"Hehe, you Florence family girls, everyone can speak well, my old man is not your opponent, go, the military department still has a lot of things to deal with." Manstein shook his head and got into his car while feeling the excellence of the Florence girls.

The Florence family is the head of the seven nobles of the Federation, but this family is the only one of the seven nobles who does not rely on blood inheritance. The members of the Florence family are not related by blood, they are all young girls with excellent qualifications selected by the Florence family from tens of millions of orphans across the Federation. Once they have been selected by their family's organization, they begin to receive training that matches their qualifications and does not contradict their interests, which, of course, is as expensive as any other program.

More than a dozen of the nearly 100 girls will meet the highest requirements of the family and officially become members of the Florence family, as well as its affiliated military family, the Flo family, and the Lens family, who control the Abilities Association. The remaining dozens of girls did not receive their family names, but they were still able to become the pillars of the Federation, and of course most of them would choose to stay with the Aria Group to repay the family for adopting them from a poor orphanage and giving them a skill.

Compared with other families cultivating talents from people with family blood, the Florence family cultivates many more talents, and people's qualifications are much better, after all, the foundation for her selection and cultivation of talents is tens of millions of orphans in the whole federation, not dozens or hundreds of family children. It is because of this selection mechanism that the Florence family, a new family with a history far less distant than the other six families, has successfully survived the difficult period of being jointly suppressed by the eleven major families of the original Federation, and successfully expanded the seats of the Supreme Council of the Federation to twelve. Later, in the rebellion of the Federation, he became the head of the seven nobles of the Federation. He has long occupied the position of president of the Bundestag.

The previous generation of the Florence family was named after the letter G, which was named after the President of the Federal Assembly, Ghuranma. Florence, the only current female marshal of the Commonwealth, Gursinas. Flo, President of the Federal Paracantic Society, Germelia. Lens is best known. And among the girls of this generation who start with the letter A, there is Alicia Aria, the controller of the Aria Group. Florence, Athena, who holds the title of soul singer. Lens and the Vice President of the Abilities Guild, known as the Queen of the Rose. Akara, a botanical anomaly. Lens is the most eye-catching.

"What an enviable family." Manstein sighed slightly, the Alien Association, the girls of the military department all occupy enviable positions, and the Aria Group, which controls eighty percent of the private enterprises in the Federation, is even more eye-catching, "Fortunately, I heard about the world at the beginning, participated in the initial construction of the Aria Group, and became one of the shareholders, otherwise I would be as depressed as the old Jerry of the Einzberen family, haha." ”

The Aria Group did not promote their new medical devices. So instead of heading to the nearest New Venice Military Port Hospital, the convoy headed for the headquarters of the Aria Group, located in the R&D park in the center of the New Venice, where the Aria Group's medical testing department and the equipment used to treat Magnolia were located.

New Venice is a small artificial island in the beautiful Mediterranean, and this artificial island is the opposite of Venice, which has the same pleasant climate and scenery as its model Venice, as well as its excellent waterways. In addition to the dense waterways that dot the town, New Venice has four highways that lead to its core area, the headquarters of the Aria Group. One of them was a road dedicated to the military and connected to the new Venetian military port. One is for the loading and unloading of goods at the headquarters of the Yaria Group, and at the same time for the convenience of the people. The air-sea private port of New Venice is connected to the new Venice by air and sea, one is a highway for the independent use of the Yaria Group researchers, connecting the Yaria Group staff villas and the headquarters, and the last road is a highway connecting the third and third highways. A ring highway that surrounds the entire central part of New Venice.

In the car driving on the highway, the two girls were attracted by the scenery flashing outside the window, and their two little faces were all tightly pressed against the window, with a look of excitement.

"Sister Alicia, is New Venice all gondolas? Don't you have a mechanical boat? Yufang asked, pointing to the Venetian boats that were running along the waterway.

"Mechanical boats run on the Grand Canal, which runs through the city, and the small waterways can't accommodate them."

"Then why not widen the waterways? Mechanically powered boats are not only labor-saving, but also much faster. Io asked, a little puzzled.

"That was to preserve the ancient atmosphere of Venice, and all the buildings and means of transport in the whole of New Venice, except for the four highways and the electric boats that traveled on the canals, at least in appearance, retained the Venetian medieval style. Nowadays, Venice has lost its ancient style in the process of modernization, and in order to preserve the precious legacy left by our ancestors, the Supreme Council proposed to build a new Venice, a city on the water with a medieval style. ”

"Well, is the Riyadh bridge that spans the Grand Canal really the real thing that was built in 1592?" Yufang asked in surprise with a small mouth.

"Of course, most of the buildings in New Venice were moved from Venice, except for the new military port and the headquarters of the Aria Group and their ancillary facilities. It is a pity that many ancient buildings have been destroyed in the modernization and can only be imitated in their original locations. Alicia shook her head with a sigh. At the beginning of the great space voyage, people used the sea surface as a landing ground for space shuttles, which could save the construction cost of the ultra-long runway required for expensive space landing, and at the same time conducive to popularization. As a result, a large number of seaside cities have been transformed into spaceports, and Venice, as a super-large port city on the Mediterranean, has also joined this transformation, and a large number of ancient buildings have been replaced by new ones, making Venice a cultural city that does not live up to its name.

However, thanks to the preservation and relocation of many Venetian buildings by some of the cultural protectors of the Chinese and Bessman families who controlled Europe at that time, at least two-thirds of the buildings and more than one-third of the places of interest in the new Venice today need to be imitated.

"Then when my sister is well, let's go to the Bridge of Sighs, St. Mark's Bell Tower, and St. Mark's Square."

"If you want to go to the La Fenice Opera, take a gondola, you have to buy the glass of Murano, yes. And to go eat creamy potatoes. ”

"No problem, Io, you know about creamy potatoes?" Alicia laughed.

"Of course, my brother got married and came to New Venice for his honeymoon, and when he came back, he said he must try the creamy potatoes."

Aria Headquarters is a sprawling city-within-a-city, with what appears to be thousands of years old and dozens of castles that look the same as they are, but the interior of these castles has the exact opposite of what they look like.

"Welcome to the Aria Group." The vehicle stopped in front of a castle with a red cross on the top. Alicia laughed and was the first to get out of the car.

"This one is completely different from what it looks like from the outside." Io, who came to the inside of the castle, said with some surprise. The castle does not have the bluestone steps, ancient frescoes and elegant and polite butlers of her family castle on the outskirts of Berlin, but only the silver-white walls made of high-tech alloys, the flashing information screens and the hurried staff.

"Hehe, over here." Alicia led the two girls to a lift.

In the huge basement, I saw Magnolia lying on a white hospital bed, and a huge ring-shaped machine was slowly rotating around the girl's head.

"How's it going?" Alicia, dressed in a sterile suit, asked the physician who was recording the data.

"The instrument was stable, and the clot was removed more easily than predicted, and it didn't clot hard. So it only takes two hours to complete the surgery. ”

"Good." Alicia nodded, and Yufang beside her quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as everyone was quietly watching the area where the blood clot was displayed on the monitor getting smaller and smaller, a security guard found Alicia and said, "Miss, a person who claims to be Li Lie, chairman of Xinghuo Heavy Industries, is looking for you." ”

"Take him to the first meeting room, I'll be there later." Alicia nodded slightly, and then said to the two girls with doubts in their eyes, "It's love, Lin and Ann's father." ”

"Ah, yes. And the matter of Sister Lin. Yufang and Io shouted. Lin arrived on Earth two weeks before them, and Rin's case was complicated by Rin's rank in the Empire and the Wang's deliberate troubles.

"Uncle Li Lie came to estimate that it was for Lin's business. Come with me to the reception room. ”

"Okay."

In the reception room, Li Lie sat quietly on the sofa in the reception room, the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart made this usually calm middle-aged man frown, and there seemed to be a lot of gray hair on his head, but there was a trace of determination in his expression.

"Uncle Li Lie, you're here." As she entered the reception room, Alicia smiled and greeted the father of her best sister.

"Miss Alicia, I want to fully merge Spark Heavy Industries into the Aria Group." As soon as Li Lie opened his mouth, it was a bombshell. The news caught Alicia off guard.

Seeing Alicia's somewhat surprised expression, a flash of a smile appeared on Li Lie's face, but Alicia's next words surprised him as well, "Grandma Gursinas told you to do this." ”

"Yes, and Marshal Long and Marshal Besman also proposed so." Li Lie nodded.

"This group of adults. In order to be able to make the Aria Group stronger, they did not hesitate to use such means to let Uncle you exchange Spark Heavy Industries for the support of the Supreme Command, really..., don't they consider the feelings of Night and me at all? Alicia frowned slightly, obviously slightly annoyed by her elders' actions.

"And how I feel." Io on the other side was also slightly annoyed that his grandfather was involved in such a thing.

"Hehe, the two young ladies don't have to blame the marshal for them, this is also what the head of Jerry's family meant. Miss Alicia, you also know that if it weren't for the fact that Ciri was the second lady of the Einzberren family and that Starfire received strong support from the Einzberen family, Starfire probably wouldn't have achieved such an achievement. ”

"But is Lynn's situation really that bad?"

"If Spark Heavy Industries does not join the Wang Group, Marshal Wang Tian and Marshal Apdui will try Linlin on charges of treason, while Marshal Long, Marshal Flo and Marshal Besman will remain neutral. In addition, the Li family will also be prosecuted by them for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, although we didn't do that, but it is easy for the Wang family to do something to the Li family. Li Lie said with a wry smile, the treason determined by the two marshals, without the support of other marshals, his daughter's crime was firmly established, and there was only one end for being convicted of treason, that is, hanging. And once Li Lin's treason is established, the accusation of collaborating with the family will also get the most favorable evidence for the Wang family, so that the entire Li family will be wiped out.

"Grandma, they are really, in exchange for their support, the condition is that Spark Heavy Industries merge into the Yaria Group?" Alicia sighed. She knew that her Grandma Gursinas was no less capable of doing business than Grandma Gurama when she was young, and that this act of taking the opportunity to strengthen the Aria Group must have been the idea of her, the merchant marshal, and not the unbusiness-minded Grandpa Long and Marshal Manstein.

"Yes."

"The Wang family is too good, they are so aggressive." Io shouted.

"The Wang family is indeed excessive. Uncle Lee, the merger is not a trivial matter, I need to discuss it with the directors and make a decision, I hope you can understand. ”

"I understand, Miss Alicia. I took my leave. Li Lie breathed a sigh of relief, the directors of the board of directors of the Aria Group were composed of the Florence family, the Long family, the Huaxia family, and the Besman family, and the request for merger was put forward by three of the families, and the merger was almost a certainty.

After Li Lie left, Io immediately pulled Alicia and said, "Sister, you really want to merge Xinghuo, that's the most important company for my sister's father." ”

"Hehe, that's no way to do it, even if the marshals support Li Lin, if the Wang family is a black hand against the Li family, we can't guard against it. Although the Li family has the spark of the tenth largest heavy industry enterprise in the Federation, as a family that has just risen, whether it is the strength on the surface or the power in the secret, compared with the Wang family, the third largest family in China, the gap is too big. ”

"Then let's let the AS troops, as well as the Death Sabre, protect the Li family, so that the Wang family has no way to do it." (To be continued.) )