Divine Empire.

As early as a year, or even earlier, the undercurrent began to surge, and the plenum of the Imperial Center, which had been speculated by countless foreign media with various unstartling headlines, finally announced the date of the meeting.

On October 23, the Imperial Empire will hold a central plenary meeting in Kyushu City.

As the last plenary session before the election, all those who are qualified to participate have a kind of restlessness and uneasiness in their hearts, and there are too many things that need to be finalized at this plenum, and the most interesting thing is undoubtedly the issue of succession.

As early as a year ago, when this kind of struggle was close to white-hot, some foreign media thought that it was a sharp point to point out: The struggle for the successor of the Shenzhou Empire is mixed with a large number of personal grievances, and this time the struggle is likely to affect the foundation of the Shenzhou Empire, and will have an immeasurable impact on the politics, economy, and social security of the empire.

In a word, it has pointed the Shenzhou Empire in an extremely dangerous direction.

Alarmist?

On the contrary, not only the foreign media, but even many people within the empire, including many high-ranking officials, have selectively believed the truth of this sentence and expressed their concerns on different occasions.

Ye Nianlun.

High long river.

The two have become the focus of the empire more than three years ago, from the perspective of the next term, the cabinet has been decided more than ten years ago, and the other positions have their own candidates, and there is still a standing committee member of the imperial decision-making bureau that the three major factions have a chance to have, and the position of deputy head of state, but with the confusion of the successor issue, this equally important position is no longer the core focus of the bigwigs.

Everyone paid attention to Ye Nianlun and Gao Changhe.

Both of them are extremely low-key giants in the eyes of the outside world, restrained their edge, quietly, but strive to do the best in all the work within their scope of work, in terms of voice, both of them have received full support in their respective factions, the southwest faction is stronger than the Wang faction, but it is also limited, and in the people, especially in the place where Ye Nianlun once ruled, Ye Nianlun's voice is much higher than Gao Changhe, although Gao Changhe has also a good reputation in the place where he once ruled, but after all, he did not achieve the exaggerated situation of Ye Nianlun's national support。

Gao Changhe has the support of the Southwest faction and Lin Qingtian.

And Ye Nianlun has a strong background, and countless old comrades who have retired from high positions are very supportive of Ye Nianlun.

Gao Changhe is older.

Ye Nianlun, on the other hand, is younger.

Each has its own advantages.

The two have been doing things quietly in the past few years, and the battle for the successor is extremely stalemate, to the point that countless outsiders are worried about it.

And since the beginning of this year, Ye Nianlun, who has always seemed to be in no hurry, finally began to exert his strength, the battle between the officials is just the beginning, everything that happened this year has Ye Nianlun's shadow, and in the last month or two, Ye Nianlun has come to the forefront, from the Standing Committee of the Imperial Decision-making Bureau, Vice Head of State Chen Hualou took over the banner of the royal family, and all the forces of the entire royal family suddenly began to support Ye Nianlun unreservedly, helping him to sprint at the last moment, Ye Nianlun's various means have become more and more tough.

The appearance of gentleness and elegance began to fade, and the image of a strong leader appeared in front of all the high-ranking officials of the empire.

It was only at this time that people suddenly sounded, the two young giants of the Wang family, in the past few years, have made countless people fearful, and Chen Hualou, a strange woman who has withstood all the pressure and shouted with the southwest faction, when she was young, her governing methods were very gentle, and Ye Nianlun, who was very gentle and elegant and low-key in these years, was known for her tough and strong methods when she was young.

Especially during the years when Minnan was in power.

At that time, Ye Nianlun, who was less than forty years old, served as the governor of southern Fujian Province, but he was a governor who could make the first leader willing to be a pawn as a second-in-command!

Everyone's memories became clearer and clearer as Ye Nianlun's strong wrist became clearer and clearer.

And Chen Hualou, who used to stand in front of everyone in the royal family to shelter from the wind and rain, took a step back quietly, and suddenly restored the image of a gentle female prime minister.

The transformation of the two was full of tacit understanding, almost perfect, and everyone was in a trance.

And Ye Nianlun is constantly moving.

Today's war of public opinion is still continuing, but Ye Nianlun does not care about the so-called war at all, in a month's time, the pilot of canceling the six departments was launched in the whole territory of Wuyue, and three days ago, the southern Fujian province became the second pilot.

There is no system of six ministries, it is completely the old system ten years ago, a system that has been tested and proven successful, and any high-ranking official in a certain position will not be unfamiliar, so if you don't consider the demands of the southwest faction, there is no need for a pilot at all, and it is completely feasible for the whole empire to spread out, but this old system is completely inconsistent with the interests of the southwest faction, so it will be desperately stopped by the other party.

But Ye Nianlun is obviously ready to be tough to the end, Wu Yue, after southern Fujian, his next target is Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The action is swift and thunderous.

And in this series of actions, the Supreme Head of the Empire remained silent unexpectedly.

Ye Nianlun's momentum is high, what he wants to do is obviously not this thing, in a month's time, he will inspect the five provinces, Wuyue Province, Southwest Province, Beihu Province, Nanyun Province and Northern City.

The five provinces are all provinces with their own characteristics, Wu Yue is the base camp of the royal faction, his own territory, and the southwest province is the base camp of the southwest faction, which can be said to be the territory of the hostile camp, and the Beihu province belongs to the southern faction, which is considered a neutral area, after that, Nanyun, this place faction is simply a province that covers the sky and the sun, there is no doubt that it belongs to the princes' region, the northern city, as the municipality closest to the capital Kyushu City, the northern city has been in a state of contention among the major factions since the collapse of the northern faction, and now the strength of the southwest faction has an advantage in the northern city, but it is far from reaching the point of final decision, there is no doubt that this is a chaotic area。

Ye Nianlun has come all the way, he has always been low-key before, he has made five speeches in a row, talking about party affairs, but the economy, talking about the military, talking about people's livelihood, the five speeches have been very successful, and Ye Nianlun's prestige is unprecedentedly high.

In contrast, Gao Changhe's brilliance began to dim rapidly, and in the high-rise buildings of the empire, his voice was as silent as ever, but this time the silence was no longer regarded as low-key.

This is

Concession!

Vice Führer Gao can't stop Vice Führer Ye.

This is becoming more and more clear to all.

But there are still people who do not give up, after all, no matter what, the plenary session has not yet been held, and there is always hope before there is no result.

The plenary is getting closer.

The plenary session is less than 20 days away.

All the forces fell silent with their own thoughts, and Kyushu City and even the entire empire were shrouded in a layer of oppression.

In such a situation, the emperor and Lin Qingtian did not shy away from frequent meetings, the cooperation between the imperial family and the empire went smoothly, the imperial prime minister Yang Xiuyuan, the deputy prime minister Chen Hualou, the deputy prime minister Lin Guodong, the household department, the Ministry of Industry, the development committee, all participated, when everyone was paying attention to the plenum issues, some people in the entire imperial superstructure seemed to have ignored this matter.

This time, the plenum, which was asserted by the foreign media a few years ago to affect the foundations of the empire, was eerily quiet before it began, but it was not a dead silence on the eve of the storm.

Everyone waited in silence, waiting for the final result.

Is the general trend set, or is there a resurgence of turmoil?

"The matter of the plenum has been decided?"

Kyushu City, Longhu Park.

Li Donglei, the former prime minister of the empire, fiddled with the chess in his hand, looked at the somewhat silent emperor in front of him and asked softly.

Today is the emperor personally came to the door, after having dinner with Li Donglei, the two sat in the courtyard, made a cup of tea, under the warm light, the servant took out the chess, the emperor guest with the host, did not shirk, sat down directly.

Even if the current emperor is brilliant enough, he still has a kind of respect in his heart that is difficult to express in words.

The cornerstone of the royal family, the cornerstone of the royal family!

This is definitely not a title that ordinary people can deserve, Wang Canglan, who has cultivated the strong military strength of the imperial family for decades and finally seeks benevolence and death in exchange for the centralized power of the imperial family, is counted as one, and Li Donglei is undoubtedly counted as one.

When the emperor was youngest, it was this old man who supported the royal family alone, and the royal family, which was not a royal family at the beginning.

He is also a teacher, a friend, and a father.

In the more than 20 years that the emperor was driven out of Kyushu City, he would come to the Shenzhou Empire almost every year in a private capacity, and for twenty years, the palace side by side became the palace of the god of war, but since Li Donglei retreated, every time the emperor came to Kyushu City, the time he stayed in the palace and the hidden dragon sea did not stay in Longhu Park for a long time.

Li Donglei's daughter Li Qing only retired from politics three years ago, and her son-in-law Guo Zhengnu is now a member of the Imperial Decision-making Bureau, a state councilor, and the head of the Criminal Department.

Every time he sees Li Donglei's heartfelt relief and kind smile, the emperor will gradually relax, this is the tacit understanding between the two, maybe only here, he is not the invincible emperor in the world who carries the imperial family forward, but just a simple junior.

"It's settled. ”

The emperor set up the chess pieces, nodded and said: "Time is pressing, the progress of the United States is faster than all of us imagined, Ulysses is completely crazy, at this time, it must be decided as soon as possible." ”

"How long do you think the U.S. side will wait?"

Speaking of the United States, Li Donglei's expression suddenly became serious.

War.

This is a serious word for any country's top leaders.

"We can't wait. ”

The Emperor shook his head: "But we are ready now, and we are not afraid of him." ”

"It's good that you know what to do. ”

Li Donglei smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Lin Qingtian should be under a lot of pressure now, right?"

"It is estimated that it is never easy to do the work of many people and appease people's hearts, but he has no choice, the basis of cooperation is not static, and now that the situation has changed, of course the plan must also change. ”

The Emperor's tone was calm.

"Do you think he's convinced?"

Li Donglei asked with a smile, his tone was a little meaningful.

"He's thrown in the towel a long time ago. ”

The emperor's tone was indifferent: "If you don't accept it, you have to accept it, he won't do anything more, Uncle Li rest assured, now it's Lin Fengxue who is still jumping around unwillingly, jumping off the beam clown, don't worry." ”

Li Donglei nodded, took a sip of tea, looked at the quiet emperor in front of him, and laughed out loud with relief again.