Chapter 2 Let the Warships Block Out the Sun

In the highest-level office of the "Qingzhuan" in the capital of the empire, Li Mingze rubbed his aching head and decided on the technology that the empire needed to focus on in the future.

The time required for these scientific research projects is calculated in years. Generally, the empire's political affairs and trivial matters are managed by the intelligent AI Tianyi.

Let's build troops. With the current shipbuilding capacity of the empire, it takes more than 60 days to build a light cruiser, and there is still a shortage of minerals (mineral points will be collectively referred to as minerals in the future), so he plans to go to bed and have a good sleep.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned to the bedroom, he was stopped by Tianyi:

"Your Majesty, today is the first voyage of the empire's first exploration and scientific research ship. Aren't you going to inspire people?"

"Oh? Really? Let's go to the spaceport." Li Mingze nodded in response.

He, a native of Earth, has never seen a real spaceship. Every day, what he sees in front of the Qingzhuan floor-to-ceiling windows are just aircraft in the atmosphere that shuttle between high-rise buildings in the city. Now his curiosity is aroused.

On the platform on the top floor of the blue brick, there is a spaceship with black and gold paint, 30 meters long and wide, covered with a thick layer of armor, and in the shape of an oval box.

Under the protection of many guards, Li Mingze boarded the imperial spaceship and slowly took off under the escort of dozens of aerospace fighters.

Sitting in the holographic viewing cabin, he watched the city under his feet getting smaller and smaller, the "blue bricks" became blurred, the earth slowly turned into an arc, and the sky gradually turned from blue to black, and he was filled with emotion.

Although this was his first time to fly out of the planet, he knew that this was his first step to conquer the sea of ​​stars!

The outer shell of the spacecraft rubbed violently with the atmosphere and turned into a dazzling red, and the holographic screen in the cabin also turned into the same light red. Suddenly, Li Mingze felt his body lighten, as if he had no weight, and he knew that he had left the Sith star and entered space.

"Ding, the artificial gravity system will start in three seconds, Your Majesty, please do not leave your seat." Tianyi's voice came from the ship's broadcast.

"Ding, Ding, Ding," three seconds later, Li Mingze felt his body suddenly sink, and gravity was restored in the spacecraft.

He couldn't help but sigh that the Empire was many years more advanced than the Earth in space technology, and even gravity could be artificially created.

But then his attention was attracted by a giant space station in the distance. The entire space station is ten kilometers long and wide, in the shape of a cuboid. The bottom of the cuboid has four spaceship ports extending out and slowly rotating, and above the cuboid is a miniature city, with various antennas on the tops of the city buildings in a staggered manner.

There are only two huge spaceships docked in the space station port, one is a streamlined spaceship with silver-white paint and four huge thrusters on both sides of the hull, and the other is a gray, huge spaceship with four thick mechanical arms and a huge cargo hold.

"Your Majesty, the silver-white streamlined ship on your left is the scientific research exploration ship that will depart today. It is 420 meters long, 90 meters wide and 50 meters high. It carries a large number of scientific research equipment, drones, landing cabins and comfortable living space. It is only equipped with five small missile launchers."

"And the gray one next to it is the empire's latest technology construction ship, 200 meters long, 159 meters wide and 90 meters high. We use quantum transmission technology to transmit the minerals broken into quark sizes to the construction ship, and then the building printing system composed of mechanical arms and drones prints out the buildings we want." Tianyi's figure appeared beside Li Mingze and explained.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I really want to build battleships and dreadnoughts quickly. Giant ships and cannons are the dream of men!" He ignored the three patrolling light cruisers in the distant starry sky.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the empire will prosper and become strong under your leadership!" Tianyi said firmly on the side, with a convincing magnetism in his voice.

"Well, one day, I will let the empire's warships block the sun in the sky!" Li Mingze felt that his blood was boiling.

The royal spaceship slowly drove into the inner port in the middle of the space station. After landing, the port's airlock slowly fell, and oxygen began to be injected into the inner port. A team of soldiers in silver power armor came to the two sides of the spaceship gate with guns on guard, and the space station officials who followed closely stood solemnly in front of the soldiers.

A robot came forward to lay the red gold-threaded carpet, and Li Mingze slowly walked down the spaceship.

It's really corrupt, but I like it (snickering). The moment he stepped on the carpet, a middle-aged official in gorgeous clothes in the queue shouted: "Long live His Majesty! Long live the Empire! Salute!"

"Loyal to His Majesty! Loyal to the Empire! Long live His Majesty! Long live the Empire!" All the people put their left hands in front of their abdomens with guns down, stretched their right arms straight above their heads, and made fists, shouting loudly.

Li Mingze waved his hands in satisfaction, indicating that he had received their loyalty. In fact, his heart was already swollen to the point of exploding. This feeling was so good.

Under the guidance of a group of officials, Li Mingze came to the reception hall. More than 30 scientific researchers in white space suits and 20 ship escorts in power armor stood in the center of the hall, holding helmets in their hands and raising their right hands. When Li Mingze came in front of them, "Long live His Majesty! Long live the Empire!" was heard again.

Then, His Majesty Li Mingze, on behalf of the government and the people, extended cordial greetings to these researchers and delivered a mobilization speech:

"Dear citizens of the Empire, you are the elite of the Empire! The pride of the Empire!"

"Now! You are about to sail for the first time, and you will be tasked with the arduous task of exploring the unknown starry sky! To expand the territory of the Empire, you will spread the fire of the Empire to the starry sky under the light of the Empire."

"Your importance is irreplaceable, and only your selfless dedication will bring the Empire a bright future!"

"I am waiting for you to return with glory in the Empire! Long live the Empire!"

"Long live His Majesty! Long live the Empire!" The researchers were moved to tears, and they wanted to sacrifice themselves for the Empire immediately, even if they crashed into a star!

Watching this group of researchers boarding the research ship through the sky bridge, Li Mingze shook off the officials who followed him and whispered to Tianyi: "Increase the brainwashing of the imperial students, so that they know to devote themselves to the empire since kindergarten. In addition, recruit a few more groups of researchers. No matter what kind of dangers these researchers encounter outside, we can ensure that our scientific research exploration will not stagnate!"

"Your Majesty, you are too bad"

"It was discovered too late, keep a low profile."

After attending the first launch reception of the research ship, Li Mingze boarded the royal spacecraft, left the spaceport with the farewell of many officials, and flew towards the Sith Empire.

"Tianyi, I see these officials are very rich, call on them to donate money for the empire's shipbuilding plan! Also, check if there are any corrupt officials in the imperial government. If there are any, create an accident to make them disappear. The empire does not need such parasites!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, don't worry, everyone in the empire is under your surveillance, they can't escape!"

Well... it's just that the technology is limited. This kind of crushing is not a crushing in the sense of the name. What material was crushed before it was crushed and what material was reshaped after it was crushed... so only mining is efficient...