Chapter 239: The Star Sea Divine Church's Comprehensive Reform

Looking at the Church Leader before him, who was so excited he seemed about to ascend to heaven.

On Lei Ge's face appeared a smile uglier than crying.

He felt as if, by accident, he had completely led a Third-level Civilization astray.

And it was racing headlong in a direction he could never have predicted.

He now only hopes that Qin Hao will leave seclusion soon.

This mess, he can barely handle it alone.

Under the radiant ideological guidance of Mentor Lei Ge, within the Star Sea Divine Church Civilization, a movement entitled "Thought Liberation and Self-Revolution" was launched.

This movement, with the force of thunder, swept every corner under the rule of the Star Sea Divine Church.

First, in the military.

The Grand Archbishop held "On Protracted War" and "Strategic Problems of the Yanhuang Revolution" as guiding principles.

He completely abandoned the previous approach that pursued elaborate and large-scale decisive battles, the "Elite Combat Method".

He then completely broke up the Star Sea Divine Church's vast Holy Cathedral Fleet into thousands of independent combat battalions, each consisting of a hundred warships.

These combat battalions no longer held any front line, but turned into countless ghosts, infiltrating the vast rear star domains of the Silicon-based Union.

They studied the essence of the great ones' guerrilla tactics —

"When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy camps, we harass; when the enemy tires, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue."

The Silicon-based Union's resource-gathering fleet had just arrived at a mineral-rich planet, before operations could begin,

The Star Sea Divine Church's guerrilla fleet then burst out from asteroid belts in all directions, struck a wave of space disturbance, and fled, never engaging in prolonged battle.

The Silicon-based Union's transport fleet, on its long routes, suffered immensely.

Often, a Star Sea Divine Church fleet would jump out of subspace, unleash a furious barrage on their warships, seize supplies and leave, leaving behind the wreckage of Silicon-based warships exploding on the spot.

What's more, it made the Silicon-based Union's First Main Brain and its logic modules almost burn out.

The Star Sea Divine Church actually began to launch a People's War.

They issued a call to all civilizations that had once been oppressed by the Silicon-based Union, or were dissatisfied with it, namely the First- and Second-level Civilizations.

"Fellow beings of the Milky Way Galaxy! Brothers of carbon-based life! Are you still being oppressed by cold iron lumps?"

"Are you still lamenting over heavy taxes? Rise up! Civilizations unwilling to be slaves! Let us build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!"

These incendiary slogans, through various channels, spread across regions spanning thousands of light-years.

In no time, responders gathered in droves.

Although these civilizations' warships are mere cannon fodder before a Third-level Civilization,

but after being modified by the Star Sea Divine Church, their warships can provide intelligence, conduct harassment, and sabotage the Silicon-based Union's logistical facilities.

Countless "Guide Parties" and "Interstellar Militia Fleets" caused the Silicon-based Union's originally orderly, data-and-logic-based ruling system,

for the first time, it showed signs of chaos and collapse.

The Silicon-based Union's First Main Brain could not understand this at all.

In its calculations, these lowly civilizations should be fearful of authority.

Why do they dare to resist?

Why would the Star Sea Divine Church Civilization, which had always been a lofty ruler just like them, suddenly stand together with these "ants"?

Its logic chain had never before seen such redundancy and error.

Second, in the political and cultural sphere.

The Church Leader personally ordered the abolition of the Star Sea Divine Church's strict hierarchy that had persisted for hundreds of thousands of years.

All clergy were no longer lofty rulers, but were required to become servants of the people.

They needed to regularly visit various vassal civilizations to conduct "on-the-ground investigations",

to understand the "people's suffering", and solve their practical problems.

Anyone who still dared to put on airs and seek privileges would be invited by the newly established Discipline Inspection Committee to "have tea".

At the same time, a cultural movement called "Remembering Bitterness, Thinking of Sweetness" unfolded like wildfire within the Star Sea Divine Church.

The Star Sea Divine Church's propaganda machine began to promote heavily,

and to have all Star Sea Divine Church citizens watch, listen, and feel how the oppressed civilizations struggled in adversity.

In this way, to cultivate their class sentiments.

Moreover, as the Mentor Civilization, the Human Federal's history was even more composed into a magnificent epic, circulating throughout the Star Sea Divine Church.

Especially the modern history of Yanhuang Guo was adapted into countless versions of holographic films, TV dramas, and stage plays.

The image of the "Great One" became widely known within the Star Sea Divine Church.

His quotations became the most popular social language of the Star Sea Divine Church.

When two Star Sea Divine Church citizens meet, their way of greeting becomes:

"Hey, comrade, did you serve the people today?"

"I did! How about you? Have you done criticism and self-criticism?"

……

The entire Star Sea Divine Church's style underwent a bizarre 180-degree shift in just a few months.

And as the initiator of all this——Lei Ge,

In the Institute of Truth Practice, he endured a life worse than death.

Every day he had to face the various bizarre questions posed by the bigwigs of the Third-level Civilization.

"Mentor! According to 'On Contradiction', our Star Sea Divine Church's current primary contradiction is to overthrow the Silicon-based Union."

But at the same time, we also have within us the contradiction between advanced productive forces and backward production relations.

"Please tell us, how should we handle this secondary contradiction while resolving the primary one?"

Instructor! According to "On Practice", truth is something that needs to be verified through practice.

Then, can we consider that liberating the entire universe, this ultimate goal, also needs to be gradually explored and perfected in the practice of liberating individual star systems one by one?

Instructor! Instructor! In "Serve the People", it is mentioned that we should be like Comrade BQ En, to be a noble person, a pure person, a moral person, a person who has freed oneself from low tastes.

May I ask, what specifically does low taste refer to?

Does it refer to our divine religion's traditional prayer ceremony lasting seventy-two hours?

……

Faced with these soul-searching questions that have risen to the height of philosophy and cosmology.

Lan Ge could only frantically flip through the overnight-crammed "Selected Works of Mao" he had been studying, while keeping a straight face and starting to make up nonsense.

He felt that his brain cells were about to die out.

And while the high-level officials of the Human Federal were enjoying the various high-tech "tuition fees" continuously sent by the Star Sea Divine Religion,

Their hearts were also filled with a deep sense of unreality.

They looked at that once supremely arrogant Third-level Civilization,

Under the remolding of "Great Person's Thought", it became increasingly "red", increasingly "specialized".

They did not know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

They only knew that the future of their civilization seemed to be becoming more and more fantastical.

And all these changes stem from "Great Person".