After the clock struck twelve times, Xia Li put down the Wen Jiàn in her hand, leaned back on the back of the chair, and stretched her waist for a long time.

After the embarrassment faded slightly, Xia Li remembered the electricity in Germany this morning.

"There's even a casual bet, to be honest, I'm a little envious of that guy." Xia Li said to herself.

The situation in France is very complicated right now.

Xia Li actually parachuted down and snatched the credit that should have belonged to the revolutionary government of southern France, so the people in the revolutionary military government did not give Xia Li a good look at all. The newly formed government of the French Republic was in fact divided, with the more powerful revolutionary government now calling itself the Southern or Lyon factions, and the Charly faction, which had been parachuted in by Lin Youde, was called the Northern or Lille factions.

The southern faction controlled the vast territory, and at the same time the total military strength was stronger than that of the northern faction, while the northern faction had the advantage in the quality of the troops, plus Xia Li had direct German support behind her.

However, the French branch of the NERV, which had previously cooperated with the revolutionary government, had given up the leadership of the troops because of its policy of letting professional officers command the troops during the war, so now it has no troops to mobilize at all, and no other real power, in fact, there is only an empty title of the highest decision-making organ in France. Although the general branch has considerable appeal among the lower classes of the French people, it can still only act as a buffer zone between the two powerful factions, and the leaders of the general branch who had just cooperated with the revolutionary government have now been squeezed into insignificant positions, and the congress of the general branch has almost become a battlefield of intrigue between the northern and southern factions of the new France in the struggle for power and profit.

Charlie is now nominally the first secretary of the French General Branch, the supreme leader of the new pan-humanist France, but her position is quite precarious, and she has to do her best to eliminate the remnants of the old French government and prevent them from becoming a new French leader, and she has to beware of being tricked by the southerners.

Because of this, Xia Li, who had been living a leisurely life in Lille, became busy all of a sudden, and there were countless decisions waiting for her to do every day, and endless people waiting for her to meet.

On top of that, there are countless meetings to be had.

In order to sit firmly, in addition to using coercive force to eradicate dissidents, the ruler must also know how to coordinate the interests of all parties - everyone has their own demands, and unless the ruler kills everyone except himself, he must always know how to coordinate the interests and needs of different people in his camp. In addition, the ruler also has to find ways to win over people outside the camp and establish a so-called united front, and only third-rate rulers will hold butcher knives to kill and kill all day long - of course, rulers who do not know how to use butcher knives will not even be able to mix in with third-rate rulers.

And the first-class ruler must be a carrot stick with both hands, kill decisively when it should be killed, and coordinate interests when it should be coordinated.

This coordination of interests is mainly achieved through various meetings and talks.

Xia Li has participated in many meetings these days, and the specifications of the meetings vary, from mass meetings of tens of thousands of people to secret private meetings with only a few participants; The participants in these meetings were diverse, touching almost every aspect of French society, and Charlie's voice was almost hoarse in order to communicate with them.

In order to protect her throat, she ate throat lozenges until she was disgusted as soon as she tasted it.

At this time, Lin Youde sent a telegram to inform the world of the romantic bet between him and Isabella, no wonder Xia Li was jealous and hated him.

"Isabella was caught." Xia Li muttered quietly, "It can't be that I was caught on purpose, right?" That guy has been particularly unhappy in some ways since he was a child, and he is so awkward that he is dead. ”

Xia Li couldn't help but think of what happened when she was a child and Isabella played together, at that time, Isabella couldn't control her strength well, and as a result, she injured Xia Li when she competed with Xia Li. At that time, Isabella repeatedly emphasized that "Charlie who didn't block my attack is not good", and stubbornly refused to apologize, but when Charlie was recuperating from her injuries, she always secretly ran outside the ward, put garlands on the windowsill, and insisted on one day until she had to leave Lille and return home.

Such Isabella, maybe subconsciously expecting to be caught, deliberately let her guard down-

Xia Li shook her head, feeling that this speculation was too, maybe Isabella was subconsciously looking forward to the reunion with Lin Youde, but she would never let her guard down because of this, let alone expect that she would meet Lin Youde again as a prisoner - Isabella's words, even if she looked forward to it, she should look forward to the reunion after she captured Lin Youde alive.

What's more, in Xia Li's opinion, Isabella's favorability towards Lin Youde is far from that kind of Cheng dù.

However, Xia Li herself is not good at this kind of thing, and her love experience is zero, all cognition comes from rational observation and summary, and her sensibility is almost blank.

The biggest reason why Xia Li is called an iron virgin is that when she is old enough to step into the social world, she feels that she will be calculated by scumbags when she rushes into the world of love, so she simply erects a "heart barrier" between herself and the scumbag, and first observes and accumulates some experience. Unexpectedly, after Xia Li figured out the general appearance of the love world, the name of the Iron Virgin was already very loud, and she would approach all of her playboys who wanted to "challenge high difficulty".

So Xia Li can come and go freely in the social arena, easily deal with all kinds of teasing and hookups, and can also clearly point out who has a crush on whom, but she doesn't understand it any further.

What it's like to be in love with someone, and what humans can do when driven by love, are things she doesn't understand.

And Xia Li also knew that she didn't understand this part.

So Xia Li can't be sure how far the relationship between Lin Youde and Isabella has progressed, after receiving the call today, many senior officials of the new French government took the opportunity of the meeting to see the opinions of Xia Li, who has a deep relationship with both sides at the same time, and Xia Li can only let them down.

In fact, Xia Li's work schedule was full today, and there was not much time to think about the meaning behind this unexpected electricity.

Now that Xia Li's work has come to an end for the time being, she lets herself play with this power that is beyond the expectations of all politicians in the world.

The more Xia Li thought about it, the more she felt that there might not be any deeper considerations behind this power-on. Xia Li doesn't know about love, but she still has two brushes to look at people, she stayed with Lin Youde and his favorite concubine Lin Qianxun for a month as a guard and guide, and knew that Lin Youde was a guy who would whim from time to time.

Most of Lin's decisions are deliberate, but if he thinks that all his decisions have a deep meaning, he must be asking for trouble (Charlotte sneezes wildly at this point).

Thinking like this, Xia Li decided not to bother to pursue the meaning behind the power for the time being, what should she do, if Lin Youde really has a back move, then wait until he makes a move, anyway, this back move is unlikely to be prepared for France.

At this moment, a good idea popped into Xia Li's mind.

――Why don't you take advantage of Lin Youde's bet?

Why not take advantage of this gamble, which is full of romantic elements that the French people love most, to distract domestic public opinion?

Now Xia Li is facing considerable pressure from public opinion.

The new France had to declare war on Britain because it wanted to join the League of Human Reform, Britain and France were now in a state of war, and the French army could enter Belgium at any time to fight with the German troops, and the future landing operations on the British mainland would most likely be related to France. Therefore, after the end of the civil war, the number of French troops did not decrease at all, and the extra young and middle-aged labor force after the disarmament that the factory owners had hoped for was now not even visible, and more importantly, the various war taxes imposed on the factory owners and merchants showed no sign of decreasing, so the capitalists of all sizes in the country were very dissatisfied.

The only consolation is that the people at the bottom are deeply influenced by pan-humanism, and they all believe that they should fight to the end against Britain, the "last bulwark of theocracy in Europe", so they are not opposed to the continuation of the war like the capitalists. But the people at the bottom are also very dissatisfied with the lack of consumer goods.

Therefore, at this moment in France, the people are calling for the government to immediately start improving the economy, but now that the upper echelons of France are full of contradictions, and even the basic problems of the form of government and the distribution of power have not been properly resolved, how can they have spare strength to improve the economy?

What's more, there is still a war going on.

But in fact, the report of the economic department of Xia Litong guò clearly understands that the living standards of the French people have not been reduced below the danger line, and the French people are also short of materials for the war, and the current French people are much better off than the French in the middle and early stages of the last war. So just create a new hot spot, you can divert the attention of this part of the people.

There is nothing more than the love affair between the founder of panhumanism and the queen of England, who is hostile to panhumanism, to attract everyone's attention.

Although most of the capitalists will not accept this set, it is not bad to divert the attention of ordinary people, and it can somewhat relieve the pressure of public opinion faced by the government.

Thinking of this, Xia Li's mood was quite happy, and she couldn't wait to write an article reminiscing about the anecdotes of Lin Youde and Isabella at international conferences.

So she wrote.

Thirty minutes later, Xia Li looked at the article in one go, and her face was full of smiles.

More than half of Xia Li's article is fake, but a lot of real details are added, so it looks like the real thing. The public will love this article, especially the French people.

Xia Li put down her pen, got up from her chair, and looked back at the night outside the window.

The enthusiasm I had just written gradually cooled.

"In what form is this bet going to end?" She asked herself softly, shaking her head after a moment.

"Who knows, it's none of my business anyway. I'd better sit in my current position first. ”