Whenever an overwhelming avalanche occurred, it was usually due to the loosening of an insignificant pebble.
And before the thick snow covering the entire mountain collapsed, no one would have expected that this small rock would actually contain such a massive destructive force!
Everything that happened in the past month before the election of the most important Speaker in the hundred years since the New Federation was founded seemed to have proved the point again.
Twenty days ago, when the mysterious person named 'Moonfall' exposed the so-called 'shocking scandal' on all the major media outlets, although all the media outlets fanned the flames and a lot of people who had nothing better to do also engaged in a war of words on the Internet, spitting everywhere and adding fuel to the fire …
But to be honest, for any citizen of the Federation who had received civic education, especially those who had been nurtured by the game 'Civilization' since childhood, who boasted above average political judgment and rational thinking, and who had the 'right to vote', even among the citizens, Jin Xinyue's opponents did not think that the scandal alone was enough to completely unseat Jin Xinyue.
A scandal was just a scandal.
Not to mention that the revelations on the Nexus were likely to be groundless and fabricated, even if they were true, there was still a huge gap between Jin Xinyue and the so-called 'contemporary Lu Zui'.
After all, the 'Dim Moon Plan' revealed in 'Moonfall's secret letter' was a subversive operation aimed at a political entity other than the Federation. Also, in principle, it was only aimed at the highest leaders of the political entity. It was not Jin Xinyue who had planned and implemented it on her own. Instead, she was merely 'observing the changes and reaping the benefits'.
The purpose of the plan was to eliminate all the uncertainties before the Black Wind Fleet arrived and win Firefly for the Federation.
It was entirely different from Lu Zui's plan to kill his own Speaker, especially his own compatriots, in order to instigate a total war years ago.
The so-called 'citizens of the Federation' were all adults. They all knew that the real world was neither a fairytale nor a novel on the Spiritual Nexus where 'passion' and 'justice' could conquer everything.
As a regional superpower that boasted seven Sectors and a population of hundreds of billions, and was faced with a serious military threat, it was inevitable that it would resort to certain unconventional approaches in unusual times. Cultivators were the sabers of the civilization of mankind, not the beads of the civilization of mankind, not the classics of the civilization of mankind. They were certainly not to be trifled with!
"Jin Xinyue's original intentions were good, but her methods are questionable."
"During wartime, there is no such thing as benevolence. Even if this is true, doesn't it mean that Jin Xinyue is more suitable to be the Chairman of the Federation?"
"Yes. Perhaps more prudent considerations can be made in peacetime, but since this is the most serious threat that the new Federation has ever faced since it was founded, it is a moment of life and death, and it is the real battle to establish and rise the new Federation. Only a decisive person such as Jin Xinyue can lead us to defeat the Imperium!"
After the initial shock and uproar, such comments slowly spread on the Spiritual Nexus and became a hot topic.
Some people even said:
"I don't think that Jin Xinyue is wrong. Ding Ling Dong or someone in the Patriots Front, on the other hand, is obviously a trick of the Patriots Front! As the saying goes, dirty linen should not be aired in public. Even if the Dim Moon Fund did plan the operation and even failed, there is no reason for it to be exposed in public and shock our allies and unsettle the public!
"It is obvious that the Patriots Front is trying to tear apart the Federation without caring about the big picture in order to take power! And they are saying that 'Lu Zui is the second'. Isn't that Lu Zui the founder of the Patriots Partnership? "
All in all, in the first week after the files of Moonfall were exposed, the noises that were spreading on the media and the Spiritual Nexus did not seem to congregate into a storm in reality.
In the capital city at the center of public opinion, both the parliament of the Federation and the building of the Ministry of Equality and Development were peaceful and undisturbed.
However, in the places that the journalists and the general public could not see, an independent investigation team made of almost a hundred of the most elite prosecutors and investigators of the Federation was conducting a thunderous investigation in secret. As a result, many insiders of Jin Xinyue's group were shocked. The tiny butterfly flapped its wings and turned into a storm that completely changed the world.
A week after the files of Moonfall were exposed, the 'pebble' that caused the avalanche finally fell.
The landing point was the residence of the delegation of the rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic.
The discovery of the files of Moonfall disrupted all the arrangements made by the government-in-exile and the Federation in advance. After a week of urgent negotiations, the delegation of the government-in-exile was finally ready to leave. After a transit in the Hundred Flowers Space Zone at the center of the seven Sectors, they would directly jump to the capital city of the Tian Yuan Realm, where they would consolidate the traditional friendship between the two parties and the common mission that was based on the path of the Cultivators.
However, on the morning that the delegation was about to leave, an uninvited guest barged into the hotel where the delegation was staying recklessly in the middle of a lot of reporters.
The delegation was heavily guarded. Not only had the Secret Sword Bureau deployed iron walls around the place, but 'Team Red Lotus', the delegation's own guards, was also the most elite special force of the government-in-exile.
The uninvited guest was taken down by the Secret Sword Bureau and Team Red Lotus before she even broke through the first defense line.
However, the first sentence that this delicate and weak girl, who seemed to be less than twenty years old, said after she was captured, made everyone dumbfounded.
"Please help me! My brother was' Moonfall '. He was the' treasurer 'of the Dim Moon Fund who was in charge of the secret fund operations. He has been killed by Jin Xinyue! Before his death, he sent the jade chip to me. He said that it was full of Jin Xinyue's clandestine deals! He also said that Jin Xinyue's people were everywhere. Only in this place, under the dual protection of the Secret Sword Bureau and the delegation of Firefly, would I be safe enough! Only the delegation of Firefly would reveal the incident to the public and reveal everything that Jin Xinyue and the people behind her had done! "
The avalanche began.
From the precious jade chip brought by the girl who claimed to be 'Moonfall's sister', a lot of information about the secret fund operations of the Dim Moon Fund had been parsed.
Although the information was not enough to prove the relationship between the Dim Moon Fund and the CFIA or to pin Jin Xinyue to death, it at the very least helped the independent investigation team win greater permissions for operations. That night, they summoned a lot of Secret Sword Agents and raided and searched more than fifty branches, branches, and secret bureaus of the Ministry of Development and the Dim Moon Fund in the seven Sectors. More than 3,200 crystal processors and more than ten thousand storage chips were seized.
Most of the secrets of the Dim Moon Fund were exposed to the eyes of the independent investigation team as well as the Secret Sword Bureau, their old rival and nemesis.
In the two weeks that followed, however, things took a turn for the worse.
The original intention of the independent investigation team was to figure out the connection between the Dim Moon Fund and the CFIA through the crystal processors and storage chips. They were even hoping to find evidence that Jin Xinyue had directly manipulated the CFIA to set the fire and put out the fire herself.
But before the evidence was found, what they found first was the evidence of the collusion between the Dim Moon Fund and the top few conglomerates of the Federation, the super sects with a history of hundreds of years, and even the giants who were the founders of the 'old Federation'!
According to the evidence, a long time before the Dim Moon Fund was established, almost a hundred years ago, Jin Xinyue, as a saintess of the demon race, had to bow to the conglomerates that really controlled the lifeblood of the Federation for the survival and rise of the demon race. She worked as their lackeys and claws and delivered astronomical illegal interests to them in secret.
The Blood Demon Sector, which had just signed the surrender agreement a hundred years ago, boasted a lot of relatively docile laborers who were tough, hardworking, and had been influenced by the 'Four Pillars System' for a long time.
With the laborers as leverage, Jin Xinyue managed to squeeze into the secret circle of the conglomerates that had been passed on for hundreds of years and fought for them on the stage.
In the decades that followed, she even helped a few conglomerates that had been slightly weaker in the beginning to crush a lot of conglomerates that ranked at the top. With the support of the victors, she finally climbed to where she was today.
It was needless to mention the clandestine details in the process.
The business world was like a battlefield. There was no justice in a battlefield. The stinky residues that had been accumulated in the gutters for a hundred years were all dug up. Right now, almost none of the top trans-sector sects in the Federation, especially the ancient sects with a history of hundreds of years in the core worlds, were spared.
The Magnificent Horizon Case, the Vast Ocean Case, the Development of the South Dipper Planet Case … All the cases that were related to illegal operations, interest transfer, and enormous bribes were dug up!
As a result, the conglomerates that had been dominating the world since the old Federation were caught in an awkward situation.
It was because the whole thing suddenly turned into a situation where they wanted to poke a hornet's nest, only to discover that a few tigers were squatting behind the hornet's nest. The public, the critics, the Secret Sword Bureau, and the independent investigation team all shifted their attention from Jin Xinyue and the Dim Moon Fund to the conglomerates without them knowing it!
The reason was simple.
Judging from the evidence that had been analyzed so far, Jin Xinyue was nothing more than a 'puppet' that the renowned sects put on the table. She was just a lackey that helped them charge into battle. How could they just take the lackey without asking the mastermind?
In terms of 'interest transfer', Jin Xinyue was the briber, and the conglomerates were the recipients.
Compared with bribery, people seemed to find bribery even more intolerable.
Also, judging from the evidence, Jin Xinyue was not doing everything for herself but to help her compatriots, the poor demons of the Blood Demon Sector, survive in the harsh environment a hundred years ago and become a normal member of the Federation step by step. That was why she had to lower her head to the conglomerates and work as their lackeys.
Right now, it had been almost fifty years since the 'General Equal Rights Act' was passed. The war a hundred years ago had long been forgotten. Most people of the Federation did not have much discrimination against demons.
Jin Xinyue had been a saintess of the demon race in the beginning, which was a well-known fact. Then, for the future of her compatriots, she had to bend to the 'giants' of the Federation at that time. While she endured the extortion of the giants in silence, she was also forced to do some dirty and ugly things by them. It seemed that she had endured the humiliation for the greater good. Was she worthy of understanding and sympathy?
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