Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 173 Separation

  After Morais finished speaking, there were whispered discussions from the audience.

  Piaf, who had met Verac in the morning, stood up in the crowd, and was the first to make a statement: "Welcome Comrade Verac to join the Equality Association!"

   Immediately after, a few people stood up and welcomed Veraker.

"Okay, the membership ceremony is officially over, let us welcome five new members to join the Equality Association, and work together in the future to contribute to the opening of a new world!" Most people are still in the stage of digesting information, and Morais is not free After everyone reacted, he asked their opinions one by one. After Piaf led someone to express his opinion, he began to applaud and ended the membership ceremony.

   After everyone applauded, they left in an orderly manner.

"At present, it seems that everyone is not very against you, which will be very beneficial to the next work." Morais watched the members of the Equality Association walk in all directions after the simple initiation ceremony, and patted Verak on the shoulder lightly. . In his opinion, it is a good signal that no one refutes, questions, or resists Verak on the spot.

   "Hmm." Verak felt his mouth dry.

No one likes to tell others about his experience in the past few months carefully and countless times, and Verak is the same. Fortunately, this is the last time if there is no accident. After that, he has no need to explain his own experience. experience.

   Piaf came over and congratulated Verac first: "Welcome to join us officially."

   "Thank you." Verak nodded his thanks.

   "The meeting room is ready, and the others are basically present, so they are waiting for us." Piaf turned to report the situation to Morais.

"Verak, I can see your ability, and there are a lot of things that need your help." Morais glanced at the Keating four who were sitting on the side, waiting for Verak, "Later you and Kiting Come with me, Ting, let's have a meeting and discuss how to persuade Chloe to agree to implement the original plan and give up unrealistic fantasies."

  As expected by Verac, Morais did prepare a meeting after the induction ceremony, and he was included as one of the participating members long ago. The only thing that surprised him was that before he could introduce Keating, Morais took the initiative to invite Keating to participate.

  It seems that Keating’s previous aura is still dazzling enough. As a minister who assisted Ravel in ruling Bresci for decades, his experience and insights are precious to the Equality Society.

   "Okay." Verak adjusted his state, "Then shall I call him now?"

   "Yes." Morais stood there and waited.

  Villac walked to the place where Keating and the others rested on the sidelines: "Teacher, they will have a meeting on how to persuade Chloe next, and specifically stated that you also want to attend."

   "You didn't mention it?" Keating couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard it.

"No, Morais asked for it." Verac replied, "Diaz, Nord, Murphy, you go back first, continue to copy the theory of equality as I asked, and learn the language and characters of Bresci .”

   "Understood." Diaz and the others got up, said goodbye to Verac and Keating, and returned by the way they came.

   "Let's go, everyone is here." Verac brought Keating, Morais, and Piaf together.

Morais and Keating shook hands, and said as they walked towards the conference room: "You must have understood the situation, Chloe, another leader of the Equality Association, now intends to change our plan and reach a real peace negotiation with the government." We have to find a way to convince him to proceed with the original plan and seize the last chance."

  "The government is just trying to delay you. When the World Expo is successfully concluded and the delegations from various countries leave, they will inevitably block Lezein and finally wipe out the Equality Association with unprecedented force." Keating said.

"That's right, it's just that he insists that the government's peace talks are sincere. Even if it's not sincere, our Equality Association can take the initiative to show sincerity and realize our demands through peaceful means." Morais smiled helplessly, "He There are a group of people in the Equality Association, if we don’t convince him, we are not sure what will happen, so in the meeting later, I hope you can provide some valuable opinions and suggestions.”

   "I'll do my best." Keating didn't finish his sentence.

   Soon, the four of them arrived at the door of a conference room. A member of the Equality Society opened the door, let the four of them in, and then slowly closed it again, standing guard in front of the door.

  The layout of the conference room is relatively simple. A long table is placed in the wide space, and ten chairs are lined up on both sides of the long table. At this time, nearly ten people have already sat on the twenty chairs except the main seat.

  The ten of them, Verak, looked unfamiliar to them. They were probably promoted by Boyin and the others after he left. This is also normal. With the expansion of the Equality Association, it is completely impossible to maintain the operation with only a few of them. They can only build a management system.

"These two are new members of our Equality Association, one has made outstanding contributions to our Equality Association, and the other was a minister of the Brexi Empire. They both have excellent abilities, so I specially invited them to participate in the During this meeting." Morais took the main seat, and arranged for Verac and Keating to sit on the two chairs in the middle on the left side. I have already introduced myself, so I won’t repeat it here.”

   After Veraker and Keating took their seats, they glanced at the backbone of the Equality Council sitting on the left and right and across from them. There were both men and women in these people, and most of them kept their faces cold and silent.

"Conversely, Verac, Keating, you need to get to know these mainstays of the Equal Society." Morais stretched out his hand, starting from the first person on the right, "Li Meng, a Welllander, was once a A young reporter was forced to go into exile here because he reported the persecution of peasants caused by Welland’s enclosure movement in other countries. He joined us by chance. Liszt, a professor of sociology at Imperial University, is going deep into Study the grassroots situation in various countries. Piaf, you already know, she is a novelist who founded her own newspaper to speak for women..."

  Morais focused on the key points and told the names, backgrounds, and specialties of the ten backbones present, including Piaf.

  Verak and Keating nodded to everyone.

"Okay, everyone knows each other, so let's get down to business and discuss the most critical issues at the moment." After Morais finished his introduction, he immediately talked about the biggest crisis they faced, "It's almost a month before the end of the World Expo This also means that we have to convince Chloe within this month, and then make a specific plan to spread the concept of equality at the closing ceremony of the expo."

   "It's hard to make sense on Chloe's side, and time is so tight. It's best to do these two things at the same time. After reaching a consensus with Chloe, the plan can be started immediately." A female backbone said.

"That's what I thought about it too. Next, our main job is to divide into two ways, making plans along the way and convincing Chloe along the way." Morais agreed with her opinion, "I'm not too worried about the plan, after all, before Bo Because before we went to be hostages, we made a general idea, and what we have to do now is to refine it. The most important thing at the moment is to convince Chloe. If you can't convince him, it's useless to make a plan .”

Another person said: "Regardless of whether there is a way to persuade them in the future, I think that we must be cautious when talking to them again. Although Chloe supports a moderate approach to contacting the government, she is extremely aggressive when communicating with us. They don’t accept our suggestion at all. We have talked to them no less than ten times during this period, and we can already clearly feel their impatience. Now that it’s getting closer to the closing time of the expo, we are impatient, and they are also impatient. If we formally talk about It collapsed, and the consequences were unimaginable."

   "That's right, we have to make sure that we can continue to talk, otherwise no one can tell what Chloe will do." Some people are also worried that Chloe will give up negotiating with them directly.

  If Chloe is no longer willing to talk to Morais, then there is only one possibility, equality will split.

   However, that is a scene that no one wants to see.

Chloe is also very clear that if the Equality Association really splits, half of them will have no confidence to negotiate with the government, and he doesn't want the other half to make mistakes again and again, so he tries to persuade Morais .

"If you want to change Chloe's views, you have to solve the problem fundamentally, and use practical actions to prove that the government has never thought about real peace talks. If we miss the World Expo, it is tantamount to missing the concept of equality to the world. best chance."

"It's not that he doesn't know. We have listed a lot with him and refuted his fantasies with the lessons of blood that happened to us, but these are useless. He is still stubborn. He doesn't want to see everyone sacrifice, he doesn't want to see Go to Boyin and never return."

"Why did we get to where we are today? It's because we fought, and we fought with weapons. Now that the government finds that it is impossible to subdue us through violence for a while, it wants to draw a big pie for us and disintegrate our will. Then take advantage of our unpreparedness and give us a fatal blow..."

Morais suddenly felt irritated when he heard the conversation of the crowd. He patted the table: "What's the use of repeating these words between us? Who here doesn't know? Who doesn't understand? And it's not like I didn't talk to Crowe. Yi said, so many conversations, which one did not say this? But the facts tell us that these are useless! We have to think about other ways and means to change Chloe's views!"

  The conference room fell silent.

  They all know that the government is delaying time. They can say the government’s plan casually, but they know it’s useless. They have to let Chloe insist on peace talks, so that the future people will recognize the reality.

  But at present they have exhausted all means, and the people on Chloe's side have not wavered in the slightest.

   "I want to hear what Chloe and the others think first." Keating broke the silence and asked Morais.

Morais calmed down his anxious mood: "Chloe believes that even if the government does not really talk about peace, it at least recognizes the strength of our equal association. As long as we make a request next, the loss to the government will be greater than our tearing face. If there is no loss, they will definitely agree to carry out real cooperation. Just like when Comrade Francis organized workers to strike, held a large-scale demonstration, and forced the government to issue a decree to reduce the working hours of workers by one hour."

   "Dreaming..." One person snorted softly.

"He also believes that although our appeal fundamentally affects the interests of the government, nobles, and consortiums, there is still room for discussion, because the government is bound to be unwilling to confront us head-on, even if they violate the law this time. Promise, there will inevitably be new equality in the future. They don't need to put aside the one-time solution to the problem and deal with the struggle from the bottom again and again." Morais continued, "The other thing is, he I don’t want to see so many of us continue to sacrifice, and I don’t want to see Boyin executed by the government.”

   It was also at the meeting that Verac and Keating learned about Chloe and his supporters' thoughts in such detail for the first time.

   To put it simply, Chloe is a loyal supporter of Chris, and his ideas have always been consistent with Chris's, that is, to use as little force as possible, avoid bloodshed and sacrifice, and persuade the government through reason.

   When Verac was posing as Chris, Chloe supported him and changed his mind. After Verac's affairs were exposed, he returned to the original point and continued to support the previous move.

   It’s not so much that they are naive, it’s better to say that they are unwilling to confront the government. They believe that they don’t have to fight the government to the death if they want to speak out for the bottom and strive for a sufficiently equal and beautiful world.

  They are not optimistic that the Equality Association, which is mainly composed of civilians, can confront the government. Instead of tearing up their faces and being driven out, it is better to accept it when they have a little right to speak and have a little leeway.

  You can walk on this road, and stop halfway.

  If you don't reach the end point, you will return to the origin sooner or later, and if you don't reach the end point, you will never be considered successful.

   "I think this is a rare opportunity to screen members of the Equality Association." Verak said his opinion.

   Morais has organized such meetings countless times, but unfortunately there has been no result. If he reopens today, he actually puts his main hopes on Verac and Keating.

   "How?" Morais asked.

  Others also looked at Verak.

  They wondered what this young man who had betrayed the Equality Society and woke up in prison could have any opinions higher than theirs.

"Staying in the Equality Association for so long has not seen the true face of the government, or if I have not changed my naive views, and I am unwilling to face the truth, then staying in the Equality Association will only drag more people down." Verac boldly He raised his opinion, "It's better to take this opportunity to get out directly, this will reduce the burden instead."

   Dead silence.

  (end of this chapter)