Chapter 1095: The Scandal of the Empire
After more than ten minutes of repeated analysis of the data, a conclusion was finally reached, but this conclusion was equivalent to directly sentencing Galion to death.
The anomalies are indeed spreading, and they are spreading in all directions, at a rate of nearly 200 standard black cavity units per year.
As for the third-generation black cavity engine, which produces less than 100 black cavity units per year, it will be caught up in just one year. It will not even have enough time to reach the nearest fault channel, and it will be impossible to escape.
"Damn it, why did we only find out when we were within 100 black cavity units? Where's the reconnaissance ship? Are they all asleep?"
"Well, three years ago, there was a reconnaissance ship, and the original plan was to cover the surrounding 300 black cavity units to the greatest extent possible, but..."
"Just what?"
"It's just that you, Commander, think that the distance of 100 black cavity units is enough. There is no need to waste manpower to monitor the range of 300 black cavity units!"
Hearing this, Galian was stunned for a moment, then he remembered.
This has indeed happened, but...
The person who proposed this plan three years ago was Montero, and I always directly rejected any suggestions made by Montero, so.
At this moment, Galian felt a little regretful, but it was too late.
"What are you still standing there for? Quickly order all the fleets to flee!"
"Ah yes, Commander!"
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Ten days later.
Outside of more than 20,000 standard black cavity units, in the imperial palace audience room of the imperial capital star of the Tailo Empire.
At this moment, all the core leaders of the empire, including the five grand dukes, the minister of military affairs, and the minister of intelligence, were summoned together by Emperor Valery.
They have received reports from the Seventh Legion in the past few days and are aware of all the circumstances.
"Tell me everything, what should we do now?"
Valeri's face was very tired, and it was obvious that he had not had a good rest in the past few days.
"Your Majesty, we should follow the example of the Human Federation of the Canglong Universe and broadcast to all surrounding civilizations to make this matter known!"
"What the Human Federation said is right. If the Black Man Empire is allowed to continue destroying fault channels and black cavity spaces at will, it will definitely threaten the survival of all civilizations in the end!"
"Therefore, we must make the surrounding civilizations clearly aware of this, and then our empire will take the lead and organize a multi-civilization coalition, just like the eight-civilization coalition organized by the Terry Empire, to completely destroy the Black Mang Empire!"
"At the same time, we should also get in touch with the Terry Empire and the Hiltek Empire so that we can share what we have and cooperate with each other!"
Duke Cartman, one of the five dukes, was the first to stand up and spoke loudly.
Basically, this proposal is similar to what Valeri has been thinking about these days. On the one hand, it is to form a crushing military suppression on the Black Mang Empire, and on the other hand, it is to share the risks.
After all, if they were to go it alone and get hit one or two more times, then even if they finally defeated the Black Mang Empire, the Tailo Empire itself would be seriously damaged and could easily be taken advantage of by other civilizations. This would not be worth the loss.
"Well, Duke Cartman has similar ideas to mine. Does anyone else have any opinions?"
Nodding, Valeri continued to ask.
However, no one in the entire audience room stood up to say anything, which made Valeri a little disappointed.
A bunch of gluttons!
Under the aristocratic system, each generation of the empire was weaker than the previous one. Even if there were talented people, they would use all their intelligence in internal intrigues.
Valery knew this and wanted to change this situation.
But it is so difficult to change.
Not to mention that this system has been rooted in the empire for tens of millions of years, even the ministers in the court today are not even of commoner origin, and the empire is completely controlled by the aristocracy.
Even if he wanted to overthrow the aristocracy, he was afraid that no one would support him except his grandfather, Grand Duke Cartman.
I have to slowly accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity.
"Your Majesty, I have one more thing to report!"
"Grand Duke Cartman please speak."
Valery still respected his grandfather very much. If it weren't for his help, he would have become a puppet emperor long ago, and would not be like he is now, relying on hundreds of years of slow accumulation to gradually gain the power to compete with those nobles.
"Your Majesty, after carefully analyzing the command records of the Seventh Legion, I discovered a big problem!"
As soon as Grand Duke Cartman opened his mouth, Grand Duke Gapar's expression changed.
Although I don’t know what Cartman wants to say, it is definitely not a good thing. And who is the commander of the Seventh Legion? Isn’t it his stupid son?
"Oh, what's the problem?"
Hearing his grandfather say this, Valeri also asked.
"According to records, today's crisis could have been avoided. Under the command of Commander Galian, there was a staff officer named Montero who had proposed many plans. If Commander Galian had adopted some of those plans, we wouldn't be in this situation now!"
"Moreover, when I checked the records of the Seventh Legion for three hundred years, I found that any plan proposed by the staff officer named Montero would be rejected by Galion. I have also read the records of those plans, and they are all extremely correct military strategies!"
"Your Majesty, aren't you curious about why Count Montero has been in the army for 300 years but has never been promoted? And why, in these 300 years, more than 2,000 proposals he proposed were rejected by Captain Galian?"
Hearing this, Valeri became much more serious.
Is there such a bizarre thing happening?
Grand Duke Gapar's face changed drastically. Although he had heard that his idiot son often rejected various military strategies proposed by Montero, he never expected that he would reject all the military strategies proposed by Montero for three hundred years.
I spent a lot of effort to place Montero under Gallian, but my son is really...
"Did Grand Duke Cartman find out something?"
"Yes, sire!"
Nodding, Cartman continued.
"It all started three hundred years ago. At that time, Montero, who had just inherited the title of Earl, entered the Imperial Fleet Officer Academy at the same time as the current Commander of the Galian Legion."
"It's just that Montero always ranks first in the academy in the annual assessment. Even the instructors in the academy are inferior to him. And the commander of the Garian Legion."
"He is the last one in the entire academy!"
boom.
As soon as these words were spoken, the entire audience room became a little chaotic.
Although some people here know about this, most of them don't. What they know is that Garyen graduated first in the academy with a perfect score, which has never happened before. But now Archduke Cartman says that he is the last in the academy?
However, what Cartman said next was even more shocking.
"Your Majesty should also know that during the graduation examination of the Military Academy, a student with perfect scores in all subjects was born, who was unprecedented in history. He is now the commander of the Galian Army!"
"Yes, I do know about this incident. It was quite a sensation back then."
Nodding, Valery was indeed impressed by this incident.
"But your majesty doesn't know that someone used some trickery to swap Montero and Galian's graduation test scores. So, the person who should have shocked the entire empire was not Galian, but..."
"Montero!"
The author will add a few more chapters about the Taro Empire and Montero, but this is not a deviation from the topic, but this character will play a more important role in the subsequent plot!