After staying with Keating and the others for a while, they found that their current work was relatively easy and there was nothing they needed help with. Verak and Winston walked to the residence together, deciding to study "Class Theory" thoroughly as soon as possible and then formally prepare for the cooperative factory.
things.
Now under the heavy pressure of the government, the Equality Association's living space is extremely limited. It is difficult to arrange a dedicated office. Verak did not force it. Anyway, he has survived no matter how hard the days are. Now this is not a challenge at all.
.
On the way back, the two bumped into the fiery Piaf. After a brief conversation, Verac learned that Piaf had decided to send people from the Propaganda Department to infiltrate the army and carry out propaganda internally and externally.
This will undoubtedly put those sent there in danger, but it may also be the fastest and most effective way for them to spread their ideas of equality to the so-called 'forbidden zone' at the end.
Verac did not interfere with Piaf's decision, but told her to be extremely careful in everything.
Back in the room, Winston improved his research based on the different national conditions of Pruman and Bressy, while Verak read the Bressian version of "Theory of Class".
As he read, he felt more and more that the birth of this book was like a dawn in a world that had been plunged into eternal night.
It is different from the artificial and weak bonfire, it is the light that really can lead people to the light, the light that comes from the sky and already exists.
Simply put, "Theory of Class" can be divided into two parts.
The first half is a critique and exposure of capitalism, while the second half is a conception and design of the future world.
"A Theory of Equality" only covers the first half of "A Theory of Class", and only digs into the issues of equality and inequality, while "A Theory of Class" covers a wide range of topics, and the first half of the content includes the foundation of capitalism and the nature of capital.
, The basic contradictions of capitalism and the historical trend of development. It fundamentally and completely clarifies the most important and basic issues in the capitalist economy.
The second half boldly puts forward the viewpoints of improvement, change and reconstruction based on rigorous logic.
The purpose of opening a cooperative factory is to verify whether the second half of "Class Theory" is correct. As long as it is correct, it means that the Equality Society has obtained the key to the door to the new world. The next thing to do is to go there and go again
Go in.
—The capitalist expects the same benefit from all parts of the capital advanced by him.
——In a society where capitalist production dominates, non-capitalist producers are also dominated by capitalist concepts.
—When profit and surplus-value are regarded as quantitatively equal, the size of profit and the size of the rate of profit are determined by purely quantitative relations which are or can be determined in each case. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to
Conduct research within the context of mathematics.
"Hiss..." Verak scratched his head as he watched.
The content of "The Theory of Class" is very complicated, and it involves a lot of calculations and data demonstrations, which gave Verak, who had never read much, a headache.
"What's wrong?" Winston saw the distressed look on Verak's face and thought there was some mistake in his book.
"I..." Verak was a little embarrassed, "I can't quite understand..."
"What don't you understand?" Winston put down his work and walked over.
Verak pointed to the calculations of the large tracts in the book: "I haven't read many books. It is difficult to read these contents. It may take a long time to finish..."
"Well... this book does have a different focus from the equality theory you read before. It seems to be more difficult, but it is precisely because of this that it is in-depth enough to break down the barriers set by capital against us. Let us lift the curtain.
Learn how to change the world.”
"You're right, I'm just worried that it will take me too long to understand it thoroughly."
"This is my research for many years. If you say that you understand it quickly, I will feel wrong. I think as long as you really understand it, even if it takes a year, the worst thing is that you don't understand it very quickly.
Without understanding, practicing it ignorantly ultimately fails and denies its value." What Winston really values is understanding the content. There are so many of them.
Years have passed, and it’s not enough time to read a book. “In addition, in fact, the class theory cannot be said to be complete, because a lot of my research work has not been completed, such as the broad capital circulation process including the direct production process and exchange process.
, For example, through theoretical analysis of the general process of capital movement, we can more deeply analyze and demonstrate issues such as value and currency..."
"This is too complicated." Verak didn't quite understand.
"In short, when I complete this aspect of research, the content of class theory will be ten times more than what it is now." Winston revealed the final size of this book.
Verak was secretly surprised at first, but soon felt that this was normal. How could it be possible to analyze the way the world works, its essence, and explore a new world in just a few words?
It is about the world, and the content must be huge and complex.
This is also a major shortcoming of "Equality", which is too shallow. Of course, if Chris had not had any accidents, he might have written something more valuable in this year.
Perhaps only people like Chris can have the most intense collision with Winston and jointly create something subversive.
Verak felt a little sorry.
He didn't read many books, and he was already ahead of most people in the slums just by knowing a few words. Most of the knowledge he learned after that was forced to learn in Lazer and taught by Keating in prison.
But even so, he found that he was still far behind, and it was difficult to even understand a book. Unlike Chris, Winston, and Piaf who could create such great works.
After all, my own value is not as great as theirs.
Even if you work hard, you can't change much with just one life, but their in-depth research is the key to changing the world.
Verak hopes it stops here.
Don't let people like me appear again in the future.
In the future, children like Dawn's daughter will have equal learning resources, everyone's talents will not be erased, everyone will have unlimited possibilities, and they will be able to live their own lives freely.
"Then I'll continue watching." Verak inadvertently figured out something. He couldn't be a person like Chris or Winston, but he would realize his own value.
"Well, feel free to ask me if you don't understand anything." Winston didn't know what Verak was thinking, so he patted him on the shoulder and returned to his desk to start his research again.
Verak glanced at Winston's serious back and continued reading "Theory of Class".
——
Time passed quickly, and several hours passed quickly in meetings held everywhere. At noon, everyone gathered in the cafeteria, and continued to discuss issues while eating.
This heated scene has almost become a tradition of the Equality Association.
"Charles, we need you to arrange manpower to explore the terrain in advance, the strength of the patrol guards and the patrol route..."
"Comrade Charles, our people plan to penetrate into the enemy's interior to spread propaganda, and we need your help to clear the route..."
"Comrade Charles..."
"Charles..."
Among them, the Minister of Intelligence, Charles, was under the greatest pressure. Almost every team and department needed the assistance of their Intelligence Department to carry out their work. Their manpower immediately became stretched and it was difficult to take care of them all.
In order to clear his mind, Verak did not work hard enough to study "The Theory of Class" while eating. He sat with Winston and listened to discussions from all directions while eating.
"They are so enthusiastic..." Winston sighed.
"This is the Equality Association. They are a group of enthusiastic people who are full of energy in everything they do." Verak smiled and picked up his rice.
"There are so many comrades who are willing to give everything when the Equality Society is at its most difficult, so it will be even more unstoppable when the wind is favorable." Winston felt his blood boiling even after eating. "I think for us, victory is only a matter of time.
."
Verak did not dare to say it so lightly: "It depends on the next key step, whether we can control Lezein."
"Um."
Because the cafeteria was already overcrowded when they arrived, Verak didn't even think about sitting with Keating and the others. Instead, he sat down and ate when he saw there was space.
Suddenly, he heard what seemed like a familiar voice behind him. He turned around and saw that it was Ross chatting with people from the Propaganda Department.
"Ross?" Verak called.
Ross turned around: "Verak?"
"Do you know the mission of your propaganda department?" Verak asked.
"Of course I know. Minister Piaf held a meeting with us this morning and told us everything. We are responsible for publicity to the Corps," Ross replied.
"Then what tasks have you been assigned?" Verak briefly chatted with Piaf in the morning. Piaf wanted to send someone inside and then cooperate with the inside. I don't know what role Ross would play in it.
"I applied to be an inside member," Ross said.
Verak's face froze, and he was stunned for a moment before saying: "Why? You should be wanted now, right? And it would be very dangerous to break into the interior."
"Most of the people in the Propaganda Department are wanted, and those who are not wanted are mainly new recruits. No one can trust those new comrades to do such an arduous task, so I thought I might as well go in under a false identity. After all, I have seen
I have been through many situations, and I should be able to cope with any emergencies. Even if I am caught, no one can rest assured that I will not leak information, right?" When he said that the information would not be leaked in the end, Ross smiled and he pointed
It was the experience of being captured and tortured by government intelligence agencies.
"You don't-" Verak was still the same, as soon as he saw his friend trying to do such a dangerous thing, he immediately frowned and planned to dissuade him.
But this time it's slightly different.
He choked after saying two words.
"...Take care of yourself and complete the task well." In the end, Verak supported Rose's decision.
"Okay!" Rose's face was filled with a smile, as if Verak's words gave him great encouragement and confidence.
Verak also smiled.
Just when he was about to stop Ross from doing this, he suddenly remembered Nord, Diaz, Murphy, Keating and others. When these people were doing dangerous tasks, he tried his best to stop them without exception.
Take matters into your own hands.
But in the end, they all chose to do it themselves and did not listen to Verak.
They all said that this was their decision, and although Verak had good intentions, it essentially deprived them of their dedication to the Equality Society.
Verak has always wanted to get rid of this problem and stop interfering in other people's decisions out of good intentions. Today he finally took this step and stopped protecting his friends and supported them in doing what they want to do.
"Okay, hurry up and eat." Verak didn't talk to Ross anymore, leaving time for Ross and the people in the Propaganda Department to make good plans.
"What's wrong?" Winston asked as he couldn't understand Bresci and watched Verac chat for a while.
"He is my friend. He works in the Propaganda Department. He is going to do something very dangerous next." Verak picked up the tableware and said, "I... wanted to stop him, but I chose to tell him to be careful."
"Why?"
"Are you asking why you wanted to stop him, or why you chose to tell him to be careful?"
"Includes everything."
"Well..." Verak thought for a while, "I wanted to stop him because it was very dangerous, and I didn't want to receive news of his sacrifice someday in the future. I didn't say these words in the end, but told him,
It’s because everyone has their own decision, and I’m not qualified to influence it.”
"Indeed, the former is human nature, while the latter is rare. If he chooses to do something wrong, then as a friend he will definitely stop it with all his strength. If he chooses to do something dangerous and right, it will often be very serious.
It's a difficult choice, but I believe he did it after careful consideration, and all we can do is support." Winston nodded.
"Yeah." Verak didn't speak any more and just immersed himself in eating.
It was difficult for him to describe his mood at this time.
He felt that the decision not to interfere with his friend was the right one, but when he thought of so many people who had sacrificed, he couldn't help but worry about him and wanted the other person to return to a safe environment.
After thinking about it for a long time, it wasn't until after dinner that Verak finally figured it out.
If the world does not change, then there will be no real safety no matter what. They now seem to be running towards danger desperately, but in fact they are heading towards death.
Ross has to do this, he has to do this, everyone has to do this.
In this era, no one is immune to disaster.
——
In the afternoon, the busiest Charles finally finished what he was doing and rushed to the conference room of the team responsible for assassinating Pissel without stopping.
"I'm here." After he entered, he only saw Morais, Adel, and Diaz sitting around the table studying several guns placed on it. "What's wrong? What are you looking at?"
"You are finally here. We are studying sniper rifles." Morais made room for Charles.
Charles approached the table and saw three guns placed on the table.
One of them is a homemade gun secretly made by a factory that is currently used by most people in the Equality Association. One is a standard rifle and the other is a sniper rifle.
"This is the LeBoul m1428 bolt-action rifle, developed by Colonel LeBoul Nealon. It is the most successful smokeless gunpowder firearm today. Its emergence means that those firearms using black powder have become history, followed by smokeless gunpowder.
The era of pyrotechnics, powder and firearms." Morais pointed to the standard rifle in the middle and introduced it to Charles, who didn't know much about guns.
"The Lebel rifle has a built-in magazine for ammunition, and can load up to eight rounds of full metal jacket rifle bullets. In addition, it can be equipped with a bayonet on the front end of the firearm, so that it can continue to exert its combat effectiveness in hand-to-hand combat when there is no ammunition. Four or five years ago
, this thing was adopted as the standard rifle by Bresci’s army and performed well in many foreign wars.”
"How about our homemade firearms?" Charles asked curiously.
"There is a huge gap with this thing, which is one of the reasons why it is difficult for us to fight head-on with the government's regular army. We do not have channels to obtain such standard rifles in large quantities, so we can only use local guns to ensure the most basic combat effectiveness." Molai
Si shook his head. He dreamed that all the people in the war department would be equipped with such weapons.
"We will try our best to do it later. If Joseph really switches sides, we may be able to open channels from the Corps." Charles knew the importance of arms.
"Well." Morais continued to introduce the sniper rifle next to him, "This is the Lebul sniper rifle. It is modified based on the Lebull m1428. It is equipped with an optical sight and a special barrel. The bullets can perform high-precision sniper shooting."
Rifle. Its price is three times that of the general standard rifle. It is a luxury item in weapons. Even the elite troops under Pissel are only equipped with a small part."
"I understand having a scope, but what about this bullet?"
"This sniper rifle abandons the typical long round-headed bullets used in other standard rifles and uses a specially made solid brass bullet with a sharp head and a slightly tapered tail. This not only increases its muzzle velocity by 20%, but also makes its flight more stable.
, the trajectory is also flatter." Morais answered.
"Then what is its effective range?" Charles asked again.
Morais made an estimate: "It can reach 800 meters, but fighting in cities generally does not require such a distance."
"So you want to use a sniper rifle to assassinate Pisel next?" At this point, Charles had already guessed what Morais and the others would think next.
"That's right." Morais picked up the Lebul sniper rifle and skillfully set it up to aim in one direction. "If we use the sniper rifle, we don't have to work hard to close the distance with Pisel, and we are assassinating him."
There will be much more flexibility in location selection.”
"That sounds like a good idea, so what kind of help do you need from me?" Charles was about to make arrangements.
Diaz stood up and said: "Tomorrow we will take a trip to the government building every day, and record the suitable locations for sniping. After that, we need your intelligence department to help find out the strength of the surrounding patrol guards, patrol routes and
rules to develop the safest evacuation route.”
"This must require a lot of manpower..." Charles had a headache. Now he was seeking support from the Intelligence Department everywhere, and he was almost sending out himself.
"It's not just manpower, it's also time." Diaz said.
"When are you planning to assassinate?"
"Starting from tomorrow, we will take action on the morning of the 21st at the latest."
"On the 21st?! The time left for our Intelligence Department is only two days at most. Two days..." Charles was unsure whether the Intelligence Department could help the Operations Department complete this arduous task as the Intelligence Department was overloaded.
The mission is really unknown.
Seeing Charles's hesitation, Morais threw the heavy sniper rifle into Charles's arms: "The people on my side are all risking their lives to assassinate Pisel, you can't bear to see us because of intelligence
Did the lack of adequate control lead to omissions in the planning arrangements and put us in danger?"
"Of course not." Charles stumbled and carefully put the gun back on the table.
"Then I'll leave this matter to you. When the assassination is completed, I'll treat you to a drink!" After Morais finished speaking with a straight face, he made a date for a drink with a bright smile.
"How can I have time to drink with you? Now everyone in the club has to look to our department to do things, so manpower is really tight. This matter..." Charles didn't dare to deal with this kind of thing casually, just in case.
He really failed to do a good job here, which resulted in the death of someone in the combat department. Who will bear the responsibility?
Morais didn't care about this: "We are the first to attack. If Pisel is not assassinated, nothing else can be done. You must not send people to consider our side first? Right? When we complete the task beautifully, encourage us."
You have to share the credit for losing morale!"
"You know who I am, but if you think of me as just trying to get credit, then there's nothing much to say."
"That's not what I meant. I meant that everyone is responsible for this matter! Even if you don't agree now, if I talk to Boyin, won't he still have to come to you and ask you to fully assist us?" Morais said softly.
Hard foam.
"I am already doing my best to assist you. In the morning, various departments came to ask for help. To be honest, we no longer have enough people. It is a headache to allocate manpower for you to investigate. The time is still so tight. I really can't guarantee that we can do it.
Come." Charles refused to agree directly no matter what Morais said, "How many lives are at stake, I can't agree to this even if you point a gun at me."
"In that case, if we extend it for another day, our operation on the 22nd will reserve three days for your intelligence department. Three days should be enough for you to plan the work of your personnel and find out the information we need, right?"
Seeing that Charles had said all these words, Les could only take a step back.
Charles frowned and thought about it for a long time: "I can only say that I have a certain degree of confidence, and I can make arrangements to do it."
"You mean the time may have to be delayed further?" Morais couldn't accept it.
It can be said that everyone in the whole meeting is watching them eagerly, waiting for them to start various aspects of work after taking the first city. They have been silent for several days, and you can imagine the pressure they are under.
In addition, dozens of innocent civilians and comrades are executed every day, and there will be many sacrifices if it is delayed for one more day. Joseph's side is not stable enough, and things may change as time goes by.
They must complete the task as soon as possible and successfully assassinate Pisel.
"Yes." Charles said.
"No, just three days." Morais refused to give in anymore, "We will definitely take action on the 22nd, and we must receive your message on the night of the 21st."
"Vice President..."
"This matter is settled." Morais waved his hand, "We can sacrifice, but some people can't delay it."
Hearing this, Charles sighed: "Okay, I promise you, we will find out all the intelligence information you need within three days."
"That's right!"
"Then you plan it first, and I'll make the arrangements." The task was heavy, and Charles didn't want to waste a second and quickly left the conference room.
"As the vice president, and the assassination mission is extremely important, it determines whether the follow-up plan can be carried out. He is not willing to mobilize manpower and withdraw some resources from other places." Adel felt that Morais and Charles
The conversation was very interesting.
"The Intelligence Department not only has to solve problems for so many departments, it also needs to maintain the operation of the intelligence network, so it is understandable that there is such a shortage of manpower." Diaz explained for the Intelligence Department, "It is precisely for these reasons.
President Boyne decided to seize the time to establish a guild school to train and deliver talents in large quantities to meet our needs."
"That's right, Charles doesn't want us to take action without being sure. In the final analysis, it's for our sake." Morais sat down and regained his composure, "We also need to seize the time and study the route.
."
Adel looked at the map that they had almost finished discussing: "We are still facing two problems. First, what if Pisel is not killed? Second, with such a loud gunshot, it will definitely kill him.
If you are discovered by a patrol, how will you evacuate?"
"One gun cannot be absolutely sure, so we will arrange two positions, three positions, and four positions to set up a dragnet." Morais said, "I don't believe that four guns can't kill Pissel."
"Correspondingly, the difficulty of evacuation will also increase as we deploy more sniper positions." Adel said.
"This matter depends on the investigation results of Charles and the others first." Morais stroked the body of the sniper rifle, "I have thought about using other means to attract the attention of the patrolling troops, but I can't guarantee that
This will not affect Pisel's travel, so it is best for us not to let them notice anything strange that day, and just assassinate Pisel in peace as usual."
——
night
government building, conference hall
Francois had just finished a dinner with the Welland envoy. Wellland agreed to the deal for the coalition to attack Bash, ensuring that when Francois announced the restoration of the imperial system and became emperor, he would be recognized internationally.
Acknowledge his identity and openly support the establishment of the Bressi Empire.
This incident made Francois feel very good, and he once again envisioned himself wearing noble clothes, with a crown on his head, and monopolizing power to rule this vast land and many people.
He believed that the time was ripe to start taking the next step towards restoring the monarchy.
"I think it is urgent to formulate an anti-parliamentary constitution. I should take over all administrative forces and, as the head of state, be solely responsible to the people." Francois wants to further suppress the power of parliament and ensure that subsequent plans are foolproof, "This new
The constitution should include that I can appoint and remove members of the Senate, the permanent body of the empire, and allow the Legislative Yuan to be elected by popular suffrage, but the Legislative Yuan cannot be autonomous and can only deal with bills proposed by the Executive Yuan..."
After listening to the content of the constitution proposed by François, the minister who firmly stood on Francois's side wiped the sweat on his forehead: "Your Excellency, you have been trying to win over the parliament and let them serve as supporters.
We are an important force in maintaining stability. Now that we are going to further suppress them, I am afraid they will fight back even more crazily..."
"It would be strange not to fight back." Francois had already anticipated the consequences of doing so. "But I have arranged for the guards to take over the defense of their residence. They can't make a difference even if they want to fight back."
At that time, the reason why Francois agreed to the idea of assassinating members of Parliament disguised as equals proposed by Captain Maguire was not only to use this method to promote their cooperation with Parliament, but also to protect Parliament if this plan did not work.
In the name of the members, anesthesiologists sent troops to monitor and control them.
With the gun pressed against these people's heads, Francois didn't believe they still dared to go against him.
And now that it has come to this point, he must of course do it more thoroughly, to dismantle the power of the parliament as much as possible and make his future throne more stable.
"But isn't it a bit rushed at this time?" Some people think that Francois is too impatient.
"Don't rush. The news from Wellland is that Bash is strengthening its control over Nile. They are considering sending troops earlier to interrupt Bash's influence. Once we send troops earlier, our focus will have to go, so
It's best to resolve all the trouble before then." Francois had his own concerns, "Pissel, what's going on with the Equality Society?"
"Except for the big fuss during the curfew a few days ago, there hasn't been much movement. Maybe the destruction of the Old Nanyue branch hit them too hard and made them feel more at ease." Pissel
Reporting.
Francois nodded slightly: "The Equality Association has indeed not caused us any more trouble during this period. This shows that our work is still useful. The regular army has made them dare not confront us again."
"However, recently because of the Equality Society, many various organizations have been born. Some of them use the same banner as the Equality Society, and some seek other private interests and try to become a threat to us." Pisel added the new
information.
"Heh." Francois sneered without hesitation, "Those are just a group of rotten fish and shrimps that can't stand on the stage. Even if they are added together, they are not as big a threat as half of the Equality Society. But it can't be like this.
Just let it go and crack down hard, telling them that not everyone can become an Equality Society and not everyone can oppose the government."
"The cleanup is already underway and the progress is going very smoothly."
"That's good." Francois leaned back in his chair comfortably, "Let's get back to the topic, do you have any better ideas against the parliamentary constitution?"
——
April 18
Equality Association Headquarters
In the evening, all the workers in the factory returned to their dormitories to rest, except for one person who had not gone back for a long time. In the center of the factory, he was busy drawing drawings that were born out of his whimsical ideas while working during the day.
His name is Valcke, and he likes tinkering with machinery and making gadgets.
He once researched and created several tools that can provide convenience for life, and was jokingly called a failed inventor by other workers.
On this day, he was still working on new inventions in the dead of night as usual, so focused that he didn't even know who was approaching behind him.
"Are you Valk?"
"Ah!" Valk was so frightened by the voice behind him that he almost threw away the tools in his hand, but when he took a closer look and saw that the person was a cadre of the Equality Association, he quickly regained his composure, "You scared me to death.
Yes. My name is Valk. What can I do for you?"
"I'm Howard Nord." Nord introduced his identity.
Valk put down what he was doing: "I know you, you work at a workers' night school, right? I have attended classes there!"
"It used to be, but not now. We started to prepare for the establishment of the guild school according to the instructions of President Boyin, and I work in the guild school."
"Council school? What is this?" Valk didn't understand.
"It is a school within the association that specifically serves our Equality Association, cultivating talents in all aspects for the Equality Association and meeting the needs of all aspects." Nord explained.
Valk seemed to understand: "Then why did you come to me? Is there anything I can do to help you?"
"I heard from other workers that you are very good at mechanical work, and you have also researched and invented many interesting gadgets yourself?"
"That's what happened."
"That's right. We now want to invite you to work in the school and be our mechanical teacher. We will cultivate a group of outstanding mechanical talents like you, and at the same time help you strengthen your studies and improve your level." Boyin.
Send an invitation to Valk.
"I? Be a teacher?" Valk suspected that he heard wrongly.
"Yes."
"Don't be kidding, how could it be possible... I don't even know many words, and I still go to the workers' night school regularly to study. How could I be a teacher?" Valk smiled and waved his hand.
Nord's serious look made Valk believe that he was not here to make fun of him: "We are not here to ask you to teach others how to read, but to use your expertise and teach them excellent mechanical skills."
More people will meet the equal demand for mechanical talents."
"I admit that my skills are good, but teaching people is still... I have never taught anyone..."
"This is not a problem. We will first teach you how to teach others what you are good at and let others understand. Then we will assist you in teaching together to ensure that you can fully teach your skills to others," Nord said.
"Is this possible..."
"Okay. So, would you like to work in the school?"
"Of course I am willing! My contribution alone is definitely not as great as that of a hundred people. I still understand this truth and I am willing to teach others!" Valk feels honored that he can make more contributions.
Nord nodded: "That's good. We will help you with the transfer procedures tomorrow morning. You can just go to the auditorium at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Go to the synagogue? Shouldn't we teach people? What are we going to do in the synagogue?"
"Teaching people will take some time to prepare. Tomorrow Comrade Keating will go to the auditorium to speak and distribute work. By then, there will be many people like you who have outstanding talents in a certain field." After Valk is dealt with, Nord will not
Stay a little longer and rush to the next place, "You go to bed early and we'll see you tomorrow."
——
Apartment building, Verak's room
It was almost twelve o'clock, and Winston had gone back to his room to rest half an hour ago. Verak was still studying "Theory of Class" with the light on, taking notes from time to time to ensure that he understood it thoroughly.
"Dong dong dong." At this time, there was a knock on the door.
"Here we come." Verak put down the pen in his hand, stood up and went to open the door.
"When I came back, I happened to see that the light in your room was still on, so I came to take a look." Keating walked in after opening the door, "Why haven't you rested yet?"
"I'm reading Theory of Class. This book is a bit too complicated for me, but since Boyne has entrusted me with the preparation of the cooperative factory, I have to hurry up and study it while maintaining quality and quantity."
Verak rubbed his sore eyes, "Why are you still up so late?"
Keating came to the desk and looked at the notes written by Verak: "There is a shortage of people everywhere now, so we did not waste time and contacted the outstanding talents on the statistical list overnight, hoping to train them to become
The first batch of teachers in the school will pass on their excellence to more people."
"It seems that you will be busy next time." Verak poured a glass of water for Keating, and the two sat down at the desk.
"Tomorrow we will arrange for them to gather in the hall, and then mobilize them to put up the framework of the hall first." Keating took a sip of water and said.
"That's great. Once your place is up and running, we won't be short of people. I heard in the afternoon that Charles is extremely busy and needs people from the Intelligence Department to help wherever he goes." Verak said with a bitter smile.
"The intelligence department is really under a lot of pressure."
Verak didn't meet Keating at noon, so he simply shared Ross's affairs with him now: "I met Ross during lunch, and he volunteered to be someone from the Propaganda Department who would infiltrate the Corps. I originally wanted to dissuade him.
Yes, but after thinking about your previous teachings, I decided to support his idea."
"That's good. They all have their own choices. In fact, when they talk to you about this matter, what they expect is not that you will stop them, but your encouragement. Maybe you haven't realized it yourself, but you are not aware of it.
"I have become the backbone of many people, and your support means a lot to them." Keating is very pleased that Verak has grown up a bit.
"I understand, teacher, after I said my words of support for him at noon, I obviously saw that Ross was happier. Seeing such a change in him, I was finally convinced that I was right to say my words of support." Verak felt deeply, "
I don’t know how busy everyone else is now.”
"I know something about Diaz. They are still meeting to study the assassination plan."
"Still studying at this late hour?"
Keating said: "Well, they encountered a little trouble. The plan to assassinate Pisel was not that simple. As a general, he had many guards around him, and the recent patrol guards were widely distributed, so they decided to use a sniper rifle to kill him remotely.
, giving up the risk of approaching. But they don’t have any good ideas to evacuate safely after making such a big noise.”
Verak went to the city to check, and he knew very well how difficult it would be to evacuate after he shot Pisel inside: "This is a big problem. Their gunfire will definitely attract the surrounding patrols, and the cavalry will also be the most vulnerable."
It will take just a few minutes to surround them..."
"So there's a stalemate there. Although everyone is willing to sacrifice if they have to, no one wants to do it before we get to that point."
During the assassination operation, there were Morais and Diaz, comrades who fought side by side. Verak did not want to see anyone sacrificed, so he began to help make suggestions: "Since we want to cooperate with Joseph, he can't secretly help cover our people.
Evacuate?”
"Morais refused to seek help from Joseph. He wanted to show that equality in front of Joseph would be a strong side, not a weak side. This had a huge impact on Joseph's defection, so everyone agreed that we would solve the problem internally."
Keating smiled and put down the water glass, "You don't have to worry too much about them. Morais, Diaz, and Adel are all very smart. They will come up with the best solution."
"That's right. If the three of them can't think of a solution, then this matter is really unsolvable." Verak gave up the idea of taking action.
With Morais, Diaz and Adel here, it doesn't matter whether he can help or not.
"Okay, let's go to bed early. All we can do is do our job well and trust the work of others." It was getting late, and Keating decided to go back and rest.
"What you said makes sense. The meeting is like clockwork right now. The most important thing is for everyone to do their part well."