Chapter 468: Unstoppable Countermeasures! (Two in One)

The news that the former vice admiral and head of the criminal investigation section was assassinated did not spread in the Navy Headquarters.

It was originally a troubled time, and Zhan Guo would never let such news leak out. If the sergeants of the headquarters, who were already in low morale, knew that such a thing would happen in the headquarters, it would only reduce the trust of the sergeants in the headquarters.

At the same time, Zhan Guo more or less guessed who was behind the assassination. Not long after the meeting ended, Tian Zheng encountered such a thing, which was enough to show how powerful the hidden power of the mastermind was in the Navy Headquarters.

Not only the grassroots officers had the other party's people, but even the high-level officers of the Navy also had those people hidden.

One assassin died and another was seriously injured, and Zhan Guo did not mean to turn a blind eye. He ordered a thorough investigation, but he only asked Kuzan to investigate the matter himself, and no matter what the result was, he was only allowed to report to him.

Although Zhan Guo had a guess in his mind, he still had to investigate what happened. At least Zhan Guo himself needed to have a bottom line in his heart. After all, guesses were just guesses. No matter what the truth was, he had to know it.

Zhan Guo could actually roughly understand why the other party chose to assassinate a former senior naval officer in a place like the headquarters. It was probably to kill the chicken to scare the monkey and show his strength to the generals of the headquarters.

However, the consequences of this incident may not develop in the direction that those behind the scenes think.

"This is simply adding fuel to the fire"

"Ten Zheng must be sent away from the Navy Headquarters as soon as possible. The longer this guy stays in the headquarters, the more variables there will be."

In the temporary marshal's office, Zhan Guo raised his head and looked at the ceiling and sighed heavily, thinking about the case in his heart.

Zhan Guo's original intention was naturally to try his best to cover up this matter. Such a thing happened in the Navy Headquarters, which was a huge blow to the prestige of the Navy Headquarters.

But unfortunately, the headquarters has already had a complex network, and those generals have their own network of relationships and intelligence lines. How could they hide such a big thing from others?

"What did you say? Lieutenant General Tianzheng was assassinated?!"

"The assassin failed and one died and one was injured?"

In the ruins of the headquarters' barracks, Lieutenant General Dauberman was leading people to clean up the ground. When he heard the news from a colleague who had a good relationship with him, he was shocked.

"Speak softly, are you afraid that others won't hear it?"

"It seems that Tianzheng was convicted for his words."

Nichama Goodman is an old navy who entered the naval school at the same time as Dauberman, but after becoming a brigadier general, he focused on scheming. His development in these years has not caught up with Dauberman, and he has only been promoted to the rank of major general.

Although Nichama Goodman is not well-known among the many generals in the headquarters, his network of relationships and intelligence is extremely strong. When the assassination happened, he even knew the news faster than Zhan Guo.

"Convicted for quoting?"

"Hasn't the marshal already punished him? Not only was he demoted, but he was also 'exiled'."

"Isn't this enough?"

"Must Tenma be killed?"

Doberman lowered his voice, frowned, and there was a hint of anger in his tone. Doberman is a serious person. The most profound impression of him by the navy is probably his fierce face.

He is a hawk, and like Sakaski, he believes in absolute justice, and justice in his eyes is the navy and the navy headquarters itself.

Hearing about Tenma's experience, he felt that the handling of the situation by the Warring States was a little unfair. Assassination was really a bit of a loss, and it was completely contrary to the "justice" of their navy.

If you really want to blame Tenma for his violent remarks, just order an arrest openly. Why use such means?

"What are you thinking about? Dauberman, can you use your brain?"

"This matter probably has nothing to do with Marshal Zhan Guo. If he wants to deal with Tian Zheng, why does he have to use such means?"

"Even if it is a bit ugly to arrest directly, isn't it easier to assign Tian Zheng some life-or-death tasks?"

"And it won't make people criticize anything."

"There is someone else who ordered the assassination."

Nichama Goodman whispered in Dauberman's ear and reminded him. Dauberman was not a stupid person. When he heard his friend say this, he suddenly understood it in his mind.

With anger on his face, Dauberman cursed in a low voice:

"Damn, those guys dared to interfere in the internal affairs of the Navy?!"

"Even... they planted spies in the headquarters?!"

Dauberman was full of anger. The more he thought about this matter, the greater the secret behind it, and he was secretly shocked.

The vice admiral who has been on the front line all year round would not pay much attention to these things in normal times.

It was only in recent years, as the reputation of Tsugukuni Yoshiichi's new navy became more and more famous, that some people in the headquarters began to think deeply about the so-called "position".

"Planting spies? How can it be so simple?"

"It would be great if the World Government's control over our navy was just that simple."

"This matter is not over yet, Tenma is not dead, and those people have not achieved their goals."

"Just wait and see, there are still many good shows to watch."

Nichama Goodman put on an attitude of watching from the sidelines. When he said this, he didn't care about the life and death of his former colleagues at all. His deep eyes made his old friend Doberman look at him a few more times.

"Good show?"

"We are all admirals of the navy, how can we allow such a thing to happen?"

"We just won the war with the Whitebeard Pirates with great difficulty, the headquarters suffered heavy losses, and there were huge casualties. Isn't it time for us to unite and work together to overcome the difficulties?"

"How can you..."

Doberman was a little dissatisfied with his good friend's words, but before he could ask the question, he was interrupted by Nichama Goodman:

"No, now is not the time to unite and cooperate, it is the time to judge the situation!"

"Taking sides is an art, you don't understand it at all."

"Now, there are three There are three roads in front of us, if we choose well."

Doberman could only understand part of what Nichama Goodman said: "I can understand what you said about judging the situation."

"But. How can there be three roads?"

"Aren't there only two roads, the World Government and the Marshal?"

Nichama Goodman shook his head slightly, stretched out a finger and prompted: "Tianzheng took the third road."

"Originally, it was a dead end, but now it seems that it is not as dead end as we imagined."

Hearing what Nichama Goodman said, Doberman's pupils shrank, and he looked at his partner in shock.

"Can there be any great development in the Navy Headquarters?"

"You are a vice admiral, and I am a major admiral."

"You are indeed very capable, but the vice admiral position is the limit. If I give you a general position, do you dare to sit on it?"

"I know myself very well. Major general. At most, the vice admiral position is the end of my life."

"Power and fame seem to have some value, but in this system, who doesn't know who? Your vice admiral still has some value, but what's the use of a major general like me?!"

"Major general leading a hundred people? Ridiculous!"

"But. If you open your eyes and look at the world, you will find that the world is really too big, and there are so many places with huge power gaps."

"Doberman, I don't want to get rich, I don't want to live a luxurious life."

"I joined the navy to see the scenery above!"

Nichama Goodman's eyes were burning, and Doberman saw the booming ambition on his face. He refreshed his perception of his old friend. He never thought that his partner would be such a person.

He didn't recognize her anymore.

"Do you want to lean on the World Government completely?"

Doberman pondered for a long time and asked.

"World Government? For eight hundred years, power has long become a pyramid, unbreakable!"

"I'm not a Celestial Dragon, what's the point of leaning on the World Government?"

Hearing this, Doberman nodded slightly to show his approval, but the next second, Doberman's pupils shrank suddenly, and he quickly turned his head to look at his old friend.

If it's not the World Government, then it's the Navy? But isn't he a rear admiral now? If it's none of them, then

"Although the new navy has been established for some years, its development speed is not too fast. It's not that Jigoku Yuichi doesn't want to, but he can't do it."

"Is it strength and resources that restrict him? No"

Nichama Goodman didn't say it clearly, but Doberman understood what he meant at the first time. And it was precisely because of this that Doberman was so shocked.

"Now, let's see what the new navy can do!"

"If Jiguoyuan can't even protect Tianzheng, their new navy will have no value."

Nichama Goodman seemed to be immersed in his emotions. He gently patted Dauberman's shoulder, murmured and turned away.

Looking at the back of Nichama Goodman leaving, Dauberman remained silent for a long time.

That night, many senior officials in the Navy Headquarters who were not satisfied with the status quo tossed and turned.

Tianzheng's words at the meeting broke the shell of "the sacred and inviolable world government" in people's hearts.

People who have tasted the taste of power will never be satisfied with the status quo.

The new navy is in a period of rapid development. The rapidly expanding power must have a sufficient number of managers. There are too many vase officers with empty military ranks in this three-acre land of the headquarters.

That night, Tianzheng, who had just been assassinated, did not act rashly. He stayed in his room steadily, as if he had confined himself.

Although Zhan Guo did not send anyone to monitor Tian Zheng, Tian Zheng knew that there were countless eyes staring at him in the headquarters.

For several days, Tianzheng did not do anything eye-catching. He was relieved of his duties in the Criminal Investigation Division and became idle. From time to time, he would help the grassroots navy to clean up the ruins, or go to the wounded camp to help the military doctors and change the dressings for the wounded.

These actions of his were also seen by those who cared.

There was nothing unusual.

Two days later, the official transfer order for Tianzheng finally came down, and the news that Tianzheng was about to leave the headquarters was known to many people.

Some navy officers who had been taken care of by Tianzheng during this period also spontaneously came to the port to see Tianzheng off. Although he is no longer a vice admiral of the navy, he is still the head of the base, isn't he? No one can guarantee that such a young Tianzheng will never rise again.

There were not many people who came to see him off, only a few dozen people. The Criminal Investigation Division is an offensive department. Tianzheng did not have many close friends in the headquarters, only some grassroots officers he had just met.

There was no grand farewell scene, nor any sensational words. Tianzheng boarded the warship after a brief conversation with these people and prepared to leave the headquarters.

Until Tianzheng's ship disappeared on the sea level, everything was normal.

Not long after Tianzheng's ship left, Nichama Goodman slowly walked out of the dark, looking at the departing warship, and couldn't help wondering: "Just leave like that? Nothing done?"

"The World Government didn't take action again?"

The people in the headquarters expected that Tianzheng might contact some people privately, intending to shake some people's positions, and also expected that the World Government would take action against Tianzheng again, but unexpectedly, none of these things happened.

"Wow——"

Just when Nichama Goodman was puzzled, there were bursts of light noises in the sky. Nichama Goodman looked up at the sky and saw dense newspapers falling from the sky. One by one, newspapers formed a rain of paper pieces, slowly falling from the sky.

Nichama Goodman was stunned, his pupils shrank slightly, and he quickly reached out to catch a newspaper:

"Big Recruitment?"

Nichama Goodman carefully looked at the newspaper in his hand, and just reading a title, he couldn't help but feel a wave of doubt in his mind, but as he read more, Nichama Goodman's face suddenly changed.

The content of the newspaper was actually the new navy of Tsugukuni Yoshiichi promoting its own recruitment activities.

But if it was just that, Nichama Goodman would not have such a big emotional fluctuation, but some small "entries" in this recruitment propaganda attracted his attention.

"If the navy of the Navy Headquarters has no bad records, they can retain their military ranks and directly join the new navy, automatically promoted by half a level, and their treatment doubled."

"The recruitment work will be in charge of Tianzheng, the former vice admiral of the Navy Headquarters and the current candidate for admiral of the new navy."

"Once recruited, the military dependents can move to the islands of the new navy's sphere of influence, such as Wan Guo."

The completely inconspicuous entry caused Nichama Goodman to be shocked. For ordinary navy officers, the third item of this conscription information is quite tempting.

Only the families of high-ranking officers in the navy are eligible to live in Marinford, and other families can only live in their hometowns.

If the family is in the four seas and the local situation is stable, then there is no problem, but if it is a country with a bad living environment and strong aristocratic infighting, it is completely hell.

In this world, as long as there is gold in the sky, how many countries can have citizens who live carefree?

After all, there are only a few countries with favorable climatic conditions and rich natural resources.

"Wow--"

Just as Nichama Goodman was carefully examining the conscription "advertisement" in his hand, there was a slight sound in the sky.

A group of news birds flew through the air, and a thick newspaper flew through the air.

Nichama Goodman casually caught a newspaper and read the content on it:

"Shocking, the secret God Valley incident!"

"The defense of the arrested criminal: I originally wanted to be a good person! 》

《Exclusive revelation, the secret of Marinford's corruption! 》

《A vice admiral's autobiography: Why I left the headquarters. 》

One after another "small essays" were published in the newspapers, and the author was written under the title of each small essay.

Nichama Goodman looked at it carefully and found that the author of these articles was the same person

Former head of the Criminal Investigation Section of the Navy Headquarters, Vice Admiral Tianzheng!

Behind Zhan Guo's office, a subordinate brought two newspapers to be thrown at Marinford. Looking at the contents of the newspapers, Zhan Guo's hands trembled slightly, and his veins jumped.

"Assholes, those guys are all assholes!" After a roar, Zhan Guo leaned weakly on the chair, covering his head, and felt a headache.

At the temporary station of the Naval School, the students were talking while reading the newspapers. A little further away, Zefa was sitting on a piece of gravel, and did not order these young students to stop reading these contents because he himself was holding a newspaper and reading Tianzheng's masterpieces carefully.

"Teacher Zefa, are these all true?!"

A young student came to Zefa's side with a nervous look on his face and asked softly.

Looking at the other person's young and slightly immature face, Zefa pondered for a moment and sighed softly:

"There is basically no problem with the authenticity of the incident."

Zefa's words caused a lot of discussion among the young people.