Chapter 1044: Make a move

People are so strange.

Or rather, the essence of the world is so strange.

Some time ago, people from the second largest party in Dantra contacted Senator Cleveland, trying to persuade this leader of the war faction in Congress to let go of his obsession with war and try to negotiate peace, letting peace descend.

They contacted Senator Cleveland again now, but this time, it was the hope of letting the war break out again.

Now it belonged to the "truce period." On one hand, it was too cold, and the main battlefield was below zero. Once large machinery stopped, wanting to make it run again wasn't an easy thing.

For example, those armored vehicles, tanks, including airplanes.

Once they stopped, their oil lines would freeze, and they would need to be baked with heating equipment to let the oil lines and fuel tanks return to normal oil supply, and then they could start turning again.

But not stopping, the consumption of fuel was astonishing, plus both sides now turned from frontal war to diplomacy, and the battlefield obtained a rare tranquility.

Before, they hoped this tranquility could continue, but now, they wanted to break this tranquility with their own hands.

Because only by continuing to break out the war could the Dantra president continue to focus his attention on the external war, rather than on the internal purge.

Senator Cleveland sat on the sofa listening to this senior government official from Dantra narrate the promises the second largest party could give him and the federal government.

"... We will provide a certain degree of compensation for the losses caused by the war to your side, including cash, material resources, and some technology transfers."

"At the same time, the leader is willing to reach more and wider cooperation with the Federation, cooperation in all aspects."

"Regarding the issue of opening the market you talked about last time, the leader and committee members discussed it and decided to support your request."

"We will completely exempt taxes on products coming to the shore from the Federation, and at the same time remove all protection policies."

Senator Cleveland had been listening to the chips he gave him, appearing very relaxed, comfortable, and didn't express any views or opinions, just kept looking at him.

The Dantra senior official who was looked at by him was already somewhat sweating. "Leader, what do you want, might as well say it directly, I will communicate with the leader and other committee members."

Having spent a long time with Lanse, more or less Senator Cleveland also... obtained some characteristics from him.

From some aspects, some of Lanse's views indeed walked at the forefront of the era, even faster and farther than the waves of the era.

If it were before, perhaps he felt that by asking for some requirements he considered relatively harsh, he could agree, but now, he didn't think so.

"A few things. As a defeated country, compensation is certain. In addition, you need to cede... the land near here to this military alliance of ours."

"We will station troops here for a long time to supervise, monitor your military actions, and make counterattacks when necessary."

The Dantra official was just about to speak, but was stopped by him raising his hand. "Listen to me first, you can record it. I'm not used to being interrupted when I'm speaking."

"Second, you need to abandon armaments, control the number of troops, and accept the statistics and review of the joint investigation team every once in a while to ensure that you won't affect the war of world peace within the time limit."

"Third, I have a list here. You need to dissolve these factories and transfer the technology and original parts on them to us for preservation to ensure that these technologies won't be used for war again."

"There are some remaining ones, relatively speaking not so important, all in this document. If you can win, then we will launch a new round of attacks in the near future."

"If you can't agree..."

Senator Cleveland smiled. He put down his crossed legs, held the armrest, and stood up. "I have other work, so I won't accompany you. You can stay here and use our phone, or leave to find a phone you can feel at ease with."

"See you later."

He tidied up his attire, then walked away with big strides.

His big chief of staff followed closely behind. He nodded slightly to the official from Dantra after walking some distance, then followed Senator Cleveland out.

"He couldn't agree, and they couldn't agree either." After the door closed and they walked some distance, the big chief of staff said with a smile on his face.

Senator Cleveland shrugged indifferently. "I know, what I want is that they can't agree."

"Look at those patients in the intensive care unit in the hospital, those ordinary patients in ordinary wards. If you let him inject a one-dollar special medicine, he will still hesitate for a long time."

"Whether to inject such a medicine that can take effect immediately, or eat a medicine tablet that only costs ten cents a week."

"But look at those critically ill patients in the intensive care unit again. Don't say one dollar, even ten dollars, one hundred dollars, as long as it can take effect, they will demand to inject them immediately."

"Now whether it's the second largest party or the president, they haven't been completely forced into a dead end, so there are more values that can be squeezed out."

"They can't agree now, but wait a while, it might be possible to talk. Wait for another period of time, maybe it's possible to barely accept it."

"Perhaps wait for another period of time, they will rush to sign an agreement with us to promote this matter."

The big chief of staff walked on his side, slightly behind. "You have become somewhat different from the past."

The senator curled his lips indifferently. "I hope I haven't become worse in your eyes."

"Haha, of course not, it's becoming more excellent!"

Senator Cleveland also laughed along. "In fact, these were all discovered from Lanse, and then I learned from him."

"This guy looks quiet, but in fact, he is a very powerful character. If it weren't for his identity background restricting him, perhaps we really might have become colleagues."

The big chief of staff was somewhat surprised. "You really think so highly of him?"

Senator Cleveland didn't hide his appreciation for Lanse at all. "He is the person with the most thought and courage I have ever seen, none other. In some aspects, I am not even as good as him."

"So sometimes I will feel a pity, but at the same time, I feel a bit lucky, because he can't enter the high-level political arena."

"If he could come in, for us, for Congress, for the Federation, it might not necessarily be a good thing."

"A tyrant, a dictatorial tyrant, a dictatorial tyrant who can be overthrown, is not terrible at all. What is terrible are those who are very difficult to overthrow."

"What is he doing now?"

The big chief of staff thought for a while. He had seen the report from Tom's side. "The civil war in Lapa is almost at the finishing stage, and he is watching these changes in Lapa."

The senator nodded. "These are all good news. Facts prove that God bless the Federation!"

Listening to this sentence the senator said, the big chief of staff was stunned for a moment, but soon laughed and echoed, "Yes, God bless the Federation!"

The Dantra official returned to the hotel with anger. Because of the outbreak of war, Dantra and the Federation had severed diplomatic relations, and both sides had withdrawn their consulates.

So he could only go to the hotel.

In the hotel, he dialed the phone number of the leader of the second largest party. As soon as the phone was connected, the leader couldn't help but ask, "Did he agree?"

They actually studied the Federation carefully. Now on the surface, the president holds the power, and some documents of Congress need to be sent to the presidential palace for signature before they can take effect, but this doesn't mean Congress really has no value at all.

Unless the federal president intends to continue doing it, being a dictator, a tyrant, otherwise he will definitely step down.

How stiff he is with Congress now, how miserable he will be after he steps down. It's not that such things haven't happened. Until now, that president and his family have disappeared silently, and no one talks about them anymore.

So for the sake of himself and his family, and his family, the relationship between the president and Congress won't be too divided. They will all respect each other's attitude and opinions.

So if you want to fix the Federation, you can't put the goal on the president's side, but first go to persuade Congress to agree.

Senator Cleveland is the representative of the war faction. If you don't persuade him, persuading others has no meaning, so this dialogue with Senator Cleveland is very important. The leader had to attach importance to it.

"He didn't agree, he gave us some conditions...", then he conveyed the conditions he recorded to the leader through the phone.

The leader only heard the second sentence and couldn't help but interrupt his words. "How could I agree to such a request?"

"If I really agreed, tomorrow those people outside would tie me up and hang me on the statue in the central garden. I definitely won't agree, and it's impossible to agree!"

"You talk to him again, tell him, we are very sincere, come with something real, don't use these meaningless things to fob us off..."

The two exchanged some conditions put forward by Senator Cleveland, made some modifications to the content that the leader thought could be accepted, and then let the official continue to talk to Senator Cleveland.

After they talked about it, there would be a more formal negotiation. Now it's just promoting the possibility and progress of the negotiation.

After the leader put down the phone, there was no anger on his face, but some worry, because the attitude of the federal people made him feel that the federal people seemed to have noticed something.

There were other people in the office, all looking at him. He shook his head. "The federal people are very greedy, their requirements are too many!"

He repeated those requirements put forward by Senator Cleveland. The gentlemen in the room all felt that they couldn't agree to such rude requirements, just like Diego initially, they also felt they wouldn't agree.

Some people also scolded Senator Cleveland, scolding him as a greedy hyena, never able to fill his stomach.

But scolding was scolding, things still had to be solved. "Still have to find a way to exert external pressure, otherwise the president will go crazy sooner or later."

"The Federation side doesn't work, ask Slade, they can also launch an attack on us from the western front. As long as the war breaks out again, our pressure will be reduced a lot."

Others nodded one after another. This is the best solution at present, using external pressure to reduce pressure for internal contradictions and pressure.

Discussing this matter, the leader suddenly found that the person responsible for contacting Slade didn't come today.

"Didn't Jiawen come?"

"Did he tell you what he was going to do today?"

People in the room looked at each other. They also noticed at this time that several people were missing, and Jiawen was just one of them.

So they started saying answers different from the leader's question.

"xx didn't come either!"

"Yes,... didn't come either."

Quite a few people didn't come, and they didn't ask for leave. At this critical moment, did they encounter any trouble?

The leader felt a bit bad premonition in his heart. He immediately picked up the phone and dialed the phone number of Jiawen's office. No one answered.

Then he dialed the phone number of Jiawen's home. The prompt tone in the phone rang slowly with rhythm. The leader's heart also sank bit by bit.

The phone ringing of "di ling ling ling ling" was harsh and abrupt. Jiawen hugged his wife's shoulder, and two children, standing in the middle of the living room.

A group of soldiers wearing army uniforms kicked open his door very roughly early in the morning, then rushed in and controlled all of them.

The two bodyguards he invited just prepared to resist, then lay on the ground and slept without waking up, which scared all of them.

Now the whole family stood here with pale faces, and a captain was sitting on the sofa not far from them.

Everyone's eyes were focused on that phone, including the captain, but without his permission, no one dared to answer the phone.

He was shaking his ankle while looking at Jiawen, not saying anything, just looking.

Jiawen couldn't hold his breath anymore, because the soldiers had entered his study. He looked at this captain with an ugly face. "This is political persecution!"

"You are soldiers, you shouldn't be his accomplices. You will be spurned by the people and nailed to the pillar of shame!"

The captain had some contempt and disdain in his eyes. "I am not good at arguing with people. I won't persuade you, but I won't be persuaded by you either. We can come here, it must be that we have mastered enough evidence, Mr. Jiawen."

"You'd better pray that you don't have any evidence that we can find, otherwise, your trouble will be big."

Jiawen's face became worse. He could only hope that these soldiers were all rough guys, they were perfunctory, otherwise it would really be a problem.

Under the leader's instruction, he had been contacting the Slades frequently during this period, and even had some letters between him and Slade officials in his hands.

After all, impeaching and overturning the president wasn't a simple small matter, and also had to unite hostile forces, so he had always been very cautious and rarely used the phone to contact.

After all, these phones had to go abroad to Slade, so they could only take those few lines. If the operator tapped these lines, it would be very troublesome and would also produce terrible consequences.

So they used telegrams and letters to communicate, which was also considered giving each other a handle, a bargaining chip.

Originally, he didn't think he would encounter any danger in this kind of thing, but the president seemed not to intend to continue maintaining the most basic decency, completely tearing his face.

Without any preparation, he let the soldiers rush in. If they searched out those things, it would be a disaster for him.

He hugged his wife and two children tightly, seeming to do so could give him some sense of security.

"I want to talk to the president." He put forward a request, but the captain ignored him, just glanced at him sideways, and then moved his gaze away.

Jiawen just prepared to move forward a step, emphasizing the importance of talking to the president, but the gun barrels in the living room pointed at him, making him have to stand back.

Just when he was thinking about what excuse to use to persuade this captain, someone suddenly ran out of the corridor on the second floor, with a happy expression on his face. "Found it, sir!"

The captain stood up all at once, his face full of joy. He looked at Jiawen meaningfully and walked upstairs with big strides.

And Jiawen, at this time, was already trembling and couldn't stand still.

Of course he knew what was in his study.

After about four or five minutes, the captain came down from upstairs with a briefcase. He glanced at Jiawen sideways again. "Very good, the people of the Republic raised these traitors!"

"Take them all away, if they resist, kill them on the spot!"

Jiawen almost collapsed on the ground. What collusion, what traitor, these were all excuses for political strife!

It was just that now the president mastered "righteousness," and he had no ability to resist.

He and his family were dragged into the car amidst the children's crying, and those soldiers were not polite at all.

Their comrades were fighting for their lives on the front line, but there were these borers in the rear selling their intelligence?

In fact, they didn't know what was in those letters. They just simply thought that betrayal and traitors were selling military intelligence.

So they didn't have any pity for the "little traitors" and directly waved the whip and drew it up.

Although it was winter, the whip on the body was still uncomfortable. The two children couldn't take care of crying, finally gave up resistance, and were thrown into the car.

Soon, the president got these documents. After reading for a while, a burst of anger appeared on his face again. This definitely wasn't all the letters, but only these were enough to make him angry!

"Where are the people?" He asked.

"They have been sent to the military region."

The president took a deep breath. "Interrogate fiercely. This matter definitely isn't his personal behavior. Must dig out more participants, understand?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1045 =====

"It has already been sent to the military district."

The President took a deep breath, "Interrogate him harshly. This matter is definitely not his personal act. You must dig out more participants, do you understand?"

(End of chapter)