Capital Star.

A five-storey building in the district is not large, but it is slightly old, and from the outside it looks like it is covered with a dull layer of dust, and the alloy frame on it is even mottled and rusty, and in some places, it is crawling with verdant evergreen vines.

Under these vines, there is a thick and soft, grass-like layer of withered leaves, and if you look at the veins of Teng Yu, it is like a withered hair that is covered by the green new vines, densely packed, so that these new vines have more and more vitality revealed in the image of withered glory.

This building has existed here for hundreds of years, those withered rattans, at least a hundred years old, those metal frames mottled rust, those rǔ white sè buildings have lost their original sèze and appear a little dusty and bleak, naturally with a trace of years and time passing mercilessly on it.

Although this small building in the district has lost its youthful charm after hundreds of years, it does not prevent it from bursting with a sense of power from the light inside.

This is the Great Eagle Empire's Defense Headquarters Building, with only five floors and an area of less than 40 acres in the downtown area, but it is covered by the surrounding vegetation and often chūn vines, so those luxurious commercial buildings and office buildings opposite the people who queue up from the sidewalk every day to pass by at the red light may not know that this is the national defense center of the Great Eagle Empire.

At this time, it was late at night in the capital star, but the various units within the Ministry of Defense were brightly lit up in an invisible and intense atmosphere.

In the defense secretary's room, Charles sat on a large massage chair in imitation leather, facing a paper on a redwood desk with the national flag, his elbows propped on the table, his hands crossed and overlapped, leaning against his lips, silent.

As soon as he finished talking on the phone with Vice Admiral Charlotte, the commander of the Fifth Fleet, there was a knock on the door, and after permission and authorization, the door opened, and a middle-aged man with a very thin appearance and sharp eyes walked in.

And above the epaulettes, there is a mark of an eagle, and three gold stars below.

Samsung Lieutenant General Stephen.

A lieutenant general is not Stephen's highest honor, his highest glory is the insignia on his uniform.

Stephen's Ivory Marquis family is the hereditary aristocracy of the empire, because of the family's illustrious history, as well as the cultivation of jīng Ying within the aristocracy, today's Stephen is not only a three-star lieutenant general in charge of logistics and combat readiness of the Imperial Ministry of Defense, but also a senior member of the Imperial House of Lords.

The Great Eagle Empire's participation in politics is a parliamentary system, and there is a planetary council on the planet, which is responsible for the operation of the planet, and a star district where multiple planets are gathered, there is a star council, which is responsible for formulating unconstitutional laws and regulations for the entire star region, and is in charge of financial and other resources. Above the District Council is the Imperial Congress.

The Diet, known as the "brain of the nation", is divided into an upper house and a lower house.

The House of Commons is the body with the largest number of members and the most extensive function of representing and supervising the executive of the Cabinet.

In general, the House of Commons held the highest power in the entire empire. The composition of the House of Commons is the Speakers elected by the major planets, the Speakers of the Star Districts, and these people may be hereditary noble families, or they may be commoners who have been in politics for many years. The current Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet is elected by the House of Commons, and the administration of the entire Empire is under the supervision of the House of Commons, which is responsible for the appointment and dismissal of officials, the formulation and adjudication of bills.

At first glance, entering the House of Commons has reached the peak of a politician's greatest ideals and aspirations in his life, but there is an invisible power above the power, which is the so-called "King's Whip" of the House of Lords.

The House of Lords is also known as the House of Lords.

This means that the entire House of Lords was formed by the descendants of the imperial royal family, hereditary nobles, and lifelong noble families over the long history of the empire. In the long history of the Great Eagle Empire, many aristocratic families once monopolized the energy, minerals, population, culture, information and other aspects of the empire, involving every vein of the empire.

With the progress of the times, after the establishment of a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, these great nobles hidden at the national level naturally occupied a place in the upper house led by the king, like a city in the clouds standing above the sky.

The House of Commons has the right to appoint cabinet personnel in the empire and has the right to elect the prime minister, but on top of these powers, the House of Lords also has a "personnel building power", that is, the highest officials of the entire imperial cabinet, including the imperial prime minister, the Supreme Court official, the executive ambassador, the secretary of state, and the minister of defense, must first write the "building list" in the upper house before they can vote in the lower house. Although the House of Commons has the power of impeachment against the Prime Minister and the Minister, impeachment cases must be tried by the House of Lords.

The House of Commons can propose national policies and regulations, but they can only be implemented after the House of Lords vetoes them.

The House of Lords, led by the king, plays an extremely important role in the formulation and revision of the Constitution, while the House of Commons cannot violate the principles of the Constitution

Although the power of the House of Lords is much greater than that of the House of Commons, for almost a long time, the House of Lords did not interfere in the control of the cabinet of the House of Commons, and in the eyes of the people, the entire House of Lords is like a behemoth suspended in the sky, with a certain majestic posture of entrenched authority, maintaining the peaceful and quiet operation of the entire empire under the constitutional level, representing the supreme constitutional monarchy of the empire.

Despite the nobility of the House of Lords, it is still impossible to hide the influence of the ubiquitous power of the House of Lords on the lower layers of the pyramid.

If the Speakers of the House of Commons who have spent at least half their lives climbing to the House of Commons are still looking up at the stars, they must be looking up to the towering Babel seats in the House of Lords.

Being able to occupy a seat on it may mean that in the thousands of years of history of the entire empire, there is your imprint, which will be imprinted on the starry sky territory of thousands of light years, and will always be looked up to by future generations.

So in the entire Great Eagle Empire, nobility is a word that represents the king's approval, nobility, tenacity, strength, and great authority.

How many generations of hard work and buried bones will it take to go from being a planetary to becoming a councillor, to going to the star sector, and finally entering the House of Commons, and then climbing to the House of Lords? And how many have died one after the other above those thresholds?

Therefore, there has always been a golden saying in the imperial society - "Every nobleman sitting in the seat of the House of Lords is no less than a living fossil."

Looking at the mark of the noble family of the House of Lords on the insignia of Stephen's uniform, a trace of complexity and depth passed through the eyes of Charles United. He was the Minister of Defense of the Empire, but even if he was in power for a while, the weight of a decision made the nobles in the upper house of the clouds have to carefully weigh the three points, but after his abdication, these weights and positions naturally ceased to exist.

However, the noble families in the House of Lords have been able to maintain a huge control over the economy, maintaining their influence in all parts of the empire, at all levels, in terms of humanities, history, energy, transportation, economy, and materials.

Therefore, how many families, after countless generations of hard work, just hope to occupy a place in the House of Lords, and leave a touch of splendor in the history of the Great Eagle Empire.

But in the end, this is a height that can only be seen from afar and can never be touched, shining like a star.

The skinny Stephen can be regarded as a "allimate" of Charles in the House of Lords, serving as a minister in a position of real power in the cabinet, although nominally from the support of the House of Commons, but these are far from enough.

Although the empire has developed to the present year, there are enough mínzhǔ and advanced xìng, although the big nobles in the upper house have privileges, they will never risk being criticized by the media or the people to arbitrarily exercise power, perhaps it is the self-discipline of these nobles, so the power of the upper house is now higher than that of the large number of lower houses, and they continue to maintain the system of constitutional monarchy, perhaps because of the enthusiastic support of the people of the empire

The aristocracy in the Great Eagle Empire represents a group of jīng Ying, who represent extraordinary people who are endowed with higher power and more responsibility.

Because of certain restrictions on rights and obligations, the nobles of the House of Lords will not be rude to politics, but they will always choose some "spokespersons" to show their existence, or seek some "allies" of the cabinet or the House of Commons to express their interests and even fulfill some of their ambitions and ideals.

The fact that Charles was able to achieve the height of a five-star admiral was inseparable from the support of a group of nobles in the House of Lords. On one level, he also represents their interests.

"Why refuse?" Stephen's somewhat muffled voice rang out in the Secretary of State for Defense's office.

"The noble girl Xia Ying has become a thorn in the side of some people, and the big nobles in the House of Lords will never allow to see the marriage of your two families. The checks and balances of the two factions in the House of Lords have been going on for many years, and your actions will break this subtle balance, and some people are afraid of the drastic changes that will be brought about, so if it is possible to prevent the marriage of the two of you, they will definitely do it, although it is not despicable, but it is absolutely not a means to compromise, because the struggle in the House of Lords does not tolerate benevolent thoughts. ”

Stephen took a deep breath, stepped forward, and said in a wrong tone, "There is evidence that the air thief forces of New South Star have obtained the news of your noble daughter Xia Ying and are searching for her, if Miss Gui is found by air thieves in this chaotic time, I dare to guarantee that she will never be able to return to the imperial society."

"That kid from the Chen family personally arranged it, and it is said that he used the energy of some allies to make the king's sword mecha regiment establish a second target plan...... But you personally rejected it...... I'd love to know if you really have no intention of bringing about a marriage? You must know the key role that Xia Ying plays in this...... What's more, she is still such a lovely flower girl, as a father, you can't bear to watch her being captured by air thieves and suffering a tragic fate?

Charles Shard's gaze was a little scarlet and pierced Stephen, and those ordinary eyes seemed to be some kind of huge wave, but his words were unusually calm, calm to the point of a terrible cruelty, "That kid is so nonsense, you are a lieutenant general, are you also so nonsense?" The escort of the Imperial frigate ended up burying the Pegasus, and now it is going to let the Sword Mecha Regiment carry out the second target plan, you must know that they are facing the opponent's ace special mecha force, and it is a few staggered matchups, we have never had the upper hand in the Xipang Royal Domineering Special Forces I know better than anyone what kind of opponent this special mecha regiment directly under the king is about to face If it is because of the second goal of saving my daughter, the sword mecha regiment will not be able to complete the task...... So do you want to see the ensuing war between the Sipon Empire and the Great Eagle Empire? At that time, not to mention the marriage, you and I, and even everyone who planned this qiē, will be investigated for dereliction of duty, do you think that your status as a member of the upper house of nobles can be exempted? ”

After a pause, Charles continued, "He's my daughter, and I care more than anyone else about her well-being, but I don't joke with the fate of my country. If I were an ordinary father who wanted me to save her with the fate of the entire empire, I would like to, but I am now the Minister of Defense, let me exchange the blood of countless children of the empire for my daughter...... Sorry, it's because I can do it, so I can't do it."

"As for the people who are plotting and agitating the air thieves behind their backs, they will not be able to harm my wife and children, since they dare to do something with my daughter...... I'm going to make them regret it."

Stephen gave Charles a deep look and was silent. After a while, he turned around and walked towards the door, and when he was at the door, the thin figure stood and sighed, "How fortunate it is that the empire has you Charde."

Stephen left for a long time, and Lu Guoshou, the first confidential secretary, walked in, faced the five-star general in front of him, saluted, and then handed a copy of the document in his hand to him.

"My lord, the results of the investigation are out, according to reliable information, at the time of the wreck of the Seagull, Miss Xia Ying was followed by this young man, and the information reported that the two had conflicts and misunderstandings on the passenger ship. And this man once had a conflict with the gendarmes led by Li Yifeng, the deputy captain of the Tianma, for Miss Xia Ying in the cargo hold, and was beaten by the gendarmes but did not fall, and after that, he fought alone with Li Yifeng, if it wasn't for the wounded fight, Li Yifeng probably wouldn't be able to take advantage of him.

"At the time of the shipwreck, Xia Ying and the documentary crew were protected by him, and when he broke through the shuttle passage, he single-handedly knocked five jǐng guards to the ground, showing that Xiàn showed extraordinary physical fitness and fighting skills underneath this, we have already recorded the black box of the Guò Seagull, and captured the appearance of the other party......"

Lu Guoshou unfolded the text jiàn, and the next thing was the recorder of the Guò Seagull, and the clear picture of the face was intercepted.

Further down is a series of textual materials.

"Here's where he came from and where he ...... background."

Charles looked at Wen Jiàn in his hand, and in his ordinary little eyes that were surging with wind and thunder, it seemed that he had found a glimmer of light in a desperate and violent storm, and his eyebrows gradually raised, "Oh...... It's called ...... Lin Hai. ”

"The ...... of the Speaker of the Riverside Star"

"Bastard?"