AS Order docked at the airship port of the Sixth Street.
When the army in power armors and kinetic skeletons passed through the main road of the Sixth Street, the survivors offered the highest respect and cheers to the soldiers who returned from the expedition.
Flowers, cheers, applause …
Jiang Chen waved to the excited crowd. Standing in the brand-new X-1 power armor, he felt the enthusiasm of the people, and a smile appeared on his face.
People's worship of heroes was eternal, from ancient times to the present.
From time to time, young girls walked up, handed the bouquet in their hands to Jiang Chen with a blushing face, offered a hug, and then quickly ran back into the crowd. The guards and NAC knights behind Jiang Chen also enjoyed similar treatment, but not as much as Jiang Chen, who walked at the front of the line.
Because of this glory, many people specifically came to participate in such a triumphant ceremony. After the expeditionary force was disbanded the next day, they had to rush back to Shangjing by airship and report to the Fourth Army.
Some people couldn't come at all because NAC must maintain a minimum sense of military presence on Pingan Street. For example, Lu Fan and the others were the ones who stayed behind.
Walking in front of the line, Jiang Chen smiled and waved as he led the long line to the central square of the Sixth Street.
"Look, look! The marshal seemed to have glanced at me just now, "a young girl said as she tugged at her good sister.
"Did he? He was looking at me, okay? "The beauty in the fallout shelter's winter suit straightened her chest and said with an intoxicated expression.
Just as the two girls were arguing about who the General's gaze stopped on, the mercenaries standing at the entrance of the tavern slapped their thighs and sighed with regret.
"Fu * k! If I knew this was going to happen, I would have gone for the recruitment! I wouldn't be a guard for a merchant fleet. For a hundred credits, I was almost captured and castrated by the mutated humans. " A mercenary-looking man looked at the power armors with envy and couldn't help but sigh.
"Come on, with your lousy marksmanship, can you survive for two seconds?" His colleague, who was holding a bottle and burping, mocked, "I heard that our expeditionary force and the Russian border guards fought in the subway tunnel. Do you understand the border guards? They are the regular army! Furthermore, we won the fight! If you can't even defeat a Mutant, won't you just be a burden? "
"F * ck! If we don't try, how will we know! "The mercenary's face turned red as he argued.
While the mercenaries were making a ruckus, the bank next to the central square was also crowded with people.
During the war mobilization phase, NAC issued war bonds as usual, and now it was finally time to cash in. However, what really ignited people's enthusiasm was not the profit of less than 2%, but the auction of the spoils!
The assets belonging to Ding Liwei and Wan Peng on Pingan Street would be auctioned in the Sixth Street Bank hundreds of kilometers away. For example, those factories, real estate, resources, and even the franchise rights of certain industries were the darlings of these businessmen!
That was a virgin land that had yet to be developed. Although it was a little colder in the north, its potential for development was much better than that of Hongcheng and Wu City!
Inside the bank's trading floor, businessmen in suits and leather shoes looked at the information flashing on the big screen. Their fingers hovered over the screen of their EPs as they bid through the external "credit chip" on their EPs.
"Fu * k, directly bidding 1 million credits! Who is so powerful! " Looking at the auction price that had directly increased by ten times from the starting price, a merchant squeezed in the hall exclaimed.
"It's probably the Zhao Corporation. They are determined to win the food trade franchise. But NAC is really generous. It's great to keep this thing in their hands. It's a gold mine … "Another businessman exclaimed.
"Maybe the General has his own ideas. But then again, the credits were originally issued by the military government. No matter how much money they earn, it's just a number. "
"You're right … Right, I heard that the density of mutants in the subway station in Shangjing is very high and there are many high-quality hunting grounds. Should I buy a hunting group and raise them? It's going to be winter soon. I think the market for crystals seems to be good! "
"Forget it, even you thought of this idea. I think the crystals are going to fall again …"
"Fu * k, what do you mean?"
The entire Sixth Street was unprecedentedly lively.
Of course, the most lively place was the central square.
Standing in front of the square, just like the last time he returned from the expedition, he read the victory declaration in front of all the survivors of the Sixth Street and then awarded medals to the soldiers who returned from the expedition.
The training ceremony was also the most lively part of the entire victory ceremony.
In the NAC's pyramid citizenship system, the benefits and political rights enjoyed by different levels of citizens were completely different.
In this expedition, there were a total of 170 upper-class citizens who had just been promoted to knights. They could own their own T-3 power armor (although they could only keep it in a centrally managed warehouse), and they could hold military positions in the military government that were higher than a squad leader.
In addition, there were a total of 510 newly promoted upper citizens, 1520 intermediate citizens, and 3000 lower citizens. Obtaining lower citizen status was equivalent to being registered in the NAC military government system. They could receive at least one ration per month and were allowed to settle in "military zones" such as the Fishbone base.
Although they could also apply to give up their citizenship, no one would do so.
Every person with citizenship was a hot commodity in the eyes of unmarried girls and single women. If they couldn't obtain merits through war, marriage was the only way for them to become a citizen.
Especially the newly promoted knights, they were a rare resource in the eyes of the unmarried girls. Becoming a knight's wife was not only an honor, but it also meant they could live a luxurious life.
There would be delicious white rice for every meal, and the meat would be beef from the Garden of Eden. Such an enviable life was rare even for the factory owners and wealthy merchants.
Because of this, a lot of people called the training ceremony the husband selection ceremony. And the facts proved this point. Based on the statistics after the last expedition, the number of registered marriages in the month after the victory ceremony was more than three times that of the previous month.
Chu Nan and Jiang Chen even discussed this issue. Appropriate foreign wars could help eliminate poverty and the single rate …
Of course, other than the knights, there was also the most popular one. It was the one who stood on the podium to award the knights.
Young, handsome, chic, romantic … at least in the eyes of all the unmarried girls. But because of this, in everyone's eyes, he seemed a bit out of reach.
Needless to say, success could cover up many of a man's shortcomings, and even turn many shortcomings into strengths and be talked about by people. To give a very common example, it was precisely because Jiang Chen was Jiang Chen that the romantic affairs that happened to him could only be romantic affairs.
Even those pre-war female stars, business elites, and daughters of high-ranking officials who thought highly of themselves and had just come out of the fallout shelters or freezers, as well as those pre-war women who insisted on human rights, civil rights, and women's rights that had been dead for more than 20 years, couldn't help but secretly approve when they saw that straight and imposing figure.
It had nothing to do with power or wealth.
It was human nature to worship heroes.
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