Chapter 1050: Unpleasant Teacher-Student Meeting

Pedro picked up the tea cup and took a small sip. It was very fragrant, and it was different from the water soaked with these leaves that he had drunk before. It had a kind of fragrance that he hadn't experienced before.

He looked curiously at the leaves under the clear tea soup in the cup. They seemed to be different from what he had drunk before.

However, his attention quickly shifted from these leaves to Lanse.

"Mr. White..."

"Lanse!" Lanse corrected Pedro's form of address. "We are very familiar. Using too formal a form of address will make us appear distant. We are friends, not strangers."

Pedro didn't force himself to call him "Mr. White." He didn't know what expression he should use at this time, but he just looked at him with a hint of that emotion like "a student who got good grades and wants to show off."

"Have you ever thought that one day, we would meet in this way?"

Pedro himself was a teacher. When he was a teacher before, he understood very well the sincere smiles that radiated from the inside out when those excellent students obtained a good future.

He could feel it, and he also sincerely blessed them.

But this time, the position had changed. He had become that "student." This was a novel experience.

He had thought he absolutely understood the feeling of being in this position, but from the current look of things, there were still some differences.

He pursed his lips, somewhat expectant of Lanse's answer.

Lanse took another small sip of hot tea. Drinking this in winter was indeed very comfortable.

He slowly placed the tea cup on a coaster woven from a relatively tough local herbaceous plant, and then looked up at him. "I have thought about it."

"When I taught you how to find direction and how to realize direction, I thought that someone among you would certainly be able to reach this step today."

"In the posture of a victor, standing in this city, standing in front of me."

He paused as he said this, and then his gaze shifted from Pedro to the others. "It's just that I didn't think there would be so many people."

"In my thought, perhaps the only ones who could finally stand here were three or five people. This was already the most. Perhaps only two or three was normal."

He appeared somewhat sighing. These people were still quite durable, or it could be said that Pedro and Luo Si waved the banner of the insurgent army as soon as they came up. Factions were born when everyone didn't know it. They appeared to be a loose sand, but in reality, they were already a tight faction.

With factions, these "trainees" wouldn't be so easy to have accidents, because they had allies. If others wanted to deal with them, they had to consider their allies.

This also made Pedro's status among these people constantly rise, until it reached the level it was now.

Pedro was actually not very satisfied with Lanse's answer. In his heart, he was more inclined toward Lanse showing that kind of shocked, incredulous expression at this time, so that he could get comfort.

After all, he was able to reach this step in the capacity of a middle school teacher, which could be said that he had created history.

In history, there were almost no reformers who truly overthrew the old rule and established a new order in the capacity of a lower-class status!

No matter what country, what social background, "foundation" is the key that determines everything.

It was just like the peasant uprisings before the Empire, which were eventually suppressed.

He indeed had the support of Federation people behind him, but he succeeded! He was different from others!

He would be recorded in the history of this world and become a page that every later person couldn't avoid.

He had such glory, so he wanted to enjoy the honors that "historical figures" should have, but he didn't.

He didn't hear surprise or any other emotions from Lanse's tone. Everything was too flat.

Lanse looked at him, just like when they were at the seminar before, saying some things to him.

"Change is painful, just like the process of a person correcting bad habits on himself."

"Smoking, alcoholism, perhaps there are also incorrect sitting postures and other small problems. At the beginning, repairing these problems will be very painful."

"Physiologically, psychologically, in this process, some bad habits will be abandoned by us, just like those who got lost halfway."

"This is indeed not an easy thing, but from another perspective, if these bad habits have already made this person have serious diseases, and not changing will lead to death."

"Then, what drives the success of change is not just perseverance, but also fear."

As the person with the highest education level here, Pedro listened patiently to what Lanse said. He shallowly realized that "perseverance" and "fear" represented two things and produced two effects.

"I am not curious that you can appear here, because living is a human instinct. If you want my praise for you, the only thing I can say is congratulations."

"You found the key to the problem, but next, how are you going to handle this problem?"

Everyone listened to Lanse's words and fell into deep thought. Lanse's example was very common and easy to understand, but it was precisely this ease of understanding that made everyone have some different thoughts at this very moment.

Pedro's gaze was first somewhat confused, and then it condensed again. He looked at Lanse. "We will solve all the illnesses of Lapa and heal it!"

He was very confident when he said these words. Going to the Presidential Palace yesterday had already given him a very special feeling.

He felt that he was the person chosen by God to save this country. He must be able to do this! He looked at Lanse with that kind of firm, even carrying some aggressive eyes.

Lanse didn't express his position, and he kept smiling.

But not expressing a position, at this time, was the best position.

Pedro was somewhat eager to prove something. "We have already overthrown the rule of the Lavila family. Next, we can draw the pattern we want on this blackboard that has been wiped clean again, according to our ideas!"

"We have infinite possibilities to bring some fresh changes to this country."

"People, constitution, law, fairness, justice..." He said a lot of things in front of Lanse, as if he were eager to prove something.

But the more eager he was, the less Lanse's eyes fluctuated when looking at him.

Because he knew that Pedro was somewhat anxious.

Lanse raised his hand and interrupted Pedro. "Can these things you said really be realized?"

Pedro answered almost subconsciously, "The Federation realized it!"

Lanse asked back again, "You haven't been to the Federation; how do you know the Federation realized it?"

"You haven't been to the Federation; how do you know that the lower-class people living there enjoyed these things you said—these extremely beautiful but unreachable things?"

These words made Pedro fall into silence all of a sudden. He looked at Lanse somewhat uncomprehendingly, because these were all things Lanse and those Federation people propagated in Lapa.

In their description, this management system was efficient, clean, and achieved equal treatment for everyone.

But now, Lanse told him that the Federation itself couldn't do it, so how could they do it? In an instant, he had a ridiculous feeling of wanting to laugh, and at the same time, some things in his heart began to collapse.

He realized that this was a very bad emotion, so he immediately stopped himself from continuing to let his imagination run wild. "No matter if the Federation can do it or not, I believe I can do it!"

Lanse shook his head slightly. "Confidence is a good thing." He didn't say the transition and the words after the transition. "Alright, let's not talk about these. You certainly didn't just come to visit me, this old friend, today!"

A group of people looked at each other.

The conversation between him and Pedro just now made each of them vaguely feel a kind of thing. They couldn't say it, but they could feel it. Their efforts seemed to have become meaningless in Lanse's few words.

People's complexions were somewhat different. Was the result of their huge sacrifices and efforts denied just like this?

Pedro was the person who understood what Lanse said the fastest, and also the person who got rid of this state the fastest. "Besides wanting to see you and chat with you, we mainly came for the Zhuolan Treaty."

Looking at Lanse just nodding without speaking, he could only continue to add, "The Zhuolan Treaty is an unequal treaty signed by Diego. Inside, there are many clauses that seriously involve selling out Lapa's national interests."

"All of us believe that these clauses are inappropriate and need to be deleted or corrected to conform to the interests of both of us."

"We should be two equal countries, Lanse."

"You told us to pursue freedom, to pursue fairness and justice, and you brought us to this position."

He seemed to want to use some "emotional cards" to influence Lanse, but he was very wrong.

Perhaps only those who hadn't accepted the cruel baptism of capitalist society would feel that there was still emotion between ordinary people and ordinary people that could be maintained to make some sacrifices of their own interests.

Lanse shook his head. "You can't do it."

"The treaty I signed with Diego has already taken effect according to international practice. If you want to withdraw these clauses, first you have to wait for the new Lapa government you form to be established."

"Then, in the form of country to country and to me personally, propose a tripartite talk to discuss the clauses in the Zhuolan Treaty that you believe are unequal, as well as give improvement suggestions."

"However, you need to be mentally prepared, because withdrawing a clause often means paying a higher price. What you get might not necessarily be what you want."

Luo Si on the side couldn't help it anymore. "Lanse, can't it be proven that we have already mastered this country and our change has won, now that we have already entered the Presidential Palace?"

Lanse glanced at him and couldn't help but laugh out loud. "The Emperor of the Empire was also driven out of the Imperial Capital, but in the end, he returned there."

"On the contrary, the people who claimed to have controlled everything there and rebuilt the Empire became a thing of the past."

"Luo Si, this world is much more complex than you imagine."

"Wait until one of you..." His gaze lingered on these people for a moment, and finally fell on Pedro. "... can reach that step, then come and talk to me."

"Now we are just friends, not discussing other things."

Luo Si, who could be considered one person below ten thousand people within the insurgent army, was said so by Lanse, and his face suddenly became somewhat flushed.

A person who has stayed in a position of issuing orders for a long time easily becomes arrogant, and Luo Si had some signs of this.

He wanted to get angry, but meeting Lanse's gaze, the anger in his mind finally miraculously and gradually dissipated. His face looked somewhat gloomy as he looked at Lanse, and then he glanced at Pedro.

Obviously, Lanse's meaning just now was hinting that only after Pedro became President would he have the qualifications to talk to Lanse.

If Pedro became President, then what about him?

This was destined to be a somewhat unpleasant meeting. Lanse didn't keep them much, and they didn't want to stay here either.

Some people didn't like the aura Lanse radiated, which made them feel uncomfortable, constantly exerting huge psychological pressure on them, making them somewhat afraid to breathe.

Still others were thinking about going back as soon as possible, sorting out the problem of the Lavila family's rule, and then establishing a new Lapa government as soon as possible to talk about these things and make the unequal treaties relatively equal.

On the way back, Luo Si's temper seemed to have emerged again. "Look at his appearance. It seems he still hasn't put us in his eyes!"

"It's as if we are still the chess pieces and puppets in his hands!"

"He is too arrogant!"

"Federation people are all too arrogant!"

Pedro was much calmer than him. "They have the qualifications to be arrogant."

"You... humph!" Luo Si glared at Pedro. He opened his mouth, wanting to say some words in his heart, but in the end, he didn't say them.

Although he hadn't accepted any higher education, he knew that some words, once said, had no room for retraction.

After returning to the Presidential Palace, Pedro began to speed up the sorting work. At the same time, he began to call various states, which were their own tribal states, hoping that these tribal states that had remained neutral in the civil war could send representatives to participate in the meeting he would hold in March or April, to determine things like the new generation of Lapa government structure.

Without the support of these tribal states, they were, in the end, just a provisional government.

The liaisons of each tribal state indicated that they would arrange for people to come over, which made him feel somewhat relieved.

In the evening, at seven o'clock, he received the call from the President of Jiede on time.

He sat on the chair in another office, not the Presidential Office.

He knew that Luo Si and some other people had an obsession with that position. If he sat on it, it would escalate the contradictions between them, which weren't considered cracks, into fissures.

So he changed to an office.

At seven o'clock, very punctually, the phone rang. After it rang three times, he picked up the receiver. "I am Pedro..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1051 =====