Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 280 The situation is urgent

  April 16, early morning

  Government buildings, conference halls

  Francois's mental state today is far worse than a few days ago, it looks like he didn't sleep well last night. This is also normal. The continuous gunshots last night made many people sleepless: "I have finished reading the report on yesterday's incident. I want to hear what you think."

   None of the ministers dared to speak easily.

Seeing that no one spoke, Francois first looked at Maguire, the head of the guard: "Is this what you did? The day before yesterday assassinated a group of members of the parliament, and yesterday our people were killed immediately? The water was muddied, No one can figure out the situation now, if you continue to assassinate each other like this and expand the conflict to the point of disharmony and reconciliation, can you take responsibility?"

"Your Excellency, the situation may not be that bad." Maguire wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and explained his different opinions to Francois, "It is wrong for us to assassinate the people in the parliament, and then blame it on the Equality Council. The problem is, after all, if it is true that Equality will take action, they cannot only target the parliament. Now the Equality Association realizes that we are deliberately disrupting the situation, so they assassinate our people instead, which can dispel the doubts of the parliament and speed up our cooperation. "

   "How can you be sure that this is the hand of the Equality Association? What if it is someone from the Parliament?" Francois asked.

   "Last night, the Equality Association also launched a street fight. I think these two things should be carried out at the same time."

Francois sneered: "Is there an inevitable connection between the street fighting and the assassination of the Equality Society? If your logic is feasible, then we finished the assassination the night before, and the next night the parliament will retaliate immediately. Is it reasonable?"

   "Compared to the Parliament, the Equality Council is more motivated to do this at present." Maguire trembled uncontrollably.

"The Equality Association will inevitably guess that this is our masterpiece, and it is reasonable for them to take action to muddy the water. But whether or not the parliament has identified the instigator, it will not affect them doing the same thing to us the next day. Because It was us who made the move, and they happened to retaliate justifiably. If it wasn't us who made the move, he could also pull us into the water and jointly increase the suppression of the Equality Society." Francois looked at Maguire coldly, "So, if the investigation is not clear, there is no Before you have sufficient evidence, you insist that equality will shoot, but you are justifying your own mistakes."

   "Your Excellency President!" Maguire trembled as he spoke.

  At the beginning, he just wanted to advise Francois, to get a share of the situation that he must win, so as to fight for greater development opportunities for himself.

  But I never expected that the situation would become complicated.

  At this moment, he regretted a little, remembering that when the Equality Society attacked the government building, he pursued the principle of not chasing after it and just doing what it was supposed to do.

   "Find out the matter." Francois did not go into Maguire's responsibility at this juncture, "In addition, strengthen the protection of our people and the people in the parliament."

   Maguire took a breath, secretly glad that he still had a chance to turn around: "Understood, but why should we protect people in Parliament?"

   "Why do you think it is?" Francois asked with narrowed eyes.

   "Is it to show them goodwill, and it makes sense on the surface?" Maguire guessed.

   "Including, but more than that." Francois shook his head, "That's just a superficial thing, the actual purpose of doing this is to send people to monitor and control them logically, so do you understand what your real mission is?"

   Maguire immediately understood why Francois did this: "Understood!"

"Pissel, I read the report on yesterday's street fighting, and found that you didn't gain much." After dealing with Maguire, Francois looked at Pissel, who had always been indifferent, "I want to know what you are doing. What happened to the deployment for a period of time? I transferred your three regiments back, could it be that it was done so that the Equality Council would find us paper tigers?"

Pissel was not as trembling as Maguire, but calmly replied with his back straight: "The main role of the Corps is to prevent large-scale actions by the opponent, and we do not have an advantage in street fighting. If you want to catch them all, I will It is recommended to bring back at least five regiments to carry out a carpet search. Otherwise, it is impossible for us to find out this group of rats hiding in the sewer.”

   "It would take a lot of work to transfer you back, and if we transfer another five regiments, there will be a lot of trouble in the overall arrangement." Franço said that the transfer would be troublesome, but in fact he was worried that Pissel would be self-respecting by then.

   "Then we can only continue to follow your plan and try to force them out, and then we will encircle and suppress them head-on." Pissel said.

   "What if they have another street fight tonight? How about repeated harassment like this? Could it be that we don't have effective countermeasures?" The chancellor couldn't help asking.

"Don't worry about this. I will send people to strengthen the protection recently, improve the patrol layout, and ensure that if they dare to come again, they will never come back." Pissel felt the dissatisfaction of several ministers present and Francois, and made a decision Promise, "What I just meant is that this is passive after all, and it doesn't make much sense for us to catch them all. We'd better think of some new ways to get them out."

  Francois nodded: "All the efforts we have made so far have not achieved the expected results, and we have to think of some new countermeasures."

   "We have preliminarily agreed to cooperate with Welland, and we have also contacted Shennai. They will send a mission to visit secretly as soon as possible." The foreign minister said.

"That is to say, the matter of the war is basically settled, and we must solve the Equality Council before the war, otherwise, like the World Expo, we will be restrained and give them an excellent development period. In addition, this Give them another chance, I'm afraid they will really grow beyond our control..." François was deeply aware of the threat of the Equality Society, and he had listed the Equality Society as the number one enemy. The biggest stumbling block to the stability of the West.

"Don't worry." Pissel's gaze became cold. If the Equality Society had not been eliminated before the war started, he would stay behind in Laizein and give others the opportunity to build military exploits. "Before the war, I will definitely Kill all members of the Equality Society."

François knew what Pissel was worried about, and it happened that this was in his favor: "If the internal troubles can be resolved before the war begins, then the important task of the Bash expedition can be handed over to General Pissel with confidence. "

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  North District, Equality Association Terminal

  Because there are many comrades involved in the street fighting, a large-scale evacuation to the North District will inevitably attract the attention of the government, so they were all placed in various places in an orderly manner by Morais, and the wounded were treated in time in the early morning, and the statistics were collected.

  During the morning meeting, Boyne looked through the statistical table and quite recognized the casualty ratio that occurred this time.

  After being integrated into the War Department, this is the first time that the Equality Society has fought against the government. Although it takes advantage of the convenience of raids and night street fighting, he is still very satisfied with the death toll of 20 people.

   You must know that the loss of the Guards last night was several times theirs.

   "Moles, you did a great job." Boyne praised.

   "Yesterday's street fighting not only inspired the hearts of the people, but the voices of the people also inspired us." Morais still remembers what happened last night.

"Well, this shows that the people have not lost confidence in us, and we will not let them down in the future." Boyin is pleased with this. They have established an image that will not be easily shaken in the hearts of the people, which will be of great help to future generations. Both combat and revolution have immeasurable help. "The wounded and sacrificed comrades need to be properly resettled. We are not short of money now, and we should give them adequate care."

   Those were all under Morais's command, and he was more important than Boyne: "Don't worry, I will take care of everything."

"There was a commotion yesterday, and the government estimates that it will strengthen its vigilance in the near future. Our street fighting and assassination will be put down first, and we will wait and see the situation before making arrangements." Boin closed the document, "Okay, is there anything else to report? If not Dismiss the meeting."

"I have something here." Diaz raised his hand, "I have dealt with several children in the past few days. They are all under the age of sixteen, and they are not in the scope of our absorption, but this does not Thwarting their enthusiasm for what they wanted to do, they spontaneously organized workshops in their neighborhoods, or shared equality proclamations with each other, or wrote and painted together to help us spread the word."

   "Sounds good." Boyne said.

"But they are still children after all, and they have no ability to contend with the government. There is a child named William, whose brother, who is also under the age of 16, was caught and publicly executed by the government for helping us spread ideas. During the street fighting last night, Another child refused to listen to his parents' advice and ran away from home. He insisted on coming back with me to join the Equality Association. He is now in the main station...I think it's time for us to guide and control them. There will be unimaginable losses." Diaz shared what he had seen and heard in the past few days, hoping to gain Boyne's attention.

Boyne's face became serious as Diaz said: "Comrade Diaz mentioned this is very important. We all understand the enthusiasm of these children, but we also have an obligation to protect them and tell them what they can do. Can't do anything."

"Yes, I thought about it for a long time last night. These children are very rebellious. It is impossible to persuade them to do nothing. Why don't we really let them do what they can, so that they don't think about their own abilities and get into trouble?" Dangerous," Diaz suggested.

   "What do you think these kids can do?" Boyne asked.

"…I have no idea."

"This matter needs to be taken seriously, and a solution should be given as soon as possible." Boin glanced at Keating, Verac, Nord, Piaf and others present, "Everyone express their opinions, the children's matter Can't delay."

   Keating thinks deeply: "François would acquiesce in laying hands on children, which is extremely rare in any country and era in the past."

   "He has lost the bottom line, which also shows that he really has nothing to do with us, and we are not far from victory." Nord regards this as proof that Francois is at the end of the road.

"Let me figure out a way to deal with the children." Piaf took over the task, "I will appeal to the Equality newspaper first, and then arrange people from the Propaganda Department to contact these classes secretly. Since they They are generally doing propaganda work, so I can help them arrange some safer 'jobs'."

   "Talk to me at any time if you have any questions." Boyin nodded slightly, "Is there anything else?"

Minister of Intelligence Charles said: "We went to investigate the information about Joseph, the current commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment stationed in Laizein. If he gets rid of Pissel smoothly, then he does have a great hope of controlling the three corps."

   "Adel said that this person has been sending money to the families of soldiers who died decades ago. Is it true?"

  "It's true. It has never stopped decades ago, and only a few people in the military know about it. It seems that it can't be a show." Charles checked carefully.

  Byne was thoughtful: "Continue to investigate, there must be no omissions in this matter. Make sure you check it out, and then report to me."

   "Understood." Charles agreed.

   "Okay, let's go to our respective affairs, the meeting is over." Boyin got up and left, and went to visit the wounded after the street battle with Morais.

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  At noon, Comrade Lynn, who was far away in the branch of the Equality Society in Hanniton City, Pruman Empire, sent someone to send back the "Treatise on Classes" translated into Bresci.

Boyin immediately arranged for small-scale printing, and first ensured that the cadres in the Equality Association had a copy. After they read it and communicated with Winston, they ensured or corrected the content, and then spread it to all comrades and even the people. them.

  In the afternoon, Verac, Keating, Piaf, Morais, Diaz, Charles, Nord and others already had a copy of "Class Theory" with a rough cover in their hands.

  After Winston learned of the situation, he put down his research and waited with great anticipation for everyone to have an in-depth exchange with him after reading it, and discuss the most feasible development route together.

  In the evening, Veraker, who didn’t have a job scheduled so he was relatively free, buried himself in the “Theory of Classes” and took notes excitedly while admiring a certain passage in it.

  In "A Theory of Classes", Winston systematically analyzed all the production relations of capitalism, using a dialectical method, from simple to complex, from part to whole, from essence to phenomenon, fully revealing the operating structure and laws of the world.

   Just when he didn't feel the slightest drowsiness and was still studying the content of the first chapter repeatedly in the early hours of the morning, there was a hasty knock on the door.

  Verak put down his book and went to open the door, and a young comrade greeted him: "Comrade Verac, Chairman Boyne wants you and Comrade Keating to rush to the meeting room immediately!"

   "What's the matter?" Seeing the serious look on the young comrade's face, Verak couldn't help asking.

   "Sorry, I don't know, but the situation is urgent, please go over immediately with Comrade Keating!" The young comrade urged.

  (end of this chapter)