The signs of General Gauguin's intention to marry the royal family had already appeared at the royal New Year dance at the beginning of the year. But no one expected that this matter would develop so quickly. Just a few months later, His Royal Highness Jeff and Miss Gao Yan were about to hold a wedding.

It is logical that the two people go from close relationships to determining their relationships to getting engaged to finally getting married, which takes at least one year to allow all parties to have enough time to weigh the pros and cons before reaching a consensus.

"General Gauguin wants to use the status of the royal family to raise the status of his family, and His Majesty Devin III should be interested in the power of the Third Legion that can be used to restrain you, so the two sides hit it off and the wedding can be held so quickly."

After the high-level meeting of the First Legion, General Bucks said to Lan Shan.

The main topic of the high-level meeting just now was what kind of follow-up impact the marriage between the Third Legion and the Royal Family would have, and what preparations the First Legion should make in advance, and did not mention the fundamental but extremely obscure topic of this direct attack.

Lan Shan nodded. The First Legion has always been in the same camp as the Demosen Royal Family. It is really hard to put the topic of Devin III's attempt to use the power of General Gauguin to restrain her.

Mr. Bucks sighed, "Prince Lance has a very close blood relationship with His Majesty Devin III and Duke Avery, so no matter how vigorously the First Legion developed, they would not worry about it. But you and the Demosen Royal Family were not at all. Even if Prince Lance himself recommended you to be his successor, they would still be nervous when you act too much. It should be that some of the actions of the First Legion recently made the royal family uneasy, so it led to the marriage between His Royal Highness and Miss Gao Yan in such a short period of time."

There is no way to do this, just like the first two generals of the Second Legion were not surnamed Song, and not every generation could produce a person with outstanding military talents to command the First Legion, so they could tolerate Lan Shan becoming the General of the First Legion, but they would remain quite vigilant about her.

This state of having to accept and not being fully trusted will remain and will not be eliminated until the next First Legion Admiral with royal blood appears.

Lan Shan didn't like having a partner who was too sensitive, and said coldly, "They're too big of a reaction."

Mr. Bucks replied realistically, "50% of our annual military expenditure comes from the royal industry income. All military nutritional agents, various levels of treatment and soothing agents, as well as small therapeutic instruments that need to be replaced every year. Some other military supplies are directly provided by manufacturers controlled by the royal family. In addition, although the First Legion currently has no royal members, many of the senior civilian staff come from the royal family or are closely related to the royal family, so friendly relations with the royal family must be maintained, otherwise there will be a major gap in military expenditure and military supplies."

Lan Shan refused to comment and just asked, "Do you think it was the fact that we got two mineral stars in the Shallow Water system that stimulated them, or did our recent actions in the Tianma system that stimulated them?"

Secretary Bucks thoughtfully replied, "It's probably both. As soon as you took office, you have participated in the dispute over the mineral star with the Third Legion in the Shallow Water. Although we only got two mineral stars in the end, it was not an ordinary mineral deposit, but Eugene Gold Sand Mine. If nothing unexpected happens, after entering the stable mining period, the First Legion will have at least five years of military expenditure, and there is no need to be controlled by anyone in terms of money. The same is true for the control of the Tianma Galaxy. The Tianma Galaxy is very rich. Although the resource imbalance is strong, if it can be connected with a large area of ​​star fields in the direction of the Karape universe in the Demosen Empire and become a complementary relationship, this disadvantage will no longer exist. In the view of the Demosen Royal Family, our control of the behavior of the Tianma Galaxy is another step to get rid of their economic constraints on the First Legion."

Lan Shan snorted softly, "So they used this method of colluding with competitors to drag the allies back to solve the problem."

She was not very concerned about General Gauguin's desire to use the status of the crown prince to increase his family's value. The most capable person in the royal family's generation is Duke Avery. It doesn't matter if Gao Li doesn't marry Duke Avery's daughter, but the intention of the Demosen family to make the marriage was too obvious, which is very problematic.

She can tolerate her being the general of the First Legion, but she does not want her to grow and grow during this period. She has too strong control over the First Legion. In order to curb her development, she will not hesitate to win over competitors with competitive relationships!

It feels like helping someone keep something, and the person has the final say on how to use this thing during this period, and when the person has the ability to take over, he has to return it.

In Lan Shan's opinion, it is better not to be wrong if he is restrained and has the ability and cannot display it at will.

Secretary Bucks felt that she was a little unhappy in her tone, so although she thought the royal reaction was understandable, she did not speak for them.

Lan Shan's temper is actually pretty good, and she rarely has emotional fluctuations. She has been calm when facing everyone since she took office. Although it sometimes makes people feel a little deep and cold, she never loses her temper. She doesn't even talk to others loudly and behaves very well. However, Director Bucks can keenly feel that she is even worse than Prince Lance.

It may not work for the royal family to restrain Gauguin in the future by winning over her.

Sure enough, I heard Lan Shan say in a deep voice, "That's why I am sure to win the Tianma Galaxy!"

Secretary Bucks raised his eyebrows slightly.

The purpose of controlling the Tianma Galaxy was mentioned several times at the high-level meetings in the first legion in the previous few months, that is, General Lanshan would connect all the fields in the direction of the Pira Star Domain, the Tianma Galaxy, and the Kalapee Universe in the Demosen Empire to make it a military-oriented whole.

This is not only a very ambitious goal, but also a very exciting goal.

Now it seems that making it military integrity is only part of General Lanshan’s goal, and the other part of the goal is relatively obscure - she is also interested in the economic strength of the Tianma Galaxy.

No matter how powerful the three legions are in the Demosen Empire, they cannot bypass government agencies and imperial laws and directly include the imperial fiscal revenue. If they want to develop, they have to rely on themselves. Therefore, behind the three legions, each with the support of top families and consortiums, the funds obtained from the sponsors each year account for more than 50% of the legion's military expenditure.

The biggest sponsor behind the First Legion is the Demosen Royal Family. General Lanshan obviously wants to break this passive situation - even if this situation has been maintained for dozens or even hundreds of years.

Secretary Bucks discovered that even if he knew that General Lan Shan was a person who was very purposeful and very daring to think and do things, he would always be shocked by her after he worked with her.

But he felt shocked, and he was getting used to it.

Last time, General Lan Shan made a quick decision and said that he would go to discuss cooperation with General Song about the development of the shallow water galaxy mineral star. He was surprised and hesitant. He was still a little surprised now, but he could nodded directly, indicating that he understood her thoughts, and asked, "Since you are not optimistic about the royal family's approach, will we go to the wedding of His Royal Highness and Miss Gao Yan later and leave directly after the ceremony?" That means should we be a little cold?

Lan Shan shook her head, "No, everything will be the same tomorrow. After all, it is the wedding of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Empire. It would be too rude if we performed specially."

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The wedding of Prince Jeff and Gao Yan was arranged by the royal family in the summer palace next to Yulanos Palace. It was so grand that it was no less than the annual New Year's party of the royal family.

The construction of the Summer Palace is much later than that of the Yulanos Palace, so although it is not as grand as that of the Yulanos Palace, the entire building is more contemporary, with fashion and exquisiteness everywhere from the exterior to the interior decoration.

This wedding is a huge event in all senses.

There were many guests at the wedding, and all the politicians from Capital Star were invited to attend. All reporters from Star Network also gathered for a wonderful live broadcast. Just by looking at the excitement of the reporters' faces and hundreds of flying cameras floating in the air, you can tell how enthusiastic the people are about the wedding.

"In recent decades, weddings of important royal members will be arranged to be held in the summer palace." Mr. Bucks commented quite pertinently beside Lanshan. "But today's wedding was obviously too hasty. Although the scale is large, the details are very rough, which is worse than the wedding held by Princess Luna the previous year."

Princess Luna is the youngest daughter of Devin III. She tied the knot with the brother of Lu Hang, the famous playboy Lu Hang, the capital star two years ago. Although Lu Hang's brother is the designated heir to most of the Lu family's property, there is nothing special. Princess Luna married him because the two met each other at a party and fell in love together. Because it did not have much political significance, the wedding was not deliberately promoted, and it caused little splashes. It could not be compared with the wedding of Prince Jeff and Gao Yan.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the wedding was prepared more carefully and was more like a wedding held for marriage.

Lan Shan looked at Gao Yan, who was standing in the middle of the hall and surrounded by many guests, and said, "I remember someone told me that Miss Gao Yan used to like General Song."

Secretary Bacchus shrugged and looked at the couple in the middle of the hall from afar. "It's probably just a common person who likes it. To be fair, His Royal Highness Jeff is also a very good partner."

Because Gao Yan came from a military family, she always looked heroic and looked more energetic than an ordinary bride in a beautiful bridal dress. I wonder if it was because she was in a good mood, had a radiant face, very beautiful, and was very compatible with the thin and timeless and full of artist-like appearance of His Royal Highness Jeff.

It is probably true that as Secretary Bucks said, her love for General Song was just the kind of love for idols, and it did not affect the real marriage events because of him.

With Lan Shan’s current identity, she must not be too entangled with this kind of problem. She didn’t intend to care about it. She just said casually and turned to Meryl on the other side, “Meryl, go find Secretary Nawen and ask him to arrange it. I want to talk to General Song alone later.”

Meryl agreed and walked quickly.

Secretary Bucks didn't remember that General Lan Shan had an arrangement for a conversation with General Song on his schedule, so he asked diligently, "General, do you have something to talk to General Song in private? Why don't you ask Secretary Du Wei to make an appointment for another official time for you?"

Lan Shan, "I have something to look for him, but it's very simple. I just say a few words, and there is no need to make a special appointment. I just want to borrow Andrew Thomas from General Song, and I use the name of communicating mecha technology between the two legions."

Secretary Bucks knew that although Lan Shan spoke easily, he had to borrow Andrew. Thomas must have another meaning. He also had a proud and rigorous personality. He didn't want to always show a puzzled expression in front of General Lan Shan, so he immediately tried to think: What did the general suddenly borrow Andrew. Thomas want to do?

The brain was running rapidly, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed, "It's because the Thomas family owned a bulk industry in the Tianma Galaxy!"

Lan Shan nodded slowly, "The ultimate goal of my sending a large number of starships to the Tianma Galaxy is to give Governor Fan En enough pressure to allow him to agree to hold a referendum to let the citizens of the Tianma Galaxy decide their future ownership of the Tianma Galaxy."

The voting system of the Tianma Galaxy is not the traditional one person, one vote, but the proportion of voting is allocated according to the proportion of individual contributions to society. The calculation method of this contribution ratio is very complicated, mainly related to personal property, achievements, the years of working in the Tianma Galaxy, and the types of work they are engaged in. Simply put, the more property, the greater the proportion of people with the longer working years, the greater the proportion of voting. The Thomas family has the right to vote in the Tianma Galaxy, and has a huge influence. If they can get their support, it will have a significant impact on the voting results.

Secretary Bacchus was very surprised and asked in a low voice, "General, have you not planned to conquer the Tianma Galaxy from the beginning?"

Lan Shan, "We want the Tianma Galaxy to become part of the sphere of influence under the First Legion. Together, we will develop together and conquer forcefully will definitely bring irreversible damage. It is the last solution. If you can do it, try not to use it."

Try not to use it if you can!?

Secretary Bucks couldn't help but overturn his thoughts just now. He was shocked, and he would gradually get used to it! He couldn't get used to it at all, and he was completely shocked again!

Admiral Lanshan actually did not intend to use force against the Tianma Galaxy from the beginning, but wanted to take the path of referendum!

This is too risky, it is simply a big bet!

If the voting results go against their purpose, all the early investment will be in vain.

After trying hard to calm down, I asked, "If you rely on a referendum, there is too much uncertainty! Are you sure?"

Lan Shan remained silent, "Now, he is 50% sure. If he can borrow Andrew Thomas, he is 70%. When it comes to voting, I will add a few insurance measures, and in theory, he is more than 90% sure."

Secretary Bucks didn't care about the issue of face at this time and asked in confusion, "General, how are you going to convince Andrew Thomas Thomas family not easy to move, they can only convince him not to force him."

Lan Shan's tone remained unchanged, "Theoretically, no mecha warrior can resist the temptation of superimposed Douglas movement to annihilate the enemy."
Chapter completed!