Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1452: Chapter 548: Hatred for the Homeland (Part 2)

One family’s joy is another’s sorrow. While Liu An is on the verge of losing control due to anger and frustration, Ren Zhong remains quite carefree, sailing while reading to recharge himself.

Seven months later, Ren Zhong’s large warship briefly appears at the administrative hub of the core region of the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Then, he opens external communications.

Contact letters from various forces, delayed by seven months, flood in all at once, numbering in the tens of thousands.

Without any pretentiousness, Ren Zhong immediately assembles a professional team, led by Jin Simin in the Red Blade Administrative Hub’s foreign affairs department, to assist him in handling these documents.

In a span of two days, Ren Zhong replies to these letters with a polite and composed tone, making an initial introduction to the numerous unfamiliar forces of the Empire. This kind of social interaction is roughly equivalent to two strangers meeting at a large cocktail party, exchanging business cards, and then giving the cards to their secretaries to record the connection, so it can be utilized from the network of contacts when needed one day.

This kind of social networking might seem meaningless at times but can occasionally yield surprising effects.

Afterward, Ren Zhong neither files records at the Nanxiang Military and Political Center nor shows interest in visiting the nearby Nanxiang Marquis, Liu An. Instead, he docks the intelligent warship near the transit space station and takes a single-person small spacecraft directly into the guide-class long-range ship of the Marquis Zhenjiang’s envoy to meet this distinguished guest in person.

The other party has shown him ample respect from the beginning, so naturally, he would reciprocate with due courtesy.

Ren Zhong’s single-person spacecraft slowly moves forward in space, gradually approaching the approximately three-kilometer diameter disc-shaped ship in front.

An entry dock at the edge of the disc-shaped ship has already been opened.

He could actually fly in faster, but deliberately slowed down.

This is his first time getting close to the top-class ship produced by the Royal Academy of Sciences.

To the untrained eye, it’s all a spectacle, but to an expert, it reveals secrets. Now, with just his eyes, Ren Zhong can observe and deduce a lot about design concepts and the configuration of equipment by analyzing the subtle protrusions and groove layouts on the ship’s surface.

This information could help the Red Blade Science Academy’s ship design department, offering some new ideas and directions.

The reason for seizing this opportunity is not just for show; it’s because he knows he will soon traverse the Star Gate to the Far Border Star Domain Central.

During the Star Gate traversal, he will also be unable to communicate with the outside world, which will take nearly three months.

His plan is to gather some intel first, and then send the information back before entering the Star Gate, thereby advancing the ship technology level of the Red Blade Clan by a little, three months ahead of schedule. He’s meticulous like that.

The docking bay door closes.

The fizzing sound from the rapid air filling continues unabated.

Once the environmental monitoring system of the spacecraft reports that the external air pressure and composition are suitable for humans, Ren Zhong opens the top cover of the spacecraft, stands up, strides out, and easily leaps onto the floor.

Surprisingly, the envoy of Marquis Zhenjiang, who has come from afar, is already waiting there.

He is a middle-aged man with brown curly hair, not particularly tall, and slightly lean.

Ren Zhong immediately locks onto his identity through appearance in his mind and is momentarily stunned.

Marvell Louis, the direct descendant of Devon Louis who once accompanied Marquis Zhenjiang in building an empire, is a hereditary Earl, holding the title Earl Gale.

Unlike the Marquis Zhenjiang who spent years in time-stopping cryogenic sleep, the Louis family, capable lieutenants under the Marquis, took a different approach, only using cryogenic sleep for special occasions like long voyages to save time, but never otherwise. The Louis family has served alongside several other families to manage Marquis Zhenjiang’s vast estate in an orderly manner for generations.

As a proud hereditary Earl family, having absolute freedom, they ignore their vast assets, not indulging in life’s pleasures but entrusting them to receive basic tax profits. Instead, they willingly dedicate all their energy to the Marquis Zhenjiang’s estate, resembling vassals, a phenomenon recognized as a spectacle within the Mechanical Empire.

There are even rumors in the Far Border Star Domain that when the Marquis Zhenjiang himself is asleep, the true Marquis is actually the Earl of Louis.

This statement is somewhat exaggerated, but the authority of the Louis family within Marquis Zhenjiang’s power circle is thus evident.