The next six months, the situation is still relatively difficult.
However, compared to when Sean just died, there has been a very big improvement.
Relying on several elite troops borrowed from Tan Yana and further adapting to the new role, Daelon's winning rate is not a little bit higher than at the beginning, and the winning and losing are almost evenly divided.
There are winners and losers on Tan Yan's side.
Wu Qiao's reputation is getting bigger and bigger.
He is the only commander who has never lost.
All the regional battles he was in charge of achieved the original goals brilliantly, more and more people had expectations of him, and some guys who claimed to be military experts had already deified her.
At the same time, the Crow's Nine has also become a miracle mecha, and it is getting stronger and stronger. Many people regret that when the Crow's Nine was looking for a pilot, they thought it was stupid and rejected it.
"Since you were promoted to brigadier general, you have won 29 games in a row." Tan Yan said to Wu Qiao in the communication.
"Huh?" Wu Qiao was stunned for a moment, "There are so many?"
"right."
"How do you know?" Wu Qiao himself didn't know.
Tan Yan said: "I'm counting for you - I will remember every process and victory or defeat for you."
"Talk about Yan..."
"My highest winning streak is only half of yours."
"That," Wu Qiao didn't think he was better than the general, "I'm just lucky."
Tan Yan smiled: "You are indeed lucky."
"..."
Tan Yan over there said again: "I have been waiting for you for ten years, and as soon as you entered your genes, you were matched with me."
"Hey..." Wu Qiao thought: But you rejected me!
"Wu Qiao," Tan Yan said again, "Let's exchange diaries."
"Hey?" Wu Qiao felt strange, "Do you have a diary too?"
"No."
Wu Qiao: "..." Isn't this unilaterally handing over the diary? Wu Qiao felt that he was not so easy to deceive.
"But," Tan Yan said again, "I have a photo album."
"Everyone has a photo album."
"No," Tan Yan said, "it's a photo album I reserved for my future spouse to read."
"...?" Who is this thing for? Wu Qiao mentally imagined the naming of albums on Tan Yan's computer: "For Father", "For Mother", "For Future Lovers", "For Superiors", "For Subordinates" ... suddenly felt a little messy.
"Yes." Tan Yan explained a bit awkwardly, "I...during those ten years, every time I went to a place, I would take a photo, save it in the album, and prepare to show it to that person in the future. Let him know, because he I haven’t appeared yet. I lived alone for ten years, went to these places alone, and experienced these things alone. And I want to let him know how I was before he appeared. I didn’t fight from the beginning The way I am today is because of many things that made me who I am now, so I think he will want to know about my past, and what things made me gradually become his favorite step by step appearance."
"I..." Wu Qiao felt a little guilty because he hadn't asked. However, there is a reason for this... Wu Qiao said: "I'm not sure you want me to see your youthful period." After all, Tan Yan is a very proud person.
"Won't."
"I..." Wu Qiao said, "After we got together, I searched everywhere for news about you, and kept them carefully in chronological order." The famous game on the battlefield, I hope to feel the traces of Tan Yan's journey from these.
"Then I'll show you more things now." After speaking, Tan Yan shared a photo album with him.
Wu Qiao flipped through them one by one. In these photos, sometimes Tan Yan is alone, and sometimes there are friends by his side. There were a little more photos when I was in the military academy, and then there were fewer and fewer photos. I think it was because of the development of the war that I no longer had time to visit many places. Ten years ago, Tan Yan's eyes were shining, he was less stable, and more arrogant than now.
"..." Wu Qiao sighed and said, "Tan Yan."
"Ok?"
"When the war is completely over, I will walk with you again."
"..."
"In every same place, I will accompany you and take another picture with the same pose, okay?"
"..."
"Even the distance and angle are all the same."
Only then did Tan Yan smile: "Of course that's good." He never expected that Wu Qiao would suddenly become a little romantic.
"Shall I share my diary too?" Wu Qiao asked.
"whatever."
Wu Qiao thought for a while: "Then I'll show you, but only for you." Those diaries of his are full of rhetoric, which is really a little... not suitable for publication.
However, there is no secret in front of the other party, and there is nothing that the other party cannot know.
"Speaking of photos," Tan Yan added, "Yesterday when I regularly cleared the data for Longyuan, I found that Yajiu had sent many photos to it."
"... Yajiu gave Longyuan his own photo?"
"right."
"..." A mecha, take pictures too
"Also, the photos have been edited."
"what?"
"Fixed it to a sparkle and wiped away the scratches."
"..."
"I also added a few special fake reflections on the metal edge, the kind in the advertisement."
"..."
"What can shine like that is not metal at all, it can only be a mirror."
"Hey… "
"Yongyuan didn't mock it, I really don't understand Longyuan."
"You don't have to worry about the two of them."
"Why does it look like a girl so much?"
"..." Thinking of the conversation just now, Wu Qiao wanted to say "I'm not a girl without you", but he held back abruptly.
"By the way..." Wu Qiao asked Tan Yan again, "I heard people say that now there are more and more anti-government forces everywhere, what will happen in the end...?"
The situation is getting worse and worse. Many people think that the emperor is incompetent. Coupled with a series of new policies of the government, such as compulsory conscription, and punishment for the families of captured soldiers, many people are increasingly disgusted with this kind of arbitrariness. In fact, since the establishment of the monarchy, the voice of opposition has never stopped, but the past situation is not enough for many people to make up their minds to overthrow the monarchy. Today, organizations that promise to make people's lives better and religions that advocate freedom gain a lot of attention and support.
Tan Yan smiled helplessly: "I can't predict it, I can only wait for the development." In his opinion, the empire has gradually begun to collapse from the inside, and Xiao En's death, at most, only accelerated the process. That's all.
The result of "waiting" can be said to be good.
Four months later, under the impetus of the emperor's two advisers, the emperor made a compromise and decided to establish a parliament and conduct a nationwide election of members. Since then, the parliament has the power to make legislation, but the emperor has the power to veto the legislation of the parliament. Major decrees must be signed by him, and the imperial power is still maintained.
Most of the anti-government forces accepted the emperor's efforts and put forward a list of candidates who would compete for seats in the parliament.
Another two weeks later, the shortlist was announced.
The people discovered that this is actually a contest between old and new forces.
The people on the candidate list can be roughly divided into two factions—the imperial nobles and partisans representing the imperial power and the current government, as well as their advisers, and the educated, critical and rebellious people who want to make changes fiercely. intellectual circles.
Because things were quite sudden, this year’s parliamentary election did not use universal suffrage, but made some restrictions. For example, the election venue only included the top ten planets in the empire, and the age range and job of the voters were defined in detail. In addition, if you want to become a voter to participate in the election, you must pay a relatively high fee.
In fact, this move excludes the most impoverished people in the empire.
Either way, it's a good thing.
During those two months, people's attention seemed to be shifted to this matter, and even the battle situation was somewhat ignored.
Everyone is waiting to witness an unprecedented change - the formation of a parliament for the first time since the establishment of the Empire.
Everyone is thinking: What will happen after the parliament is established
"The emperor will no longer be a dictator." Wu Qiao heard someone say this, "Every major event must go through the parliament."
However, the reality gave the Imperials a slap in the face.
In Ji Yao's words, "It was completely manipulated by the emperor."
One and a half months after the announcement of the candidate list, under strict supervision, all votes were counted.
Due to the high threshold for voters, the electors present three distinct factions—the aristocrats who try to protect vested interests, the economically productive intellectuals who worry about the country and the people, and the rich and powerful business circles.
The performance of the business community has been disappointing in this election.
The lofty intellectual circles failed to catch them, but were fully exploited by the old bureaucracy.
Officials and businessmen have always been entangled with each other. Before this election, the relationship between the aristocracy and the business community was also intertwined. Many nobles have invested in merchant companies, and many merchants are under the protection of nobles. "Relying on officials" seems to be a deep-rooted concept in the hearts of many merchants. In addition, many nobles blatantly bribed or lured voters from the business community with generous benefits, promising to take good care of them as long as they were elected, and some businessmen, as said in "Spiral of Silence", Originally, he wanted to vote for a candidate from the intellectual world, but because he believed that the nobility would undoubtedly win, he chose to follow the crowd and hide his views.
In the end, the vote, which was thought to be full of suspense, collapsed like an avalanche.
The parliament has a total of 293 seats, of which the nobles representing the imperial power have 210 seats, the intellectuals have 48 seats, and other factions have 35 seats.
Parliament was firmly in the hands of the nobility.
So far, a reform that could have changed the fate of the empire has officially come to an end.
Judging from the number of people, if the business community can form an alliance with the intelligentsia, it may be possible to compete desperately with the power of the aristocracy.
It's a pity that there is no if.
Soon, the business community paid a heavy price for their short-sightedness.