The other eight giants of the Yinglong Pirate Group all looked at Qi Mu, waiting for his explanation.
The problem of group leader Lei Hengbang is actually also a problem of other giants.
Qi Mu controls the only armed force of the Yinglong Pirate Group that can compete with the regular fleets of other countries, and his status is second only to the leader Lei Hengbang. He is upright, forthright, considerate of the overall situation, and rarely uses power for personal gain. In the past, every time everyone suggested slightly expanding the Chi You fleet under his control, Qi Mu would say: "The Yinglong pirate group has a small family background. It is not easy for the descendants of the Panhua clan in the universe to survive. It is not easy to accumulate some wealth, so we might as well save it." Reserve some funds for other purposes! Besides, there is no major conflict between the various forces in the Pirate Nebula now. The Chiyou fleet is enough to cope with various unexpected situations. In addition, the cost of maintaining the operation of the capital ship is high, so there is no need to waste money on one. A pile of useless main warships."
Now, he suddenly requested to expand the size of Chi You's fleet, which inevitably made everyone curious and felt unusual.
"See for yourselves!" Qi Mu did not answer everyone directly, but pressed a black button in front of him, and a white light projected an email message: "Chiyou Fleet Headquarters of the Yinglong Pirate Group, conflicts continue in the countries surrounding the Pirate Nebula, There is even the possibility of a war breaking out, which will affect the safety of our pirate group. Our Teutonic pirate group has decided to increase the size of the 'Temple Fleet' capital ships to 30,000, and we will send a letter to inform you as agreed."
The Pirate Nebula is originally the Yunmeng Galaxy of the Panhua Empire, which ranks third in the universe. Its location close to the bustling area of the universe is very important. It borders many countries and is also an important node in space navigation. Many civilian and commercial spacecraft will use it as a transfer station to replenish energy when traveling across galaxies. Although intelligent life forms can now use space jumps to fly at faster than light speeds, they consume huge amounts of energy. Most non-military spacecraft jump a distance of about 500,000 light-years at a time, and the diameter of the Pirate Nebula reaches 520,000 light-years. In this way, some civilian and commercial spacecrafts sailing through the Pirate Nebula have to have a jumping point to land in the Pirate Nebula. At first, everyone was afraid of being robbed by pirates. After jumping out, they hurriedly made a second jump away from the pirate nebula. Some spaceships with insufficient energy ended up being lost in hyperspace forever.
Over time, there have been countless such accidents, attracting the attention of governments in surrounding countries. They even want to join forces to kill all the pirates in the Pirate Nebula. After calculating the cost, it was easy to take down the pirates. The key is that the Pirate Nebula had already completely destroyed all life planets and resource planets during the First Universe War. What to do after you get it? From a national level, this place is already a ruined galaxy and is worthless. No country is willing to send fleets to maintain order here. Without a fleet to garrison it, it would soon be occupied again by new pirates. When these countries were in a dilemma, the pirates issued a "Win-Win Pact" for space explorers. Upon seeing this, these countries simply asked civil organizations to negotiate with the pirates of the Pirate Nebula to increase the scope of application and terms of the "Win-Win Convention". In the future, civilian and commercial spacecraft passing through the Pirate Nebula will voluntarily pay some fees to avoid being robbed. To put it bluntly, it is just like paying protection fees.
Things went smoothly and the pirates agreed, but they were also afraid of being punished by various governments. The first time they robbed the space explorers, they almost got annihilated when they attracted some surrounding countries to join forces in a crusade. They didn't want it to happen again.
As a result, the Pirate Nebula has become a strange galaxy. The many pirates in it basically no longer rob it, but collect protection fees and taxes from space explorers in their respective territories. When they want to rob, they will sneak into other galaxies. This place slowly became the headquarters of a pirate group.
Over time, the strange state here aroused the interest of the country. The world has always had light and darkness. They found that the pirates here could do some shady and dark things for them, and the location of the Pirate Nebula was very important. A private collusion started behind the scenes, and the important pirate groups in the Pirate Nebula found their own backers. The backing of the Teutonic Pirates is the Aleman Republic, which currently ranks third in the universe in terms of economic aggregate.
"Hmph! This must be the fault of Adolf John, the new prime minister of the Aleman Republic," Lei Hengbang said angrily.
"Captain, don't worry. The Aleman Empire, the predecessor of the Aleman Republic, betrayed our ancestors, the Panhua Empire, during the First Universe War, and had an affair behind the scenes with other countries in the universe. This is their tradition - "You can abandon any allies for your own interests." Shi Mo, the Minister of History, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and persuaded Lei Hengbang.
The History Department is a traditional culture research and inheritance center of the Yinglong Pirate Group. It will organize and print some of the original Panhua Empire's humanities, customs, art, myths, systems, stories and other cultural things into paper materials and preserve them. It is for the descendants of the Panhua ethnic group who are currently in the Yinglong Pirate Group to study and refer to it to increase their national pride and cohesion. The entire universe is blocking the historical information of the Panhua Empire. They can only use this primitive method to preserve their traditional cultural knowledge. As long as there is any information in the cosmic holographic network approved by the Panhua Empire's non-cosmic intelligent life federation, it will be deleted.
"What's going on, Lao He? Haha, I haven't read many books published by your history department. It's too troublesome to read books on the Internet!" asked the security chief He Tiezhou.
"You..." Shi Mo's face suddenly became unhappy. He was a staunch adherent of Gupanhua culture. Seeing that He Tiezhou, one of the nine giants, did not usually read the books published by his department, some Annoyed, and a bit sad when I think about it, probably only Lei Hengbang and Qi Mu among the nine giants here read the various paper books published by their history department, and the others probably haven't read them. It's just that He Tiezhou is a careless person, so he just asks if he doesn't understand. Others are too deep-minded to openly admit it. The convenience, speed, richness, and realistic content of the Universe Holographic Network cannot be compared to the books written by their history department.
Shi Mo thought with some despair: "Did our great Panhua Empire really disappear forever? Our descendants are not willing to learn and understand our own history and culture, so how can we talk about future revival!"
"Old Shi, just tell me! It's like giving us a national history lesson," Lei Hengbang said helplessly. There is no way he can force the highest levels of the Yinglong Pirate Group to know the history of their own nation.
"Well, I listen to the leader," Shi Mo said quietly.
It turned out that the cause of the First Space War was that a count from the Aleman Empire was assassinated and provoked by a fanatical Raslav nationalist while he was patrolling the planet Sara, which had just been annexed by them.
After the incident, the Aleman Empire immediately declared a full-scale war against the Yaweir National Republic.
The reason is that the main ethnic group of the Swaya system where Sarah is located and the adjacent Segway system is the Ras people. They have been trying to break away from the Aleman Empire and merge with the Yaweir National Republic to establish a single ethnic group of Ras. Republic of husband.
The Aleman Empire wanted to make a big deal out of the 'Assassination of Sara Star' and simply took advantage of the situation and annexed the Yavil National Republic in one fell swoop. In this way, firstly, it can put an end to the idea of independence of the Raslav nation within the territory; secondly, it can greatly expand the territory of the country; and thirdly, it can expand the supply source of industrial raw materials - there are many resources in the Yavel National Republic on the planet. Xi'mine.
The crystals in the 'Xi' mine contain high-density energy and are the main source of energy supply for various military weapons. For example, magnetic energy rifles, ultra-high-energy laser cannons, matrix particle cannons, etc. all require the function of the 'Tide' crystal energy block to be launched normally.
Aleman Empire is a rising star. Its main ethnic group is the Mansur. Mansoor is a rigid and rigorous person, conscientious and meticulous in his work, and has good obedience and discipline in the group. Their seemingly boring characters are just right enough to strive for perfection in the details of space industrial products that have stopped technological progress. This made various industrial products of the Aleman Empire, which came from behind, welcomed by every country in the universe. Therefore, its economy developed rapidly and advanced by leaps and bounds. In just a few thousand years, it surpassed the two established powers, the Saxon Kingdom and the Republic of Faklu.
The Aleman Empire, which was in urgent need of raw material supplies and dumped their industrial products on a large scale, was attacked by two established powers. The Republics of Alamein, Saxon, and Faklu have been at war with each other throughout their historical development, and there is a lot of national hatred.
The Saxon Kingdom and the Republic of Falklu were the first countries in the universe to launch space exploration. They were also the first country to discover the air energy formula. When they mastered faster-than-light flight, they became a fifth-level civilization. Relying on their speed advantage, they turned many fourth-level civilizations into their colonies and satellite countries, absorbing the wealth of the universe and making a fortune, maintaining prosperity and strength for hundreds of thousands of years.
But the progress of science and technology is not accelerating. As time goes by, space technology basically stops moving forward. The air energy formula was also leaked during the interactions between Saxon and Faklu with many Level 4 civilizations. Each Level 4 civilization began to upgrade to Level 5 civilization. They were very dissatisfied with the colonial rule of these two countries and were brewing resistance.
Seeing that the situation was unstoppable, Saxon and Faklu changed their strategies. They bribed the elites and upper classes of various countries and formed an alliance of interests. As a result, the original colonial and vassal state system was transformed into an economic cooperation system.
Relying on this system, there is a newly promoted fifth-level civilization that performs well. It does not have any political demands. It is far away from the bustling areas of the universe and focuses solely on doing business. Ordinary people can be more free wherever they are. Relying on various policy advantages, this fifth-level civilization has attracted a large amount of capital and talent. It quickly became the country with the highest economic aggregate in the universe and it was the United States of Bute.
The reason why Saxon and Faklu did not attack the United States of Beut was that, first, it was far away from the prosperous center of the universe, and second, it was very smart and did not show any political appeal.
Aleman is different. It is located in the most prosperous central area of the universe, and is very hungry for territory, constantly encroaching on the surrounding small countries. It has wanted to dominate the prosperous areas of the universe more than once in history. After upgrading to the fifth level civilization, which can travel faster than the speed of light, Aleman's ambition has increased and he wants to dominate the entire universe.