Then he laughed: "Let's talk about sothing light, your speech at the eting just now, everyone had a good evaluation of it."
"Is it because I got my position right?"
Yang Ming replied with a bitter smile:
"I just spoke the truth, I am like the spokesperson for this war, responsible for promoting the Empire's battle achievents to the people within the Empire."
"You want
to command warships, dozens are fine, but several thousand is really beyond my capability."
"I'm still very curious," Thomas chuckled, "aren't you afraid of being branded as a warmonger?"
Yang Ming laughed: "Which famous general of the Empire is not a warmonger? This is the way the Empire exists."
"Yes, that's the way the Empire exists."
Admiral Thomas's eyes were slightly distant, speaking softly:
"Hanton, I've already received the plunder order... do you know what that ans?"
"Official robbery?"
"It's not that simple," Thomas sighed, "First, directly plundering the population would make us the target of condemnation across the interstellar, which would give other countries the perfect reason to unite against us, easily causing panic within their borders."
Yang Ming nodded: "And then?"
"Generally speaking, we would use a combination of multiple thods."
Thomas took a sip of his drink and continued in a soft tone:
"Currently, the frontline is in a standoff and hasn't started the war yet. Once it starts and we gain the upper hand, we'll effectively occupy a planet and transform their local governnt into a military-administered governnt.
"That's just the first step.
"The second step, we'll first confiscate the property of the local upper class, throw them in prison, and relocate all useful resources from there.
"The third step, we'll spend a few months creating a material circulation trap, gradually lowering the local living standards, then adopt thods like 'working in the Empire to earn basic survival materials', 'voluntarily joining the Empire's nationality to get materials', etc., to make so New Federation people voluntarily enter the Empire.
"To coordinate with the third step, we'll also support so pirate and bandit groups, creating panic among the local residents, making them voluntarily abandon their hos.
"This approach is generally quite effective."
Yang Ming frowned tightly.
Thomas looked at Yang Ming and laughed: "Now, do you still think this is a good task?"
"Daphne told
about these," Yang Ming said calmly, "I have my own reasons for having to co. I've already left the Emperor Star, and can't be expelled by the Sherman family again, or I won't be able to fulfill my mission."
Thomas stared at Yang Ming: "Can you accept these?"
"As long as it's not
executing it."
"Hmm," Thomas said, "We are frontline commanders; we don't have to care about these things at the rear. They will send people to carry it out, continually plundering the population from the New Federation."
Yang Ming asked: "Is the New Federation going to abandon their outer defenses this ti as well?"
"For now, it seems that way, yes," Admiral Thomas said softly, "They cannot not defend, but most likely they'll give up twelve Administrative Stars along the border."
"Why?"
"You know the answer," Admiral Thomas said, resting his cheek, "The New Federation wants to stir up dostic public sentint, and by the way, they want to solidify the Empire's cris, to occupy the moral high ground of righteousness."
The Vice Admiral sneered:
"Hanton, do you think the Empire is more evil, or that the New Federation, which easily abandons its own people, is more hypocritical?"
"They're about the sa, I guess."
"Hahaha, yes, they're about the sa."
Admiral Thomas chuckled:
"Prepare for a long and bitter fight, according to the latest news from the Military Intelligence Bureau, if the Empire really launches a surface attack on the New Federation, the Free Federation and the Guel Alliance, as well as the countries ranked fifth to fifteenth in the Milky Way, will likely join the war."
"Of course, they won't dare to directly stand next to the New Federation, but they will back it up, providing ships and semi-automated ship operation robots to the New Federation."
"Now the New Federation's diplomatic and intelligence departnts are hopping around in the interstellar space, they've dispatched twelve batches of diplomats trying to et with His Majesty at the Emperor Star."
"Did they manage to et?"
"All were stopped."
"Stopped?"
"Yes, if these diplomats were allowed to see our noble Majesty, His Majesty might change his mind," Admiral Thomas laughed, "In fact, this war was not initiated by His Majesty."
"The Sherman family."
Admiral Thomas nodded: "I only understood the true intent of this war after being reminded by an elder in the Military Departnt, Hanton, did you know? The prince and duke who died were among the elite in power of the Sherman family."
"I had heard about it."
"The Military Departnt is also controlled by these people."
Thomas said:
"They determined that the liquid robots of the New Federation, so of their technologies, have already surpassed the Empire, which is sothing the Empire cannot tolerate.
"We don't have actual evidence proving the New Federation attacked our high-ranking officials, but that's not important.
"We cannot lose technological superiority, that's the most important thing."
Yang Ming:...
"Suddenly talking so much with you," Thomas drained his cup of Neuro Corrosive Agent, "I don't want to think about these off-topic matters, a soldier's duty is to obey orders, rest assured, the part we are responsible for is defeating the New Federation's regular army, the rest of the dirty work is for others to handle."
Yang Ming asked with a smile: "Is this the General's first ti participating in such a plundering war?"
"Indeed," Thomas said, "I just didn't expect that I would need more comfort than you, and you could be this calm."
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