"I have never met Lieutenant Colonel Xu Le, but I know him. A few years ago, after Miss Jane's peace concert in the four states around the mountains turned into a brutal terrorist attack, for some reason that has not yet been declassified, he and I used to look at similar scenery on both sides of the road and move towards the same goal. All I could use was the pen in my hand, and Colonel Xu Le used a gun. Schiller once said that a gun is always more powerful than a pen, and after that incident I accepted this assertion with joy, because when a gun is held in the hands of a trustworthy person, does exert a more important and direct force than countless pens. ”

"In this corner of the universe, shrouded in the eternal glory of the Charter and surrounded by the news of victorious wars, it has been quiet for far too long, and the quiet and forgetful people have unsurprisingly forgotten much of what has just passed. At times like these. The return of Colonel Xu Le means more to me personally, at least. ”

"It's an ordinary small-eyed man. But he is so unusual, I don't know what kind of childhood experience he had, he was never oppressed to bow to the darkness in the name of the big picture, he was never deceived by the reason of victory, and I wondered why there were no words for compromise, balance, and exchange of interests in his dictionary.

Compromise, balance, seems to be some kind of virtue in this society, but who can tell me. Who's compromising with whom? Why should we compromise? This ordinary man who doesn't like to talk much on the light curtain reminds us with his actions that the people of the Federation have compromised too much, for too many years, in the face of the invaders of the Empire, and in the face of the scavengers in the Federation. ”

"To appreciate a person is to appreciate a certain attitude, and I admire Colonel Xu Le, who is like those characters who have appeared in the long river of history, from ordinary people, like an ordinary inconspicuous stone, but clinging to the earth because of the firm idea in his heart, and quietly watching the people coming and going by the road on weekdays, and if someone tries to pass by the side of the road and tries to kick him away, he will be hit on the toe by this stone. ”

"Because of this, the name of Professor Shen Yulin is engraved on the A of the Federation; Because of this, the gray-haired MP could no longer be his moral peddler; Because of this, we, middle-aged men with dust in our hearts, will be moved to tears by a documentary; Because of this, we had the privilege of witnessing a revenge of the little man from morning to night, watching the infamous butcher of the empire turn into a cloud of fireworks in the universe. Because of this, Commander Zhong and those soldiers under the monument could close their eyes with a smile. ”

"Today, I am here to welcome the return of Colonel Xu Le on behalf of all the colleagues of the Special District Daily, not to welcome a legend, a hero, with a loud cheer, but to sincerely welcome back to us a man worthy of the trust of the Federation. ”

"Commonwealth, welcome back to the Waybed. ”

"In the winter of the seventy-first year of the Constitution, Bob wrote after a silent press conference. ”

On the top floor of the headquarters of Sanlin Union Bank, the old man of Liyuan Palace, wearing a small black round hat, sat in the black old circle chair, looking at the plant fiber newspaper in his hand, and a smile appeared on his wrinkled old face.

"As Mr. President's most trusted media mouthpiece, Bob played a very important role in the Medellín project, and I have always admired this man's outspokenness, which is completely different from those newspapers, but I really did not expect that Xu Le's return would be able to produce such an article that goes straight to the heart of the current problem. ”

Li Xiuzhu looked at his father, who rarely came to the headquarters to inspect, and thought that Xu Le's return actually alarmed him, and he was in a difficult mood, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

The shriveled old man sitting in a black circle chair is undoubtedly a federal oligarch in the truest sense of the word.

Therefore, in the old legend, only kings can be widowed. Because there is no other in the world. Compared to the so-called financial trends that often appear in the news media. What can he call an oligarch if he is not an oligarch?" Li Xiuzhu thought for a moment and said: "Bob's article is a bit scattered, and compared with his previous sharp political opinions, it is a little worse. ”

"Wrong. The old man of Liyuan Palace said in a hoarse and obscure voice: "This article obviously does not have the instruction of the president's official residence, Bob himself only knows that there is a problem with the Federation, but he doesn't know where the problem is, he knows that Xu Le will have enemies, but he doesn't know which enemies are, of course, he can only scribble a few words so obscurely, but he said the biggest problem that Xu Le's return to the United Mansions may cause, that is, this little guy never knows how to compromise." ”

The old man raised his head and glanced at Li Xiuzhu with a cloudy gaze, and explained indifferently: "The situation in the Federation seems to be calm now, but in fact, it may explode at any time. After all, the Tiger case could not be investigated, when will Xilin's lawsuit come to a conclusion? I don't know if the attack on the Gu Zhong was a simple imperial bloody killing, or if there was a deeper conspiracy. I don't care about this either, because once there is a conspiracy, then the people and levels involved in this conspiracy must be very terrifying, so terrifying that I don't bother to pay attention to it.

Li Xiuzhu's heart shook slightly, but he didn't expect that even his father was unwilling to go against that force.

"As for Cillin's lawsuit, we were involved. The Lin family participated, the president's official residence, Parliament Hill. Everyone participated in this carnival feast, the Zhong family collapsed, everyone could get a share of the benefits, and Mrs. had already acquiesced to the convening of this feast some time ago, so naturally no one would want the case to continue to be investigated and the lawsuit to continue. ”

"The question now is, what exactly are the goals of those people? Is it a method against the Zhong family when they opened up the Donglin mining area, or do they want more? Even what is in the hands of an old man like me. They all want it?"

"Except for the military, there is no existence in this universe that can inherently harm our family. In the past countless years, we have not had an army in our hands, but we can still live extremely nourishingly, and that is because the Federation has no enemies, so the army is naturally weakened. And with the gradual escalation of the war, the strength of the army became larger and larger. ”

"Have you ever wondered what kind of situation our families would face if the army ended up in the hands of someone who was extremely hostile to us?"

"Bob's quote is very right, money has magic, power has magic, beauty has magic, pen has magic, any human extension can become a powerful tool, but all these tools, no gun magic is greater. ”

"Because guns are used to kill, and death is used to end everything**, who can resist?"

Li Xiuzhu felt that the warm winter sun shining from the transparent dome could not warm his body at all. Feeling the cold rush in, the expensive silk underwear smuggled from the Imperial Departing Star was soaked in sweat like ice particles.

As the president of Sanlin Union Bank, he is well aware of the complex roots of the family rooted in the federal society, and sometimes he can't help but feel infinite admiration, and he does not understand how the successive heads of the family have done all this. Who is the largest creditor of the federal government? Whose funds does the Ministry of National Defense rely on the final assembly base? How can large-scale arms purchases be realized? Who sets the rules for the numbers game in the economic circles? It is precisely on the basis of these understandings that he firmly believes that no federal government will dare to overthrow its own family from the roots, because that will inevitably lead to great turmoil and chaos in the entire federation, and it is no exaggeration to say that the entire federal economy will be set back by hundreds of years......

However, if the hardliners of the army really go crazy one day and try to purge the Seven Families. Those heavy, cold mechs and brave soldiers must have red eyes, and they don't care about these numbers.

"Military...... Even if the hardliners go crazy, the people behind them are always sober. Li Xiuzhu's voice trembled slightly and said, "What's more, we ...... There is also the charter. ”

"Charter?" the old man of the Liyuan Palace laughed loudly, and the laughter echoed in the empty bank headquarters building, "If the charter works, the Seven Masters will still exist for so long?" It's just a matter of whether you can use those protocols. ”

The laughter gradually stopped, and the old man of Liyuan Palace gently rubbed the armrest, looked at him and said gently: "Xiaotong has performed well in the past few years. ”

Li Xiuzhu was slightly startled, not understanding why the topic suddenly turned to his biggest opponent who was competing for the head of the family, and looked at the old face in disbelief, and forcibly did not ask questions.

"Don't worry, since I met Xu Le. You've finally learned to accept failure, and you've been doing quite well for the past few years, and you're still ahead of your brother for the time being. The old man said gently: "I appreciate Xiaotong because he discovered the value of Xu Le earlier than me, and I suggest that you give all-round support to any project between Xiaotong and Xu Le." ”

Li Xiuzhu frowned, not understanding why Xu Le was mentioned again.

The old man of Liyuan Palace gently picked up the plant fiber newspaper in his hand, and said in a dumb voice: "Regarding the case of the tiger, none of us are willing to continue to investigate, it is related to interests, but Bob said that this little guy does not have this word in the dictionary, so ...... He'll definitely look it up. ”

Li Xiuzhu's eyes lit up slightly, and he roughly understood what the old man meant.

"As the war progresses, the strength of the army will only get stronger, and the appetite of those hard-lined, cold-blooded generals and politicians behind them will definitely become bigger and bigger. The old man of Liyuan Palace smiled and said: "At this time, we need someone to make them more restrained, sober, and understand their duty, the war is for the interests of the Federation, and it can also be said to be for our interests, but ...... It can't be for their own benefit. ”

"I'm worried about Xu Le's ability. The brightness in Li Xiuzhu's eyes gradually faded, and he said with a solemn expression: "He is too young to enter the top of the military, and the most important thing is that Philadelphia has not shown firm support for him. ”

Hearing the two Yu in Philadelphia, a complicated and strange look flashed on the face of the shriveled old man in the circle chair. There seems to be some fear, there seems to be some sadness, and there seems to be some relief.