Banquet Hall.

Qin Weigeng sat alone in the corner, sipping wine expressionlessly, and the table was also filled with a large number of empty glasses. But unlike others, it was deserted within ten meters of him, and no one came to talk to him. Including the former friends of the Minister of Defense, they are all strangers at this time!

Now everyone has understood that the marshal's power career has entered the countdown, and at the next plenary meeting of the Supreme Ruling Council, the first person in the imperial military, a heavyweight who was once famous in the world of the stars, will officially close the curtain and withdraw from the interstellar stage, and will never be seen by everyone. Spend the rest of your life in silence in some no-brainer's corner.

The people haven't left yet, but the tea is cold!

With a sigh, the marshal slowly got up and walked out of the hall without saying a word.

The fireworks in the night sky were still in full bloom, and the flickering light and shadow reflected on his haggard face, and an indescribable sadness welled up in his heart.

I think that back then, when I just graduated from the military academy, I was also in my prime, and my blood was strong! For most of his military career, he started as a small soldier, and all the way to the war, bloody and bloody, how many familiar friends of Pao Ze slept on the battlefield, and only he was lucky to survive. When he succeeded his predecessor as Minister of Defense and entered the highest decision-making level, he was so full of ambition and determined to dedicate everything he had to this country!

In order to compete for resources and expand living space, the Empire's legions are at war with all kinds of alien creatures in major galaxies almost all year round! Among them, there have been nearly 100 major battles planned and completed by him, and none of them have failed! As a result, he received the highest honor of the imperial soldiers: the jade-patterned handsome staff and six Chinese hero medals.

It's just that because of his overconfidence, he violated the advice given to him by his former teacher and boss before he retired: don't get too involved in politics, a soldier is a soldier, and he should display his talents on the battlefield that suits him.

It's a pity that I didn't take his words seriously, so I didn't protect the late season, so that I had today's bleak exit!

A girl in a white evening dress hurriedly passed by him, and inadvertently looked back, her beautiful and moving face was instantly so cold that she could scrape off a layer of frost!

Yang Yueqi looked around and found that it was really not appropriate to make extraneous branches on such an occasion, and after hesitating for a few times, she reluctantly gave up her plan to do it, stared at him fiercely, turned around and walked away angrily.

He smiled self-deprecatingly, didn't say anything, and continued to look at the fireworks in the sky in a daze.

"Marshal!" Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind him.

He turned around blankly and found that it was Xue Cangyun who came over, still holding a wine bottle in his hand.

"You've had a good drink tonight!" He said lightly, but he didn't feel a warmth in his heart, even if the world is the enemy, there are always one or two people with true temperament who are willing to go with him.

Xue Cangyun smiled, raised the wine bottle and took a big sip, before he said lazily: "Don't care about those snobbish guys, Lao Tzu is a soldier, so he doesn't have so many fancy intestines!" ”

Qin Weigeng frowned slightly, and said with a wry smile: "You can't do this now!" Soon you're going to join the Supreme Council of Justice, so you can't ignore even some basic political common sense, right? ”

"I don't care about my old bones! But you...... Now you represent the interests of hundreds of millions of imperial soldiers, and you no longer have the right to be as willful as before! ”

"I know the way!" Xue Cangyun poured another sip of wine and said in a muffled voice:

"It's just the most indulgent! You really are, why do you have to find me? Yin Guoxuan is no worse than me, Zhuang Depeng's ability is also good, and Song Kun's old slippery head, that is, Jiang Mingtao is better than me in politics, why did you pick me? ”

"Let Lao Tzu accompany those politicians to meetings and fight every day, I'm afraid that I can't help but throw them off the top of a thousand-story skyscraper when the time comes!"

Qin Weigeng said with a straight face: "The reason why I chose you instead of those other guys is because only you can balance the power of the various factions in the army, no matter what, we can't mess up within the army!" And to find a way to restrain the wanton behavior of certain politicians, I don't think anyone else can better clean up the current bad situation except you! ”

"Alright! That's how it looks! Xue Cangyun shrugged helplessly and stopped talking!

"You have to pay more attention to that mess of affairs in the northwest region," Qin Weigeng told again,

"Those damn Gambino people don't cry when they don't see the coffin, don't leave any hands in the future, just beat them up when you have the opportunity! This war with the Northern Hell Empire won't last long! In the end, the two sides still have to return to the negotiating table, and there are those restless guys around, in short, you just have to take care of it! ”

Xue Cangyun was silent for a moment before saying, "For now, I don't think these alien races can cause us much trouble, what I'm more worried about is the interior of our human civilization!" ”

"I heard that the restless Fuso country, the newly appointed Prime Minister Miyazawa Nobuyaki is making secret contacts with several other human countries, trying to unite to attack the empire and extort some benefits when we have no time to separate......

"A group of third-rate clowns who are not even strong enough to jump off the beam, how big a wave can they toss?" Qin Weigeng said disdainfully,

"You're not still afraid of their unruly opponents, are you?"

"If it's just them, of course it's nothing, but I'm afraid that they will violate their principles and bottom line, choose to collude with other races, and jump out to make trouble at a critical moment!" Xue Cangyun frowned.

Today's Anthropocene realm, although the Chinese civilization dominates, the descendants of the dragon cover three-quarters of the galaxy, and there are also many overseas dominions and resource-rich barbarian star fields, it is a well-deserved "central empire", but the remaining human countries have never given up their efforts to return to the top!

The Fuso Empire, the Europa Federation, the Mauryan Empire, and the Saxon League (including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other English-speaking countries in the Old Earth Era), the Arab Empire, and more! Although these human countries originate from the same planet as the Huaxia Empire, their relationship with each other is even worse than that of some alien civilizations!

Within a civilization and a race, only one boss is needed! In the past history, in order to compete for the dominance of the Anthropocene realm, these countries united to fight against the Chinese Empire, which was not much less than those alien civilizations!

Although in some specific periods, when faced with a severe external existential crisis, the human countries can also temporarily put aside their prejudices and unite with the outside world, most of the time, they are on guard against each other, and even fight against each other!

As the Chinese civilization continued to expand and increase its strength, other human countries were gradually thrown farther and farther away, and now, they are no longer rivals at the same level as each other!

Whether it is the number of population, per capita gross national product, average share of natural resources, industrial production capacity, the size and quality of the army, the number of inventions of high-tech science and technology, and other key data that symbolize the level of national strength, these countries can only account for a fraction of the Chinese Empire!

Of course, this is not the first time that such a situation has occurred, as early as the Earth Age, the Chinese civilization once occupied the pinnacle of the world for a long period of 2,000 years, and only briefly declined for 200 years after entering the industrial age, and then re-emerged after entering the interstellar age.

But the ruling class of Western civilization is not willing to lose its former position, and they stubbornly believe that only their own culture and institutions are the best! In that era of poverty and weakness, even many traitors in China believed that it was natural for Chinese civilization to be inferior, and believing in the West and being assimilated by Western civilization was the only way out for the Chinese people!

However, the wheel of history is rolling forward, and today, thousands of years later, the Huaxia Empire not only occupies an absolutely strong position within the Anthropocene realm, but also one of the three superpowers at the peak even in the known Star Sea Realm! Even the most arrogant and unruly alien civilization would not dare to ignore the existence of the Empire!

Therefore, in such a situation, in order to defend their meager interests and dignity, there are many powerful forces within those countries that advocate an alliance with foreign civilizations to jointly contain and deal with the Chinese Empire, and do not hesitate to violate the principles and bottom line of being human beings in exchange for their own survival and development!

Xue Cangyun sneered: "If these jumping clowns really dare to admit that thieves are their fathers, they will be traitors!" Then I will dare to send troops to destroy them! You can rest assured! ”

……

Wei Zhenhua mixed another glass of wine and drank it unhurriedly, telling the young officers beside him something from time to time.

Suddenly, a maid who had just passed by caught his attention.

"This beautiful young lady, please come here!" He glanced at the young officer beside him, and then he said with a smile.

The maid who was called froze for a moment, turned around and asked politely, "Is there anything wrong with you?" ”

"Do you know what went wrong with you?" Wei Zhenhua asked gently.

"......" A flash of panic flashed in the maid's eyes, and she pursed her lips tightly and did not make a sound.

The archon sighed with some regret: "Beautiful young lady, the waiter in the state banquet hall, the status is not as low as you think!" All of their outfits are tailor-made and perfectly fit their figures. Your clothes obviously don't belong to you, and you don't understand the etiquette of Hanfu, such as the shape of your bun and the position of your headdress, which are slightly different from normal standards! ”

"And the waiter's smile should be kind and natural, and your expression is ...... I don't remember ever owing you a lot of money, do I? ”

The maid's face changed wildly, her eyes suddenly burst out with a cold murderous intent, her arms slammed up, and she smashed the plate in her hand at him, and then turned around and rushed towards Qin Qiyuan and the empress in the distance!

With a wave of the young officer's hand, the plate that flew over was frozen in mid-air, and then more than a dozen silver-shining chains appeared out of thin air, binding the maid firmly!

But not far away, several maids took off their disguises one after another and broke out!