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Chapter 201 Blind Spot

Over the years, the benefits have not been gained, but the pain has been suffered by many citizens. Their words have caused strong emotional fluctuations in Gaius.

The security guards and city defense forces around him who were responsible for maintaining order all their hearts were shocked and they had a bad premonition.

Looking at the dark citizens in the square, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva, nervous to the point of dry mouth:

If so many people are disturbed by Gaius and flock to the Senate, Government Affairs Office and other places, showing serious violent tendencies, should they stop or not stop them? Should they shoot or not?

Although there is an order above, they must not be soft-hearted, and they have tried hard to dissuade their families, relatives, and friends from attending this civic gathering in advance, but at first, the city must be small, and they are all the largest cities in dust and soil. It is not too big to say that they are big. Excluding foreign wanderers and huge slave groups, the people who participated in the army and the land reclamation regiment to guard other settlements and subordinate city-states, the number of citizens is only hundreds of thousands, and many people can be related to the roundabout way.

If you want to shoot at an acquaintance, anyone will hesitate and feel soft-hearted.

Besides, is Gaius telling a lie?

No, in the eyes of these civilian security officers and city defense soldiers, the general spoke every word in his heart, which was a reality they usually saw and heard.

Gaius did not follow the ideas of everyone present and followed the trend to talk about how the good situation of the "First City" was slowly eroded and destroyed. He turned to him:

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

This sentence is like a sentence like Mars fell into the oil pan, which instantly ignited the atmosphere.

There are people shouting loudly in different parts of the square:

"We want land!"

"We want land!"

Gaius stretched out his left hand and pressed down, signaling everyone to be quiet first and listen to himself:

“There are many reasons why you lose your land:

"Some people are in extreme weather, and their grain output is greatly reduced. They have to borrow from certain people and institutions. Interests accumulate day by day. After similar things happen again and again, you can only sell the materials to repay them, and the land is finally handed over;

“Some people have a bumper harvest, but as a result, those who occupy a large amount of land deliberately start a price war, so that you can fill your stomach, you will not be able to pay the loss in other aspects, and you will also have to pay the tax in full. Year after year, you will still embark on the road of borrowing;

"Some of them have serious illnesses in their families; some have encountered robbers; some have problems with their guarantees; some have encountered sudden disasters... In short, they are forced to borrow money and fall into a vicious cycle.

"What did the Senate, and the people in charge of the Government Affairs Department say?

"It is either your own reasons, your own problems, or normal competition or misfortune that deserves sympathy but cannot help from a legal perspective."

Listening to Gaius's speech, many people recalled the experiences of their first or their parents.

Everyone can cover each of these things or their own family.

After repeated publicity by the upper class, they did think that it was mainly their own reasons, so they became even more frustrated and angry. They could only hope that the "First City" would continue to expand outward 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 suddenly amplified, and with the help of the microphone, everyone present made their ears buzz and their hearts surging.

Gaius looked around and said:

“Indeed, some people have to sell their land because of their alcoholism, laziness or indulgence.

"Most citizens will be forced to sell land if they reduce their grain production. After a bumper grain harvest, they will slowly embark on the road of selling land, 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 some people.

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

"When you encounter extreme weather, food production cuts and need relief, where is the Senate and the Government Affairs Department?

"When the grain harvest is achieved, prices fall, and official acquisition is needed to maintain stability, where is the Senate and the Government Affairs Department?

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

"When you only need to reach out to get through the difficulties and enter a virtuous cycle, where is the Senate and the Government Affairs Department?

"Some of them are busy buying cheap land, lending you through spokespersons, arranging people in newspapers, on radio, on television, for not operating, unwilling to learn, and not good at farming!"

When Gaius paused for a short time, the entire Plaza of Hope was quiet and silent, and was silent so much that the descendants of the nobles such as Sheriff Wall suspected that there was a huge vortex brewing.

At this moment, they felt that there seemed to be a fire in the eyes of the security guards and the soldiers of the city defense force around them.

Gaius, who has always been serious and expressionless, made his face look excited:

"They are busy attending banquets, and they can use a cow and multiple sheep at a time. They are busy counting Aure, buying exquisite clothes and accessories, worshiping evil gods, indulging in their desires, and tangling naked together!

"They are busy colluding with cults, colluding with our number one enemy, colluding with both internal and external forces to stabilize their power!

"Everything in the 'Original City' is exchanged for all our citizens with their heads and blood. The power of the Senate is given by us through the Citizens' Congress. What do they treat us like?

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

Gaius shouted at the top of his lungs, causing a radiance of fanatic light to light up in the eyes of every citizen present.

Just when Wall thought the powder barrel was about to explode, Gaius changed his tone:

"I think you have heard that the Senate Varo colluded with the 'Salvation Army' and the 'Anti-intellectual Church' endangered the 'Original City', but was blessed by some people in the Senate and could not be convicted for a long time."

As soon as Gaius finished speaking, deafening cries rang out in the square:

"Punish Varo! Punish Varo!"

Uh... Wall was a little surprised when he heard it.

He did not expect that his father-in-law's final target was Varo, who was about to be deprived of his senate status, rather than the consul and commander Beuris, or the upper class in the Senate who was either conservative or neutral and unwilling to radically change the status quo.

Whether it is like this or not... at least the conflict can be controlled to a certain extent and will not cause major unrest... Wall breathed a sigh of relief.

But he didn't dare to be too relieved, because this was just the current situation. If the people in the Senate refused to compromise, things would naturally become fierce, affecting the whole city and could no longer be dealt with.

…………

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

Shang Jianyao put on his sunglasses, walked a few steps, bent down and took out something from the gap in the walls of a building.

That was the pass for Forcas to find someone to put it here.

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

Soon, they encountered the first temporary checkpoint.

The city defense soldiers confirmed the authenticity of the pass, and let them go without conducting any searches.

"Hu..." Long Yuehong in the back row breathed slowly.

"Don't talk!" Shang Jianyao reminded with a "cautious" look on his face.

"I didn't want to say it." Long Yuehong couldn't help but retort.

Giuseppe, the "Galibody" among the two, looked left and right, and didn't understand why they were arguing about this.

At this time, Jiang Baimian looked at the rearview mirror and said carefully:

"Giuseppe, after seeing that person, our subsequent actions will likely be unfolded in the storm. Do you need to find a place to get off the bus in advance and wait until everything is calm before joining us out of the city?"

Not to mention competing with Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, even if Long Yuehong is brought, Giuseppe is not his opponent and is not suitable for participating in such an action that emphasizes personal abilities.

Giuseppe thought for a while and said:

“Just put me down when you enter Emperor Street.

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

If there is no unrest, the "old commissioning team" will not have any follow-up actions.

"Okay." After Jiang Baimian nodded, he looked ahead. He hadn't spoken for a long time and didn't know what he was thinking.

This made Long Yuehong feel a little upset and couldn't help asking:

"Team leader, what are you thinking?"

Jiang Baimian withdrew his gaze and nodded gently:

"I am taking advantage of the last leisure time to review the changes in the situation in the city this time and speculate on possible developments."

"That's how..." 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 ignored something." Shang Jianyao raised his hand and touched his chin.

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

Bai Chen, who was driving, said tentatively:

"What is the attitude of the consul and commander?

"The attitude of awakened people at the initial level of the city's 'spiritual corridor' and above?"

"This is a factor that must be included in the model to analyze at the beginning..." Jiang Baimian shook his head, "I have considered this matter many times when I decided on it, but I have never found a blind spot. Well, I plan to quickly review the past experiences to see if I can find inspiration."

Speaking of this, 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 accumulated experience, and learn from other things."

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

Jeep moved forward slowly, and the inside was quiet, and everyone was thinking carefully or pondering the subsequent changes in the initial city.

Nearly ten minutes later, Jiang Baimian suddenly sat upright and blurted out:

“I remembered our experience at Redstone.

"Hey and I were watched by the 'Yougu' for a long time."

When Long Yuehong and Bai Chen were a little confused, Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and lowered his left palm:

"Yes, what we ignore is the year of silence!"

Jiang Baimian said "um" and said in a low voice:

"The situation changes in Hongshiji are all in the small place. Zhisui is watching. How can the civil strife of the largest force in the gray soil of the 'Zhucheng' ignore the attitude of Zhisui?"

…………

Somewhere in the Golden Apple District.
Chapter completed!
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