40. Clothes are held again, and a brick is knocked down II.

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Many years later, Mary, whose head has turned white, can still remember the fair-faced teenager she met outside the gymnasium on that blushing and heart-pounding afternoon. It's just that although the memory is beautiful, the beginning of the story is a little bland and even boring.

The young granddaughter sat on her lap and asked, with a hint of childishness, "Grandma, I want to hear the story of that miraculous military master." ”

Mary smiled, she looked at her little granddaughter dotingly and said, "The Great Military Division was not a military division at first, but a hairy young man. ”

Her granddaughter's eyes widened and she shook her head like a rattle. "How is that possible, grandma, you must have misremembered, the Great Army Division must have been a Great Army Division from the beginning."

Mary did not refute her granddaughter's words, muttering, "Maybe...... At the time, he seemed to be just as old as me, and who knew that he would do so many big things that I had never thought of before and had never done. ”

"Grandma, but people say that you are the greatest Iron Lady of the Star Alliance, and you have done many great things."

"But what your grandmother did was far worse than what the Great Army Division did. When I met a military division, no matter how iron-hearted and sharp-toothed a lady was, I couldn't get up. Mary suddenly felt that her words were a little ambiguous, and her face, which was already full of wrinkles, was rarely red again. Who has never been young, the ballad thousands of miles away seems to be still ringing in my ears: "If you can't sing a song like that again, you will blush and avoid it when you hear it, although you will often forget, I still love you." ”

In the stadium, a loud cheer drowned out all the sounds, and Mary didn't know how she had managed to get out of the gymnasium. In it, the mecha pilot Huang John, who is his own escort, the beast-shaped mecha manipulator known as the mecha maniac in the Xingxi Theater, is nailing himself to the pillar of shame in full view of everyone - learning to bark at a dog and kissing Jiang Qilin's ass. Mary really didn't want to see that image that hit her pride so badly.

originally made a bet with the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, but because of the successive failures of his side, he couldn't get the mouth-watering gift at all...... It's really a little unwilling. But the Han people seem to have a natural psychological advantage over the Star Alliance, no matter how harsh the environment and how complex the conditions are, they can turn decay into magic. Because they have never been defeated against the Star Alliance. This also caused the Star Alliance, although it was the largest alliance in Doro 6, it was often helpless in the face of the Han. It's not that Dahan has never been poor and weak, but when the Star Alliance was poor, he dared to often call the first Star Alliance, and the Star Alliance at that time really admitted it. It can be said that the majesty of the Han against the Star Alliance now is all due to the real swords and guns of the Star Alliance.

Mary Hugo, the eldest lady of the Hugo family of the Star Alliance, is also the Star Covenant envoy to the Han this time. Mary's ancestor, Vivian Hugo, was one of the founders of the Covenant. That is, one of the four most important drafters of the Covenant under the Stars, the founding document of the Star Alliance. The Star Alliance is made up of 14 federal states, and the 14 federal states jointly elect a president, and in the form of decentralization, the Star Alliance as a whole enters the political ecological balance of what scholars call "power co-governance". Almost all scholars agree that co-governance signifies that power is not monopolized by the president alone, so that the president does not become a dictator like the emperor.

In fact, the power of the state is actually the same as that of the imperial state, and the power is in the hands of a few elites, but the distribution of power is more hidden, and there seems to be no law to be found, but since someone is willing to make a huge power cake and share it with others, then there are always a few pieces of the cake that cannot be hidden and eaten, so according to these power cakes that cannot be hidden and eaten, it can be glimpsed.

The first is the aristocracy of the superstructure of democracies. In fact, many scholars on the Big 6 have noticed the "aristocratic" trend of the Star Alliance, since the founding of the Star Alliance, eight of the thirty-six presidents produced are related to the Moses family, seven are related to the Hugo family, and the rest are shared by some small families of the Star Alliance. And the product of decentralization: Nearly half of the members of the House of Representatives serve these families. The so-called civilian parliamentarians are a kind of gesture made by these families in order to win votes: you see, commoners can also run for the upper legislature. In fact, the amount of money spent by a civilian to successfully run for parliament is about more than 10 million star coins, which is about 30 million Han treasure banknotes. And an ordinary Star Alliance white-collar worker who has earned more than 40 years of money without eating or drinking can barely earn five million star coins. Large families can covertly manipulate parliament to make parliamentary issues work in their favor, and several large families can often band together to resist agendas that harm them. How similar this is to the image of a great family ruling an empire in an imperial state! Power is concentrated in the hands of a few, and the formulation of national policy becomes a game that can only be played by a few.

The second is institutional. How can a democracy have a **? Most of the people who have this kind of thinking are people who have a good impression of democratic countries, but the ** of democratic countries is no less than that of imperial countries, and the financial crisis that sweeps the federal countries every ten years is the product of this kind of institutional **. It is precisely because the accumulated contradictions and problems are exposed that democracies that adopt the method of cutting flesh and healing are trying to cover up the inequality of this system. Although the Covenant has always preached the spirit of equality and freedom for all, no matter what country you are born in, people are not free or equal from birth.

So in the face of Mary, who is equivalent to the princess of the Star Alliance, Qi Xiaoyu took a lot of effort to ensure that he could convince her for a while and prove that he was a worthy investment object of the Star Alliance.

As for why Qi Xiaoyu took the risk of being scolded and betraying the country, it is actually very simple: the mismatch between ambition and strength, that is, lack of money and strength. Lack of money makes it easy for Qi Xiaoyu to be restrained in whatever he wants to do, lack of strength, and in Dahan, a place where he speaks with strength, it is determined that no matter how correct Qi Xiaoyu's remarks are, no one will pay attention to him. From the beginning of Xia Yunsong's incident, Qi Xiaoyu has recognized this problem, even if he takes revenge on Xia Yunsong's assassination, but he is tantamount to destroying the tacit rules of the game among the entire Han nobles, if I am strong, I will suppress you, and if you are weak, you deserve to be bullied by me. Qi Xiaoyu, who lacks money and has no power, wants to rise in the Han Dynasty, in addition to making military merits, he is to take the official career. But in recent years, there have been no major wars in the Han Dynasty, and this kind of thing is something that a big demon like Jiang Qilin can do. And taking a career means that he has no chance with the army, let alone what he wants. So Qi Xiaoyu decided to see if there was a shortcut. Mary, the special envoy of the Star Alliance, who came to Beijing to provoke in the autumn of this year, let Qi Xiaoyu see this possibility. There is a saying among the aristocracy: there are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only eternal interests. If everyone provokes you like him and kills him, then there will be no nobles left in the whole Han. There must be this kind of elegance among nobles, and if you calculate others today, don't blame others for calculating you one day.

So Qi Xiaoyu decided to throw his bait out to see if the other party was interested in his broken boat.