"A monarch should be loved and feared at the same time. If you can't have both, then fear is the first choice, but you must not be hated by your subjects. Are you right?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, that's very true. This is Machiavelli's theory."
Zhuge Daozi listened to the drunken words of his emperor uncle with a smile. Whenever Manfred was drunk, he liked to grab someone to read a lot of imperial doctrines or governance theories that he found in various books. Zhuge Daozi was already familiar with this. After he saw the emperor drinking the last bit of red wine in the glass, he said earnestly: "Your Majesty, you drank too much today. You will have to inspect the arsenal in a while, right? It's best." Let’s go back and take a rest first.”
Manfred touched his dizzy head: "Yes...yes, where are my daughters?"
"Don't worry, Her Majesty Mary felt bored and went back, and Her Majesty Elizabeth also felt a little tired and rested."
"Well...I'm leaving then. You can entertain the guests for me."
Seeing the emperor being helped away by the guards, Zhuge Daozi breathed a sigh of relief. Just before he was entangled by the emperor, he had received a secret message from Princess Elizabeth's maid, and the driver of the Osiris had been subdued. He looked at his watch and then glanced at the red knight. He saw that the red knight seemed uneasy because Lin Ao had not come back for a long time, but there were too many fans surrounding him. Now was a good opportunity to see Elizabeth and ask her to press own next move.
"Colonel Zhuge Daozi, please stay."
A voice with almost no emotion called him. Daozi turned around and saw that it was Lieutenant Colonel Taglis who always had a poker face. In view of what he was going to do next, if he ignored the other party at this time, people would doubt him later, so Zhuge Daozi chose to be patient and listen to what he wanted.
"Colonel Michiko, I'm sorry to bother you. I inspected HAL not long ago, which is the AI factory satellite that can manufacture humanoid weapons by itself. I have some questions to ask you."
"What's the problem? I've had a little too much to drink. It's best not to have a long talk."
"I heard that you are the main driving force behind HAL, but do you think that relying on an intelligent AI and a humanoid weapons factory can help us win the war? In order to manufacture HAL, the troops on the earth have been collecting various resources. But now HAL is about to be completed, and there are still a lot of looted resources in the warehouse. Rather than shelving them, it is better to use them quickly to consolidate our army's results."
Daozi replied: "HAL is not as simple as an AI and a factory. It will be the greatest weapon in human history! You should know that HAL can design and manufacture humanoid weapons equipped with combat AI by studying its opponents. Its The production efficiency will exceed that of all the military factories in the Earth’s circle combined!”
"But if the war is handed over to AI, what do our soldiers have to do? Are they reliable?"
Zhuge Daozi smiled and said: "Lieutenant Colonel, you should know that the combined resources and soldiers of all the forces in the Earth Circle are several times that of our empire. Now we are lucky enough to fight them back and forth, but in the absence of resources and soldiers , it is difficult for the empire to persist. You have to rely on plundered resources to manufacture weapons, but our production capacity as a country cannot keep up with the sum of our enemies. Before we use up those resources, there will be more enemies. And HAL It is our magic weapon for victory. It not only solves the problem of soldiers, but its production efficiency also exceeds that of our opponents. When it is officially put into service, the resources you are worried about will be utilized as quickly as possible, believe me. If If there’s nothing else to do, I’ll leave first.”
Taglis saluted Zhuge Daozi, and after watching Daozi leave, he thought: "Logically, the generals, who are mostly conservative and old people, should be suspicious of such a bold idea. Even with the support of His Majesty the Emperor, HAL has gone from project establishment to production. The speed is too fast, and it has the support of almost all the military departments. This is so strange... Although I am reluctant, the empire will probably have troubled times next, and I have to contact my stupid brother..."
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Zhuge Daozi hurried to Princess Elizabeth's room. As soon as he entered the door, he said eagerly: "I asked someone to modify the nearby surveillance. We must leave here within 5 minutes. Your Majesty, Princess, it's time for you to change clothes."
"Okay cousin, I'll change it right now."
After Elizabeth walked into the dressing room, Daozi pulled the maid to a corner and said, "You are the person I trust most. You must protect the princess and let her go according to my plan."
"I understand, Master Daozi."
Zhuge Daozi kissed the maid, and looked at Lin Ao who had changed into men's clothes with a confused look on his face, thinking that the relationship between these people was quite messy.
"Your name is Lin Ao, please protect my sister's safety on the Osiris." Zhuge Daozi.
Lin Ao nodded and asked him: "You made all their plans to escape New Rome just now. Can you join me now?"
Zhuge Daozi used his personal terminal to project a map and pointed at one of the areas: "The Seth of the Moore Chamber of Commerce will arrive in New Rome and will only stay for half an hour. You will leave New Rome mixed with the goods they took away. Then we will go to the colonial satellite Carthage, and I will ask you to contact the Osiris later. You can just follow the maid along the way. I have already arranged the monitoring, security and other details."
"Merchant? What kind of merchandise are we going to mix in, a mannequin?"
"I blame me for not being clear. The product is your No. 2 machine. The Set will hand over a test machine to the Empire this time, and the Empire will also hand over a new test machine to the Moore Chamber of Commerce. I will ask someone to give it to the Empire. Your machine body was swapped with the Empire's experimental machine, and you need to be mixed in the container."
"The Moore Chamber of Commerce actually has technical exchanges with you."
"They are businessmen." Daozi.
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"Have you seen Jin Shangyu?"
After the banquet, the red knight was finally able to get away from the fans that were pestering him and give Zhuge Daozi a message.
At this moment, Zhuge Daozi had changed into casual clothes and was sitting in the corner of a high-end bar in the capital city, slowly sipping the cocktail in his hand.
"No, why did you lose your new woman? Haha"
The red knight's voice sounded anxious: "I have no intention of joking! Have you seen her? Where are you now?"
"I'm sorry I haven't seen you. I'm enjoying my short vacation at the bar we used to go to when we were students."
"Okay...if you see her, be sure to let me know."
The red knight hung up and Zhuge Daozi couldn't help but want to laugh. Suddenly, he heard the bartender tap the glass with a spoon six times in an even rhythm.
"Well, the princess and the others have slipped into the container," he thought.
Minutes later, the bar shouted, "Long Island Smoothie! Screwdriver! Who ordered that?"
Daozi raised the corners of his mouth.
"The Seth has loaded up our princess and Unit 2 and set off!"
He raised his glass and made a toast in the direction of the palace: "I'm sorry, uncle, and I'm sorry for my friend. Let me take advantage of your revenge product that is full of loopholes."
