Embers Ad Infinitum

Over the years, the benefits have not been achieved, but the pain has been endured. A large number of citizens have experienced strong emotional fluctuations because of these words.

The security guards and the city defense soldiers around who were in charge of maintaining order all felt a little bit inside, and had a bad premonition.

Seeing the crowded citizens on the square, they couldn't help but swallowed their saliva.

If so many people are rioted by Gaius and flock to the Senate, the Government Affairs Office and other places, showing a serious tendency to violence, will they stop or not, should they shoot or not?

Although the above orders must not be soft-hearted, and they tried to discourage their family, relatives, and friends from participating in this civic rally, but at first they said that the city is certainly not small, and it is the largest city in dust. It is not too big. After deducting the vagrants, the huge slave groups, and the people who participated in the army to participate in the reclamation group stationed in other settlements and subordinate city-states, the number of citizens is also hundreds of thousands.

If you want to shoot at an acquaintance, everyone will hesitate and relent.

Besides, is Gaius telling a lie?

No, in the eyes of these civil security guards and city defense soldiers, the general said every word in his heart, which is the reality they usually see and hear.

Gaius did not follow the thoughts of everyone present, and took advantage of the trend to explain how the good situation of the "Initial City" was slowly eroded and destroyed. He turned to say:

"Many of you should have no land of your own."

This sentence is like a sentence of sparks falling into a pan, which instantly detonated the atmosphere.

There were people shouting in different places in the square:

"We want land!"

"We want land!"

Gaius stretched out his left hand, pressed it down, signaled everyone to be quiet, and listened to himself:

"There are many reasons why you lost your land:

"Some are experiencing extreme weather, food production is greatly reduced, and you have to borrow from certain people and institutions. Interest accumulates day by day. After similar things happen again and again, you can only sell materials to pay back. In the end, The surrender is land;

"Some of the food harvests have been harvested. As a result, people who occupy a large amount of land deliberately start a price war. In addition to filling your stomach, you will not be worth the loss in other aspects, and you have to pay taxes in full. Year after year, the same Embarked on the road of borrowing;

"Some of them suffered serious illnesses from family members; some encountered robbers; some encountered problems with their guarantees; some suffered unexpected disasters... In short, they were forced to borrow money and fell into a vicious circle.

"And the Senate, what does the person in charge of the government affairs office say?

"Say this is either your own reason, your own problem, or it is normal competition or the misfortune that deserves sympathy but cannot help from a legal perspective."

Listening to Gaius's speech, many people recalled what happened to them or their parents.

There are people who can apply each of these to oneself or one's own family.

Under repeated propaganda from the upper level, they did believe that it was mainly their own cause, so they became more aggrieved and angry. They could only hope that the "Initial City" would continue to expand outward, so that they could exchange their inner fire for new land. .

At this time, Gaius deliberately paused for a few seconds before saying:

"No, they are lying!"

His voice was amplified, and with the help of the microphone, the ears of everyone present were humming, and his heart was turbulent.

Gaius looked around and said:

"It is true that some people destroy their families because of their alcoholism, laziness or indulgence, and they have to sell their land, but this is only a minority.

"The vast majority of citizens will be forced to sell their land if the grain production is reduced, and the grain harvest will slowly start to sell land, but it will last a few more years.

"In this reality, no matter what you do, your land will eventually be concentrated in the hands of some people.

"Are you a little confused about the reason? I'll tell you why!

"When you encounter extreme weather, food production is reduced, and relief is needed, where is the Senate and the Government Affairs Office?

"When there is a bumper harvest of grain, the price drops, and official purchases are needed to maintain stability, where is the Senate and the Government Affairs Office?

"When those unreasonable interest accumulates again and again and become exaggerated enough, where is the Senate and the Office of Government Affairs?

"When you only need to stretch out your hand once to get through the difficulties and enter a virtuous circle, where are the Senate and the Government Affairs Office?

"Some of them are busy buying cheap land, they are busy lending you loans through spokespersons, they are busy arranging people in the newspapers, on the radio, and on TV to accuse you of not being able to operate and refuse to learn. , Not good at farming!"

Gaius paused for a short time, and the entire Hope Square was quiet and silent, until the descendants of the nobles such as Sheriff Wall suspected that a huge whirlpool was brewing.

At this moment, they felt that the eyes of the security guards and city defense soldiers around them seemed to be blazing.

Gaius, who has always been serious and expressionless, dyed his face with excitement:

"They are busy attending banquets, each time they can use up one cow and many sheep, they are busy counting Aurei, buying exquisite clothes and accessories, worshipping evil gods, indulging their desires, and entangled naked. Together!

"They are busy colluding with cults, colluding with our number one enemy, colluding internally and externally, and consolidating their power!

"Everything in the'First City' was exchanged for all of our citizens with their heads and blood. The power of the Senate was granted by us through the citizens' assembly. How did they treat us like this?

"We are the masters of the ‘First City’. We need strong representatives to remove those worms and supervise their every move!"

Gaius shouted hoarsely, so that the eyes of every citizen present glowed with fanaticism.

Just when Wall thought the gunpowder barrel was about to explode, Gaius turned his head:

"I think you have heard that the veteran Varro colluded with the'Salvation Army' and'anti-intellectualism' to endanger the'prime city', but was blessed by some people in the Senate, and was unable to convict him for a long time."

As soon as Gaius's voice fell, there was a deafening voice in the square:

"Punish Varo severely! Punish Varro severely!"

Uh... Wall was a little surprised.

He did not expect that his father-in-law's final goal was just a Varro who was about to be deprived of his status as a senator, not the consul and commander-in-chief Beuris, or the upper-class people in the Senate who were conservative or neutral and refused to radically change the status quo.

That's good or this... At least the conflict can be controlled to a certain extent, and it won't cause major turmoil... Wall breathed a sigh of relief.

But he didn't dare to rest assured, because this was only the current situation. If the people in the Senate refused to compromise, the matter would naturally become fierce, spreading to the whole city, and could no longer be dealt with.

…………

The Red Giant Wolf District is somewhere near the Golden Apple District.

Shang Jian Yao put on his sunglasses, walked a few steps quickly, bent over and took out something from a crack in the wall of a building.

That is the pass for Focas to find someone to put here.

After placing the pass under the windshield, Bai Chen drove the car and turned into the Golden Apple area.

Soon, they encountered the first temporary checkpoint.

Those city defense soldiers confirmed the authenticity of the pass, and let them go without doing any search.

"Huh..." Long Yuehong in the back row exhaled slowly.

"Don't talk!" Shang Jianyao reminded him "cautiously".

"I didn't want to say." Long Yuehong couldn't help retorting.

Among the two, "Garibaldi" Giuseppe glanced from the left to the right, not understanding why he was arguing about this.

At this moment, Jiang Baimian looked in the rearview mirror, and thoughtfully said:

"Giuseppe, when we meet that one, our actions in the future are likely to be carried out amidst violent winds and waves. Do you want to find a place to get off and take shelter in advance, and then join us out of the city when everything subsides?"

Let alone compare with Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, even if you bring Long Yuehong, Giuseppe is not his opponent, and it is not suitable to participate in this kind of action that emphasizes personal ability.

Giuseppe thought for a while and said:

"Just put me down when you enter Emperor Street.

"I have a friend who is the captain of the guard nearby and can take me in for a while until the turmoil is over."

If there is no turmoil, there will be no follow-up actions for the "old-tone group".

"Okay." After Jiang Baimian nodded, he looked ahead, did not speak for a long time, and did not know what he was thinking.

This made Long Yuehong a little drumming in her heart and couldn't help asking:

"Group leader, what are you thinking?"

Jiang Baimian retracted his gaze and nodded lightly:

"I'm taking advantage of the last leisure time to review the changes in the city's situation at the beginning and speculate on possible developments."

"That's it..." Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief.

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Baimian added:

"The more I think about it, the more I feel that we have some blind spots, very important blind spots..."

"Indeed, we all think we have overlooked something." Shang Jianyao raised his hand and touched his chin.

This... Long Yuehong's body tightened again.

Bai Chen tentatively said:

"The attitude of the consul and commander-in-chief?

"In the beginning, the attitude of the awakened people at the'corridor of soul' and above in the city?"

"These are all factors that must be put into the model to analyze from the beginning..." Jiang Baimian shook his head, "I have considered this aspect many times when I decided on the plan, but I never found it. Blind spot, um, I plan to quickly review my past experiences to see if I can find inspiration."

Having said that, she took the opportunity to teach the team members:

"When thinking about a problem and reaching a dead end, you can try to jump out, analyze your own accumulated experience, and get by analogy."

"Yeah." Long Yuehong said that he had learned it.

The Jeep moved forward slowly, and there was silence inside, and everyone was seriously thinking about or deliberating on the subsequent changes in the initial city.

Nearly ten minutes passed~www.readwn.com~ Jiang Baimian suddenly sat up straight and blurted out:

"I remembered our experience at Redstone.

"Hey and I were watched by the old "You Gu"."

When Long Yuehong and Bai Chen were at a loss, Shang Jian Yao shook his right and punched his left palm:

"Yes, what we ignore is the old age!"

Jiang Baimian let out an "um" and said in a low voice:

"The changes in the situation in a small place like Hongshiji are all watched by the old people. How can the attitude of the old people be ignored by the civil strife of the biggest force in the'Initial City'?"

…………

Somewhere in the Golden Apple District.

The archon and commander-in-chief of the "First City", Beuris, walked alone into a secret room with thick curtains and an extremely dark environment.