Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1727: Chapter 981: The Siege of Terra

Imperial Forbidden Army Marshal - Yan Xinzhen, in the past few days, mainly focused on two things.

The first thing is to clear the Imperial Palace.

Of course, it’s unrealistic to clear everyone from the palace, considering the entire palace’s scope was once the Tibetan Plateau area.

Though termed a palace, it serves residential functions, where high officials from various Empires have residences; it has administrative functions, as many Central Empire governmental departments are within the palace; it also serves ceremonial functions with squares and halls hosting various grand ceremonial events...

However, these are merely additional functions of the palace.

Perhaps over long years, these attributes have exhibited prominently.

The dignitaries feel honored having a residence within the Terra Imperial Palace; countless governmental orders issued daily dictate the rise and fall of the Cosmic Empire; various ceremonies leverage the palace’s majesty, while adding more luster to it...

Nonetheless, all this does not obscure how the palace’s original design was as a massive military fortress, humanity’s last line of defense.

The subsequent Imperial Guard spent ten thousand years meticulously maintaining its military capabilities.

Due to this, it’s impossible to remove everyone except the Ten Thousand Man Team and its attached palace guards.

Even though Yan Xinzhen completely distrusts all bureaucrats from the old government, certain agencies and personnel maintaining normal palace operations must be retained.

As for the rest, those nobility residing within, and those departments not crucial to the palace’s continuity should be cleared out.

Once cleared out, wherever they work, or whatever they do, the guard won’t care.

Go do whatever, just don’t stay in the palace. freeweɓnovel.cøm

Without enough time and energy to distinguish loyalty or betrayal, purity or corruption, all are potential threats, so they need to be cleared.

Those who may pose an internal threat to the palace should be removed as much as possible.

Remaining maintenance departments, numerous engineers and technical workers, though retained, will face stringent control.

The guard will view each potential risk with the worst assumptions and has prepared sufficient contingency plans; if any issue arises, no matter its magnitude, a solution is ready.

These matters are those Yan Xinzhen values most and personally manages.

This is the guard’s duty. After the Emperor ascended, they lost their highest duty as the Emperor’s guard, so over these ten thousand years, they must find a reason for their existence.

Safeguarding the palace is this reason.

This cannot be abandoned.

Apart from this vital task, what Yan Xinzhen considered during this period was how to aid Son of God - Robert.

He believes Robert’s identity and hopes Robert can reside in Holy Terra, in the Terra Imperial Palace.

The sole master of the palace is the Emperor, but it should be fine for the Emperor’s son to stay for a while.

Yan Xinzhen has lived for over two thousand years, during which he has witnessed the Terra Government’s ugliness.

Frankly, he feels neither joy nor sorrow towards it.

Whatever Terra Government does, he won’t care; that’s not the guard’s duty.

The guard’s duty is merely protecting the palace.

Protect the Empire...more or less.

But the central task remains protecting the palace.

The guard’s main force always stays within the palace—or at least within Terra. Yet, they sometimes send covert teams to act outside, often due to their self-established, unique intelligence network that detected potential threats to Holy Terra, compelling them to dispatch the guard for resolution. Occasionally, this might be upon requests from the Legal Department or Department of Taxation to address particular issues, yet this usually depends on their mood.

Regardless of those high officials’ past tumult, no matter how doomed the Empire seems, that’s ultimately a concern for the future.

In the Empire, there have always been figures considered heroes, even by the guard as perfect humans, who repeatedly save the day.

It’s quite reassuring.

However, after the great disaster, things changed.

Yan Xinzhen found Terra out of control.

These parasites, fighting for power, have ruined Central Empire’s political ecology into a chaotic mess, yet Yan Xinzhen, having coldly observed similar situations over the past two thousand years, is unsurprised.

They’ve plunged the Empire into disarray, which is no surprise.

Yet when compounded by the unprecedented Scarlet Scar that tore the Empire apart, things became different.

Over decades, Yan Xinzhen gradually realized that continuing in this manner seems like...the Empire might truly be ruined by these people!

Then how would he defend the palace?

But faced with this situation, how could he save the Empire?

They are merely the guard; they are the Ten Thousand Man Team—merely ten thousand people.

Even if each one is a perfect human capable of crushing those Interstellar Warriors they barely regard; they differ from Interstellar Warriors, focusing not only on fighting and warfare. They also follow personal strengths and interests, mastering diverse disciplines. Be it social sciences or technical fields, they are outstanding scholars, artists, and administrative specialists.

But...back to the point, they are only ten thousand.

They lack the legal authority to govern the Empire.

To take proactive, earth-shattering actions, internal guard constraints exist. Though he’s the Marshal, individuals more senior than him exist, and even among the guard, conservatives persist. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

Hesitant, conflicted, uncertain of what to do...within these emotions, he heard news of Robert’s arrival.

Son of God, one of the few in existence recognized by the guard, whom they’re even willing to obey to some extent.

Upon verifying it’s likely true, knowing of the lunar war, Yan Xinzhen dispatched troops for support.

Subsequently, he actively sought ways to better welcome Son of God and his forces to the ground.

Sending guard units to control those orbital cannon defense facilities was one effort.

But he deemed it insufficient and pondered more ways to aid the Expeditionary Force.

Various proposals surfaced; he’s still hesitant on which action to take.

However, within his over two-thousand-year guard career and eleven-hundred-year Marshal tenure came the greatest crisis.

From multiple directions in the palace appeared vast numbers of enemies.

They aim to besiege the Terra Imperial Palace!

Now is not the time for Yan Xinzhen to ponder how to assist Robert but rather how to quickly gain Robert’s assistance.

Despite the Terra Imperial Palace almost being the most comprehensive defense fortress in the Human Empire, the guard’s numbers are too few while the enemies are too numerous.