Chapter 935 Before the Speech (please vote for the big chapter)
saint ylan district
The bustling crowd was led by a thin man holding a wooden sign and carrying transparent umbrellas, wandering all the way to the end of the street.
"There are quite a lot of you."
A slightly burly bald man glanced at the dense crowd and looked at the thin man with a beard next to him.
"Eighty or ninety, man,"
The bearded man raised his hand and took out a metal box from his pocket, opening it to reveal the clean and tidy cigarettes inside.
"You have to know the price of 75 federal coins. You can hire a man to do work for you in Ningweis District for a week. They only need to travel with the team for a day and they can earn what others work desperately for a week, and they pay in advance.
Who doesn’t like a part of the money? They all call their friends and desperately want to grab this job.”
He took out a cigarette and handed it to the bald man next to him, "As for us, for the price of a bottle of wine in a bar, you can hire three people to yell with you for a day, so why not?"
"It's rare for you to be so generous."
The bald man took the cigarette and held it in his mouth, "You didn't find those 'old people' this time? Aren't there supporters of the doctor in the White Jasmine Palace among these newcomers? You tricked them into opposing that doctor, and that's it.
Aren’t you afraid that they won’t cooperate? Aren’t you afraid that they will take your money and not work?”
He raised his hand, spread the top of his smooth index finger, and spurted out a blue windproof flame, which he handed to the bearded man.
"Your prosthetic body is quite useful."
The bearded man took out a cigarette, held it in his mouth, and put the cigarette butt in front of the flame. With flickering sparks igniting at the end of the cigarette, he took a puff of the cigarette and said slowly,
"The true supporters have been screened out a long time ago. Those who come here are just ordinary people who earn some money to eat, and their bracelets have been collected. The people around them are all my people, and they have taken the money I paid them in advance.
Part of their income has been eaten up and beaten. They have to be able to resist even if they don't want to cooperate."
Then he looked up at the people in the rain, with a smile on his lips, "And we don't really need to 'cooperate' this time, do we? My money is not that easy to get."
"You are still as ruthless as ever,"
The bald man lit his cigarette, the flame on his fingers extinguished, and he closed his fingertips. He looked at the crowd in front of him, "Didn't I remember that we were not the only group of people? There were at least two other groups?"
"The other waves are smaller and are said to be arranged by Levi's,"
The bearded man smoked a cigarette and said, "The news I sent you this morning said that Levi's was arrested by the FBI last night, so maybe there was no arrangement."
"That's what these big talkers are like,"
The bald man bit his cigarette butt and looked at the white jasmine petals at the end of the road in front of him in the hazy mist. "Except for being good at talking, I can't do anything else."
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Mayor's Palace
"Lynn!"
A middle-aged man with a thin build and a calm face stood on the edge of the corridor. He saw He Ao coming from a distance, waved his hand, and ran over quickly, "How is your health now?"
"Fortunately, my injury is actually not too serious,"
He Ao looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and nodded gently, "I'm much better after Dr. Des' treatment."
The man in front of him is the deputy mayor of Yilan City, Linn's political ally and a representative of the conservatives, Lant.
"That's good,"
Lant breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at He Ao and said seriously, "You know, I will not use such despicable means. In this regard, your subordinates and I have the same position.
I don’t want anything to happen to you.”
"I told you, I believe you."
He Ao put out the cigarette butt in his hand, threw it into the trash can nearby, looked at Lant, and said slowly.
Lant's position is actually neutral and favors Lynn. He wants to fight for the interests of conservatives in the ruling coalition. At the same time, he also supports reform, but he does not want to be as radical as Lynn.
In the current governing coalition, the conservative forces are not strong enough to control the coalition.
Therefore, once Lynn is assassinated, the entire ruling coalition will immediately collapse. Even if Rand becomes the new mayor in accordance with the legal order, he will lose control of the government and parliament. The forces that originally supported Lynn will even become suspicious of Rant.
Target him deliberately.
At that time, the isolated Rand will either unite with the consortium and use the power of the consortium to reorganize into a thoroughly pro-consortium city government.
Or he could be locked up in the mayor's palace and face the next assassination amid rebellion and incomprehensible government orders, until a pro-consortium mayor comes to power.
And Lant's own tendency is anti-consortium, otherwise he would not get together with Lynn.
Therefore, from Lant's perspective, if Linn was assassinated, unless he had completely succumbed to the consortium, his succession as mayor would be harmful but useless.
At this moment, Lant also looked at those old and determined brown-gray eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "Thank you."
Although he had heard this sentence on the phone, when he heard He Ao say this "trust" in person in the mayor's mansion, he was still a little shocked.
Although he also knew that 'Lynn''s statement of trust in him might be largely an expedient to maintain the situation, but the fact that the other party was willing to make this choice in such a fierce situation was fundamentally against him.
It's really a bit 'trusting'.
And he also noticed that the 'Lynn' in front of him was indeed a little different after experiencing the assassination last night.
In the past, Lin En was a sharp but soft sword, sharp and sharp, but a little indecisive at critical moments.
Then the Linn in front of him was more like a knight's sword shining with cold light under the night, hard, straight, upright and heavy.
There was still a sharp edge under those brown-gray eyes, but it seemed as if there was a curtain covering them, and the sharp sword light was looming behind the curtain.
He can give people the same vigor and style as before, and he can also make people believe that he has the ability and ambition to practice what he says.
Lant could clearly feel that the 'Mayor Lynn' in front of him was more reliable.
"It seems like last night really had a big impact on you."
He took a breath, looked at the old man beside him, and asked with a little sigh.
"After people experience life and death, they always understand something,"
He Ao smiled, stretched out his hand, and motioned for Lant to follow him along the corridor.
"How's it going with General Covey in Nancheng? Have you made any arrangements? I heard..."
Lant followed He Ao's pace and asked worriedly.
After escaping assassination, the next bigger factor was the 'coup'.
The 'ambition' of Nancheng Commander Covey, as well as the conflict between the Nancheng City Defense Force and the Linn City Cabinet, have reached the point where almost everyone in Yilan City knows about it.
"There are currently no problems in Nancheng,"
He Ao smiled and said, "I have met with General Covey. He is a very reasonable man and would be willing to ****."
"Oh, that's how it is,"
Lant paused for a moment, and then he was stunned, his eyes widened, and he looked at He Ao in shock, "Have you met him? Have you reached an agreement? When?"
"Last night."
He Ao nodded slightly.
"Mr. Lynn,"
At this moment, the blond chief of staff ran over from behind. She whispered in He Ao's ear quickly, "A parade has formed in front of the mayor's palace."
"Um,"
He Ao nodded slightly and turned to look at Lant, who was still a little surprised next to him. "I have something to do and may be delayed for a while. Why don't you go to the cabinet meeting room and wait for me? All the cabinet ministers should be heading there now."
