The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Kemen Ludlow, the Minister of Finance of the Otter Federation, can be said to be an ancient nobleman of the Otter Federation. Although this kind of saying is not popular in the Otter Federation, when he entered the official career, his family left him His identity and bloodline still gave him great help invisibly. He was able to hold such a high position as Minister of Finance in his forties, not only because of his own talent, but also because of his surname.

According to the arguments of some scholars who like to investigate family genealogy, the Ludlow family should be the bloodline inheritance of the second son of a duke of a duke in the Old World. The family tree was formed during the period of great migration. It can be said that it is one of the oldest families in the New World. one.

But Kaimen is very clear that those so-called family legends and genealogy are all fake. In fact, there is no Ludlow family at all. Their families are all the spy families of the Longsong Church hidden in the Otter Federation.

Kaimen still finds it hard to forget that when he was an adult, after his father told him the truth, he felt so bad that the world was collapsing. He even committed suicide twice because of this. Of course, the publicity was He committed suicide because of love, creating a persona of an infatuated person for outsiders.

From the day he can remember, all the education he received was a very formal federal education. In his cognition, God does not exist, and all church countries are puppets of some kind of evil existence who claim to be God. Talent is the main body of this world, and the federation is established for the well-being of mankind, for the future of mankind, etc. All thoughts began on the day he had basic cognition, and were continuously instilled into his mind.

Even though he has never believed in these ideas and education, even though his wish since childhood was to become a carefree, money-spinning libertine, this kind of federal orthodox thought is still deeply rooted in his brain , affecting his past words and deeds.

However, all of this was broken on the day he became an adult. For a long time after that, he lived like a walking dead in the manor on the outskirts of the family, until he saw the long song that his father deliberately left in the manor villa. After reading the seventh movement, he got rid of this kind of life and regained his life goal, that is, on that day he became the waiter of Changge.

No one could have expected that I could become a long song attendant. For the Long Song Church, every long song attendant has received the favor of the long song, and they may become the long song's gods in the future, and then Become the Pope or Saint of the Church of Longsong.

The long song attendants have always been cultivated by the long song church since they were young. They read the first movement representing the true meaning of the long song since they were young. , so this incident also attracted the attention of the Changge Church back then. Even the Changge Church did not hesitate to risk being intercepted and killed by the Ministry of Education, and secretly sent an ascetic from the Holy Hall to come here to confirm that the elder Kaimen The authenticity of the song waiter.

After this verification, Kaimen has become the most important chess piece of the Longsong Church in the Oeter Federation, and it has also become the object of their all-out efforts to cultivate.

Although Kaimen thinks that he was able to sit on the position of Minister of Finance more because of his talent, he also has to admit that the Longsong Church played a huge role in this matter, especially the one that affected the entire The bribery scandal at the Ministry of Finance directly caused 30% of the officials of the Ministry of Finance to be dismissed, and 30% of the positions were vacated. His excellent record in financial auditing also made him the chief audit officer of the Ministry of Finance, known as the alternate minister.

For a long time, the Longsong Church has not actively asked Kaimen to perform any tasks. Unlike other pieces of the Longsong Church, there are some tasks that are required to be performed on a regular basis. Compared with the benefits of performing certain tasks, it is obvious that he The identity and current status of the waiter is more important.

But Kaimen is also very clear that no mission was given to him before because those missions were very simple, and their value did not match his identity. Completely smash everything he has in the Otter Federation.

So Kaimen has always been preparing for the mission that will come in the future. Until the mission that had been waiting for decades fell into his hands not long ago, not only did he not feel surprised or nervous, but he felt an inexplicable feeling A sense of relief, but he doesn't like this feeling, because it makes him feel a little uneasy.

The content of the task is very simple. Use his position to question the identities, intentions, etc. of the two foreigners on the matter of research expenses for new weapons.

The content of the task seems to be very simple, and it is not beyond the scope of his authority. Even without this task, he will still question the issue of funding review at the meeting, which is what he needs to do every day.

But the problem is that this is the work content under normal circumstances, but the current situation within the Otter Federation is not very normal, especially in the matter of new weapons research, which is completely unquestionable. If he gets stuck on the funding issue, it will be very difficult It is easy to become the focus of everyone, and may even arouse the suspicion of some people.

Nowadays, the research and development of new weapons has been regarded as the most important thing for the federal government. This is related to the final state of this anti-ecclesiastical war. Almost all intelligence-related departments within the federal government are concerned about this matter. There are countless pairs of eyes on the people and things related to this matter, just to avoid any accidents in this matter.

If he came forward to raise any objections, no matter how high and powerful he was, he would still be investigated repeatedly, not to mention that he had political opponents, and those political opponents would never let go of any opportunity to add insult to injury.

Just when Kaimen was thinking about what to do to complete this task without being targeted for investigation, something unexpected happened. At the meeting convened by the Prime Minister to discuss the development of new weapons, the Minister of Education They even directly questioned the couple's purpose, and the reason is that the couple seems to be using various methods to try to get close to the big secret that has been hidden by the federal government for many years.

At the beginning, as Kaimen thought, the minister of the Ministry of Education and Civilization became the target of criticism, and those who offended the Ministry of Education and Civilization in the past also attacked him, thinking that he was deliberately delaying the development of new weapons. In capital enemy.

But after the middle of the meeting, when a director of national security-related intelligence came in and brought in a piece of intelligence about the couple's past, things began to change, because any sane person could From this information, we can see that many things are wrong.

For example, the couple first appeared in a small country in the inland mountains, and before that, there was no information about the two of them, as if the two of them jumped out of a rock, which obviously has a huge existence. question.

After that, the couple traveled around the countries of the New World like two travelers. At first glance, there was no problem, but if you look at this matter with the eyes of an examiner, you will find that the two people are more like traveling in different countries on purpose. Leaving a lot of traces makes it difficult for future tracers to investigate.

In the end, the couple visited so many countries, but they chose to settle in the Oeter Federation. Although the people of the Federation are very confident and proud of their country and think that the Oeter Federation is the best country in the world, in fact, everyone knows it well Well, the Otter Federation is definitely not the most suitable country to settle in the world, not even the most suitable country to settle in the New World.

But the couple chose the Otter Federation as their country of residence, and deliberately did all kinds of amazing things to attract the attention of others, which was completely different from their previous performances when they traveled in other countries.

All kinds of information revealed from these intelligence materials made the people who saw this intelligence material involuntarily have an inexplicable suspicion, suspecting that the foreign couple actually came to the Otto Federation with a purpose, and at the same time Want to get close to the secrets under the Capitol and more.

When doubts began to spread, Kaimen felt that the opportunity had come, so he was worried about the funding for the development of new weapons, especially when the federal government needed to make a large amount of compensation and needed to support the logistics of various battlefields. A fee will directly affect the normal operation of the federal government.

When he raised his concerns, he also took out the budget report on weapons research and development expenses, but that budget report was a revised report, and a large number of other departments that were trying to make money were added to the original research and development funds. The mixed-in funds have inflated the original research and development funds by more than three times, which has reached a very scary amount.

This revised funding report was not ordered by him, but a default rule. Other similar funding reports will also add some additional funding applications, so even if someone investigates, it is impossible to investigate Kaimen. body.

In addition to the budget report produced by Kaimen, the heads of some small departments have also raised doubts about the foreign couple, and what really had an impact was a hawkish general in the military. Some groundless suspicions have been raised, and these suspicions all suggest that the couple may be spies of the surrounding church countries, and the recent reaction of those church countries is actually to cooperate with acting, in order to make the Federation think that the weapon is harmful to the surrounding countries. Great threat.

The military hawk general is a complete federal supremacist and looks down on any foreigner. Even the popes of other churches are like maggots in his mouth. He is talking nonsense, but now his words are enough to make people have some bad associations.

As a result, the direction of the matter was developing in the direction that Kaimen wanted to see. The Prime Minister temporarily shelved the proposal for the development of new weapons and began to investigate the two foreigners.

Some people also suggested whether the two should be put under house arrest first to prevent them from escaping, but this proposal was unfortunately not approved, and even the investigation was only a secret investigation, because according to the intelligence, Longanus seemed to know the pair. couple.

For Kaimen, it is no longer his business to investigate the two foreigners. He has already completed the task assigned by the Long Song Church, and I believe others will follow up on the next thing. As far as he knows, the surrounding church countries have placed a lot of pawns in the federal government, and those pawns should be activated at this time.

Perhaps it was because of the successful completion of the task that his mood became much more relaxed, so when he went to work today, he changed his previous serious attitude and made a few jokes at the meeting, and he also praised the secretary's clothes by the way , so that everyone in the office wondered if he had a lover.

After leaving the office in the evening, Kaimen didn't let the carriage take him home, but planned to go to a nearby small bar with some sentimentality for a drink.

However, as the carriage slowly drove into an alley and stopped suddenly, the unease that arose when receiving the task suddenly became very strong, and he immediately became vigilant.

"Bernard, why stop?" Kaimen asked the driver, and took out two weapons from the hidden compartment in the wine cabinet next to him, holding them in his hands.

"Minister Kaimen, you may not be able to go home smoothly today. We need your cooperation to investigate something." At this time, a voice that sounded familiar to Kaimen came from outside the car.

Kaimen's face became a little ugly, and he recognized that the voice was the voice of the third team leader of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Ministry of the Interior has a total of nine groups, each of which is in charge of different departments and different levels of federal officials, and the third group has the largest authority, even members of Congress and Supreme Court judges are under their jurisdiction, and the Ministry of Finance The minister is naturally among them.

Under normal circumstances, the investigation of officials by the Ministry of the Interior is conducted in secret. When it is advanced to the point where people are required to investigate, it means that the investigation has come to an end and all the necessary evidence is complete. In addition to the very special status of the subject of the arrest, more importantly, it means that the evidence held by the Ministry of the Interior has been conclusive. The current arrest is only a formality, and the next step is to directly hand it over to the court and the procuratorate for trial and sentencing.

According to previous cases, almost all arrests initiated by the team leader were sent to prison without exception, and even sentenced to death.

After confirming that the leader of the team is the leader of the third team of the Ministry of the Interior, even though Kaimen doesn't know how his true identity was exposed, he can be sure that his end is doomed. Now he needs to choose Should he fight for the last time, or should he be caught without a fight.

After a moment of silence, Kaimen made a choice, put down the weapon in his hand, opened the door of the carriage and walked out.