Francois's mental state today is far less than that of the past few days. He looks like he didn't sleep well last night. This is normal. The gunfire one after another last night made many people sleepless and sleepless: "I have finished reading the report on yesterday's incident.
, I want to hear what you think."
No one among the ministers dared to speak easily.
Seeing that no one spoke, Francois first looked at Maguire, the captain of the guard: "Is this what you did? Assassinated a group of parliamentarians the day before yesterday, and our people were also killed immediately yesterday? The water has been muddied, and now
No one can understand the situation. If we continue to assassinate each other and expand the conflict to the point of disharmony, can you bear the responsibility?"
"Your Excellency, the situation may not be that bad." Maguire wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and explained his different opinions to Francois, "Originally, we assassinated the people in Parliament, and it would be harmful to blame equality again.
The problem is, after all, if the Equality Society is really taking action, they cannot only target the Parliament. Now that the Equality Society realizes that we are deliberately disrupting the situation, and assassinates our people, it can dispel the suspicion of the Parliament and speed up our cooperation.
"
"How are you sure this is what Equality will do? What if it's someone from Parliament?" Francois asked.
"The Equality Association also launched a street fight last night. I think they should have carried out these two things at the same time."
Francois sneered: "Is there an inevitable connection between the street fighting and the assassination of the Equality Association? If your logic is feasible, then after we assassinated the night before, wouldn't it be the same for the Parliament to retaliate immediately the next night?
Is it reasonable?"
"But compared to Parliament, the Equality Council is currently more motivated to do this." Maguire's body was shaking uncontrollably.
"The Equality Society will definitely guess that this is our work, and it is reasonable for them to take action to muddy the water. But whether the parliament has identified the initiator or not, it will not affect them from doing the same thing to us the next day. Because
It was us who took action, and they just took revenge. No.
If we take action, he can also drag us into the water and jointly increase the pressure on the Equality Association." Francois looked at Maguire coldly, "So, before you have investigated clearly and have sufficient evidence, you insist on believing that it is
Equality will take action, but it is just to excuse one's own mistakes."
"Your Excellency, President!" Maguire trembled as he spoke.
At first, he just wanted to make suggestions for Francois and get a share of the win-win situation, so as to gain greater development opportunities for himself.
But I never expected that the situation would become complicated.
At this moment, he felt a little regretful, remembering the principle he adhered to when the Equality Society attacked the government building, not to pursue the matter but to do what was within his duties.
"Find out the matter." Francois did not delve into Maguire's responsibility at this juncture. "In addition, strengthen protection for our people and the people in the parliament."
Maguire took a breath, secretly glad that he still had a chance to reverse the situation: "I understand, but why should we protect the people in the Parliament?"
"Why do you think that is?" Francois asked, squinting his eyes.
"It's to show them goodwill, and it makes sense on the surface?" Maguire guessed.
"Including, but not only." Francois shook his head, "That's just a superficial thing. The actual purpose of doing this is to send people to monitor and control them naturally. So do you understand what your real mission is?"
Maguire immediately understood why Francois did this: "Understood!"
"Pissel, I read the report on yesterday's street fighting and found that you didn't gain much." After dealing with Maguire, Francois looked at Pissel who was always indifferent, "I want to know what you are doing.
What happened to the deployment for a period of time? Is it possible that I transferred your three regiments back just so that the Equality Society will discover that we are paper tigers?"
Pissel did not tremble like Maguire, but straightened his back and replied calmly: "The main role of the Corps is to prevent the opponent from large-scale actions, and we do not have the advantage in street fighting. If you want to kill them all, I
It is recommended that at least five more regiments be brought back to conduct a blanket search. Without doing this, it is impossible for us to find these rats hiding in the sewers."
"Transferring you back will waste a lot of effort. If we mobilize five more regiments, there will be a lot of trouble in the overall arrangement." Franco said that the transfer would be troublesome, but in fact he was worried that Pissel would have more troops to support himself.
"Then we can only continue to follow your plan and try to force them out, and we will carry out a head-on encirclement and suppression." Pisel said.
"What if they have another street fight tonight? What if they harass us again and again? Is it possible that we don't have effective countermeasures?" the finance minister couldn't help but ask.
"Don't worry about this. I will send people to strengthen the protection and improve the patrol layout in the near future to ensure that if they dare to come again, they will never come back." Pisel felt the dissatisfaction of several ministers and Francois present and made
He promised, "What I just meant is that this is passive after all, and it doesn't mean much for us to catch them all. We'd better think of some new ways to get them out."
Francois nodded: "All the efforts we have made so far have not achieved the expected results, and we must think of new countermeasures."
"We have made preliminary arrangements for cooperation with Willand, and have also been in contact with Shena. They will send a mission to visit secretly as soon as possible," the foreign minister said.
"That is to say, the war is basically decided, and we must solve the Equality Society before the war begins, otherwise it will be like the World Expo, where our energy will be diverted and give them an excellent development period. In addition, this
If we give them another chance, I'm afraid they will really grow to the point where we can't control it..." Francois was deeply aware of the threat of the Equality Society. He had listed the Equality Society as his number one enemy. He restored the monarchy and maintained the cloth.
The biggest stumbling block to Liexi's stability.
"Don't worry." Pisel's eyes became cold. If the Equality Society had not been eliminated before the war started, then he would stay in Lezein and give up the opportunity to build military exploits to others. "Before the war starts, I will definitely
Kill everyone in the Pingding Association."
Francois knew what Pisel was worried about, and this was beneficial to him: "If the internal troubles can be solved before the war begins, then the important task of the expedition to Bash can be safely handed over to General Pisel.
"
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North District, Pingdong Association Main Station
Because there were many comrades participating in the street fighting, a large-scale evacuation to the North District would inevitably attract the attention of the government, so Morais placed them all in various locations in an orderly manner, and promptly treated the injured in the early morning and compiled statistics.
During the morning meeting, Boyin looked through the statistics table and was quite satisfied with the casualty ratio produced this time.
After being integrated into the combat department, this was the first time that the Equality Association fought against the government. Although it took advantage of the convenience of raids and night street fighting, he was still very satisfied with the number of casualties of twenty people.
You must know that the losses of the Guards last night were several times theirs.
"Morais, you did a great job," Boyne praised.
"Yesterday's street fighting not only inspired the people's hearts, but the people's voices also inspired us." Morais still remembers what happened last night.
"Well, this shows that the people have not lost confidence in us, and we can't let them down in the future." Boyin is pleased with this. They have established an image in the hearts of the people that will not be easily shaken. This will be of great benefit to the future.
Combat and revolution have immeasurable help. "The wounded and fallen comrades need to be properly accommodated. We are not short of money now and should give them adequate care."
Those are all people under Morais, and he values them more important than Boyin: "Don't worry, I will arrange everything properly."
"After yesterday's commotion, the government is expected to tighten its alert in the near future. We will put aside street fighting and assassinations for now, and wait and see the situation before making arrangements." Boyin closed the document, "Okay, is there anything else to report? If not,
The meeting is dismissed."
"I have something here." Diaz raised his hand, "I have dealt with several children in the past few days. They are all under the age of sixteen and are not within the scope of our recruitment, but this does not
To thwart their enthusiasm for what they wanted to do, they spontaneously formed study classes in their respective neighborhoods, or shared declarations of equality with each other, or wrote and painted together to help us promote it."
"Sounds good." Boyn said.
"But they are still children after all, and they have no ability to compete with the government. There is a child named William, and his brother, who is also under sixteen years old, was caught and publicly executed by the government for helping us spread our ideas. During the street fighting last night,
Another child disobeyed his parents and ran away from home
, insisted on coming back with me to join the Equality Association, and are now at the main station... I think it's time for us to guide and control them, otherwise if we let these children continue, there will be unimaginable losses." Dia.
I am telling you what I have experienced these past few days, hoping to gain Boyin's attention.
Boyin's face became serious as Diaz spoke: "Comrade Diaz mentioned this very crucially. We all understand the passion of these children, but we also have the obligation to protect them and tell them what they can do.
What can’t be done.”
"Yes, I thought about it for a long time last night. These children have a strong rebellious mentality. It is impossible to persuade them to do nothing. Then we might as well let them do what they can to prevent them from falling into trouble regardless of their own abilities.
Dangerous," Diaz suggested.
"What do you think these kids can do?" Boyne asked.
"……I have no idea."
"This matter needs to be taken seriously and a solution should be provided as soon as possible." Boyne glanced at Keating, Verak, Nord, Piaf and others present, "Everyone should express your opinions about the children's matters.
It can’t be delayed.”
Keating was deeply convinced: "François would acquiesce in attacking children. This is extremely rare in any country or era in the past."
"He has lost his bottom line, which also shows that there is really nothing he can do to us. We are not far from victory." Nord saw this as proof that Francois was at the end of his rope.
"I will figure out a solution for the children." Piaf took over the task. "I will first make an appeal in the Equality newspaper, and then arrange for people from the Propaganda Department to contact these study classes secretly. Since they
Most of them are doing publicity work, so I can help them arrange some safer 'jobs'."
"Let me know if anything happens." Boyin nodded slightly, "Is there anything else?"
Minister of Intelligence Charles said: "We went to investigate the information of Joseph, the current commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment stationed in Lezein. This man has a high prestige in the army, and his gentle treatment is deeply loved by the soldiers. If we can really convince him,
If he can successfully deal with Pisel, he will indeed have great hope of controlling the three corps."
"The person Adel said has been sending money to the families of soldiers who died decades ago. Is it true?"
"It's true. It's been going on for decades, and only a few people in the military know about it. It doesn't look like it's a show." Charles checked carefully.
Boyin thought thoughtfully: "Continue to investigate, there can't be any omissions in this matter. Make sure you check everything thoroughly before reporting to me."
"Understood." Charles agreed.
"Okay, let's all go about our own business. Let's break up the meeting." Boyin stood up and left, and went with Morais to visit the wounded in the street battle.
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At noon, Comrade Linn, who was far away at the Equality Branch in Hanniton City of the Pruman Empire, translated "On Class" into Bresci and sent it back.
Boyin immediately arranged for small-scale printing, first ensuring that all cadres in the Equality Association had a copy, and after they had finished reading it, communicated with Winston, ensured or revised the content, and then disseminated it to all comrades and even the people.
them.
In the afternoon, Verak, Keating, Piaf, Morais, Diaz, Charles, Nord and others already had a copy of "Theory of Class" with a rough cover in their hands.
After Winston learned about the situation, he put down the research he was doing and waited with great anticipation for everyone to have in-depth discussions with him after reading it and explore the most feasible development route together.
In the evening, Verak, who had no work scheduled and was relatively free, immersed himself in reading "The Theory of Class", marveling at a certain passage in it and taking notes excitedly.
In "Class Theory", Winston systematically analyzed all the production relations of capitalism, using a dialectical method, from simplicity to complexity, from part to whole, from essence to phenomenon, to fully reveal the operating structure and laws of the world.
Just when he didn't feel sleepy at all and was still studying the contents of the first chapter over and over in the early hours of the morning, there was a rapid knock on the door.
Verak put down his book and went to open the door. What came into view was a young comrade: "Comrade Verak, President Boyne wants you and Comrade Keating to rush to the conference room immediately!"
"What happened?" Verak couldn't help but ask, seeing the serious look on the young comrade's face.
"Sorry, I don't know, but the situation is urgent. Please come over immediately with Comrade Keating!" the young comrade urged.