Chapter 583 Illness
"I thought it was the guys from the central sector who were responsible, but I didn't know that the most ridiculous person was the one from the Phillips family. No, I can't bear it, I want to tell my father. "Zhou Xiuwen was still listening carefully at first, but now he couldn't sit still.
It turns out that Jiang Hui told him about the accident in the exam before and did not elaborate on the situation of Phillips. Zhou Xiuwen immediately assumed that the incident was caused by a fight, and the reason why Jiang Hui was chosen was They were probably there because of Phillips' family background, but they didn't expect that there was also Phillips' own "performance" in it.
Jiang Hui looked at him sideways, and it was normal for Zhou Xiuwen to feel angry. This friend of hers is a decent person, and he values his friends even more, but he won't report to Marshal Zhou.
Phillips was a bit unkind during this trip, but there was not much we could do about him. Even if he really reported it to the military department, it would be dereliction of duty at best. Considering the other party's family background, he would only receive a moderate punishment for this operation. And that was something directly related to him. Why did Zhou Xiuwen speak so angrily, as if...this Phillips had something to do with them.
If she remembered correctly, she seemed to have heard Taylor say that Colonel Phillips was from the First Regiment.
Wait...the First Legion? ! Jiang Hui suddenly remembered something that seemed to be mentioned in an old newspaper she had read - she believed that her memory would never be wrong.
As soon as Zhou Xiuwen saw Jiang Hui's expression, he knew what she was thinking of, and said calmly to his two friends: "Indeed, if he is from another family, I can't control anything. The worst is to stay away from him in the future. ..." But this guy happened to be related to their family.
Zhou Yuanjing was once the commander and person in power of the imperial military. At his peak, the six marshals under him did not even dare to compete with him. Of the nineteen elite legions in the empire, he alone controls five.
The First Legion, the Eleventh Legion, and the Twenty-third Legion are all the top among the nineteen elites.
The 13th and 33rd legions were supported step by step after Zhou Yuanjing came to power. In the past, they were just small and medium-sized legions that were relatively weak. In addition, the Zhou family also controls several powerful expeditionary armies and more than a dozen small and medium-sized legions.
It can be said that Zhou Yuanjing monopolized more than half of the power of the military at the beginning. Although the military department did not become his single-spoken authority, it could be said that he was the only one who spoke out.
The ones above are really far behind Zhou Yuanjing back then, not only in terms of ability, but also in terms of control. Otherwise, how could the empire have ended up in such a mess in recent years?
It’s just that Zhou Yuanjing was poisoned and unable to take charge of the overall situation. There were villains who made trouble, and his power was gradually weakened.
Under the joint suppression of the six marshals, the 11th and 33rd legions were severely damaged. Later, after the first legion was replaced by commander-in-chief, Zhou Yuanjing only had four elite legions left. Two of them have also been suppressed to varying degrees.
In order to prevent the various forces from further consuming each other, and for the sake of his comrades, family and friends who had been loyal to him for many years, Zhou Yuanjing had to choose to withdraw from the position of power, support his body, and return to the former Star No. 732 with his only son. on one's last legs.
Who would have thought that Zhou Yuanjing, who had shocked both inside and outside the battlefield for hundreds of years, would one day be controlled by others, and the people who stabbed him in the back were not his enemies, but his compatriots who were huddled in the rear and enjoyed his protection. I have to say that it is really a great irony.
So the first legion was once Zhou Yuanjing's legion, but now Yi has changed his coach and another group of troops from the military department has been stationed.
Of course, such acts of seizing power cannot be made explicit, otherwise they will probably be scolded to death by the people of the empire who support Zhou Yuanjing before they can seek benefits for their own forces. They had always claimed that Zhou Yuanjing had relapsed from an old injury and lacked energy, so he was unable to control such a legion before replacing him.
Zhou Yuanjing also acquiesced to this out of various considerations, or it should be said that he simply ignored it.
Although the commander of the legion was changed and the Zhou family lost control of the legion, its power was not eradicated. There are still a large number of people loyal to Zhou Yuanjing who remain in the First Army Corps, and they still stick to their original posts. In terms of merit, qualifications and even ability, the people transferred in by the military cannot shake their status at all.
This large number of remaining forces is the guarantee for Zhou Yuanjing, or should I say Zhou Xiuwen, to regain control of the First Army, which will only be realized in the future.
Normally, Zhou Yuanjing's body cannot recover now, and Zhou Xiuwen is still young and cannot take charge of major affairs. The forces that finally usurped the First Legion will definitely try their best to eat away at Zhou Yuanjing's old troops in the legion.
But I have to say that the vision of the people above is also quite useless. The manager they sent was actually a piece of mud that could not hold up the wall. In the ten years since he took office, he not only failed to gather much power, but also almost completely destroyed it. Something went wrong.
The military was afraid that Zhou Yuanjing would use this as an excuse to gather back the First Legion, so they considered re-selecting a new person in charge. There are three candidates, one of whom is Phillips' father, Odysseus Phillips.
The other party comes from a noble family and has sufficient qualifications. He is relatively close to those in the military and is considered suitable. Of course, the other two are of similar level——
So who to choose depends on their respective abilities.
In order to gain more support, Admiral Phillips showed himself in front of Zhou Yuanjing without fear of being feared.
I have to say that the other party is really smart, guessing that Zhou Yuanjing does not want to take back the authority of the First Legion for the time being. In this case, it doesn't matter who is in charge for the other party, as long as you don't disturb the Zhou family's roots in the legion.
Although Zhou Yuanjing did not respond most of the time, he also took note of some of the other party's political achievements and achievements. Compared to the other two, Admiral Phillips was indeed better, so he accepted his little actions as acquiescence.
But if you go by what Jiang Hui said, Admiral Phillips is good, but his son is so overestimating his abilities and overestimating his achievements... This is a big hidden danger.
Zhou Xiuwen wanted to report this to his father, because not only himself, but his father also hated this kind of people, thinking that they were the beginning of chaos in the family.
For some reasons, they temporarily let those people control the First Legion, but that is not forever. If the decision is made incorrectly and the Phillips and his son are allowed to take over at will, they will regret it if something goes wrong in the future.
The other party even made an appointment to have a meeting with Zhou Yuanjing the day after tomorrow, and talked about how to clean up the hidden stakes involved in the dark forces. It is said that they hope to get the support of Zhou Xiuwen's father... Then you should really think about the other party. Do they really want revenge or do they want to exclude dissidents under their banner?
Zhou Xiuwen felt that he needed to have a good talk with his father about this.
(End of this chapter)