Home System, Federation Star, Federal Parliament Building.

Under the leadership of the federal guard officer, Lin Feng walked into the venue. Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, Lin Feng still felt a little nervous when he saw the tens of thousands of federal hospitals in the venue. In fact, this was also the first time Lin Feng came to this sacred place.

This edifice, made entirely of extremely hard dragon rock produced on the Dragon Rock Star, has been standing here for thousands of years, witnessing the rise and fall of the Human Federation. Even now, people have to sigh that the person who built this edifice in the first place, that is, the founder of the Human Federation, was too far-sighted. More than 4,000 years ago, when the Human Federation was still very weak, these people foresaw the future and built this edifice that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. Although at that time, there were only forty-nine members of the Human Federation Parliament. At that time, not to mention the fact that the Human Federation could develop to its current scale, no one even believed that the Human Federation could exist for thousands of years.

In a sense, this is the sacred place of the Human Federation.

More than 4,000 years ago, it was here that the founders of the Human Federation announced to all civilizations that there was a new member of the Galactic Alliance.

Although it is only a building made of dragon rock, it has great significance to anyone.

The main thing, of course, is symbolism.

For thousands of years, even in the most difficult moments, such as the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Federal Parliament building was not damaged.

It's just that it's not what it used to be.

Although the Federal Parliament building is open to all, as early as 2,000 years ago, after the end of the Third Greenwich War, the federal authorities introduced a targeted bill that clearly stated that only federal citizens had the right to enter the building. Approval must also be obtained.

Obviously, it was certainly not civilians who were allowed to enter the building.

Not to mention anything else, even Lin Feng had never been here before, let alone speaking in front of tens of thousands of parliamentarians.

You know, federal power is in the hands of more than 10,000 parliamentarians.

The same. The problems faced by the Federation of Humans are also related to the more than 10,000 members of the Commonwealth.

To put it simply, even a trivial matter cannot reach a consensus among more than 10,000 people, let alone a major event related to the future of the Federation.

Perhaps, the pioneers who built this edifice did not think of this problem either.

In the beginning, the Human Federation had only forty-nine members, of whom twenty-four were from federal authorities and the other twenty-five were elected by the five federal jurisdictions.

In fact, this has also become the basic system of the human federation.

For the next thousands of years. The jurisdiction of the Human Federation has expanded hundreds of times, not to mention that there are more than a thousand colonial galaxies under its jurisdiction. At the same time as the area of jurisdiction expanded, the population size of the Human Federation also swelled dramatically. By the time of the Sixth Greenwich War, the Human Federation had more than a thousand times the population of the Commonwealth of Humanity when it was first created. As a result, the number of federal parliamentarians has also expanded.

Half of the more than 10,000 deputies are from the federal authorities, to be precise, elected by the federal authorities. Elected representatives from the home system, i.e., citizens who have settled in the home system. The other half. All come from the various colonial galaxies, that is, the representatives of the colonial galaxies.

Although the purpose of this establishment is to maintain the unity and unity of the federation and to avoid the intensification of internal contradictions, the effect is the opposite. Quite simply, the interests of the home system and the colony system can never coincide, so the contradiction between the home system and the colony system will always exist. To put it mildly. As long as the home system is still high above and still plundering the resources of the colonial system, then the inhabitants of the colonial system will never be able to get together with the citizens of the home system, and the contradictions between the two classes will naturally be irreconcilable.

It can be said that this is the fundamental problem of the Federation of Mankind.

Although most of the time. The home system is dominant, and the reason is very simple, that is, the military power of the human federation is all in the hands of the home system, and the main army and the main fleet are deployed in the home system, and all the military plans of the human federation revolve around the home system, while the colonial system not only does not have its own military force, but also does not even have the power to form an armed force, so it naturally cannot compete with the home system. But in times of war, the dominance of the home system is not so obvious. To put it bluntly, if the colonized galaxy is lost, the home galaxy will be exposed to the enemy, and even the most powerful military force will be unable to support it alone.

The importance of colonizing galaxies has been proven countless times in the past several Greenwich Wars.

As a result, whenever war breaks out, the legislators of the colonial system seize the opportunity to demand more power from the federal authorities, or even some autonomy. Although the federal authorities will compromise when they are forced to do so, it is only a compromise, and it is a temporary compromise, and it does not fundamentally solve the contradiction between the home system and the colonial system, and no one has such ideas.

At the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, this contradiction almost led to the demise of the Human Federation.

At that time, if it weren't for Xiao Wentian standing up and uniting the Human Federation by fighting bloodily in the Lighthouse Star, I'm afraid the Human Federation would have ceased to exist a long time ago.

The problem is that after Xiao Wentian, there is no second person who can unite the Human Federation.

During the millennium of peace and prosperity, the internal contradictions of the Human Federation were not very prominent, at least they did not break out, and there was no chance of breaking out. The point is, the colonial galaxy simply has no capital to rebel. Although there have been several riots and even some rebellions, they have all been suppressed and have not had much impact on the overall stability of the Human Federation, and not many people even know about the riots that took place in the colonial galaxy.

Now, however, the situation is extremely delicate.

Before coming here, Lin Xiaoting talked to Lin Feng alone and introduced the current situation to her.

For the Human Federation, the biggest threat now is not the Silicon Charm army entrenched outside the home system, or even the all-out attack that has been launched, but the fact that the Human Federation has not yet reached an agreement on some key issues, and the resistance from the Federal Assembly is the biggest obstacle. For example, the Federal Parliament has not yet approved a compulsory conscription law, which authorizes the federal authorities to unconditionally conscript people of appropriate age into the armed forces.

At first, Lin Feng thought it was very strange.

It's just that after Lin Xiaoting explained the situation, she also understood what was going on.

In fact, the key is the contradiction between the home galaxy and the colony galaxy.

Shortly after the outbreak of the war, more than 1,000 legislators from the colonial systems signed a petition calling for legislation to give the colonial systems the right to form a self-defensive military force, and that federal authorities should provide substantial assistance to the colonial systems, such as necessary technical support. To put it simply, these councilors want the colonial system to be able to form a military force under the direct command of the colonial system's authorities with the support of the federal authorities. Of course, there are good reasons why the inhabitants of the colonial system have the right and duty to defend their homeland in the war against the invasion of the Silicon Alliance, and the federal authorities also have the obligation to support the inhabitants of the colonial system in defending their basic right to existence. If federal authorities are unable to provide adequate protection for the colony system and ensure the security of the colony system, it is time to decentralize.

Admittedly, this is a very good reason.

The problem is, that's not the main purpose.

To put it bluntly, what the legislators of the colonial system want is autonomy, and they want to coerce the federal authorities into making concessions by forming a military force.

Of course, this is not the first time.

At the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Colonial Galaxy's Councillors made similar demands, but at the time, Xiao Wentian successfully persuaded most of the Colonial Galaxy's Councillors to compromise on both sides. Eventually, federal authorities gave the colonial system the power to form a military force in times of war by executive order. After the war ended, federal authorities took back the military authority granted to the colonized galaxy by repealing the executive order.

This time, the federal authorities also decided to respond to the demands of the colonial system in the same way.

It's a pity that there is no leader like Xiao Wentian to come forward now.

Because the federal authorities did not make concessions on the issue of delegating military power to give the colonial system autonomy, the legislators of the colonial system opposed the federal authorities on the most important bill for war mobilization, namely the compulsory conscription law, so that the bill was never passed by the parliament.

Obviously, if this situation is maintained, the Human Federation will not be able to complete the war mobilization on time, and it will not be able to achieve victory.

If there is a leader like Xiao Wentian at this time, these problems are not a problem.

However, no one can become a leader like Xiao Wentian now.

As for Lin Feng, he is not qualified at all.

It's just that what Lin Feng has to do now is to become the second Xiao Wentian, even if he doesn't become a leader like Xiao Wentian, he has to convince those parliamentarians from the colonial galaxy here to put the survival of the Human Federation first, even if it is only to temporarily compromise with the federal authorities.

The question is, is this possible?

When Lin Xiaoting mentioned this matter, Lin Feng couldn't believe it.

If it was Zhan Ruilin, or some other marshal, he might be able to convince those councilors, but Lin Feng was just a small soldier, a colonel officer from the Special Investigation Brigade. It is obvious that among the tens of millions of officers and soldiers of the Human Federation, a colonel is nothing at all.

Lin Feng originally thought that Lin Xiaoting was joking with her, but when she came here, she knew that it was not a joke.

Whether she wanted to or not, she had to walk into the room, get on the podium, present her views in front of more than 10,000 lawmakers, and then let them make a rational choice.

Lin Feng didn't have any certainty, if she could make her own choice, she would rather face 10,000 silicon charm warriors.

It's just that she is a federal soldier, and she can only obey orders, even if it is an order that is so ridiculous that she can't laugh at all. (To be continued.) )