Chapter 291: The conspiracy is revealed! Rage! The galactic war is inevitable!

After completing a complete set of authorization ceremonies, the royal delegation stood at the foot of the platform.

The Emperor's messenger raised his head and looked up at Duke Leto, but his eyes were full of pride and his voice was quite arrogant, as if he was the noble who was about to be rewarded:

"I stand before you as a royal envoy, thanks to the grace of Shaddam IV of the Colino family."

"Those present to witness the awarding of the prize included members of the royal family, representatives of the Guild of Astronautics, and the Reverend Mother from the Bene Gesserit."

The messenger still had no idea what was going to happen next. He was still following the procedure and introducing the witnesses of the reward to Leto in order to demonstrate the credibility of the royal family.

After that, the messenger got to the point:
"The Emperor's decree!"

The messenger unfolded the scroll that had been prepared long ago and announced to the Atreides: "The Atreides will immediately take over Arrakis and take charge of the spice trade!"

The messenger looked at Leto, waiting for him to follow the procedure and say "accept my order", then he would quickly complete the awarding process and report to Arrakis.

And I can go back and report as soon as possible.

But unexpectedly, Duke Leto, who should have come happily to receive the order and spoken respectfully, did not play by the rules.

Facing the Emperor's decree, Leto stood up straight in front of everyone and said in a cold tone:
"That Padishah should come in person to offer the reward to my Atreides family. It's really insincere to make you lackeys come all the way here."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the members of the royal delegation present, except for the guards and senior officials of the Atreides family, were stunned. They all stared at Leto with wide eyes and disbelief.

Did I hear it wrong, or did Leto suddenly fall ill and dare to say such outrageous words!
Padishah was the name of Emperor Saddam. Calling the emperor by his name in public was already disrespectful, but he even dared to add "boy" and let the emperor personally reward the Atreides family.

This is definitely treason!

But how could the Atreides family, who have always been law-abiding, suddenly do such a thing?

Who on earth gave Leto the courage to offend the royal envoy and publicly insult Emperor Saddam!
However, before the messenger could ask a question in response, rebuking Leto for his insolence, Leto fired back, continuing:
"The Galactic Empire has lasted for ten thousand years, and the conflicts between the major families have become increasingly fierce. At this tense moment, it was my Atreides family that united the various families with the Lansgard Federation."

"But that old guy Padishah was worried that my Atreides family would use the Union to rebel, so he tried every means to eradicate my Atreides family."

Leto's words completely exposed the conflicts between the families in the empire.

Everyone knows that the leader of the Lansgard Federation is the Atreides family. Everyone also knows that the core interests of each family always revolve around the development of the federation and trying to get whatever they can from the royal family.

But no one said it out loud, they just wanted to be decent and maintain the authority of the royal family. After all, this Galactic Empire still belonged to the Colino family.

But now, Duke Leto has completely exposed the situation and contradictions, revealing the hideous wounds and sharp contradictions inside. This has already shown that the Atreides family is going to rebel!

As expected, at this moment the Emperor's envoy, the Space Guild representative, the royal family members, and the Madonna of the Sisterhood were all dumbfounded.

If Duke Leto had just offended the emperor and made a few harmless verbal remarks to Shadam, then now he was pointing at the emperor's sore spot and scolding him!
The thing the emperor cares about most is power, and Leto is directly picking on the conflicts between the major families and the royal family. This is already shaking the foundation of the royal family and is a complete act of treason.

The seriousness of the matter is completely different.

For things like the duke scolding the emperor, everyone would pretend not to hear it, and might even think less is more and try to conceal it.

Go ahead and scold me; the emperor won’t lose a single piece of meat anyway.

But rebellion is something completely different; it is a challenge to the authority of the royal family!
But Lord Leto felt that this was not enough. He continued, "The Padishah dared to lure our Atreides to Arrakis so that the Harkonnen and Sardaukar legions could surround and kill us."

"If he really had some backbone and courage, he should have led his army directly to Caladan and confronted our Atreides head-on to see whose warriors were more powerful!"

"And what happened? Padishah simply won over the Harkonnens and made our two families fight each other, so that he could reap the benefits later."

"With such a disgusting character, is he worthy of being the emperor of the Galactic Empire? Ugh!"

On the high platform, Duke Leto, under the surprised and somewhat respectful gaze of his son Paul, angrily cursed Emperor Saddam's actions to the imperial delegation below him.

He had no qualms about exposing the emperor's conspiracy and despicable intentions.

Leto's words also made the Atreides guards present angry and pointed their weapons at the royal delegation in front of them.

At Leto's command they would charge forward and capture the emissaries.

For a moment, the whole square was filled with a thick murderous aura. The atmosphere on the scene was so solemn that it made people's breathing stagnate.

At this moment, Gaius Helen Moses, the Holy Mother of the Sisterhood in the royal delegation, was constantly making eye contact with Lady Jessica, trying to get her to tell her what was going on.

Our Lady Helen is the core leader of this sisterhood, the emperor's personal mantra master, and Jessica's biological mother and teacher.

Seeing that the situation here was heading out of control, Helen was eager to get some key information from Jessica to find out why Duke Leto suddenly committed treason.

But in the face of the Virgin Helen's gesture, Jessica remained indifferent and did not give any response in sign language at all.

In fact, after thinking hard for a period of time, Jessica decided to give up the sisterhood's breeding plan and chose to stand on the side of her son Paul and her husband Leto.

There is no way. The arm is no match for the thigh. The world's giant companies are simply too powerful and have too many resources.

During this period, Leto and Song Zhaomei, the head of Universal Corporation, had a more detailed negotiation and communication.

Leto agreed to all of the Universal Corporation's demands, and also promised to support the Corporation's executive officer Leon to become the God-Emperor and obtain all the mining rights for spices.

In exchange, the Atreides family will regain their deserved share of the pie after the power chain of the Galactic Empire is broken.

It can be said that when Leon was away, the Atreides family was the "emperor" of the Dune universe. Although not in name only, their actual power was comparable to that of the emperor.

Second only to the world's largest companies!
As the only son of Leto, Paul will inherit his father's business. Once Leto dies, Paul will become the head of the largest family in the Galactic Empire.

As long as he does not rebel and fight against the global giants, Paul's status and identity will be second to none!
Now, the Atreides family and the world's giant companies have reached a consensus that the Atreides family will also have a share in the world's trade circle business.

Spices, suspended stones, minerals, gold and other rare substances all have a part in Atreides! Since you can have the last laugh just by lying down, who would bother messing around? There's no need.

Besides, Jessica also knew the real purpose of Virgin Helen's coming here. Wasn't it to test whether Paul had the qualifications to become Kwisatz Haderak?

Creating the King of Prophecy is the only pursuit of the sisterhood, but in essence, the so-called candidate of Kwisatz Haderak is just a "puppet" supported by the sisterhood to the throne.

It is a means by which the sisterhood disrupts the royal bloodline, supports their own children, and seizes power.

What a bullshit king of prophecy, in the final analysis it is all for the supreme imperial power!
Lady Jessica has always seen this clearly. How can a puppet emperor who is controlled by others be more satisfying than a real duke from a noble family who holds real power?

Besides, once the Cosmos Corporation completely monopolizes Arrakis, the Sisterhood will no longer have the spice and will no longer be able to train new Truth Masters. It will not be long before it disappears.

Whether organizations such as the Sisterhood, Mentat, and Navigators can continue to exist depends on the ideas of the Universal Corporation or the Atreides family.

Why would one want to work for an organization that is on the brink of collapse?

Thinking of this, Jessica ignored the Virgin Helen's eye contact and just stood silently beside Duke Leto.

"Duke Atreides, how could you say such outrageous words and betray the great Galactic Emperor's grace and kindness towards you!"

At this moment, the royal envoy no longer had his previous arrogance. He gave orders with an air of arrogance, looking at the solemn guards around him, cold sweat oozing from his forehead and back uncontrollably.

But at this critical moment, no matter how scared the messenger was, he had to bite the bullet and continue to use both force and kindness on Leto, saying:

"My Lord Duke, I believe you should know that the emperor's wrath can burn the most solid things in the world, even the entire Caladan!"

"Of course, I think there must be some villain behind this, causing you to misunderstand the emperor's favor. As long as you are willing to correct your mistakes, the emperor will certainly forgive you for your mistakes with his kindness."

The messenger was well aware of the situation his group was in, and he knew that it would be meaningless to scold or accuse Leto of rebellion.

Their lives are all in the hands of others. If they anger Leto, the other party will kill them all directly, and they will be completely finished.

As an envoy of the royal family, the only thing he could do now was to use the royal power to exert moral and military pressure on Leto, and to reassure him that as long as he did not rebel, everything would be fine.

In short, as long as they can leave Caladan alive and retreat safely, they will have plenty of time to slowly settle accounts with the Atreides family!

Faced with the threats and solicitations of the messenger, Leto ignored the other party. Instead, after glancing at everyone in the circle with contempt, he fixed his eyes on the representative of the Space Guild.

Among this group of envoys, only the people from the Space Guild stood out. They wore gorgeous clothes and helmets filled with red mist.

The floating red mist is the fragrance that has been atomized. Through this helmet device, they can inhale this substance at any time.

As for the Atreides family's rebellion, they behaved very calmly throughout the whole process, as if the matter had nothing to do with them.

After all, no matter how many dynasties change, the Galactic Empire still needs the navigators of the Space Guild and their services, otherwise the route system will collapse.

Therefore, these navigators were very sure that the Atreides would not do anything to them.

But obviously, they were wrong this time!
Leto stared closely at the navigators who were inhaling spices, and the murderous intent in his eyes became clearer and clearer.

Spice is an addictive substance, so the pilots who take spices are basically all spice addicts.

Once the supply of spices is cut off, these people will be in great pain in an instant, and who knows what kind of chaos will arise.

Instead of waiting for these deformed monsters to cause destruction, it would be better to kill them now and put an end to it all!
Seeing the murderous intent rising in Duke Leto's eyes, the navigators of the Space Guild instantly became nervous.

Because through their "preview" of the future, they have already seen the scene of their own death here.

"Do not……!"

"You can't kill us, or the Guild will blacklist the Atreides forever, and you will no longer receive the services of any navigator!"

One of the representatives of the Space Guild said in horror that these navigators who took large amounts of spices also had some predictive abilities.

Although the accuracy and duration of the predictions are not as accurate and long as those of the Sisterhood, they are temporarily enhanced to a certain extent when inhaling spices.

Seeing this, Leto smiled coldly. He knew that even if he killed these navigators now, it would be useless. If he wanted to kill, he would have to kill the entire Space Guild.

"Don't worry. The enemies of my Atreides family are the Corino royal family and the Harkonnen family. As for you lackeys, you are not worth my effort."

Leto walked down the platform with a smile on his face. He slowly came to the messenger, frightening him so much that his legs became stiff and he could not move even a little bit.

At this time, Leto snatched the scroll from the messenger's hand and then stamped the seal of the Atreides family on the scroll, which was regarded as acceptance of the decree of Emperor Shaddam.

"I, Leto Atreides, accept my command!"

Seeing Leto's sudden change of attitude, from cursing the emperor to accepting the emperor's order, the emperor's messenger was even more confused. He didn't understand what Leto wanted to do.

Based on what he just did, shouldn't he have killed the envoys and then openly rebelled?

Why should Leto accept the order?

"I've spared your lives so that you can go back and tell that dog emperor Padishah that since he wants to destroy our Atreides family on Arrakis, then come on!"

Leto held up the scroll, turned around and looked at the family guards around him. He said, "It's just right. Let the Corinos and Harkonnens see what we, the Atreides, are capable of."

As soon as he finished speaking, the guards around him roared like a tsunami, and they all responded to Leto's call.

The roars and whistling winds made the members of the imperial delegation present feel panic-stricken.

Looking at Leto's crazy attitude, a brutal civil war among the powerful is inevitable in the Galactic Empire!
(End of this chapter)