"I have never met 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 such times, the return of Colonel Xu Le has more significance, at least for me personally. ” "This is an ordinary small-eyed man, but he is too unusual, I don't know what kind of childhood experience he had, he has never been oppressed to bow to the darkness in the name of the big picture, he has never been deceived by the reason for victory, and I wonder why there are no words such as compromise, balance, and exchange of interests in his dictionary."
"Compromise, balance, seems to have become a certain virtue in this society, but can anyone tell me who is compromising with whom and why should we compromise this ordinary man who doesn't like to talk much in the light curtain, and reminds us with his actions that in the face of the invaders of the Empire, in the face of the scavengers in the Federation, the people of the Federation have compromised too much, compromised for too many years."
"To appreciate a person is to appreciate a certain attitude, and I appreciate Colonel Xu Le, who is like those characters who have appeared in the long course 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 crowd coming and going by the roadside, and if someone tries to pass by the side of the road and try to kick him away, he will be hit on his toe by this stone."
"Because of this, the Federation's X-mecha has Professor Shen Yulin's name engraved on it; 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 my colleagues in the Special District of the Special Administrative Region, not to welcome a legend, a hero, with a loud cheer, but to sincerely welcome back to us a person worthy of the trust of the Federation."
"Federation, welcome back of the Guardstone."
"In the winter of the seventy-first year of the Constitutional Calendar, 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 and hate, which is completely different from those newspaper quails, but I really didn't 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 had actually alarmed him, and he inevitably felt 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 one in the world.
Compared with the so-called financial predators who often appear in the news media, the little old man who has been in charge of the iron arithmetic family for decades, secretly controls the federal financial order, and only several successive presidents are qualified to be opponents, what can he call an oligarch "The capital SAR said that the font on the front page of the newspaper was temporarily adjusted, just to put Bob's political commentary."
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 much worse. ” "Wrong."
The old man of Liyuan Palace said in a hoarse and obscure voice: "This article obviously does not have the instructions of the president's official residence, Bob himself only knows that there is a problem in 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 Federation 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's case has not been investigated, when the result of Xilin's lawsuit will come out I don't know if the attack on the Gu Zhong was a simple imperial bloody killing, or if there was a deeper conspiracy, and I don't care about this, because once there is a conspiracy, then the people and levels involved in this subaki conspiracy must be very terrifying, so terrifying that I don't bother to pay attention to it at all. ” Li Xiuzhu's heart shook slightly, and he didn't expect that even his father was unwilling to go against that force.
"As for Xilin's lawsuit, we participated, the Lin family participated, the president's residence, the parliament hill, everyone participated in this carnival feast, the Zhong family collapsed, everyone can get a share of the benefits, Mrs. has also tacitly agreed to the convening of this feast some time ago, naturally no one wants the case to continue to be investigated, and the lawsuit will continue to fight."
"The question now is, where are the goals of those people are the means against the Zhong family when they opened up the Donglin mining area, or do they want more things that even an old man like me has?"
"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 in these decades, with the gradual escalation of the war, the power of the army has become more and more powerful. ” "Have you ever wondered what kind of situation our family would face if the army ended up in the hands of someone who was extremely hostile to us?"
"Bob's quote is very correct, money has magic, power has magic, beauty has magic, pen has magic, any human extension can be a powerful tool, but all of these tools, none of them have the magic of a gun."
"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, and felt the cold coming, and the expensive silk underwear smuggled from the empire from Hanxing 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 biggest creditor of the federal political axe, whose funds does the Ministry of National Defense General Assembly Base rely on, how can the large-scale arms procurement be realized, and who sets the rules of the economic number game, it is based on these understandings that he firmly believes that no federal political axe dares to overthrow his 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 hundreds of years However, if the hardliners of the army really go crazy one day and try to purge the Seven Families, those heavy and cold mechs and brave soldiers must have red eyes and will not care about these numbers.
"Even if the hardliners in the military go crazy, the people behind them are always sober."
Li Xiuzhu's voice trembled slightly and said, "What's more, we still have a 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 families will still have such a long time The great federal central computer, which has been tied up by the countless rules formulated by the group of five for tens of thousands of years, just depends on whether you can use those rules." ” 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 you met Xu Le, you have finally learned to accept failure, and you have performed quite well in the past few years, and you are 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 in which Xiaotong interacts with 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 is 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 will definitely check it." ” Li Xiuzhu's eyes lit up slightly, and he roughly understood what the old man meant.
"As the war progresses, the power of the army will only get stronger, and the appetite of those tough cold-blooded generals and the politicians behind them will definitely grow."
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, it can also be said to be for our interests, but it cannot be for their own interests." ” "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 to him. ” Hearing the word Philadelphia, a complicated and strange look flashed on the face of the shriveled old man in the circle chair, as if he was a little scared, seemed to be a little sad, and seemed to be a little relieved.
To be continued: