"No."
"Then why should all the responsibility be placed on me?"
Yang Ming's gaze flickered slightly:
"What Lyu and I are doing now isn't it to gradually ignite the internal pressure problems in the Empire? In the tens of thousands of years that the Empire has existed, how many humans have died from its expeditions and plundering? How many have held slave status throughout Imperial history? Roughly estimating, based on the data I just received, the Empire now has an annual increase of three hundred and sixty million people with slave status, most of whom are born into slave families. Then, how many people with slave status have there been in Imperial history? Ten trillion.
"If only a few tens of billions of human lives are sacrificed to end an Empire that could rely on your power to exist for several more billion years... that would be a good deed, not an evil one.
"Of course, I am guilty, and I won't mind if I end up being condemned."
