chapter Five
Ten years later, the main star Everda Palace.
"Your Majesty." The etiquette officer nodded slightly, "Your Highness the Crown Prince requested your summons."
Emperor Auston was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. He was so burly that he blocked a lot of sunshine, making the not-so-spacious study look a little darker. Thinking of the accidents in recent days, the etiquette officer felt a little distressed, but after a few seconds, he repeated the words just now. Auston seemed to have seen enough of the scenery, turned around and nodded slightly. The etiquette officer stepped down, and soon Anthony walked in slowly.
Anthony looked at Auston with a restless look, tried to take a deep breath several times and walked up to bow and salute: "Your Majesty."
Auston's giant lion quantum beast suddenly opened his eyes and yawned. Anthony's red lynx rushed behind his master as if he was stabbed by a needle, and he no longer dared to please the giant lion as usual.
"Is this the crown prince of our empire?" Auston looked at Anthony coldly and rebuked sternly, "Looking at your distraught look, I doubt whether the House of Commons has submitted an impeachment letter about you! What about your courage?! As the prince's responsibility?! Is your crisis public relations just pretending to be pitiful?! As a politician, you can't even stabilize your own heart. What can you use to appease the hearts of the people who support you?! You can't even convince yourself, what do you use to lobby your people to believe in you?!"
Anthony was speechless by Auston, and after a while he choked up, "Very, very sorry for letting you down. I really didn't expect this incident before, I..."
When Auston heard this, he became more and more troubled. This time, it was not entirely because of Anthony. Even if Anthony was a little too anxious to do things, he could be forgiven. He was still young and made mistakes to eat. What annoyed Auston the most was Anthony's weakness, and he was wrong! As the prince, he couldn't even stand this blow!
In a trance, Auston suddenly remembered his second son... He made up his mind to exile Allen that year, and many people came to plead for mercy, but in the end, Allen didn't say a soft word to himself. Auston still remembers that Allen was only fourteen years old at that time, and the last thing he said to himself was... When you wait, time will slap you the loudest in the face.
Although Alan almost got a manic disorder because of this sentence, I have to admit that compared to the gentle prince in front of me, Auston actually liked Alan's character more in his heart. Standing at the highest point of the empire, he could not stand without a firm heart. If he was fighting hard, ten Anthony would not be Allen's opponents, but it's a pity...
Auston sat down tiredly, and remained silent for a while and said coldly: "This time you are too impatient."
Seeing that Auston's tone was not as stern as before, Anthony was relieved, and hurriedly nodded, "Yes... I'm too hasty to deal with the problem."
Ten years have passed, and a new round of statistics shows that the ratio of the Empire Guide to the sentry has changed from one to one thousand to one thousand and seven. When it was announced to the public, the House of Commons blurred this number again. The various propaganda introduction materials changed from the previous "one to one thousand" to "nearly one to one thousand". Naturally, this way of covering the ears can deceive the kind and tolerant people but cannot fool themselves. As early as half a year ago, the House of Commons was discussing countermeasures. Like Auston, Anthony also said that
The absolute supporter of the guidance distribution system. Just half a month ago, Anthony just submitted a document about changing the existing "blind date system" of guide sentry to a "distribution system" that can more effectively improve the combination rate of sentry guides. The blind date system was originally continued from wartime. A blind date dance party was held every season in the "White Tower". The dance party lasted for seven days. The graduated guide and the sentry who were approved by the empire to obtain blind date rights met and fell in love during these seven days, and left the White Tower together on the eighth day.
The ratio of sentries and guides to participate in blind dates is three to one, so to some extent, the guides still have a certain right to choose. This is also a powerful tool used by the House of Commons to block the mouths of human rights people every time. Anthony's "distribution system" proposed by him broke this convention. His opinion is to do another screening before blind dates to determine that the combination of sentries and guides can be more than 90%.
Of course, this is supported by theory. The data shows that the combat capabilities of guides and sentries with a binding degree of more than 80% are much higher than those with a binding degree of less than 80%. The proportion of psychics among the descendants of guides with a binding degree of more than 90% and sentries with a binding degree of more than 90% is 20% higher than those with a binding degree of less than 90%.
Simply put, the overall combat capability of sentries who get the guide after the allocation system will be greatly enhanced, and the proportion of guides in their descendants will also increase significantly. Anthony even asked experts to predict the ten, fifty, and one hundred years of guide sentry ratios after the implementation of this regulation. Naturally, the data under ideal conditions is of course extremely gratifying. Anthony believes that as long as this distribution is distributed, the ratio between guides and sentry will one day remain the same.
Unlike Anthony's previous enthusiasm, Auston has always been reserved about this. Except for a few radicals with holes in their minds, everyone in the House of Commons remained silent. But just a week ago, the proposal that did not pass any review process in the House of Commons suddenly leaked, causing an uproar among the people.
For a time, human rights figures, anti-imperial organizations, and guides and rights protection associations came forward to criticize Crown Prince Anthony's "anti-human" behavior. Auston himself did not respond, but asked the House to issue a statement, proving that the so-called "distribution system" was just a previous idea and had no plan to be implemented. Moreover, this proposal was not proposed by Crown Prince Anthony, but was drafted by an official in the Crown Prince's uterus. The House tried his best to suppress the incident, but the tree wanted to be quiet but the wind continued. An unknown person on a forum on the Internet suddenly revealed that the blind date party was actually implementing the distribution system in disguise as early as a few years ago. It was just that innocent guides did not know that their blind date parties had been screened long ago. This remark was nothing more than adding insult to injury. The previous explanations instantly became the handle for the House and the royal family to fool the people.
The last straw was a tragedy in the White Tower a few days ago.
When the outside world was in a mess, a nineteen-year-old guide in the White Tower quietly ended his life.
This guide woke up at the age of fifteen. Before that, he had a childhood sweetheart sentry lover. The poor sentry almost collapsed after his lover was sent away. For the sake of the illusory hope, the sentry voluntarily entered the front line. After four years of fighting, the sentry finally obtained the title of lieutenant colonel - the minimum threshold for obtaining blind date rights.
Everything is moving in a good direction, but after hearing about the "distribution system", the guide was completely desperate and grew up with his lover since he was a child. He understood more than anyone else that their compatibility was less than 30%.
On the night when he learned the news, the guide used a stolen syringe to shoot a tube of air into his carotid artery and left a last word. He would rather break it by himself than become a strange sentinel machine in the future. On the next day, the sentinel who was waiting for the blind date season resolutely fired a shot in his temple with his photon gun that killed countless enemies after getting the news of his lover's death.
The situation where Auston barely stabilized was instantly disrupted again.
The guide who obeyed the imperial arrangements committed suicide in despair. The sentry general who expeditioned the border to the empire was betrayed by the empire. Two bloodshed cases completely aroused the dissatisfaction of the people. For a time, countless confrontations were heard on the Internet, and the streets were full of protesters. The House of Assembly tried many times but failed. Anthony was extremely mentally depressed after having a nightmare for several nights. He was accidentally photographed again while traveling. When Anthony's gray face appeared on the Internet again, everyone's anger finally had a point of venting... The source of everything was this anti-human crown prince!
All kinds of negative reports about Anthony came in, from Anthony's identity as an illegitimate child to his gossip news over the past few years, various reporters tried their best to explore and thoroughly dig him.
After a few days of confrontation, everyone's eyes returned to the guide. Why should the guide accept all kinds of inhuman treatment? The empire is well-known as protection, but have the guides really been protected over the years? Or have they become tools for the empire to encircle and control the high-level leaders? Moreover, the "distribution system" sounds good to maximize profits, but who knows if there is anything wrong with it? Give relevant personnel certain benefits, and then choose a guide with pure bloodline, strong mental power, and prominent family who is promising. This is not impossible.
Anthony, who has been criticized by the public for many days, no longer has the calmness of the past. Thinking about the students surrounding his palace, he was almost crazy: "I hope you can believe that I have no selfishness from beginning to end... The proportion of guides among the supernatural beings is decreasing year by year, I am anxious... I am for the empire, I..."
Auston closed his eyes and nodded: "I believe."
"Thank you... Your Majesty." Anthony felt a little better after getting his father's affirmation and continued, "I mean... Now we should increase our censorship and not let all kinds of false remarks go viral on the Internet..."
"It's better to lose your dissatisfaction than to block it. You always have to let everyone vent their dissatisfaction. And it's all a trivial matter, just a few scoldings! When I was inappropriate in command and took tens of thousands of lives, I suffered much more serious attacks than you! I survived it too!" Auston interrupted Anthony coldly, "And you are wrong in your focus! What you should worry most about now is the emotions of the soldiers!"
Anthony was stunned for a moment and understood, and his face turned pale in an instant. Auston let out a long sigh. No matter what, the sentry who committed suicide before was a full amount of negative energy. With this precedent, the soldiers would inevitably be discouraged and felt that all efforts were worthless. If the army was disappointed with the empire, the consequences would not be expected even by Auston.
"Don't show up again in the next few days, I'll handle the rest." Auston looked at Anthony and said in a deep voice, "Take out the demeanor of a king, Your Highness the Crown Prince."
Anthony suddenly turned red after hearing this for no reason. After a moment of silence, he bowed and saluted: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Anthony left, Auston rubbed his face exhaustedly after sitting in the chair for a long time. In order to solve the current crisis, the main city may need some fresh blood and positive topics.
Auston suddenly remembered what Allen said to him ten years ago. Auston smiled bitterly, and the slap was indeed painful.
The distant Apollo star, His Highness Alan, who was about to turn twenty-four, smiled and read the letter from His Majesty the Emperor. The etiquette officer looked at the handsome prince and couldn't help but smiled, "Your Highness, is there any good news?"
Allen casually threw the communication device aside, and the corner of his mouth curled up slightly: "His Majesty the Emperor believes that my body has been healed and can return to the main star."
Chapter completed!