Chapter 19: Secrecy
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Casually clicked on the upgrade confirmation, Qin Rongshuai was promoted to level 5, and added the newly obtained 1 attribute value to the sensitivity. He looked at Themis with concern on his face, and couldn't laugh or cry, did he play too hard.
"I saw that you were taken away by the people of the temple, and I was afraid that they would be unfavorable to you, so I went back and gathered my people and rushed over directly, but unfortunately I didn't catch up." Themis looked sorry, "But you're fine." ”
It was nice enough for Themis to bring people with him, not to mention that this was the temple of Delphi, which was very sacred to the Greeks, and it took a lot of determination and courage to go against the temple.
The people who followed Themis were still terrified, they were still in awe of the temple, and they were called in a daze in the middle of the night, and they could not help but tremble.
With a wave of his hand, Themis commanded his subordinates, "Clean up this place." ”
His entourage looked at the bloody scene in front of them a little bewildered, glanced at each other, and none of them took the initiative to step forward.
Qin Rongshuai smiled, "Don't bother, let's do it ourselves." ”
As he spoke, he glanced at his subordinates, "Go, you must clean this place carefully and carefully." ”
Themis watched Qin Rongshuai's men scatter like wolves, and suddenly exclaimed, "Those sacrificial utensils can't be moved!" ”
Qin Rongshuai comforted and said, "It doesn't matter, my subordinates are all professionals, and the things that shouldn't be moved won't be moved, I have more important things to tell you." ”
Then, Qin Rongshuai told the story of the citizen councilors and some generals being bribed, and Demis's face suddenly turned pale, he never expected that he lobbied around and tried to plan against the Persian alliance, but he was stabbed in the back.
"It's over." Themis looked bitter and angrily punched the pillar next to him, "Tomorrow is the day of the five-hundred-member council, and once the vote is passed, it cannot be changed." ”
His ambitions, his ambitions, were all in vain, and for a moment it seemed as if he had aged ten years.
"No, we still have a chance!" Qin Rongshuai shouted loudly, "Themistocles, have you given up just yet?" ”
Themis was stunned and asked suspiciously: "There will be a vote tomorrow, what chance do we have?" ”
"We have one more night before we can turn this around." Qin Rongshuai said loudly, "Themistocles, do you want to be a coward?" Do you just watch Athens fall into danger, and the parliamentary system is destroyed and manipulated by the enemy? ”
"No, never!" Themis was so excited by Qin Rongshuai, his spirit regained and said, "I want to fight them and defend Athens!" It's just that our power is too weak. ”
"No, you still have me as an ally." Qin Rongshuai patted Themis on the shoulder vigorously, "The top priority now is to regain control of the Athens City Guard, can you do it?" ”
"There's no problem with that, but what's the point of controlling the Athenian City Guards, is this matter important?" Themis was a little puzzled.
"Of course it is." Qin Rongshuai said, "If the Athens City Guard seals off the council hall during the vote, once the voting form is unfavorable, they may use force to force the parliamentarians to change their positions." ”
"How is this possible?!" Themis exclaimed, "This is something that only military dictators do, how dare they?" ”
"It's all at this time, what dare they do." Qin Rongshuai sneered, he had heard too much about similar things, even if he didn't use a sword, he just surrounded the council, and if he didn't vote for a satisfactory result, he wouldn't let go, and the councilors would have to give in if they couldn't stand a day.
"These bastards!" Themis gritted his teeth and said, "I'll send someone to the camp of the Athenian city guards." ”
"This is not enough, we also have to deal with the few generals who were bought." Qin Rongshuai turned his head to look at the few wise men of the God of Order Sect, "The bribery operation is carried out by them, they must have a list of relevant personnel, as long as we get the list, we will persuade them one by one." ”
It's just that the torture didn't go well, and after interrogating the five wise men and other ordinary members one after another, they only got the name of a renegade general and a list of thirty councillors, and the rest could not be asked again.
Qin Rongshuai was furious, "Are you impatient to live, come here, drag them out and cut off a few heads, I don't think they can say anything." ”
The people of the Kosmos Sect panicked all of a sudden, and hurriedly defended themselves, it turned out that everyone's list was in the hands of the head saint, especially the important person, the general who was confessed, or a wise man inadvertently knew.
Looking at the sage who was already delirious, it was obvious that he couldn't ask anything.
"Only thirty people?" Themis looked at the list on the papyrus, frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said, "Thirty people are enough." ”
Qin Rongshuai nodded approvingly, "It's impossible for them to buy off more than half of the councillors, a hundred of them is already terrifying, most of them should have reached some kind of verbal agreement, and most of them have a herd mentality." Just start voting at the time. Their concentrated voting resulted in an overwhelming opening of the vote, so that the neutral faction of the legislators thought that the main and factional factions were the mainstream, and they would follow the vote, thus overwhelming the main war faction of the legislators in the vote. ”
Themis has been playing parliamentary elections for many years, so he naturally understands this truth, "I can control one hundred and twenty-three votes, and in addition to these thirty people, two hundred and sixty votes are neutrals, and about ninety votes are theirs." ”
"Now the neutral vote is the key." Qin Rongshuai said categorically, "Take your people immediately, wake up all your friends, brothers, and relatives, and mobilize everything that can be mobilized, and control these thirty people before dawn, as well as the rebellious general." I'll continue the interrogation here and see if I can ask anything more. ”
After the two sides discussed, Themis hurried back to Athens with a group of retinues, and it seemed that Athens would be very lively tonight.
Qin Rongshuai returned to the hall of the temple to count the harvest of his subordinates, except for those sacrificial utensils that could not be moved, only more than three hundred gold coins were found, which obviously could not satisfy Qin Rongshuai, so he asked again.
As a result, the people of the God of Order Sect once again pushed the pot to the confused Sage, and Qin Rongshuai had no choice but to tie the Sage aside first, and let people pour him water and induce vomiting to see if he could make him sober up.
However, what made Qin Rongshuai most curious was why the people of the Kosmos God Sect would go to their own trouble tonight.
The wise man of the Kosmos Cult replied that it was the order of the Holy One, and some people wanted them to teach themselves a lesson through the temple, but they didn't expect that he was a member of the Ancient Order, so they could only take him to the temple first.
So why did the guards ambush outside the temple?
Their answer made Qin Rongshuai laugh even more, it turned out that the Kosmos Cult and the Order of the Ancients were only a cooperative relationship, and the two had no subordinate relationship. However, the Order of the Ancients relied on the power of Persia to force the Cult of Kosmos to accept their decisions, and often cooperated unconditionally with their actions.
But this is not the main problem, and the most fatal disagreement is the distribution of interests.
A secret organization cannot survive just by shouting slogans. Lofty ideals and great convictions cannot unite the people's hearts, and can only deceive young people who are not deeply involved in the world.
If you want to grow and maintain a large organization, profit is essential.
The people of the Kosmos Cult are not ascetics, they treat money like dung, and many of them are businessmen who only see money. They gave most of the money sent by the Order of the Ancients to buy people's hearts and minds to Greedy Ink, and at the same time used the councilors they controlled to blackmail the Order of the Ancients in order to obtain more money and benefits.
The Order of the Ancients was already dissatisfied, and threatened to send someone to personally take charge of the lobbying and bribery work, which was smashing the money bag of the Order of Order, so they decided not to do anything, and if the Order of the Ancients sent someone, they would secretly kill them and demonstrate to the other party through this action.
Qin Rongshuai was very speechless after hearing the truth, and could only admit that he was unlucky, he was originally going to attack the Kosmos God Sect, but there was such a twist and turn.
Looking at the group of captives in front of him, Qin Rongshuai suddenly thought of an idea, could he try to secretly control the Kosmos Cult
He was thinking about the feasibility of a plan when the Cult guards crouching in the corner suddenly screamed and rolled over.