This is the second day after the Kingdom of Welland, the Republic of Bresi and the Bash Empire declared war on each other.
Both Willand and Bash appeared to be in a bit of a hurry. They were still mobilizing up and down. The troops, logistics, etc. were still waiting to be put in place. It seemed that they were not fully prepared for this war.
Based on this, both sides accused each other again in the morning, saying that the other side was pretending, clearly planning the assassination incident, preparing for war, and pretending to be innocent and unprepared to win the sympathy and trust of the international community.
On the contrary, Bresci had arranged things early. After the declaration of war, the Royal Fleet and the Oral Sea Fleet quickly assembled in Port Chester, waiting to join Welland's army and rush to the battlefield.
As for the Nile Empire, since the assassination of Prince Albert, except for providing the investigation results to the Kingdom of Welland, it has never publicly contacted any party. It tried its best to avoid being involved in the war, completely forgetting that it was actually the
The real reason this war started.
As for the situation in the western part of the world, it has also escalated in the new day.
The Kingdom of Sder once again sent two additional divisions to the Masi region, exerting tremendous pressure on the Castelia Empire.
As an ally of the Castelia Empire, the Kingdom of Welland had no time to worry about military force and had no legitimate reason to talk, so it remained silent on this matter, as if nothing had happened.
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Republic of Bressey, Lezein, government building conference hall
"The mission has set off and will arrive in Kannada in about a week." A minister reported to Francois.
"Backcountry..." Francois didn't have the slightest fondness for Shena, a country with a very low sense of existence. If it hadn't become Bressy's puppet to check and balance Willan and Bash, he wouldn't even look at it.
After a while, he said, "Okay, let's go and do our business. The meeting is over."
After Francois left first, the ministers who participated in the morning meeting stood up and walked outside one after another.
"Captain Maguire."
Just as Maguire, the commander of the Guard Corps, was about to leave, someone suddenly stopped him.
"General Joseph?" Maguire looked at Joseph behind him and asked doubtfully, "You called me?"
"Yes, let's go out and talk." Joseph asked Maguire to go out, and the two of them walked side by side toward the outside of the government building. "How are you doing there?"
"Are you working? It's okay. There's not much movement from the parliamentarians, and the guards under me are pretty idle," Maguire replied.
Logically speaking, Maguire should not say that he is very idle when answering, and will only complete his duties in a low-key manner.
After analysis, Joseph said: "I don't know if Mr. President has told you that I plan to use some new plans to attack the Equality Society."
"Oh? I don't know about this yet. Can you tell me about it?" Maguire showed an interested expression.
"It's nothing more than using the advantage of numbers and firepower to stage some ambushes. There is a war outside, and Bresci is also involved. The Equality Society will definitely take this opportunity to become active again, so I think it is feasible to lure them out.
It's just that when we deploy them according to the plan, there are quite a few vacancies on our hands..." Joseph said.
"That's easy to say. I have always felt that using two guard regiments to monitor and control the parliament is overqualified. If you are short of people, let's go to Mr. President to discuss it. As long as the president agrees, I can at least dedicate one regiment.
We have troops to assist you." Maguire was very proactive and did not refuse as Joseph expected, thinking that doing more would be better than doing less.
"When I met Mr. President before, he said that as long as I need it, I can arrange for you to assist me at any time, so when my plan is completed, this matter can be started."
"Okay, then I'll wait for your news."
With that said, the two people left the government building and looked at the two cars parked on the roadside.
"Then let's do this for now." Joseph nodded slightly.
"Okay, bye."
"goodbye."
The two of them got into their cars respectively.
"How is it?" Adel had been sitting in the back seat. After Joseph sat in, he tilted his head slightly and asked.
"Maguire is acting strange today." The car started, and Joseph gradually frowned, thinking about why Maguire was acting like this suddenly.
"Abnormal? What's wrong with him?"
"I told you that he is very careful in what he does. As long as it is not something Francois entrusts to him, he will usually not do it to avoid getting into trouble. But today I mentioned it to him.
I was short of people and might need his help, but he actually agreed directly."
Adel was worried that Joseph was too sensitive: "This is quite normal. If you are short of people, Francois will definitely give an order for him to assist. Instead of refusing, he might as well agree to sell you first."
Favor."
"At the beginning, before I asked him for help, he revealed that his guard regiment was very idle, as if he was waiting for me to ask for help. According to his behavior, he should be vague when I asked about the work situation.
At least he won’t mention such obvious information and give me a chance to ask him for help." Joseph was still very wary, "There is something wrong with this matter..."
"Then why do you think he did this?" Adel asked.
"Maybe Francois had a secret conversation with him and asked him to find an opportunity to keep an eye on me, so he took the initiative today." Joseph had been thinking about it since he got in the car. After thinking for a few minutes, he felt that this was the only thing he could do.
It's possible.
Maguire has never done much by himself. If he is willing to behave like this, he is probably under instructions, and the only person who can order him is Francois.
This is the only logic that makes sense.
Adel thought for a moment and felt that Joseph's analysis was reasonable: "If this is true, doesn't it mean that Francois is quite wary of you? If we really bring the guard regiment over to assist in patrolling, it will
Will it cause a lot of trouble?"
"François has never absolutely trusted me. Now I have a lot of troops in Lezeinli, which is both a guarantee and a threat. It is normal for him to arrange for Maguire to monitor me." Joseph told Francois after dealing with him.
These actions are no longer surprising, "but I think...since I am being monitored and balanced, Francois must have arranged for others to monitor and balance Maguire."
"What do you mean..." Adel's eyes lit up.
"Maguire has been cautious and conscientious for so many years. He has never done anything big or wrong. For any president, I don't think I would doubt him or overestimate his threat. But it's a pity that
Now that Francois is in power, he doesn’t even believe in himself, so he should treat everyone equally and arrange spies to monitor Maguire." Joseph’s thoughts gradually became clearer, "As long as we can find this person, we can put Maguire out.
I have it in my hand."
At the same time, in the presidential office in the government building, Francois was secretly meeting with the second-in-command of the Guards, Deputy Commander Arthur.
"Your Excellency, I just saw that General Joseph took the initiative to invite Captain Maguire to leave together after the meeting!" Deputy Captain Arthur straightened his back and said beside Francois, who was drinking coffee and studying the map.
"I guess Joseph wants to talk to him about the Qing Suppression and Equality Society." Francois's eyes were deep and he was pacing back and forth in front of the big map.
"I will report to you as soon as possible after I find out more about it!"
Francois' face became increasingly ugly because he still couldn't see through Bash's plan. After realizing that there were people around him, he took a few seconds to soften his expression: "I have actually seen your performance over the years.
In terms of ability, you are much better than Maguire. I think you know this very well."
Deputy Captain Arthur was a little arrogant, but he still said modestly: "Captain Maguire taught me a lot. Without Captain Maguire, I wouldn't be where I am now!"
After being humble for a long time, I still recognized my abilities in a roundabout way.
Francois snorted lightly, not taking Arthur's breath to heart: "Do you know what Maguire's biggest shortcoming is?"
"...I don't know!" Deputy Captain Arthur hesitated and did not say anything.
"His biggest shortcoming is that he can't make mistakes." Francois walked away from the map. "There are two kinds of people who can't make mistakes in the world. One is genius. They can make everything perfect, and the other is genius."
They are trash, they do nothing and will not make mistakes. Maguire...is the latter."
Deputy Captain Arthur couldn't help but nodded, and immediately raised his head and chest after coming back to his senses.
"Do you know what your strengths are?" Francois turned his back to Arthur and rummaged for something on the bookshelf.
This is a chance to perform that if you miss it once in your life, you may never get it again. Deputy leader Arthur said without hesitation: "I know!"
"What is it?"
"I dare to think and do!"
François took out a book from the bookshelf with contempt flashing in his eyes: "You are very confident, this is your greatest advantage. I would rather give someone who is willing to do something than someone who does nothing.
Despite the possibility of doing wrong one has a future.”
Deputy Captain Arthur's breathing was heavy.
"Keep an eye on Maguire." In the end, Francois did not directly promise Arthur anything, but just gave him a secret mission.
Deputy leader Arthur was extremely excited, as if becoming the leader was already close at hand: "Understood!"
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Kip City, Nack Weaving Factory, Verak's Office
After breakfast, Verak locked himself in the office alone, racking his brains to find possibilities for further breakthroughs in output and further optimization of the factory system.
In order to get this thing done as soon as possible, he once again compressed his rest time, and while ensuring the steady progress of the factory, he did not lose the study tasks that Boyin had painstakingly arranged for him.
"Chu."
A match was struck and burned.
Burning flames wrapped around one end of the cigarette, and as Verak inhaled, the cigarette started to burn.
"Hiss...hoo..."
Exhaling a puff of smoke, he flicked the match and threw it into the ashtray.
The last time he smoked, Verak remembered that when he could no longer hold on in prison, the prison guard gave him some to relieve the pain. If he goes back further, he can't remember clearly.
Anyway, he used to smoke, but because Chris didn't smoke, he had to quit forcibly while pretending to be Chris.
Now, in order to combat the increased pressure and exhaustion, he started smoking again.
"Ahem..." He hadn't smoked in half a year, and he almost choked when he took a sharp puff of Verak, but after all, he was once a degenerate smoker, and he quickly adapted to the relaxing feeling after the second puff.
When he looked at the dense daily production data again, his irritability was reduced a lot.
He raised his eyebrows with his knuckles and continued to study the data.
Time flew by and it was soon noon.
"Dong dong dong."
The knock on the door brought Vera, who was immersed in thinking, back to reality.
"Please come in."
Clark, Vicky, and August walked in carrying a meal.
"Comrade Verak."
"Comrade Verak."
Several people greeted Verak one after another, and Clark put the food on the table: "I didn't see you during the meal, Comrade Winston, Comrade Andre, they said you must have forgotten the time while studying something, so let us help you
I brought a meal over."
Verak laughed and said: "There are so many things to do, I can't go anywhere but the office."
"Yes, you need to eat something first. It won't be too late before you finish your work." Clark knew that Verak had many important tasks.
"Originally I didn't feel hungry and didn't pay attention to the time, but as soon as you brought the food over, my stomach started to growl on its own." Verak put the documents aside and opened the lunch box, "How was your morning shopping?
"
Verak himself had something to do in the morning, so he didn't let Vikenji and August wait for him, and recommended that they take a stroll in Kip City.
"We didn't go out," Clark said.
"Huh?" Verak looked confused after taking a bite of food.
"I told Comrade Weikenji and Comrade August about your idea, but they felt that everyone was busy and they should do some serious things, so they decided not to go out and stay in the dormitory to study.
Learn Bressian or something." Clark replied.
"Okay." Verak didn't know how to evaluate it.
After listening to Clark's translation, Wickenji said: "The environment of the Equality Society is very affecting to us. We have always wondered how the Equality Society rose up and how it overcame many obstacles to develop to this point. After what we have experienced during this period
, we probably understand some of the reasons.”
"Because we work hard?" Verak almost guessed it.
"That's right, each of you works very hard. It's not just ordinary efforts, but you give everything you have to work together to do one thing. This makes us discover that we have not copied you at all for so long.
The essence of success, so it is not surprising that we have repeatedly failed in Bash's struggle." Weikenji spread his hands and spoke frankly about his inner feelings, "We must also work hard like you and learn as much as possible.
, do more.”
"It's good. Keep this mentality and keep making progress. I believe that Bash's situation will soon change." Verak put down his chopsticks and agreed with Vikenji and August's ideas.