious signal that was sent to the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector a hundred years ago was about. Judging from the civilization level of the Ancient Sages Sector right now, it was impossible!
Secondly, Li Yao had to figure out whether or not the vanguards of the Imperium of True Human Beings who were shouldering similar missions to his own were in the Ancient Sages Sector right now, and whether or not they were already stirring trouble.
Li Yao had learned a lot of his tricks from Su Zhang, a professor in the Colonization University of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
It was not hard to imagine that, if the vanguards of the Imperium did sneak into the Ancient Sages Sector, they would certainly support the local forces to achieve their purpose, too.
Chances were that the Dark Cloud Ghost Knights in the north were each holding a Six-barreled Vulcan Machine Gun right now!
Thinking of the dragons and wolves that they were riding and the cannons in their hands, Li Yao felt a chill in his heart.
Until he figured out the two things, Li Yao would never establish a space gate and expose the coordinates of the Federation even if he was beaten to death.
He was digressing.
Li Yao sorted through his messy thoughts and continued formulating the observation report.
"Regarding the military forces of the Ancient Sages Sector, I'm currently in the southwest corner. What I've seen is only the tip of the iceberg. It is difficult for me to estimate the specific number of troops of the forces.
"I can only say that one province of the Great Qian Dynasty alone seems to be able to mobilize hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and there are eighteen such provinces in the Great Qian Dynasty.
"Although the weapons that they use are rather shabby, because of the abundant spiritual energy, the soldiers' physical quality is even better than that of the Union Army. They are all very tough melee fighters.
"As for the high-end warriors, I haven't found any Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators yet. But according to the southwest barbarians, there are almost a thousand Cultivation sects in the Ancient Sages Sector. Almost all of the top hundred sects are supervised by Yuanying. The top ten sects have more than one Yuanying, too.
"The number of Yuanying in this Sector may be more than five hundred. Their quality is unbelievable, too. Many of them are in the high level of the Yuanying Stage and even the peak of the Yuanying Stage!
"So far, there are only three 'top-tier experts' that deserve my attention.
"The first one is Wan Mingzhu, known as' Mother White Lotus' and the leader of the 'White Lotus Cult', who has been stirring up the southeast of the Great Qian Dynasty.
"'Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu is a strong spectral Cultivator who does not have a physical body. She is known as the 'mother of all ghosts'. Her whereabouts are unpredictable, and her methods are unpredictable. She should be a top-tier expert who is adept at pure energy attacks. I've never encountered such an opponent before. I must be very vigilant when dealing with her.
"The second one is' Heaven Battering King 'Qi Changsheng, who commands millions of refugees in the northwest and has narrowly escaped the annihilation of the emperor's army dozens of times.
"According to the southwest barbarians, the man has practiced the body of the Drought Demon, which is undying and indestructible. Wherever he goes, the land will be dyed red. He has killed countless people. He is the most intimidating killer in the Great Qian Dynasty.
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