Chapter 372: The Politician’s Means

"Since everyone here has no opinion, let's settle this matter. Major Qin Hao has indeed made great achievements. Although he has joined the army for a short time, his ability is obvious to all. It is not bad to be promoted to the school even if he is promoted to two ranks!" Speaker Bahn spoke unhurriedly.

"Yeah!" Claude nodded.

"But General Cohen...Although he has some achievements, but..." Speaker Barn suddenly paused when he said this. Obviously, this old guy is threatening Claude, hoping that he can come up with more bargaining chips.

"What do you want?" Claude didn't talk nonsense to the old guy.

"A front-line seat to participate in the war, independent." Speaker Barn also opened his mouth.

"Bah! My people have worked hard to lay the foundation, are you here to pick peaches now?" Claude sneered.

"You can't say that, everyone is serving the federation, what's yours and mine?" Speaker Barn laughed.

"Are they all for the federation? That's good. Now, with the power of the federation president, I will reintegrate the output of the two mines, and then invite bids throughout the federation. Only those who bid the most can get the crystal! You see How is it?" Claude said with a smile on his face.

Speaking of which, Claude's move is really ruthless. If he really opens the bidding, it is also in line with the federal constitution, and in that way, it is not just these wealthy and powerful families who will share the power crystal pie. Yes, because the immigrant planets outside the earth also have a lot of wealthy merchants at this time. They may not be inferior to some small families in terms of financial resources, but because they are nouveau riche, they cannot be recognized by these families, so their status Still can't follow.

But if the bidding is open, it has nothing to do with privileges. At that time, money will speak, and the rich people of those immigrant planets are eligible to participate. You have to pay a higher price.

"Hehe..." Bahn sneered, but his face was expressionless, but many congressmen below couldn't sit still.

Not every family is as powerful as the Klein family, the Gangmen family, or the Hussein family. Although they also live on Earth and enjoy the privileges of noble families, their actual financial resources may no longer be comparable to those of the emerging businessmen who immigrated to the planet. Got it.

Once the public bidding is made, their interests will either be divided, or they will have to pay a huge price, so the representatives of these families must not agree.

"Lord Speaker, isn't it the rank of a general? I'll give it to you. Anyway, there are so many generals in the Federation now, and there won't be any more of him!"

"Yes, yes! Mr. Speaker, you also have to consider our situation!"

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Members of parliament from small families tried to persuade them that they had no choice but to side with Claude for the benefit of their own family.

"Hehe, well, if that's the case, then I can agree to your request." Speaker Barn spoke with an inexplicable smile on his lips.

"Huh?" Claude frowned. Bahn agreed too easily, which made him always feel that there was a fraud in it, but he had already agreed to all his requests, so naturally he couldn't say anything more. .

"Okay, since that's the case, then it's settled. After the promotion order is issued, the mine will enter a state of trusteeship. You can send someone to supervise it, but my people will be responsible for the operation of the base." Claude's words are very clear. He doesn't have to take the benefits from the mine, and he can hand them all over to the aristocrats in the parliament, but the base was built by his people so hard that these aristocrats can't get their hands on it.

"Deal!" Speaker Barn smiled, these wealthy families are not interested in that base at all, all they care about are those crystal mines.

In the beginning, Chairman Bahn wanted to intervene in the war on Alpha Planet because he felt that the Zerg on Alpha Planet didn’t seem to be very powerful. It took less than a year.

The federal navy has already occupied two crystal mines. If the fleets of their aristocratic families can also participate in this battle, then the crystal mines they seized will no longer need to be allocated based on the president's face.

But now Claude is not giving an inch. The Alpha Star Battlefield is completely under the control of the fleet of the President’s faction. Although these aristocratic families also have fleets, it is unreasonable to blatantly confront the President. It is also a very troublesome thing.

And more importantly, all the key information on the Alpha star battlefield is in the hands of the president's faction. If Claude is completely offended, then the fleet of the aristocratic family will forcibly intervene in the battlefield, and they will definitely not share information. The ground battlefield suffers.

Therefore, before obtaining particularly detailed battlefield information, these powerful nobles would not let their fleets take such risks.

"Then I won't bother you anymore." After Claude achieved his goal, he didn't want to stay in this smoky parliament any longer.

"Go slowly, don't send it off!" Barn said with a smile on his face.

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After Claude and Barn reached a deal here, the Federal Command, which was controlled by the elite clan, soon issued a new promotion order.

"Damn! Barn, that old fox!" Claude immediately slapped the table angrily and scolded his mother after seeing the promotion order.

The reason is very simple. Although Barn promised Claude to be promoted to the ranks of Qin Hao and Cohen, under his control, in addition to promoting Qin Hao as a school and Cohen as a general, the command also promoted him to 15 Naval admirals and seven federal generals!

And these high-ranking military officers who were also promoted are all members of those aristocratic families without exception, and their so-called merits are even trivial, such as destroying a small pirate equipped with only three or five armed merchant ships, such as suppressing A small rebellion without even heavy weapons...

And even so, these small achievements may not be true, many of them are deliberately staged by those families, and then created these achievements for family members.

But even so, these members of the aristocratic family were successfully promoted, which suddenly lowered the gold content of the federal general, which led to the promotion of General Cohen. Apart from enjoying higher wages and treatment, he had no right to speak in the command department at all. increased, and even decreased!

Can Claude, who feels that he is being teased, not be angry?

"These bastard politicians! They are going to destroy the Federation!" Claude was furious in his office.