When Li Linghai took out a handful of jewelry from his Cosmos Ring and asked the royal family to sell it for him and give it to the surplus generals and the wounded veterans as subsidies, all the soldiers, the members of the royal family, and the public were shocked.
People finally understood why Her Highness the Empress, who was supposed to be graceful and noble, had such an unadorned and simple appearance. It turned out that for them, Her Highness the Empress had even donated her last hairpin.
Li Linghai's next move raised never-ending cheers and applause.
She asked Li Yao to put her down on the Colossus and comforted General Zhou Lifu's widow sincerely before she walked to the enormous statue of Blackstar the Great and held her hand.
Then, she picked up General Zhou Lifu's youngest child and hugged him gently. She cried silently and mourned.
The picture was soon spread to the entire Emperor's Mausoleum through the enormous light beam in the sky. Even the people hundreds of kilometers away saw it clearly. The queen of the Imperium, who had disappeared from the public for half a year, had returned to the public with such an unexpected appearance!
Following that, Her Highness the Empress also sent condolences and instructions to the imperial guards stationed in the imperial mausoleum. First, she praised their spirit of not fearing the enemy and defending the ancestral spirits. Then, she asked them to firmly believe that His Majesty and the majority of the expeditionary army soldiers were absolutely on the same side as the imperial guards. She also asked them to protect the safety of the weeping soldiers and the public at all costs. They must absolutely not allow bad people with ulterior motives to mix in and cause trouble.
Of course, for the soldiers and the public who came to the mausoleum, they had to trust the highest authorities, the Council of Elders, Prime Minister Dongfang Wang, and his cabinet. They had to consider the big picture and not do anything outrageous. Crying loudly in front of Blackstar the Great's mausoleum would be a disgrace to the Imperium after all. Therefore, she asked everybody to abide by the rules of paying respect to the Emperor's Mausoleum. If they had something to say to the previous emperors, they could totally change their crying into a moment of silence!
Everybody would be divided into three shifts and gather in front of the Emperor's Mausoleum twenty-four hours a day. Was there a problem? Not at all!
As a logistical guarantee, the queen and the members of the royal family would mobilize all the hotels, restaurants, and commercial agencies around the Emperor's Mausoleum to provide free shelter and food for the wounded veterans who had come from afar. They would definitely be guaranteed the legal and supreme right of worship. It wouldn't be a problem even if they wanted to stay and worship there for a year and a half.
Her words were sincere and reasonable, effectively controlling the restless emotions of the soldiers and the public, turning the surging waves into an endless stream. However, no one could find any fault with the empress. No matter from the perspective of the law or the rules of visiting the Imperial Mausoleum, there was no flaw in her words.
Li Linghai's speech and touching performance had been transmitted to every corner of the Imperium through the powerful propaganda machines of the Li family from the very first second. of the Spiritual Nexus stations at the edge of the Spiritual Nexus deployed at the periphery of the Sector were sent to the other worlds and planets in the Imperium......
Even though the Dongfang family could control the Spiritual Nexus in its own territory and effectively block all the goddamn information, the Spiritual Nexus of the other three families and the peripheral worlds of the Imperium could not be cut off so easily.
At this moment, countless people of the Imperium saw a compassionate queen who was fearless and fought for the sake of the people sincerely.
Of course, they also saw "Vulture Li Yao" who had been standing behind the queen and protecting her dutifully!
In less than half a year after "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" crashed, Li Yao shocked the entire Imperium with his brand-new appearance again. It was exactly what they meant by "unpredictable".
Naturally, the scene had been transmitted to Dongfang Wang's office in the Prime Minister's residence. Dongfang Wang was so infuriated that he smashed a teapot made of dragon bones brutally.
Dongfang Wang's killing intent soared to the maximum. His first thought when he saw Li Linghai was to kill him at any cost, or he could simply turn on the propaganda machines of the Dongfang family and claim that the real queen had died of illness a month ago and that the one in the Emperor's Mausoleum right now was a fake!
However, after his killing intent slightly subsided and his rationality took over his head again, the "prime minister of iron and blood" heaved a long sigh, knowing that things were definitely not so simple.
Whatever happened in the past few days, all the intelligence pointed to the same conclusion. The reformists led by Li Linghai had allied with "Silver Fox" Li Jiande's Li family. Therefore, the enemies that he had to deal with were not just the queen but also the cunning Li Jiande, as well as the small interest groups at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium.
"Gold Vulture", the Colossus behind Li Linghai, was of a very high level. Unless the top-tier experts of the Dongfang family were mobilized, preferably with a couple of Colossi, it would be barely possible to take it down easily, much less claim Li Linghai's life.
It was one thing to poison the emperor and the empress in the depths of the royal palace when the moon was dark and the wind was strong. It was another thing to kill the empress of the Imperium in broad daylight under the watchful eyes of so many people, even in the sacred mausoleum, and it was very likely that he would fail to kill her.
However arrogant the Dongfang family was, it did not intend to raise a flag of rebellion right now.
Butchering the members of the royal family and the queen in the Emperor's Mausoleum, and even razing the entire Emperor's Mausoleum to the ground, would be an excuse for the other three families and the new interest groups at the edge of the Imperium to attack together and carve up the Dongfang family!
Besides, even if he was truly infuriated and gave such a crazy order, the experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage who were capable of destroying "Gold Vulture" and "Li Yao" might not necessarily listen to him obediently.
It was true that he was the leader of the Dongfang family. Theoretically speaking, everybody in the Dongfang family had to listen to his orders.
It was not a bad idea, but on the premise that his orders could bring abundant benefits to the Dongfang family, instead of dragging the family's tank into the abyss of destruction!
A piece of latest intelligence made Dongfang Wang completely abandon the idea of solving the problem by force.
The fleets deployed by the Li family at the edge of the Empyreal Terminus Sector suddenly had anomalies, vaguely showing hostility to the Dongfang family's fleets.
Hot sweat immediately leaked out of every wrinkle on Dongfang Wang's face.
The defense of the airspace above the Imperial Capital was jointly handled by the elites of the four major clans. Putting aside the problem of the outer Star Zones for now, the Li Clan's low-altitude assault fleets were hovering above the Prime Minister's residence and the Council of Elders!
The Li family's comprehensive capability was only half of the Dongfang family's. A few days ago, a lot of starships were sent back to their hometown to annihilate the rebels. The fleets that were still stationed in the capital were far smaller than the Dongfang family in both scale and firepower.
However, Dongfang Wang still did not dare to start a war with the Li family in the capital.
What was more critical was that, now that the reformists had formed an alliance with the Li family, the Thunder Fleet that suddenly marched into the heartland of the Li family was no longer a threat to the Li family but a secret weapon of the Li family.
If the elites of the Dongfang family were all stalled by the Li family's fleets and the Imperial Guards in the Empyreal Terminus Sector, would the invincible army led by "God of War" Lei Chenghu in the frontline suddenly appear in the softest heartland of the Dongfang family?
Taking a deep breath, Dongfang Wang considered calmly. It was definitely not a good time for a massacre. The most critical problem was the stance of the other two families, the Yun family and the Song family.
The stance of the two families was not optimistic, either.
In the past hundred years, the Dongfang family's capability had soared rapidly, and it was even showing signs of surpassing the other three families.
Therefore, the political pattern of the Imperium was basically the Li family, the Yun family, and the Song family working together in secret to stop the expansion of the Dongfang family.
In the past twenty years, when Dongfang Wang became the prime minister of the Imperium, most of the members of his cabinet were from the Dongfang family's vassal families. The policies were more inclined to the Dongfang family's favor, and the family's expansion was getting faster and faster.
The other three families were unwilling to see the Dongfang family dominate the Imperium and were determined to work together.
In the political jargon of the Star Ocean Republic, the Dongfang family was the "ruling party" of the Imperium right now, and the other three families were the "opposition parties" in the Council of Elders.
Although the rule of the noble families was fundamentally different from party politics and could not be mixed up, at least there was one thing that was surprisingly similar. The natural mission and only mission of the opposition parties was to drag the ruling party down by all means possible and propose tit-for-tat opinions against the ruling party. When the ruling party made a fool of itself, they laughed aloud and added insult to injury.
Right now, the Li family had openly declared that they were going to fight the Dongfang family, or at least Dongfang Wang and his cabinet, to the death.
Even if the Yun family and the Song family were not on the Li family's side, they would certainly be watching the fire with a smile. They might even send fuel and cannonballs to the Li family in secret, burning the fire as fiercely as possible. If he showed any sign of weakness, chances were that they would come to loot him!
As it turned out, the expected news came over one after another. The other two families, the Yun family and the Song family, had restored the service of the Spiritual Nexus inside and outside the Emperor's Mausoleum in spite of his ban and sent the media under their banner for interviews.
The media channels under the two families' banner soon published news articles and commentators' articles, too. Although they were not as aggressive and aggressive as the propaganda articles of the Li family, they were basically implying that Dongfang Wang's cabinet had to take full responsibility for such an "unfortunate" incident and settle it immediately and unconditionally. The elders of the Yun family and the Song family would certainly exercise the "most sacred right of supervision" and demand a satisfactory answer from Dongfang Wang's cabinet.
With everything coming to this point, it was impossible to stop them anymore.
The ripples of stagnant water that originated from the underground of the thirty-sixth district had finally evolved into a storm that swept across the entire Imperium!
Watching the elders of the Li family, the Yun family, and the Song family appear on the stage in front of all the major media, Dongfang Wang collapsed heavily on the chair, closed his eyes, and rubbed his nose in frustration.
But there was not the slightest tiredness in his voice. Instead, it was full of firmness and coldness. "Ask Dongfang Mingyue to meet me immediately. I want to know how many forces the queen has been hiding. Also, who is this' Vulture Li Yao '? How many people and resources will it take to … kill him!"
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