Chapter 167: Surrender (18th Update)

"Yes, Your Majesty, we came here to surrender to the Empire." Ambassador Imbechi lowered his huge head deeply.

"Poof" The tea that Li Mingze was drinking sprayed out.

"No, you surrendered now, it seems that the loss of your main fleet is not more than half." Li Mingze asked puzzledly, fearing that there was a trick.

"Our parliament doesn't want to fight anymore. Now our country is already in dire straits, the alliance's storage resources are about to be exhausted, and the people's anti-war sentiment is getting higher and higher." Ambassador Imbechi's sad voice came.

"So we hope to become a vassal of the Sith Empire!" Ambassador Imbechi raised his head.

"Oh? You want to become a vassal of our empire?"

"It's not impossible, let me see your sincerity." Li Mingze leaned back in the chair with his whole body relaxed.

"Your Majesty, we are willing to cede the other half of the star field from your channel defense line upward! Just allow us to bring our citizens back, and we will not touch the equipment and resources on these planets."

"And after becoming a vassal, we are willing to offer 30% of all energy coins and mineral income every year!" Ambassador Yinbeqi whispered.

"Oh?" Li Mingze's eyes lit up! You know, he has been thinking about ending the war so far, because now there is a new opponent who is eyeing it covetously.

Moreover, the attitude of other civilizations bordering the empire towards the empire is constantly getting worse. They think that the warlike empire is very dangerous. So in order to avoid being surrounded by enemies, Li Mingze had already planned to end the war. Unexpectedly, the Yinbeqi Alliance proposed it today.

"I can accept your request, but I have a few requirements for becoming a vassal of the empire. If you can accept it, we will be a family." Li Mingze narrowed his eyes and brought out a mysterious smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Speak, Your Majesty." The ambassador said helplessly.

"First! Your future schools must use Chinese as the main language, and all school textbooks must be formulated by our Empire!"

"Second! You cannot own warships larger than cruisers! The tonnage must not exceed 1.2 million tons! All units above the platoon level in your army must be equipped with an imperial political commissar!"

"Third! All your citizens will enjoy the third-class citizen treatment of the Empire in the future! You need to apply to enter and exit the Empire, but the citizens of the Empire do not need any form of application to enter your star field, and they will enjoy the treatment of first-class citizens!"

(Third-class citizens do not enjoy citizen benefits, but need to fulfill their citizen obligations, and the Empire will guarantee their safety.)

"Fourth! In the future, all your commodity tariffs will be formulated by the Empire! You only have the right to make suggestions!"

"Fifth! In the future, you must participate unconditionally in all the Empire's foreign wars, and of course the supplies consumed will be provided by the Empire." Li Mingze took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.

"How is it, can you accept it?"

"Here, can your Majesty allow me to report back to the parliament?" Ambassador Imbechi said cautiously, fearing that he would provoke Li Mingze to stop the negotiations.

"Okay, go ahead." Li Mingze waved his hand.

"Your Majesty." Ambassador Yinbechi saluted and stood up to return to the ambassadorial ship.

An hour later, Ambassador Yinbechi asked for an audience again.

"Oh? Did your parliament agree?" Li Mingze asked after opening his closed eyes.

"Your Majesty, our parliament agreed, but they hope that the annual tribute will be reduced to 25%." Ambassador Yinbechi replied in a low voice, not daring to look up at Li Mingze. There was no way that Li Mingze's aura was too strong in the eyes of the ambassador under the blessing of the aura of immortality.

"Well, reduce it to 25%, yes, but the tribute interval will be changed to once every three months!" Li Mingze nodded generously.

"That's great." Ambassador Yinbechi was a little trembling with excitement.

"Your Majesty, when will the surrender agreement be signed? What do you think?"

"This, let's set it in the space station of Halva Star ten days later," Li Mingze said after thinking for a moment.

"Okay~ I'll go back and inform the parliament." Ambassador Imbechi saluted and left the meeting room.

Ten days later. Halva Star Space Station.

A disarmed Imbechi cruiser slowly docked in the port of the space station, and the accompanying destroyer also lowered its guns and turned off its engines to float in space.

As the docking bridge in the port was fixed on the cruiser, Imbechi's Speaker straightened his collar and walked into the docking bridge with a group of parliamentarians.

The Imbechi Speaker and the parliamentarians who came to the port through the docking bridge saw the Imperial Guard of Honor standing on both sides of the exit.

Accompanied by the passionate Sith national anthem, the guard of honor raised their ceremonial knives high in the air.

The Imbechi Speaker and a group of parliamentarians coughed twice and walked past the Imperial Guard of Honor. As they walked past the guard of honor, the guards of honor put their sabers back into their waists, indicating that the enemies who had once faced each other with swords would be "one family" in the future.

It fully demonstrated the great power style of the Sith Empire, "I will not offend others if they do not offend me."

Passing through the long corridor formed by the guard of honor, the speaker of Imbechi and others got on the long-awaited hovercraft and drove towards the interior of the huge space station.

The hovercraft stopped at the door of a huge conference room, and the guards on the side trotted forward and opened the door.

The speaker of Imbechi nodded to express his gratitude and walked into the conference room with a group of congressmen.

The conference room, which was originally full of chairs, had been emptied, leaving only a long table in the middle of the hall, on which were placed paper and pens that had been prepared long ago.

At this time, Li Mingze was sitting on the throne at one end of the long table, squinting his eyes at Speaker Yinbechi and others who walked into the hall.

Speaker Yinbechi saw Li Mingze sitting in the hall and walked quickly forward and knelt on one knee.

"Your Majesty, our high-level Yinbechi officials have come to sign the vassal agreement." Speaker Yinbechi bowed his head respectfully, and the members behind him also knelt on the ground.

"Get up, I have prepared the agreement, you can sign it after reading it." Li Mingze raised his hand to signal them to get up.

"Yes, sir." Speaker Yinbechi made a look, and the members hurriedly walked to the long table and picked up the agreement on the table to read it carefully.

After a few minutes, the members nodded, and Speaker Yinbechi stood up and signed his name on the agreement, and took the Yinbechi national seal handed by a member of the side and stamped it on the agreement.

"Very good, very good, everyone will be a family from now on." Li Mingze clapped his hands with satisfaction.

"The staff responsible for vassal-related work will soon go to your star region. You must cooperate well with the work, and our fleet will withdraw to the channel defense line on a chosen day." Li Mingze said kindly.

"Your Majesty!" Speaker Imbechi and a group of congressmen knelt on one knee and said humbly.

This moment was permanently preserved by the many reporters standing by with their cameras.