In the dispute over the heir apparent, Duke Pat and Earl Donald acted brazenly and used the method of draining money from the bottom of the cauldron to make Louis XIII suffer a big loss, and he could not tell the pain.
As a result, Louis XIII could not find any way to punish Pat and Donald!
This made Louis XIII realize that although he had regained part of the power of "One Word and Nine Cauldrons" through a series of operations, he was unable to completely change the status quo of the top management of the Qabas Empire.
For a time, Louis XIII was disheartened. After this incident, he entrusted all the power of governing the country to the prime minister and the central government. He hid behind the scenes and was clean.
Louis XIII's move was very clever. It can be said that he was retreating to advance. He sat aside and watched the high-level political strife in the empire, silently looking for opportunities to break the situation.
As Louis XIII got older and older, he felt that his time was running out, and his mentality became impatient. There is no longer the leisure to sit and watch the ebb and flow of the tide, thinking about solving the problem of handover of power at the top of the empire as soon as possible.
Although Louis XIII no longer directly handles the government affairs of the empire, he will occasionally check the documents uploaded to the central optical brain by officials at all levels of the empire to understand the current status of the empire.
When Louis XIII checked the documents of the Imperial Security Bureau recently, he discovered the gamma-level shadow operation and felt that something was fishy.
Sending so many elite warriors from the empire to hijack civilian passenger spacecraft from the old enemy Fuluo Federation is simply a stupid and suicidal act and will not make any sense.
Louis XIII knew the current director of the Imperial Security Bureau, Verus Butler. He acts cautiously, has a flexible mind, and is well-rounded in dealing with people. He would not agree to such a mindless and reckless action. There must be someone else behind it!
Everyone else in the empire knows that the Fulo Federation is their old enemy, but no one knows that the Fulo Federation has another meaning to the empire.
Louis XIII knew another meaning, so he paid attention to the shadow operation of the Imperial Security Bureau against the Fuluo Federation.
So Louis XIII called the Seventh Prince and asked him to come forward to find out information about the person behind Operation Shadow from Varus Butler.
The seventh prince has been kind to people in recent years and has good relations with various factions. If he comes to inquire about information, he will not attract other people's attention.
Louis XIII gave a brief explanation to let the seventh prince understand the whole story and precautions.
After the seventh prince understood, he saluted and said, "Father, don't worry. I have some friendship with Director Varus Butler. Let's go and handle this matter immediately!" After saying that, he turned around and left the Saint's Hall.
Therefore, there was a scene where Varus Butler reported to Pat and Donald that Operation Shadow had begun, and then rushed to the seventh prince's residence in a maglev speed car.
The situation at the top of the empire was getting more and more weird. After hearing the seventh prince's question, Varus Butler, who was at the seventh prince's residence, hesitated a little and told the story about Operation Shadow, and made a subtle statement that it was Pat and Donald's direct orders were not his idea.
The reason why Varus Butler betrayed Pat and Donald was because he could not see clearly the future direction of the empire, so he could only use a wide net to connect with the giants of all parties. In this way, if the emperor Louis XIII dies in the future and the new emperor ascends the throne, he will not end up with a miserable end.
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Varus Butler's inner calculations were making a loud noise!
However, when the Seventh Prince tried to win over him, Varus Butler ignored it and did not respond directly.
Both of them were at the top of the empire's power pyramid, and they immediately understood what the other meant.
Varus Butler did not want to take sides publicly until the general trend of the empire was clear. The Imperial Security Bureau he controls is very important to all parties, and only by staying out of it for the time being can the greatest benefits be gained.
The seventh prince knew his own strength. Through getting along with his mother and father, he vaguely guessed that in order to become the emperor of the empire, he must obtain the support of Pat and Donald, or bring Pat and Donald together.
Now that neither of these two things can be achieved, Varus Butler naturally does not want to join his forces, lest he loses everything!
The two sides quickly separated, one rushed back to the Imperial Security Bureau to continue paying attention to the Shadow Operation, and the other rushed to the Lisbon Palace to report to his father.
At this time, Louis XIII was reading on the optical computer screen a memorial "Inviting His Majesty the Emperor to Preside over the Three Princes" submitted by the Hereditary Baron of the Empire, Alex Rivine.
This memorial has not yet been approved by the prime minister and the central optical brain.
Louis XIII frowned while reading, and his already ashen face became even more ugly. When he saw that the person who submitted the memorial was Alex Rivian, he couldn't help but snorted coldly. The qi and blood churning in his chest went straight up, making him cough and cough twice.
Hugo, the left chamberlain, hurried over and patted Louis XIII gently on the back to make him feel better. He said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to be angry. It is important to take care of your dragon body!"
Louis XIII had nothing to hide from the attendant who had been with him all his life, and said angrily: "Humph, the nobles of the empire are all a bunch of idiots now, and they actually asked the three princes to pay attention to the vassal planet. , have they forgotten the disaster that happened to the eldest prince?"
Hugo did not dare to comment on this memorial easily and consoled him: "Your Majesty, don't worry about it. At worst, you can give the Prime Minister an order to repeal this memorial!"
In fact, Hugo believed in his heart that this was the intention of Pat-Donald's group to expel the three princes. In this way, if His Majesty the Emperor suddenly passed away, and Xingtantuo, the center of power, had no direct princes, God knows what changes would happen.
It's just that Hugo didn't dare to say this to Louis XIII, otherwise he couldn't afford to be misunderstood as a serious sin that cursed the emperor's short life.
The best way is for Louis XIII to realize this. However, although Louis XIII felt that his time was limited, he did not want to face this cruel issue of life and death all the time, so he did not understand Alex Lee immediately. The profound meaning of the Wien Memorial.
At this time, the seventh prince returned to the Hall of Saints, met with Louis XIII and said, "Father, Juerchen learned from Varus Butler that Operation Shadow was an operation directed by Pat and Donald. The goal of the operation is to let the hijacked passenger spacecraft cruise in some coordinate areas where the Nevada system and the Monforte system meet."
Louis XIII was a little confused when he heard this. He didn't know what Pat and Donald were doing. He didn't even know where the cruise coordinates were.
However, Louis XIII was the emperor of the Kabasi Empire after all. He had the highest authority to use the central optical brain in the empire. In order to understand the purpose of Operation Shadow, he began to inquire about the central optical brain.
Immediately, Louis XIII pressed a button on his dragon case. A console came out in front of him. He entered a complex password. After various verifications, a metal rod was finally stretched out from the top of the Saints' Temple. The last metal rod was a Something like a crystal ball.
When the crystal ball is about 3 meters away from the ground, it emits billions of rays of light. Those rays of light quickly converged into a holographic image of a woman. If Yi Chen were here, he would definitely find that this woman's holographic image looks a bit like Avril Lavigne.
Louis XIII said in a polite tone: "Miss Feia, long time no see!"
The Seventh Prince was shocked, it turned out that this was Central Light Brain Feiya. He didn't expect that there was a device hidden in his father's saint's temple that could be directly connected to the central optical brain Feia's host. No wonder my father confidently and boldly delegated the power of governing the country to the prime minister and the Central Government. The original emperor could terminate the authorization to the Central Government at any time, which was actually the same as taking power himself.
Central Optical Brain Feia's tone was ethereal, without any emotion, and said mechanically: "Hello, His Majesty Louis XIII, it has been 386 years, 271 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes and 88 seconds since we last met."
Louis XIII didn't care about Feia's indifference. In his opinion, Fia was originally an emotionless creature with no emotions and desires. He asked: "Miss Fia, please call me out of the Fulo Federation..."
So the patrol coordinates of the passenger spacecraft hijacked by Yi Chen and others in Shadow Operation appeared on a secondary holographic map in the Saints Temple.
Looking at the 100 coordinate points arranged along the border between Nevada and Monforte, Louis XIII, the Seventh Prince and Rain
I still don't understand what the meaning is.
The Seventh Prince suddenly had an idea and asked: "Miss Feia, what do you know about Operation Shadow?"
Feiya said with an expression on her face: "I'm sorry, typical seventh prince, you don't have the authority to know!"
The seventh prince was a little embarrassed and shrugged.
Louis XIII asked the same question as the Seventh Prince again, and then Fia listed out what she knew one by one, and synchronized the data from the Guiot Star Shadow Operations Command Center to the Saints Hall.
The three of them first saw 100 red dots cruising on the "Fuluo Federation Territory Map", and soon after 99 hours of them, the remaining 100th one also disappeared.
Fia explained: "During the cruise of these 100 red dots, the main control optical brains above them, Latent No. 1 to Latent No. 100, used the empire's newly developed information transmission technology to establish a data channel with the empire's central optical brain. The computing power of the central optical brain was used to decipher the coordinates of the Fulo Federation's defense base. Unfortunately, the time was too short and the cracking work fell short. All 100 passenger spacecraft hijacked were destroyed by the Fulo Federation!"
The Seventh Prince and Hugo did not understand what a defensive base point was at all. Louis XIII muttered and repeated the words "defensive base point", his cloudy eyes flashed, as if he understood something, and asked: "Fia, Has the empire made any large-scale military deployments recently?"
Feia continued: "The Empire's 3rd and 9th Guards Fleets have been transferred to the Tyrannosaurus Galaxy to deploy defenses in the border star field between the Empire and the Fulo Federation?"
The seventh prince exclaimed: "Father, are we going to go to war with the Fulo Federation?"
