Chapter 446, Act II
Anne's impression of Brooklyn has always been that of calm, rational, intellectual and capable, with a bit of student ideals and youthful atmosphere.
Perhaps it's this kind of thing that I don't have that makes it so appealing, and Brooklyn feels so comfortable with Anne.
But what Anne said today is not a student at all, let alone youthful, not ideal. Her subtext is to continue to work with the FBI, which shows that she is ambitious.
Is this a good thing? Brooklyn doesn't know very well. Enterprising people will continue to climb up, and if they climb up, they will inevitably encounter setbacks, and then learn to adapt to the unspoken rules, become a skilled politician, and use political means to continue to climb up.
This is the only path that can be taken by enterprising people. This made Brooklyn think of her wedding to herself.
He proposed with a complicated purpose, but what about Anne? Did she agree with the same complex purpose?
Brooklyn didn't know. When he came out of the bathroom, the worries were no longer visible on his face.
As soon as he sat down, he saw little Joseph stretch out his hand
"I won!" Ray, Jerry, and Nelly all took out the banknotes and put them in Joseph Jr.'s hand, and Joseph Jr. proudly put the money together, counted it several times, and then put his arms around Jerry's neck, and said generously
"I'll treat you to ice cream after eating!"
"What are you playing?" Brooklyn asked, somewhat inexplicably. Little Joseph had a smile on his face, and was just about to open his mouth to prevaricate, but Nelly on the other side had already spoken first.
"They're betting on you, no......" Little Joseph picked up a rib and stuffed it directly into Nelly's mouth, and then quickly explained to Brooklyn
"They're involved, too!" His explanation is a bit strange, not to excuse himself, but to pull more people into the water.
"What did you bet on?" Brooklyn asked. Jerry seems to have been bribed by Joseph Jr.'s ice cream and answers for him
"Nelly wants to bet you'll be over in a few minutes, and little Joseph says you're not that kind of person, you should be talking about things." Jerry spoke for little Joseph, of course, not just because of the ice cream.
He's busy making a cameo as a temporary assistant, and Jerry almost goes crazy with conflicting schedules and complex and long to-do lists.
It was little Joseph who helped him out of trouble. Joseph Jr. and Jerry turn the schedule into a logical reasoning problem.
For example, if they preside over the naturalization ceremony at 10 a.m., they will be simplified to 10 a.m., at the courthouse, and it is expected to take 20 to 40 minutes.
By turning a complex to-do list into a series of conditions, and then try to cram them all into the time period of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Soon they succeeded. This solved Jerry's big trouble. Today's Jerry is no longer the young Jerry he once was, he knows what the consequences are if he gives himself a job, but he can't complete it.
His immediate boss, Brooklyn, had a personal relationship with his father, and he would not be punished even if he could not complete his job, and at most he would be reprimanded.
But he can't give himself this habit of dependence on others. But soon, Jerry realizes that he is still too young.
After lunch, Jerry was full of joy and confidently prepared to remind Brooklyn of his to-do list for the afternoon, but before he could open his mouth, he received a sentence from Brooklyn
"Afternoon trip cancelled." Jerry was stunned. He felt hallucinations in front of his eyes, and the to-dos on the tablet seemed to come to life, and they turned into colorful shapes, constantly floating in front of his eyes.
"There's an important meeting here, the time is uncertain, you can arrange the time." With that, Brooklyn took the computer and pressed the cup and walked towards the small lounge.
The tripartite negotiations should be fruitful this afternoon. Anthony, Winston, and Mark Millay had already met in the hotel's conference room, a web conference room dedicated to Brooklyn.
Since it could be the last negotiation, all three parties were concerned, and there were many others in the room besides Brooklyn.
For example, Harvard's Burke, Lynn, who didn't know what he was messing with, and several generals and staff officers of the military.
Those of them who did not come to the scene basically did not reply to speak, but only sat in on the matter, or reminded them in case there were loopholes in their own on-site negotiators.
Brooklyn sipped tea and sat in a quiet little conference room, quietly listening to their arguments. At first, he was still sitting upright, facing the computer, but then he began to lean back and lift Erlang's legs.
As time went on, Brooklyn started to get bored, and he started getting up and walking around the small break room, even lying on the table in the break room.
In all fairness, the content of the negotiation is very important, and even every word, every concession, every argument here, every word in it is a lot of money and power.
After all, they're dividing up all of New York! But the negotiations are too trivial. They've been down to the shops on the street!
Just now, the military is arguing with Harvard people about where the dividing line between the two streets should be, and whether a well-paid strip club should belong to the military or Harvard.
Now they've shifted their sights to the New York Harbor docks. They began to argue about the dividing line between Pier 1 and Pier 2, and they even took out a map and prepared to support their claims based on the latitude and longitude.
The other side took out a lot of things that Brooklyn couldn't understand, such as ocean tide charts and current maps, to refute them.
So the two sides began to quarrel again. That's how the whole meeting looks, bickering, compromising, arguing, compromising, and the cycle goes on and on.
Fortunately, this is the last time, and most of it has already been discussed before. When Brooklyn was bored enough to start counting the ravines of thumbprints, the negotiations finally came to an end.
In the presence of many qualified leaders of the three parties, Mark Millay, Anthony Kennedy, and Reilly Winston signed on behalf of the forces behind their respective parties on a document that could not have legal effect at all.
Seeing the applause in the venue, Brooklyn applauded, but secretly complained in his heart.
It's a document that doesn't have legal effect at all, so what's the use of signing it? What really has legal benefits is the documents that need to be signed by the mayor's office in the future, which are about two stacks of documents more than one person high, which are legal compliance documents with legal benefits and are protected and bound by law.
It was a 'coat' made by the lawyer team hired by the three parties early on, which legitimized the division of the three parties.
The applause lasted for a long time, and after the three parties sent off the negotiating assistants, closed the privileges of most of the observers, and put on some new faces, closed the door of the conference room, and the meeting entered the second stage.
The content of this stage is very simple, it is to report on the progress of each other. This is actually more like a work report meeting for Party A's visit to the workshop.
Brooklyn, Winston and Frank were the ones who paid Harvard and the military 40% of their profits to protect New York.
Just now they have discussed the payment method, and are ready to sign the contract and make the advance payment, and now they want to listen to the progress of Party B's work.
Anthony had already gotten the briefing from Burke and was organizing the wording. I have to admit that in terms of professionalism, Burke is invincible.
Even if his contradictions with Anthony and Brooklyn have been completely put on the table, even if Brooklyn has directly declared war on him, when it comes to Harvard business, he can still act as if the three of them have no contradictions at all.
In fact, he only needs to make a little ghost and stir up this cooperation, so that Brooklyn will never recover.
And Brooklyn naturally has no ability to compete with him for Harvard. At the end of Anthony's negotiations, he only needs to fly to New York with a little bit and sign it himself, and then he can pick the fruits of Anthony's labor.
But he didn't. He is stubborn and rigid like a cow. The debriefing starts at Harvard. According to the plan, they have submitted the proposal and are breaking through the resistance to its passage.
At this stage, they have taken advantage of the interests to bind up many people. Anthony also made a point of noting that the proposal is named after Brooklyn and Harvard.
It was a small gift from Harvard to Brooklyn. Brooklyn was happy with the little gift, but he was not satisfied with the progress of Harvard.
Brooklyn sat up from the table, picked up the computer, jumped to the floor, and said in circles as he spun around
"It's too slow."
"As far as I know, the Judicial Conduct Commission has canceled the investigation team that bribed Brenner to bribe me and has begun to pretend to be deaf and dumb." If the Judicial Conduct Committee is completely on the opposite side of Brooklyn, the most advantageous course of action should be to send an investigation team to focus on the investigation, and first pinch Brooklyn in their hands.
Brooklyn claimed that Brenner had paid him a bribe of 170 million, which he did not accept and was outraged.
The investigation team could have announced to the public that 'Brooklyn asked for 170 million, Brenner refused to accept it, and Brooklyn was angry and reversed black and white'.
But the Commission on Judicial Conduct did not do so, and they had set up an investigation team, which was then abolished.
This shows that there are forces that interfere with him, and finally force the committee to refrain from helping.
"Harvard has approached the committee chairman." Anthony spoke. Brooklyn nodded
"But I was expecting Harvard to make sure the committee was functioning without being affected, and I was going to use it to take Brenner and get a little bit of Yale news from Brenner. As a result, because of your procrastination, the committee began to act as a shrunken turtle. Anthony was a little speechless.
What does this have to do with them?
"Harvard and the military have to cooperate with each other." Frank, who didn't know when he was online, spoke
"We don't want to go from victory to defeat because of a moment of negligence." Mark Meelai and Anthony are both very contractual and businessmen, and they are not angry with Frank or Brooklyn's fingers, and even use withdrawal as a threat.
They patiently listened to the doubts before they explained more patiently. It is really honest management, and there is no deception in Tongsuo!
Frank said to play with the cooperation, to be careful, and they played with the cooperation, just be careful. Brooklyn said that Harvard's progress was too slow, and Harvard immediately came up with a plan to speed it up.
After the Harvard debriefing, it was Mark Mie's turn. Mark Mie has a lot more content here.
Harvard needs to tie up the judicial system and drive the power of the judicial system to confront and divide, and the military is much more direct, they directly mobilize their influence and directly persuade some departments that are not large enough to quit.
Either retract your claws and don't look any further to New York, or the military will loosen your bones. Relying on its own strength, the military's approach is a bit unreasonable and rampage.
The first to bear the brunt is the 'Ministry of Foreign Affairs' – the State Council. After repeated warnings, the Secretary of State was in a car accident on her way home and nearly died instantly.
The killer was in good control, the car collided, and the assistant of the Secretary of State died on the spot, and the blood sprayed all over the face of the Secretary of State, but the Secretary of State only suffered a few abrasions, but a steel pipe that fell from the car pierced the glass, and stuck to the scalp of the Secretary of State through the seat and came out of the rear glass.
Madam Secretary of State almost stabbed the North military in the cross. When Madame Secretary of State panicked, when passers-by took pictures or stepped forward to help, passers-by who thought they were enthusiastic also stepped forward and comforted Madam Secretary through the window.
The enthusiastic passerby took out his mobile phone and showed Madame Secretary of State a hot photograph of a figure with a high resemblance to Madam Secretary of State kneeling on the bed, and in front of her stood a general who was also naked.
Madam Secretary of State, comforted by enthusiastic passers-by, immediately calmed down and did not panic. The State Council is followed by the Ministry of Communications.
An active-duty soldier was returning home on leave and the train he was riding derailed on the way, killing the soldier. The military bit this matter and asked the Ministry of Transportation to give an explanation.
When the Ministry of Transportation finally backed down, the military threw a large number of reports of train accidents that had killed military or retired military personnel in the face of the Ministry of Transportation.
By the time the Ministry of Transportation was ready to grit its teeth and admit it, the military was no longer satisfied with the train. Highway Agency, Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, Urban Mass Transportation Agency...... As long as it is subordinate to the Ministry of Transportation, the military can find them in trouble.
For a while, the military seemed to be an angel of justice and began to sanction the heinous Ministry of Communications. Driver fatigue driving, railway maintenance, bribery by the Coast Guard from smuggling teams, corruption, and concealment of safety accidents...... Over the course of a weekend, the Department of Transportation was overwhelmed, not to mention coveting New York, and they were lucky to be able to clean themselves now.
But it's not without hard bones. The military met their old rival partner, who insisted on getting involved in New York, even at the cost of toughening himself with the military.
Against the CIA, the military has nothing to do. Everything that is not legal will be branded 'for the good of the country' here in the CIA and then become legal.
Obviously, the CIA cannot be dealt with in the same way that it is dealt with by the Department of Transportation. But it can't be used against Madam Secretary of State.
The C.I.A. is more familiar with this approach than the military. Even the military learned it from the CIA.