Chapter 413: The Man Behind the Pot
The office of the Chief of Staff of the President is located next door to the Hanseatic Palace, just across the hallway. This long corridor is home to more than a dozen major advisory bodies and dozens of liaison offices.
Braun's farce is over, but the conversation on the streets has just begun. The presidential palace is full of people, and it is too difficult to hide such a big movement. Ramsden happened to see Grener coming out of the president's office, so he walked forward quickly and looked at him with inquiring eyes.
Grenner nodded, and followed Ramsden into the CIA's Intelligence Gathering and Analysis Division.
Ramsden spoke first: "Why did Magnus suddenly get nervous?" โ
Grener curled his lips and asked, "That's all you care about all day?" โ
"That's not it, Your Excellency Chief Mu, I just want to know the specific situation, you know, professional habits." Ramsden took out a cigarette and lit it, looking very casual.
As the director of the Joint Intelligence Bureau, in fact, he doesn't need to talk to the parties in this way at all, and it is more practical to conduct a covert investigation afterwards, but he has a good relationship with Grener, and he just cares about it.
"Nothing, Braun is a rectum, just looking for me to vent his emotions. Your Excellency, you don't have to worry about this. Grener looked ahead, as if telling Ramsden not to look for trouble.
"Oh, okay, okay, but there are some things that shouldn't have been said, just ......" Ramsden deliberately stopped talking in order to induce Grener to ask, but Grener did not seem interested at all, but embarrassed himself a little.
"Okay, Your Excellency the Honorable Director, do your duty, my affairs will not be your turn to worry about for the time being." Grener could see Ramsden's mind at a glance. To be able to stand out among many competitors and become the president's chief of staff, if you don't have some real skills, don't even think about it.
After only ten minutes in the intelligence collection and analysis department of the Federal Intelligence Agency, Glener seemed unable to sit still and quickly got up to leave.
Ramsden knew that Grener was annoying himself, and since he was leaving, he didn't stop him, but took the opportunity to send the guest out and said casually: "The first lady is about to officially return to China, and I heard that Ferdinand announced that he is about to retire from business and enter politics, and there is a lot of speculation about him......"
Grener had heard it, but it was all the more meaningful when it came out of Ramsden's mouth. He chuckled inwardly, then walked to his office without looking back.
Eating Braun's melon fall, Grener's heart was somewhat unhappy, and as a friend for many years, he knew why Ramsden reminded himself so much at this critical moment.
The chief of staff has huge invisible powers, and he can be regarded as the president's loyal "dog's leg". Once this dog-legged man is forced to step down after provoking many important members of the military, political, and business circles of many countries, the end will only be extremely ugly. All he needs to do is hold on to Eric, not only does he not get out, but he also has to make sure that Eric's position is unbreakable and his prestige grows day by day.
Of course, Grener knows the stakes, and Eric finally chose himself because of all the shortlists, his reputation is the most stinky, and letting such a person be a think tank can only be loyal and foolish, and there is no other way, otherwise everyone will shout and beat.
Agriculture Minister Magnus von Braun's scolding of Chief Grener at the presidential palace quickly spread through the streets of Berlin, and the voices for and against were different, but the contradictions were focused on Grener and Braun, and no one wanted to question that the president himself was at fault. Since the establishment of the federal government, the president has been seen by the public as an idol of omnipotence.
Several days have passed since Braun's havoc in the president's office, and just as people are gradually forgetting about it, a list of 5,531 people under investigation is prominently placed in front of Grener, and among the top ten is Magnus von Braun. In addition to this, there are 30 democratically elected governors in the Federal Republic of Germany.
It's just a roster, and the offences are recorded in a separate file, with a thick stack attached to each convict.
Grener looked at the long list, a little dizzy. Shockingly, the list includes almost every major part of the federal government, including even the most hidden intelligence units and the judicial police system.
Grener, who was in the middle of nowhere, looked at Eric suspiciously, as if he wanted to know why. Such a terrible large-scale arrest was not only the first time in the history of the German Confederation, but even the German Empire had never done such a shocking act. Far from it, the impact of Toth's rebellion is even greater.
Last time, the cabinet was reshuffled, and the indirect participants in the incident and those who did not report it were dismissed, but this time it simply turned the whole country upside down. If the secrecy is done well, it may not be a big problem, but if the secret is leaked, it may cause a serious armed conflict, because there are so many powerful people in it, and if there is a rebellion, it will definitely be a huge "Spanish-style" civil war.
This is a long-planned infighting. At such a strange opportunity in the international situation, and the fact that Germany had just had a serious diplomatic and geopolitical crisis with the Soviet Union, the president could not wait to do this first made Grener very puzzled.
"What do you think?" Eric looked at him straight and it seemed a foregone conclusion.
Grener is a man of courage and insight, calm, capable, and sophisticated, and has done many earth-shattering things, but they cannot be compared with this incident. Since the havoc in the presidential palace. He also hated the "big mouth" Braun very much, and hoped that Braun would be unlucky, but he did not agree with the framing of such a trumped-up charge.
Among the 5,531 convicted persons are former Air Force Logistics Chief Prey von Henrik and former Air Force Armament Chief Rudolf von Rupcht, both of whom are the masterminds and executors of the "Thoth Rebellion" group, because after Thoth repented, Eric did not continue to pursue the crimes of the two because of Thoth's assassination on a cruise ship.
Grener took a cursory look at the crimes of the other witnesses adduced, and almost without exception marked "treason" in the remarks column. As far as Grener knows, there does not appear to be any "treason" on the part of these men.
This is a great conspiracy, to eliminate the dissident, and Grener knows it better than anyone else now. What he couldn't understand the most was that the Federal President, who didn't even want to kill Schleicher at the beginning, now wanted to kill the people around him on trumped-up charges, which was really unbelievable.
He shuddered involuntarily, and although he had many questions in his mind that he wanted to ask the president for clarification, Eric's firm tone made him want to stop talking. He didn't want to make himself unhappy at this time, otherwise he would die a more ugly death than the people on the list.
"This is the final list of persons subject to execution confirmed by the CIA, you should review it carefully, and if there is no objection, please sign the name of Chief Mu in the signature column in the lower right corner of each page." Eric spoke crisply, without any room for negotiation.
Grener nodded numbly and did not speak. At this point, he only has the right to obey and show "strong approval", otherwise, the 5532nd square will be filled in by his Grena's name.
Time cannot be allowed to be wasted indefinitely, even if he does not want to sign and is willing to be the 5532nd person subject to execution, someone will do it next. He thought about it for a while, and finally signed his name in the signature box.
Instead of paying close attention to Gler's expressions and movements, Eric was busy reviewing the documents at hand and the materials submitted by the ministries. But he knew that Grenner had no choice, otherwise, he would only need to press the electric bell on the table, and the president would no longer be Grener tomorrow.
Whether he bears the responsibility or not, Grener also bears it. When he handed Eric's roster with his name in his hands, he noticed that his hands were shaking uncontrollably.
"Very good, my Excellency Chief Mu, this matter is up to you to carry out the specific implementation, I don't worry about others, I think, this is the best choice. Let's get out first, and I'll meet Holwig later. After Eric finished speaking, he continued to bury his head in the review of the papers, and did not speak again.
Meet Holwig? Grener's conjecture was further confirmed, and it turned out that all this had been arranged a long time ago.
Grener pretended to be nonchalant, said "I'm leaving," then closed his eyes and left the president's office in a daze.
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