Chapter 19: Toughness
Vincenzo was a gentleman in his fifties, with gray hair, shriveled cheeks, and an old-fashioned pair of round-rimmed silver-rimmed glasses.
This gentleman is no longer young, but he is not as old-fashioned and stubborn as most government officials of his age, but has a strong desire to forge ahead.
This is because although he is a native of the southern continent, he studied at the Trier University of Technology for several years when he was young, and was exposed to and absorbed some of the more advanced ideas, so he inherited the Toure family's career as emperor of Sobia, and naturally became the leader of the reformist officials.
Although he and Alister were in the same state of government, and though he knew that Alan Bieber was the secret master of the mountain bandit army, a powerful and extraordinary man, the gentleman met Gleilynt with a tone of unfriendly attitude, but with the utmost restraint of indifference.
"For the sake of our alignment."
He said.
"If you have anything to do, just tell me, Lord Bieber."
Glerint could understand his attitude, but he couldn't accept it.
Alister and the others have not directly interfered in government affairs, but have only semi-coerced him to issue some new policies that he also approves, and sent soldiers to coordinate and supervise the implementation in place, and his attitude is already so bad...... When he takes over government affairs and finances, and touches his core interests, he will not have to turn his face, and maybe he may switch to Intis.
I don't know the current affairs!
Glerint commented to himself.
He was at the top, not angry, and tapped the solid hardwood table with his index finger unhappily and slowly, and added one more to the two things that had been planned:
"Mayor Toure, I heard that you have a son who is studying at the University of Beckland?"
"Yes, Your Excellency, his name is Motan, Motan Toure."
Vincenzo, though wary, proudly introduced to Glerint.
Glerint nodded expressionlessly:
"When will you graduate?"
The tone was as flat as if the neighborhood was making a family affair, but it made several of Vincent's supporters very confused.
"Lord Bieber, I don't quite understand what you mean."
Vincent frowned.
Glerint didn't say anything to him, didn't look at him, stared silently out the door, and stopped knocking on the table.
There was silence in the small council room for a few minutes, and Basil glanced at him solemnly, and snorted coldly:
"Mr. Vincent, it looks like you can't quite see the form."
This was more polite, and the angry Vincenzo immediately blushed, and wanted to stand up and scold a few words regardless of the image to regain his face...... But the situation was stronger than people, and he looked at Basil angrily for a while, then at Alister, who had a hidden warning in his eyes, and at Glerint, who had been indifferent from beginning to end, and had not even looked at him directly, sighed, and replied in a muffled voice:
"Back to Your Excellency Bieber, he graduated in June this year, but I have asked him to travel to Trier to increase his knowledge."
I'm afraid it's not to hide from the new situation in Sobia, right?
Glerint knew this, glanced at him indifferently, nodded, and commanded without emotion:
"Summoning him back quickly, another,"
Speaking of this, he looked around at his five Extraordinary henchmen, Afra, Vincenzo, and his 13 supporters, and ordered:
"With immediate effect, Vincenzo Toure voluntarily resigns as mayor of Sobia and appoints Alan Bieber as his post and Motan Toure as chief secretary to the mayor with full authority to act as the governor of Sobasia."
"What?"
"This ......"
"I disagree!"
When the words landed, Vincenzo's supporters, relying on the large number of people, immediately began to shout, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.
Not only them, but even the four Sasha felt that Gleilynt was in a bit of a hurry.
Vincent himself, after being stunned for half a minute, let out a long breath, his expression was quite complicated, unwilling, resentful, and relaxed...... And so on.
The vegetable market in the council chamber was as noisy as it was, but there was not the slightest difference in Glerint's face.
Whether it is military strength or personal strength, I have enough confidence to suppress all opponents, so why play politics with you and play at home?
Politics is the art of compromise, and he doesn't need compromise to achieve his goals.
"Tuk, tuk, tuk......"
The disappearing knocking on the table came out evenly, and silence instantly returned to the chamber, and all eyes were focused on Gleilint:
"I'm not consulting with you."
He said flatly, although there was no threat, but the coldness in his words made Vincenzo's thirteen supporters shudder instantly, like a male duck choked by the neck, unable to spit out a single sound.
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The key to mastery lies in the combination of rigidity and softness, reward and punishment, and Gleilint has never learned this, but at this time he has understood this truth without a teacher.
Solving this unexpected thing, Gleilynt returned to today's topic:
"I've heard that some diehards have approached a powerful occult possessor to threaten your personal safety to prevent you from publishing a proclamation of the complete abolition of slavery?"
He looked at Vincent squarely, and saw that from the complicated mood he had just had, he had a strong confidence that Glerint could easily solve their long-agonizing problem with his thunderous means.
"Are there any casualties as a result?"
He asked.
Vincent nodded, pointing to the third supporter of his attack, a young woman, who seemed to be of predominantly Indisian descent, with only a few Aboriginal features:
"This is Avapova, the current president of the newspaper Sobia, and her fiancΓ©'s family of seven people was all killed by the mysterious possessor of supernatural powers...... At the moment, he didn't want to tear his face with us, so he didn't directly assassinate us, nor did he touch our immediate family. β
So bad!
Glerint frowned suddenly, and spat out a word to the lady who had been grieving from the beginning:
"Excuse me, ma'am."
As he spoke, he did not hurry to investigate and deal with the extraordinary, his eyes swept over the faces of the 20 participants who did not include him, and solemnly and confidently promised:
"I'll take care of this matter, and within a week, I'll take the murderer's head to keep you safe.
There is only one thing you have to do, and that is to steadily move forward with the promulgation of the New Abolition Deal, and try to get the people to understand and support it.
Tell me, do you still have any questions? β
Vincent and the others had never understood Gleilynt in detail, but the strange thing was that his gesture was very convincing and completely reassured them, and they all said that there was no problem.
As for Glerint, with so many means, it is basically not difficult for him to find an ordinary mid-sequence extraordinaryβunless the other party is a faceling.
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With the commitment in place, Glerint steered the meeting to today's third agenda item:
"Another thing I learned is that many knowledgeable people in the city have realized that after the complete abolition of slavery, the price of both food and daily necessities in Sobasia will rise significantly...... Unless we receive all the input of foreign goods, but that also means that the pricing power is in someone else's hands. β
"I wonder what you guys think about this?"
To say, this is indeed Glerlint embarrassment for them, even himself, relying on his ready-made experience, only has some vague ideas that need to be discussed.
As expected, several extraordinary people, including Alister, including all the reformist officials, looked at each other for several minutes, and then Vincenzo spoke tentatively under the pressure of Glerint:
"That's a problem, but didn't the Intis, Rune, and Fursack of the Northern Continent all come over this way when they abolished slavery?"
He seemed to have found a basis for support, so the more he talked, the more confident he became:
"As long as we are sure that this policy is correct, valuable and meaningful, and in the case that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, I think such a price is acceptable!"
This is not bad, after all, slavery is completely regarded as human beings, and now that it is abolished, it is equivalent to changing the extreme oppression and extreme exploitation that the slaves originally endured into less extreme exploitation and less extreme oppression for the vast number of people at the bottom who lack the means of production, and protecting the basic human rights of those who were originally slaves.
This slight reduction in the intensity of exploitation and oppression, and the expansion of the objects of exploitation, in the final analysis, would guarantee the greater interests of the bourgeoisie, and this was the reason why Vincenzo and his efforts were made to promote the abolition of slavery.
Not out of a good moral perception, but out of "discernment" and the ability to smell the greater good.
They don't care much about the lives or survival of the people at the bottom, and they don't have much sympathy.
But that wasn't what Glerint expected.
If it is only to prepare for the "Black Emperor" ceremony, then it is enough to "abolish slavery", strengthen the fight against crime, and adjust commercial taxes - as long as they are widely extended.
But his purpose clearly goes beyond that.
He has nothing to refute Vincenzo's statement, after all, the curly-haired baboons in the upper house of Runintis also think and do the same, which is the limitation of the times, and the lack of such a "ghost" who has insight into the world and has compassion and empathy for all people.
In fact, in Glerint's opinion, he himself was not so noble.
Just because he has a unique perspective, the perspective of "high-dimensional overlook". For him, the proletarians and the capitalists are not actually more noble than the other, but the broadest part of the proletarians at the bottom will inevitably give him more "anchors" for the stabilization of human nature, and the best way to win over their faith is to reduce their exploitation and increase their happiness by attacking the capitalists.
In fact, this is what the gods want to do now, but it is difficult to do.
Of course, they also want to win the faith of the greatest number of people, but the imperial power and the bourgeoisie are the tools they use to maintain their current rule and maintain the current situation, and they cannot use the tools to fight the tools themselves.
Of course, they usually have another tool in their hands β the church.
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In wordless silence, he knocked on the table and made this suggestion:
"I have an idea here, can you refer to it?"
"In fact, we can have the government step in and come up with a sum of money to open a number of factories and grow a number of crops without profit, and hire laborers to work at relatively high wages."
In fact, this kind of operation is, to put it bluntly, the development of the public-owned economy.
There are many benefits to this, the three most obvious of which are:
First, we are not profit-oriented, and the wages we can offer can be significantly higher than those of other farmers and factory owners, which can force them to raise their wages or reduce their labor intensity, otherwise the jobs they provide will obviously lose their competitiveness in the labor market.
Second, our products can be used to stabilize prices, and the natural laws of the market are also considered, if our products are more cost-effective, then consumers will definitely prefer it.
Third, these factories and farms that are backed by the government can make better use of the policy facilities we provide, and it will certainly be easier for them to develop than the original factories and farms, and when they have a certain size, our government will have a stronger control over the entire city, and will not be coerced by those factory owners and farmers. β
This is equivalent to putting pressure on the capitalists, forcing them to reduce the proportion of profits from both production and consumption, so that they will either withdraw from the industry or adjust the direction of development to the production of high-end luxury goods, after all, state-owned enterprises cannot compete with them in this area.
These are obvious advantages.
Of course, this operation cannot be said to be completely without disadvantages, it can only be said that "the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages", which is also a trade-off, and it is the best way that Gleint can think of.
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