Star Fleet: Age of Lords.

Chapter 297 Crazy Shipbuilding
Feng Mo, who had just returned from the Tianque Star Region, had just returned to the Storm Human Federation. Without caring about being intimate with the three El women, he pulled Alyssa into the underground secret vault of the Hurricane Main Star.

This is where all the Storm Human Federation's starship design drawings are stored. It is also the headquarters of the Federation's starship design department. As soon as Feng Mo and Alyssa arrived here, they went into the underground secret vault.

There are a total of four design drawings that need to be studied by Feng Mo and Elisa together, as well as the expansion plan of the Storm Fleet. This time, Feng Mo plans to directly expand the Storm Fleet to 6 combat starships, and replace all seven fleets under his command with T starships.

This was a huge project that could not be completed without four or five years. So Feng Mo and Elisa studied the design drawings of the starship in the secret library during the day, and spent the evening with Al and others who came to visit him.

Time passed quickly, and nearly two years went by in a flash. During this period, the two sisters Xing Jinshu and Xing Shuwen, who had just ascended the throne, joined forces to gain a firm foothold in the court of the Star Empire.

And all the major forces that once supported the eldest prince were cleaned out. Of course, those that were cleaned out were all abandoned forces. The real major forces would at most give some meat to the two sisters in order to ensure the continuation of the family.

The two sisters should not push him too hard, and should leave some room for him so that they can meet again in the future. Moreover, he had just ascended the throne and his foundation was unstable. Even with Xu Yuanhang's support, it would be too difficult to move these forces in just two years.

They can only proceed step by step and not rush things. Now that the two women have gained a firm foothold, they have finally begun to carry out drastic reforms. The previous Star Empire was very bloated, and had to support many members of the royal family, which led to years of losses in the empire's treasury and the empire was completely relying on its foundation to survive.

The first order the two women issued after taking office was that all star gates in the entire Star Empire would be taken over by the military. All tolls collected, minus the expenses of the stationed military fleet, would be turned over to the national treasury, and no one was allowed to withdraw money without the approval of the two women.

When this order was issued, it affected the interests of many nobles. However, because the two women had previously swept away all forces, the noble families dared not speak out. They were very afraid of Xu Yuanhang's existence, so this order could be carried out smoothly.

Because the star gates of the previous Star Empire were managed by major families and nobles, and the empire directly managed less than three-fifths of the star gates. These nobles and families only needed to pay a small amount of taxes to the empire every year.

This time, the two women directly took back the ownership of all the star gates. For this reason, Xu Yuanhang, an old man, personally led the long-distance fleet to circle the Star Empire.

In addition, the other two legendary commanders all showed up and personally endorsed the two women. The idea of ​​taking back the ownership of the star gate was thought up by Xing Shuwen. She implemented it according to Feng Mo's idea, because all the star gates of the Storm Human Federation belonged to the federation.

The first step was very solid, taking back the ownership of the Star Gate and greatly enriching the national treasury. However, the Star Gate is a long-term project after all, and other methods must be considered if the treasury is to be filled immediately.

To this end, the two women and Feng Mo formulated three plans for the Star Empire, which would solve the problem of empty treasury and straighten out the bloated Star Empire.

The first plan was aimed at the nobles. The entire Star Empire was too ancient, so ancient that it existed before the Apocalypse Empire existed.

Countless nobles have been born in the empire over countless years. In terms of taxation, nobles have a natural advantage, and can raise private armies, forming a country within a country. As a result, the nobles are now too powerful to be eliminated. The empire allows nobles, but they must be restricted.

So the first plan was to weaken the nobles and put a layer of shackles on them. For this, Feng Mo suggested that they use the old method of pulling one group to beat another. Since the Yu family of the Intelligence Department has always supported Xing Shuwen, the internal affairs of the entire Xingchen Empire are transparent to the two women. Feng Mo also thought of a conspiracy used by the ancients before the time travel, the Enfeoffment Order.

Focus on investigating those noble families where internal conflicts and disharmony exist among their descendants, and then induce their descendants to support the implementation of the Enfeoffment Order through infiltration. This will greatly weaken the overall strength of the nobles and aristocratic families.

The first plan was to use this Enfeoffment Order, and the second plan was to eliminate the relatives and friends in all departments of the empire and simplify departmental staffing. There was no good way to do this and it could only be implemented through tough measures.

If the first plan went well, the two women would have been able to control most of the power by then, which would have been enough to implement the second plan. For the final plan, the three of them would turn their attention to the royal family.

In recent years, there are many royal family members in the Star Empire. Although it is difficult for the Protoss to reproduce, there are many studs and breeding machines.

A group of those who failed in the fight for the throne, and a group of side branches, give birth to children every day. An average level six gene warrior can live for thousands of years, and during this period he is either giving birth to children or on the way to giving birth.

This has led to a bloated staff. Currently, there are more than 70 billion Protoss people in the entire Star Empire, accounting for one eightieth of the total population of the Star Empire.

But the royal family accounts for more than 400 million people, and all of these people need unconditional support from the empire. They can receive educational resources from childhood to adulthood, but after they become adults, regardless of their excellence or not, the national treasury will invest a large sum of money in them. They can also choose any department or fleet for internship.

Moreover, the welfare benefits of royal family members are ten thousand times that of external citizens. This has led to the fact that the resources consumed by 400 million people are almost equal to the resources consumed by the citizens of the entire empire. This is deformed and unhealthy.

In response to this, Feng Mozhen also deployed a three-step strategy for the royal family. The first step was to cut the supply of resources on the grounds that the treasury was empty.

The second step is to establish internal assessments within the royal family, with the major ministers, three legendary commanders, and even two emperors taking turns to serve as chief examiners every year.

The third step, after the first two steps are completed, is a bottleneck and will inevitably cause fierce opposition within the royal family. Feng Mo’s goal is to force a rebellion. It happens that there are many people in the royal family, just like leeks, and they can be killed as soon as they rise up.

Fewer people means less resource consumption. If we eliminate all stallions and reproductive machines and slow down the royal birth rate, we can basically control the royal family's consumption of the empire.

Of course, all of this cannot avoid the cooperation of the empire's three major fleets, so contact with the three legendary commanders of the three fleets is inevitable. Now Commander Xu Yuanhang has stood firmly behind the two women, and the other two must also work hard to win.

While the two women were trying to gain a foothold in the empire, Feng Mo was not idle either.

(End of this chapter)