Li Xiucheng had no objection or approval to the report submitted by Song Guowei.

This was not the first time that Song Guowei had encountered such a thing. The Tianyi Mercenary Group had encountered it many times before.

Many war orphans were either controlled by shameless adults like Song Guowei and trained to become pickpockets and thieves, or had their hands and feet cut off by shameless adults and forced to beg as disabled children.

After being rescued, those disabled children received help from the Tianyi Mercenary Group’s multifunctional prosthetic technology and became prosthetic children who looked no different from ordinary children.

After Taoxiang learned about these things, she issued an order that whenever they encountered these criminal organizations, the children must be rescued and then these criminal organizations must be eliminated.

Li Xiucheng sat and ate, looking at the children who were rescued in front of him. These children now at least had a stable and safe life. As for their future, it all depended on their own luck.

On July 22, 125th year of the Universe Year, the Annihilation Army had returned to the Martian sphere, and Yelishade led all the civil and military officials to welcome his brother back.

Duke Morissette followed Yelishade with a serious look on his face.

Alexandre's personal airship landed on the tarmac, and Alexandre and his uncle Manius got off.

"Welcome back His Royal Highness the Third Prince Alexandre and General Manius."

The brothers Elisaud and Alexandre embraced each other in a hypocritical manner.

Then, the two brothers discussed things as they walked.

"Father, how is he?" Alexandre asked the most pressing question.

"Father, he is still in a coma. The imperial doctors diagnosed that he is not in danger of death, but he is in a coma. We have no clue at the moment."

Alexandre looked back at his grandfather intentionally or unintentionally, and he could see the expression on his grandfather's face.

Then, his eyes glanced at the many unfamiliar faces around him, as well as the many important positions held by talents hired by his second brother.

Alexandre felt a little unhappy, as he didn't expect that his second brother would already be messing around while his father was unconscious.

Alexandre looked at his second brother's sister Gulischina who was standing next to him. He looked down on this sister from the bottom of his heart.

Her mother was just a palace maid and had no power at all. If her father had not given birth to this daughter when she was over a hundred years old and she was not the only daughter, she would not have been regarded as the apple of her father's eye.

Because his mother died when he was born, he was left in the care of his second brother's mother. However, because of her, Salia (Yelishod's mother), who was originally not very favored and came from a middle-class noble family, received some favor.

Living in the palace since childhood, he dared to challenge his eldest brother and looked down on his second brother, but he would never dare to bully his younger sister.

In the past, when he deliberately made his sister cry, he was severely punished by his father. In addition to being beaten with a cane, he was also locked up in his palace for a month and not allowed to leave.

Since then, I no longer dared to bully this sister.

Alexandre thought to himself, "Gulischina, without my father by your side, I have to see if Yelishaud will take care of you."

If Alexandre were to say something, the person he hated the most was actually his sister. As for his second brother, he just looked down on him from the bottom of his heart.

Back in the palace, Alexandre went to his father's bedroom to visit his unconscious father.

Alexander looked at his father with his eyes closed. In Alexander's mind, his father was usually domineering and looked down on the world.

At this moment, he no longer had the aura of the emperor he once had. Instead, he looked like an ill and unconscious old man.

Alexandre looked at the wrinkles at the corners of his father's eyes and knew that his father was really old.

Alexandre reached out and held his father's hand and said a few words. He took a few steps back, knelt on one knee and saluted, then left his father's bedroom.

In the corridor, Aleixandre met his grandfather, Duke Morissette.

The grandfather and grandson left the palace and went to the Duke of Morissette's palace.

At the Duke of Morissette's palace, Aleixandre talked to his grandfather and wanted to know the current domestic situation.

"Grandpa, has Yelishaud taken over all the power? Is the number one knight Julius completely on the side of the second brother?"

"Julius stood by your second brother because of your father's will. He had already prepared everything. If anything happened to him, all power would be handed over to your second brother. Moreover, when your father was leading the army in person, your second brother had already taken action in secret and investigated the corruption evidence of our nobles."

"Is everyone around Second Brother honest? Even if he can find out, we should also be able to obtain evidence of corruption among his subordinates, right?"

"Your second brother knew about this problem a long time ago. He also knew that there must be some dishonest people among his subordinates. After your father got into trouble, your second brother took action immediately. Those dishonest people under his command immediately followed the rules. Then, with one hand, he threw a lot of evidence of our noble faction's crimes in front of us, and with the other hand, he immediately took action to arrest some of the corrupt members of the noble faction."

"Part of it, why not just deal with all the ones that were caught?"

"It's very simple. Cut off that part, and your second brother will let his people stay in the position. As for the remaining part, we have to give up these rights obediently, and then hand over the nobles' industries and private soldiers in exchange for a chance to survive. Moreover, these actions are initially aimed at the middle-level nobles and below in our faction of great nobles."

"On the surface, what he did allowed Grandpa and other high-ranking nobles to continue to maintain their original status, but in reality, he has taken away most of your rights. The purpose of all his actions is to undermine you."

"Yes, and when your father went to war, he had already made these preparations, and he had already pulled some members of the great nobles into his camp. By the time we discovered this, it was already too late. Many of the seemingly low-ranking but actually important positions were taken by your second brother."

"Didn't you fight back, Grandpa?"

"Of course there was a counterattack, but your second brother had anticipated our actions long ago and even sent someone to show us our plan, which made all of us dare not act rashly. If it weren't for the fact that we, the great nobles, sent old trees to support us and secretly cultivated many forces, plus the annihilation army, your second brother would have been a little worried and would not have dared to take heavy actions."

Alexandre knew very well that the Annihilation Army was the last trump card of the Great Nobles Faction. Without the Annihilation Army, not to mention the Great Nobles Faction, even he might be destroyed by his second brother.

"Now, your second brother is in charge of the extermination army, and the number one knight Julius is standing beside him. The remaining six royal knights all support your second brother. Now our noble faction is very passive. Now we must move forward step by step and cannot let your second brother catch us again."