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Under the sky of the Federation, there can be no shady curtain that will never be exposed, let alone a plan that is so perfect that it cannot find any clues and leave no traces. Once the shady curtain is revealed and the initiator is exposed, it will inevitably usher in an extremely fierce blow from the other side. Therefore, in the long period of the last ten constitutional calendars, the political struggle of the Federation has long been far away from assassination and other means that cannot see the light, and no force dares to assassinate the president in a bold way, and the forces of all parties have always maintained peace, at least on the surface.

Therefore, on the first day of the New Year in the 67th year of the Xian calendar, the incident that occurred in the Linhai Prefecture Gymnasium, which was far away from the capital, would alarm all the big people in the capital, which was out of the rules of the game, and was not accepted by the entire class.

The investigation of the federal political axe made important progress in that early morning. Although the suicides of seven officers of the Second Military Region put another strain on the work of the FBI, the staff members simply changed direction and continued the investigation.

The identities of the militants who attacked the VIP area of the stadium have been identified, and those who were all killed were soldiers of the special company of the coastal garrison area. However, it has not been found out who gave the direct order to send troops, and who was able to turn those soldiers loyal to the Federation into shameful instruments of assassination. But attentive FBI officials unearthed another valuable clue from the newly repaired concrete wall in the stadium's underground parking lot.

The engineer brigade under the Northern Hemisphere Command of the First Military Region received this task on the eve of the incident, and although the person who issued the order had carefully erased the fragment of information representing the identity in the telegram, the second-layer information imprint dedicated to the military system was ignored by the person who issued the order.

An FBI agent, keenly aware of this, found a few letters of identity in the core sentence layer of the command file.

The agent has a nickname within the Bureau of Investigation as Furball, because he likes to wear a synthetic sweater all year round.

The FBI went down through the second layer of information branding, and pointed all the fingers at a male secretary in the Department of Defense building.

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In the early morning of the 3rd day of January in the 67th constitutional calendar, the National Defense Building maintained its solemnity as always...... As well as emptiness. The bright marble floor of the building hall was painted with gold dust the military medal of the Federation, and the silent and relaxed-faced male and female officers walked on this pattern, and inside the incomparably grand building, it looked like a few horses passing by from time to time on the boundless grassland on the side of the federal electronic fence.

The officers at the upper level of the Ministry of National Defense building already knew what happened the day before yesterday, and most of the people in this building already knew what happened in the training center next to the building yesterday, and as for the news that seven officers committed suicide after the officers of the Second Military Region were arrested en masse, it is believed that the middle-aged women in charge of cleaning in this building also already knew.

But the personnel of the core area of the Federation army still maintained a relaxed expression and a suitable smile on the corners of their lips, because this huge machine never collapsed on its own because a part was loose or corroded.

The design style of the Ministry of Defense building is dominated by a cold style, and the exterior wall does not use a glass curtain wall that can absorb solar energy, but chooses natural stone in gray and black tones. The whole building is square, and the height of the seventeen-story building makes this square architectural style look a little dull, like a box.

In the internal conversation of the federal political axe, it is generally customary to use the term "box" to refer to the Ministry of Defense, because in the eyes of ordinary affairs officials, the soldiers of the Ministry of Defense are like people in a box, whether it is the way they walk or the way they talk and act, they are always so square and angular.

On the penultimate floor at the top of the Ministry of Defense building, on the floor next to the top of the "box", there is a very quiet and luxurious office at the end of the corridor.

Vice Minister of National Defense Yang Jinsong works in this office. He came to the room half an hour early today as usual, and after drinking a cup of tea and waking up, he called up the military map of the S2 region on the light screen, zoomed in to the area around the mountains and four states, squinted his eyes and carefully examined it, confirmed the spring offensive of the federal army, and tried to minimize some command problems.

Half an hour passed quickly, and his secretary still didn't knock on the door, and then served the red sandwich.

Vice Minister Yang gently pressed the remote control in his hand, the map on the light screen disappeared, he walked to the window in silence, glanced at the beautiful winter scenery of the capital outside the window, and then turned around and sat on the sofa.

The secretary hadn't arrived yet, but the phone on the desk was ringing. Vice Minister Yang answered the phone, listened carefully and carefully for a long time, and did not say a word.

Then he sat back on the couch again. This time he didn't pick up his teacup, but took out a bottle of spirits from the bookcase, poured himself a glass, and sipped it slowly.

As he drank the amber liquid, the important figure of the federal military squinted his eyes and thought about things, completely unaware that the alcohol he usually hated the most was so stinging.

His secretary had been called in to investigate, and it looked like he would never return. And the news I just got on the phone is that the president's security adviser has entered the lobby of the Ministry of Defense at this time and is about to take the elevator to his office.

Vice Minister Yang's slightly frosty brows furrowed slightly, and he took out a document from the secret cabinet beside him, and looked at it with some distraction. Regarding the assassination of the Linhai Prefecture Gymnasium, although he did not participate in the investigation, the details of the incident and the progress of the investigation will be sent to him according to a certain period of time.

It was not pleasant to watch the other party approach him step by step, and after knowing the news of the secretary's arrest, the deputy minister's mood became a little lighter. Everything that happened on the first day of the sixty-seventh year of the Constitutional Calendar was carried out under his instructions and instructions.

After Vice Minister Yang Jinsong returned from the front, he held many positions, the most respected of which was the post of president of the First Military Academy, and with his position in the Federation, he was enough to make those big people who cooperated with him, and even Mr. President himself, protect himself at all costs, just like ...... The same as the seven officers who committed suicide the night before.

But he didn't want to do that, so he put down his glass, went to the computer, wrote an email, and sent it to the relevant staff member who had the permission to receive it.

"Forty years ago, I was an ordinary soldier in the Mechanic Company of the Second Military Region, and I saw with my own eyes countless Federation soldiers who died on the land of Qinglong Mountain for a great goal. Forty years later, I was the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Federation, with full authority over the plan for the spring offensive of the '67 H.A. ”

"I have never believed the words of politicians, and I am reluctant to put the future of the Union in the hands of people who have never seen even blood. ”

"Having served as the head of the First House, I know better than anyone the sacred rules that the military must act under the law and the collective will of the Federation, but I have often wondered what the army should do if the law and the collective will of the Federation have become toys in the hands of some people, or if they are the result of compromises between them. ”

"A gentleman who grew up in a peaceful environment, without the authorization of the political axe, to make some kind of agreement with the traitors, in my opinion, this is collusion, this is surrender. I thought I had to stop it. ”

"Maybe history will judge me wrong, but I ...... Death does not admit mistakes. ”

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After the email was sent, Vice Minister Yang sighed softly, and many comrades who died in the war with the [***] army appeared in front of him, and his eyes fell on the documents in his hand again.

This assassination is to prevent the so-called reconciliation agreement from being reached, kill Tai Zhiyuan, that long-established family will naturally fall into decline or even collapse, and the Pabur Councillor they support, in such a situation, will definitely not be elected president, so the agreement reached between the Pabur Councillor and the [***] army on the night before the New Year...... Perhaps the day will never materialize.

The reason why the deputy minister chose Tai Zhiyuan instead of the Pabul parliamentarian, whom he contemptuously called a lawyer, was because in his opinion, killing Pabul, the Tai family, who was cowardly in his bones and ready to surrender at any time, could still choose other political partners and could not solve the problem fundamentally.

The minister's calm gaze fell on an inconspicuous name on the document. If he had any regrets in his heart at this time, it was naturally because the assassination plan carefully prepared by his loyal subordinates did not succeed, and the heir of the Tai family actually survived the attack of the mecha. According to the investigation of the transcripts afterwards, the person who played the most crucial role in it and saved Tai Zhiyuan's life twice in a row is undoubtedly the young student who has died-Xu Le.

Vice Minister Yang drank the liquor in the glass in one gulp, then opened the drawer, took out the old-fashioned pistol that had been with him for many years, and turned the muzzle a little clumsily upside down and stuffed it into his mouth.

He paused for a moment, gasped for a few heavy and sharp breaths, and then pulled the trigger.

A dull sound echoed throughout the floor.

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The door to the minister's office was slammed open. The gray-haired presidential security adviser and the defense minister pushed away the gendarmes standing in front of them and squeezed to the front, they looked at the body of Vice Minister Yang on the sofa chair, and looked at the shocking red on the snow-white wall behind the chair, and were speechless for a long time.

"He can't stand trial. The federal security adviser said in a deep voice, "Maybe that's the best outcome." ”

The Minister of Defense slowly took off his military cap, took the piece of paper handed over by the staff next to him, looked at the e-mail printed on the paper, and said after a long silence: "I don't admit my mistake to death, this is at least ...... It is a dignified way to die. ”

(To be continued)