"What is going on..." August stared at Weikenji who was untied and sitting in the conference room.
"I don't know, it feels like a conference room..." August looked around to confirm the environment.
Weikenji also saw it: "The question is, shouldn't they lock us up? Why did they take us out of that camp, run all the way to such a remote place, and then loosen our bonds and lock us in a room?"
In the conference room?”
August couldn't figure it out: "I don't know, how about I go out and take a look?"
"Don't, be careful about the danger. They probably went to call someone to see us, otherwise there is no need to do this. I just can't figure out who to call..." Weikenji was worried about the danger of going out, but he said to the two of them
Life safety is much more assured.
"Here comes someone." August said in a deep voice.
"Yeah." Weikenji listened to the gradual footsteps and stared at the closed door.
"Dong dong dong."
The visitors were very polite and respectful. Even though they were arrested, they still knocked on the door before entering.
Then, a total of four people walked in.
Two of them were Ross, who brought them here, and Clark, who acted as the translator. One of the other two was thin but looked energetic, and the other had obviously fought hard and exuded murderous intent. He had kept a straight face since he appeared.
"Ahem, are these two people?" Boyin covered his mouth and coughed, then asked Ross.
"Yes, this is August, and this is Weikenji." Ross said.
Boyne sat across from August Wickenji, smiled and asked, "Do they know our identities?"
"Not yet." Ross pulled out chairs for Morais and Clark, and the four of them sat across from Bash's visitor. "They are still confused."
"Clark, help me translate." Boyin glanced at Clark and communicated with August and Wickenji, "Are you revolutionaries in Winterfort? What's the situation in Winterfort now?"
"Who are you?" Weikenji felt that none of the people in front of him were soldiers, although they had close ties with the army.
"You will know later. Now answer my questions truthfully. I can assure you that telling the truth will only bring countless benefits to you."
After a brief eye contact with August, Wickenji decided to tell the situation: "We have a group of people engaged in revolutionary work in Winterfort, but it is not going well. Because there are no weapons, manpower, and experience, we are about to die.
It failed."
"This is too general. Tell me what you are fighting for?" Boyin asked.
"So that the poor will no longer be oppressed and everyone can live a free and prosperous life."
"What are you going to do?"
"Knock down the government and build a new government."
"Then what?"
"Enact a bill to allow everyone to live equally and completely eliminate exploitation and oppression."
Boyin groaned: "Well... this is too simple."
"Easy?" Weikenji thought Boyin meant that changing the world was too easy.
"Your ideas are still very naive. Just relying on me to overthrow the other party and let me have the final say in everything from now on is impossible to achieve a successful revolution. Even if the government is overthrown, the revolution will soon be over.
A miserable failure that cannot truly eliminate the disease." Boyne continued to understand the other party's situation, "How many people do you have? Who are the members of the organization? Where are you active in Winterfort? What movements have you initiated?"
Weikenji felt that Boyin's answer seemed to be guiding them, and a strange feeling arose in his heart: "We are called the Bash Workers Mutual Aid Association. Currently we only operate in Winterfort. The members are basically workers and have a small amount of knowledge.
elements, totaling about 2,000 people. We have fought in various places in Winterfort, mainly protesting and destroying some facilities. If the guards suppressed them, we would resist."
"Resistance often results in numerous casualties?"
"...Well, dozens of people will die every time. Our leader Vladislav is also wanted. Now everyone's will is a little shaken. After all, if we continue like this, we will just die, which is a meaningless thing.
How many people can be expected to do it?”
"When did you start doing this? And why did you decide to do it?"
"About four or five months ago, we read in the newspaper that a group of rebel groups captured the government building in Bressy, resulting in the much-anticipated closing ceremony of the World Expo not being held. At first, this incident did not attract our attention.
But later Vladislav accidentally got a copy of "The Theory of Equality" written by the rebel group. After reading it, he felt that Bresi was in trouble.
The overthrow of equality will not be as simple as reported in the newspapers. They should be fighting against the government for equality, so they think they are also oppressed. Why should we accept all this instead of rising up to resist like them?"
Weikenji was in a depressed mood and his voice was hoarse. "In this way, we slowly formed a workers' mutual aid association and fought along the lines of the Equality Association."
Morais glanced over his head: "It seems that we were quite successful at that time."
"The newspapers didn't report our good deeds at all. If various translated versions of the theory of equality hadn't been spread, we would probably still be demonized." Boyin frowned and said, "Since we have been fighting for so long, and
We were still influenced by the Equality Society, so why didn’t we come to Lezein earlier to seek support?”
"Since the attack on the government building, there seems to be no news about the Equality Association. Everyone is saying that they were wiped out by the government, so we plan to fight alone and become the new vanguard. After a while, we heard about Tun Man's old
With the help of the Equality Society, Nanyue successfully held a protest and forced the Tunman government to repeal the new conscription law. Only then did we know that the Equality Society was still there and was
It’s getting bigger and bigger. But when we were just preparing to send people here, we learned that Equality would be annihilated in the Old South, so we gave up the idea again... Until recently, we were unable to move in Winterfort, Vladislav said
We could only hope that the Equality Society would still be there and help us, so we pooled our money and arranged for two of us, who had temporarily learned a little bit of Brexi, to come..."
"It's really tortuous." Morais crossed his arms and after listening to Clark's translation, he briefly commented on the experience of the Bash Workers' Mutual Aid Association in the past six months, "The theory of equality is just something for ideological awakening after all. I
I felt like I wanted to help the fires in various places burn, and I came up with a book that is similar to a struggle guide.”
Boyn's question was not over yet: "As far as I know, workers in Bash work very long hours. How do you find time to fight? Or do you have no jobs? How do you make ends meet?
?”
"Most of us have jobs, and the time of struggle is generally set in the evening. After work in the evening, we will take an hour or two to rest, put on masks and go out to protest, so many people in Winterfort call us mask people."
Vikenjil was a little impatient, "Why are you asking these questions? It's not your turn to take care of Bash's revolution, right?"
"That's almost all the questions, don't worry." Boyin did not face Weikenji's doubts. "So, the Bash government just sits back and watches you make trouble? In addition to arresting one of your leaders and sending troops every time you make trouble,
After suppressing it, you didn’t do anything anymore?”
"Of course not. They not only strengthened patrols at night and gave the guards the right to kill troublemakers on the spot, but also issued orders to various factories, requiring factory owners to strictly control their workers. If the corresponding factory is caught during the trouble,
workers will be held directly accountable to the factory owners and punished. Therefore, it will be difficult for us to
If we go out quietly, once we are discovered, even if we are not caught by the guards, we will be fired by the factory owner. And if we are fired because of this incident, all the factories in Winterhold will shut us out and not give us work.
Opportunity..." Weikenji clenched his fists, but in his heart he still felt powerless against the powerful people joining forces to suppress them.
"This is very troublesome. The Bash government has done so much just to increase the cost of your troubles. If you can't find a solution as soon as possible, you will be disbanded soon." Boyin said about the Bash government's behavior.
It’s quite understandable, because Bresci did the same thing. “To put it bluntly, your attacks on the government are indifferent, but the other party’s sales are a direct blow to your life.”
August nodded slightly: "That's right."
"Who are you? Are you not from the patrol?" Weikenji felt that the tone of the other party and the angle of communication with him did not sound like that of a patrol, and there was no hostility at all.
"The last question, after you answer it, I will tell you who we are." Boyin raised his index finger slowly, "After several months of establishment, you are still fighting with the same method and making no progress?"
"Progress? What do you mean?"
"Don't you realize that fighting like this is blind and you don't explore new directions?"
"Yes, but we can't think of it..." Weikenji was a little ashamed. They couldn't even recognize a few words. Apart from fighting the government, they no longer knew how to achieve their goals. "We want to pull more
People came in to strengthen our power, but no one except some workers was willing. We wanted to arm ourselves so that the government and factory owners would be truly afraid of us, but we had no money or access..."
After Weikenji's words, Boyin, Morais, and Ross all felt a sense of joy.
To be honest, the fate of the people in Winterhold should be the standard outcome of the struggle. They would only work blindly and then be manipulated by the powerful.
If it weren't for Francis who organized the workers' movement that broke history.
If Chris hadn't written "Equality" and secretly funded it.
If it weren't for Morais's advocacy of armed struggle and resolute struggle.
Had it not been for Verak to bring in important starting capital.
If Piaf hadn't written the "Manifesto Feminine" to perfect the concept of equality.
Without Winston's Theory of Class to point out how to change.
if……
Without these steps that changed the future decisions of the Equality Society to the greatest extent, how much better could they be than the Workers' Mutual Aid Society of Winterhold?
Only with a lot of talents like the Equality Association, coupled with luck, some chance, and some necessity, can we hope to open up the situation and no longer be suppressed by the government.
"Thank you for your hard work," Boyin finally said.
Other revolutionary organizations are unfortunate because they did not give birth to great revolutionaries such as Francis, Chris, Boyne, Morais, Verac, Piaf, and Winston, but they are lucky.
Because these people really exist, the Equality Society has already half-stepped into the new world.
Equality will help them and everyone.
"Can we talk now? Who are you?" As Boyin inquired in depth, Weikenji actually had a vague idea of the result in his mind.
"We are the Equality Society," Boyin said.
"We are the Equality Society," Clark translated.
The faces of Weikenji and August didn't change at all for three seconds, and then they looked at each other in doubt, then in disbelief.
"You, who are you?"
"This is the headquarters of the Equality Association. I am Boyne, the third president of the Equality Association. This is Comrade Morais, the director of the Equality Association's Operations Department. These two are Comrade Ross and Comrade Clark from the Equality Association's Propaganda Department respectively.
Boyin smiled, stood up and solemnly extended his hand, "Welcome to come here."
After listening to Clark's translation, Weikenji and August were speechless with their mouths slightly open.
"This, no, is impossible..."
"How could that be? Are they lying to us?"
Weikenji's eyes were red. He was happy and scared at the same time. He wished he could meet the Equality Society, but he was even more afraid that this was just the other party teasing him: "No, you must be lying!"
"Why do you think so?" Boyin understood their mood swings and asked calmly.
"How could the Equality Society mix with the army? We were caught by the patrol team, how could they hand us over to the Equality Society?" Weikenji couldn't understand.
"Because basically, the troops stationed in Lezein are all our people, and only two guard regiments are still under the actual control of the government." Boyin listened to his own words from the other side's perspective, and felt that this was pure bragging.
, "I know this is hard to believe, but we have indeed secretly controlled Laizein's independent mixer and have Laizein in our hands. The reason why we have not been active recently and have appeared frequently is that we are hiding our capabilities and biding our time, waiting for more updates.
Good timing.”
"How can the Equality Society control the army? How can the government sit back and watch you control the army?" Weikenji was still very doubtful.
Boyin's outstretched hand was still hanging: "If you are curious, I can tell you this matter slowly. In addition, you don't know the trends of the Equality Association, and your own side is in a mess, so you should also
We know that we are worthless in the eyes of the government. If we are from the government, there is no need to waste time with you, we can just execute him or hand him over to the Bash embassy."
"Are you...really the Equality Society?" Weiken Ji was shaken.
"Ross, go get the wanted list for us." Boyin reluctantly asked Ross to get the wanted list for himself and Morais.
Seeing that the photo on the wanted list looked exactly like the person in front of him, Weikenji finally accepted the fact, tremblingly stretched out his hand to shake Boyin's hand, and cried with joy: "Hello!"