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"I want to know you... Can you fully represent the official?" I said with interest.

"Of course, I was authorized by the current President to negotiate with you, and we take this meeting very seriously... Oh, I'm sorry, but because of Columby's lack of intelligence, we can only work in such a low-key way, and if we make too much fanfare, we will be discovered.

"Can you show sincerity that pleases me?" said from the chair behind me.

"We can immediately provide you with a non-repayable loan of up to 160 million Colombian dollars.

"I want more from him, like that share of the energy income... As far as I know, when Victoria extracts energy in the Two Rivers region, it takes 90% of the profits, leaving 10% of the profits, and the local chieftains and nobles really give very little money to the mining workers and local people.

Franklin was keenly aware of something, so he said: "You are different from those people, not only do you have a high prestige, but you also have a strong army, not to mention that we are not Victoria, we don't need colonies, we don't need such a high-pressure rule, we just need normal business in terms of energy." You can trade with us at the normal market price, we will pay, we do not seek military and political influence in the local area, we only want to do business. Franklin

then added: "Now because of the Victorian system, the whole world market is in a very unhealthy state, Victoria has too many things in his hands and too little left. It has caused dissatisfaction among a lot of people, including us, so we have to join forces to break this shackle and get what is rightfully ours.

"No, no, no, you're mistaken, if you really cooperate with me to win the local ore area, then if you do business at the market price, wouldn't it be a loss... I can give you a discount on energy trading, but we don't sell unprocessed ore, we only sell processed ore products.

Franklin understood right away and said, "Gofu and Standard have a complete set of technologies that can be invested in local factories or specialized ore schools."

"You're quite happy to say yes. I said with a smile.

"Hmph, if you are a Victorian, I don't even have a chance to meet you now, as long as it comes to the ore issue of the Two Rivers region, Victoria is like a big man-eating lion, no matter how you talk about it, you can't talk about it. "Listening to Franklin's tone, he must have suffered that kind of loss.

"Ah, wouldn't that be nice? it would give us a chance to work together, but I don't want Kazdale and my base to become a raw material city that exists entirely around the ore area. I think Colombia may need a little bit of exporting as well.

"Of course, I've always felt that there is a serious mismatch between Colombia's influence in the international community and the power it has. There is such an opportunity that I don't want to miss. Franklin packed up the papers and said, "The current president is an alumnus of my university..."

, "But that doesn't mean he has the same idea as you, are you going to run for president?"

"Of course, I was dissatisfied with all the policies of presidents in the past, and the steps were too small and too little. "What more do you want?"

Franklin said, "I need the latest agricultural technology, including seeds, fertilizers, hydraulic works, farm implements, tractors, and pesticides that are very effective against insects and dragonflies." There are also a series of infrastructure equipment such as hydropower, thermal power, coal washing, roads, railways, airports, etc., ......

"Please wait a minute, sir, you have too much, if you ask for a price like this, I can't say anything above." "

I don't want myself to be in a passive situation, if we break our heads before we get anything... I can't explain it to myself.

Franklin was silent for a moment and then said, "If you negotiate the price after you beat it, you're going to raise it a lot, right? That is, we have fallen into a very passive situation, we do not have a single soldier there, and if the cost of precipitation is too high and there is no gain, it will affect the authority of our ruling party and the personal status of the leader. I

snapped my fingers and said, "We can sign a treaty, a treaty of commerce." Of course, it has to be based on equality, and you can't deny that Kazdale is a completely independent political entity, right?"

"Of course, but at the end of the day, you are not a regime, and there is no way to make a treaty with us in the name of the government. That's a bit of a hassle... I have great respect for you, sir, but we cannot put all our hopes in your credibility.

"Then we can work together in the name of Rhode Island.

Franklin smiled and said, "I think your personal integrity is a little stronger than Rhode Island." "

Oh, why?"

"Oh, you're not the leader of Rhode Island anymore, it's normal not to know this, they probably don't have the face to tell you, in the three years since you disappeared, Kelsey has also organized some military operations, but all of them have failed without exception, and her military and political level is really not flattering."

Not only were the city-states you built in Great Juz taken by Ursus, but an army of nearly 10,000 men you raised died in the Aral Lake. As a direct result, Cazdale's power in the north has almost completely disappeared, and Victoria in the south has also made frequent northward attempts to regain control of the Sherag Plateau... Even the three major families on the snow-capped mountains are showing signs of leaning towards Victoria.

Compared to the military defeat, the political and economic defeat made her seem so ridiculous... Politically, even your traditional ally, Persia, whom you have worked so hard to build, has been pushed directly against him, and your friend Babur in his crusade against Sargun has even threatened to cut off Kelsey's head.

Economically, the ultramarine ore smuggling in Kazdale can be said to be on the rise, and the local princes who relied on the ore smuggling to develop even formed an independent feudal town-like power.

The words naivety and ignorance are vividly reflected in the propaganda, fighting for the self-proclaimed infected, then shutting down the ore mining, which is the main source of income for Kazdale, and then wasting a lot of resources to take in useless infected.

These measures seem to us to be of no use other than to increase ineffective spending, and instead of being recognized by the infected community, they are labeled as "hypocritical" and "flashy".

What's more important is that these were things that happened a year ago, and it wasn't until that year before that that Rhode Island was willing to advertise itself as an ordinary medical company. Hearing

this, I fell silent, and something felt wrong, but the next sentence quickly dispelled my doubts.

"About a year or so ago, Logos, Misery, and others staged a coup-like operation that took away Kelsey's executive and command in Cazdale. The woman who had always been like the lynx did the most during that time was to hold funerals for dead warriors and operators.

The only thing she can govern is that mobile battleship, and Amiya has made enough concessions to Logos on this kind of issue, and it is precisely because these current backbone figures of Kazdale are your subordinates that we will have so confidence in you, of course, and more importantly, Kelsey is really a bit good at it.

"Why haven't I ever heard anything about you?"

"Of course you haven't heard

that all the old troops who are angry about your disappearance are staying on the old site waiting for you to go back." There are very few people willing to follow Kelsey's Rhode Island north. But Lucille should be counted as a genius engineer, but it is still to be agreed whether she counts as Kelsey's person, and most of the people on Rhode Island are Kelsey's children and new employees who have been hired in the past year.

It is said that because high-end talent is too much to attract, Kelsey even took in a group of mercenaries and bounty hunters. "

Hearing this, I couldn't help but think of Miss Scati and Gavel.

As well as rosemary, lily of the valley and others on the island.

No wonder children have to go to the battlefield, it turns out that there are really not enough people. But those children on the battlefield are also very strong.

As soon as I think of this, I think of the rosemary that Chernoberg smashed everywhere with a few mouthfuls of "iron coffins", the kind of power that destroys the world, who can't help but sigh when they see it.

Well, anyway, I haven't been back for a long time, and I don't know what happened to that kid Amiya

?" "Doctor, doctor!" Franklin called me several times in a row and said, "You were distracted, Doctor, do you think there's something wrong with what I said?"

You don't have to wonder anything, you just need to buy a few old newspapers outside of Rhode Island, oh, old newspapers are not time-sensitive, ordinary people have long thrown them away, as far as I know, my alma mater's library will include newspapers, if you are interested, I can take you to see it. "

Oh, well, I'll have to go when I have time, hahaha.

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a week ago, before Kelsey left for Columbia

, Amiya was walking alone on the deck, a 14-year-old girl who had just done a job of more than 100,000 words: "The snowflakes here are just as beautiful." "

The place where Amiya looked was to the west, not only in the direction of Victoria Lentinium, but also in the direction of Kazdale.

"Amiya, you don't usually come to this place very often. Kelsey also stepped onto the deck and said, "I've been seeing you unsettled for the past few days, is something wrong?" or is it not feeling well?"

Amiya said: "Doctor Kelsey, don't you feel at ease if you give me three physical check-ups a day? But I do have a heart that I can't let go of, and these events hang over my head like one sharp sword after another, and once they fall, they penetrate my skull, cut my neck, and pierce my body, like... Miss Theresia is the same.

Kelsey walked up and grabbed Amiya's slender hands with the ring and said, "You are you, and Her Highness Theresia doesn't want to see you like this."

"Dr. Kelsey, what is your relationship with the Doctor? Why do I feel that after the Doctor's return, the relationship between the two of you has not been as good as it was in the past at the Tower of Babel? What happened between you that I was not told to me? I was really scared.

I am not afraid of the destruction of Rhode Island, because I am not afraid of the shattering of our ideals, because I know that as long as I am firm in my beliefs, the ruined Rhode Island will one day set sail, and the broken ideals will one day be reunited like a glass to the bottom without a single gap.

But what about the split hearts of men? If our hearts are torn apart, then what ideals are there to talk about? Dr. Kelsey, I know very well, I know very well that if that moment comes, the dreams and ideals of all the people in the Tower of Babel, the infected people of this land, will become dreams in the lake.

Even a tiny stone can shatter it.

I don't want that, I really don't want to see that happen... Dr. Kelsey, you're going to do as much as everyone else to stop that from happening, right?"

Amiya was strong, and she had been through many battles and heartbreaking, but she was still a 14-year-old child at the end of the day.

On the eve of the Battle of the Peninsula, a second before the Demon King's death, a sharp sword pierced Amiya's soft body, and a Demon King's power spread out in Amiya's body, a power that could destroy a continent.

This power brought more of an endless amount of responsibility and pain to Amiya, and for quite some time it was only Dr. Kelsey who insisted on following her behind her to protect her.

Dr. Kelsey took off his clothes, placed them on Amiya's shivering body, and said, "This winter's Laga Ice Field is colder than ever, so let's go back first." "

Dr. Kelsey, I hope you can answer my questions head-on, and don't avoid me anymore, neither you nor Dr. are relatives that I can't leave behind... I'm not going to do a multiple-choice question between the two of you.

Amiya said, "I will do my best to reconcile the contradictions between the two of you, but since you want to reconcile, you must understand."

Amiya exuded an aura unique to a leader, saying, "Tell me everything you know, Dr. Kelsey." "