Xie Maohua did not deceive Heller, and a few days later, the lighthouse government convened a meeting, at which it was decided to approve a plan to clean up the ground devariants.

Of course, even if the Tarmes are removed, there are still five administrative stars that need to be cleaned up in a large area, and the Lighthouse Government needs to invest a lot of manpower, material resources and time for this, and such a high cost is simply unbearable for the Lighthouse Government, which has been living in the underground fortress for more than a year.

As a puppet government, the Lighthouse government has a lot of money from the investment of the Three Rivers Group, and the largest of the Three Rivers Group is the Sitamons family, since the death of Sitamons Feng, who served as the chief political officer, his heir Cheng Sikong has swept away most of the assets of the Sitamons family, and now the government is in deficit, and it is difficult to pay the huge expenses caused by the clean-up operation.

In order to make this operation go smoothly, and in order to allow humans to return to the surface, Zong Dingbang, who is the chief of the Hope Star Field, had to ask for help from the Twelve Wisdom Brain Groups, and the fundraising meeting was scheduled to be held in a safe house deep in the underground fortress of Wright Star, which is also a place where the timid Zong Dingbang has not stepped out for more than a year.

According to the distribution law of "assets are status", he was arranged at the very edge of the long conference table, and Xie Maohua, who replaced Simons Feng as the richest man in the star field, sat in the middle, opposite Zong Dingbang, the chief of the star field, and Zhai Cheng, the chief commander of the star wars.

Next to the two lighthouse governments***, there was also an empty seat, which was originally intended for the position of the Governor-General, but was temporarily vacant due to the death of Sitamons Von.

The meeting started on time, Heller has never liked this kind of occasion, he does not often attend meetings in his own company, and there are professional managers hired by high-paid professionals to help him take care of any affairs in the group, he has always pursued hedonism, and he began to fall asleep when he sat at the conference table, if it wasn't for Shu Yungui to find out the news, he didn't want to come to this meeting.

The flexible light screen rose from the table in front of him, and there were a number of things that needed to be discussed in the meeting, the first of which was fundraising, and Heller leaned forward slightly to try to count the number of zeros behind the budget, but he gave up halfway through, because it was completely astronomical, and he even doubted that he could sell the Zberney Group for so much money.

"Ahem......

When facing the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group, the usual arrogant look of the chief Zong Dingbang also humbled down, he coughed lightly twice to open for himself, and a very standard professional smirk immediately appeared on the corner of his lips.

"Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend this meeting, and I would like to express my gratitude to all of you at Lighthouse Government."

If it weren't for the cessation of commercial activities on the ground, the Twelve Brains would not have sold his face at all, and many meetings were attended by their senior secretaries before the Nationwide Rebellion.

"Needless to say, can you explain the cost of this first item? 'Three trillion Star Coins will be needed for the restoration of surface structures and ecological restoration?'

Xie Maohua's face was very ugly, he poked his fingers on the table, making a "knock" sound.

"In the past, when we were an ATM, what is the situation now? When we are a banknote printer?"

Zong Dingbang hurriedly smiled, he glared at the Minister of Finance next to him, and the Minister of Finance was so frightened that he almost stood up directly.

"Yes, that's right, I'll explain it to you......

The Minister of Finance pushed the thick glasses on his face and explained, "Because since the invasion of insects, the ground facilities and ecological environment of the major administrative stars have been damaged, and even the artificial sun has stopped operating after the national mutiny, according to the report of the environmental investigation department, the ecological balance of the ground has suffered a devastating blow, and we need to restore a large number of buildings and ecosystems."

"This 3 trillion is the result of our joint discussions with the Ministry of Infrastructure Engineering and the Ministry of Environment, it will take about 17 trillion stars to repair the building, and it will take about 13 trillion stars to re-cultivate biological genes from the biological gene bank to restore the ecological environment, of course, this is only the upfront cost, many buildings that have been attacked by artillery fire have become dangerous buildings and need to be demolished and rebuilt, this part of the cost

We haven't counted it yet."

Not to mention that it's okay, Xie Maohua's face is even more ugly at this time, if it was a paper document in front of him, he would definitely tear it to shreds.

The Minister of Finance glanced at Xie Maohua cautiously, it was rare for an official of his level to see the big man behind the lighthouse government, so that he couldn't guess Xie Maohua's thoughts, and when he saw that the other party did not stop, he could only tremble and continue.

"According to the discussion with the United Front Work Department, the ecological reconstruction work and the cleaning of the ground malignant deformation will be carried out at the front and rear feet, so before the budget of 30,000 Star Coins, there is also a 'War Weapons Consumption Cost, the United Front Work Department is expected to take 150 days to complete the ground cleaning work, and the consumption of ammunition and weapons is estimated to be about 8 trillion Star Coins, which does not include the medical expenses and death compensation caused by the casualties of the ground troops."

Heller's eyelids jumped twice, and he exclaimed in his heart that this is eleven trillion star coins, the lighthouse government is really not polite to their twelve intelligent brain groups, and the eleven trillion star coins have to be printed for a long time even if the banknote printing plant is at full power, right? As soon as they put their mouths on their mouths and said they wanted to?

He quietly rolled his eyes to look at the other members of the Brain Group beside him, and sure enough, the word "dissatisfaction" was written on everyone's face, just because Xie Maohua didn't speak, and the others had no intention of speaking for the time being.

According to the seat allocation system, every time the Lighthouse government asks the Wisdom Brain Group for money, it will calculate different amounts according to the level of seats in each family.

Heller is not self-motivated, he can barely be a master of success under the pull of a group of professional managers, and the capital accumulation of the Zberney Group has not changed much since he inherited the family business, and he is still the last to pay, and the money he pays the least each time.

Of course, this "less" is also relative, and for ordinary small and medium-sized enterprises, it is also a huge amount of money that cannot be earned back for several generations.

Heller rubbed his fingers, thinking to himself that he would have to calculate how much money the Lighthouse Government had taken from their Zburney Group when he went back this time.

"Along with the ground clean-up operation, there is also an artificial sun maintenance and restart project, which is relatively small, only 600 million star coins......

"That's enough!"

Xie Maohua slapped the table suddenly, and the muscles of the finance minister's body visibly tightened, and he immediately bit his lower lip, looked at Xie Maohua and then at Zong Dingbang, not knowing what to do next.

Zong Dingbang was also frightened, and his heart beat suddenly, but as the chief minister, he had to stabilize the situation and let this meeting continue, so he could only smile boldly and said, "If President Xie feels that he is not satisfied, he can bring it up, and I will immediately ask someone to revise it."

"What's wrong with me, you ask?" Xie Maohua exhaled in his nostrils and asked angrily, "You might as well ask what can satisfy me!"

His brows furrowed into the word "Chuan", and the expense statement was a useless junk document in his eyes.

"In the past, when the environment was good, everyone had good business, sufficient cash flow, and money in the account, and we basically didn't refuse every time you spoke, but you also have a good idea of what kind of life you have lived in the past year or so, which one can allocate such a large amount of money to you?!"

"That's it!"

Someone in the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group finally opened his mouth and rebuked in the same dissatisfied tone: "For more than a year, we have been urging your Lighthouse Government to deal with the matter of ground malignant mutants and inducers, and you have been delaying again and again, and now you want money and think of us? Why don't you drag on for a year and a half and drag down the business of our Twelve Wisdom Brain Groups!"

Business is not easy to do, or there is no business to do at all, even the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group is still eating the old capital, the lighthouse government does not solve the problems on the ground for a day, the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group's books continue to lose money, if it weren't for their big business, I'm afraid they would have been dragged to death long ago.

"The concentration of malignant inducers on the ground in the early stage is too high, the government army is not strong enough to survive, and the chances of winning the war rashly against the malignant are extremely low, and we have to wait until now, if you are not satisfied with the amount in the early stage, we can also postpone other projects and only clean up

action, and when the clean-up operation is over, you will be able to resume work and production as soon as possible."

Zhai Cheng explained the reason why he had not eliminated the ground deviant without being humble or arrogant, as a soldier, his bloody and murderous aura different from that of the civilian position made the attitude of the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group ease a little, and the two family heads sitting on both sides of Xie Maohua bowed their heads and said a few words to him, and only after a while did they listen to Xie Maohua.

"We can only provide a maximum of four trillion funds for the clean-up operation, and we will not make any supplementary funds for casualties, weapons maintenance, etc., and the clean-up operation must be completed within sixty days, and after the task is completed, you must immediately clear out the civilians in the fortress below, and they cannot be allowed to continue to hide in the underground fortress."

Zhai Cheng's hand clenched into a fist, Zong Dingbang laughed embarrassed and embarrassed, and hurriedly pressed Zhai Cheng's wrist, for fear that he would hit someone on impulse.

Heller, who was sitting next to him, rolled his eyes, and sighed in his heart It turned out that the negotiation table was such a scene of back and forth,-for-tat, Xie Maohua cut half of the funds as soon as they opened their mouths, and shortened the time by half, and at the same time attached a bunch of conditions, it seems that his father taught him to cut the price in half This sentence is really true.

"The number of malignant mutants in the star field is too large to be counted, it takes a lot of weapons and ammunition to completely eliminate them, and some of the malignant mutants hiding in buildings need to be cleaned by the ground troops building by building, no matter how much our soldiers save ammunition, how much can they really save in the face of the inhuman mutants of beasts? Every bullet that might be saved needs to be deducted with their lives."

Zhai Cheng tried to calm the anger churning in his chest, suppressed his temper and tried to communicate well with the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group, but he seemed to forget that human life is never as important as money in the eyes of the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group.

"So what? The so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, usually eating and drinking to support you, isn't it just to serve the people at this time? War, sacrifice is a normal thing, only a declining population can stimulate productivity, more children will increase the demand, and the economic growth in the star field can be raised."

Xie Maohua was unmoved, human life is only the last factor to be considered in the eyes of businessmen, and even many times it can be completely ignored, after all, life is someone else's, and money is one's own.

Heller looked at the green tendons on Zhai Cheng's forehead jumping suddenly, he was really worried that Zhai Cheng would cross the conference table and punch Xie Maohua's front teeth, although Xie Maohua was fighting for the minimum outflow of funds for the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group at this time, and it was also to reduce the burden on Heller, but for some reason, Heller suddenly wanted to see the scene of Zhai Cheng beating Xie Maohua.

He began to have some slight anticipation, and even sat up straight, Zong Dingbang tightly pulled Zhai Cheng's elbow with his two hands under the conference table, eager to use both feet together, the burly Star Wars commander next to him had tense muscles, if he didn't have a gun, I was afraid that now these twelve wisdom brains would be beaten into a sieve.

As a soldier, the most unbearable thing for Zhai Cheng is that others look down on the lives of soldiers, because the lives of worthless people in the eyes of others represent the lives of every brother and sister who fought side by side with him and were born to death.

And the thousands of their lives, which seem to be humbled to the dust, are constantly sacrificed just to protect the very few who are high above and their extravagant lives.

How can this world not be absurd?

"Calm down, everyone! Calm down...... Listen to me, it's not that we haven't taken into account your current situation, and this fundraising is completely voluntary, and we will not force you to contribute, and of course, if any of you are willing to support us, we have prepared a thank you gift."

Zong Dingbang didn't have time to wipe the sweat on his head, he stabilized Zhai Cheng, and smiled at the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group: "We will give the position of the Chief Political Officer to the adults who helped us complete the fundraising this time, as long as the funds arrive, we will be able to exercise the authority of the Chief Political Officer immediately."

Two of the twelve wise brains died, and among the ten people present at this time, except for Heller, the remaining nine pairs of eyes all looked towards the vacant seat on Zong Dingbang's side, the position of the chief political officer is not a small temptation, politics and business are not separated, if you can sit in that position, it will be much more convenient to do whatever you do in the future, otherwise Sitamon, who has thousands of family fortunes

S. Von would not be willing to leave Rui Chenxing to take up a job at Wright.

Obviously, everyone is tempted, even if other families don't have a penny, it is not too difficult for them to take out eight trillion star coins alone, and it is not too cost-effective to exchange eight trillion star coins for the position of a chief political officer, after entering politics, they can tilt a lot of good policies and resources to their own companies, and then they can earn back far more than eight trillion star coins.

Heller is the only one in the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group who is not interested in that position, he is a greedy son-in-law, who is forced to take over in business, and wants him to enter politics, reading documents every day, holding meetings every day, and dealing with government officials who can't see clearly every day is simply killing him, he is in his fifties, and he lived extremely chic under the protection of his father for the first thirty or forty years of his life, and it is impossible to embarrass himself when he is old.

He shrugged his shoulders boredly, looking like he was sitting on a mountain watching the tiger fight, and was about to reach for the water cup on the table, when he suddenly heard Xie Maohua say in a deep voice: "Actually, things don't have to be so complicated, it's not difficult for any one company to take out eight trillion star coins in one go, but it's certainly not easy, the current situation is turbulent, and a large amount of capital outflow will have an immeasurable impact on the operation of the group itself, who knows if there will be a time when the whole people will enter the underground fortress again in the future?"

He glanced at the audience, the volume was not high, but it was quite warning, and said, "Everyone, you have to think about it."

On the surface, this sentence sounds like Xie Maohua's reminder to everyone, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that Xie Maohua has made up his mind to sit in the position of the chief political officer, and at this time he is the biggest capitalist in the star field, and even if others covet that position, it is difficult to compete with him.

What's more, after Simon Feng died, Xie Maohua was always flaunting himself as the most important person of the Thorn Goddess, and the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group still relied on the Thorn Goddess to continue to develop, so naturally he didn't dare to offend the celebrity in front of it.

Of course, it was impossible for the cunning Xie Maohua to directly propose that he would pay for the position of chief political officer, so he cleared his throat and said quietly: "Now the lighthouse government really needs funds to complete the post-war reconstruction, but our Twelve Wisdom Brain Group must also protect itself, otherwise it will hurt the root cause and affect the long-term development of the Hope Star Field, don't you say?"

Everyone can only claim that Zong Dingbang just thought that he was going to succeed, even if it was less than eight trillion, he would be able to stay close to ten, but he was completely overthrown by Xie Maohua all of a sudden, he dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so he could only ask with a smile: "That...... Is there any better way President Tse can help us resolve this financial crisis?"

Xie Maohua showed an intriguing smile, and Heller looked at him while drinking water, only to feel that he must not be well-intentioned.

Sure enough, Xie Maohua said indifferently: "You can take a longer view, why do we have to solve the economic crisis of the lighthouse government by ourselves? Since ancient times, the earth has used war to divert our own economic crisis, so why don't we follow suit?"

Zong Dingbang didn't understand it, and asked hesitantly, "What do you mean......

"Wouldn't sending troops to the coalition government, exterminating the rebels, and taking all their funds and armaments for ourselves, solve the financial crisis and replenish our stockpiles of weapons and equipment? At that time, we will start cleaning up the evil mutants, and with enough weapons and ammunition, our soldiers' lives can be saved, right?"

Xie Maohua turned his head to look at Heller across the crowd under everyone's shocked gaze, and asked, "Mr. Heller just went to Tak Nemesis a few days ago, according to what he said, the situation of the coalition government is very good, presumably they must have sufficient sources of funds and weapons stocks, and at the worst of all, they also have the huge inheritance of the Sitamons family that was taken away by Cheng Sikong, which is a number that we can't reach even by several families combined, Mr. Heller, do you say yes?"

Heller squirted out a mouthful of water, almost splashing the people around him, the other party stood up in disgust, Heller quickly stood up too, coughing and nervously replied: "Don't ask me about war, I don't want to go to a place like Tuss for the rest of my life, you can win the best, so that I don't have to worry about the coalition government every day in Biss Star to fight the coalition government one day."

He patted the water stains on his body and walked out, someone asked him what to do, he quickened his pace without looking back, waved his hand, "Drink too much water, I'll go to the bathroom, don't."

Leave me alone, and I will always agree with President Tse's proposal."

This is quite like Xie Maohua's dog's legs, Xie Maohua is very useful, but many people in the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group insinuated that he is not as backbone as Old Heller, but Heller didn't care about the gossip behind him, he hurriedly found the bathroom, hid in the private room and locked the door, confirmed that there was no surveillance and eavesdropping equipment here, and then removed the communicator that Tang Yue gave him from the heel of his leather shoes.

Security checks are required when entering the underground fortress safe house, and although they are noble and do not need to be searched, the laser scanner on the security gate will still scan everyone who enters the door in detail.

At this time, his fingers were shaking when he removed the signal reflection film, and he didn't know what he meant by suddenly naming him just now, it was possible that Xie Maohua was just because he had been to Tunexing recently and wanted him to be a witness, but the most worrying thing was whether Xie Maohua began to doubt whether he had any cooperation with the coalition government, if he found out that he had betrayed the muse, he was likely to kill himself in order to ask for credit in front of the muse.

Heller took a great deal of effort to tear open the film, and her trembling fingers tapped on the microdisplay, editing the contents of today's meeting into information that was transmitted back to the coalition government via encryption.

"The Lighthouse government intends to carry out a clean-up operation, the government is not funded, today invited the Twelve Brains to carry out a fundraising meeting, the amount of money is huge, the negotiation failed, the lighthouse government wants to use the position of chief political officer in exchange for funds, everyone is willing, but was stopped by Xie Maohua, Xie Maohua proposed to use the war to transfer the crisis, attack the Tabui to seize funds and armaments."

Pressing the last symbol, the message was suddenly launched, and it only took more than ten seconds to reach the receiver of Tuck Star through the long interstellar journey, Heller breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that he was sweating all over his head, he raised his hand to wipe it, but the door of the private room was suddenly knocked -

"Bang bang!"

With a flick of his fingers, the communicator fell to the ground with a "clang" and slid down the slightly sloping ground into the depths of the tank behind the toilet.

Heller was so frightened that he was instantly soaked in cold sweat, he bit his tongue into the blood blisters before he screamed, and he didn't care about being dirty at this time, he quickly knelt down, crouched down next to the toilet, and reached out to the depths of the water tank and groped.

"Mr. Heller, are you in there?"

Someone outside urged him, "The meeting is being voted on, and the chief has asked me to ask you to come back."

Heller's heart was pounding, and he tried his best to reach in as hard as he could, but the underground fortress safe house was built so old that there was only a centimeter between the old tank and the tiles on the floor, and the communicator was exactly a centimeter thick, and it was difficult to get out after sliding in.

"Mr. Heller? Are you in there? Mr. Heller?"

There was two more knocks on the door of the cubicle, and the people outside let out a "huh" and said to themselves, "Is there no one? How can the door be locked when no one is there?"

Heller found that he couldn't get his fingers into the gap, so he quickly looked around for a thin, slender tool to pull the communicator out.

The cubicle was empty, with almost nothing but the toilet, and Heller searched anxiously before her eyes fell on the iron tray on the wall.

It was used for toilet users to put small items, using expansion bolts to be firmly nailed to the wall, Heller broke it a few times without breaking it, but this was the only thing in the entire compartment that could be used, and if he couldn't get the communicator back, he would really die if someone else found him.

Heller took two steps back, raised his leg and wanted to kick on the tray, but before his feet could stretch out, Xie Maohua's voice suddenly sounded outside the door, and Heller almost knelt on the ground.

"Mr. Heller, are you alright? Is it unwell? The meeting is at a critical juncture, so if you can still hold on, just finish your vote and rest."

The tone is tough and unrefusable, it seems that he is here to care about him, but in fact he may be here to spy on him, Heller's heart is like a drumstick, at this time he has no choice but to throw the signal reflection film in his hand into the toilet bowl and flush it with the water, and then with difficulty

glanced at the gap behind the water tank, and finally opened the door panel of the compartment before Xie Maohua's second urging.

Xie Maohua and another member of the Twelve Wisdom Brain Group were standing an arm's length away from the compartment waiting for him, and when they saw Heller coming out, Xie Maohua's mouth closed slightly, and his eyes looked Heller up and down, and then asked with a smile: "Just now the staff said that there was no one in the compartment, and I was worried about whether you were unwell and fainted, are you okay?"

Heller didn't know how he managed to squeeze out a smile, he feigned tightening the belt with trembling fingers, shook his head and said, "It's okay, the belt was stuck just now, I was embarrassed to answer."

He controlled his stiff body and walked past Xie Maohua to wash his hands at the sink, and through the mirror, he could see that Xie Maohua was searching the toilet cubicle he had just stayed in with suspicion, but the gap was too secret, and Xie Maohua didn't seem to be able to find the clue for the time being.

"Okay, I'm sorry for the delay, where is the meeting now? That guy just said you were voting? What to vote for? Have you decided you want to fund the lighthouse government's clean-up efforts?"

He took out two pieces of paper from the tissue box and wiped his hands, stood at the door of the bathroom and looked back at Xie Maohua.

The cunning old man withdrew his gaze from the cubicle and chuckled at him, "No, it's a vote on when to attack Taks."