Chapter 1,221 The Grand Occasion of the Triumphal Ceremony
The Order docks at the airship port in Block Six. ㈧1
When the troops wearing power armor and exoskeletons walked through the main street of Block 6, the survivors paid the highest respect and applause to these soldiers who had returned from the expedition.
Flowers, cheers, applause...
Jiang Chen waved to the excited crowd. Standing in the brand new X-1 powered armor, Jiang Chen felt the enthusiasm of the people and a smile appeared on his face.
People's worship of heroes is eternal and has been so since ancient times.
From time to time, a young girl came forward, blushing and handed the bouquet in her hand to Jiang Chen, hugged her, and then quickly ran back to the crowd. The guards and NAC knights who followed Jiang Chen also enjoyed similar treatment, but not as much as Jiang Chen who was at the head of the team.
Because of this honor, many people came specifically to participate in such a triumphal ceremony. After the expeditionary force was disbanded the next day, they had to rush back to Shangjing City by airship and report to the Fourth Division.
Others couldn't come at all because the NAC had to maintain a minimum military presence on Ping'an Street. People like Lu Fan and others were the ones who stayed.
Walking at the front of the queue, Jiang Chen smiled and waved as he led the long queue slowly towards the central square of the sixth block.
"Look, look! The marshal seemed to have glanced at me just now." A girl said, pulling her good sister.
"Really? You're obviously looking at me, okay?" The beautiful woman wearing the cold-proof clothing in the shelter puffed out her chest and said intoxicatedly.
Just as the two girls were arguing about whose body the marshal's eyes were focused on just now, the mercenary standing at the door of the nearby tavern watching the excitement slapped his thigh and sighed with regret on his face.
"Fuck! If I had known he was so majestic, I would have gone to recruit soldiers! How could I be a guard for some kind of bird caravan? Just for a hundred or so credits, I almost got captured and castrated by mutants." A man who looked like a mercenary couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the powered armors passing by with envy.
"Come on, with your poor marksmanship, can you survive for two seconds?" The colleague leaning next to him holding a wine bottle and belching laughed, "I heard that our expeditionary force and the Russian border guards were in the subway tunnel. Let's do it. Do you understand the border guards? They are regular troops! And we won the battle! We can't even defeat a mutant, so aren't you going to hold us back?"
"Fuck! How will you know if you don't try it!" The mercenary argued with his face red and thick neck.
While the mercenaries were making noise, the bank far away next to the central square was also crowded with people.
During the war mobilization phase, the NAC issued war bonds as usual, and now it was finally time to cash them in. However, what really ignited people's enthusiasm was not the profit of less than two points, but the auction of the trophies!
The assets on Ping An Street belonging to members such as Ding Liwei and Wan Peng will be auctioned at the Sixth Street Bank, hundreds of kilometers away. Factories, real estate, resources, and even franchises in a certain industry are all the favorites that these businessmen are chasing after!
It was an undeveloped virgin land. Although it was a bit colder in the north, its development qualifications were much better than those of Hongcheng and Wushi!
Crowded in the bank's trading hall, businessmen in suits and leather shoes looked eagerly at the information flashing on the big screen. Their fingers were hovering on the EP's screen, and they were conducting transactions through the external "credit chip" on the EP. Bid.
"Hold the grass and bid 1 million credits! Who is so awesome!" A businessman crowded in the hall exclaimed as he saw the auction price that had increased tenfold from the starting price.
"They are probably from the Zhao Group. They are determined to win the food trading franchise. But NAC is really generous. It would be great to keep this thing in their hands. It is like a gold mine..." Another person The merchant sighed.
"Maybe the marshal has his own ideas. But then again, credits are originally issued by the military government. No matter how much money they make, they are just numbers."
"That's what you said... By the way, I heard that the density of alien species is very high in the subway station in Shangjing City, and there are many high-quality hunting grounds. Do you want to buy a hunting group to raise them? Winter is coming soon, I think this place Akira’s market seems to be good!”
"Forget it, even you have thought of this idea. I think this Yajing will fall again..."
"Zhoucao, what do you mean?"
The entire Sixth Street was more lively than ever.
Of course, the busiest thing is the central square.
Standing directly in front of the square, Jiang Chen read out a declaration of victory in front of all the survivors in Block 6, just like when he returned from the last expedition, and then awarded medals to the soldiers who returned from the expedition.
The training ceremony is also the most lively part of the entire triumphal ceremony.
In NAC's pyramid citizen hierarchy system, the welfare and political rights enjoyed by citizens at different levels are completely two concepts.
During this expedition, a total of 170 upper-class citizens were newly promoted to knights. They could own a set of T-3 power armor of their own (although they could only stay in the unified management warehouse), and could serve as minor officers in the military government. Military positions above captain.
In addition, there are a total of 510 new upper-class citizens, 1,520 middle-class citizens, and 3,000 lower-class citizens. Obtaining lower-class citizenship is equivalent to being naturalized in the NAC military government system. You can receive at least one ration every month, and you are allowed to settle in "military zones" such as Fish Bone Base.
Although it is possible to apply to renounce citizenship, few people do this.
Everyone who has citizenship is a favorite among unmarried girls and single women. If they could not achieve merit through war, marriage was their only way to ascend to the civil rank.
Especially the newly promoted knights are a rare resource in the eyes of the unmarried girls in the Sixth District. Being able to become a knight's wife is not only a status honor, but also means that they will live a life of fine clothing and fine food from now on.
There is fragrant white rice for every meal, and the meat is beef cattle from the Garden of Eden. Such an enviable life is rare even for factory owners and wealthy businessmen.
It is precisely for this reason that many people jokingly call this training ceremony a husband selection meeting. And facts have proven this. According to statistics after the last expedition, in the month after the triumphal ceremony, the number of registered marriages was almost three times more than the previous month.
Even Chu Nan and Jiang Chen discussed this issue. Appropriate foreign wars can help eliminate poverty and bachelor rates...
Of course, in addition to the knights, there is another most popular person, and that is the one who stands on the rostrum and awards honors to the knights.
Young, handsome, dashing, and suave... at least in the eyes of all unmarried girls. But because of this, this person seems a bit out of reach in everyone's eyes.
It has to be said that success can cover up many shortcomings in a man, and can even turn many shortcomings into advantages and be talked about by others. To give a very common example, precisely because Jiang Chen is Jiang Chen, the romantic affairs that happen to him can only be romantic affairs.
Even those pre-war actresses, business elites, and daughters of high-ranking officials who have high self-esteem and have just emerged from shelters or freezers insist on human rights and civil rights that have been dead for more than 20 years. A pre-war, feminist woman, looking at that straight and majestic figure, she couldn't help but secretly admire her.
This has nothing to do with power or wealth.
The worship of heroes is human nature.