Li Jingxian, who left the secret club of the One True God Brotherhood, was convinced that his lobbying was seventy percent successful.

In the eyes of this "second generation", there is no one who is not tempted by power. It's more attractive than money, beautiful women, or even drugs, because with it you can get everything, even the "true love" that has been celebrated for thousands of years.

Of course, he is not acting alone.

"You're playing with fire." The father, the patriarch Li Zhongkun, gave worried advice to his son, who had just returned home.

"It's Game of Thrones." Li Jingxian responded lightly.

"The game doesn't kill people, and it doesn't put the whole family in a desperate situation." Li Zhongkun raised his tone, and the old voice was full of grief and helplessness.

"I'd rather die in a federal POW camp than come back with shame."

"But you're back."

"You made me come back to suffer!" Li Jing first angrily accused his father.

"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." Li Zhongkun patiently enlightened his son.

"Then I'm going to start lighting the fire now. Are you going to help me burn this fire, or are you going to sit back and wait for Wang Zeren and his henchmen to take advantage of the disaster relief to wipe us out? ”

"Do I have a choice?" Li Zhongkun asked rhetorically, and then said, "I will naturally fully support you." But you put the most critical place on others, and you are never safe. Will the One True God Brotherhood and the Dragon Slayer really assassinate Wang Zeren for you? This is even more risky than launching an outright armed rebellion. ”

"Don't worry, I've made all the preparations this time." Li Jingxian was full of confidence, "The assassination of Wang Zeren will benefit the Brotherhood and the Dragon Slayer Society, and we only need to fulfill our promise afterwards." ”

"What promise?"

Only then did Li Jingxian tell his father Li Zhongkun all about the secret meeting with the One True God Brotherhood just now.

Finally, he added: "Even if Fischel doesn't do it or refuses to do it, we can still mobilize the secret services of the Senate Guard to carry it out." Of course, this will require you to coordinate with Roki and them. ”

"You have really taken risks, the Brotherhood and the Dragon Slayer are not completely sure, and the final insurance will have to rely on Luo Ji and them, so they began to plot to assassinate Wang Zeren, which is really not like my style." Li Zhongkun said with emotion, with both admiration and helplessness in his tone.

"If I hadn't been captured, our position wouldn't have been so awkward, and the situation wouldn't have been so unfavorable. So in this matter, we can't get a drop of blood, and we must borrow a knife to kill people in order to maintain a sufficient advantage. You can rest assured, I will never let my family be dragged down, and I will definitely regain our position. Li Jingxian swore an oath, but he still lacked confidence.

His wife, Li Shuwei, who is married to a famous matchmaker, walks down the stairs along the luxurious Western-style spiral staircase. Her hair is curly, her skin is dark, her facial features are just rightly carved on her round face, her figure is graceful, her limbs are slender, and she wears a purple cheongsam embroidered with red peonies. Although the image seems a little awkward, it also has a unique style.

In the social circles of the "second generation of Yuan" and "second generation of officials" on the planet "New Byzantium", Li Shuwei, who is particularly beautiful, enjoys the reputation of "Black Pearl".

"Father-in-law." Li Shuwei politely greeted Li Zhongkun.

Her strong Cantonese accent, Mandarin Chinese, indicates that her ancestors came from among the black people who immigrated to Guangzhou. In fact, she is not a pure black person, and she also has Chinese Han genes mixed in her body. Although this identity is quite common in this interstellar age of racial hybridism, she is more special, her ancestors illegally lived in Guangzhou more than 900 years ago, intermarried with the local Chinese, and then continued the bloodline to this day.

"Shuwei, I'm sorry, I'm arguing with you so late." Li Zhongkun said to his daughter-in-law with apologies.

"Didn't I tell you not to disturb us when I talk to my father?" Li Jingxian was very dissatisfied, and he sat on the leather sofa and didn't look at his wife.

Li Shuwei, who has always been obedient to her husband, unusually ignored Li Jingxian's words this time. She went to the opposite side of his wife, sat down, and said in a calm tone:

"You and your father-in-law rarely have a chance to be together, I must take this opportunity to explain your affairs clearly in front of you and your father-in-law."

"Something, just say. No matter what happens, we're all family. Li Zhongkun put on a fair appearance, but in many things, he couldn't do anything about his son.

"Just today at noon, when you were all busy with government affairs and military affairs, a woman named He Huishi came to the house to find a man. She has two children, a boy and a woman. It is said that it was because of the cataclysm of the planet 'Taiji', the autonomous province was dissolved, and he was sent back to his place of origin without the right of abode. ”

"What about them?" Li Jingxian jumped up and asked anxiously.

"I don't know them, so let the guards hand them over to the Senate guards." Li Shuwei always remained calm.

Hearing his wife say this, Li Jingxian immediately ran out, obviously looking for the woman named He Huishi and the child.

Li Zhongkun also stood up, his face full of anger, but he was helpless.

"I want to know, is it because of my identity that I was able to marry into this family?" Li Shuwei asked.

"It's not." Father-in-law Li Zhongkun replied without hesitation.

"Then why did I fulfill the obligations of a wife, but I did not get the rights of a wife?" Li Shuwei asked in a loud voice, her voice full of anger and remorse.

Li Zhongkun sat back on the sofa and slowly and weakly answered his daughter-in-law's question for his son: "I'm sorry, Shuwei." It's hard for you all these years. ”

Although he was full of apologies, he did not continue, or did not comfort Li Shuwei.

On the contrary, Li Shuwei continued:

"When you knew that I was in love with Jing Xian, you forced Jing Xian to propose to me, just because I took a fancy to my identity. He doesn't have a prominent family background, and he's black, which is perfectly in line with the 'political correctness' of your Senate. More importantly, you know that I was once a core member of the One True God Brotherhood and wanted to get what you needed from me. But when you find that I cannot reach the apostles, you will treat me as an outcast. ”

"We didn't abandon you." Li Zhongkun defended, "You have always been my daughter-in-law, and Rainbow only recognizes you as a sister-in-law." ”

"You didn't treat me as a wife first!" Li Shuwei immediately retorted.

Li Zhongkun did not respond to her immediately, but fell silent.

Son Li Jingxian is indeed more and more sorry for his daughter-in-law Li Shuwei. Especially in the Battle of the "African" Star Field, after Li Jingxian failed in the direct "duel" with Wang Zeren, his personality became more and more arbitrary.

In the past, he still had three points of respect for his father, but since then, he no longer regards his father who brought him status and power, and he is even more disgusted with the people and things that his father arranged for him.

Li Jingxian has no real feelings for Li Shuwei. The acquaintance with her was accidental, and the so-called "love" is just like the comments on some online social platforms, "The 'second generation of officials' played with young black women out of curiosity".

Li Zhongkun originally forced his son to marry Li Shuwei, which was full of utilitarianism.

Marrying someone of another race has almost become a tradition for the children of the Chinese political elite in the New Roman Empire. This is not only the motive of political marriage, but also the political correctness of preventing the so-called "Hanism" in public opinion.

For example, Wang Dezhong, the great-grandfather of the current imperial consul Wang Zeren, married Wang Xiaodi-Damara Phoebe, a Jewish woman, against the background of the widespread circulation of "Chinese united against Freemasonic conspiracy theories", which is the most typical political marriage and political correctness.

With the social structure of the New Roman Empire, Li Jingxian had to choose a non-Chinese woman who was the right person, and there was actually a lot of room for him. However, Li Jingxian was a well-known playboy in middle school, and enjoyed the title of "New Rome City Overlord Little Silver Gun" in the circle of high-ranking cadres. Especially when he was in high school, he also caused a scandal of Wheel X, which greatly damaged the reputation of the Li family, and it is said that the main reason for his mother's death at that time was also this.

Li Zhongkun later thought of a big move that many Chinese parents would make when facing their uncontrolled sons nearly a thousand years ago, and sent Li Jingxian into the army.

Li Jingxian, who joined the army at the age of seventeen, has made impressive progress. He trained hard and performed well, and later he was admitted to a military school and became an officer. After that, he rose all the way up, and by the age of 28, he had become a lieutenant colonel. The speed on the road to glory could not even catch up with Jiang Ziyue, the current god of war of the imperial army, because Li Jingxian had been in peacetime at that time.

It was also because of joining the army that Li Jingxian missed many opportunities to socialize with noble ladies and celebrities of the same age in the circle, and also made him acquainted with Claudia Sepos, a member of the Brotherhood of the One True God Cult full of charm.

Li Zhongkun is sure that his daughter-in-law has always had true love for her son. Because when he met Claudia Sepos alone and explained that he wanted her son to marry him, Claudia made it clear that he refused. The reason for refusal is also very clear, because she has been hiding her secret identity and past love history from Li Jingxian, and she does not want to affect Li Jingxian's life and career.

It is precisely because of this that Li Zhongkun saw the value of Claudia. Therefore, he tried his best to facilitate Li Jingxian's marriage with Claudia Sepos, and gave Claudia the Chinese name Li Shuwei.

According to Li Zhongkun's own words, this marriage is a great joy that kills three birds with one stone, his son's marriage is "politically correct" and "super correct", Li Shuwei is a non-Chinese woman with no prominent family background; The son can also make a formal end to the stigma of the past, and the messy "Overlord Gun" finally has a "holster" with enough capacity; More importantly, he can get in touch with the "One True God Brotherhood", a powerful force that has been hidden in the imperial society, and find a new alliance for the Li family, which is declining politically.

After marrying Li Shuwei, Li Jingxian did go to the next level. Not only was he promoted faster in the army, but also under the tandem of Li Shuwei, the "black pearl", he became a leader in the social circle of the children of high-ranking cadres, and became the "Tai Zi • Party • Party • Leader".

It's just that people are not as good as heaven.

The leader of the One True God Brotherhood, the "Apostle of the Prophet" whose true face no one had ever seen, closed his one-line communication with Li Shuwei shortly after the marriage, and the Li family could only get in touch with other lower-level Brotherhood members.

Lee and his son later had to make more effort to contact higher-ranking members of the Brotherhood. It was not until recently that Günter Fischer, who was lurking beside the consul Wang Zeren, was found, and Li Jingxian gradually took the lead in contacting him.

In June 2018, shortly after Li Jingxian was promoted to rear admiral, in the second half of the first "Yi" Star Field Battle, he grabbed the command and abandoned the Interstellar Marine Corps to lead the remnants of the "Cyrus" fleet to escape, and was blamed. After this year's "Aegis" Star Field Battle, he attacked the planet "Atlantis", and became a prisoner of carelessness, which became a great shame for the Senate and the soldiers of the Roman people.

Also, Li Jingxian and Li Shuwei have been married for more than ten years, but they have no heirs. This is also strange, but today it seems that Li Jing deliberately did not let Li Shuwei conceive their child, but he had an illegitimate child outside.

Li Zhongkun, who knows the past, is naturally not good at saying something to Li Shuwei. At a time when the country was in danger of a cataclysm, his own family had an illegitimate scandal, and his son, who had returned from a prisoner of war camp, was determined to unite with the Brotherhood to assassinate Wang Zeren.

But he also felt that he had to do his best to maintain his son's marriage, which was beneficial to both his son and the entire Li family. So, he stood up again, but when he was about to speak, Li Jing ran in from the courtyard first.

"The Senate Guard Brigade said it didn't contain them." Li Jingxian shouted, looking very displeased, and asked Li Shuwei loudly, "Tell me where they went?" ”

At this time, seeing his anxious appearance, Li Shuwei calmed down and said indifferently: "They are your women and children, no one dares to do anything to them." ”

"The guard brigade didn't contain them, so what did the guards who sent them say?" Li Zhongkun asked. He tried his best to make his tone indifferent, but it still attracted the dissatisfied eyes of his daughter-in-law Li Shuwei.

"The guards said you later told him to send them to the Ministry of Civil Affairs." Mr. Li Jing shouted angrily to Li Shuwei, and then sat down helplessly, "How can you be like this!?" ”

"How can't this be? That's what the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in charge of. Li Shuwei said coldly.

"That's Wang Zeren's territory." Li Jing shook his head first, then thought for a while, and then continued, "That's it, I can't control them now." ”

"But Wang Zeren must have known that you were messing with flowers and grass outside." Li Zhongkun said worriedly, "This is an excellent handle." ”

"So what?" Li Jingxian was indifferent, "Anyway, he's about to be finished." ”

As Li Zhongkun worried, Wang Zeren did know about Li Jingxian's concubine and illegitimate child, and asked his personal assistant Otto Bateman to settle He Huishi's mother and son. However, he issued a silent order that officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs who knew about the matter must keep it confidential. At the same time, he also informed the Imperial Proclamation Diggo Gato of the matter, and asked him to decide whether or not to spread it through "private channels".

Today, the Senate and the Roman Evangelist, Diego Gatto, and his team are working at full strength to conceal from the people the real cause of the great retreat of the planet "Taiji" and the impending crisis of the planetary destruction of "New Byzantium". The arrival of Li Jingxian's extramarital lover and illegitimate child has become a new focus to divert public attention.

Gatto did not hesitate to give the order to spread the news.

The identities of He Huishi and her children were first revealed on some unknown small online platforms, and then followed up on influential online social media through the so-called "self-media" controlled by him.

Suddenly, the public opinion of the entire "neo-Byzantine" planet exploded. All the entertainment gossip media are talking about the harem of "Tai Zi • Party • Party • Leader", and various versions, various speculations, and various rumors have flooded the Internet and society. However, the official remained silent, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs responded that it was not aware of the matter, and the Privy Council and the Ministry of Military issued statements not commenting on the private life of individuals. And the key He Huishi and her children are nowhere to be found.

On the surface, the society of the new Roman Empire, especially the "new Byzantine" planet, is still the same, the four major power buildings in the People's Square are still majestic, the "Square Hole Star City" is still bustling, the daily work is still so boring, and the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people have always been arrogant and cheating......

Only a careful person will notice that many important government departments, business institutions, scientific research institutions, archives and museums ...... They all got together at this time to renovate and renovate.

Those astronauts and businessmen who often travel across the stars have also found that there are more spaceships around the planet "New Byzantium", and all the space stations are also being refitted, and some super-large military auxiliary ships that are rarely seen in normal times have also appeared in the sun sheath of the "Himalaya" star at this time.

The "Out of Ruijin" project is being carried out secretly and intensely, and the time to evacuate the three billion people is not necessarily enough. For Diego Gatto, who has experienced the rebellion of the planet "New Rhine", he knows better that the crisis of the planet "New Byzantium" will undoubtedly lure countless careerists to take advantage of the opportunity.

Wang Zeren tried to take advantage of the crisis to become the dictator of the empire and realize his pursuit of power. The conservative elders who opposed him, because Li Jingxian had been a prisoner, could no longer push a suitable candidate for dictatorship to confront, but it was still very likely that he would use this opportunity to strike a blow at Wang Zeren and his faction. Other forces lurking in the empire, especially on the planet "Neo-Byzantium", will definitely take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos.

As for the old rivals of the Senate and the Roman people, the Perseus Federation with the grand goal of unifying the human world, will also take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack the Empire.

Diego Gato, who believed that no one in the core of imperial power had more loyalty than he did – and his loyalty to the Roman people – was well aware of the great opportunity that lurked in this impending crisis.

He is clear about his pursuit, and he also understands that he can't pin his ideals on Wang Zeren, who is already quite power-hungry.

He needed someone who was more positive – or more controllable.

The Himalayan star leaps out of the horizon again, and the morning sun shines into the study. Gato, who had worked all night, got up and stretched, bathing in the warm morning light.

His wife, who was so beautiful that many women would be jealous, opened the door and said enthusiastically, "Breakfast, my dear," said enthusiastically. The kids are waiting for you. ”

"Okay, dear." Gatto replied happily. He finally knew what kind of person he needed to find.