Chapter 488: Factions within the Kingdom of Heaven...
The huge crystal door in front slowly opened. The intricate crystal structure on the door began to rotate and move driven by the internal machinery, making a series of pleasant yet mechanical sounds.
[Ding——]
With a clear "ding" sound, the door finally opened completely, revealing the passage to the outside world.
With the end of all the appointment ceremonies, Xia Xiu slowly walked out from the depths of the crystal tower. The sunlight shone through the crystal door, refracting rainbow-like light, adding a bit of solemnity and dignity to his figure. majesty.
Not long after he came out of the crystal tower, he saw the old man with white hair and childish face, holding an exquisite cane.
When Mu saw Xia Xiu coming out, a gentle smile appeared on his face.
He nodded to Xia Xiu to express congratulations, that action was full of respect and approval.
Xia Xiu stopped under Mu's gaze and bowed respectfully in return.
Then, the two stood opposite each other in the spacious and bright [Azlut], and Mu led the young junior towards the passage leaving the fourth floor.
"Congratulations, you have become the decision maker of the Kingdom of Heaven."
On the way, Mu once again expressed congratulations to the young fourth sword holder of the Kingdom of Heaven.
"The prefix "preparation" must be added in front, and I have to wait until the beginning of the new year to officially have the power to initiate, implement, supervise, appoint and remove resolutions..., and the transition period for the change will still take a long time. For a long time, no one could tell who was on the final list of thirteen."
A humble smile appeared on the face of the blond young man, which looked particularly bright under his golden eyes. Sincere and warm.
"Indeed. The change of office is not only organizational change and personnel adjustment, but more importantly, political handover."
Mu nodded, and then continued along the topic.
“Now that you are in the position of a decision-maker, this means that you have to officially stand in front of the world and make a genealogical political statement - you must make a clear-cut statement on the [Utopian Program] Take an oath and remain loyal.
The most important thing for you now is choice.
There are three core factions in Utopia, the current and next resolution assembly. List, each of the three major factions must have a majority. You can either choose a faction to join, remain non-factional, or create a new faction. No matter which one you choose, it will just end up being. Representing your different understanding of the [Utopian Program] - Eden and even other core supervisory agencies, including the Sword Holders, will never allow political struggle to take precedence over the implementation of the program and human supremacy. Thorn, who is the enemy of heaven."
When Mu said this, his fingers involuntarily clenched the cane. From the flash of cold light in his eyes, it could be seen that the old man thought of an old friend who had rebelled.
Messiah...
At this time, Xia Xiu was so blessed that he and the old man thought of the existence that was rumored to have cut off one third of the glory of the kingdom of heaven.
It is rumored that during the great changes in the Kingdom of Heaven, Mu chased 0-13 who was blessed by the Four Monarchs and the Red King. They fought from the present world to the ether, and from the ether to the [Crystal Sky].
In the end, 0-13 was snatched away by the Four Monarchs in the [Sunless Sea] of deep ether space.
What happened after that was that the Messiah appeared in Terra under the guise of changing the kingdom of heaven and the world, and started running around and causing trouble.
If there is a list of popular resolutions in the candidate competition, then the encirclement and suppression of the Messiah must be at the top.
Messiah holds a large number of [Indulgences] that were split from the authority of the Kingdom of Heaven. Part of the establishment of the Honkai Administration Bureau was to recover [Indulgences]. Xia Xiu is still the Administration [Debt Collection] The highest debt collector of the Human Agency], he had previously dealt with a national extraordinary independence incident that was bewitched by the Messiah.
He had a hunch that he would continue to tangle with these guys in the future.
Xia Xiu silently suppressed this issue that he might pursue in the future. Taking advantage of the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart chat with the living fossil walking in heaven next to him, he wanted to learn more from him. .
"I remember that the Kingdom of Heaven had earlier formulated a supreme resolution called [Utopia Plan] based on the program. After that incident, Eden reiterated the promotion of the plan and revised some of the contents of the plan, so now Is the five-year plan itself a transitional stage of the [Utopia Plan]?" Xia Xiu asked Mu.
“The Utopia Plan was born out of the core program. The core of the plan is the three major programs formulated based on the current situation of Terra - to eradicate the existence of gods in Terra forever, to eradicate all disputes and all power within Terra with absolute force. All return to heaven.
At present, the three core mainstream factions have different understandings of the three major principles.
Eden's renewed plan is nothing more than to make the three core factions active again. , and just express their attitude to the outside world
[Hakoniwa Plan] is one of the three mainstream views within the spectrum. Multiple angel groups gathered under this view formed the mainstream core faction, and the Anabaptists. He is the leader of this faction. Currently, the Anabaptists are the most powerful in the Tribunal, and more than half of the six chief judges are Anabaptists.
This time in the Iberian incident, the [New Lisbon Island Hub] had the participation of Anabaptists who hoped to promote the implementation of the [Hakoniwa Plan]. They might even want to thank you this time, because you allowed them to find 'good stuff' on the hub. "
Hearing the good things about [New Lisbon Island Hub], Xia Xiu instantly thought of something.
"You mean...Avalon System? "
"Well, the Anabaptists have found the mastermind of the Islamic race hidden under the hub. They have recovered the mastermind and passed the decision-making assembly seats within the Anabaptists to mobilize a large number of people before the change of term. There are not many [secret jurisdictions], and they are included in the special research plan. ”
Mu nodded and confirmed Xia Xiu’s guess.
Adam had already mentioned the so-called [secret jurisdiction] once when Xia Xiu was investigating on Callisto.
Only members of the resolution meeting have [Secret Jurisdiction]. [Secret Jurisdiction] is one of the restrictions on Eden by the resolution meeting. Any content encrypted by the jurisdiction will remain confidential during the term of the members of the resolution meeting. Eden has no right to read or interfere; only the Ethics Committee can access 5% of the jurisdiction's backbone information for observation. When it is observed that the backbone encrypted content is detrimental to heaven and mankind, the Ethics Committee has the right to initiate a no-confidence proposal. Decrypt.
At that time, the decision will be made to gather other internal members and Eden to review and evaluate the content and determine whether the jurisdictional content is reasonable.
“Because of the 0-13 incident, the Ethics Committee requested that the jurisdiction’s access rights be increased to 25%, and requested that most of the past sealed documents be released and decrypted; the resolution meeting and Eden agreed to raise the access rights, but It was only raised to 10%. At the same time, they refused to release the sealed document.
The Ethics Committee was naturally dissatisfied. The negative impact of 0-13's betrayal was huge, so the Tribunal and the Knights also followed up. Follow up and join in to put pressure on the resolution meeting and want to further restrict jurisdictional encryption authority
The final result of this matter is that the resolution meeting allows me, as the arbiter, to read the encrypted content and sealed documents of 35~45% of the jurisdiction.
So, I have read the documents of the Anabaptists, and there is no problem with the content and direction. They want to use the Avalon system as one of the shelter systems in the world of Hakoniwa. Of course, they are not using Is. The mastermind of the race is just a consumable for the experiment. The name of their mainstream asylum system is [Rutland], which is a very interesting system. ”
Mu Ye said words in a plain tone that made Xia Xiu feel ashamed.
The snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman gains; when a person sits at home, power comes from the sky. Xia Xiu Xiu said secretly in his heart.
The arbitration authority of the resolution meeting [secret jurisdiction] is a valuable treasure for other core institutions, especially for the ethics committee.
As another system independent of the administrative system of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Sword Holder itself has a transcendent status.
As the fourth sword holder, Xia Xiu initially enjoyed the political benefits brought by this status. After he became the fourth sword holder, Eden sent a large number of tasks to him, in order to stabilize this situation. This status brings benefits, while preventing him from prematurely getting involved in programmatic disputes within the genealogy.
But now that he has officially become the decision maker, his existence has become subtle.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he is pro-Eden and the secular faction - the label he carries is: an earthly angel supported by Eden, a graduate of Deer Park, the second-in-command of the Administration, the Kingdom of Heaven The fourth sword bearer.
His current greatest genealogical political wealth is: he comes from a lineage of sword-wielding men.
Because the sword-holders stand at the top of the heavenly force system, they are the representatives of individual power and the holders of the single heaven-based system.
If Hugh Abraham is singled out as an individual, his legendary experience also has extraordinary influence.
Coupled with this is the widely circulated "personality" of a non-extreme angel from the pro-[pseudohuman] group.
After all these things are added up, the impression given to others by the fourth sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven is... very subtle.
He violated the customary rule of non-interference in politics for sword-holders, and he himself made no secret of his ambition.
These all express their own behavioral propositions.
Of course Xia Xiu also understands this, but becoming a decision-maker and entering the highest power center of the Kingdom of Heaven itself is one of his future career plans. In his previous life, he had understood the importance of financial statements and career planning, the climbing tools that facilitated his upward climb.
There is no need to elaborate on the reasons for upward pursuit. The pursuit of higher level itself is an internal motivation.
If someone says that there must be other drives besides inner motivation, then his own thoughts are germs.
Nasty and narrow thoughts are like germs, creeping in the human body very slowly. They cannot live anywhere for a long time, until the entire human body is occupied by it.
This humble little thing is the main culprit of body rot and withering.
So, everything you grab turns into brilliance, and everything you give up turns into coal.
Thinking is important, but action in thinking is faster than speculation in thinking.
On the way out, Xia Xiu chatted a lot with Mu.
From the other party's mouth, he knew a lot about the aftermath of the Iberian incident.
For example, the First Swordsman and the Iberian [Miracle One] fought fiercely for a long time on the fifth etheric guide chain.
At the moment before the "Great Silence" broke out, [Quetzalcoatl] tried to get rid of the delay of the first sword holder at the risk of the miracle being broken.
As for the number one sword holder who is also a [Miracle] and also holds a single space-based system, he is naturally not afraid. The opponent will fight to the point of madness, but also wants to see who he compares with.
In front of angels, the enemy's madness will only lead to even more maddened counterattacks.
The battle between the two Miracles created a large hole in the fifth guide chain.
After the Great Silence ended, the fighting between the two sides finally stopped.
The First Swordman has been deployed to the front line of the Sea of Chaos to suppress the evil spirits, and St. James has also returned to Iberia, which is full of chickens and feathers.
In addition to the struggle between the two Miracles, there is also the pursuit of the Yith race. After the [Extermination Order] was issued, countless group space-based weapons tried to locate the [Monster Sea] where the Yith race is located. ] planet, the opponent controls a quarter of the [Bull of the Sky], so it can move the planet to escape.
The cluster attack of [Extermination Order] only destroyed two-thirds of the planet's creatures. When the Kingdom of Heaven was about to destroy the [Sea of Monsters], the Yisi race crashed into the Edici Federation with the remains of the continent. In the new world built by the ether and the real world, he voluntarily became a subsidiary of [Financial Street] and [New World Tree], and exchanged and sold his extraordinary assets to seek refuge.
The new world of the Edici Federation has formed the so-called "plane world". Under the power of the [New World Tree], the new world is like layers of matryoshka dolls.
If the nesting dolls near Terra used to be "hubs" similar to the other worlds, then the new world of the Edici Federation is a larger hub nesting doll. The plane world is bigger, and the Edici Federation is trying to build a huge plane world comparable to the galaxy through [Financial Street] and [New World Tree].
The Four Monarchs, the Red King, the Stars, the Living Gods...
They were very optimistic about Edici's plan, so they continued to bet generously.
With the generous funding of these "big capitalists", the New World has developed three thousand worlds and countless small worlds (hubs).
If the inflation of its plane gets out of control, it can swallow Terra in turn.
These new systems, which are completely different from the current world, are called dimensional (virtual) financial systems by the Edici Federation, while the current financial system is called the physical financial system by them.
Now that the plane system is booming, the physical system is extremely weak.
For [Financial Street], flow is fundamental, and both planes and entities must flow.
Whether it is big capital or small capital - flow is the root of everything.
The core of economic activity is the flow of resources, goods, services and money.
Finance must flow, stopping means destruction.
This is an immortal monster created by human beings. Unless the absolute ideal of communism comes, finance will never die.
When [Financial Street] was born, its projection spread all over Terra's human forces, and even the Kingdom of Heaven was forced to generate one of its projections.
And it cannot be destroyed, but can only be emptied out - the emptied financial wreckage of the Kingdom of Heaven was finally taken away by the Messiah.
However, this does not mean that the Kingdom of Heaven has got rid of [Financial Street], because a new financial projection is ready to move within the Kingdom of Heaven. However, because the financial debris has been dug away, and with the strong suppression of Eden, the cycle of the birth of new projections has been infinite. It's just been extended.
Now, in order for the financial balance at both ends of the entity and plane to not get out of control and lead to financial collapse, Edici must start raising interest rates to control inflation.
Imagine that Edici has a system called the "Twelve Federal Reserve Banks", which is responsible for controlling all flows in [Financial Street].
This system determines how much interest needs to be paid when borrowing money from other banks.
It's like you borrow money from a friend and the friend will ask you to pay some extra money as interest.
When Edici Federation decides to "raise interest rates," it means it makes other banks pay more interest when they borrow money.
The purpose of this is to make it less easy for banks, companies and ordinary people to borrow money because it becomes more expensive.
When people borrow less money, they will spend less money, which can slow down the rate of price increases, that is, control inflation.
Once the Edici Federation raises interest rates, it will inevitably lead to the outflow of financial capital from other countries, especially emerging financial countries, thus affecting their currency value and financial stability.
Central banks in other countries may have to adjust their monetary policies to deal with the impact of Edici's interest rate hike, such as raising their own interest rates to protect the value of their currencies and prevent capital outflows.
The most troublesome thing for Terra now is that [Financial Street] invites the gods to join the game.
Now, the gods are absolutely big capital. They are interested in increasing their bets and using [Financial Street] to bypass [Crystal Sky] to play with Terra.
The Edici Federation wants to pull all the forces of Terra together to play balance on leverage. The five-year plan of the Kingdom of Heaven is not a kind of resistance to the financial wave.
Of course, the gods cannot "buy" everything on Terra through finance.
This is unrealistic. Tyra’s extraordinary pedigree is not limited to the financial pedigree.
Finance is never the absolute subject of life, it is only a conceptual value constraint for individuals and most groups.
In the extraordinary realm of [Financial Street], it is just a contract of extraordinary value that will inevitably lead to backlash after being violated.
A single individual violation will lead to death, but the vast majority of group violations will inevitably lead to a situation of common destruction.
A complete financial collapse will only promote the war sweeping the world.
When a piece of bread is too expensive for ordinary people to pay, then they will choose to die together.
When [Financial Street] and the gods' unscrupulous behavior offends the interests of all transcendent beings and humans, they will also choose to perish together.
The competition of force, the manifestation of violence and authority, the presentation of death and the end...
These may be the foundation of life and even genealogy.
The Kingdom of Heaven is an absolutely violent institution. This is an undoubted fact. It has the highest and most essential authority to grant death and finality to others.
What all genealogies and civilizations strive for is the essential authority to grant death and finality to others.
(End of this chapter)