Longmen Memoirs

"In other words, this operation has lost most of its value, right?"

"But we still took the initiative." Kelsey said.

"But what your people told me back then was that you were confident of eradicating Trasis and his remnants in this operation. My council and cabinet ministers agreed to your request after careful consideration."

"Your Majesty." Kelsey's cold face remained calm, showing no trace of panic. "I think you also know that Tracys is not an easy person to deal with. Besides, if he hadn't still maintained contact with the deep pools in Victoria, why would you and your ministers have traveled thousands of miles to come here? .”

"We can't maintain our ability to win this opponent in one or two encounters. Accidents are inevitable, but even if this happens, Victoria still gets more than they pay for."

"Well...Ms. Kelsey, I admit that what you said does not make sense. I can also understand Kazdale's plight. This is one of the main reasons why I appear in Rhode Island now." Vina replied calmly, "Longmen's neutrality in this dispute is the result of a mutual agreement among our three parties. But now this expected result can convince me, but it cannot convince my ministers. We have to reconsider the next discussions with Kazdaele. Contract and aid content.”

"What do you want us to do?" Kelsey seemed to have guessed Wei Na's thoughts.

"What can you do?" Wei Na asked.

"As you can see, Rhode Island is just an ordinary hospital ship, and we are just an ordinary neutral pharmaceutical institution that cannot promise anything to you and the huge Victoria interest group behind you."

Kelsey said it very normally, as if Rhode Island really looked like what she said. Vina just looked at her and didn't comment on it, but that look said a lot.

"I'm listening, you can continue." Wei Na nodded, her lazy look was like the cabinet ministers who finally thought of her as the master of the throne when they were arguing, and turned to ask her opinion.

I'm listening, gentlemen, please continue.

"So we hope that the unidentified Drac can be temporarily placed in our custody."

"Doesn't it belong to Kazdale... I can't accept this condition. I will extradite the Drake back to Victoria." Vina shook her head. "The people of Deep Pond refuse to obey the leadership of the kingdom in the name of Drak and the Treaty of Two Kings. We need the identity of this Drak to shake their rationality and legitimacy."

"You know this is impossible." Kelsey replied calmly: "Unless you want the Night of Long Knives to happen again, we all know that he will not hand over the Drak to you easily. Victoria's love for Drak I think you know the attitude better than we do. Once that Drac arrives in Victoria, can you keep her from being used by some people with ulterior motives?"

"I can't guarantee it." Wei Na said: "I will consider your request, and I also hope that Ms. Kelsey and your Rhodes Island can really be as ordinary as you said."

"Thank you for your understanding, Your Majesty." Kelsey bowed slightly.

Wei Na shook her head.

"Victoria really needs the identity of the drake, but I can't guarantee her safety, so you have the opportunity of Kazdaele. We choose to cooperate with you, so I ask you to promise me that the drake will not On Victoria soil, not in Deep Pool slogans.”

"I will convey your request to the Speaker, and I also believe that the Speaker can give you a satisfactory answer."

"That's good." Vina said: "Trasis is our common enemy. Behind him and the Deep Pool stands the shadow of Gaul. Kazdaele and we face a common threat, so I sincerely hope that you "The Speaker and your Parliament will be less contentious so Victoria and Kazdaele's contract will remain valid."

"I agree with you." Kelsey nodded.

"I heard that Kazdel is still maintaining assistance and business contracts for the Ursus Integration Movement." Vina suddenly asked.

Kelly didn't deny it.

"Yes, we have indeed continued the agreement with the Integrated Movement. Rebuilding Kazdale requires a large number of factory orders, and the infected people in the Integrated Movement also need enough medicine and the establishment of an effective medical security system. This can be beneficial to both of us. effect, so the Assembly and the Speaker agreed that we should maintain and integrate the relationship of the movement.”

"Isn't it because of Ursus?"

"I don't deny it." Kelsey said: "Kazdare and the Eastern Front really need an ally urgently. Today's integration movement can just take on this important task. Otherwise, Ursus' attitude towards the infected will become Kazdare's. Potential threats to the east.”

"Your words remind me of the war two years ago." Wei Na frowned slightly: "If I remember correctly, the integration movement only rose after that."

"You are right," Kelsey said, reminding: "At that time, Kazdaele and Victoria both provided a large amount of weapons and assistance resources to the integration movement."

"You don't have to remind me." Wei Na smiled: "I remember very clearly that my parliament was seriously dissatisfied with my decision to stop supporting the integration movement. Whether it is military or commercial, this decision is undoubtedly It's stupid and stupid, but... I don't care."

"Tallulah Atrias is a descendant of Archduke Edward and a legitimate heir to one of the Victoria thrones. This is the main reason why Victoria chose to aid the integration movement. We cannot watch a wandering Draco in Ukraine. Wandering around the land of Sass, but I have to admit... at least so far, she's doing pretty well."

Vina said, and Kelsey lowered her eyes slightly. Tallulah is indeed the legal heir to the throne of Victoria, but at the same time, today's Victoria is no longer the Victoria of the Double Kings period. The nobles and Aslans who are attached to Aslan are really Would you care about the life or death of a drak?

If so, why did Edward flee to Longmen again? Wasn't it because he lost the power struggle with Aslan? Are the people in Shenchi and the Gauls behind him really worried about what happened to the Drakes? Dissatisfaction rather than following Drak and the unshakable Treaty of Two Kings led to rebellion.

Today's Dracs are dying and are about to become extinct. Isn't this the result that Aslan is happy to see and contribute to? And once Tallulah chooses to return to Victoria one day in the future, how many people will try to take advantage of this poor bird? Where's Drake.

At least Victoria agreed to keep the drake in Rhode Island instead of taking it away because she was not the real Tallulah after all, or she was not the well-known Tallulah.

"I know what you are thinking, Ms. Kelsey." Vina suddenly raised the corners of her mouth in a self-deprecating tone, and her golden eyes fell on Kelsey: "You should understand that if the outcome of the civil war in Kazdale is completely different from what it is now. Different, your Speaker and I can't sit smoothly in our current position. Drake is indeed Victoria's Drake, but today's Victoria is not Drake's Victoria. I can't make any comment on what the previous kings did. Any evaluation, but for me personally, maybe the current result is the most suitable ending for the leader of the integration movement and for me."

Victoria needs a legitimate ruler, but it is obvious that the Deep Pools and the Dracs they dominate cannot stand at the leadership of this country. Behind them is Gaul, and Victoria cannot fall into the hands of Gaul. , that would be an irreversible disaster, not to mention, how would those Drak puppets resist the deep pool.

The real Drake had died 20 years ago. 30 years ago, with the palace coup, the last Drake, Edward Atrias, died, and now Tallulah, who is infected - Atrias no longer has the ability to step into the land of Victoria.

"After Feodor of Ursus cleans up the opposition forces in the country, great changes will definitely occur in Ursus. This will be an opportunity for her." Vina said, she raised her head slightly and put her right hand on On the hilt of the sword at the waist: "I will reconsider the contract with the Integration Movement, even if it is... Victoria's memory of the Archduke Edward."

Victoria expelled Edward, and later fell into the conspiracy of Kosiche of Ursus. Together with Yanguo, she became the culprit in forcing Edward to death. From the perspective of the country's ruler and herself Aslan, Wei Na didn't think there was anything wrong with this. , but as an individual, Wei Na has to express sadness about this.

Wei Na did not mention Longmen.

Longmen had gotten what they wanted. Moreover, for Aslan, Longmen's private acceptance of Edward and concealing his identity was unforgivable. Victoria's subsequent reaction must have made Longmen not very fond of Victoria. .

Wei Na became more and more curious about the Drake.

She is undoubtedly a qualified leader. For this reason, she can accept the use and help of the enemy who killed her father. For this reason, she can watch the one she loves go into the abyss.

This is a ruthless person, but you can't say she is ruthless, because she undoubtedly has strong personal feelings about the encounters and struggles of the infected. If not, why would she wander around in the land of Ursus? .

Wei Na thought that as a leader, she was better than herself.

She just slowly became like Wei Yanwu, the person she once hated the most.

Tallulah walked out of Mephisto's hospital room.

She didn't let anyone follow her.

Shuangxing stopped and stood silently behind Talulah. The heavy rain in Longmen had stopped. If her guess was correct, with Chen's character, she would definitely go to Wei Yanwu to verify the truth of that year.

It would be a good idea to finish the matter at Longmen before she knows anything about it.

One thing Chen is right about is that they all have various careers and their own lives. Their lives have already embarked on different paths, and this path will lead to their respective end points. No matter what they look like when they are young, At least now, she and Chen are different people.

Tallulah rejected Ursus's envoy, but all the cadres of the integration movement except Alina and Bodrokasti did not know that long before the arrival of Ursus's envoy, the current speaker of the Ursus National Assembly He has secretly visited the integration movement.

He brought the emperor's secret orders.

Feodor agreed to divide Checheng and the deserted areas to which Checheng belongs to be managed by the infected, and asked Talulah Atrias, the leader of the integration movement, to agree to Ursus's upcoming reforms and contain the military's obstruction. The Harassment Faction, in the future reform treaty, will appropriately improve the treatment of infected people, close the northwest mines of the empire, and give infected people certain rights, but at the same time require the integration movement to be immediately disbanded, and Tallulah be appointed as Chernobog The new mayor of the city, the empire recognized his status and rights.

He also brought the appointment letter and power of attorney for the new mayor. Tallulah only needed to sign it and publicly disband the integration movement, and the empire would fulfill its promise to the infected.

Tallulah did not sign immediately, nor did she refuse the empire's appointment. She needed time to think about it. After all, the Ursus Empire had broken its promise many times when it came to treating the infected. Every emperor would make promises to the infected. They sacrificed their lives for the imperial conquest, but in the end every emperor sent inspectors and tax collectors with whips and swords to force the infected to death from exhaustion in the dark mines.

Just like Frost Star, Ursus's conquests and victories were built on the corpses of countless infected people, but they were unable to share any of the glory and glory brought by victory and war, only endless oppression and pain.

If signing her name could improve the situation of the Integrated Movement and the infected, Tallulah would certainly do so, but the Integrated Movement was not hers alone, nor did the Integrated Movement reach what it is today by herself.

Those compatriots who sacrificed their lives, those brothers who fought together for this ideal until death and never looked back, those infected who believed that Tallulah could lead them to find their home, and... the man buried deep under the snowfield.

They are the ones who made the integration movement what it is today.

Tallulah finally realized what he said, don't believe their kindness and compassion. They don't have such things. If they can directly force themselves into their hands, why should they pay for the benefits? They are all a group of robbers at heart. When you can stand on the negotiating table with them, they will smile at you politely, bow to you, and explain civilization to you.

ps: I am probably the only Ark Quanshu writer who can write to this level. (Proud dog head)

ps2: It’s not that I don’t want to follow the main line, but if I follow the main line, when will there be a small tower, and behind it will be the real King of Martial Arts. Why do you think I, a Yanguo native, went to Ursus to fight for the infected? .

Chapter 159 Me to You ([-])

I once thought that Tallulah was the anchor I had found in this strange world and that she told me the meaning of life. But I was wrong. She was just a person I happened to meet in my confusion and hesitation. For example, I was a passer-by in Vina's life.

We just happened to meet each other at the right time and chatted to comfort our confused feelings.

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On the road to reform, the emperor and parliament of the Ursus Empire tried to use the integration movement to balance and contain domestic opposition forces. The infected people represented by the stance of the integration movement will become Fyodor's enemies on the road to reform.

No emperor would watch the fall of one obstacle and the birth of another, and the country is all the result of the balance and pull of various forces and factions. The disputes and contradictions between these factions represent their respective interests and integration. The infected represented by the movement were in a way well suited to serve as aids to the Emperor and the Council.

If the Integration Movement was still the original Integration Movement, they certainly would not have this qualification, but today's Integration Movement has been able to step into the eyes of the emperor. Their existence is not considered to be very important in the eyes of Ursus, but they have a certain strength and influence. It is an indisputable fact.

The emperor can pay a price and promise to win over this new faction representing the infected. Qicheng in the southern border of the empire broke away from the rule of the emperor and the parliament more than 20 years ago when the Boris Group was born. The factions weighed the left and right, but clearly favored the latter.

Using a nominal territory to draw the Integration Movement into its own chariot fleet is undoubtedly a good deal for the Parliament and the Emperor. Compared with using them as consumables in the struggle with the military faction, the current Integration Movement may not Can't do more.

Tallulah could guess the thoughts of the empire and the parliament, which was why she hesitated. Once she got involved in the battle between the emperor and the remaining old nobles, the integration movement would face dozens of times more strife than before. Parliament The integration movement will be regarded as a pawn, and the old aristocrats and military factions who foresee the crisis will also find ways to clean up the pawn of the emperor and parliament, and even regard them as warnings and bargaining chips against the emperor.

By then, whether the integration movement can still be the current integration movement, Tallulah can also imagine that when she becomes the new Ursus dignitary and the lord of Qie City, various voices will inevitably erupt within the integration movement. If she is questioned, she will be regarded as a traitor, and everything she has done in the past will be said by some people to be for the purpose of realizing their own selfish desires, and to win over infected people to sacrifice their lives for them.

The integration movement will no longer be so pure, and the goals they strive for will be tainted with darkness.

But Tallulah knew very well that even if they remained neutral between the parliament and the military factions, once their battle came to an end one day, the integration movement would become the target of liquidation. Today's integration movement has gone too far. It is weak, and the infected people do not have the conditions to govern the country. Moreover, if they want to overthrow the rule of the behemoth Ursus, even if it has gradually become a declining old man over the years, it is not something that the integration movement can contend with.

In addition to the infected, there are also a large number of ordinary people in the Ursus Empire. A small number of these ordinary people have sympathy for the infected. However, after the great riots more than ten years ago, this group of infected people took to the streets to sympathize with the infected. It was severely suppressed by the empire.

In addition, most people in Ursus actually have no superfluous emotions about the situation of the infected. This is due to the empire's policies and propaganda against the infected that have been implemented for many years, as well as the great Ursus legacy left over from the former emperor's era. The SARS government concept exists, and they will not stand on the side of the infected.

The integration movement cannot gain the support of most ordinary people through publicity and solicitation. The Originium Disease will become a demon that blocks communication between them. In the city of Chernobog, the infected people and ordinary people will live together. There will be so many resistances and problems in the policy, let alone a huge empire.

As Drak, Tallulah, even though she is the adopted daughter of Kosiche and has part of the legal inheritance rights of the Ursus Empire, the emperor and the Ursus royal family still exist, and her legality is not worth it in front of these people. By the way, in addition to these problems, Letania, who is related to Ursus, will not sit back and watch Ursus be occupied by the Integration Movement and Tallulah. They will definitely use the excuse of clearing out the rebellion. Flag, with the world watching, sent international troops into Ursus to clean up and integrate the campaign.

Once she thought of these, Tallulah would inevitably feel confused. There were so many dilemmas and problems before her and the integration movement, and they were so big that she could not find any way to deal with them for a while.

It seemed that the integration movement had no choice but to become a pawn of the emperor and the parliament. The battle for Ursus was imminent. Both the military faction and the parliament gave her a reply. This reply seemed to be a response to the results of her years of struggle, but it was only That’s all.

Compared with the threats from the military factions, the emperor's conditions seemed to be much more generous. However, in the battle for reform, the emperor and parliament had always been weak, so they were willing to spend a huge price.

Both the Integrated Movement and Tallulah need allies. Not only that, the Integrated Movement needs more. They need orders, guarantees, excellent talents, and far-sighted staff. Tallulah needs someone who can tell her, What should she do next to prevent the integration movement from heading towards unknown destruction in this storm.

Tallulah raised her head, not a single star could be seen in the black sky of Longmen, and the night was long and deep.

She thought of the Speaker of Kazdaele. Cosiche's careful education gave Tallulah sufficient knowledge and a vision far beyond ordinary people.

After secretly cooperating with Kazdel, she investigated the country's past history and sword experiences during its rise, trying to find experiences worthy of her own reference.

Presumably Speaker Theresia had faced similar problems to herself at that time, but Kazdaele's stubbornness could not be used as an experience for the Integration Movement, even though they and the Integration Movement were the only two countries that accepted infected people. , no, the integration movement is not yet a country.

Kazdaele's stubborn rise was driven by a large number of old nobles and lords who gathered under Theresia's command. These lords clearly stood under the orthodox heir of Kazdaele at that time and provided her with a large number of employees. The legions and supplies supported the continuation of the Kazdaele Civil War, and even so, they were once forced into despair by the royal legion. Then the swaying lords suddenly gave up the trade-off for unknown reasons and united to join Trey. It was Thea who restored this decline, and then there were wars, and wars continued.

Tallulah didn't know more. If she had known, she would have understood that the lords who stood on the fence at that time were forced and tempted by swords and interests to make decisions, and the fights that broke out within Victoria at that time seriously hindered The royal army obtained supplies and materials from Victoria to support the continuation of the war. Tracy's allies were confiscated from their hometowns. The reason why the war ended so quickly and the subsequent purges and massacres were due to the greedy lords and remaining people after the war. That's why more problems didn't break out among the old aristocracy.

The head of the Grand Duke of Sherland is still hanging on the city wall, with dry eyes staring at the group of lords who are trying to get more. The noble lords are no different from dead dogs in front of him.

Tallulah did not meet these conditions, the nobles and lords of Ursus would not side with the infected, and he was not the orthodox heir to the royal family of Ursus.

The experience of change in the Republic of Kazdaele is not enough to measure the Ursus of today.

The uncertainty and confusion about the road ahead made Tallulah and her integration movement difficult, as if they were back in the spring when the winter feathers no longer crow. The winter in Ursus was long and cold, and the spring seemed to be buried in the heavy snow. .

Along the way, we were supposed to be getting closer and closer to our goal, as if we were only one step away now. The infected people already have their own city, and they also have their own life and work in this land. , every infected person in Qicheng always has a smile on his face.

They are no longer numb and cold, and there is always hope in their eyes, as if they can continue like this, and they don't ask for much.

Tallulah kept her promise.

But these are like a dream, a beautiful dream that is about to be broken. Chernobog in the dream is like a castle in the air built of mirrors, flowers, and water, as if it will break at the touch of a touch.

Longmen's promise is only a drop in the bucket. Even if they return to Qicheng with Longmen's infected people and technical resources, Qicheng cannot immediately integrate this knowledge into practical power. They need time, a large number of scientific researchers, experience, and enough of troops and weapons.

"traitor……"

Tallulah couldn't help but whisper these two words.

The continuation and destruction of the Integration Movement can only be determined by her one thought, and no matter which choice Ursus gave, it means that the name of the Integration Movement, which was condensed with the hopes and beliefs of the infected people at the beginning, has become a new one under her choice. past.

"How would you choose?"

Shuangxing looked at Tallulah's back in front of him. At a distance of more than ten meters, Shuangxing followed her silently.

She actually wanted to go up. She could feel that Tallulah was in a very wrong state and seemed to be full of confusion, but Shuangxing hesitated for a long time and still did not go up.

Since the independence of Checheng, she and Tallulah have rarely communicated with each other. A huge city is enough to make the infected people very busy after the initial joy. There are problems everywhere and disputes among the infected people. , making Frost Star exhausted.

She never thought that after the independence of Qicheng, some infected people would actually fight against ordinary people, nor did she imagine that this group of compatriots whom she trusts and compatriots would at some point allow her to see the ordinary Ursus mobile city. People's attitudes towards infected people are even worse.

Greed, selfish desire, hatred, these things will naturally break out at that moment, and break out on ordinary people at the moment they break out of the prison, because they are infected, because this identity actually makes them feel that they should be after the independence of Qicheng The owner of this land.

The gap between the infected and ordinary people was so serious that Shuangxing realized at that moment that even the infected people unknowingly regarded them as different creatures from ordinary people.

Many people, many people, are unwilling to continue to struggle after Qicheng becomes independent.

Shuangxing could not forget what the infected person said to her after the municipal team dealt with the fight between the infected and ordinary people. She said, since we have all obtained the land and we can live an equal and stable life, why should we resist? I'm going to go against Ursus. I don't want to die for your wealth.

She remembered the contempt and rejection in the eyes of the infected person, as if his hypocrisy was so natural. And the ordinary person who was beaten, Shuangxing also saw the deep anger and hatred in his eyes when he looked at her.

It was his group of people who ruined his life, it was the infected people, and it was Tallulah who led the integration movement to make Qicheng independent. However, this independence did not win anyone's gratitude, only rebuke and hatred.

At that moment Shuangxing was really at a loss.

She finally understood that overthrowing tyranny and governing the city were two different things. She was confident and ambitious to want the infected to stand up and resist, take back their rights, and find a home of their own. This is the goal for every infected person. The common wish in our hearts.

However, she forgot that people's hearts are different, she was still young, and she thought that her blood could annihilate any obstacles.

At this moment, her father's words finally suddenly appeared in her mind.