Stepping down the long milky staircase in front of the Capitol building into the main entrance of the building, Congressional Secretary Able and a large row of black-clad and solemn-looking congressional security guards behind him appeared in Ansel's eyes.

Whispering a few words to the family members around him, Anse Air strode towards Parliamentary Secretary Abel who was walking towards him.

Compared to the personable, handsome and charming Ansel, Abel was thin and had narrow eyes like an ugly retinue at the prince's side. But in the upper class of the Raymond Federation, no one will underestimate this non-existent guy, because behind him also stands a powerful family, the Morgan family.

The Morgan family is the undisputed financial oligarchy of the Raymond Federation, and its tentacles are spread across all walks of life, and they also have a significant position in heavy industry and land development in marginal areas.

Compared to the Osvids, who are remote and focus too much on the development of arms and military power, the Morgan family's power is rooted in the Afar capital area, and in the newly opened Barnard system of the Federation, the Morgan family also tries to establish absolute dominance like the Othello family in Othello.

Right now, Abel who has the eleventh right to inherit the Morgan family? Morgan will greet Anse Air here, and there is already another meaning behind it.

"On behalf of all members of Congress, I welcome you, Mr. Ansel, and wish you every success in your meeting with His Excellency Dawson." Able shook hands with Anse Air in a very official manner.

"I heard that this meeting was scheduled to be public?" Ansel asked casually as he was being screened by the security guards.

"Yes, Your Excellency Dawson has arranged for you to speak in public to all the members of the Diet."

"Public speaking?" Anse El waved away the security guards who had already completed the security check, and sneered: "This is what Mr. Dawson meant?" Or you, or ......"

"Please be assured that this arrangement will not be detrimental to you or to the Ausveld family." Able interrupted Ansel's speculation and personally led him into the automatic belt leading to the podium in the Congressional Chamber.

Standing on the armrest belt that was slowly advancing, Anse Air was a little uncertain about Abole's ambiguous words. As far as Abel himself is concerned, he is a stable and scheming man, and the fact that he can become the spokesman of the Morgan family in Congress as the eleventh in line to the throne is in itself a testament to his ability.

Able is undoubtedly a good politician, but it is a popular adage in the Raymond Federation to believe that criminals should not be believed in politicians, so Anse Air would never believe that the Morgan family did not contribute to the turmoil against the Ausvid family because of Abel's promise-like words before. What really makes Anse El doubt is not whether the sincerity expressed by Able is true, but what exactly does the Morgan family, who are driving this turmoil, want, and where will their real goals be?

With such doubts, Anse El entered the three-dimensional conference hall of the Congress without moving, and saw Raymond Federal President standing in the center of the podium: Dawson.

At this moment, Dawson had finished his speech and saw Anse El walking towards the podium. However, he did not mean to meet Ansel, but walked directly to his own seat, leaving the much-anticipated podium to the young Ansel.

Looking up at the spiraling seats around him, and then at the podium standing in the center, Anse El felt the solemn atmosphere brewing in the air, and it was clear that Dawson wanted to give him a dismount, and in this atmosphere, the podium under the spotlight seemed to become an interrogation table, which made people feel very stressed.

Anse Air took a deep breath, suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, resolutely stepped up to the podium, saluted the congressmen seated at each seat very gentlemanly, and introduced himself: "I am Anse Elle, a diplomat from the administrative star of Othello?" Auswed, I am very grateful to His Excellency the President for arranging this public speech......"

Anse Air is a qualified orator who brings out his best with his unparalleled demeanor and charisma. And, in his thousand-word speech, he sidestepped the Auswides' responsibility for the defeat and turned the conversation entirely to the question of whether Congress really took the war seriously, and whether it was sufficient before the war.

Before the Federation launched the July War, the Raymond Federation was actually engaged in another local war, and the location of the war was the Raymond Federation's newest colony: the Barnard system.

The Barnard System, a land conquered by the Federation, is not a terra nullius, and the Barnard System, with one star and two planets, is a marquisate of a marquis in the Hoffman Empire.

To go to war with a nobleman from another country as one nation is a self-evident outcome. However, the Hoffman Empire, a country with a monarchical system, is recognized as the largest power in the galaxy, and it is one of the few powerful empires in the galaxy that has the strength to set foot in the galaxy.

Offending a marquis in such a powerful empire would inevitably scare many conservatives in the Commonwealth. However, when the battle of Barnard's system was not yet fully clear, the Othello Executive Star Council led by the Osvid family proposed a proposal to expedition to the solar system, and mobilized the power of the Osvid family in the military to force the Congress to pass the bill of this two-front operation.

In fact, when the Osvid family proposed an expedition to the solar system on behalf of the Othello Executive Star Council, the other powerful families in the Federation did not object. Because in the eyes of these wealthy leaders, the Osvid family, which is far away from the Alpha Capital Circle, is just a local wealthy family, and the solar system, the birthplace of mankind, does not have much value. They believe that the reason why the Osvid family proposed to expedition to the solar system is because Othello is too far away from the federal capital Alpha Star, and Othello is the only companion planet of the star Proxima Centauri, so the future development path of the Osvid family has actually been limited. Faced with this dilemma, the Osvid family chose to fight head-on with many wealthy families rooted in the Alpha Capital Area, but only to launch foreign wars to gain new territory and seek development space through war.

If the starting point is to start a war, then the Osvid family, who occupy the star of Othello, has an unparalleled advantage. Because the only R-N black hole in the Federation that can jump between galaxies is in the star field near Othello, and the binary black hole in the Alpha Capital Circle is a one-way short-distance wormhole that can only be used for space jumps in the galaxy, so the administrative stars in the Alpha Capital Circle actually do not have the conditions to launch expeditions, and all expeditions of the Federation must use Othello as the starting point.

On the Federation's interstellar map, Othello exists as an expedition launch point and a line of defense on the Federation's borders. Through the binary black hole near the Alpha Capital Circle, the four administrative stars in the Capital Circle can deploy fleets to reach Othello in five days, but if it is the other way around, it will take two and a half months for a fleet to reach the Alpha Capital Circle. Therefore, the Alpha Capital Circle, which has this convenient condition, is not worried about losing control of the powerful Osvid family on the frontier.

The ambitious Osvid family is also unwilling to become the gatedog of other wealthy families in the Federation, due to its proximity to the E-18 black hole, it is far easier for the Osvid family to travel to other star fields than to the Alpha Capital Circle. Under this premise, expeditions became the only direction in which the Ausvelds continued to expand.

However, in the vast universe, there are not many planets suitable for life, so all along, the Osvid family has been suffering from no suitable goal and can only wait silently.

However, when the Federal Congress, instigated by the Morgan family, passed the bill for an expedition to the Barnard system, the Osvid family, who had been deliberately excluded from the expedition, finally couldn't bear it. As if they were hungry, they chose the almost forgotten solar system as their target, and proposed a two-front operation proposal to attack both the Barnard system and the solar system.

For this reason, many wealthy families in the Federation once ridiculed the hunger of the Ausvid family. Because the Federation is originally from the solar system, there is a visceral contempt for the overexploited earth and the desolate and barren solar system.

After all, during the Age of Discovery, all chaebols without exception chose to escape from the barren solar system and look for primitive planets like Planet Alpha, which had abundant natural resources and had not undergone any development. But now, the Osvid family's proposal to go on an expedition against the abandoned galaxy has undoubtedly become a ridiculous farce.

However, no one doubted the victory of the expedition. Because under the Nine-Star Republic's lock-off policy, the Raymond Federation and other countries actually didn't know what the Nine-Star Republic had developed into 28 years after the founding of the country, and in their imagination, it was not bad that the poor people who were abandoned on the earth did not die completely, so they did not expect to encounter stubborn resistance in the expedition against the Nine-Star Republic, and the fleet allocated was not a regular army, but a ragtag army composed of service soldiers and mercenaries.

And it was this contempt that led to the real outcome of the war that caused an uproar among all the federal population. Because not so long ago, the Federation had just won the Barnard system. In this case, the fact that the Federation Army was defeated in the solar system was somewhat unacceptable to the people. Therefore, with the help of some people, the Morgan family, who indirectly won the victory of the Barnard system, rose to the top, while the defeated Osvid family became the target of public criticism.

And just as Ansel, in order to salvage his family's reputation, expressed the mood of his speech vividly, a voice that was very familiar to all the citizens of the Federation interrupted his impassioned speech.

"Data doesn't lie, people don't need to deceive, what is needed is sincere explanations and apologies. Mr. Ansel, can you explain why war is being waged against such a resource-poor galaxy as the Solar System? Will this war benefit the Federation, and will the military make tactical mistakes in this humiliating defeat? ”

(To be continued)