long night fire

"The senior management of 'First City' is vigilant enough to the occurrence of turmoil..." Han Wanghuo said with emotion.

"Will there still be turmoil?" Zeng Duo was a little worried.

Gnava gave his opinion:

"If nothing else happens, there is a 90.00% chance that there will be no unrest at [-].

"As for whether there are other accidents, there is currently insufficient information to speculate."

The data given by Gnawa are not just made up randomly like Shang Jianyao, they are all calculated by building a model.

Zeng Duo was silent for a while and said:

"The current defense strength of Chuchun Town should have been reduced."

"But if there is no turmoil and the returned strong men and troops are not trapped, they can reinforce Chuchun Town at any time." Gnawa poured cold water on Zeng Duo.

Han Wanghuo glanced sideways at Zeng Duo, and said a word of relief:

"Opportunities are waiting."

……

Primordial City, Golden Apple District, No. 9 Emperor Street, inside the Consul's Mansion.

After putting on his clothes, Assus returned to the hall and saw that his father, the consul and commander-in-chief Beuris had changed into a green-brown military uniform.

This giant is older than Phokas, but because he doesn't have to go to the front line in person and actually command the army, he doesn't retreat to the second line like Phokas, and only retains the seat of the elders and part of the command of the original city defense force.

He still stands at the pinnacle of power in the "Original City".

"Father." Seeing Beuris, the playboy-like Asus suddenly became serious.

Beuris straightened his black hair mixed with a few silver threads, nodded and said:

"I'm going out for a while, you stay at home today, you can't go anywhere"

"Where are you going?" Asus was a little surprised.

Father seemed to be paying more attention to Gaius's civic assembly than he had imagined.

Beuris, with less fleshy cheeks and deep blue eyes, looked around at the surrounding guards:

"Go to visit His Excellency Cass first, and then go to the Senate."

……

Hope Square.

A large number of citizens have gathered here, and those who can't come are also paying attention to the content of this gathering through the official broadcast of the original city.

Time passed quickly, and it was nine o'clock in the morning.

Gaius, with a hooked nose and slightly sunken cheeks, put on his green-brown general uniform today, and walked up to the podium in the middle of Hope Square with a serious face.

At the beginning, Aurei announced the establishment of the "Primary City" here.

Gaius didn't deliberately show his specialness, holding the microphone, he said to the crowd:

"Citizens, I think you all know me by now.

"I am the head of the Eastern Legion, Gaius who became the elder last year.

"I'm the same as you, my father is a citizen of 'Original City', my mother is a citizen of 'Original City', so I was born a citizen of 'Original City'.

"In the past, I was not a nobleman, so I can see how much the surrounding citizens have paid for the survival, development and growth of the 'First City', and I am one of them.

"No one knows the weight of the word citizen better than I do."

What Gaius said was true, and he was born as an ordinary citizen, and he became a veteran step by step by relying on his military exploits. He would naturally gain the favor of the citizens present.

After each citizen nodded or applauded, Gaius continued:

"It is precisely because of your elders and your efforts from generation to generation year after year that the 'Original City' has become the largest force on the gray soil, able to own a large number of fields, occupy many mines, and establish large and small cities. The factory, let everyone get rid of hunger and live a more stable life.

"but……"

Gaius' tone suddenly became serious:

"All of this is slowly being eroded and destroyed!"

Chapter 2 and One Blind Spot

Over the years, the benefits have not been gained, but the pain has endured a lot. A large number of citizens have strong emotional fluctuations because of these few words of Gaius.

The surrounding security guards and city guards who were in charge of maintaining order felt a little bit in their hearts, and had a bad premonition.

Looking at the crowds of citizens in the square, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva, and their mouths became parched from nervousness:

If so many people were stirred up by Gaius and flocked to the Senate, the government affairs hall and other places, showing serious violent tendencies, should they stop them or not, and shoot or not?

Although there was an order from above that they must not be soft-hearted, and they tried their best to dissuade their family members, relatives, and friends from participating in this civic rally, but at first they said that the city was definitely not small, and that it was the largest city in the dust. It’s not too big. After deducting the foreign wanderers, the huge slave group, and the people who participated in the army and the reclamation regiment stationed in other settlements and subordinate city-states, the number of citizens is only hundreds of thousands, and many people can be involved in corners.

Anyone who wants to shoot an acquaintance will be hesitant and soft-hearted.

Besides, was Gaius telling a lie?

No, in the eyes of these civil security officers and soldiers of the city defense army, every word of this general speaks to his heart, which is the reality they usually see and hear.

Gaius didn't follow the thoughts of everyone present, and took the opportunity to talk about how the good situation of "Original City" was slowly eroded and destroyed. He said instead:

"Many of you probably don't have your own land anymore."

This sentence was like a spark falling into a frying pan, instantly detonating the atmosphere.

People shouted loudly from different places in the square:

"We want land!"

"We want land!"

Gaius stretched out his left hand and pressed it down, motioning for everyone to be quiet and listen to himself:

"You have lost your land for many reasons:

"Some people have to borrow money from some people and some institutions because of extreme weather, and the food production is greatly reduced. The interest is accumulated day by day. After similar things happen again and again, you are forced to sell your materials to pay back, and in the end What is surrendered is the land;

"There is a lot of food harvest, and as a result, those who occupy a large amount of land deliberately start a price war, so that you can not only fill your own stomachs, but also pay the full amount of taxes. Year after year, it is still the same. embarked on the road of borrowing;

"Some family members fell ill; some met robbers; some guarantors went wrong; some encountered sudden disasters... In short, they were forced to borrow money and fell into a vicious circle.

"As for the Senate, what did the person in charge of the government affairs office say?

"Say it's either your own fault, your own problem, or normal competition or misfortune that deserves sympathy but cannot be helped from a legal standpoint."

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

Every one of these can be applied to themselves or their family members.

After repeated propaganda from the upper echelon, they really believed that the main reason was their own, so they became more aggrieved and angrier. They could only hope that the "prime city" would continue to expand, so that they could use the fire in their hearts to exchange for new land. .

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

"No, they're lying!"

His voice was amplified, and with the help of the microphone, everyone's ears were buzzing, and their hearts were turbulent.

Gaius looked around and said:

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

"The vast majority of citizens will be forced to sell their land when the grain production is reduced, and they will gradually embark on the road of selling land when the grain harvest is bumper, but they can last for a few more years.

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

"Is it a little hard to understand the reason? Let me tell you why!

"When you encounter extreme weather, reduce food production, and need relief, where are the Senate and the Office of Government Affairs?

"When grain harvests are bumper, prices drop, and official purchases are needed to maintain stability, where are the Senate and the Office of Government Affairs?

"When those unreasonable interests accumulate time and time again and become exaggerated enough, where is the Senate and the Office of Government Affairs?

"When you only need to reach out once to tide over the difficulties and enter a virtuous circle, where are the Senate and the Office of Government Affairs?

"Some of them are busy buying cheap land, busy lending money to you through spokespersons, and busy arranging people to accuse you in newspapers, on the radio, and on TV that you don't know how to run a business and don't want to learn. , not good at farming!"

Gaius paused for a short while, and the entire Hope Square was silent, so silent that Magistrate Wall and other noble descendants suspected that a huge vortex was brewing.

At this moment, they felt that the eyes of the security guards and city defense soldiers around them seemed to have flames bursting out.

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

"They are busy attending banquets, they can use up one cow and several sheep at a time, they are busy counting Ole, buying exquisite clothes and accessories, they are busy worshiping evil gods, indulging their desires, and entangled naked in the Together!

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

"Everything in the 'Original City' was bought by all our citizens with their heads and blood, and the power of the Senate was given by us through the Citizens' Assembly, so they treat us like this?

"We are the masters of the 'Original City', we need strong representatives to remove those moths and supervise their every move!"

Gaius yelled at the top of his voice, making the eyes of every citizen on the scene glow with fanaticism.

Just when Wall thought the powder keg was about to explode, Gaius changed his subject:

"I think you have already heard that Elder Varo colluded with the 'Salvation Army' and the 'Anti-Intellectual Religion' to endanger the 'First City', but he was protected by some people in the Senate, and he was unable to convict him for a long time."

As soon as Gaius finished speaking, deafening shouts sounded in the square:

"Severely punish Varo! Severely punish Varo!"

Uh... Wall was a little surprised.

He didn't expect that his father-in-law's final target was only Varo, who was about to be deprived of his status as a senator, not the consul and commander-in-chief Beuris, or those upper-level people in the Senate who were either conservative or neutral, and refused to radically change the status quo.

That's okay... at least the conflict can be controlled to a certain extent, and it won't cause major turmoil... Wall was a little relieved.

But he didn't dare to rest assured, because this was just the current situation. If those people in the Senate refused to compromise, the matter would naturally become intense, affecting the whole city, and it would never be dealt with again.

……

Somewhere in the Red Wolf District near the Golden Apple District.

Shang Jian Yao put on his sunglasses, took a few quick steps, bent down and took out something from a gap in the wall of a building.

That was Phocas' pass 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.

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

"Huh..." Long Yuehong in the back row let out a breath slowly.

"Don't talk!" Shang Jian Yao reminded with a "cautious" face.

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

Among the two, "Garibaldi" Giuseppe glanced left and right, not understanding why they were arguing about this.

At this time, Jiang Baimian looked at the rearview mirror, thought about it and said:

"Giuseppe, after we meet that person, our subsequent actions will likely be carried out in the wind and waves. Do you want to find a place to get off the car and take shelter in advance, and then join us out of the city when everything subsides?"

Not to mention comparing with Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, even if Long Yuehong is brought in, Giuseppe is not his opponent, and he is not suitable to participate in this kind of action that emphasizes personal ability.

Giuseppe thought for a while and said:

"Just drop me off when you enter King Street.

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

If there is no turmoil, the "Old Tune Group" will not have follow-up actions.

"Okay." After Jiang Baimian nodded, he looked ahead and didn't speak for a long time, wondering what he was thinking about.

This made Long Yuehong's heart beat a little, and she couldn't help asking:

"Leader, what are you thinking?"

Jiang Baimian withdrew his gaze, nodded lightly and said:

"I'm taking advantage of the last free time to review the changes in the situation in the original city this time, and speculate on possible developments."

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