Chapter Seventy-Six: Oath of Office (I)
In the apartment where Mao Li and Zhang Hong lived, there was once again a discussion and laughter today.
It is significant that the High School Alumni Association chose such a Saturday noon gathering, because this afternoon at 2 p.m. marks the solemn moment of the swearing-in ceremony of the new Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Earth, who is a friend of all of you who have had the privilege of knowing here.
Everyone present was in an unusually high mood, and they all said that they would not get drunk and celebrate today.
Li Nan, Guo Liang, and more than a dozen other members of the National Defense Reserve Corps are still wearing military uniforms today, because they have just arrived from the training ground of their respective companies for a party.
The assassination of Charlie and others and the emergence of extraterrestrial intelligent killers who are widely speculated by world public opinion, coupled with the confrontation between the only military superpower in the earth world and the temporary government of the earth, the earth world is still shrouded in a shadow of panic and unease, and people of insight in the world generally believe that another world war will break out at any time.
Charlie did not hold any inauguration ceremonies after being elected prime minister of the Provisional Government of Earth, because at that time Charlie thought that he was just changing his name and there was no need for any swearing-in ceremony. World public opinion at the time was similarly uninterested in Charlie's inauguration, because Charlie was an old face to the earth world and did not have much news hype value.
Charlie's death shocked the world, and world public opinion not only called on Dr. Wang to take over Charlie's position to save the Earth government, which was facing its death, but also strongly demanded that the Temporary Council of the Earth hold a solemn swearing-in ceremony for Dr. Wang.
This shows the world's high respect for Dr. Wang's courage to take on the task of being in danger, and at the same time shows that the peace-loving people of the earth will not succumb to the threat of terrorists on earth and beyond.
In response to public opinion, the Provisional Council of the Earth decided to hold a historic inauguration ceremony while electing Wang Fan to succeed Charlie.
Wang Fan agreed with the decision of the Provisional Council of Earth, but demanded that the inauguration ceremony be as simple as possible, and that a plenary session of the Interim Council be held immediately after the inauguration ceremony to discuss and finalize the important provisions of the draft Charter of the Earth Government, which had been completed during Charlie's lifetime.
To this end, the Interim Earth Council has decided that the inauguration ceremony will be attended only by parliamentarians representing the countries of the former world, and no other guests will be invited, but the inauguration ceremony and subsequent meetings will be broadcast live to the world.
Wang Fan's insistence on keeping the inauguration ceremony simple was mainly based on security reasons, and he and Su Rui and others believed that terrorists inside and outside the planet were likely to use the inauguration ceremony to carry out terrorist attacks. To this end, they and the Ministry of State Security have formulated a series of countermeasures, and the Military Commission has urgently dispatched special forces from all over the army to form a 5,000-strong security force, and appointed Su Rui as the supreme commander of the front.
Wang Fan's request to discuss the "Earth Government Charter" immediately after the inauguration ceremony is to establish the legal framework and organizational structure of the Earth Government as soon as possible, and then start the work of global military reorganization.
"Today, we can definitely see Su Qian in the video, and it is impossible for his cousin's inauguration ceremony to be without her!" Mao Li said excitedly while holding a bottle of wine in her hand.
Although Guo Liang was already drunk and his face was red and his neck was thick, he still had a polite demeanor, he took over Mao Li's topic and said: "We may also see Su Qian's commander father, according to internal information, Commander Su led an elite army has arrived in Geneva ahead of schedule to set up defense, and their main task is to defend the Earth Government office area." ”
"Hey, let's guess what kind of position Dr. Wang will arrange for Su Qian after becoming the prime minister!" Liu Huzi is very drunk, and his voice is very loud.
Zhang Hong laughed and said, "Hey, Liu Huzi, do you still have to guess this?" The Prime Minister's personal secretary, of course! ”
The living room burst into laughter.
When the laughter subsided, Mao Li took advantage of the alcohol and said loudly: "When the Prime Minister's inauguration ceremony is over, I will call the Prime Minister's Office directly to find Su Qian, if I can't find her, which of you is willing to go with me to the Prime Minister's Office of the Earth Government to find her?" ”
"I'll go!"
"I'll go!
……
A few girls coaxed together, and there was another commotion in the living room.
Li Nan waved his hand with drunken eyes and said, "Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet and listen to your old squad leader! ”
Everyone shut up and looked at Li Nan.
Although Li Nan was a little drunk, his words were still sharp: "We all know very well what kind of person Su Qian is, although she has a commander father, she has never shown superiority when she was with us before, she is a person who values affection and righteousness, even if she has now become the first lady of the world, no, strictly speaking, the first girlfriend, she is still our old classmate and old friend, this will never change."
As for her cousin, the royal brother who has become the leader of the earth world, although we have only been in close contact with him once, and for a short time, even if we did not know that he was a legendary god-man at that time, we all had a good impression of him.
Now we know that he is the true superhuman leader of this world, but I am certain that our brother will not change his approachable nature because of this. So, everyone, I can be sure that it won't be long before Su Qian will send us an invitation and tell us that the Prime Minister has invited us to his Prime Minister's Office! At that time, those of us here will form a alumni delegation to visit the Prime Minister's Office of the Earth Government. Now Ben Lao Squad President proposes to congratulate our mutual friend on being Prime Minister of the Earth Government! ”
After Li Nan finished speaking, he raised the wine glass in his hand with a solemn expression.
"Cheers!" Everyone raised their glasses and shouted at the same time.
The weather in Geneva is a bit gloomy today, with monsoon winds and the chill of snowy peaks blowing from the direction of the Alps, making people chill all over.
But the city is once again the center of attention for the Earth world, with a large number of journalists flocking to the world from all over the world, who most want to see the mysterious Dr. Wang, and to see him land on the ground in an alien warship.
Shortly after the terrorist attack, emergency repairs were made to the damaged exterior walls, glass doors and windows of the Earth's temporary government office area, as well as the internal facilities of the office building, and the core area where Charlie's former office was located was basically restored to normal working conditions.
Although Ah Hu and Luo Lan have been constantly monitoring the external communications of the Groot Mansion, they have not obtained any information that Rapp and others will sabotage today's inauguration ceremony. Groot had several phone calls with his vice president, but Groot reported on the meetings of the Provisional Parliament, or on the dynamics of the Provisional Government on Earth.
Despite this, Ah Hu and Luo Lan reminded Wang Fan that perhaps Rapp and his gang realized that the space fleet might be monitoring Groot, so they adopted a more stealthy method of communication.
However, Su Rui and Minister Liu believe that due to the power of the space police warship, Rapp and others do not dare to use the inauguration ceremony to carry out an open attack, and the possibility of alien terrorists remaining on Earth taking the opportunity to attack is even more worrying.
In order to deal with the surprise attack of alien terrorists taking advantage of the inauguration ceremony, in addition to Ah Hu and Luo Lan's warships ready for battle at any time, Su Rui stationed 300 special forces armed with heavy weapons in the office area to assist Wood's security work.
Not only that, Su Rui set up two lines of defense on the periphery of the office area, the first line of defense is the metal guardrail that has just been established around the entire office area complex, and the guardrail is guarded by 500 special forces armed with heavy weapons. The second line of defense is within 300 meters beyond the guardrail, and Su Rui has deployed heavy equipment such as armored vehicles and tanks at various intersections and traffic arteries to prevent terrorists from attacking from the ground.
Journalists and tourists from all over the world, as well as local spectators, must gather in parks outside the second line of defense, as ruled.
In the air, Su Rui used high-altitude reconnaissance planes, low-altitude armed helicopters, and dozens of armed flying vehicles that occupied the top of high-rise buildings in the office area to form a three-dimensional air defense system. In addition, Su Rui's security forces have 100 low-altitude fighters in the Geneva area, ready to fight terrorists in the air.
Because of Wang Fan's introduction, the alien advanced intelligent person has the function of changing the appearance and body surface color, Su Rui ordered that everyone who enters the office area must go through two strict checkpoints to prevent the alien intelligent killer from pretending to be an office worker or a councilor to enter the office area.
Before the scheduled inauguration ceremony began, Su Rui went to the office area to carefully inspect the site and found that various security measures had been put in place, and his nerves, which had been tense for several days, could finally relax.
Although there was still an hour before Wang Fan's inauguration ceremony, Su Rui did not stay in the office area but returned to his headquarters, which is the closest air base to the Alps, in addition to the air force personnel, there is a regiment stationed at this base, in addition, Su Rui has a guard company to defend the headquarters, and the other four regiments are stationed in four strategic locations around the office area of the provisional government on Earth.
Although the force commanded by Su Rui is insignificant compared to the existing powerful military force of Country X, it still has a strong deterrent force as a security force for the Provisional Government of Earth, and Su Rui plans to use this force as a seed army to establish a strong Earth Government Army.
Soon after Su Rui returned to his office, Su Yi activated a window on the wall according to his instructions.
The image in the window is locked in the inauguration ceremony venue, which is only fifteen minutes before the scheduled time of the inauguration ceremony, and the venue is already full.
This is a medium-sized conference room in the core office area, which is much smaller than the usual General Assembly chamber, as today's inauguration ceremony was attended by just over 100 parliamentarians and a dozen chief journalists from world-renowned media outlets.
The two rows of seats behind the podium were reserved for members of the Standing Committee of the Provisional Council of the Earth, and Huang Ping, who was also the chairman of the Standing Committee, and Barak, the speaker of the Provisional Council of the Earth, sat in the first row. One of the seats between the two of them was still empty, and Su Rui knew that that special seat was reserved for the protagonist of today's inauguration ceremony.
Su Rui noticed that Groot had already taken the seat, and he was sitting at the end of the row of seats behind Huang Ping with an expressionless face at this time.
"Commander, Dr. Wang has arrived!" Su Yi said excitedly.