Chapter 710, Gu Hang Becomes Famous

Gu Hang tried to contact Clement first.

The call was connected, but the person who answered the phone was a high-level mentor of the Assassin Court.

His status must be high, and he can be regarded as Clement's right-hand man and belongs to the high-level of the Assassin Court.

His words were also very polite, unlike the cold feeling of assassins in people's general impression.

After hearing the purpose of Gu Hang's visit, he apologized and said that Grand Mentor Clement was presiding over a very important trial and could not talk to Gu Hang in person.

When asked when he would be free, the other party's answer was a bit embarrassed, saying that it was hard to be sure, and it might take a long time.

Gu Hang thought about it, and simply got straight to the point and asked what the letter on his bedside was about.

The other party was surprised and said he didn't know.

But he didn't explain much, just kept silent.

Gu Hang understood what it meant.

He ended the conversation politely:

"Okay, please say hello to Grand Master Clement for me."

"I will definitely bring it to you."

After hanging up the call, Gu Hang pondered for a moment and realized that the so-called "hosting the trial" was just an excuse.

At such a sensitive time, the assassin sent a letter. If Clement had something to say, he would not have disappeared.

There must be something else hidden in it.

After pondering for a moment, he dialed the contact with Gallardo again.

Gallardo was very shocked when he heard the news Gu Hang told him.

He said he had no idea about this matter. It was probably someone who skipped the Supreme Council and issued an order to the Assassin's Court to assassinate Gu Hang.

But it was different from the last time. This time, the person who issued the order was probably not taking any insidious calculations, but was seriously giving the Assassin's Court the requirements according to the "sponsor" or other secret path conditions.

Otherwise, it would not be like this now.

But this order should have been stopped by Clement, and the Assassin's Court did not execute it.

Otherwise, what Gu Hang received would not be just a letter.

The content above is also worth pondering.

Clement, hello?

That was quite like a reminder.

Clement should have good intentions. He did not carry out the assassination mission, but warned Gu Hang in this way: someone wanted to overturn the table and attack him.

But who did it?

There is no evidence, it is impossible to determine.

But it doesn't matter, some people can be guessed.

If the two of them can guess the process of the whole incident, then they can go through the process and instruct the Assassin's Court to take action against Gu Hang. There are very few such people in the entire empire.

The one with the highest authority is the Supreme Council. If the Council discusses and passes it and asks the Assassin's Court to take action, there will be no further things. The Assassin's Court will do its best to take action, and there is no such thing as "saying hello to you". Even if Clement is close to Gu Hang, he can't violate the order of the Supreme Council.

What's more, there is the High Lord Gallardo, who is sure that this matter has never been discussed in the Supreme Council.

That is to ask the Assassin's Court to take action by individuals or positions.

Only in this way can Clement, as the Grand Mentor, have the room to veto the task after the process is passed.

But the previous "process passed" is also worth mentioning.

That means that the person who issued the order really has the power to let the Assassin's Court take action.

Gu Hang's status is considered high. Not counting the identity of the leader of the alliance, which is a bit in the gray area, his official status is the head of the Dragon Eagle Star Region and the Imperial Marshal.

In addition, he originally had the identity of the Assassin's Court's "sponsor", which is an additional layer of insurance.

Other sponsors want to push the Assassin's Court to assassinate an Imperial Marshal sponsor. How high must their status be?

It can almost be locked that it is one of the High Lords.

Only one high lord's order, after being blocked by Clement in the final stage, forced the great mentor to avoid suspicion and not talk directly with Gu Hang.

The meaning was almost very clear: I have done my best not to take action, and I can't afford to offend my opponent. You can fight, and the Assassin Court will remain neutral and don't involve me in the storm.

Who among the high lords would do this?

Executive Yuan Prime Minister Luo Fei is the biggest suspect.

He has always stood on the opposite side of the alliance, demanding the dismemberment of the alliance, criticizing Gu Hang for overstepping his authority, and expanding the "alliance" as an illegal political entity without limit. After the "Alliance Plan" was delivered to Holy Terra, his attitude did not change.

If Prime Minister Qi Bodu wants to kill Gu Hang, he can either go directly to the Supreme Council, where he has enough energy to promote the formal execution of the assassination; he can also decisively pressure the Ministry of Taxation, give up the immediate interests, and promote the issue of dismembering the alliance.

Anyway, it will not come to the point of requiring personal instructions to assassinate Gu Hang.

Xu Fuzhen from the Taxation Department would not do this either, for the same reason as the previous one, she would just not support the alliance.

The other high lords, such as the Martian representative, the national church representative, the supreme commander of the Star Army and the Navy... the conflicts between them are not to this extent.

From this point of view, except for Luo Fei, the others are not very suspicious.

At least, Gallardo has basically determined that it is Luo Fei.

The relationship between the two is very bad.

Luo Fei not only criticized the Alliance, but also fiercely criticized Gallardo himself. He criticized the Alliance, and of course he also criticized the reason why the Alliance was established in the first place: Gallardo, who was still a war apostle at that time, relied on his privilege to give the Alliance a green light. At that time, no one could have imagined that the "special union" system, which was usually just a few planets uniting to keep warm and fight crises together, could push the Alliance to its current level in just a few decades.

Luo Fei also criticized it, because he believed that Gallardo had exceeded his authority and violated the rules to get the Alliance the treatment of a special union.

Gallardo was also very angry about this.

He promised Gu Hang that there would be an explanation for this matter.

Gu Hang also comforted the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

In fact, it was his sincere words:

"They did this, which also revealed their weakness. They have no other choice politically, so they can only make such meaningless calculations. This proves that we have gained an advantage in the situation! It's also good news."

Listening to Gu Hang's slightly relaxed attitude, Gallardo calmed down a little.

He said coldly: "Next time at the High Lords' Council, I will bring this up. Ha, act in private? I won't let him get his wish, put it out in the open and let the sun shine!"

Gu Hang thought about it for a while and agreed with Gallardo's opinion: "Then do it."

To be honest, Gu Hang was a little uncertain.

Was it really Luo Fei who did it?

The action was a little rough.

Was Luo Fei really stupid enough to use the channel of "sponsor's order" to let the Assassin's Court take action against Gu Hang?

It is impossible not to know that the Alliance, which has no conflict of interest with the Alliance and has won the Iron Armor War in the current political vortex of Holy Terra, is the core of the storm involved. The Assassin's Court, which has no conflict of interest and has a good relationship with Gu Hang, is very likely unwilling to get involved.

Even if he really wanted to do this, wouldn't the first step be to deal with Clement first?

Before dealing with Clement, he used the "sponsor's order" to carry out an action that would be aborted with a high probability, to alert the enemy, and even expand the conflict, and attract Gu Hang's hatred to him...

No matter how you think about it, it doesn't make sense.

But in this thought, Gu Hang caught a flash of inspiration.

"Expand the conflict..."

Sighed: "Some people don't want it to be too peaceful."

But despite having thought of this, Gu Hang still agreed with Gallardo's idea of ​​escalating the situation and going to the Supreme Council to discuss it.

Someone secretly made a move and handed over a knife, so he could use it.

Of course, using someone else's knife is naturally risky.

But for this kind of thing, you can just fight it.

It is definitely necessary to investigate, but whether there is really a person behind the scenes, what his purpose is, and how to deal with it are all one thing.

Dealing with Luo Fei is another thing.

There is no conflict, and they can be done together.

...

On Holy Terra, a long meeting of high lords was unfolding.

There were many topics - for such a large empire, there were too many things that needed to be decided by Holy Terra as long as they wanted to discuss, and each of them seemed very important.

Most of them could not be discussed on the Supreme Council.

The things that could be discussed on the Supreme Council were either major events of the entire empire or matters that were of vital interest to certain high lords.

Gallardo kept his word. At this meeting, he brought up the matter of Gu Hang's "assassination". He did not go to the Assassin's Court for trouble, but severely criticized Luo Fei, the Prime Minister of the Executive Yuan, and believed that he used assassination to deal with the hero of the empire, which was despicable.

Luo Fei firmly denied this accusation.

He must deny it.

Whether he did it or not, he could not admit it. It is legal to issue assassination orders through the Assassin's Court, but it is fine to kill silently without evidence to prove who did it; now the person has not been killed, and the target is still a living hero who has just gained great reputation because of an undisputed victory in a major war. How can I admit that it is me?

What's more, Gu Hang is not as simple as a lonely war hero. Not only is he not a lone hero, he has a strong base under his command, has made a lot of friends, and has political allies in the center of the empire. Assassinating such a person has deviated from the basic logic of political struggle.

If it is confirmed that Luo Fei did it, then let alone wanting to win in the political struggle, I am afraid that my position will be in turmoil because of the huge whirlpool of public opinion.

The role of "reputation" cannot be underestimated.

Thanks to Gallardo's continuous help to spread Gu Hang over the years, he was already famous before the war, and some people did know that a hero appeared in the distant eastern border of the empire.

Then, the Iron Armor War exploded the reputation accumulated over decades.

Originally, the Iron Armor War had already attracted the attention of Holy Terra. Whether it was the civilians, the middle and lower classes, or the upper classes, they were all aware of and concerned about this war.

The Empire was indeed at war all the time, but it was not particularly common for the central territory, or even the Solar Star Region itself, to gather troops and form an expeditionary force.

Not to mention, the strength of forming an expeditionary force was not low, which would certainly attract the attention of all groups in the center.

Not to mention, they lost the battle...

After the defeat of the First Western Front Army, which was led by Su Lie's Phoenix Regiment, there was a rumor that the Iron Armor might enter the Central Territory.

If the Central Territory's troops accounted for only 20% to 30% of the First Western Front Army's troops, then the Second Western Front Army, led by the Ortopis Regiment and commanded by Salilius, simply had troops from the Central Territory occupying the absolute main position.

That was even more eye-catching.

The people of Holy Terra, who were always paying attention to the progress of the Iron Armor War, saw a person who turned the tide.

That was Gu Hang.

He immediately became the person discussed by the entire Holy Terra from top to bottom.

At the same time, it was precisely because of his popularity in Holy Terra and the various heroes he made friends with that his reputation began to spread throughout the empire.

In fact, the ambassador of the Alliance in the Holy Terra Office had sent back a detailed report on this point, and Gu Hang himself had also read it personally. But he only understood it at best. Without personal experience, he had no real sense of how popular he was now.

But he was in Holy Terra, in charge of the Executive Yuan, Luo Feiyou.

He opposed the Alliance, and did not dare to directly oppose Gu Hang.

No matter how he operated in secret, standing on the opposite side of a prestigious war hero when he was popular was no less than turning himself into a clown.

Because of this, Luo Fei certainly had to defend himself.

In fact, his attitude was a bit fierce.

Gallardo had not made any request yet, but Luo Fei himself strongly asked Clement to announce who had issued the assassination mission.

Clement said nothing about this, without responding at all.

Everyone knew the rules of the Assassin's Court.

Gallardo took the opportunity to ridicule that Luo Fei was pretending to be righteous when he knew that the Assassin's Court would never disclose such a secret.

In the end, it was Prime Minister Qi Bodu who ended the quarrel on this matter.

In the name of the Prime Minister, he asked the Assassin's Court not to accept the assassination mission against Gu Hang.

His prestige is now high. Not to mention Luo Fei, who was originally his right-hand man, even Gallardo is now actually under his command. At the beginning, it was because he was a traitor and stood on the side of Qi Bodu, and eliminated the former Prime Minister of the Ministry of Justice Ou Juren that Gallardo entered the High Lords' Council.

You have to be a dog well.

As soon as he spoke, the two people who made the most noise, including Xu Fuzhen who supported Gallardo from time to time, shut up.

Then, the speech stage ended and a vote was initiated.

Passed with a high vote.

Gu Hang is safe. No matter who is secretly behind the scenes, at least he doesn't have to worry about the actions of the Assassin's Court in the future.

The next topic was raised by Luo Fei.

About the candidate for the chairman of the Spider Web Universe.

Since the war has basically ended, the next step is naturally reconstruction, and the most important thing is to restore tax revenue.

There needs to be a chairman of the Universe to preside over the overall situation.

There are more than fifty universes, and each chairman is a powerful frontier official. The appointment naturally needs to be approved by Holy Terra.

And the power of nomination has always been in the hands of the Executive Yuan.

Luo Fei mentioned five names, including senior officials of the central government and chairmen or vice chairmen of other universes.

But there is also a special name.

It is the core protagonist of the previous topic dispute: Gu Hang.