Chapter 1221: The pomp and circumstance of the Triumphal Ceremony
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As the troops, dressed in power armor and exoskeletons, walked through the main road of the Sixth Block, the survivors paid the highest respect and applause to the soldiers who had returned from the expedition.
Flowers, cheers, applause......
Waving his hand at the boiling crowd, Jiang Chen, who was standing in the brand-new X-1 power armor, felt the enthusiasm of the people, and a smile appeared on his face.
The worship of heroes is eternal, from ancient times to the present day.
From time to time, a young girl stepped forward, handed the bouquet in her hand to Jiang Chen's hand with a red face, offered a hug, and then ran back to the crowd quickly. And the guards and NAC knights who followed Jiang Chen also enjoyed similar treatment, but not as much as Jiang Chen, who was at the top of the team.
Because of this glory, many people came specifically to participate in such a triumphal ceremony, and after the expeditionary force was disbanded the next day, they had to rush back to Shangjing City by airship non-stop and go to the Fourth Division to report.
There are also people who simply can't come, because the NAC has to maintain a minimum military presence on Ping An Street. Like Lu Fan, they are the people who stayed.
Walking at the front of the queue, Jiang Chen smiled and waved his hand, and at the same time, he led the long queue and slowly advanced towards the central square of the sixth block.
"Look, look! The marshal seemed to have just glanced at me. A young girl said, pulling her good sister.
"Yes, are you looking at me?" said the beautiful woman in the shelter winter suit, puffing out her chest and looking intoxicated.
Just as the two girls were arguing about whose body the marshal's eyes were on just now, the mercenary who stood at the door of the tavern next to him patted his thighs and sighed with regret on his face.
"Grass! I knew that I had such a majesty, and I went to recruit soldiers at the beginning! Where would I go to be a bird caravan guard, just for those hundred or so credits, and I was almost captured and castrated by mutants. Looking enviously at the power armor as the line walked by, a mercenary-looking man couldn't help but sigh.
"Come on, can you survive for two seconds with your broken marksmanship?" mocked his colleague leaning against the side pinching the wine bottle and burping, "I heard that our expeditionary force and the Russian border guards did it in the subway tunnel." Do you know the border guards? That's a regular army! And we've won! We can't even win a mutant fight, aren't you dragging your feet when you go? ”
"Grass, if you don't try it, how do you know!" argued the mercenary, blushing and thick-necked.
Just when the mercenaries were coaxing, the bank next to the central square was also crowded at the moment.
During the mobilization phase of the war, the NAC issued war bonds, as usual, and now the time has finally come to cash in. However, what really ignited people's enthusiasm was not the profit of less than two points, but the auction of loot!
The assets of Ping'an Street, which belong to Ding Liwei, Wan Peng and other parliamentarians, will be auctioned off at the bank in the sixth block, hundreds of kilometers away. For example, those factories, real estate, resources, and even franchises in a certain industry are the darlings of these businessmen!
It is a virgin land that has not yet been developed, although it is a little colder to the north, but the development qualification is much stronger than that of Hongcheng and Wushi!
Crowded in the trading hall of the bank, businessmen in suits and leather shoes watched the information flashing on the big screen with anticipation, and their fingers hung on the screen of the EP, bidding through the external "credit chip" on the EP.
"Hold the grass, bid 1 million credits directly!" Looking at the auction price, which had increased tenfold from the starting price, a merchant crowded into the hall exclaimed.
"I guess it's the people of the Zhao Group, and they are determined to win the food trade franchise. But the NAC is generous, and how nice it is to keep this thing in his own hands, it's like a gold mine......," sighed the other businessman.
"Maybe the marshal has his own ideas. But then again, the credits were originally issued by the junta, and no matter how much money they make, it's just a number. ”
"That's what you say...... By the way, I heard that the density of xenomorphs in the subway station in Shangjing City is very high, and there are many high-quality hunting grounds. Do you want to buy a hunting group to raise? It's about to be winter, and I think the market of this sub-crystal seems to be good!"
"Forget it, even you thought of this idea, I think this Yajing has to fall again......"
"Hold the grass, what do you mean. ”
The entire Sixth Block has never been more lively.
Of course, the most lively is the central square.
Standing in front of the square, Jiang Chen, as he had done when he returned from the last expedition, read out the declaration of victory in front of all the survivors of the sixth block, and then awarded medals to the soldiers who returned from the expedition.
The training ceremony is also the most lively part of the whole triumphal ceremony.
In NAC's pyramid hierarchy of citizens, the benefits and political rights enjoyed by different levels of citizens are completely two concepts.
During the expedition, a total of 170 high-ranking citizens were newly promoted to knighthood, had their own set of T-3 power armor (although they could only remain in the centralized treasury), and were able to serve as squad leaders and above in the military government.
In addition, there are 510 new upper-class citizens, 1,520 middle-class citizens, and 3,000 low-class citizens. Obtaining inferior citizenship is equivalent to naturalization in the NAC junta system, receiving at least one ration per month and allowing you to settle in a "military zone" such as the Fish Bone Base.
It is possible to apply for renunciation of citizenship, but almost no one does.
Everyone who has citizenship is a sweet spot in the eyes of unmarried girls and single women. If they were unable to achieve merit through war, marriage was the only way for them to reach the rank of citizens.
In particular, those new knights are a rare resource in the eyes of unmarried girls in the sixth district. Being a knight's wife is not only an honor in their status, but also means that they will live a life of fine clothes and food from now on.
Delicious white rice and meat from beef cattle from the Garden of Eden were an enviable life that even those of the factory owners and wealthy merchants could hardly live.
It is precisely for this reason that many people also call this kind of training ceremony a husband selection conference. And this is evidenced by the fact that, according to the statistics after the end of the last expedition, the number of registered marriages in the month following the triumphal ceremony almost tripled the number of marriages in the previous month.
Even Chu Nan had discussed this issue with Jiang Chen, and proper foreign wars would help eradicate poverty and singles......
Of course, in addition to the knights, there is also one of the most popular sweethearts, and that is the one who stands on the podium to present the knights' medals.
Young, handsome, dashing, and suave...... At least in the eyes of all unmarried girls. But because of this, in the eyes of everyone, this one seems a little unattainable.
I have to say that success can cover up a lot of shortcomings in a man, and even turn many shortcomings into advantages, and be talked about. To give a very popular example, it is precisely because Jiang Chen is Jiang Chen that the romantic affairs that happened to him can only be romantic affairs.
Even those pre-war actresses, business elites, and daughters of high-ranking officials who think highly of themselves and have just come out of shelters or freezers, insist on those pre-war women who have been dead for more than 20 years.
It has nothing to do with power, wealth.
The worship of heroes is human nature.