Chapter 342: Hidden Dangers of Too Large a Territory

On the Yanhuang Star in the Centaurus Galaxy, the Empire's headquarters, a private spaceship flew rapidly from Yanhuang Star into space and soon arrived at a space port in space. Soon, another medium-sized anti-gravity spaceship flew rapidly from the space port to the periphery of the Centaurus Galaxy.

Both the private spaceship and the medium-sized anti-gravity spaceship were painted with an ancient symbol. People familiar with the Empire know that it is now popular within the Empire to design some symbols for their families. Some use traditional Chinese characters as their family symbols, some use some geometric patterns, and some use some animal patterns, etc.

In short, in the Empire, from the Imperial family to ordinary civilians, basically every family has its own unique family pattern.

The family pattern represents the entire family, and also represents the honor and reputation of the entire family. Its rise is accompanied by the emphasis of the citizens within the Empire on their own honor and the honor of their own family.

At first, only some individuals, families, companies, etc. engaged in business designed some of their own patterns. Gradually, because everyone cherished their own feathers, once the family emblem was stamped, it meant absolute reliability, so gradually the whole empire began to learn.

From the imperial family to the ordinary people's families, basically every family has its own unique family emblem. Some families with credibility and high recognition have gradually spread widely within the empire. Often, as long as the name of their family is reported, others will be in awe.

The ancient symbol on the spacecraft, this ancient symbol comes from the Tai Chi diagram of Chinese Taoism, but in the middle of this Tai Chi diagram, there is a word "Li".

Obviously, this is the family emblem of a Li family. The Li surname is a large family, and there are countless families of all sizes, but within the empire, all the Li families are very tacit, and will never have the word "Li" on their family emblems, because the imperial royal family is surnamed Li.

Whether it was out of respect or fear of the imperial family, although there were countless Li families in the empire, everyone knew that when they saw the word "Li" written in the middle of the Tai Chi diagram, there was no doubt that it was definitely from the imperial royal family.

Moreover, the members of the imperial royal family have always been very low-key. Only when the emperor Li Fu of the empire traveled would he put the family emblem on the spacecraft he traveled on. As for other princes, although each of them was very outstanding, they never used the family emblem.

In this spacecraft, Li Fu seemed very excited at this time. He was still reviewing documents in the imperial palace before. After receiving the news from Chen Bin, Li Fu hurried to space.

The anti-gravity spacecraft that Li Fu was riding was a high-tech spacecraft built with the latest technology of the empire. Its speed was the fastest among the countless spacecrafts in the entire empire. In just less than an hour, the speed of the spacecraft had accelerated to a terrifying speed of 800 kilometers per second.

However, although the speed is quite fast, even the speed of light seems quite slow for the vast universe. This time, Li Fu is going to the Space-Time Ocean Current Research Branch of the Imperial Scientific Research Institute of Jiuzhou Star, because Chen Bin has a major scientific and technological achievement here. Even Li Fu is so excited that he can't sit still. As soon as he heard the good news, he immediately rushed over.

A few days later, in a space port outside Jiuzhou Star, the spaceship that Li Fu was riding slowly parked, and then soon a small private spaceship set off from the space port again, heading straight for a huge space city in space.

This space city is very large. From space, it looks a bit like a huge space continent. Layers of buildings are divided into two sides, each side is very prosperous, and various small private spacecraft are constantly rising and falling. This is the Space-Time Ocean Current Research Institute of the Imperial Scientific Research Institute, a scientific research institute dedicated to studying space-time ocean currents.

Li Fu's spaceship passed through layers of identity recognition and landed directly in this huge space city. The spaceship had just stopped, and Li Fu hurriedly got off the spaceship and walked towards the center of the Space-Time Ocean Current Research Institute.

"Chen Bin, tell me quickly, what have you researched that can shorten the time for a spacecraft to pass through the space-time ocean current by more than ten times."

Before the people arrived, Li Fu's excited voice had already come in. Chen Bin, who was dressed in a white coat, couldn't help but laugh at the scientists around him who were also dressed in white coats. Just as he expected, Li Fu would definitely rush over day and night after hearing the news.

Soon, as soon as the voice fell, Li Fu's figure appeared in everyone's sight. Everyone quickly became respectful, especially the younger generation of scientists, who looked at Li Fu with admiring eyes, and seemed very excited.

"Of course you have researched something good, otherwise I wouldn't dare to call you over."

Chen Bin smiled and kept it a secret. He knew Li Fu's mood at the moment. It was probably like being scratched by a cat's claws, and he felt very itchy in his heart.

"Hurry up and tell me, I hurried over from Yanhuang Star just to find out what it is as soon as possible. You are still keeping it a secret. I will never go back until I eat you out of money."

Li Fu threatened helplessly. Obviously, this threat had no practical effect. Instead, the young scientists around him couldn't help laughing. Some even covered their mouths. They had heard that Li Fu was not arrogant, but they knew it was true after meeting him.

"Then I can't say anything. Anyway, we haven't gathered for a long time. There are a few bottles of good wine hidden at home. We can't leave without drinking."

Chen Bin also had a frivolous look, and he didn't have the seriousness of the former president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

"Put aside the drinking, and talk quickly. I couldn't sleep after hearing your good news. I hurried over here."

Li Fu seemed very anxious. When he heard Chen Bin say that he had developed a technology that could shorten the time it takes for a spacecraft to pass through the space-time ocean current by more than ten times, he was not calm at all.

Over the years, the Empire has been expanding outward, spreading in all directions from the Centaurus Galaxy, the center of the Empire. The farthest galaxies are the Temple Galaxy and the Worster Galaxy, which were recently acquired from the Kalan Empire. These two galaxies are more than 50 light years away from the Empire, even if they are transferred through the space-time ocean currents.

From the Centaurus Galaxy, go to the Aquila Galaxy first, then from the Aquila Galaxy to the Temple of Heaven Galaxy, then to the Boyle Galaxy, and finally through the Boyle Galaxy to reach the Temple Galaxy and the Worster Galaxy.

There are three transfer points in the middle, namely the Aquila Galaxy, the Temple of Heaven Galaxy, and the Boyle Galaxy. Even through the space-time ocean currents, it takes nearly ten years to reach the remote galaxies of the Empire.

Such a long time is not conducive to the communication between the various galaxies within the Empire, and it is not conducive to the Empire's control over the remote galaxies. As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. Some things, once the transportation is unchanged, are too far away, and problems will slowly arise over time.

So even though Li Fu ambitiously proposed to dominate the entire Orion Arm, the current situation of the empire seems somewhat helpless, because the distance is too far. Just over 30 galaxies have made the imperial government rack their brains on how to develop and consolidate the empire's rule over these remote galaxies.

More than 30 galaxies, nearly 40 life planets, such a territory can only be regarded as the bottom among the many civilizations in the Orion Arm. However, for the empire, or for mankind, this is an unprecedentedly vast territory in human history, and there is no experience in governance before.

In addition, it is too far away and the exchanges are very unchanged, so Li Fu, Fang Zheng and other upper-level officials of the empire have always been worried about how to strengthen management and governance, how to consolidate the empire's territory, just 30 galaxies are already like this, and how to consolidate the territory when it develops to 100, 200, 1,000, or even more galaxies in the future.

This problem was placed on the table of the top leaders of the empire, and it has always been a problem that has troubled the top leaders of the empire. Of course, this problem is not only a problem of the empire, but also of countless civilizations on the entire Orion spiral arm.

The larger the territory, the more difficult it is to effectively control its own territory, and the signs of internal separatist forces will emerge. In the history of the Orion spiral arm, many powerful civilizations were not destroyed by external enemies, but by internal separatist forces, fighting each other, and civil wars, and eventually slowly went to decline.

On the other side of the starlight, the civilization that once ruled the other side of the starlight was not actually the Kolov Empire, but another powerful and arrogant civilization. In the end, this civilization took advantage of the internal division problem to allow the Kolov Empire to rise rapidly, and eventually replaced it and became the overlord on the Orion spiral arm.

Knowing the history of many civilizations on the Orion spiral arm, combined with the development history of countries around the world on Earth, Li Fu, Fang Zheng and others are very clear about how important it is to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between internal star systems of various countries.

However, as the territory continued to expand, the time spent on communication between the galaxies of various countries became longer and longer, which seriously hindered the development of the empire. So when Li Fu heard the news from Chen Bin, he immediately came over in a hurry.

It can shorten the time for spacecraft to pass through the space-time ocean current by more than ten times, which means that it only takes less than one year from the Centaurus Galaxy of the Empire to the most remote Temple Galaxy. This is of great significance to the current empire.