Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 356 Suspicion is the breaking point

  June 1st

   This is the second day that the Kingdom of Wellland, the Republic of Brescia and the Bash Empire have declared war on each other.

  Both Wellland and Bash acted in a hurry, still mobilizing up and down, troops, logistics, etc. were still waiting to be put in place, and it seemed that they were not fully prepared for this war.

  Based on this point, the two sides accused each other again early in the morning, claiming that the other side was pretending to have planned the assassination incident, prepared for war, and put on an innocent appearance of being caught off guard to win the sympathy and trust of the international community.

   On the contrary, Blessie had arranged things early. After the declaration of war, the Royal Fleet and the Oral Sea Fleet quickly completed their assembly in Port Chester, waiting to meet with Welland's army and rush to the battlefield.

As for the Nile Empire, since Prince Albert was assassinated and died, except for providing the investigation results to the Kingdom of Welland, it has never publicly contacted any party, and tried its best to avoid being involved in the war, completely forgetting that it is actually The real cause of this war.

  As for the situation in the west of the world, it has also escalated in the new day.

  The Kingdom of Sidr once again sent two additional divisions to the Masi area, exerting tremendous pressure on the Castellan Empire.

  As an ally of the Castellan Empire, the Kingdom of Welland kept silent on this matter, as if nothing had happened, because it had no time to take care of force and had no legitimate reason to use words.

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  Bressi Republic, Lezein, Government House Conference Hall

   "The mission has already set off and will arrive in Shennai in about a week." A minister reported to François.

"The backcountry..." Francois didn't have the slightest liking for Shennai, a country with a very low sense of existence. If it hadn't become Brecy's puppet to check and balance Welland and Bash, he wouldn't even look at it. , "Okay, let's go to work, the meeting is over."

  The ministers participating in the morning meeting got up one after another and walked outside after Francois left first.

   "Captain Maguire."

   Just as Maguire, the head of the Guard Corps, was about to leave, someone stopped him suddenly.

   "General Joseph?" Maguire looked puzzled at Joseph behind him, "You called me?"

   "Yes, let's go out and talk." Joseph invited Maguire to go out, and the two walked side by side towards the government building, "How is your side?"

   "Are you working? It's okay, the people sent by the parliament have not moved, and the guards under me are quite leisurely." Maguire replied.

   Logically speaking, Maguire should not say that he is idle when he answered, and would only complete his duties in a low-key manner.

  After the analysis, Joseph said: "I don't know if Mr. President has told you that I plan to adopt some new plans to attack the Equality Association."

   "Oh? I don't know about this yet, let me hear it?" Maguire showed an interested expression.

"It's nothing more than some ambushes with the advantage of numbers and firepower. There is a war outside, and Blessie 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 they are deployed according to the plan, and there are quite a few vacancies in their hands..." Joseph said.

"That's easy to say. I always feel that using two guard regiments to monitor and control the people sent by the Parliament is too talented. If there is a shortage of people there, let's discuss it with Mr. President. As long as the President agrees, I can at least select one regiment. Troops are here to assist you." Maguire was very active, and did not refuse with the idea that more things would be better than less things, as Joseph expected.

   "When I met Mr. President before, he said that as long as my side needs it, he can arrange for you to assist me at any time, so when my side's plan is completed, this matter can be done."

   "Okay, then I'll wait for your news."

   As they spoke, the two left the government building and looked at the two cars parked on the side of the road.

   "That's it first." Joseph nodded slightly.

"Okay, bye."

"goodbye."

  The two got into their cars respectively.

   "How is it?" Adel had been sitting in the back seat, and when Joseph sat in, he tilted his head and asked.

   "Maguire is very abnormal today." When the car started, Joseph frowned gradually, thinking about why Maguire was acting like this suddenly.

   "Unusual? What happened to him?"

"I told you that he is very careful in doing things. As long as it is not something that Francois entrusted to him, he will generally not do it to avoid trouble. But today I mentioned to him that I am There is a shortage of people on the sidelines, and his help may be needed, but he actually agreed directly."

Adel worried that Joseph was too sensitive: "This is quite normal. If there is a shortage of people on your side, Francois will definitely order him to assist. Instead of refusing, he might as well agree to sell you first." Favor."

"Before I asked him for help at the beginning, he revealed that his guard regiment was idle. It felt like he was waiting for me to ask for someone. According to his style, he should be vague when I asked about the work situation. resignation, at least I won’t bring up such obvious information to give me a chance to ask him for help.” Joseph was still very vigilant, “There is something wrong with this matter…”

   "Then why do you think he did this?" Adel asked.

"It may be that Francois had already talked to him secretly and asked him to find an opportunity to stare at me, so he took the initiative today." Joseph kept thinking when he got in the car. After thinking for a few minutes, he felt that only this possible.

   Maguire has never done much by himself, and he is willing to behave like this, probably because he has been instructed, and the only one who can order him is Francois.

   This is the only logic that makes sense.

Adel thought for a while, and felt that Joseph's analysis was not unreasonable: "If this is the case, doesn't it mean that Francois is on guard against you? If we really bring the guards over to assist in the patrol, it will be Cause a lot of trouble, right?"

"Francois never absolutely trusted me. Now I have a lot of troops in Laizein, which is both a guarantee and a threat. It is normal for him to arrange for Maguire to monitor me." Joseph said to 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 other people to monitor and balance Maguire."

   "You mean..." Adel's eyes lit up.

"Maguire has been cautious and conscientious for so many years. He has not done any major things but has not done a single wrong thing. For any president, I don't think he will be suspicious of him or overestimate his threat, but unfortunately Now that Francois is in power, he doesn't even believe himself, so he should treat Maguire equally and arrange eyeliners to monitor Maguire." Joseph's thoughts gradually became clear, "As long as we can find this person, we can put Maguire in I hold it in my hand."

  At the same time, in the presidential office of the government building, François was secretly meeting with the second in command of the guard regiment, deputy head Arthur.

   "Your Excellency, I just saw that General Joseph took the initiative to invite Captain Maguire to leave after the meeting!" Deputy Captain Arthur straightened his back and said beside Francois, who was drinking coffee and studying the map.

   "It is estimated that Joseph wants to talk to him about the elimination of the Equality Society." Francois had deep eyes, pacing back and forth in front of the big map.

   "After I find out, I will report to you as soon as possible!"

Because François still couldn't see through Bash's layout, his face became more and more ugly. After realizing that there was someone beside him, he took a few seconds to ease his expression: "I have actually seen your performance all these years. In terms of ability, you are much better than Maguire. I think you know this in your heart."

  Deputy head Arthur was a little smug, but he still said modestly: "Captain Maguire has taught me a lot. Without Captain Maguire, I would not be where I am now!"

   After being humble for a long time, he was still beating around the bush and recognizing his ability.

  Francois snorted softly, not paying attention to Arthur, who was impatient: "Do you know what is Maguire's biggest shortcoming?"

   "...I don't know!" Arthur, the deputy head, hesitated for a moment, but didn't 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 this world, one is geniuses, they can do everything perfectly, and the other It's rubbish, they don't do anything so they don't make mistakes. Maguire ... is the latter."

  Deputy head Arthur nodded involuntarily, and raised his head immediately after recovering.

   "Do you know what your strengths are?" Francois turned his back to Arthur, looking for something on the bookshelf.

   This is an opportunity to show that I missed once in my life, and I am afraid I will never have it again. The deputy head Arthur said without thinking: "I know!"

   "What is it?"

   "I dare to think and dare to do!"

Francois, who took out a book from the bookshelf, flashed contempt in his eyes: "You are very confident, this is your greatest strength. Compared with a person who does nothing, I am more willing to give and do things, A future for someone who might do wrong though."

  Deputy head Arthur was breathing heavily.

   "Continue to keep an eye on Maguire." In the end, Francois didn't promise Arthur anything bluntly, but only gave him a secret mission.

  Deputy head Arthur was very excited, as if becoming head was already within reach: "Understood!"

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  Kip City, Nak Weaving Factory, Verac's Office

   After breakfast, Verak locked himself in the office alone, racking his brains to find further breakthroughs in production and further optimization of the factory system.

  In order to get this done as soon as possible, he once again compressed his rest time, and under the condition of ensuring the steady progress of the factory, he would not lose the learning tasks that Boyin painstakingly arranged for him.

   "Crack."

  A match is struck.

  The burning flame wrapped one end of the cigarette, and as Verak inhaled, the cigarette started to burn.

   "Hiss...Hoo..."

   Breathing out a puff of smoke, he flicked the match and threw it into the ashtray.

   The last time he smoked a cigarette, Verak remembered that when he was about to lose his grip in prison, the prison guard gave him some to ease his pain. If he went back further, he couldn’t remember clearly.

  Anyway, he used to smoke, but because Chris didn’t smoke, he quit forcibly while pretending to be Chris.

   Now, in order to combat the surge of stress and exhaustion, he started pumping again.

   "Ahem..." I haven't smoked for more than half a year, and I almost choked on taking a puff of Verak, but after all, I used to be a degenerate smoker, and he quickly adapted to this relaxing feeling after the second sip.

   When he looked at the dense daily production data again, his irritability eased a lot.

  Hanging the eyebrows with his knuckles, Verak continued to study the data.

   Time flies, and soon it will be noon.

   "Boom boom boom."

  The knock on the door brought Vila, who had been devoting herself to thinking, back to reality.

   "Come in."

  Clark, Vikenji, and August walked in with a meal.

   "Comrade Verac."

   "Comrade Verac."

Several people greeted Veraker one after another, and Clark put the meal on the table: "I didn't see you during the meal, Comrade Winston, Comrade Andre, they said that you must be researching things and forgetting the time, let us help you Ordered a meal and sent it over."

  Verak laughed: "There are so many things to do, I can't go anywhere except the office."

   "Yes, you should eat something first, and it won't be too late to work after eating." Clark knew that Veraker had many important tasks on him.

"At first I didn't feel hungry and didn't pay attention to the time, but as soon as you brought the food over, the stomach growled by itself." Verak put the documents aside and opened the lunch box, "How did you go shopping in the morning? "

  Villac himself had something to do in the morning, so he didn't let Vikenji and August wait for him, and recommended them to take a good stroll in Kip City.

   "We didn't go out." Clark said.

   "Huh?" Verak took a bite of his meal with a puzzled look on his face.

"I told Comrade Vikenji and Comrade August what you thought, but they felt that everyone was busy and they should do some business, so they decided not to go out and stay in the dormitory to study, Learning Bresci or something," Clark replied.

   "Okay." Verak didn't know how to evaluate.

After hearing Clark's translation, Vikenji said: "The environment of the Equality Society is very infecting us. We have been wondering how the Equality Society rose up, how to break through the obstacles and develop to the point where it is now. After this period of experience , we probably understand some reasons.”

   "Because we worked hard?" Verak almost guessed it.

"That's right, each of you is working hard, not ordinary hard work, but giving your all to do one thing together. This makes us realize that we have not copied yours for so long. The essence of success, so it is not surprising that we have repeatedly failed in the struggle of Bash." Vikenji spread his hands and spoke frankly about his inner feelings, "We must work as hard as you and learn as much as possible. , do more."

   "Very good. Keeping this mentality and making continuous progress, I believe that the situation in Bash will soon change." Verac put down the tableware and approved the ideas of Vikenji and August.

  (end of this chapter)