These three days were extremely unusual for the people living on Pannu Islands.
Originally, they thought the government army would be overthrown by the anti-government army, but the anti-government army was beaten to a pulp. Just when they gave up hope on the anti-government army, the mercenaries they hired raised the white flag of the government army.
Many people were unable to react to such a dramatic turn of events.
But in any case, the revolution had won.
After the barracks were taken over, the insurgents regained their confidence. The soldiers who didn't die in the civil war reunited under the new flag. They retrieved the equipment from the seized armory and took over the presidential palace that mimicked the White House.
President Edward, who had not yet woken up, was dragged out of bed and sent to prison. One of the insurgents climbed to the roof of the Presidential Palace, cut off the yellow flag with a wooden axe, and replaced it with a new flag with nine stars and two palm leaves.
The nine stars symbolized the nine islands of Pannu Islands, and the palm leaves symbolized victory.
At the same time, surrounded by the insurgents, Zhang Yaping, who was elected as the leader of the Liberal Party, entered the presidential palace and read the founding declaration in front of a group of sleepy foreign reporters.
The old regime was banned, and Pannu Islands changed from a presidential dictatorship to a presidential republic. At the same time, the country changed to a federal system. The name of the country was the New Pannu Federation, or Xin for short.
The first president was Zhang Yaping with a term of five years. Five years later, a general election would be held. The parliament was made up of nine representatives, elected by the voters of each district on the nine islands.
Other than the constitution making some minor changes to the president's power, all other laws followed the previous regime's laws.
A federation with only nine islands was undoubtedly comical in the eyes of the media. As a result, a lot of western media were hesitating whether to put this news in the current affairs section or the entertainment section.
Then, a BBC reporter asked why the name of the country was named in Chinese. Zhang Yaping's explanation was that 36% of the island's residents were Chinese. Chinese, English, and Dutch were the common languages on the island. This was a decision made out of consideration of language habits, so don't over-interpret it.
At this time, another reporter asked a very sharp question. President Edward used the military as a dictatorship, but how can you guarantee that you won't walk on the same path as him?
For this question, Zhang Yaping felt a little bitter in his heart, but he did not show any expression on his face. He lightly announced a word that shocked all reporters – "defense contracting system."
The defense of Pannu Islands would be completely covered by Celestial Trade. Celestial Trade Company has the right to recruit mercenaries within or outside of Pannu to provide protection within Pannu territory. Celestial Trade was directly responsible to the constitution and didn't need to listen to the president. The employment costs were compensated by customs duties and land rent.
After hearing Zhang Yaping's explanation, the same thought flashed in the minds of all the reporters.
This was insane.
In this way, it was tantamount to completely handing over the country's military power to private individuals and operating the military like a business.
Would such an army have any combat power? Could such an army guarantee national security? Would such an army be safe?
But after calming down, these reporters thought about it again. This kind of thing was not unprecedented in international history.
Currently, the US military was the most dependent on private contractors in the world. More than 60% of the US Department of Defense's annual budget was paid to contractors. Nowadays, aside from completing the most basic military duties, most of the military affairs were outsourced. From the development and manufacturing of weapons to the logistics of daily necessities, private contractors were everywhere.
Government owned, private contractors not only saved a lot of costs, but they could also push the burden of compensating soldiers to private companies.
Since there was a precedent, this system was not completely undesirable.
But it was the first time the reporters heard of completely handing over the entire "Department of Defense" to a private contractor.
Needless to say, in terms of laziness, this sesame-sized country was at the forefront of the world.
In a short period of time, this small country with a population of less than twenty thousand appeared on the front page of international news. At the same time, Celestial Trade Company also appeared on a lot of well-known newspapers.
To the company that the public had never heard of, all kinds of irresponsible speculations emerged.
Some people said that there was oil underground in Pannu Islands and that Celestial Trade Company was only a subsidiary of an oil conglomerate. The investor was most likely from UA. Some people also speculated that it was Han's doing to pave the way for them to intervene in international affairs …
Of course, no one guessed the relationship between Celestial Trade Company and Future International since the two had nothing to do with each other. Before the ship left West Africa, Jiang Chen canceled Future Security's registration in Niger and transferred the equipment and remaining personnel of the military base to the other two ships. As to the infrastructure that couldn't be transferred, he sold it to the Niger government at cost price.
The two ships would take the route from the Cape of Good Hope and take a detour to Pannu Islands.
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On the other side, after the insurgents sent President Edward and his family to prison, they angrily surrounded Johnny's mansion.
This time, they were more careful. Learning from the failed attack on Johnny's mansion, they mobilized the only armored vehicle that survived the civil war. With the armored vehicle as cover, they felt a lot more confident.
But when they arrived at Johnny's mansion, they realized that someone had already been here.
The iron gate looked like it was hit by a car as it lay on the lawn a few meters away. The wall looked like it was swept by a large caliber bullet as some places were broken into pieces. Especially the machine gun position on the roof that was surrounded by sandbags, it was also turned into sand by the bullets. A lot of the wall was smashed into pieces. No one knew what kind of weapon was so powerful.
The bodies in the mansion hadn't been cleaned up yet. All of the victims were shot through the left chest. The killer's marksmanship was terrifying. Even the mercenaries hiding behind the wall had their hearts penetrated by bullets.
In the end, the insurgents found Johnny's body in the basement, as well as the four women he had imprisoned in the basement.
Three of the women were locals, one was even a married woman, and one was even in junior high. She was originally registered dead due to a car accident, but she was imprisoned by this villain in his mansion.
The other woman was a reporter from Australia who was captured when she sneaked into Johnny's mansion. After the incident was exposed, it caused a huge uproar in Australia. However, Johnny was already dead, and there was no point in condemning the crime of a corpse. Moreover, the old regime had been overthrown, so the matter calmed down after a period of time.
Later, the four victims all received a generous amount of compensation signed by the Xin government. It was rumored that the money was donated by an anonymous wealthy businessman as a small compensation for the unfortunate people.
Of course, this was a story for another time.
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