Chapter XXVII
Zhu Chunfeng got off the plane proudly and got into a special car waiting at the airport, the special car was waving the national flag of the empire, and there were mounted police in front and behind, and he was majestically pulled all the way to the core of the imperial capital, the Great Imperial Palace.
Looking at the white jade carved railings and chariots, Zhu comrade-in-arms hurriedly stepped forward in three steps and two steps, and saluted an elderly official dressed in a formal official mansion:
"Minister Lao has been waiting here for a long time, and his comrades-in-arms are polite."
The old official had a smile on his face, and it didn't hurt to say anything, he turned around and led his comrades to climb the ninety-ninety-nine level white jade road, and lowered his body as he walked:
"You have made a great contribution this time, but you have also committed a big taboo, Deputy Director Lin has said a lot of bad things about you in front of Your Majesty, but don't worry, the old man and Director Cao are on your side, by the way, these are the coquettes in the army you said?"
"Thank you for the minister's kind words, yes, these three are good at training internal strength, they are all children of the national army, they are innocent, and the elders in the family have many old stories in the court, and they are trustworthy, hey, don't give the boss a gift."
The two men and a woman who followed behind the buttocks were not stunned, and hurriedly saluted the old official in the process of walking, and the old official waved his hand in response, and his body was lowered.
"Since you are a child of the army, there is no problem in thinking about it, but you can try not to contact the military in the future, whether it is the Praetorian Guard, the Defense Army or the National Army, you must know that your investigation bureau stretches too long to avoid being ......"
The old official didn't continue, but arched his hand to the front, wishing his comrades-in-arms to know, followed the old official across the palace gate with low eyebrows, walked one hundred and twenty steps, crossed another palace gate, and then went up ninety-nine steps, and finally came to a square paved with white jade to stand still.
"The Xuan Imperial Emergency Affairs Investigation Bureau wishes my comrades-in-arms and Lin Xiaofeng, Chun Yuhan, and Zhou Zimu to meet you."
Listening to the voice of the male duck from far and near, Zhu comrades-in-arms excitedly led the three of them to bow three times in the square, knelt in place and replied loudly, and then a eunuch came down to lead the way, and the four of them trembled and climbed the last forty-nine steps and knelt at the door of the magnificent hall.
Across the wide open middle door, above the Dan rhino, the indifferent emperor waved his hand, the left and right two classes of ministers standing like sculptures are distinct, the person on the left is dressed in court clothes, looks like a character in a costume movie, everyone is there, squinting or half-closed, with a protruding chest and contemptuous of the person on the right; The people on the right were all dressed in suits and leather shoes, and their eyes were sharp, as if they had come through time, and they stood straight, revealing hostile glances to the ministers on the left.
The man with the mustache, combed the big back, and cut the well-cut tuxedo suit hurriedly took a step and said:
"Your Majesty, don't summon into the palace, if those three people really have internal strength, I'm afraid it will threaten Your Majesty's safety."
This person is over sixty years old, but he looks very energetic, his speech is full of energy, and he is neither humble nor arrogant in the face of the emperor who is on the throne, as if he has a strong posture, and the emperor looks at him dislikedly, his right hand is pillowed under his chin, and he says lazily:
"Prime Minister, this is a son of my army, I am like a brother and sister to all the generals, and I am a brother and sister, I am also my son and nephew, how can it harm me?"
The three people kneeling at the door of the main hall were very excited at once, where had they seen the living saint today, and when they heard the saint call them sons and nephews, they immediately rose to the emotion of the death of the confidant.
"Your Majesty, the national body is important!"
The man who was called the prime minister did not budge an inch, and his words were menacing, and the vast majority of the ministers standing opposite him were staring at him with cannibalistic eyes, and the struggle between the royalists and the constitutionalists was on the verge of breaking out.
"That's it, where are the guards?"
"Whoa!"
Six tall and strong men in bronze armor with swords at their waists came out of the corner to sing, and the emperor looked at the six carefully selected personal guards, and pointed to the people kneeling outside:
"Go out and try, remember, it's all your own nephews, don't be ruthless, I'm here to watch you."
"Yui!"
The six people got up and walked towards the outside of the hall, the sound of the clapping armor made the eyes of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military move with them, a little eunuch held a gold plate, the gold plate had a velvet purple embroidered pier, and there was a pair of small telescopes inlaid with gold and jade on the embroidered pier, the emperor took the telescope and looked outside the hall, only to see that the guards had crossed the door, and selected three people to salute with the three military children.
"Offended!"
Although the venue outside the hall is called Denglong Xiaojintai, but the area is not small at all, the three teams of people put on a posture, the guards are all preemptive, and the moves are similar, a few steps forward is to rush out, and the three military children have their own responses, only to see that Lin Xiaofeng, who is tall and tall, does not have to dodge, and swings his fists against the guards, but he hears a crisp click, and the right arm of the guards is paralyzed at a strange angle.
The guards gritted their teeth, endured the loss of honor in front of the palace, and swung their left hand into a claw to Lin Xiaofeng's shoulder, Lin Xiaofeng still went straight, his right fist smashed hard into the guard's claws, and the five fingers of the guard's left hand were shattered, so he could only stagger back a few steps, and knelt down on one knee to plead guilty.
And Chun Yuhan is much more vicious, after she dodged the guard's punch, her right hand cut into a knife on the guard's copper armor, a sound of gold and iron resonance, everyone was dumbfounded to see the bronze armor on the side of the guard's waist was cut by the palm of the hand, the guard turned back in a cold sweat, where is there still the shadow of Chun Yuhan, but felt a shock on the head, Chun Yuhan's right palm smashed on his helmet, and forcibly split the solid helmet, leaving a two-inch gap.
The Praetorian guards were furious, and hurriedly retreated and knelt down on one knee to plead guilty. In the end, he was kicked out by Zhou Zimu, and he broke the white jade pillar five meters away, and the whole person tumbled and fell to the second step with a drop of 18 meters.
"Good!"
The emperor patted the armrest of the dragon chair and stood up, and waved his big hand:
"Look!"
The prime minister and the group of constitutionalist officials stared at the three people who had stopped their hands with their faces like the ground, watching the little eunuchs go out with the armor and sword given by the emperor, and listening to the emperor personally appointing them as the new imperial guards, respectively with the dragon guard, the tiger guard, and the phoenix guard as the royal honorific title, everyone looked back again, the prime minister had a gloomy face, and turned to the emperor and said:
"Your Majesty's rewards and punishments are clear and admirable, since the internal force is true, then it is time to convene the first emergency meeting for the afterlife, and please return to the palace, and the parliament must fulfill the duties entrusted by the people."
"Please return to the palace!"
The officials of the constitutionalist faction hurriedly went out to echo it, and they went forward one after another, and it took them a full twenty-five years to complete the constitutional monarchy at the cost of their lives, and the old emperor died of anger on the signing table of the first constitutional assembly, how could it still be regained power by the young new emperor, the new emperor on the throne looked at this group of constitutionalist ministers who had empty his power with a resentful face, and recalled that he regretted it at the beginning, he should not compromise with this group of people, and followed the advice of the royalists to flee to the southwest and pull up the revenge army of King Qin. Fight to the death with these cunning merchants, new aristocrats, and business owners.
It's a pity that these people now have actual military, financial, and personnel powers, and these unscrupulous wrecks of the royalists are useless except to write some sour articles and disgusting people, and they immediately brushed their sleeves away, and they didn't even bother to announce their retreat from the dynasty.
As soon as the emperor left, the royalist ministers also threw their sleeves away angrily, and the constitutionalists sneered and watched this group of useless people get out, and then called in the Zhu comrades-in-arms who were kneeling at the door, and walked bustling all the way towards the side gate of the palace.
In front of the oval-shaped tall building, the most elite First Division of the First National Army is stationed, and the style of painting here is completely different from the strict Imperial Palace, with all kinds of members of the National Assembly and regional councillors coming and going, while the soldiers of the First Division of the First National Army stand at the door with automatic weapons, constantly nodding at the members who come and go.
The Prime Minister led the ministers of the various ministries into the parliament building in a hurry, to a semi-circular staircase room, and soon, the members of Parliament who held real power in their hands rushed in, all of them changed into the formal clothes of the parliament, pure black robes, gold and white ribbons hung on the neckline, the speaker took the pear blossom wood gavel and knocked on the mallet seat, and the three hundred and eighty participants remained silent.
The speaker briefly introduced the agenda of the first emergency meeting, and immediately beckoned Zhu comrades-in-arms who were present at the meeting to come to the presentation table, and Zhu comrades-in-arms nervously stepped forward with a black document bag, bowed to all the councilors, and then took out the report written in the document bag and read it out according to the script.
No matter which party the parliamentarian came from, he showed a high enough level of quality, no one interrupted him or showed impatience, when Zhu comrade-in-arms finally finished reading the formatted report, the speaker knocked on the gavel, announcing that it had entered the stage of free discussion and questioning, so a red light lit up on the member's seat, the speaker clicked on the tablet, and immediately the red light in front of a member turned green, it was a rough-looking, tall middle-aged councilor, as soon as he stood up, he gave the people around him a very heavy sense of oppression.
"May I ask Mr. Zhu, what is the role of your so-called internal force, can it block bullets or artillery shells, can it confront the main battle tanks and helicopter gunships newly equipped by the national army, or can it compete with our intercontinental missiles? Now is not the barbaric age of the sword-stabbing and stabbing of the past, why should we pour the precious resources of the empire into such flashy things? ”
The chief of staff from the First National Army with an aggressive tone, sharply questioned the so-called "results" obtained by the Investigation Bureau, and some parliamentarians of the National Army also kept nodding their heads, finding that it has been twelve days in this world in the afterlife, from the initial doubt, consternation, fear, and curiosity to the current contempt, numbness, and no waves in the heart It only took twelve days, and the so-called reports and videos on the discovery of internal force have been watched by the parliamentarians no less than three times, but many people believe that the magic of internal force is at most to make a person stronger. More flexible, at best, more lethal in hand-to-hand combat, but this lethality is nothing compared to the rapid development of technology.
As the saying goes, no matter how high the martial arts are, you will be knocked down with one shot.
No one would be stupid enough to delve into what martial arts to practice without choosing to gently pull the trigger.
Zhu comrades-in-arms turned their faces slightly sideways and glanced at Cao Yu, the director of the Investigation Bureau who was sitting in the seat of the parliamentarian on the right, Cao Yu threw an encouraging look at him, and Zhu comrades-in-arms had the courage to talk eloquently:
"Your Excellency, the magic of internal force is by no means more than that, according to our investigation, the cultivation of internal force can change a person's physical fitness, prolong lifespan, Your Excellency can imagine a society with an average life expectancy of up to 140 or even 150 years old, and in such a high life expectancy, the physical fitness still maintains the peak level of twenty or thirty years old, and it is even possible to get older and better, and it is possible to break through the limit of human life expectancy, and even reach the theoretical limit of 200 years old, is this prospect not worth our attention?"
A group of gray-haired, originally sleepy parliamentarians pricked up their ears as if they had touched the electric door, opened their eyes, sat up straight, and cast their difficult attention on Zhu Comrade-in-Arms, and the whispered discussion of the audience gradually subsided in the words of Zhu Comrade-in-Arms, and as his topic changed, these parliamentarians seemed to have stepped into a fantasy world.
"According to our survey, people who practice martial arts are generally very healthy, and they have not been threatened by various cancers, sudden diseases, or incurable diseases......
"Wait, wait, according to what you said, wouldn't it be that in the next life, everyone who practices martial arts is a superhuman existence."
"Your Excellency, you can think so, according to our investigation......"
"What about the evidence! I can't listen to your empty words here, can I? ”
A member of parliament with reduced mobility sat in a wheelchair, his hands firmly supporting the armrests of the wheelchair, and asked with some emotion:
"That's right, show us the evidence, what you're saying is so shocking that we have to see something practical to make such an important decision, right?"
In the parliament, those members who are suffering from chronic diseases and are a little older are sitting or standing, asking for evidence from Zhu comrades-in-arms, facing these people who are in high positions and have great power in their hands, the desire in their bones that they don't want to die has formed a stormy wave and slapped on Zhu comrades-in-arms, Zhu comrades-in-arms swallowed saliva, took out a folder from the black briefcase, opened the two thin sheets of paper, looked at these emotionally mobilized parliamentarians and said:
"The information that can be decrypted at present is not complete, but according to our investigation, the top martial artists on the Baixiaomen Fengyun spectrum in the next life are all old people with a lifespan of 130 to 160 years old, and most of them are classified as Tianji, and becoming Tianji is also known as ascending to the sky, almost each of them has the ability to destroy the heavens and the earth, and no one has gone back to question whether they are still alive, not to mention that there are so-called saints above the Tianji......"
"Then you still don't have conclusive evidence, it's all based on the hearsay of those unreliable players!"
The chief of staff of the Nationalist Army immediately interrupted, as the second-in-command of the Nationalist Army, he did not want the resources of the Empire to be biased towards this illusory afterlife, the Nationalist Army competed with the Janissaries and the Defense Army in the military system, and it was also the basis for ensuring the stability of the constitutional monarchy.
"I can endorse what my comrades-in-arms said, and the Bureau of Investigation is willing to bear all the consequences of this incident."
Cao Yu got up from his seat, and the three deputy directors next to him also had to stand up and express his position, and the prime minister sitting behind the speaker closed his eyes as if he was asleep, but the five fingers of his right hand kept tapping lightly on the table in front of him.
The Speaker glanced at the Prime Minister's movements, and understood that the Prime Minister was still undecided, so he waited quietly, and after a fierce quarrel between the military and those parliamentarians who did not want to die, the Prime Minister opened his eyes and nodded at the Speaker, who quickly struck the gavel and pressed the two factions down, and then looked at the Prime Minister, who stood up and cleared his throat, with a solemn expression and a deep tone:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are standing at the historical juncture of major changes, the heart of foreign forces is not dead, the royalists are vainly trying to restore everything, the restless separatists are planning terrorist attacks, the seemingly peaceful appearance of the country is treacherous, all kinds of sharp contradictions are fermenting at the bottom, the originally stable middle class is about to face the unemployment crisis brought about by industrial transformation, everyone, we have all experienced bloody storms to come to this place that can speak for the people, stifle tyranny, and balance power. I hope that all parliamentarians will see clearly the grim situation at present, shoulder the burden of the role of the historical decision-maker, and cast your sacred vote. ”
After the Prime Minister finished speaking, the Speaker struck the gavel and continued:
"Now, then, vote on the first emergency meeting and resource tilt bill in the next life, with a time limit of half an hour, and three changes allowed."
All the parliamentarians began to discuss fiercely, and some of the parliamentarians even left the table to canvass for votes from those neutral parliamentarians, wishing his comrades-in-arms trembling uncontrollably, and he was not called down, but could only stiffly clubbed on the presentation seat, and all the cells in his body were shouting excitedly, is this the charm of being in the center of power, he loves this feeling too much.
Fortunately, it didn't take long, just when Zhu comrades-in-arms couldn't help but tremble obviously, 28 minutes were over, all the parliamentarians returned to their seats, pressed the buttons on the table with different expressions, and everyone looked at the big screen behind the speaker, when a large red, green, and green light bulb lit up, the secretary-general in charge of statistics sent the computer data to the speaker's tablet, the speaker glanced at the tablet, turned upside down and raised his hands to face all the parliamentarians:
"With 213 votes in favor, 161 votes against, and 6 abstentions, I declare that the first emergency meeting and resource tilt bill in the next life has passed!"
"Bang!"