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Chapter 2450: A Spark Starts a Wildfire

2452: A Spark Starts a Wildfire

The idea of ​​liberalism has a long history in the Milky Way, and its root is the Galactic Republic's rule of more than 25000 years.

But in these 25000 years, 24000 years were just spent on establishing the legitimacy and rationality of the Galactic Republic in the hearts of the people. In other words, people took it for granted that the Milky Way should be ruled by the Galactic Republic.

The real time when liberal thought flourished was after the Ruusan Reform more than 1000 years ago. During that reform, the Galactic Republic abandoned almost all military forces and claimed to have brought freedom, equality and prosperity to the galaxy.

Equality and prosperity are naturally absent, but freedom is indeed present if you think about it carefully. Because most of the time, the weak central government of the Galactic Republic has no interest or time to manage the planets in the outer and middle rings.

In addition, at that time, the Milky Way had no powerful external enemies, only some interstellar pirates and criminal organizations. Although these organizations were evil, they could not shake the foundation of the Galactic Republic. Therefore, in addition to being exploited by the domestic super-corporations of the Galactic Republic, the planets in the middle and outer rings were mostly autonomous and no one cared about them.

Moreover, the parliamentary system of the Galactic Republic provides a stage for those numerous backward planets to make a lot of noise and make their voices heard in the parliament of the Republic. And as long as the core interests are not involved, the real dignitaries in the core circle are still willing to play this democratic game with them.

Therefore, although those planets are exploited by super-corporations and suffer greatly, the people of those planets often blame those super-corporations for the crimes, and on the contrary, they identify very much with the Galactic Republic. Or, rather than identifying with the Galactic Republic, it is better to say that they identify with the Galactic Republic that is in everyone's imagination and brings everyone freedom and peace.

Of course it is just imagination, because the Galactic Republic has almost never appeared in front of the people of these planets.

Things in imagination are naturally the most perfect. So the result is that although the Galactic Empire has replaced the Galactic Republic, the majority of people still yearn for the Galactic Republic and the freedom they once had. Even a considerable number of the powerful people in the core circle think so.

In addition, the Galactic Empire was actively expanding its military and preparing for war, and it was directly exploiting and plundering the planets in the Middle and Outer Rings. This made these planets believe that if the Galactic Republic was still there, they would never have been treated so cruelly.

The lower-class people naturally would not understand that the Galactic Republic was ultimately destroyed for the same reason.

Even within the Kingdom of Dawn, people on many planets believed that the Kingdom of Dawn should follow the example of the Galactic Republic and establish an effective democratic system. The most important thing is to give these planets enough autonomy and let them manage their own affairs. Then when these planets need the Kingdom of Dawn to appear, you'd better show up immediately to drive out pirates and fight crime for us. At most, I will give you a little reward after you succeed... So this seemingly absurd, but in fact, liberal thought that has been accumulated for more than 25000 years, has become more and more intense in this galaxy, and finally, the "Declaration of Freedom" was born.

The publication of the Declaration of Freedom clearly pointed out that the authoritarian regimes such as the Galactic Empire and the Kingdom of Dawn were backward, barbaric, and anti-civilization. All planets should implement planetary autonomy and racial self-determination, and the planets should be handed over to the indigenous people for management.

And the most provocative sentence is: Every planet should have its own will, and the people of the planet should decide the future direction of the planet. The fate of the planet should not be handed over to tyrants like Tang Xiao and Palpatine, so that they can lead the planet into wars that we planets should not be responsible for.

As the war situation intensifies, with both sides suffering tens of billions of casualties in the two wars, such calls are extremely deceptive. Who wouldn't want to withdraw from this cruel war, simply say "I remain neutral", and then sit back and watch the galaxy fight to the death while I stay safe and peaceful?

The Declaration of Freedom put all the blame for the war on Tang Xiao and Palpatine, claiming that no planet should be held responsible for the war they started. This is tantamount to cutting off the firewood from under the cauldron!

At the same time as this declaration was released, the sound of smashing things was heard simultaneously in an office on two planets, Dawn and Imperial Center, which were 100,000 light years apart.

The Kingdom of Dawn and the Galactic Empire also took action almost at the same time - they sent fleets to attack all planets that responded to the "Declaration of Freedom" and sent secret police to arrest all people who spread similar information. At the same time, the state propaganda machine was fully operational and carried out a large number of propaganda activities to attack the legitimacy of the "Declaration of Freedom".

But what is very worrying is that these actions have had little effect!

The fleet sent by the Galactic Empire to encircle and suppress the rebels mysteriously disappeared. It was said that there was a split within the fleet and it fell into a trap set by the rebels. Four Imperial-class ships were seized and the remaining six were all destroyed.

The Dawn Kingdom's fleet also gave those liberal elements time to escape because someone in the upper echelons of the organization tipped off the group.

This shows that the rebels now have the ability to destroy a small branch fleet and have infiltrated the high-level officials of the Galactic Empire and the Kingdom of Dawn.

At the same time, this also means that the rebels must have mastered the channels for producing large warships!

At the same time, uprisings broke out in a large number of areas. Demonstrations and strikes were only the mildest of them, and even included attacks on factories and transport teams, destruction of communication facilities, large-scale invasion of holographic networks, etc. For a time, the entire galaxy was affected by the wave of liberalism.

The people in the Galactic Empire and the Kingdom of Dawn were still hopeful that this was just a climax of the uprising after the release of the Declaration of Freedom. But they were all wrong. The current situation, which seemed to be on fire everywhere and leaking everywhere, was just the beginning!

On April 10, 4BBY, ​​an uprising suddenly broke out in a transport fleet carrying rare metals from the Kingdom of Dawn. The commander of the escort warship secretly communicated with the rebels and actually hijacked the transport fleet!

The situation on the Galactic Empire side was even worse. The imperial treasury they kept on the planet Aldhani, which was used to pay salaries for an entire star region, was robbed. More than one billion funds disappeared, and these were all credit ingots of hard currency!

Thanks to Mingwu Huaxia for the 1500 starting coins! !
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I'm still in Xichang. I've finished my bad days in January and will try to get back on track in February.