"The incident of the Blood Oath Alliance was planned by Prime Minister Dongfang Wang. He was the one who carefully arranged the assassination of Dongfang Tuo, an elder of the Imperium. His purpose was, first of all, to shift the blame to the young officers in the frontline so that he could strengthen his control over the expedition army with the excuse of 'great purge'. Eventually, he would achieve his clandestine purpose!
"Secondly, Dongfang Wang and Dongfang Tuo were not on good terms. They had a lot of contradictions about the direction of the family's development and even the dominance. Dongfang Wang killed Dongfang Tuo in order to eliminate a great enemy within the family for himself!"
Such news spread out on the Spiritual Nexus and soon spread across the entire Imperium.
The breakthrough was found on Dongfang Tuo, the deceased elder of the Imperium.
In the special investigation team, the investigators who belonged to the other three Kurfürst families discovered a secret office of Dongfang Tuo. They found tremendous files in a mini crystal processor, which proved that Dongfang Tuo had always been dissatisfied with Dongfang Wang's iron and blood policies. He believed that the cost of the war was much higher than expected before the war, and it was safe to say that the accumulation of the Imperium in the past hundreds of years had been wiped out in one battle.
Because the Covenant Alliance had implemented the strategy of scorching the land when they retreated, it would take decades for them to recover the cost from the newly-recovered areas. Also, there were too many variables during the decades. One mishap would result in more losses than gains in the war. It would have been too reckless.
Dongfang Tuo believed that Dongfang Wang was building himself as an invincible prime minister with the resources of the entire Dongfang family and even the entire Imperium. His intentions were highly suspicious.
He even suspected that Dongfang Wang was trying to control the expedition army and make further progress with the expedition army to become the first "prime minister for life" in the history of the Imperium so that his personal prestige and position would be much higher than that of the four Kurfürst families!
Therefore, after the war in the frontline was more or less settled, Dongfang Tuo would return to his family and reach out to the leadership of the family to oppose Dongfang Wang together as an elder of the Imperium. It was even possible that Dongfang Wang would be ousted from the position of prime minister of the Imperium.
The evidence indirectly suggested that Dongfang Wang planned the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance and assassinated Dongfang Tuo blatantly in order to keep his position and realize his personal ambitions!
Once the evidence, whose authenticity was unknown, was thrown out, it was almost like a shot to Dongfang Wang's head.
The four Kurfürst families would not tolerate any dictator above them. Since the emperor was not allowed, the so-called "prime minister for life" would be even less.
Dongfang Wang, who had not recovered from the swamp of his brother's' cannibal training ', was faced with such a fatal accusation. He could not defend himself at all.
The entire Imperium was in turmoil. Not only were more intense rallies and demonstrations breaking out in the most important heavy industrial worlds, even the expedition army was in an uproar and pointed at Dongfang Wang.
Not only did the people want him to step down, they also wanted to set up a new investigation team to thoroughly investigate the Blood Oath Alliance incident and give an explanation to the innocent, patriotic young officers on the frontlines.
In the meantime, one piece of evidence after another was thrown out. More and more leaders of the Dongfang Wang Group were proved to have received "cannibal training". Even Dongfang Wang himself had maintained his vigor with the "special nutrition drugs" that Dongfang Renxin secretly prepared … The evidence was irrefutable. Dongfang Wang's prestige had fallen to zero. He was practically ruined.
With so much external pressure, the internal situation of the Dongfang family was also undergoing subtle changes.
After only half a month, the main bloodline of the family had already lost control of the situation. The secondary bloodlines, which outnumbered the main bloodlines, were all voicing their opinions.
"The main bloodline of the family headed by Dongfang Wang has become a 'negative asset' of the Dongfang family. If we want to save the family, we must cut ties with Dongfang Wang's bloodline as soon as possible and send those who deserve to be punished to trial!
"Only the Dongfang family can defend the dignity and honor of the Dongfang family by making a fair judgment on those insane, sinful guys first!
"The family cannot protect those who deserve to be punished anymore. The family cannot risk breaking off the relationship with the entire Imperium!
"Dongfang Wang and his people are not real members of the Dongfang family at all. The abundant evidence of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils indicates that they have long been corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils and turned into Demonic Cultivators! Therefore, it is not the Dongfang family's fault, but the extraterrestrial devils are too cunning and evil! To save the Dongfang family's reputation, we must fight those devils to the end without any mercy! "
Such voices were spreading out on every heavy industrial planet of the Dongfang family and on every super enormous starship that was armed to the teeth. Mixed with the roars of thousands of Immortal Cultivators of other surnames, they congregated into an overwhelming tide that was enough to extinguish all the flames of fury.
When everybody regarded Dongfang Wang's group as the enemy, what could they do even if ten Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators were gathered together?
Getting to the bottom of it, everybody was licking blood on the edge of blades, ferocious, and fearless of death when they were Immortal Cultivators. "If the people are not scared of death, why should they be scared of death?"
At the end of July, many mutinies took place inside the elite fleets of the Dongfang family again.
Different from the previous few mutinies, the new mutinies did not take place inside a single starship and were led by the middle- and low-level Immortal Cultivators of other surnames. Instead, the captains of the fleets whose surname was Dongfang congregated and took control of their own starships in the blink of an eye. Some even gathered dozens of starships, trying to eliminate the "withered branches" in the family!
The mutinies and the suppression troops did not really start a war. Neither of them could bear the consequences of fighting in the softest and most prosperous heartland of the family. Besides, the fleets of the other three Kurfürst families, including Lei Chenghu's Thunder Fleet and Li Linghai's Deep Sea Fleet, were still eyeing them covetously.
If the Dongfang family was in chaos first, everybody would probably burst into laughter and watch the tigers fight.
Therefore, they were merely confronting each other in silence.
That was enough.
When the switches of the machine of violence that was the army completely malfunctioned and no longer listened to Dongfang Wang's command, it would be the death knell of Dongfang Wang's bloodline.
After every day of confrontation, countless Immortal Cultivators of the Dongfang family would be looking for a "retreat". As long as the terms were agreed upon, they would abandon Dongfang Wang mercilessly.
Dongfang Wang, as the "prime minister of iron and blood", was deserted by his friends and family after only a few months.
On the last day of July, the second impeachment case against Dongfang Wang was finally proposed by a well-respected elder of the Li family who had a lot of followers in the Council of Elders. With the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance as the reason, he demanded Dongfang Wang's resignation. The previous "special investigation committee" should be dissolved, and a new, fairer special investigation team should be established to investigate the relationship between the prime minister and the assassination.
Other than the few elders of the Dongfang family who were deeply tied to Dongfang Wang, most of the elders were involved in the impeachment of Dongfang Wang.
Among them were a lot of elders of the Dongfang family.
Ironically, the elders of the Dongfang family, on the other hand, stood on the side of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils unwaveringly. They even presented abundant evidence to prove that Dongfang Wang, Dongfang Renxin, and the rest of them had long been corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils and degenerated into Demonic Cultivators.
After the final decision, Dongfang Wang's resignation was almost certain. There was no way that he could rise again.
…
On August 4, deep inside the Silver Moon Ocean on the west coast of the main continent of the capital planet, a hundred low-altitude warships rushed close to the surface of the ocean, raising waves and walls of water a hundred meters high. They looked like a hundred iron sharks that had grown wings.
The low-altitude assault warships were in different shapes. It was easy to tell that they had different styles, but they were equally aggressive and intimidating. All the turrets were activated. Spluttering mystic rays and electric arcs were dancing around them, vaporizing the tides that they raised into colorful smoke, displaying the most splendid killing intent.
The dozens of warships that were moving forward side by side were painted with the emblems of the Li family, the Song family, and the Yun family respectively. Many of the warships also had the emblems of the Thunder Fleet. Some of the warships even had the emblems of the Dongfang family on them.
It turned out to be a coalition fleet that included the main forces of the Imperium right now!
Li Yao, wearing the Crystal Suit, sat cross-legged at the head of an assault warship of the Thunder Fleet and split the tides against the blowing wind.
Standing behind him, Li Jialing swallowed nervously.
He was not nervous about the fierce battle to come, but because he was about to meet His Majesty, the nominal supreme emperor of the Imperium of True Human Beings!
Beep! Beep!
Li Yao tapped the helmet of the Crystal Suit softly and read the brief of the mission again.
Yesterday, on August 3, the impeachment of Prime Minister Dongfang Wang had been officially passed, and Dongfang Wang was forced to step down immediately. The ten or so elders of the Imperium who were involved in the cannibalistic training incident and the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance were restricted too.
A new special investigation team had been established. It was mainly made of the reformists and the three Kurfürst families, including part of the secondary branches of the Dongfang family. With the help of those insiders, it would be easier to find all the evidence quickly.
At this point, the reformists had accomplished more than half of their goals "before the war".
However, Dongfang Wang fled in a hurry before the new special investigation team arrived.
He had a rather large secret base deep inside the Silver Moon Ocean to the west of the Black Star Continent. It even had a large space jump facility similar to the "cosmic slingshot", which could launch his starships directly into space from the bottom of the ocean.
He had hijacked the emperor, hoping to jump into space through the undersea base, and then jump back to his hometown, which he thought was the only place that could still support him. Then, he would resist stubbornly with Emperor Shenwu as a bargaining chip.
It was a pity that Dongfang Wang had overestimated his prestige as the "prime minister of iron and blood" and greatly underestimated the ambitions of his hometown and the speed of their betrayal.
Therefore, before his escape plan was carried out, the intelligence had been sent out from the Dongfang family. A large batch of people flew to the depths of the Silver Moon Ocean aggressively, blocking all the routes of escape.
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