Chapter 51: The "Aristocrats" of the New Federation

Mercury led Xia Lian inside the pirate ship based on a map scanned by the wide-area radar, and they took the elevator to the bottom floor of the ship.

This used to be the ship's cargo hold, but now part of it has been transformed into an underground cage, with iron bars on both sides and a corridor in between.

The environment was dimly lit, and there was no light, but faintly, you could see some people in the cage, dressed in all kinds of luxuries, but with a lot of dust and filth on them.

These glamorous dignitaries in the past are extremely embarrassed at the moment.

They also sensed the arrival of Xia Lian and the others, and they stood up and leaned against the iron fence to look at Wang Zhen longingly.

"Mr. Wang Chen, please believe us, we are really the legal citizens of the new federation! It has nothing to do with the pirates. ”

"We have celebrities here, scientists and rich people, you saved us, we will definitely give you a good reward."

"Will there be a party?"

These people were stunned for a moment, but then looked at the young man behind Wang Zhen, dressed in a black suit, with short black hair, a handsome face, and looked very young.

"Yes, if you save us, we'll throw you a big party!" People answered.

Xia Lian looked at Wang Zhen.

"Although the lines are similar, they shouldn't." Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows and said.

Xia Lian walked up to the group.

Through the fence, Xia Lian pointed to the neutron-like star cannon that Mercury was holding in his hand.

"Do any of you know this weapon? It was loaded with a neutron-like star as a cannonball. ”

They glanced at each other, then slowly pushed to the sides, revealing a group of people sitting in the corner.

They were also watching Xia Lian, and after a few moments, a woman in the crowd slowly got up from the ground, and then struggled to make out the gun in Mercury's hand in the darkness.

Then, she nodded.

"It's mine, it's a weapon that's still being tested."

Xia Lian looked the woman in front of him up and down, she was very beautiful, but compared to mercury, she was a little average.

The most unique thing is her eyes, the pupils are very high, and there are a lot of whites on three sides, these are three white eyes, and Maddie of the NBA is this kind of eye.

The upper eyelids are a little weak, and the pupils are also obscured, which looks like a sense of alienation and misanthropy.

"You are...."

"My name is Mo Li, and I work at the New Federal Academy of Sciences." Mo Li said.

"You made this neutron-like star?" Natsu said with interest.

Mo Li was silent for a moment, "I'm sorry, this is a federal secret...."

"You don't seem to understand the current situation." Xia Lian looked at Mo Li, and also glanced at the people present, "This is an unknown star system that no one knows, outside the star map, if you die here, no one will find you."

Now, your fate is in my hands.

Of course, I'm not one of those pirates, and I'll be gentler than they are, as long as you can cooperate with me.

But.... If you don't cooperate, it's different..."

Xia Lian showed a friendly smile at Mo Li.

"So.... Can you answer me? ”

Looking at Xia Lian's smile, people were enveloped by an inexplicable chill, and subconsciously swallowed their saliva, and then people focused their eyes on Mo Li.

Mo Li was silent for a moment and said, "Can you let me know who you are first?" ”

"Of course." Xia Lian smiled, "I am the second son of Duke Bahram, Haine Bahram. ”

"That second prince who is said to have autism?" One of the people in the crowd seemed to know a little bit about it, "Legend has it that no one has ever seen him." ”

"I really don't like to meet people, but I'm not as autistic." Xia Lian glanced at the man and said.

The man smirked, then ducked into the crowd.

"The second son of Duke Bahram!?"

In the crowd, a man's voice was slightly agitated.

He struggled to squeeze through the crowd and leaned against the guardrail of his cell to look at Xia Lian.

"I am the son of the governor of Thangka, Jackman! I order you to let me go! ”

Xia Lian's eyebrows were raised, and he looked at the person who spoke out with some surprise.

He was wearing a luxurious double-breasted gown in pure white, but at the moment it was covered with dust and did not look very decent.

He had half-long blond wavy hair, a high nose, was white, his eyes were slightly upward, his chin was slightly raised, and he looked very proud.

The governor of the new federation is not hereditary, so their sons are not surrounded by people who are worthy of reforming people as personal guards, like Xia Lian.

The cooperation between the governor of Thangka and the Duke of Bahram should be some kind of secret that not many people know about.

The one who could tell the pirate captain that information was obviously not a small person, so it was reasonable that his son was on this ship.

Shalian had heard of the name Thangka, but he had at least twenty children, including illegitimate children, so he was not familiar with the name Jackman.

At first glance, it may not sound surprising that a single Governor of a Sector has more than twenty children, but the New Federation is not an empire-like dictatorship, but a voting democracy, which is democratic and claims to have zero corruption.

In fact, on the face of it, the corruption rate of officials in the first two years of their new federation was indeed zero.

But this is not possible.

The greed of human nature can never be satisfied, and when you have a small goal, you will think about the next small goal.

Corrupt officials have existed since ancient times, no matter how high the salary, no matter how strict the picket mechanism, as long as human nature still exists, it cannot be completely banned.

The zero official corruption rate seems like a good thing, but for Xia Lian and others, it only shows that the new federation has lost its ability to self-picket.

Although the carrion will continue to grow, there is a possibility that new meat will eventually grow after the carrion is dug up, which is not visible from covering the carrion with gauze, but it is two different concepts.

Xia Lian's impression of this thangka governor still comes from the autobiography he posted two years ago called "Mein Kampf".

As soon as it was released, it didn't take long for it to sell out, and I heard that it set a sales volume of 8 billion before it was stopped.

Of course, no one would want to read such an autobiography written by a politician.

If you look closely at the people who buy these books, you will find that these books are actually bought by a single organization.

Obviously, this is a power-for-money trade, but in the new federal political system, it is legal.

The clothes worn by Jackman in front of him are custom-made, and the price is about 600,000 yuan, which is about the living expenses of a family of three for more than ten years.

These are all people's fat and people's ointment.

This is thanks to the interstellar era, the productivity has come up, and they can afford to raise these moths, if they were in the past, they would be the masters of street lights.