After Morais finished speaking, there were whispers from the audience.
Piaf, who had met Verac in the morning, stood up in the crowd and was the first to express her position: "Welcome Comrade Verac to join the Equality Society!"
Immediately afterwards, several people stood up from various places and welcomed Verak.
"Okay, the induction ceremony is officially over. Let us welcome the five new members to join the Equality Association. They will work together in the future and contribute to opening up a new world!" Most people are still in the stage of digesting the information, and Morais is not free.
After everyone reacted, he asked their opinions one by one. After Piaf led others to express their opinions, he began to applaud and ended the initiation ceremony.
After everyone applauded, they left in an orderly manner.
"It seems that no one is against you very much at the moment, which will be very beneficial to the future work." Morais watched the members of the Equality Association walking in all directions after the simple initiation ceremony, and gently patted Verak on the shoulder.
.In his opinion, it is a good signal that no one refuted, questioned or boycotted Verak on the spot.
"Yeah." Verak felt his mouth was dry.
No one likes to tell others about his experiences in the past few months in detail countless times, and the same goes for Verak. Fortunately, this is the last time. From now on, he does not have to explain his experience.
experience.
Piaf came over and congratulated Verak first: "Welcome to officially join."
"Thank you." Verak nodded his thanks.
"The conference room is ready. Everyone else is basically here and waiting for us." Piaf turned to Morais and reported the situation.
"Verak, I see your ability. There will be many things that need your help next." Morais glanced at the four Keatings who were sitting aside, waiting for Verak. "You and Keating will be waiting for you later."
Come with me, Ting, and let's have a meeting to discuss how to convince Chloe to agree to implement the original plan and give up her unrealistic fantasies."
As expected by Verak, Morais did prepare a meeting after the induction ceremony, and had already included him as one of the participating members. The only thing that surprised him was that before he could introduce Ji
Ting, Morais took the initiative to invite Keating to participate.
It seems that Keating's halo was still dazzling enough. As the minister who assisted Ravel in ruling Bressy for decades, his experience and insights are valuable to the Equality Society.
"Okay." Verak adjusted his condition, "Shall I call him now?"
"Yeah." Morais stood there waiting.
Verak walked to the sidelines where Keating and the others were resting: "Teacher, they are going to have a meeting on how to convince Chloe, and they specifically stated that you also need to attend."
"You didn't mention it?" Keating couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this.
"No, Morais asked for it." Verak replied, "Diaz, Nord, Murphy, you go back first and continue to copy the theory of equality and learn the Bresci language and writing as I asked."
"Understood." Diaz and others stood up, said goodbye to Verak and Keating, and returned the way they came.
"Let's go, everyone is here." Keating took Keating to join Morais and Piaf.
Morais shook hands with Keating and said as he walked towards the conference room: "You must have some understanding of the situation. Another leader of the Equality Society, Chloe, now intends to change our plan and reach real peace talks with the government.
.We have to find a way to convince him to proceed as planned and seize the last chance."
"The government is just trying to delay you. When the World Exposition is successfully concluded and the delegations from various countries leave, they will inevitably blockade Lezein and carry out the final clearing of the Equality Society with unprecedented intensity." Keating said.
"Yes, it's just that he insists that the government's peace talks are sincere. Even if it is not sincere, we can still take the initiative to show sincerity and realize our demands through peaceful means." Morais smiled helplessly, "He
There is a group of supporters in the Equality Association, and if we don’t convince him, we are not sure what will happen, so we hope you can provide some valuable opinions and suggestions at the meeting later.”
"I'll try my best." Keating didn't finish his sentence.
Soon, the four of them arrived at the door of a conference room. A member of the Equality Society opened the door, let the four in, then slowly closed it and stood guard in front of the door.
The layout of the conference room is relatively simple, with a long table placed in the wide space and ten chairs on both sides of the long table. At this time, nearly ten people are already sitting on the twenty chairs except the main seat.
These ten people, Verak, were all unfamiliar to him. It is estimated that they were promoted by Boyin and others after he left. This is normal. With the expansion of the Equality Society, it is completely impossible to maintain the operation with just a few of them. They can only
The management system is established.
"These two are new members who have joined our Equality Association. One has made outstanding contributions to our Equality Association, and the other was a minister of the Brexi Empire. They both have excellent abilities, so I specially invited them to participate.
In this meeting." Morais took the main seat and arranged for Verak and Keating to sit on the two middle chairs on the left side. "As for their specific situation, they were all mentioned in the induction ceremony just now.
I have already introduced myself, so I won’t go into details here.”
After Verak and Keating took their seats, they glanced at the key members of the Equality Society sitting on the left and right and opposite. These people were both men and women, and most of them were cold-faced and silent. I don't know if that was the case, or they were somewhat hostile to them.
"In turn, Verak and Keating, you need to get to know these mainstays of the Equality Society." Morais stretched out his hand and started from the first person on the right, "Li Meng, a native of Wellland, was once a
A young journalist was forced to flee here because he reported on the persecution of peasants caused by the land enclosure movement in other countries. He joined us by chance. Lister, a professor of sociology at the Imperial University, is in-depth
Study the grassroots situation in various countries. Piaf, you already know her, she is a novelist who founded her own newspaper to speak out for women..."
Morais focused on the key points and told the names, backgrounds and specialties of the ten key people present, including Piaf.
Verak and Keating nodded to everyone.
"Okay, everyone knows each other, let's get down to business and discuss the most critical issues at present." After Morais introduced, he immediately talked about the biggest crisis they faced, "It's almost a month before the end of the World Expo.
time, which also means that we must convince Chloe within this month, and then formulate specific plans to spread the concept of equality in time for the closing ceremony of the expo."
"It's hard to talk things through with Chloe, and the time is so tight. It's best to do these two things at the same time. After trying to reach a consensus with Chloe, we can start the plan immediately," said a female backbone.
"That's what I'm thinking about now. Our main job next is to divide into two groups, make a plan together, and convince Chloe." Morais agreed with her opinion, "I'm not too worried about the plan, after all, we have done it before
We had already decided on a general idea before Boyne became a hostage, and all we have to do now is to refine it. The most important thing at the moment is to convince Chloe. If we can't convince him, there's no point in formulating the plan.
use."
Another person said: "No matter whether there is a way to persuade them or not, I think we must be cautious and cautious when talking to them again. Although Chloe supports a moderate approach to contact the government, she seems to be extremely aggressive when communicating with us.
They did not accept our suggestions at all. During this period, we talked to them no less than ten times, and we could clearly feel their impatience. Now it is getting closer and closer to the closing time of the expo. We are anxious, and so are they. If we formally talk
If it collapses, the consequences will be disastrous."
"That's right, we have to make sure we can continue talking, otherwise no one can tell what Chloe will do." Some people were also worried that Chloe would simply give up negotiating with them.
If Chloe is no longer willing to talk to Morais, there is only one possibility: equality will be divided.
However, that is a scene that no one wants to see.
Chloe also knew very well that if the Equality Society was really divided, half of them would not have the confidence to negotiate with the government. Moreover, he did not want the other half to make the same mistake again and again, so he tried to persuade Morais in turn.
.
"If we want to change Chloe's views, we have to fundamentally solve the problem and use practical actions to prove that the government has never thought about genuine peace talks. If we miss the World Expo, we will miss the opportunity to spread the concept of equality to the whole world.
The best opportunity.”
"It's not that he doesn't know. We have listed many things with him and refuted his fantasies with the bloody lessons that have happened to us, but these are of no use. He is still stubborn and unwilling to see everyone sacrifice, unwilling to see
Go to Boyne and never come back."
"Why are we able to get to where we are today? It's because we resisted, and we resisted with weapons. The government found that it couldn't make us surrender through violent means for a while, so it just wanted to make a big pie for us and break our will.
Take advantage of our unpreparedness and strike a fatal blow."
Morais listened to everyone's conversation and suddenly felt irritable. He slapped the table: "What's the use of saying these things over and over again between us? Who here doesn't know? Who doesn't understand? And it's not like we didn't talk to Crowe.
Yi said, in so many conversations, how many times have we not spent all our time talking about this? But the facts tell us that these are useless! We have to think of other ways and means to change Chloe's views!"
The conference room fell silent.
They all know that the government is stalling for time. They can say the government's plan casually, but they know that it is not. They have to make the people on Chloe's side who insist that peace talks are the future realize the reality.
But now they have exhausted all means, and the people on Chloe's side have not wavered at all.
"I want to hear Chloe's side's views first." Keating broke the silence and asked Morais.
Morais calmed down his anxious mood: "Chloe believes that even if the government does not really negotiate, it has at least recognized the strength of our Equality Association. As long as we make demands next time, the losses to the government will be greater than if we break up.
If they suffer losses, they will definitely agree to real cooperation. Just like when Comrade Francis organized a workers' strike, held a large demonstration, and forced the government to issue a decree to cut the workers' working hours by one hour."
"Dreaming..." One person snorted disdainfully.
"He also believes that although our demands fundamentally affect the interests of the government, nobles, and financial groups, everything is open to discussion, because the government is bound to be unwilling to confront us head-on. Even if they violate this time
Promise, there will definitely be new equality in the future. There is no need for them to ignore the one-time solution to deal with the struggles from the bottom again and again." Morais continued, "In addition, he
I don’t want to see so many of us sacrificed again, and I don’t want to see Boyin executed by the government.”
It was also the first time at the meeting that Verak and Keating learned about the ideas of Chloe and his supporters in such detail.
To put it simply, Chloe is a loyal supporter of Chris, and his ideas have always been consistent with Chris's, which is to use force as little as possible, avoid bloodshed and sacrifice, and persuade the government through reason.
When Verak was impersonating Chris, Chloe supported him and changed his mind. After Verak's incident was exposed, he returned to his original position and continued to support his previous actions.
Rather than saying that they are naive, it is better to say that they are unwilling to confront the government. They believe that to speak out for the bottom class and to strive for a sufficiently equal and beautiful world, it does not necessarily have to be a life-and-death fight with the government.
They are not optimistic that the Equality Association, which is mainly composed of civilians, can confront the government. Instead of being driven out and exterminated, it is better to give up when they have some qualifications to speak and have some leeway.
However, when walking on this road, there is no way to stop halfway.
If you don't reach the end, you will return to the starting point sooner or later. If you don't reach the end, you will never be considered successful.
"I think this is a rare opportunity to screen members of the Equality Society," Verak said of his opinion.
Morais has organized such a meeting countless times, but unfortunately there has been no result. Today, when he held it again, he actually put his main hopes on Verak and Keating.
"How do you say that?" Morais asked.
Others also looked at Verak.
They were curious about what insights this young man, who had betrayed the Equality Society and awakened in prison, could have that was higher than theirs.
"They have never thought of confronting the government. Staying in the Equality Association will only drag down more people. It is better to take this opportunity to leave directly." Verak boldly put forward his opinion, "This can actually alleviate the problem.
Carrying weight."
"We have considered it, but now is definitely not a good time." Morais shook his head, "Even if we really do this, we have to wait."