Homeland Galaxy, Federal Star, Federal Parliament Building.
Under the leadership of the federal guard officer, Lin Feng walked into the venue. Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, Lin Feng still felt a little nervous when seeing the tens of thousands of Federal Hospitals full of the venue. In fact, this is also the first time Lin Feng has come to this sacred place.
This mansion composed entirely of extremely hard Longyan from Longyan Star has stood here for thousands of years, witnessing the rise and fall of the human federation. Even now, people have to sigh that the person who built this building, the founder of the human federation, was too far-sighted. More than 4,000 years ago, when the human federation was still very weak, these people foresaw the future and built this edifice that could accommodate tens of thousands of people. Although at that time, the Human Federal Assembly had only 49 members. At that time, let alone the thought that the human confederation could develop to its current scale, no one even believed that the human confederation could exist for thousands of years.
In a sense, this is the holy land of the Human Federation.
More than four thousand years ago, the founder of the Human Federation was here to announce to all civilizations that there was a new member of the Galactic Alliance.
Although it is only a building made of Longyan, this building is of great significance to anyone.
Of course, it is mainly symbolic.
In the past thousands of years, even in the most difficult moments, such as the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Federal Parliament Building has not been damaged.
It's just that it's not what it used to be.
Although the Federal Parliament Building is open to everyone, as early as two thousand years ago, after the end of the Third Greenwich War, the federal authorities introduced a targeted bill that clearly stipulated that only federal citizens have the right to enter the building. Must be approved.
Obviously, the people who were allowed to enter the building were definitely not civilians.
Not to mention anything else, even Lin Feng has never been here before, let alone speak in front of tens of thousands of parliamentarians.
You know, the federal power lies in the hands of more than 10,000 congressmen.
Similarly, the problems faced by the Human Federation are also related to the more than 10,000 congressmen.
To put it simply, even if it is a trivial matter, it is impossible to reach a consensus among more than 10,000 people, let alone a major event related to the future of the Federation.
Perhaps the pioneers who built this building did not think of this problem.
At the beginning, the Human Federation had only 49 members, of which 24 were from the federal authorities, and the other 25 were elected by the five jurisdictions directly under the Federation.
In fact, this has also become the basic system of the human federation.
In the following thousands of years, the jurisdiction of the human federation has expanded hundreds of times, and apart from anything else, it has ruled over a thousand colonial galaxies. As the jurisdiction area expanded, the population of the Human Federation also expanded dramatically. Before the outbreak of the Sixth Greenwich War, the population of the Human Federation was more than a thousand times that of when it was first created. As a result, the size of federal parliamentarians has also continued to expand.
Among the more than 10,000 members, half of them are from the federal authorities. To be precise, they are elected by the federal authorities. Representatives elected from the homeland galaxy are citizens who settle in the homeland galaxy. The other half, all come from various colonial galaxies, that is, representatives of colonial galaxies.
Although the purpose of this setting is to maintain the unity and unity of the Federation and avoid the intensification of internal conflicts, the impact is exactly the opposite. Quite simply, the interests of home galaxies and colonizing galaxies can never be the same, so the contradiction between home galaxies and colonizing galaxies will always exist. To put it harshly, as long as the home galaxy remains high and still plundering the resources of the colonizing galaxy, then the inhabitants of the colonizing galaxy will never be able to get together with the citizens of the home galaxy, and the contradictions between the two classes will naturally not be reconciled.
It can be said that this is the fundamental problem of the human federation.
Although the Home Galaxy dominates most of the time, the reason is very simple, that is, the military forces of the Human Federation are all in the hands of the Home Galaxy, and the main force and the main fleet are deployed in the Home Galaxy. Military plans all revolve around the homeland galaxy, and the colonial galaxy not only does not have its own military power, or even the power to form an armed force, it is naturally unable to compete with the homeland galaxy. But during the war, the dominance of the homeland galaxy is not so obvious. To put it bluntly, if the colonial galaxy is lost, the home galaxy will be exposed to the enemy, even if there is a powerful military force, it will be difficult to support.
In the past few Greenwich Wars, the importance of colonizing galaxies has been verified countless times.
The effect of this is that whenever a war breaks out, the members of the colonial galaxy will seize the opportunity to ask the federal authorities to delegate more power, and even ask for partial autonomy. Although the federal authorities will compromise when forced to do so, it is only a compromise, and it is a temporary compromise. It has not fundamentally resolved the contradiction between the home galaxy and the colonizing galaxy, and no one has such an idea.
In the early days of the Fifth Greenwich War, this contradiction almost led to the demise of the human confederation.
At that time, if Xiao Wentian hadn't come forward and united the human federation through bloody battles in the lighthouse star, I am afraid that the human federation would have long since ceased to exist.
The problem is that after Xiao Wentian, there is no second person who can unite the human federation.
During the millennium peace and prosperity, the internal contradictions of the human federation were not very prominent, at least there was no outbreak, and there was no chance of it. The point is that the colonized galaxy has no capital for rebellion at all. Although there have been several riots and even some rebellions, they have all been suppressed, and have not had much impact on the overall stability of the human confederation. Not many people even know about the riots that occurred in the colonial galaxy.
But now, the situation is extremely delicate.
Before coming here, Lin Xiaoting talked to Lin Feng alone and introduced her to the current situation.
For the Human Federation, the biggest threat right now is not the Silicon Charm army entrenched outside the home galaxy, or even the full-scale offensive that has been launched, but the Human Federation has not reached agreement on some key issues so far. The resistance from the Federation Council is The biggest obstacle. For example, the Federal Parliament has not yet approved the mandatory conscription law, which authorizes the federal authorities to unconditionally recruit people of the right age to serve in the military.
At first, Lin Feng felt very strange.
However, after Lin Xiaoting explained the situation, she also understood what was going on.
In fact, the key is the contradiction between the home galaxy and the colonizing galaxy.
Shortly after the outbreak of the war, more than 1,000 members of the colonial galaxy jointly proposed to enact legislation to grant the colonial galaxy the right to form a self-defense military force, and the federal authorities were able to provide substantial assistance to the colonial galaxy, such as necessary Technical Support. Simply put, these congressmen hope that the colonial galaxy can, with the support of the federal authorities, form a military force under the direct command of the colonial galaxy authorities. Of course, the reason is also very good. In the war against the invasion of the Silicon Magic Alliance, the residents of the colonial galaxy have the right and obligation to defend their homeland, and the federal authorities also have the obligation to support the colonial galaxy's residents to defend their basic right to survival. If the federal authorities cannot provide adequate protection for the colonized galaxies and cannot ensure the safety of the colonized galaxies, they should delegate power.
It must be admitted that this reason is indeed very strong.
The problem is that this is not the main purpose.
To put it bluntly, what those congressmen who colonized the galaxy want is autonomy, and they coerce the federal authorities by forming military forces and allow them to make concessions.
Of course, this is not the first time.
In the early days of the Fifth Greenwich War, the members of the colonial galaxy made similar demands, but at that time, Xiao Wentian successfully persuaded most of the members of the colonial galaxy to make a compromise. In the end, the federal authorities gave the colonial galaxy the power to form military forces during the war. After the war ended, the federal authorities withdrew the military power granted to colonial galaxies by repealing this executive order.
This time, the federal authorities also decided to respond to the requirements of colonizing the galaxy in the same way.
It is a pity that there is no leader like Xiao Wentian to come forward to make the match.
Because the federal authorities did not make concessions on the issue of delegating military power to grant autonomy to the colonial galaxy, the councillors of the colonial galaxy opposed the federal authorities on the most important bill for war mobilization, namely the mandatory conscription law. The bill never passed the parliament.
Obviously, if this situation is maintained, the Human Federation will not be able to complete the war mobilization on time, and there will be no victory.
If there is a leader like Xiao Wentian at this time, these questions are not a problem.
However, no one can become a leader like Xiao Wentian right now.
As for Lin Feng, he is not qualified at all.
However, what Lin Feng has to do now is to become the second Xiao Wentian, even if he is not a leader like Xiao Wentian, he must also persuade the congressmen from the colonial galaxy to make them consider the survival of the human federation as the most important thing. Even if only temporarily compromised to the federal authorities.
The question is, is this possible
When Lin Xiaoting mentioned this incident, Lin Feng couldn't believe it.
If it was Zhan Ruilin or some other marshal who walked onto the podium, he might be able to persuade those congressmen, but Lin Feng was just a small soldier, a colonel from the special reconnaissance team. Obviously, among the tens of millions of officers and soldiers of the Human Federation, a colonel is nothing at all.
Lin Feng originally thought that Lin Xiaoting was joking with her, but when she came here, she knew it was not a joke.
Regardless of whether she wants to, she has to walk into the venue, board the podium, expound her views in front of more than 10,000 parliamentarians, and then let these parliamentarians make a sensible choice.
Lin Feng is not sure, if she can make a choice by herself, she would rather face 10,000 Silicon Charm fighters.
However, she was a federal soldier and could only obey the order, even if it was an order that was so absurd that she felt ridiculous, but that she could not laugh at all.