Chapter 1193: Appearing

Extraordinary means.

Governor Wei De knew what extraordinary means were, but he wasn't sure if it was appropriate or correct to use them at this time.

The local Liberal Party committee chairman on the other end of the phone didn't hear Governor Wei De's response, thinking he didn't know what "extraordinary means" were, and even explained it specifically.

"I know you have some connections with some local gangs. You have someone contact one of them, and let them disperse the crowd that is currently gathering and has signs of demonstrating and protesting."

"Don't be afraid of casualties. If you charge a few more times, these people won't be able to gather."

"This gathering of theirs, I actually also heard some rumors. Without the participation of the workers' union, you simply don't need to worry about whether doing this will have any negative impact."

"Solving the problem in your hands first is the key, rather than considering others. What do you say?"

"Besides, after this matter, you do a play, and you can also get quite a bit of reputation for yourself. I think you can consider it."

"As for you wanting us to take action to help you, Wei De, you should be clear: here, from top to bottom, besides some unimportant government departments, how many are Liberal Party people?"

"If you hope our media can speak for you, I can do it, but if you count on us to help you solve this problem, we are highly likely to just use the same means!"

"You consider it."

The local Liberal Party committee chairman didn't continue to say anything after finishing these words. Governor Wei De rubbed his temples, "I know."

After he put down the phone, he sat there and was in a daze for a while. Using gangs to solve workers making trouble had appeared two hundred years ago, and it still existed until now.

Gangs were still the crudest but best-to-use method to counter this kind of means, no one else.

After all, gangs were non-governmental violent institutions that didn't talk about reason. Even if these people were caught, it was nothing more than fines and jail.

Whether it was fines or jail, they could very easily find the loss back from other places, and could also make a big profit.

In the federation's law, the "instigator" often could bear more responsibility. In a similar case that had already happened in the federation, a case of organizing gang members to charge, beat, and sabotage a strike.

There were two hundred-plus gang members involved in the case, but under the defense of lawyers and some operations by the true instigator behind the scenes, in the end, only one person was sentenced in the entire case.

Others were guilty, but very few people went to jail, and they were all short-term, from three months to six months. Most people didn't need to go to jail, just being punished with fines and community service.

The "instigator" pushed out, which was the head of the gang, was sentenced to thirty years of fixed-term imprisonment.

But in reality, this gang head only sat in jail for a year-plus. After the media and people started to forget this matter, he "died" in prison due to some accident.

Subsequently, the prison issued a death certificate, the gang head was deregistered, and replacing him was him appearing outside the prison with another identity.

Such operations were the simplest and most effective for politicians and those big capitalists.

And the cost wasn't particularly high compared to solving such problems through other means—for example, satisfying the various requirements of striking workers, welfare, the increase in wages, or satisfying their political appeals.

Clearly, paying a sum of money to the gang and reaching some tacit understanding was more cost-effective.

Governor Wei De sat there, his hands crossed and folded together. He looked like he was in a daze.

After a while, he picked up the phone, but put it down again quickly.

He intended to wait a bit more, wait and see, to see if there were any new changes.

Finding gangs was easy, but this matter wasn't just simple workers making trouble, but an offensive behavior against him pushed by Lanse, and even the Social Party behind the scenes.

If he sought gang people to do this, he didn't catch the evidence of those Social Party people, but they might be able to catch the evidence on the gang side. By then, he would be very passive.

Those Liberal Party people in reality were also unreliable.

After this matter is solved, he will let the Liberal Party and the Social Party understand that if they want to obtain a Senate seat here, the price they have to pay will exceed their imagination. He wants to take revenge through these methods!

Because more and more people gathered from all over the state outside the state government, some capitalists who had been seized and plundered also started to appear frequently in newspapers and magazines.

Regarding whether Denuo State was a suitable region for investment, it also started to spread throughout the entire state, and even the entire federation, because of these things.

Governor Wei De had a headache. He knew the current situation was a mess, but there was no good way to change it.

In the evening, those people in the square gradually dispersed, and only then did he feel a sigh of relief.

He took a car and left the state government. The prosperity of Redstone City couldn't make him feel the slightest warmth, only restlessness.

When his motorcade was about to leave the city area, two buses also moved forward into the city from the direction of the station.

He just glanced at it and saw a somewhat blurry face sitting by the window.

That person seemed to have noticed his gaze and looked over at him. The two people's gazes touched for a moment in the air, then separated because the two cars passed by each other, losing each other.

George turned his head and glanced. Inexplicably, he had just made eye contact with someone in that car that didn't look cheap.

He didn't know what state he was in. He looked at that person, and that person also looked at him, making a strange feeling that couldn't be described rise in his heart.

But soon he gave up the idea of continuing to explore this kind of thought. After all, from the luxury level of that car, he, and even his next life, and the life after that, were unlikely to have the slightest connection with such people.

He was a poor person, an underclass, and precisely because of this, he understood how big the gap was between himself and the upper class, and those big tycoons.

He could only earn about six hundred dollars a year. This was still the income after the company rose greatly in these two years.

But even so, six hundred dollars might not be as high as the price of a bottle of wine in a rich person's wine cabinet, and they might have many bottles of this wine, and drink it during some ordinary activity.

The gap was too big, big to the point where people had no impulse to climb up. You give

Compared to this, what he was considering now was tomorrow, whether to do it or not.

Although he had made the decision more than once in his heart before, at this moment, he still asked himself again.

Soon the two buses arrived at the place where they lived at night, a large communal bed. Such a hotel also existed in the federation, the cheapest kind.

He lay on the bed, his ears full of the snoring and teeth-grinding sounds of the people around him. He looked at the pitch-black ceiling and gradually fell into a deep sleep in the night.

Early the next morning, he was awakened by the noisy sounds around him. He opened his eyes, and after a while, he reacted—this wasn't the place where he lived, but some hotel in Redstone City.

He turned over and sat up, watching the people around him getting up and walking outside. He also followed others and walked toward the outside.

The young man who organized them to come was also here. He brought everyone to the restaurant. It didn't provide free breakfast here, so these breakfasts were paid for.

He just got some food. The food couldn't be said to be good, only enough to let people fill their stomachs. After all, the price of this kind of communal bed hotel itself wasn't high, and breakfast couldn't be too good either.

The young man sat in the middle, eating and telling everyone about the next arrangements.

"In a while, our cars will send you to the square outside the state government. Quite a few people have already gathered there, and there are placards on the cars. You can write what you want to write."

"The purpose of coming here is to let the governor understand that some of his practices have deeply hurt this state, as well as the people living here. This is also one of the purposes of your coming here."

"More and more people are gathering here, he can't pretend not to see, and there are quite a few reporters interviewing on the scene."

"If reporters ask you what happened, what made you come here, just tell the truth."

"As for others, whatever you want to do, you can do it. That is your business, and I, only responsible for bringing you here, giving you an opportunity to face the state government, face the governor directly."

"Lunch will be sent over to you at noon, don't worry about being hungry. The bus will appear there at four-thirty in the evening. Remember the license plate number of the bus you are taking now, and get on the bus directly by then, and it will bring you back."

"Dinner is also eaten here. After eating, you can choose to rest directly, or go out and turn around, but I must remind you that the entire demonstration activity will last for five to seven days."

"We will conduct random checks. If someone doesn't participate in the demonstration activity, then we will ask you to leave."

"As for whether you stay, or go back directly, it has nothing to do with us, and we won't pay any travel expenses. Do you understand?"

Everyone nodded. This was indeed not a difficult thing to understand, and originally their purpose for coming here was to seek a solution.

Of course, not everyone had no questions. There were also people who had some questions, but they were all small problems, for example, someone wanted to eat chicken, someone wanted to eat beef, and so on.

After solving these problems, the young man left, and others looked at me, I looked at you, and finally left the restaurant uniformly, got on the bus.

When George was preparing to get on the bus, the young man who had contacted him before found him and came to a corner with him.

"We have already arranged to send your wife to Jinzhou for a more detailed examination. The surgery technology there is the best in the entire federation. No matter what the result is, we can guarantee that she will get the best medical plan in the current federation, and even the whole world."

"You still have a chance to go back on your word now, we can still let everything stop."

"But once we start doing it, we can't stop again."

The two stared at each other's eyes without giving an inch. After a moment, George nodded, "I am willing to use my life to exchange for her living."

The young man was still staring at him, confirming whether he was lying, or whether he was deceiving something.

After a while, he seemed to have confirmed it, took out the thing in his pocket, and put it into his hand.

"A pistol, range one hundred meters, you have two magazines, a total of twenty-six bullets."

"We will find a way to make him appear not far from you. By then, you just shoot directly at him."

"After you finish shooting, no matter if you escape, or do other things, it's all fine."

"I hope you can survive."

He patted George's arm, then turned and left here.

George looked at the pistol in his hand, feeling the cold texture of this pistol. He took a deep breath.

When he was young, he participated in the Boy Scouts and also hunted. He knew how to shoot.

He checked the weapon, loaded the magazine, opened the safety, and put it in his jacket pocket, then left here.

"Where did you go?" His friend saw him coming up from the bus door and took the initiative to wave and signal him to sit over.

After George sat over, he smiled and said, "I went to the toilet, a bit nervous."

Maybe he had already made the decision; his mood actually became much more relaxed now.

A smile also appeared on his friend's face, "It looks like you are much better than the past two days. George, everything will pass, and everything will get better."

George nodded, "Yes, everything will get better!"

The bus driver asked, confirmed that no one was left behind, and started the car. Two buses entered the city road one after another.

After eight o'clock in the morning, they arrived at the square outside the state government. Quite a few people had already gathered here.

George didn't know how many that was, maybe one or two thousand people, or more.

And more people were continuously gathering here. With the help of his friend, he also got a placard and held it high, with "Return my work" written on it.

The word "work" was even crossed out and rewritten, because his friend spelled it wrong.

It was also because they arrived here that they knew so many people in the entire state had been affected.

"The Wei De family is really fucking damned!" Someone said such a sentence beside him.

He and his friend looked toward the person who spoke. It was someone they didn't know. His friend was very curious and took the initiative to ask, "Why do you say that?"

This stranger started to talk about the glorious achievements of the Wei De family during this period. They invaded and occupied many industries through various despicable means, and then kicked out some old people who could have spent their old age in peace.

Because the victims were all old people who belonged to the vulnerable groups in society, and the media all stood on the side of the governor and those local capitalists, many people didn't know what happened.

Listening to this person popularize the "glorious great achievements" of the Wei De family, George's friend also cursed a few times indignantly.

George's mood became calmer. If he really did it, it should be a good thing.

He stood here for a whole day. The governor didn't appear, and he wasn't in a hurry either. Then he followed people back to the hotel.

Every day was like this: eat breakfast together in the morning, then take a car to the square to demonstrate and protest, eat a bit casually at noon, rest for a while, continue doing so in the afternoon, until four-plus o'clock, they returned to the hotel.

For three consecutive days, there were more and more people outside the square, and more and more media, and people even rushed over. It seemed there was already a trend of being out of control.

Just when George didn't know whether he could see Governor Wei De, on the fourth day he came, a turning point appeared.

After nine o'clock in the morning, he was holding the placard high as usual, bored. When vehicles passed by, or pedestrians passed by, he would lift it and shake it twice, attracting people's attention.

Suddenly, a sound of clamor came from the crowd closest to the state government side. With the spread of the sound, he soon knew what happened.

Someone blocked Governor Wei De's motorcade. They discovered Governor Wei De, and now many people rushed over.

George froze for a moment, then put down the placard, and under his friend's somewhat puzzled gaze, rushed toward the distance.

"What to do now?" The driver looked a bit nervously at the demonstrating and protesting people who were slapping the car body. They were shouting loudly, saying something, but it wasn't very clear inside, because this was a bulletproof car.

They could sit here without moving. The governor's car was stopped, and the police station side would soon send people over.

Governor Wei De looked at the people around him who were emotionally excited, and had some ideas in his heart, "I should talk to them."

More and more people were gathering here, the news couldn't be suppressed, so he should set about solving it.

Even if it was deception, at least being able to delay for a period of time was good.

There were only a few days left until the final deadline. Perhaps this was a way.

Soon the police arrived here. Although they didn't disperse the crowd, they also arrived outside Governor Wei De's car.

If according to some of their emergency plans, it should be the police forming a human wall, escorting the motorcade into the state government bit by bit.

But Governor Wei De rolled down the car window and said to a police sergeant responsible for the scene's safety, "I want to chat with them. Can you let them disperse a bit, and then we find a suitable place to try to solve the problem?"

Although the sergeant didn't know why the governor wanted to do this, he still obeyed and made arrangements.

Soon people knew the governor was going to talk to them, and more people gathered around, but the order became a bit better.

They found a piece of land, temporarily built a high platform, and had microphones, loudspeakers, and so on.

Governor Wei De sat in the car. He thought about many things. Accompanied by more police arriving here, ensuring the order here, he came out from the car.

The moment he came out from the car, people erupted with huge cheers, and of course, there were also some curses.

For these demonstrating and protesting people, the governor appearing meant a kind of victory!

Governor Wei De calmed down, walked to the high platform, tested the microphone, and stood there.

At this time, George was only less than fifty meters away from him, but this distance seemed a bit far, he was still squeezing toward his side, he wanted to go to a closer place... ===== CHAPTER 1194 =====