“Zhi Zi, what’s the current status of the Azure Civilization～”
After drawing the treasure box, Tai Hao contacted Zhi Zi and inquired about the Empire’s greatest enemy, the Azure Civilization.
Zhi Zi One immediately materialized and reported the current state of the Azure Civilization to Tai Hao.
Five years ago, three months after the establishment of the Origin Nation, all countries of the Azure Civilization imposed a comprehensive blockade and sanctions against the Origin Nation.
The nations of Azure Star collectively declared that the Origin Nation was an extremist rebel organization of the Azure Civilization. Anyone who joined the Origin Nation was deemed a criminal of civilization and subject to complete physical elimination.
Being abandoned and despised by the entire civilization sparked immense panic within the Origin Nation.
A large number of civilians made their decisions under the threat of death.
They fled the Origin Nation.
Countless people, dragging their families and belongings, used various means of transportation to migrate to the Sis Confederacy.
In an effort to strike at the Origin Nation and weaken its national strength, the Sis Confederacy welcomed everyone without reservation.
They established numerous immigration sites in the border area stretching over 3,000 kilometers, accepting immigrants from the Origin Nation. These immigration sites could accommodate at least hundreds of thousands of immigrants each day.
To prevent population loss, the newly established Origin Nation responded forcefully.
They deployed troops to block the migration, constructing isolation walls along the border.
However, this couldn’t stop people’s determination to escape the Origin Nation.
They scaled isolation walls, sought hidden passages, and even dug tunnels.
To halt the migration wave, the Origin Nation’s military even deployed minefields in various smuggling areas. Eventually, they escalated their efforts to armed suppression.
In addition to the migration wave, the Origin Nation also faced severe sanctions from other countries.
Material blockade, communication channels closed, cultural sanctions, technological sanctions, and financial sanctions.
The Origin Nation, under sanctions from all countries, became an isolated island.
They couldn’t access information from the outside world, couldn’t engage in any form of trade with other countries. Financial transactions completely ceased, and any technology was no longer accessible to the Origin Nation.
Moreover, various countries manipulated issues of interest, class, culture, and race, fostering cultural and racial conflicts, as well as class struggles.
Faced with such severe blockades and sanctions, the Origin Nation was almost completely destroyed.
Ultimately, the Origin Nation lasted for less than a year before completely disintegrating.
A large number of Azure rebels were sent to the Azure International Alliance court for trial and subsequently executed by fire.
The grand Azure rebel movement vanished from the history of the Azure Civilization.
However, in secret, a spark was covertly hidden with the assistance of Zhi Zi Two, awaiting the future.
After dealing with the rebels, the nations of the Azure Civilization obtained a substantial amount of information and communication content about the Tai Hao Civilization from the Origin Nation.
This information was left behind by Adam before his death and later passed down to the hands of the current rebel leader.
Following the destruction of the Origin Nation, this data finally fell into the hands of the Azure Civilization. After deciphering it, the Azure Civilization became extremely wary of the mysterious Tai Hao Civilization.
The Tai Hao Civilization held no goodwill towards the Azure Civilization whatsoever. The Tai Hao Civilization had already formulated various plans, with the ultimate objective of conquering Azure Star and exterminating the Azure humans.
The higher echelons of the Azure Civilization completely abandoned the illusion of peace and resolved to fight the Tai Hao Civilization to the death.
To prepare for the arrival of the Tai Hao fleet in three hundred years, the nations of the Azure Civilization began to cooperate, develop technology, and strive to possess sufficient strength to confront the invasion of the Tai Hao Civilization in three hundred years.
Unlike the Earth Civilization in Three-Body, the Azure Civilization did not formulate a Wallfacer Plan.
Because there was no need or basis for it.
In Three-Body, the underlying cause for the emergence of the Wallfacer Plan was the transparency of the Trisolaran minds.
Although the Wallfacer Plan was brilliant, it could even be described as grand.
But Tai Hao did not instruct Zhi Zi Two to mislead the Azure Civilization and recreate the Wallfacer Plan in the Super God Universe.
The Wallfacer Plan is meaningless to Tai Hao.
Besides consuming some of the Azure Civilization's resources and energy, it only served as a joke.
This is the Super God Universe, where the cosmic order is justice, not the Dark Forest Law.
Due to the emergence of the Tai Hao Civilization, although the nations of the Azure Civilization were cooperating, the seven nations also had their own interests and were unable to achieve complete technological and resource sharing.
For instance, one of the key technologies for nuclear fusion, room-temperature superconductivity, remained firmly in the hands of the Zhongzhou Republic.
Tai Hao no longer paid attention to the Azure Civilization and instead focused on the Empire.
Over eight years, the Empire had completely transitioned to the Electrical Era. With the breakthrough in productivity, the lives of the Empire's citizens became increasingly convenient and prosperous.
The current development level of the Empire is very close to the United States of America in the 1940s.
Industrialization was complete, the economy soared, technology exploded, culture developed rapidly, and the people’s consumption levels significantly improved.
Major cities in the Empire already had a modern feel.
Infrastructure was complete, skyscrapers stood tall, various vehicles traversed the roads, and commercial streets and financial districts were established.
Abundant types of goods greatly satisfied the lives of the Empire's people.
The Empire thrived at home, bustling with activity, like a paradise on Earth. Outside the Empire, however, it was like hell on Earth, a sight of unimaginable suffering.
The technological explosion also fueled the upgrade of military equipment, with the emergence of many new weapons.
Automatic rifles, various functional military vehicles, automated artillery, tanks, fighter jets, bombers, Dreadnought battleships.
Over eight years, the Empire’s military equipment continued to be updated and iterated, reaching the level of the mid-World War II era.
The thinking of the Empire's people also underwent tremendous changes. Many feudal cultural practices were abandoned by the people, and traditional habits were severely impacted.
Outside the Empire, many things also happened in eight years.
Due to the rebellion on the Southern Continent eight years ago, the Empire imposed strict blockades on all continents.
Anyone who dared to spread science to outsiders, leak technological knowledge, or provide industrial machinery would be directly sentenced as a traitor.
Strict technological and cultural blockades kept the three continents in the feudal and Iron Ages.
Therefore, those alien races had no power to resist when facing the Civilization Purification Department equipped with new weapons.
Numerous alien males were slaughtered, and men were no longer to be seen on the Southern Continent or the Northern Continent.
Those alien females were brought to the Empire and assimilated.
However, this also triggered a rebellion from the female population of the Empire. Women began to awaken, learning to stand up and actively fight for their own interests.
And the Western Continent, because of the agreement between Empress Isla and Tai Hao, became a slave continent.
Everyone on the Western Continent was reduced to slaves, and only after working for the Empire for fifteen years could they obtain the status of an Empire citizen.
As a result, the slave trade flourished in the Empire for these years, and many forces liked to go to the Western Continent to capture slaves.