The red pot on the small table on the side of the floor is tumbling, and the smooth meat pieces with the green and dripping fresh vegetables are mixed with red oil, and then they are put together with a few random side dishes, which is the supreme product to accompany the wine. A bottle of high-grade liquor didn't take long before it was swallowed by Zhong Shouhu and Xu Le. The momentum of the two of them drinking is not heroic, and they do not have the majesty of a long whale swallowing the sea, but one cup after another, sipping slowly, constantly turning their wrists and pouring, the speed is extremely fast.

Before the end of the day, the heat surged, Zhong Shouhu picked up a wet towel and vigorously wiped off the sweat on his face and neck, unbuttoned the ordinary white shirt three times, but he still seemed to feel a little stuffy, Hua Mei slightly raised his eyebrows and glanced at the colonel officer beside him, and then at the floor-to-ceiling glass window next to the table and the green trees on the street outside the window, and said, "I want to breathe." The colonel's officer snapped and saluted, waved his hand to summon a few soldiers, walked out of the restaurant, took out all kinds of tops, and without hesitation, cleanly removed the whole piece of floor-to-ceiling glass.

The evening breeze gently swept around the hearth, slightly damp, Xu Le, who was taking off his military uniform, stiffened his fingers, felt the cool breath that poured in, looked at this scene and couldn't help but be stunned and speechless, and somehow in the depths of his heart, he remembered the arrogant back when he got off halfway through Lin Banshan on the Shougang high-speed rail two years ago.

"Much more comfortable. Zhong Shouhu sighed lightly, picked up the collar of his shirt and fanned the night breeze that kept surging around him, seeing the emotion that Xu Le's eyebrows did not deliberately hide, the corners of his lips curled slightly, and said mockingly, "I have eaten in this restaurant for decades, so naturally I will not let the boss lose money."

Little guy, do you want to show your lovely sense of justice even for such a small thing?" Xu Le took the wine in the cup and drank it down, grinning slightly, and then shrugged his shoulders and said that he would not comment, he had seen too many privileges appear in the Federation over the years, and he was not numb for the time being, but he was not very surprised.

"In the eyes of many people in the Federation, I am the darkest and most arrogant military magnate, and I am the Emperor of Xilintu who actually conquered the Federation and damaged the majesty of the government. Zhong Shouhu looked at him expressionlessly and said, "My Zhong family has been holding on to the west for thousands of generations for the Federation, but in the end, it will be infamous for a thousand generations. If I have to bear the infamy, why can't I enjoy the feelings of power?" "If the Federation wants to send officials, the core must go through my approval, and the Ministry of Defense must draw up a battle plan,,... You must discuss with me, I am the emperor of this star field, and I am the savior of the people of Xilin. Xu Le didn't understand why the mature big man on the other side of the table would say in front of himself that these were beyond arrogance, almost arrogant and stupid self-evaluation, and Yu Guangli noticed that everyone in the hotel, those Xilin professional soldiers who protected each other, had already retreated, and only the two of them were left here.

In line with more than 20 years of firm three-view concept, he subconsciously quickly retorted, "There has never been a savior, and there has never been an immortal emperor. "That's right, the Federation has been loose from the monarchy for tens of thousands of years. Zhong Shouhu looked at him with a slightly emotional expression, and said with a slight mockery, "However, everyone knows that the emperor has never disappeared, they have only changed a few clothes. "Qi Zhi Kalin, a transcript of the conversation after the tea party in the early autumn. Xu Le raised his head and said the source of this famous saying, and a very strange feeling arose in his heart, and he always felt that Commander Zhong's words were not self-referential, but something else.

"I heard that you were a squatting soldier in Donglin back then?" Zhong Shouhu looked at him and said with a smile, "In this way, you do have some fate with our Zhong family." The real bigwigs of the Federation seem to be very good at controlling the atmosphere in the venue by abruptly changing the focus of the conversation, Xu Le and the lady in Mochou Houshan have deeply experienced this headache-inducing way of communication in a few conversations, so there is not too much discomfort, and calmly replied, "Two years of pit maintenance, what fate?" Donglin... Is the replica of that vintage clock still hanging on the street of the bell tower?" Zhong Shouhu drank another glass of wine, and the liquid as hot as fire and pure water entered his body, and at this moment turned into a certain sense of remembrance and a sense of heaviness that was extremely far away.

Hearing the three words of Zhonglou Street, Xu Le's heart shrank slightly, and he looked at the other party for a moment, and found that the middle-aged man was just blindly reminiscing with emotion, and it didn't seem to be grasping his most secret past, so he replied a little abruptly, "I heard that the museum is gone." "Well, after so many years, it can really only become garbage piled up in the dark corners of the museum, this federation, how many people still remember the events of the past?" Zhong Shouhu's eyes drooped slightly, and said, "When the Fourth Military Region was sent to Donglin to develop the mining star, the command ship fell into the main star of Donglin and fell into the sky full of fireworks, but the retro-style clock carried by the commander of the Fourth Military Region at that time was not destroyed. When Xu Le heard this, he thought of the bell in the square at the entrance of the Zhong family's old house at No. 36 in the second district of Wei, and thought of the ancient story of the bell tower street where he lived since he was a child.

Zhong Shouhu raised his eyebrows slightly, took another drink, and said leisurely with a hint of carving, "This is a big joke in the history of the joint department.

Because according to a later investigation by the federal government... Oh, and the federal government at that time seemed to be called the United States of Shit, and there was a shit management committee that said that the battleship crashed on the ground because of a simple gravity calculation error. He stared into Xu Le's eyes, his gaze awe-inspiring, "Do you think my ancestors would make such a heartbreaking-minded mistake?" Xu Le couldn't help but feel a little astringent when he thought of the commander who often used to laugh at the protagonist of this story when he was a child, and he left with his tail between his tails.

But the government thinks so, the media thinks so, and so does the stupid people who have just broken away from imperial politics and happily rushed towards the words democracy and freedom. Zhong Shouhu said expressionlessly, "So the Federal Management Council took the opportunity to launch a rectification campaign within the military. The Fourth Military Region was forcibly transferred from the Donglin Region, where countless crystal ores had been discovered, to this Xilin, which was still a wilderness at that time.

Xu Le lowered his head, the chopsticks in his hand were a little stiff and awkward, guessing what the big man wanted to explain, but deep down in his heart he would be a little unacceptable for a while, the origin of the name of the street in his hometown that he had known since he was a child was just the fruit of the dark politics of the Federation.

"What gravity is wrong? It's just a conspiracy involving countless people. ~ Zhong Shouhu's words without the slightest mood swing finally proved his guess.

History in a way that the descendants of the parties recounted, with another diametrically opposite face appeared in front of Xu Le, it turned out that the first army stationed in Donglin's hometown was the fourth military region of the Zhong family, and it was also engraved that after this accident, the Zhong family was forced to come to the west of the Federation, and then there was the name of the Zhong family in Xilin.

It turns out that this accident is just a conspiracy of the federal government, it turns out that the sky is not really blue, the clouds are not always white, and the peaceful overthrow of the imperial system, the group of democratic sages who enjoy great names in history turned out to be not very clean, and then deduce like this, could it be that George Ka is really Uncle Li Pifu is a woman? Schiller is really someone's vest in a group of five? The two moons above his head are really the failed products of the alien experiment?

Xu Le thought of it, Shen for a long time, drank three glasses of wine in a row, and then asked a question that he felt stupid.

"Why?"

Perhaps the head of the Zhong family of this generation, Zhong Shouhu, has not had the opportunity to tell these stories that happened countless years ago for many years, about the humiliation and conspiracy suffered by the family that was regarded as a military adjustment by the people of the Federation, so after hearing this stupid question, Commander Zhong's answer was very calm,

"The democratically elected government, which had just won the election and succeeded in forcing the emperor to step down, urgently needed an opportunity to cut down the seven great families, and most importantly, the government needed to gain the support of the previous royal family. ”

"The Federal Crystal Mine Consortium is the price of this support. ”

The Federation Crystal Mine Consortium, which controls the most basic lifeblood of interstellar travel, is the core and most critical giant enterprise of the entire Ten Federations, Xu Le lives in the Donglin Mining Area, in other words, his family has been working for this giant enterprise for generations, but until a few years ago, he still thought that he was working for the Federation like the people of Donglin, until he met a friend with a distinguished status.

"It's the Lang family." He replied in a deep voice.

"The federal government was able to get the royal family and Yan to hand over the power in their hands, and I never believed that there was no insider trading under the stage. The crystal ores on the Donglin Ore Star that are more precious than gold undoubtedly belong to this part of the transaction. ”

Qingzhong Slender Tiger said expressionlessly, "At that time, Donglin had not yet been fully developed, and my Zhong family was the first to enter the station, so it naturally became the object of sacrifice. ”

Xu Le has never had any good feelings about the political circle, but as an orphan from the bottom of the Federation, he is always accustomed to electing the government, and he does not have much affection for the seven thousand generations of families hidden behind history.

After he pondered for a moment, he said a little unnaturally, "But a privileged class like the Zhong family is not a good thing for the Federation. ”

"Could it be that the pig-headed politicians who only know about the security association and the exchange of interests, who only wave their arms and give speeches, use beautiful but illusory words to incite the stupid people, slap the table and scold us, but take our money behind our backs, and play with the women we send?"

It's a matter of the system and the lack of prison, but the system itself is much better than the political system of the Seven Great Dynasties or beyond. Even if the stupid people are mentally retarded in making choices, and even if the object of their choice is sadly only what they are allowed to choose, they have some right to choose in the end.

Xu Le wanted to refute the other party in this way, but when he thought of what happened to him after escaping to the capital star circle, as well as the inexplicable stories that the uncle had experienced, and there was no official answer so far, he lost his willingness to refute the other party.

"Now that you are the Supreme Commander of the Federal Front, General Pabul has always given you the most selfless support, under strong pressure from parliament and politics, and as far as I know, the Ministry of Defense has never interfered in any detail with your command. "Those are history two," he said.

"Forgetting history means betrayal, even more so that history is the present. ”

"The dynasty is over, the federal government and the interests of the seven families are equally divided, only my Zhong family was driven out of the rich capital star circle, stationed in Donglin, where birds don't, when they found out that Donglin has treasures, we were driven out of Donglin by such an inferior and disgusting conspiracy, and came to Xilin, where birds can't.

"Now that the empire is about to be attacked, Xilin will be the most important local region of the Federation, and where is the Federation going to drive our Zhong family to?" I named the girl Zhong Yanhua, just to make her remember that many years ago, this newborn Federation had done something to the Zhong family, and to be vigilant, this Federation will continue to do such things to us in the future. ”

Xu Le thought of the cute little watermelon, the weight that her thin shoulders might have to carry in the future, and the origin of her name, and couldn't help but silently say the sigh of the Zhong family's ancestors after the crash of the battleship that circulated in his hometown.

"Lao Tzu's mood at this time is more lonely than fireworks"

"The Federation wants to destroy the Zhong family, and they are trying to destroy the Zhong family, just like the battleship that exploded into fireworks back then. ”

Zhong Shouhu raised his eyebrows slightly, and said calmly, "I'm looking forward to it." ”