According to Li Linghai, although the Deep Sea Fleet was still a "rebel army" that had not surfaced yet, it had a lot of talents and generals. The quality of the commanders at all levels was far better than the Deep Sky Fleets of the Imperium of the same level.
The bottom-level commanders in the frontline were definitely the elites who had survived hundreds of battles.
Those elites had all kinds of reasons to join the Deep Sea Fleet, but getting to the bottom of it, it was nothing more than the blockage of the channels of ascension and the unfairness caused by the monopolization of the nobles.
Such unfairness had been magnified countless times by the fierce war. In many cases, it even concerned the life and death of the young officers. Naturally, intense resistance was raised.
Their superiors were ignorant, incompetent, and obstinate. In order to earn military credits for themselves and their families, they did not care about the lives of the bottom-level officers and soldiers below them, wasting their precious lives as worthless cannon fodder. Even when there was no hope of victory, they still stubbornly drove the soldiers to be killed, just to earn themselves a reputation of "bravery". Such things were not uncommon in the "Imperium's counterattack" in the past ten years.
The young officers at the bottom-level and the low-level Immortal Cultivators who did not have any connections, after surviving the brutal bloody battles against the Holy League and returning to the rear with their broken bodies riddled with wounds, what awaited them was not necessarily medals, contribution points, cheers, and flowers. It was more likely that their colleagues and superiors would push the blame to them.
If they were unwilling to confess their crimes dutifully and take the blame for their powerful colleagues and superiors, the cold and heartless military court would open its bloody mouth and swallow the promising future of countless young officers.
After all, in the Imperium of True Human Beings under the reign of the nobles, dukes, and warlords, medals, honors, and military credits were never determined by the contributions on the battlefield but by the background, the support, and the roots.
For the low-level Immortal Cultivators who had no background, no support, and were unwilling to kneel before the nobles, no matter how much blood they shed, how many contributions they made, and how many enemies they killed on the battlefield, they would never be able to rise to prominence.
It was exactly the story of Tu Zhengdao, the deputy commander of the Deep Sea Legion.
He used to be the highest commander of a very famous Crystal Suit Legion in the expedition army of the Imperium. Without any background or support, he fought his way to the position of major general in the army of the Imperium on his own after breaking his bones and vomiting blood on the battlefield.
He was a legend in the expedition army of the Imperium, and he had received the olive branches from the four Kurfürst families.
But at that time, he was loyal to the Realm Master of his hometown, and thought that the Realm Master would definitely consider his "loyalty". No matter what the situation was, he would do his best to protect and support him.
But he was wrong.
In an extremely dangerous battle, the entire battle line completely collapsed because of the retreat of another Crystal Suit Legion on his flank. It was he who fought desperately to cover the retreat and almost wiped out his own troops. That was how he saved the lives of his allies to the greatest extent.
However, the legion of Crystal Suits that fled first was a direct descendant of the "Yun family of Wuchuan", one of the four Kurfürst families. Their commander was also a descendant of the main bloodline of the Yun family.
Naturally, none of the four Kurfürst families, the pillars of the Imperium, would be cowardly enough to flee at the sight of danger.
As for the rest of the commanders who were saved by Tu Zhengdao, they did not dare to speak the truth out of fear of the Yun family's tyrannical power.
Besides, the military committee that was responsible for the investigation of the matter was mostly made of the nobles and the descendants of the noble families. Even if they did tell the truth, who could they possibly tell it to?
In the end, Tu Zhengdao was the scapegoat for 'fleeing at the last moment and causing the collapse of the entire battle line'.
The Realm Master of his hometown, his backer who had sworn to him solemnly, was also angry that he had sacrificed all the soldiers that he brought from his hometown, which greatly diminished the capability of his own Sector. He did not dare disobey the will of the four Kurfürst families. How could he help him?
Just like that, Tu Zhengdao, a legend in the army of the Imperium and one of the youngest major generals with a promising future, fell into the infinite abyss. He had to lead a daring team made of criminals to launch a suicidal charge at the most solid military fortress of the Holy League, only to be obliterated into nothingness in the overwhelming barrage of the Holy League. At the very least, if Li Linghai had not come to his rescue, that would have been Tu Zhengdao's only ending.
After being secretly rescued by Li Linghai, Tu Zhengdao led the surviving members of the daring team and joined the Deep Sea Fleet without any hesitation.
Tu Zhengdao's story was just a regular part in the bloody history of the countless soldiers of the Deep Sea Fleet.
Countless officers suffered the same fate as him, if not a hundred times more miserable.
Those people were determined to overthrow the reign of the four Kurfürst families and establish a new Imperium as well as a powerful army of the Imperium!
Not just the soldiers, the specialists, scholars, and civil people such as Master Jin Tianzong were also pushed aside and crushed by the noble families in their own fields.
Some of them could not see a channel and room for improvement, some of them were robbed of their hard work and careers after decades of hard work, and some of them were attacked openly and secretly in seemingly fair competitions, eventually losing their reputation and even their families. They were forced to embark on a path of desperation named "reform".
"The reign of the noble families over the Imperium of True Human Beings is already so infuriating that it may break out at any moment."
Li Linghai said to Li Yao, "The more the noble families expand and monopolize more interests, the more the living space of most people will be compressed. Most people will be pushed to the opposite side of them. Eventually, a powerful 'alliance of resisters' will be established.
"Being condemned by the public will end without a cure. Right now, the noble families led by the four Kurfürst families have already been condemned by the public.
"After a hundred years of brewing, the forces of the reformists at this moment are much more than the 'Deep Sea Fleet' that you see right now!"
According to Li Linghai, the forces that the reformists could take advantage of right now were mainly divided into five parts.
The most important armed force was naturally the Deep Sea Fleet. In the world of Immortal Cultivators where the strong preyed on the weak, no ideology could be promoted without immense strength.
Secondly, it was the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, which was the main source of intelligence and funding for the reformists.
Li Yao was no stranger to the name "Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors", because Di Feiwen, his nominal deputy and the deputy commander of the Black Wind Fleet, was a businessman who was deeply associated with the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors.
According to Di Feiwen, before he left the Imperium, the merchants and the small business alliances that had been active in the remote space zones of the Imperium gradually woke up, craving to compete with the monopolies supported by the noble families and even participate in the political life of the Imperium.
When there were too many crystal coins in one's pocket, it was only natural that one would want to forge and wield sharper blades to defend one's wallet.
Money was itself a bloodthirsty beast. The power of capital was sometimes even greater than the power of the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators. Given the slightest chance, the clinking crystal coins would come to life and try to control the whole world.
A hundred years ago, the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors was still rather weak and could only infiltrate the remote worlds or the relatively independent worlds in the middle of wars such as the Black Wind Sector.
But today, after more than a hundred years, the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors was already involved with the queen at the center of the Imperium. Their ambitions were obvious.
The third force, on the other hand, was the "Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils" in the capital of the Imperium.
Under this slightly strange name, there was a terrorist organization that once struck fear in people's hearts hundreds of years ago, and even caused their souls to scatter.
As the name suggested, the "Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils" was a special troop that was specifically designed to deal with the invasion of devils and the arrival of extraterrestrial devils.
It was said that the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils kept a batch of "devil huntresses" who had been training themselves with cruel secret arts since childhood. They had keen senses and natural-born countermeasures against extraterrestrial devils, which equaled to the "Devil Execution Division" in the Secret Sword Bureau of the Xing Yao Federation.
Six hundred years ago, the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils had a hideous history of expansion. Their targets of hunting were not limited to the extraterrestrial devils or those who were possessed by extraterrestrial devils but also the Immortal Cultivators who were corrupt, corrupt, or up to no good. They became the bloody tools in the competition between the emperor of the Imperium and the nobles who had too many tails to get rid of.
"The real Immortal Cultivators should be loyal to His Majesty and contribute everything they have to the Imperium and the civilization of mankind!
"Anyone who is corrupt and greedy for money and power has been corrupted by extraterrestrial devils. Their brains have been corrupted by the devils and must be purged in the most thorough way!"
In the past, there had been countless' devil huntresses' who chanted such slogans as they galloped across various Sectors and 'purified' the enemies of His Majesty mercilessly.
If their entire brains were burnt up, naturally, there wouldn't be any devils left, right?
With such a "dark history", it was not hard to imagine how the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils would've been suppressed and weakened in the history of the Imperium in the last five hundred years when the emperor was completely suppressed by the nobles and the four Kurfürst families were dominating the world.
To this day, the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils had been reduced to an insignificant existence in the enormous and cumbersome bureaucratic system of the Imperium.
Had it not been for the fact that small-scale extraterrestrial devils still happened sporadically and required a lot of cannon fodder to die together with the extraterrestrial devils, the organization would've been disbanded a long time ago.
However …
No matter how bad the situation was, there were still a lot of "devil huntresses" who were loyal to His Majesty and had been raised by the cruel secret arts lurking in the darkness, carefully guarding the secrets and dark forces that they had acquired from the fierce battles against the extraterrestrial devils for a thousand years.
Li Linghai, Queen of the Imperium, discovered the value of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils. She invested tremendous resources to awaken the ferocious beast that had been lurking for hundreds of years and made it her right-hand man.
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