"Since everyone here has no opinions, then this matter is so decided, Major Qin Hao has indeed made many miraculous achievements, although he has been in the army for a short time, but his ability is obvious to all, and it is not impossible to even be promoted to colonel by two levels!" Speaker Barn said unhurriedly.

"Hmm!" Claude nodded.

"But Lieutenant General Cohen...... He had some achievements, but ......" Speaker Barn said and suddenly paused, apparently, the old guy was blackmailing Claude in the hope that he would come up with more leverage.

"What do you want?" Claude didn't talk nonsense to the old guy either.

"A seat on the front line to the war, independent." Speaker Barn is also a lion's mouth.

"Phew! My people have worked hard to lay the foundation, and you are now coming and picking peaches? Claude sneered.

"You can't say that, everyone is in the service of the Federation, what is yours and mine?" Speaker Barn laughed.

"Is it all for the Commonwealth? That's good, then now I'll use the power of the federal president to reintegrate the output of the two mines, and then bid for the whole federation, and only those who bid more can get the crystals! What do you think? Claude Peel said with a smile.

Speaking of Claude's trick is really ruthless enough, if he really opens the bidding, it will also be in line with the federal constitution, and in that way, it is not only these gate lords who will share the cup of energy crystal, because on those immigrant planets outside the earth, many businessmen and wealthy people have also risen at this time, and their financial resources may not be inferior to some small and medium-sized families, but because they are nouveau riche, they cannot be recognized by these families, so their status cannot keep up.

But if it is open to bidding, it has nothing to do with privilege, and when money speaks, the super-rich people of those immigrant planets will be eligible to participate, and at that time, even if these gate lords want to unite to squeeze out those nouveau riche, they will have to pay a higher price.

"Hehe......" Barn sneered, but there was no expression on his face, but many of the councillors below couldn't sit still.

Not every family is as powerful as the Kleins, Gangmen, or Husseins, and although they also live on Earth and enjoy the privileges of the nobility, they may not be able to compare with the new merchants on the immigrant planet.

Once the tender is made public, their interests will either be divided or they will have to pay a huge price, so the representatives of these families will definitely not agree.

"Speaker, isn't it just the rank of general, just give it, anyway, there are so many generals in the Federation now, there are not many more than him!"

"Yes, yes! Your Excellency, you need to think about our situation, too! ”

……

Those parliamentarians from small and medium-sized families persuaded them that they had to side with Claude at this time for the sake of their own family's interests.

"Hehe, well, in that case, then I can grant your request." As Speaker Barn spoke, the corners of his mouth curled into an inexplicable smile.

"Huh?" Claude's brows furrowed, Barn agreed too easily, which made him always feel that there was fraud in this, but all his requests had already been agreed, so naturally he couldn't say anything more.

"Okay, since that's the case, then it's decided, after the promotion order is issued, the mine will enter the trusteeship state, you can send someone over to supervise, but my people will be responsible for the operation of the base." Claude's words are very clear, he can not want the benefits of the mine, and he can give all the benefits to these nobles in the council, but that base is the hard work of his people, and these nobles do not want to get involved.

"Deal!" Speaker Barn smiled, they are not interested in that base at all, all they care about is those crystal mines.

At the beginning, Speaker Barn wanted to meddle in the war of the Alpha Star, because he felt that the Zerg of the Alpha Star did not seem to be very powerful, and in less than a year, the Federation Navy had already occupied two crystal mines, if their fleets under the family could also participate in this battle, then the crystal mines they captured would no longer need to look at the president's face to distribute.

But now Claude is not giving an inch, and the Alpha Star Battlefield is completely under the control of the fleet of the president's faction, although these aristocratic families also have fleets, but it is unreasonable to blatantly confront the president, and it will be a very troublesome thing if it arouses the disgust of the people at that time.

And more importantly, all the key intelligence on the Alpha Star battlefield is in the hands of the president's faction, if it completely offends Claude, then even if the fleet of the family gate lord forcibly intervenes in the battlefield, people will definitely not share the intelligence, and it will inevitably suffer losses on the ground battlefield at that time.

Therefore, until they have obtained particularly detailed battlefield information, these gate lords and nobles will not let their own fleets take such risks.

"Then I won't bother." When Claude's goal was achieved, he was reluctant to stay in the smoky parliament any longer.

"Walk slowly, don't send it!" Barnpi said with a smile.

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After Claude and Barn made a deal, a new promotion order was issued from the Federation Command, which was controlled by the Gatelords.

"Damn! Barn, the old fox! After seeing this promotion order, Claude immediately slapped the table angrily and scolded his mother.

The reason is very simple, although Barn promised Claude to promote Qin Hao and Vice Admiral Cohen, but under his control, the command department promoted Qin Hao to colonel and Vice Admiral Cohen, and also promoted fifteen naval colonels and seven federal admirals!

And these high-ranking officers who were also promoted, without exception, were all members of those families, and their so-called exploits were even more trivial achievements, such as the suppression of a small pirate equipped with only three or five armed merchant ships, such as the suppression of a small rebellion without even heavy weapons......

And even so, these small feats may not be true, many of them are those families who deliberately put on a show, and then created these feats for the family members.

But even so, these family members were successfully promoted, which suddenly lowered the gold content of the federal generals, which led to the promotion of Lieutenant General Cohen, in addition to enjoying higher salaries and treatments, his voice in the command department has not increased at all, and has even become smaller!

Can Claude, who feels that he is being teased, not be angry?

"These bastard politicians! They're going to ruin the Federation! Claude was furious in his office.