Chapter 151: Emperor Xin Calendar Year 728
"Has Major Yang Ming not returned yet?"
Edwan, who was wearing a vintage robe, asked with a frown.
Through the thick door, he could already hear the huge and noisy cheers outside.
The projected calendar on the wall shows the calendar of Sherman's Empire.
Today is the second day of the new year 728, and it is also the day when the Luofeng Empire is about to welcome its new emperor.
The ministers behind Edwang looked at each other, then lowered their heads in silence.
An intelligence officer stepped forward to report: "Major Yang Ming sent a message saying that there was a problem with the transport ship's jump landing point. It will take half an hour to reach Yilando Star. If you want to land, it will take at least an hour. Your Majesty, you should pay attention to the time of the national live broadcast..."
"Then wait a moment."
Edwang said in a deep voice, lowered his head and walked back to his seat in the middle of the hall, and said slowly:
"Everyone, sit down and take a rest."
"But Your Majesty, I missed the live broadcast..."
"Let's broadcast the batting competition on TV ," said Edwang with a smile, "Major Yang Ming can't be absent today."
"Yes, Your Majesty," a minister said with a meaningful smile, "Major Yang Ming's influence in the military is too great."
Edwang lowered his head with a smile, picked up his network terminal, and looked at the latest Luofeng Economic Index.
Edwang simply chose to ignore the minister's remarks.
Moreover, Edwang decided to demote this minister to the second administrative planet to be a local governor later, otherwise if Yang Ming heard of such remarks, it would easily make Yang Ming unhappy.
Don’t these ministers understand at all who has the final say in Luo Feng now?
Although he is about to ascend the throne and become the new emperor of the Luofeng Empire;
But Adwant always felt that he was more like a finance minister, in charge of the national economy and maintaining a favorable international political environment.
This is just a small step towards his life goal.
Edwang also knew why Yang Ming was late today.
In the past two years, Yang Ming has spent less than four months in Luofeng Territory.
This guy runs outside whenever he has nothing to do, appearing and disappearing like a ghost, without a trace.
Adwant's old father 'died' a week ago. After the grand funeral, according to imperial law, Adwant must directly ascend the throne as the new emperor.
When Yang Ming got the news, he was most likely outside the Luofeng Empire, perhaps doing bad things in some corner of the Milky Way.
When Edwan thought of this, he sighed in his heart.
In the past two years, Yang Ming has made so many contributions to the country of Luofeng.
Yang Ming's support for Luo Feng is all-round.
First, the military unified the six fleets effortlessly, and the six fleets were reorganized into four fleets, with General Gutonmaha and General Lyon controlling two fleets each.
In the following year, three small and medium-sized countries bordering Luofeng took the initiative to show goodwill to Luofeng and invited the Luofeng military to conduct joint military exercises.
Yang Ming revealed to Edwang that he had easily dealt with important military officials from three nearby countries.
In other words, under Yang Ming's manipulation , Luofeng formed a regional military alliance with its neighboring countries.
This greatly improved the security of the Luofeng Empire.
However, this is only the military aspect.
In the past two years, every three to five months, a group of new technology companies would emerge in the Luofeng Empire, apply for a large number of international patents at the fastest speed, start production in full swing, and expand the market at all costs.
These technology companies are involved in various industries and are now beginning to demonstrate their value.
If Edwang guessed correctly, the patents of these technology companies were all stolen by Yang Ming from the New Federation, but no one knew what means he used to transform and innovate them.
Whatever Luo Feng lacked, Yang Ming would steal it from the New Federation.
In order to cover up Yang Ming's behavior, Adwang directly launched a series of activities such as "national scientific research" and "high-salary talent recruitment", advocating a planetary development concept based on scientific and technological development.
At the beginning, Edwang was really sweating.
What should we do if the New Federation notices the anomaly in Luofeng Technology’s development and imposes a blockade on Luofeng’s multinational group?
But soon, Adwan discovered...
The New Federation has no time to deal with Luo Feng right now.
war.
Continuous war.
The brave and warlike nobles of the Sherman Empire constantly launched local wars against the New Federation.
Of course, the intensity of these subsequent wars was far less than the Battle of Onyx, but the two-year-long local war caused the New Federation to directly lose the territory of six administrative stars. Domestic political parties abused and accused each other, public sentiment was high, and the situation was very chaotic.
Sherman's Empire thoroughly tasted the sweetness of maintaining a state of war against the new Confederacy.
Lesser nobles had a path to promotion, and greater nobles had the opportunity to restore their family honor. The Sherman royal family once again won the hearts of the people, and the national economy was also improving rapidly due to the boost from the military industry.
The Sherman Empire, which was originally in decline, seemed to have come back to life in the past two years.
Every time he thought of the economic and military benefits that the Luofeng Empire had gained by following Sherman, Edwang couldn't stop smiling.
Adwant was extremely grateful to the white ghost.
It was this White Ghost who exposed the New Federation's evil plot, thus allowing the Luofeng Empire to have a window of rapid development at such an appropriate time period.
Sometimes, even Edward felt that Yang Ming and White Ghost should belong to the same organization.
They chose Luofeng and wanted to build Luofeng into a new regional power, thus changing the situation in the Milky Way.
Today, although the economic data of the Luofeng Empire has not recovered to the level of three years ago, the economic system has completed preliminary reforms.
Luofeng is no longer highly dependent on international trade in a single industry, and its industrial system has made great progress.
To give the simplest example, the original Luofeng shipbuilding industry could only support the assembly of 100-meter-class ships.
Today, Luofeng is able to assemble kilometer-class commercial ships, provided that key components are not stuck.
——If the military industry wants to catch up, it will not be a task that can be completed in one or two years. At this stage, they are still mainly focusing on purchasing warships.
"His Majesty."
General Felimon took the message from the officer and said in a deep voice:
"The transport ship that Major Yang Ming is on has entered the atmosphere, and he wants you to proceed with the ceremony as normal."
"Wait for him to come," said Edwan, "I hope he can stand behind me today."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Felimon said with a smile, "Then I will go prepare a formal dress for Major Yang Ming."
Edwang raised his eyebrows, stood up and did a chest expansion exercise, then slowly walked to the window of the hall and looked at the square below.
The square was packed with people.
The giant floating stands everywhere were filled with Luofeng people.
This shows Adwan's popularity among the people today, and is also the rich reward he has received for working day and night for the country in the past three years.
Adwant stood quietly.
Ascending the throne was his first step. Next, he would use ten years to make Luofeng's economy more developed and raise the people's education level to a higher level.
Awaken the people's minds and give them power.
Reform the imperial system, establish a cabinet, transfer imperial power, and explore a system of regional voting and coexistence of the monarchy.
This was the plan he and Yang Ming had made three years ago.
The sunlight spread on his crown, and his back exuded a faint majesty.
Sudden.
"Your Majesty, you don't have to wait for me."
A familiar voice appeared in the corner of the hall.
Edwang turned and looked towards the corridor in the corner. Yang Ming, dressed in a military uniform, was walking slowly towards him. His upright posture had not changed at all from when they first met.
The ministers immediately stood up and the guards bowed their heads in greeting.
General Philemon signaled to the maid to bring the dress, but Yang Ming smiled and refused, and put on the hard-top military cap in his arms.
"Don't keep your people waiting too long."
"Come here, stand behind me and give me courage."
Edwang curled his lips and walked to the front door. Yang Ming walked behind Edwang, one body length behind him, and put his hands wearing black leather gloves behind his back.
The door was slowly pushed open by the guards.
Cheers came like a tide, and the warm sunlight made Yang Ming squint his eyes.
…
When Yang Ming received the news that Edwang was going to ascend the throne, he was working on technology in the New Federation.
The old emperor's phone was turned off by Princess Dana herself. Before turning it off, she received an order from the Sherman Empire's Foreign Affairs Bureau and did not inform Yang Ming.
At that time, Yang Ming had finally managed to get into a technology company in the New Federation. He was still a long way from making progress in his attack on the company's database, so in order not to waste the previous two months of preparation, he could only continue to wait.
Fortunately, I finally made it to the coronation ceremony.
Otherwise, Edwan would have nagged him hundreds of times!
In the past two years, Yang Ming drove the Feinan and went in and out of the New Federation seven times.
Stealing technology and obtaining patents are only part of Yang Ming's job responsibilities. The White Ghost Organization has added a few achievements that are not worth mentioning.
Relying on the secret intelligence collected by Lu, White Ghost transformed himself into the [Disciplinary Committee Member] of the New Federation and successively announced more than a dozen scandals, including [Office brawl between the minister and the female secretary], [Manor party between a certain presidential campaign team and a capitalist], [Records of the New Federation's plan to steal resources from its allies], etc.
White Ghost has been listed as the number one wanted target by the New Federal CIA.
In order to stop White Ghost from stealing secrets, the New Federation mobilized a large number of network security teams, and Lu was almost caught by the other party several times.
To this end, Boss Yang made a big move and upgraded Lu's hardware twice.
The Feinan freed up one-fifth of its space to install the latest main brain processor, which increased the computing power by 400%.
To be on the safe side, the Feinan did not go to the heartland of the New Federation at all. Yang Ming specifically picked those marginal areas where people were in panic and asked Lu to find loopholes in the New Federation's regional network defense.
In contrast, White Ghost has gained a large number of fans within the Sherman Empire.
This caused a misunderstanding.
There was a young nobleman in the Sherman Empire who kept hinting that he was the White Ghost. His home was then blown up by the New Federal agents, and his entire family died.
When Yang Ming heard the news, he was both amused and confused, and even had the idea of letting White Ghost retire.
However, the activeness of the white ghost actually has several other meanings.
Today, the New Federation has shifted its focus away from Luo Feng and has defined White Ghost as a "stubborn Sherman Empire royalist force."
The Feinan, which had been transformed by the three high-level mechanical thinking bodies, even without a main gun, still demonstrated a strength that gave the current galactic powers a headache.
This is the advantage of technological leadership.
As the night deepened, the banquet held in the palace came to an end. Yang Ming, looking tired and yawning, said hello to Edwang and boarded the small transport boat waiting outside the palace.
Yang Ming is really tired.
He also didn't understand why, after Adwant ascended the throne, he, a viscount, a major, and the acting captain of the Wagra battleship, had to talk nonsense with a group of Fallen Wind nobles.
The transport boat was moving steadily towards outer space, and Yang Ming was snoring in the driver's seat.
Lu's projection appeared and disappeared from time to time, as if he was waiting for Yang Ming to wake up and report some unimportant news to him.
It was not until the transport ship sailed into Yang Ming's current residence in Luofeng - a medium-sized transport ship belonging to the 012 Integrated Formation of the Fourth Fleet - that Lu called out to wake Yang Ming up.
"Boss, we're home!"
"Um?"
Yang Ming opened his eyes: "How long have I slept? Is there any news about Po Su?"
"Not yet," Lu said softly, "We have deployed as much surveillance as possible in that airspace, using mining ships to form a warning network. As long as Po Su shows up, there is a high probability that she will be discovered."
"She should have recovered her strength."
Yang Ming rubbed his eyes and cheered himself up:
"Let the little guys from Dark Star be prepared. It takes a thousand days to raise an army but only one day to deploy it. Don't let me down at the critical moment."
"Okay, boss. You should have a good rest first."
Yang Ming yawned, quickly left the outer cabin of the transport ship, and walked forward along the corridor.
Several maid robots encountered on the road bowed to Yang Ming, and they contained mechanical thinking bodies from the Dark Star.
After opening the thick security door and passing by the elegantly decorated living and dining room with several floor-to-ceiling windows, Yang Ming ran straight to his big bed, took a quick shower, and fell into a deep sleep.
Besides Yang Ming, there is only one other human being on this ship.
Soon, the thin figure poked her head out of the entrance on the other side of the bedroom. After seeing Yang Ming, a smile appeared on her expressionless face.
"Good night, sir."
Then she quietly closed the bedroom door, walked through the winding corridor, and rushed back to her laboratory.
In the laboratory, more than a dozen silver-white machines were moving around, and a dismembered body sample of a second-stage adult was fixed on the laboratory table.
With the help of the mechanical guard, Hera put on a chemical protective suit, picked up a laser scalpel, and continued the operation that had just been interrupted.
…
"White Ghost!"
Bang!
A confidential meeting of senior New Federation CIA agents.
A deputy director who had been in office for two and a half years was banging his fist on the desk to express his anger and dissatisfaction.
"It's all bullshit! Is your mind full of bullshit!
"What is this? Everyone? This is because you are not capable enough and have been suppressed by the intelligence department of the Sherman Empire! It is normal for our country to be crushed by the Sherman Empire in terms of military strength. It has existed for tens of thousands of years, and there is a certain generation gap in our military strength, but now!
"The intelligence system we were so proud of was beaten to pieces by the enemy! Damn! Are they all garbage?"
More than a dozen men and women connected via video remained silent.
By the way, the White Ghost's troubles in the New Federation should have been the responsibility of the FBI, and the CIA only participated in a few coordinating operations.
This is not their line of business.
In the corner of the video projection, a gray-haired woman raised her hand.
"Deputy Director, if there is really no other solution, I would like to recommend a talented person to you. He has helped me with many things before, and he also told me that he may have a way to deal with the White Ghost."
"Talent?" The deputy director frowned. "Who are you talking about? You'd better not keep me in suspense at this time."
"Of course," the agent aunt quickly displayed a series of information.
A photo of a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties appeared on the shared screen of the meeting, followed by a series of messages from him.
The youngest MP in nearly thirty years.
A rising star of the Liberal Party.
"Isn't this the rising star in politics?" the deputy director frowned and muttered.
"Why don't we listen to his ideas?" The agent suggested. "He is very interested in cooperating with us. He is also a political star with great prospects."
The deputy director thought for a few seconds and said, "Give me his contact information."
