On the 185th day of the 214th future year of the Cultivation Calendar, the much-anticipated Future Exploration and Founding Review Conference was finally held in the large conference hall on the 48th floor of the Cultivation United Building.
The main permanent members of the Union Council of Cultivation of the Gods include the five major powers of current cultivation, the ancient three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, and the Alliance of Free Nations, and then there are the non-permanent members of the large and small national forces.
The most important decision-making powers are the five permanent members, but there are differences. Among the five powers, the current power is the largest, followed by the ancient Wei State, and then the similar Shu and Wu countries.
And the Alliance of Free Nations.
However, the Alliance of Free Nations is a union of many city-state political countries. In fact, it involves various differences. Some prefer ancient cultivation, and some prefer modern cultivation. Basically, the balance of political power is half and half.
Overall, it can be considered that modern cultivation and ancient cultivation equally share the power in the world of cultivation, and each has more or less advantages in their respective fields.
This time, the Future Exploration and Founding Review Conference is almost in a similar situation. Except for the current cultivators, the rest of the forces in the cultivation world have little resistance to Xiao Kaitian, but there is a problem here, that is, this joint parliament
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the current Rev. Lincoln.
As the Speaker of the Parliament, his voting weight is higher than that of the five permanent members, and the voting weight of the representatives of the five permanent members is higher than that of ordinary members.
The final decision on whether the bill is passed depends on whether the rate of votes in favor exceeds two-thirds. Judging from the current situation, Xiao Kaitian's future exploration is almost in a slightly worse state.
This was proposed in the summary report given to Xiao Kaitian by the staff who stayed in the Alliance of Gods, including a detailed list of which ones were close to future exploration and which ones were opposition groups.
Xiao Kaitian was wearing a black suit and a long windbreaker. After entering the conference hall, he took off his windbreaker and the staff behind him took it over.
Because it is a review conference, as the representative of the future exploration forces being reviewed, Xiao Kaitian's position is at the front of the entire fan-shaped seat distribution, directly in front of the seats of the representatives of the five permanent members.
Xiao Kaitian raised his hand and looked at his watch. When the hour hand pointed to ten o'clock, the door of the conference hall was opened again, and all the people participating in the meeting stood up to welcome the representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The leader was Speaker Lincoln. He was wearing a gray suit and a hat. After entering, he took off his hat and glanced at Xiao Kaitian slightly. The latter just nodded in greeting.
When everyone sat down, the entire conference room immediately became quiet. According to the process, Future Exploration must first explain its reasons for applying for statehood, and then enter the stage of review and defense.
A staff member on Xiao Kaitian's left side stood up, bowed to the participating members of the House of Representatives, and began to explain.
From the initial time when Xiao Kaitian assisted Natalie in restoring the country, and when the commander of the Fourth Army of the Longxu Kingdom settled in the northern border, to the subsequent merger of the Chao Family Ruins, and the various technical projects promoted by Xiao Kaitian in the cultivation world,
There are also promotions related to elixirs and so on.
A simple summary is to package Xiao Kaitian and Future Exploration as an outstanding force that loves peace and respects cultivation civilization, hoping to be recognized by the United Council of Cultivation.
This explanation lasted nearly two hours. The representative of Future Exploration spoke with enthusiasm and spit, while the participating members of the meeting were absent-minded, waiting for the next highlight-the review and defense.
After the representative of Future Exploration finished speaking, there was a sparse commotion at the scene, and members of the Free Nations Alliance from the five permanent members of the Security Council were the first to raise questions.
"According to what your representative said, Future Exploration was initially just a demarcation market in Longxu. From the perspective of the Cultivation Act, it does not have the conditions to become an independent country, and there is no such precedent."
"So in our opinion, we actually believe that the motivation for future exploration in the early days of the founding of the country was not simple, and there were factors that intimidated Long Xuguo into surrendering. Please give us an answer here."
Xiao Kaitian smiled slightly: "I think our representative has fully stated the relevant information about the Northern Realm Ruins. It was indeed the domestic territory of Longxu Kingdom at the beginning."
"The later independence was the result of peaceful and friendly communication between us and Long Xuguo, for which we paid corresponding fees to Long Xuguo."
"Since then, our two countries have been progressing hand in hand. Since Long Xuguo explored cooperation with Future, the economic benefits brought by our related industries accounted for 38% of its domestic income. The benefits brought by
The value-added of its GDT has more than doubled than before.”
"These are data that cannot be ignored," Xiao Kaitian said, staring at the members of the Free Country: "In the early years when the city-states of the Free Country became politically independent, they also paid corresponding values to the current or ancient Three Kingdoms."
"If we pursue the issue of exploring the original intention of founding the country in the future here, then in my opinion, the legacy of many forces in the world of cultivation needs to be discussed."
There was an uproar when these words came out, but Xiao Kaitian didn't care: "But I think the question you raised is an opportunity for me to freely express my ideas. Just like the development of the situation, this is a matter of course. We
The development process of Future Exploration and Longxu Kingdom is a microcosm of the world of cultivation."
The words were so tight that some members of the free country who originally had ideas couldn't help but smile. Xiao Kaitian tied the rationality of exploring the founding of the country in the future to the founding of the free country. In this way, if the review is passed, it will be formalized in disguise.
The history of the free country is recognized in the bill.
The free country congressman who asked the question looked a little better. He leaned back in his seat and stopped talking.
Speaker Lincoln frowned slightly. He had long heard that Xiao Kaitian was eloquent. Unexpectedly, he was very familiar with the Cultivation Act and history. His eyes fell firmly on Xiao Kaitian.
"Lord Xiao," the councilor of the ancient Wu Kingdom also spoke. Before future exploration was officially recognized, he chose the previous title: "Let's put aside the topic just now. What I want to ask here is, future exploration
What’s the overall goal?”
"As far as we know, several national forces in Future Exploration and the Free Country, as well as the Chao family and the Three Kingdoms of Guxiu, have all had wars. Can we think that Future Exploration is a very aggressive organization that uses war as a basis?
The primary means of expansion.”
Although Wu Guo is now a cooperating force for future exploration, the superficial work at the review meeting must be in place. Representative Wu Guo's words are also doubts in the minds of most members.
Xiao Kaitian sighed, these are all messy questions. Things like war are inherently conflicting arguments, and there is no way to give a unified answer.
In his opinion, this so-called review meeting is actually a process of wrangling, and it depends on who has a higher art of wrangling.