Although Seryosha has been temporarily trapped by legal proceedings, as a large media group distributed all over the world, he will never give up his position because of the slightest setback, and as a representative of serious newspapers and periodicals in the United States, he has long had good social credibility and media authority, and his views and positions are often accepted by the majority of Americans.

In fact, Seryosha had no intention of changing his stance at all, and he didn't care what ordinary Americans thought of the Friendship Africa Foundation. The charitable organization has never received donations from any company other than Seryosha's affiliates. Seryosha first set up this foundation in cooperation with the American Farmers Association to smuggle grain reserves from the Department of Agriculture, but also to evade taxes. Because charitable giving is not regulated by the U.S. tax system. After all, the transaction price of 7 million tons of grain is not a small amount, and if you can save a tax fee, you can naturally save a lot of expenses.

The three lawsuits initiated in the New York District Court will not end so quickly for a while, and although Zoe and he can no longer follow up on the matter, they can continue to investigate, and after receiving a call from Zoe, Jimmy began to go to Somalia to investigate the situation of the food supply there, and the Associated Press secretly sent personnel to assist Jimmy in his work.

At the same time, Yuri and Ivankov, who had been waiting in Italy for a long time, received new instructions from Seryosha to take a letter from Raich Walesa to the Vatican to meet Pope John Paul II.

Yuri and Ivankov are still wanted by the U.S. government, and if they leave Switzerland, they risk being extradited back to the United States. But the diplomatic passports of Yuri and Ivankov were not taken back by the Vatican. A large part of this is because of Solidarity.

Yuri and Ivankov's Vatican diplomatic passports were originally issued by Seryosha by threatening the Vatican's ambassador to the United States, and the reason for the threat was that the Vatican was secretly funding Solidarity. This time, Seryosha wanted more, he needed not only the papal asylum, but also the Vatican to send a message to the United States that the grain smuggling had nothing to do with the Soviet Union, but for the Polish opposition.

Although the Vatican is a small country, it is a city run by the Pope, God's agent on earth, and nominally protects all Catholics in the world. The Vatican's greatest source of wealth comes from donations from believers around the world. As missionaries from Europe expanded over the centuries, the Pope's influence was sometimes unmatched even by the president of the United States.

Walesa really has a lot of weight in the Vatican, and after Yuri and Ivankov came to the Vatican as tourists, they immediately contacted Vatican officials to explain their identities. They were soon arranged to meet with the Vatican's cardinal, who was in charge of foreign affairs, and when Ivankov and Yuri handed Walesa's letter to the cardinal, the cardinal immediately took it seriously.

"It turns out that Chairman Walesa sent you, is there anything wrong?" The cardinal, an old man in a red robe, looked very kind, and asked in a friendly manner what they were all about.

"We have been sent by President Walesa to meet the Pope, and we have important matters that need the Pope's help!" Yuri replied respectfully.

"Can I ask what is going on first?" The cardinal asked

"Your Excellency, I think it would be better to discuss this matter with the Pope himself!" Yuri simply refused.

"Okay, then you guys take a break! I'll get in touch with the Pope and arrange a time! The cardinal was not upset, in fact he just didn't want the Walesa people to come to the Vatican to trouble the Pope because of a small matter.

Yuri and Ivankov were taken down by Vatican officials, and since they had now come to the Vatican under the name of Solidarity, the treatment was needless to say. In the evening, the cardinals received news that the Pope would invite them to breakfast tomorrow.

The next morning, Yuri and Ivankov got up early, packed up, and went to the Pope in the company of the cardinal. Ivankov and Yuri knew the purpose of the trip long before they set out, which was to persuade the Pope to secretly communicate with the Americans, telling the Americans that the object of grain smuggling was not the Soviet Union, but Solidarity. Only in this way will Seryosha's grain trade not be cut off by the US government, which supports Solidarity. Moreover, the Soviet Union could not yet be informed of this matter, so the Pope was the most suitable mouthpiece.

The Pope's breakfast was hearty, but the Pope himself was too old to eat much. Pre-meal prayer is mandatory. Yuri vows that this pre-dinner prayer was the most serious of his life. Yuri and Ivankov first briefed the Pope on the recent situation of Solidarity and Walesa, and then slowly got to the point.

"Your Majesty, the main purpose of our visit this time is to explain to you the recent uproar in the United States about the grain smuggling incident, what we want to explain to you is that Friendship Africa is actually a branch of our Solidarity trade union established in the United States, our struggle has reached the most difficult time under the joint suppression of the Soviet Union and the Polish government, we do not want to cause bloodshed, the strike is our most powerful way of expression, but if the majority of our members stop working, Then there is not enough income to make ends meet, so we have set up this organization in the United States in every possible way, the purpose of which is to help the Solidarity workers solve their living difficulties, and we do not have much money, so we can only buy cheap old grain, which will be transported to Gdansk by rail and port by some smuggling groups in the Soviet Union! But when the media in the United States learned about it, they thought that the Soviet Union was involved, and now that the US government has stopped our grain trade, and our workers will probably not be able to continue the struggle without this grain, Your Majesty, I pray for your mercy and for you to help our Polish workers......" Yuri said this with emotion and acting online, so that Paul II listened with emotion.

"Don't worry, my child! I'm not going to let you go hungry, and I'm going to do it for you anyway!" Paul II said with a long sigh. ...