Ten years after the end of the world, the Federal Parliament Hall was still as magnificent as it was before the cataclysm.

For 50 years, it has been the core area of equal exchange between various forces, and has played an indispensable role in every political reshuffle.

Inside the hall, marble columns support a gilded dome. The floor is covered with a meticulous red carpet that stretches to the farthest corner. The half-height brown walls around the hall are painted with decent European patterns, and the higher part is plain white, making this place solemn and gorgeous at the same time.

Lang Hua stands behind the redwood podium at the front, behind him is the blue and white national emblem of the coalition government, flanked by three world map flags, symbolizing the core ideals of earth federalism – peace, dignity and equality.

The seats under the stage form a regular arc layer after layer. The farther away from the podium, the more seats there are, and the more crowded they become.

There are thousands of seats, but there are few people here, but almost all the heads and faces who survived after the total rout are here.

In comparison, he Langhua is just a little captain, but he is the most unqualified.

The coalition government belongs to the chairman's responsibility system, and all administrative divisions before the end of the world are qualified to nominate representatives to the government parliament as "councillors" to discuss and strive for more favorable conditions or substantive interests for the region in the government's various political and economic decisions.

After the catastrophe, when the world was in turmoil and order collapsed, it was the major military regions and some consortia that were the first to gather their forces and set up the "Global Wartime Military Management Committee," which won a flat boat for mankind in the stormy fate that followed.

The "Military Management Commission" has set up departments in charge of the "War Defense Department" and the "United Front Work Department," and has been joined by large, medium, and small bases from all over the world, and its organizational structure is even looser than before the disaster.

Three years into the cataclysm, most of the high-ranking members of the coalition government died as a result of the Star Bandits' "Leader Removal Plan". Since then, the coalition government has been managed by the Military Commission, but in fact it has long been hollowed out by the various consortium families, far from the center of power.

Under the stage of the Federal Parliament Chamber, there were several old men sitting in the front row of seats. In the middle is the secretary-general, and the others are the powerful members under the parliamentary system of the coalition government.

In fact, it is not an old man, but he is also at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, these people sit in the most spacious and comfortable seats, but their words and deeds are far less decent than the secretary general.

But Lang Hua has heard that these people are the most powerful and difficult people in various families.

"Captain Lang is young and promising", Song Huaiyin, who was sitting first on the right hand of Yu Feng, said with a smile, "This time I have saved thousands of fires for the rebels in the Central Plains battlefield, which is really indispensable." ”

"Lang Hua, you did a good job this time." Yu Feng also nodded to him, showing a gentle smile like an elder.

Lang Hua stood on the stage and was stunned for a long time before coming back to his senses. He withdrew his gaze from all directions, saluted to the military and replied, "The student just did what he was supposed to do. ”

With Song Huaiyin and Yu Feng opening up the conversation, others also started to talk.

"Lang Hua was in danger at the juncture of the 'glue melting core', and took the lead in stabilizing the situation on the battlefield of Qianrenshan. Although it was still a strategic retreat under the general situation of a total rout, it successfully led the unit to break through, and even directly affected the situation of the main battlefield in the Central Plains, which is really rare! ”

"Yes, it is really a blessing for the people's livelihood that you can have a young hero like Captain Lang Hua in the Asian Theater." The brown-haired man with a high nose on the far left couldn't help but sigh, "If only there were people like him in all major war zones who could turn the tide." ”

Lang Hua didn't know him, but he could stand on the stage and see the name on the card in front of him, which read - "Mayer Rothschild".

The middle-aged man in the second row sighed: "It's difficult." The Star Thieves have been planning for a long time, and they have opened our pockets early. How can we escape their calculations? ”

"Yes, it's really providential, not your or mine's sin."

"It's still that the old man of my family was prepared, and he arranged the Wang family as a reserve before the war, so he escaped a catastrophe and avoided a catastrophe of great vitality."

"Old man Wang really has a vision, I told my family at the time that there are so many troops in the big counteroffensive, and it is not inferior to our family. The result? Three thousand evolutionary chickens and eggs, saying no, no, brother, I can be regarded as hurting my muscles and bones this time. ”

The committee members smiled bitterly, you talked to each other word by word, but Lang Hua always felt that it was not a taste when he listened to it.

The blood and sweat of millions of evolutionaries in the all-out counteroffensive of the rebels can only be reduced to talking about it in their mouths?

Lang Hua suddenly felt unbearable pain everywhere and every corner of his body, as if those explosions on the battlefield and those knives and guns had happened to him at this moment.

After ten years in the army, Lang Hua has never been in contact with such a big man as a military commissar, and he doesn't know if this is the way these people speak. He could keep comforting himself, telling himself that no one could forget the sacrifices, the outright hatred, but he still felt uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart.

Nausea, retching, and a feeling of being about to vomit almost rushed to Lang Hua's mind.

Until Lang Hua heard Yu Feng talking to him.

"Lang Hua, this time the committee decided to promote you to the regiment commander and award you the rank of colonel."

"Go back and prepare, and go to the South China Theater in three days to take up a post."

"South China Theater?" Lang Hua almost thought he had misheard.

"But I still have a lot of comrades here."

"You don't care about that." Song Huaiyin waved his hand impatiently, "The 406th Division of Southern Qi has suffered a great loss of vitality after this battle, and the establishment has long been incomplete, so it is better to break up and join the major theaters and serve the country." ”

"Break up...... What is the meaning? Lang Hua didn't understand.

No one paid any attention to him. The people in the back row were about to leave the venue with little interest, while the few powerful members in the front row were bargaining for themselves.

"These veterans, my Zhao family has to ask for a batch. Tsk, those who can survive the total rout are all elites. ”

"The surname Zhao, if you eat so much, you are not afraid of choking to death."

"Brother Tuesday, you just take care of yourself. My Zhao family has a big business, and I am afraid that a few small soldiers will fight back? On the contrary, your Zhou family is missing arms and legs this time, I really don't know who let you into the venue. ”

"You are presumptuous! Commissioner Song hasn't said anything yet, where is your turn to shout five and drink six! ”

"The surname Zhou, don't give you a shame! Today, the 204 Field Brigade in East China must be assigned to me. If you dare to reach out, be careful that I even serve you in a pot! ”

"Too much deception......

They quarreled with each other, dividing up their territory and armies as if no one was around, and eating away at the ruined legacies of several fallen forces. Looking at these people, Lang Hua couldn't help but think of the corpse dogs he saw eating human flesh on the outskirts of Shashi City in the first year of the last days.

He remembered what Commander Yang Zhenghua had occasionally mentioned when he was alive - once the Yang family was defeated, the affiliated armies would be broken up and separated.

And after the grassroots officers and soldiers were squeezed out of their full value, they could not escape the fate of being sent to death early as the vanguard of the battlefield.

Before coming to the council chamber, he had always thought it would be a memorial service with the goal of regrouping.

It's a pity that this kind of thing is much more cruel than Lang Hua can imagine. It never cares whether this is a time of peace or not, and it has never stopped for thousands of years.

"No, I'm not leaving."

Lang Hua lowered his head and muttered, his voice gradually getting louder and louder.

He slammed his fist into the solid wood podium, causing the audience to be silent for a moment.

"I'm not leaving. Neither I nor my comrades can go! ”

"Heh, who do you think you are?" The man surnamed Wang, who was in his forties, grinned with his teeth.

"That's it!"

He threw out a battle hero badge with a green background and gold rim from his pocket, gritted his teeth with hatred, and said, "Can this identity have some weight?" ”

In the last four years, Lang Hua single-handedly destroyed more than ten branches of the "Black Blood Altar" and its dens. At that time, the army was trying to establish a positive example, and Lang Hua was the one who was selected, and was awarded the title of "Battle Hero" by the war zone in the autumn of the same year.

This can almost be said to be the honor that he fought for with his life.

The badge itself has no value, and the official can award a hundred or a thousand to others afterwards if he wishes.

But at the moment, Lang Hua is the only one who holds the Phnom Penh badge of "Battle Hero", and he is also a major contributor to the great counteroffensive and total rout.

If the outside world knew that the committee had personally punished the heroes it admitted, public opinion at the grassroots level would not know what a big wave it would set off.

In this way, it can be regarded as forcing the palace.

The badge is just a plaything thrown by the top brass of the committee to appease the people, and it is not a gold medal for avoiding death.

Lang Hua knew very well that he could only do this kind of thing once.

At this time, Qin Xiaowen was sitting in the far corner with the other juniors of the Qin family. She looked at Lang Hua nervously, anxious, her cherry lips slightly opened, and she almost stood up.

Lang Hua's approach was too extreme, which made Qin Xiaowen feel overwhelmed for a while.

The Committee's decision was not something she could have known in advance of the meeting. But Qin Xiaowen grew up in this environment since she was a child, and she can guess a little. For a person like Lang Hua who has both military achievements and strength, the choice of all parties is nothing more than to co-opt, suppress, or exterminate.

But these old guys in the committee have already lived to be human spirits, how can they entrust the cronies and subordinates of other forces with important responsibilities?

So if Lang Hua doesn't give these people face now, isn't he driving himself to a dead end?

She didn't understand, it was obvious that as long as Lang Hua pretended to agree, the Qin family would naturally have a way to get him back from the South China Military Region. Although she can't control the people around her, as long as Lang Hua can live, wouldn't it be fine?

The Federal Parliament Chamber is the political arena for the big guys. If this can be a podium, it can also be a courtroom.

"Portions?" Lang Hua's question made Song Huaiyin's face gloomy for a moment.

He said coldly: "Yes, yes, but compared with the formation of an integrated group, do you think the weight of your broken badge is really enough?" Lang, Hua, Shang, Captain? ”

Lang Hua on the stage had already clenched his fists, he raised his head, and looked at Song Huaiyin with blazing eyes: "Then I want my subordinates in the camp." ”

"Forget it, Commissioner Song. Let him go. At this time, Yu Feng stood up and said in the round, "Anyway, after the battle, there will be a few remnants of the defeated soldiers in his 'miscellaneous barracks'. ”

"Okay, Lang Hua, you're fine." Song Huaiyin said three good words in a row, "After the Yang family's garrison camp is dismissed, there is still a garrison commander vacant in the Natashan base, so you can take your shrimp soldiers and crabs to go and watch the door!" ”

He added: "Nata Hill is on the second line, so you don't have to fight. After this battle, the strength of the rebel army was greatly damaged, and the rank of officer was seriously vacant. Captain Lang Hua still stayed in his original post. Otherwise, if you are made the colonel and the head of the regiment, maybe there will be a lot of prestige! ”

It goes without saying how much credit he made to stabilize the situation on the battlefield of the Central Plains, which was completely defeated, and to turn the tide and save thousands of soldiers. But once the merits and demerits are offset, it can only be two clear.

Song Huaiyin sneered, and after speaking, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Only Hu Feng cared for the "former combat hero" on the stage and said: "It's useless for an officer whose logistics are too big." In this way, Lang Hua, your acting battalion commander is now the official battalion commander, go to the Nata Mountain base to guard. ”

Before leaving, he came up to the stage and patted him on the shoulder: "It is also a crucial scientific research place, and you are familiar with it." When you change your mind, it's not too late to come back to us. ”

"No need, thank you for your kindness." Lang Hua took a deep breath, "I will lead the department and set off immediately." ”