For Nandu GDI, Tan Kang should be regarded as a chief executive of quite special significance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 He not only witnessed the rise and fall of North and South China, the coup d'état in which the Young Zhuang faction seized power and changed the world, but also experienced the decentralization movement that made GDI exist in name only. Although the decentralization movement was a change of soup, for the GDI, it was equivalent to withdrawing from the stage of history. He was the last Governor-General of the Southern GDI and the first Prime Minister of the "democratically elected" government. For example, according to the historical practice of the feudal era, there are no more than two titles after his death: "Emperor Yang" or "Taizu". However, this kind of self-contradictory status symbol cannot be tolerated by non-eloquent people.

Tan Kang naturally can't afford this kind of evaluation, his personality and family background determine that he can't be as resolute and decisive as most iron-fisted leaders from poor backgrounds, but take the ****** route. In the past few years of working in the GDI ****** Nandu, he has made friends everywhere, woven a network of relationships, and traveled among the high-level leaders of the Ningbei and Shanghai factions, but he has never had any unique insights or practices. I can establish him as a leader by force, but I can't fundamentally change his prestige and reputation. After the decentralization, he had more excuses to push my request, but in fact the power did continue to pass through his fingers. Although Han Han and Titus also have the back-up of the power group, they have created their own world more by relying on their personal courage, ability and coordination, and Tan Kang can't do it.

Guo Guang, who stepped on the two worlds of yin and yang, watched him from the chief minister to the prime minister in Nandu, and felt deeply about it. After drinking two more glasses at the party on the day of the tsunami, he made this comment to Tan Kang without hesitation: "That guy is like a twelve or thirteen-year-old child who has inherited billions of family fortunes, trying to get rid of the guardianship of a distant uncle who seems to be watching over his wealth. After really getting rid of it, I found that I couldn't eat anything, and I couldn't keep such a big mess of property, but I didn't want to turn back anyway. ”

It is really difficult for such a person to be the head of a great country. Tan Kang himself is also aware of his own strengths and weaknesses, and when he built an army, it was limited to a small scale, and it was handed over to Zhu Helai, an absolute follower, to be in charge. There was nothing wrong with this arrangement, but the bad thing was that Zhu Helai, who was originally very ambitious, was frightened by the purge of Nandu by me Huang Er on stage and Simba singing, and he aged 20 years old overnight, and he no longer had any enterprising spirit, and most of the time he just messed around with the title of Minister of Defense. It doesn't matter if he lives alone, the army system below still has rules and regulations to follow, and he will operate and be promoted step by step without him. It was not until the North China Army rebelled and the Jianghuai Army was restless that he began to realize the seriousness of the problem, but at this time he still did not try to correct the situation. In other words, even if he had that will, he could not and too late to change the crisis.

The trigger for the eventual event seemed small, just a commonplace underpayment. The modern army is not like the ancient era where it can eat the place - if you let the privileged people find their own money, they will inevitably have problems eating, and they must rely entirely on the state treasury to provide for it, and this law has been summed up thousands of years ago and has been confirmed for decades since the great era. But when Tan Kang took over Nandu GDI, it was really a mess in his hands. Although it is a large country, it has caused a terrible deficit due to the uneven development between the North and the South, huge expenditures, and overdraft to support the construction of the Gonggong fortress in the future. In this case, it is also necessary to deal with threats to the will of the people and build up an army that is strong enough to defend the country. The money that should be spent still has to be spent, and the army has demolished and built up the land, but the deficit is even more.

According to the established policy, the treatment of the Jianghuai army was not bad, but the financial department never gave enough money. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, the actual salaries of officers are only about 70 percent of the income of local civil servants. For the Jianghuai Army, which is stationed in a rich land and has strong troops, it is certain that they are generally unhappy. Fortunately, the finance department did not say that it would not give, but only said that it was owed first--it was not bad to admit the debt, but it was not honored.

After the Li Lin rebellion in 74 years, the North China Army was dismantled. Most of them were reorganized into the Northeast Army, and a small part was incorporated into the Jianghuai Army. Relying on this incident as an opportunity, the Jianghuai Army took the opportunity to open its mouth and proposed a higher budget. This kind of move is also very reasonable, everyone in the government knows that no matter how accurate the budget is, the financial side will be cut down drastically, it is better to do a lot of fiction, so that he will have a surplus after the cut. According to the thinking of ordinary people, no matter how ruthless the financial examination is, and there is not much left, you should be able to get enough of what you deserve. It would be even better if the finances were merciful and cashed in the arrears of previous years. As soon as the new budget was reported, the old units of the North China Army that had been assigned to the North China Army went to the northeast to make trouble again, and as a result, they were locked up in a small black room in an organized manner, but the financial department did not send the budget report back for rewriting.

This illusion was maintained until the Spring Festival. When the budget for the 75th year was announced, a tsunami suddenly struck. The Jianghuai Army undertook the task of disaster relief along the east and southeast coasts of China, and was so busy that it was full of urine. The whole country is in chaos, and no one is embarrassed to collect money.

It was not until late March that the finances began to work normally, and on April 15, the official budget for '75 was released. The dream of honoring the arrears and increasing the salaries that all the officers and men of the Jianghuai Army hoped for was not successful, but a dead letter was ushered in, demanding that all the officers and men continue to carry forward the spirit of selfless dedication and be loyal to the country -- the tsunami caused enormous damage and the financial situation was unprecedentedly difficult, so the payment of the Jianghuai Army's soldiers' allowances and officers' regional allowances was suspended. In contrast, the navy and the Arab armies in remote areas were not treated unfairly. In the face of the questioning of the financial officer of the Jianghuai Army, the Ministry of Finance only sent a deputy minister to deal with it, and as soon as they met, he raised his hat: "They are in a remote and barbaric land, and the conditions are difficult, how can they be on a par with you?" You are in the center of China, you are all in the blood of Yan and Huang, you should know and understand the difficulties of the country, and your ideological consciousness must be higher than them to be qualified! ”

The problem is that the officers and men of the Jianghuai Army in the prosperous area of China are not superhuman, they all have to eat to support their families. Many of them are also burdened with the many orphans of their relatives left behind after the July incident, and it is quite common for one person to earn seven or eight mouths, and it is impossible to live at all. Moreover, the Ministry of Finance has not allocated salaries to the Jianghuai Army since January '75 (disaster relief funds are earmarked funds and are not allowed to be misappropriated), and all the officers and men of the Jianghuai Army could not afford to pass the festival, so Lin Tiefeng used his personal influence to turn over tens of millions of short-term loans from local entrepreneurs and gave them an advance of the first three months' salary. This kind of thing itself is very dangerous, and it will cause the centrifugal force and prestige of the generals to rise sharply at the same time. It's a pity that Tan Kang and Zhu Helai, who understand the seriousness of this kind of thing and can intervene, don't know about it at all. They have their own things to do, and they don't have time to take care of such trivial things as dividing money.

As a result, on the very vulgar issue of military salaries, the accumulation of historical grievances and recent changes have caused the dissatisfaction of the entire Jianghuai Army to reach a historical high. At the same time, the tsunami relief efforts and the tough tactics against Japan have earned them social praise and high honors, and in this case, the non-payment of wages itself has become more like a provocation and insult. On the one hand, there is a heavy burden of life, and on the other hand, there is an insult that damages honor, and in the face of these two attacks, any bloody man can't sit still.

I stopped at this point, and for two or three minutes there was no reply. Han Han waited and stared dryly, so he had to speak: "So, you still sympathize with them?" In this way, they were completely forced to rebel and deserve the rebels of the same period, so it is normal for you to support them and serve as their spiritual leader? ”

"For the average soldier and most junior officers, it is so. If I, Huang Er, had never made a fortune, mixed in this kind of army, old and young, with seven or eight mouths asking for food but not getting paid, there were also only two choices for this kind of thing: suicide or revolution. ”

"So, what about mid- and high-ranking officers?"

"They're different." I smiled slightly: "There are some details you don't know. When I had just returned from the front, Ma Wei, a middle-ranking officer of the Jianghuai Army, had come into contact with me. When the lecture hall was established, the Jianghuai Army sent people to help me rebuild the highway from Jinzhou to Huludao. During the period before I won the Nepal tax, funds were tight, and the Ma Wei family's Ma family had also given me millions of financial support, otherwise it would have been a problem to eat for a while. When the remnants of the North China Army were in turmoil, they also secretly communicated information in time. In contrast, the relationship between the Jianghuai Army and me is much better than that of the North China Army. ”

Han Han's face became solemn: "That's a purpose, right?" ”

"We're all smart people, so let's stop going around in circles." I nodded and said, "There is a group of young Zhuang faction forces in the army and the government, which have been preparing for a long time. Tsunamis may be unpredictable and unavoidable natural disasters, the Kyushu incident is an accident, and non-payment of wages is all too commonplace. These contradictions are entangled and burst out, and it is also an accident, the same as what happened to you, understand? ”

"You mean, it has to happen eventually, sooner or later, right?"

At this time, Basque Ice suddenly knocked on the door of the cellar outside, and shouted: "Come out, the TV report is out, it's beautiful, it's beautiful!" ”

Although relations with China have not been really good since the July incident, the level of concern for each other has always remained high. The news of the coup d'état in Nandu was being broadcast on television, and the edited footage was apparently collected by the hands of many people, and the ambassadors, reporters, and expatriates of the country who were in Nandu at this time gave their strength to send back the short footage before the Jianghuai army occupied the center of the network. As can be seen from the film, many government institutions in Nandu have been attacked. The fighting at the entrance of the National Police Department and the Armed Police Corps is still quite fierce, but the Chinese Congress and the central government have been occupied. In a picture shot by an amateur with ultra-telephoto infrared, the TV station's editorial staff freezes a blurred moment. To the average person, that image doesn't mean much, but I don't need to look at the subtitles below to get a clear picture of the facts: Tan Kang and Guo Guangzheng are escorted into the car with a large group of officials, flanked by heavily armed soldiers. From this point of view, the resistance of the police and the PAPF was meaningless, and the coup had de facto succeeded.

"It's a shame not to be here now." Han Leng smiled and said, "Actually, I always regret supporting Tan Kang, right?" And disobedient guys like me and Titus will be ousted one by one sooner or later. ”

"You're too narrow-minded!" I turned my face and glared at her sternly, "You've been on the ground for too long, and you've been carried away by the glitz and glamour of human and political relationships. Actually, none of us are that complicated people. You can understand a lot of things just by thinking about it simply. ”

Han Han shrugged his shoulders and said, "Then tell me about it, I can't understand why you called me here tonight." Just to show your success with this TV show? It's nothing more than the second Hojo Kamakura, so there's nothing to be proud of. ”

"If it had been a simple coup d'état, I might have allowed them to do so. After all, as you said, Tan Kang did a lot of things that didn't go as I wanted. I shook my head and suddenly exclaimed, "But how can such a person expect hope?" A week ago, after Ma Wei went to Huludao to lobby and visit, two submarines carrying first-class combat readiness weapons suddenly appeared in the Bohai Sea. They thought I didn't know anything! If I honestly accept all the arrangements and wait for them to go to Nandu to be a puppet symbol after the successful coup d'état, maybe it's nothing. If there's even the slightest mistake, maybe it's going to be blown to pieces! ”

Han Han's face turned white all of a sudden, and he said, "Impossible, right? You...... Why do you know this? You don't have information about the fleet and the submarine sonar network, how can you ......?"

"None of this matters, the problem is that I know it. Any idea how I got here? He actually had to act in disguise in his own jurisdiction, sneaking north for a thousand kilometers to take a plane in Hatun! I was still angry, and said hatefully, "Those guys are too ambitious, they really have the guts and plans to carry out that kind of plan." ”

"That kind of plan?"

"They will overthrow the existing democracy...... Well, although hypocritical, in some ways, at least a republican situation has been maintained. After overthrowing, they will establish a totalitarian system, control the power of the entire country, and then launch a foreign expansion, the first goal of which is peace. Ma Wei told me about this grand idea two years ago. ”

"But I still don't understand why you're so disgusted." There was still a slight sarcasm in Han Han's tone: "Isn't this the same as what your people did in the Northeast?" It's just because they want to control you that they're so angry? ”

"What I have done is the means, and what they have done is the end. The fundamental philosophy is different, so you understand? ”

Han Han hesitated for a while and said, "I think, after so many years, I should still know you." You are really not a fascist, but more inclined to anarchism. But why would you do that? They want global domination, and why do you do that? Please give me a reasonable reason. In other words, please give me a reason to continue living in this world and help you do things that go against my ideals. ”

I smiled and said, "I'm a big man, and I'm more open-minded than them—I say I want to dominate the universe, is that okay?" ”

Han Han suddenly lowered his face and shouted, "When you say such serious things, please don't mess with me!" ”

"I have a dream......" I looked at the stunned face and smiled slightly, "No, no, it's not a declaration of freedom." It's a bad dream, a lingering nightmare. It's been eight years since the July incident, and although it's not a night and a half, every week and a half always comes to report to me. Whether I was in Nebuchu or far away from the war-torn star, that nightmare never came to haunt me, as if it had been deeply rooted in my consciousness. It was a horrible dream and I saw our planet burning, crumbling. Unspeakable monsters and ghostly figures flickered in the flames. The course of dreams is not the same, but the results are all the same. Our world has turned into cosmic dust. ”

Han Han smiled bitterly and shrunk his shoulders and said, "Is there any mistake, don't talk nonsense and be scary." It's the end of April now, but I still feel cold when I hear it. ”

"It's not nonsense." I looked into her eyes and smiled, "It's been eight years, and I've experienced this kind of dream at least two or three hundred times, how can I be wrong?" Although we have achieved basically military superiority over the years, this dream has taught me again and again that these are only superficial. Danger and murder will eventually come and destroy our world to the point where nothing remains. At that time, whether it is democracy or ****, politicians, profiteers, and ordinary people...... There will be nothing left. What you are obsessed with now, whether it is good or bad, if you end up facing this kind of outcome, it makes no difference, it doesn't matter anymore. ”

Han Han was shaken, but he still grasped the suspicion in my words and asked: "You have been down for more than two years, and you have not seen any signs of your strong desire to fight, why are you saying this to me now?" ”

"I used to think that there was still plenty of time, after all, it was the asymmetrical speed of time passing, and if I did more work here, maybe it would be more successful in the future, and the impact on the world would be the smallest." I smiled bitterly: "I was wrong at the beginning, although I had a premonition of that kind of thing, I still tried to solve it alone." It wasn't until a few days ago that I learned about an incident that dawned on me that it was developing faster than I expected, and that it was impossible to change it without the help of the power of all mankind. Hopefully, it's not too late. ”

"Rhubarb, what you said for a long time is unfounded, it's all alarmist, and no one will believe you, except me." Han Han sighed: "It's a pity that I know you too well. I remember the first time I saw you talk to me like this when I was in Nanguoyuan, and every time you spoke to me like this for so many years, I encountered an insurmountable crisis. No matter what the motive, you will deceive Asano, you will deceive Chen Qi, but you will never lie to me like this. So, I want to believe you - but not everyone in the world believes in you as much as I do. Does Bingbing know it? He will believe it if he knows it, but the little thief may not, let alone Tan Kang, Huo Shuxiang and the like. If you don't understand the people of the world, how can you use their power? ”

"I've decided, I'm sure you'll understand, maybe you've guessed my decision." I stood up, looked out the window at the sky burned red by the volunteers, and said categorically: "Humans are selfish and forgetful animals. Now that the trauma of the July events has been almost forgotten, the distant destruction of the world will not be convincing. I don't have the time or patience to explain everything to them, I just need to get them to accept my decision. I will not forgive anyone who stands in the way of my actions. The first thing at the moment is to crush Lin Tiefeng's ambitions and let him know who the real chess player is! ”

As if I was being voiced, a powerful explosion suddenly occurred in the nearby neighborhood, and the smoke of flames rose into the night, and some rubble even fell not far from the window. I shook my hand without looking back and said, "It doesn't matter, it's still safe here." I'm afraid it's one of the few places in Shinkyo that's quiet. ”

Han Han seemed to be suppressed by this kind of voice that was with heaven and earth, and it took a long time before he said: "I understand, although I don't know your specific steps, but I have understood your determination and the crisis you are about to face. I really can't say such big words as saving the world, and that's not my duty. From now on, I will return to your tent again to be sent. Even if you are misunderstood and scolded by the world, please give orders. After all, I finally know who I am fighting for, no longer an ethereal idea, but you who are full of overlordship. ”

Hearing her say this, I relieved myself and nodded my head in satisfaction, and was about to reassure her when she suddenly asked a crucial question: "What is it that makes you suddenly feel uneasy to change your plans and act immediately—can you tell me?" ”

I nodded slightly and said, "Of course you can, but it's really not a good thing, so you have to be mentally prepared." Half a month ago, on the afternoon of April 5, I received a top-secret battle report, handwritten by Overmars, which could only be opened with my own electronic signature. ”

Han Han was taken aback: "So top secret, so that we didn't know about it for so many days?" ”

"Of course, I'll destroy it after I see it, and you're the second person on the main planet to know about it." My tone unconsciously began to grow cold: "There has been a second Battle of the Revenant Highway in the Bourbon system, and our garrison fleet is missing. The sky over Nebuchu had been cut off by the Feria Returning Air Force. Simba's future has been cut off and he is rushing back to the sea, and Niphelson's news has been completely cut off. (To be continued.) )