At the same time that Li Yi showed off the superior performance of the new fighter and advertised it, at the headquarters of the North Wharton Supreme Joint Adjudication Committee, the bigwigs of the four major families were holding an impromptu meeting about him.

This kind of informal meeting is often held, but the bigwigs are usually very busy, so they do not attend in person, but through the 3D virtual imaging system to remotely project their own images to the conference room, and then everyone can easily "face to face" dialogue, the projected virtual 3D image is no different from the real person in terms of voice tone and eye expression.

The meeting was attended by only four people, namely the patriarchs of the four major families of North Wharton, and the standing committee members of the Supreme Joint Adjudication Committee, all of whom were the highest decision-makers in North Wharton, and were known as the four big men by the North Wharton folklore.

Sitting on the north chair is a burly old man, whose most characteristic is a pair of tiger eyes that are not angry but mighty, if it is not an acquaintance, just looking at his eyes can scare a cold sweat.

This is the patriarch of the Lehman family, Duke Maxwell Lehman!

The Lehman family has the strongest military strength among the four major families of North Wharton, controlling more than 70% of the army and 50% of the space fleet in North Wharton, and its family has the absolute right to speak in the military department, but correspondingly, the family elite who sacrificed on the battlefield is also the most, it can be said that without the sacrifice of the Lehman family, North Wharton would have long since existed, and it would have been impossible to build a country at all.

Whether it is the other three major families or the countless small families below, when their members face the children of the Lehman family, they will more or less back down, not because of any respect, but purely for fear of offending these war maniacs.

The family culture of the Lehman family is iron-blooded war, family members have been educated to be militants since childhood, and when they grow up, most of the children of the family will take the military as a lifelong career, they are proficient in all kinds of military skills, if anyone provokes them, it is considered a very polite act to be asked to duel on the spot, and under normal circumstances, it is directly greeted with a fist first!

Maxwell Lehman's sitting on the chairmanship does not mean that the other three major families are headed by the Lehman family, but because this year's rotating chairman is the Lehman family, and after a while, this position will have to be held by the patriarch of other families, and this rotating chairman has no other practical privileges except for presiding over the meeting.

At this time, the live video of the new fighter was flashing on the virtual screen in the center of the conference hall, and the scene where the fighter alone blocked more than 600 missiles did not make the four bigwigs who were accustomed to all kinds of big scenes have a trace of emotional fluctuations, and the four old men were still unfazed and even a little bored looking at the picture.

After a long time, Maxwell Lehman, who was in the chairmanship, made a brief comment: "This new fighter is still good." ”

The big guy sitting on his left hand side smiled, owed a debt and said, "It's ugly." ”

This is the president of the Military Research Academy, the Marquis Aldrich Manning, yes, he is also the patriarch of the Manning family, one of the four bigwigs!

The Manning family is in a relatively detached position among the four major families of North Wharton, and they have almost all the military and civilian cutting-edge technology in North Wharton, and their share of military power is only 10%, and half of them are only private forces used to protect the family territory.

But even so, no one in the other three major families underestimated and no one dared to offend the Manning family, because no one knew how many private black technologies the Manning family hid.

Just look at the new fighter, it is almost 10,000 enemies, and this is still the military technology that has been openly opened up, what about those that have not been disclosed? Who knows what else this family has behind and what killer features it has?

However, the family culture of the Manning family is technology and civilization, in the eyes of its family members, military technology is only a part of human scientific and technological civilization, although the vast majority of family members are not against war, but they are not as belligerent as the Lehman family, and a group of nerds study technology all day long, basically indifferent to other things, and have no time to pay attention to it.

Unless, a certain technology needs to pass the test of war, these scientific maniacs will appear on the battlefield for field research, and then they will either be killed by their own military inventions, or the enemy will be directly overturned by this group of madmen with various black technology methods!

Therefore, the Manning family rarely participates in political power struggles, and is a centrist faction in the Supreme Joint Adjudication Committee, basically without a dispute with the world, but once it makes a motion, everyone will usually give face, and no one will offend them.

This executive meeting was convened at Aldrich's initiative, and the topic was to accept the new fighter plane that has basically taken shape, and if there is no objection, it will be popularized and applied to the troops; after all, it is very expensive to engage in scientific research, and if the new fighter can be sold, the scientific research institute will have an additional economic income to supplement the almost bottomless pit of scientific research funds.

Of course, whether there is a deeper purpose is difficult to say for the time being.

Now everyone knows that the one in the fighter plane is likely to be a high-ranking marquis, and his net worth is innocent and there is no force behind him, if the Manning family can use it for their own use, whether it is engaged in research and development or income generation, it is definitely a good hand, no one is sure if the Manning family's motion this time wants to throw bricks and lead to other plans?

At the beginning of the meeting, Aldrich had already introduced all aspects of the new fighter's performance and data, so the other three already knew the cause of the fighter.

Although Maxwell of the Lehman family only said that this fighter was "good", as a bigwig, these two words were not said casually, and since he said "good", he clearly made a positive statement.

Aldrich humbly replied to the kindness shown by the Lehman family, which was actually a way to express his gratitude.

The bigwigs speak like this, they don't speak easily, and once they speak, they are all dumb riddles, if they only understand it literally, they don't know what they actually want to express, and only those who climb the pyramid and sit in this position will not have communication barriers.

Sitting opposite Aldrich was a middle-aged woman who was well maintained, and asked openly: "With the current industrial manufacturing system, can this kind of fighter be manufactured in batches?" ”

The question was made by the Honorable Marquis Flora Watson, the patriarch of the Watson family, and there is no patrilineal or matrilineal society in this time and space, only a mercantile society, so women can also be patriarchs.

Don't be confused by Flora Watson's appearance, she looks middle-aged and has a good appearance, but in fact, she is in her seventies and eighties like several other bigwigs, just because the biological gene technology of this era is too developed, she can keep her face and even her figure as she was when she was young, but as a big man, Flora still has to be a little cheeky, and she doesn't dare to go too far, just keep herself in her middle-aged appearance at about 40 years old, otherwise it will definitely become a joke.

Aldrich shifted his gaze to the other party and responded: "It's all ready-made technology and templates, as long as there is a blueprint, it can be automatically mass-produced." ”

After only one sentence of questioning, the conversation between the two ended, because without asking again, it means that the Watson family voted in favor, and there is no need to talk nonsense.

The Watson family is the weakest among the four major families, the main direction is industrial manufacturing and logistics production, simply put, it is a miscellaneous family specializing in hard work, neither the Lehman family has a strong military force, nor the advanced technology of the Manning family, nor the strong economic strength of the Brown family, and belongs to the bottom of the four families.

The reason why the Watson family is more miserable is not because they are too weak, but because they are too strong, so strong that there was a split within the family in the early days of immigrating to Wharton, and as a result, half of the family elite went to South Wharton, so Wharton has two Watson families, one in the north and one in the south, and they don't get along with each other.

Due to the greatly weakened strength, this immigrant has been licking his wounds for hundreds of years, and choosing to develop in the direction of logistics manufacturing is also a helpless move, after all, someone must do the dirty work, and there is no credit and a bit of hard work, at least he can maintain a certain voice at the decision-making level of North Wharton, and lay the foundation for his future re-emergence.

The last question to ask is the boss of the Brown family, Duke Kim Brown!

This one's question is closely related to his family's direction: "How much does a new fighter cost?" ”

Aldrich said: "Five times that of an ordinary fighter." ”

Kim Brown frowned slightly, and was about to speak, only to hear Aldrich add: "This cost is the cost of that person's landline." If it is installed in the troops, it can be appropriately reduced by some configurations, after all, the current configuration is difficult for even the baron to completely control. ”

When Kim Brown got to his lips, he changed his words and said, "What is the cost of reducing the formulation?" ”

Now it was Aldrich's turn to frown, and the other party asked questions again and again, this attitude was a little abnormal, but he still replied patiently: "3 times that of ordinary fighters." ”

After pondering for a moment, Kim Brown looked around at everyone and said expressionlessly: "The cost of construction is high, and the current military expenditure is very tight, my opinion is to postpone the change of clothes, and wait for the cost to be further reduced and then considered." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Maxwell, the patriarch of the Lehman family who was sitting opposite him, laughed, pointed to the live broadcast screen and said: "A fighter plane knocked out a flying squadron of others, but he was unscathed, not to mention three times the cost, even ten times the cost is worth it." ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at it with their eyes, and found that the more than 40 enemy planes that were still rushing towards the new fighter just now were actually not a single one left at this moment!

During the dialogue between the four big guys, Li Yi's new fighter actually used the hanging tactics in space warfare, using the absolute advantage of speed and altitude, to easily kill a physical aircraft flight squadron of the enemy from afar, but what he didn't know at the moment was that while playing a new advertisement, he accidentally slapped Kim Brown, one of the four big guys, in the face.

Kim Brown is a big guy in the end, and his cheeky and black-hearted kung fu has long been perfected, and after being slapped in the face, he changed his words again as if it hadn't happened before: "I retract the opinion just now." ”

"Okay, this motion passed unanimously."

Maxwell, the rotating chairman, knocked on the table and said, "Then move on to the next topic: you can discuss how to settle that foreign nobleman......