Chapter 199: If it weren’t for the Empire, your Sun
Territory would have been destroyed countless timesl_2
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
At Prince Island.
Du Bing held a star map that marked the geographical locations of over a thousand civilizations.
The Empire had entrusted him with managing all the territories of Dukedom, Marquisate and Lords,
Du Bing decided to definitely not fail his mission and manage this star field on behalf of the empire…
Unlike Count Island which was handled by the Empire’s staff member. The prince’s side had a upper ranked officers to personally communicate with to ensure everything could run smoothly.
“Words are not enough. You must take action to show us about your loyalty…” one of the officers mentioned to Du Bing.
” Remember to ensure that every country and territory pays no less dark matter every year…”
“The second task is to ensure that the population of each country and territory does not decrease, and try to encourage population growth…”
“Furthermore, the Empire will offer you rewards based on the management performance over the hundred territories within a year…”
A reward from the Empire was something they didn’t have, and Du Bing was determined to earn it.
He asked, “How are these a.s.sessments determined?”
“Firstly, it’s about dark matter,” the officer replied. “Your kingdom, including all the territories of Dukedom, Marquisate and the Lords should contribute extra dark matter beyond the required quota…”
“The population under your kingdom’s jurisdiction must grow compared to the previous year will be the second element…”
“Of course,” the officer added, “the standards for these data are naturally compared between various kingdoms. Those who perform well will be rewarded by the Empire…”
Du Bing nodded eagerly. In his mind, he was already planning to have his advisors figure out how to encourage the thousands of civilizations under him to increase their populations for extra dark matter.
Du Bing began to study the star map when the meeting was over. He was planning to send people to visit all the civilization under his kingdom’s management.
Soon, he had reviewed the status of the Dukedom
and Marquisate until he stopped at a particular territory,
“The Solar System territory?”
He recalled what Dugo had said about the Solar System, “Are these two the same place?”
After a while, he realized that the Solar System was indeed the place where his son, Dugo had led the Great Whale Legion for expenditure.
“How is this possible? The Solar System civilization is a level 3 civilization.!!”
Du Bing was greatly surprised and wondered the reason as the Empire only categorized the Solar System as a zero-level civilization.
“What does this mean? Did the Empire not discover them?”
“No, the system was based on the population. Under normal circ.u.mstances, only with a large enough population can a sufficiently advanced civilization emerge…”
“The Solar System civilization has a population of only 8.5 billion,” he mused. “That’s clearly not enough to develop into even a first-level civilization, let alone a third-level one…”
Du Bing thought for a moment and came with two possibility.
” The Solar System Civilization has a hunting fleet from a level 3 civilization hiding around them. However, there aren’t many of them. This is also the reason why they were able to deal with the whale previously…”
” The second scenario is that the Solar System civilization is occupied by a level-3 civilization, which is why the population is small…”
Regardless of the situation, they were essentially a third-level civilization. Even if their technology tree was not complete, their weaponry should still be largely intact.
“It’s just a wandering third-level civilization. Under the Empire’s rule, they won’t be able to cause much trouble…”
Managing the Solar System was a right granted by the Empire. If the third-level civilization was discontent, they could take it up with the Empire.
Meanwhile, in the Solar System.
The humans of the Bel Comet had finally returned to their home planet, Earth.
During this time, Zhao Yu had basically briefed everyone on the situation of the Milky Way Empire.
The people of Earth ad also accepted Zhao Yu as the Lord of the Solar System.
The only thing that was bothering Zhao Yu was people clamoring about a successor. They were urging Zhao Yu, the new lord, to quickly choose a consort and have a child to ensure the stability of the territory.
Initially, he thought this was the idea of some schemers, but after an investigation, he discovered that it was a movement spontaneously formed by a group of ambitious women.
Zhao Yu could only vaguely defer this matter by postpone it.
At first, people were uneasy about Zhao Yu becoming the lord, uncertain about their own living.
Once they noticed that everyone was a.s.signed with official residences, the people started to cheer for Zhao Yu as their lord.
Meanwhile, message came from Modou Kingdom, Fire Fury Dukedom , and Marquisate Toma arrived in the Solar System.
The Emissary from the Milky Way Empire came along as well.
These Emissary demanded that all civilizations under its rule abolish all abortion methods and contraception, insisting on birth once pregnant, and that all costs for people under 18, from birth to adulthood, were to be borne by the Lord.
In addition, the Emissary called for the abolition of capital punishment, suggesting that criminals be used as material resources.
Zhao Yu naturally had no objections to these rules.
However, the representatives of the Kingdoms also read out their own sets of rules.
Much of the content overlapped with the Empire’s, but they also included an additional stationing cost, requiring the territory to pay an extra 100 million grams of dark matter each year.
The Dukedom also issued the corresponding doc.u.ments, similarly requiring the solar system territory to hand over 10 million dark matter and 1 billion tons of precious mineral resources every year.
Even the Marquisate’s Emissary asked Zhao Yu to hand over an additional one million dark matter and 100 million tons of various mineral resources.
“My territory doesn’t need you to guard it…” Zhao Yu immediately rejected the offer.
“It’s the empire’s order. If you have any objections, you can speak to the empire. We’re only here to convey orders…”
After reading out the Rules, they left.
The Modou Kingdom was well aware of Zhao Yu’s strength, but they still came. The main reason was that the empire strictly forbade the nations from waging war, so they firmly believed that the Solar System civilization would obey.
As for the Fire Fury Dukedom , and Marquisate Toma , they had no idea about Zhao Yu’s capabilities, a.s.suming this place to be just a regular zero-level civilization.
Zhao Yu sat alone in the newly constructed guest reception building.
The empire’s strength was clear, and against these people acting aggressively under its name, he had no options. But he also felt powerless.
Unless he could break the order of the empire, he could only obey them.
Milky Way Empire had brought Zhao Yu some relief, as he felt fortunate for their arrival. Otherwise, he would have had to engage with the Modou civilization.
Now, he felt at least they had autonomy in the lawless “dark forest”. Despite the fact that there was no room for compromise between different civilizations and every meeting was a fight to the death.
Under the empire’s rule, they were forced into many helpless rules and restrictions.
“Our ranking has already surged to third,” he lamented. “We were so close to securing this month’s top reward…”
“But now, with 100 million tons of dark matter that we must submit to the empire, we have an additional 111 million tons of dark matter to deal with…”
At this rate, even if they won first place every month, it still wouldn’t be enough.
Unless, they were to use their own people as resources, converting them into dark matter.
Zhao Yu could not convince himself to do such a thing?!
Colonel Chu suddenly walked in. “My lord, the Emissary from the Fire Fury Dukedom has returned…”
“Let him in!” Zhao Yu ordered.
Zhao Yu suspected that this had to do with the fleet sent by the Fire Fury civilization.
As expected, after the emissary entered, he went straight to the point, asking if they had seen the fleet that the Fire Fury civilization had previously dispatched.
Hearing this, Zhao Yu sneered, sarcastically retorting: “We are but a mere territory, while Fire Fury is a Dukedom. When they send a fleet, how would we know anything about it?!”
This Emissary felt that this Solar System’s Lord was utterly ungrateful and audacious to dare to speak to him like this.
“You are aware that you are just a lord, yet you dare to speak to me this way.. If it weren’t for the empire, based on what you just said, your Solar Territory would have been doomed!”