Chapter 677: Instruction Manual

What else could be more attractive than the grievances and hatreds of the city's upper class?

The answer is: nothing!

Yes, nothing.

People knew this situation a long time ago; otherwise, why were the stories adapted from those classic novels and operas almost all stories of the upper class?

Something like a poor boy falling in love with a noble girl, a poor girl falling in love with a handsome prince.

Stories of queens and princes with melons and poison, or fallen nobles being framed and finally taking back everything...

Why?

Don't poor people and poor people deserve love?

Between poor people and poor people, do conspiracies and tricks not exist?

No, they exist just the same, it's just that the love of poor people and the conspiracies and tricks of poor people are not interesting.

People like to watch vigorous and heroic love stories, like launching a war to destroy a country for a beauty, rather than pawning their pants to buy a wooden ornament for the girl next door.

Being interested in the grievances and hatreds of the upper class, perhaps this is a kind of beautiful wish of ordinary humans—

They have no way to have similarities with these upper-class people in terms of money, status, power, or other things, except for emotions.

Everyone has rich emotions; this is the point they can find that is interconnected and that everyone has.

The contradiction between Mayor Williams and the Bay Area, although quite a few people know about it, is still a story very far away from the lower and middle classes of society.

Now, the story covered by the fog has started to unfold completely toward the citizens; they have no reason not to be excited; finally, there is big news!

Mayor Williams stood in front of the reporters and the camera, keeping silent for a period of time.

Didn't speak, didn't move; everyone was staring at him, waiting until some people couldn't take it anymore.

Just when they were about to open their mouths to ask what Mayor Williams wanted to say, Mayor Williams rubbed his forehead, "This is a problem I don't even want to face."

"Our city is rotting."

"I don't know how I should describe these problems to you; I want to do something for you, do something for the people here."

"But the things I do will damage the interests of some people; they want to stop me, want to give me a little embarrassment."

"Even want to blackmail me!"

"After the old industrial zone is demolished, a larger living community will be established; there will be more free public facilities, more cheap houses to reduce the cost of people's lives."

"The better the city develops, the more opportunities our residents will have; employment opportunities, other opportunities, will all increase."

"At the same time, demolition and construction also provide more employment positions for the city, but such a good thing, there are still people who deliberately make things difficult for me, because they didn't get the benefits they wanted!"

"They hyped the land worth less than 1,500 dollars per acre to 20,000 dollars per acre."

"They hope that City Hall will use taxpayers' money to pay for their greed; I don't accept such extortion."

"Fine, I don't want their land; let them continue to keep it."

"We can do what we want to do on the land that has already been vacated and cooperated with us, and build our beautiful home."

"They saw that they couldn't achieve their goal, so they colluded with those refugees and launched this inhumane terrorist attack, trying to destroy all our plans!"

"This is a despicable and shameful act, gentlemen!"

"More than twenty federal citizens were killed in this matter; because of their greed and ambition, these people lost their lives."

"The things that happened today, besides these people, there is another group of culprits, those refugees!"

"Someone said before that the influx of refugees is the root cause of cholera; I don't quite agree with this point of view; after all, they didn't come here because they wanted to."

"But now I think, I was too shallow; I didn't realize the seriousness of the problem!"

"When their motherland is facing the invasion of invaders, their land is burned by the enemy's flames, their homes are destroyed by the enemy, their relatives, friends, and compatriots are being slaughtered."

"They, however, ran to the Federation!"

"They gave up revenge, gave up asking for an explanation from those invaders, gave up the idea of joining the war to protect their homes and relatives, and ran to the Federation."

"I cannot understand their spiritual realm!"

"In my eyes, this is no different from treason!"

"I once naively thought they needed help, but now it seems, actually they don't!"

"We should expel them..." At this time, a reporter suddenly interjected, "Mr. Mayor, some people say that the Williams family has historically kept and used slaves; because you treated refugees as slaves, this matter broke out, is it true?"

Mayor Williams frowned, "Some people say that the Williams family once owned thousands or tens of thousands of slaves; yes, that's right, we did!"

The reporters at the scene were in an uproar; actually, that era hadn't passed many years, thirty or forty years, but thirty years was enough for many young people of the new generation to regard "slavery" as history, rather than something that happened not far away.

Their uproar could be imagined; at this time, talking about slavery, was it really appropriate?

Mayor Williams's gaze was very indifferent, "But after the slave liberation movement started, we released all the slaves and respected the legitimate rights and interests of every federal citizen."

"Our family currently does not keep any slaves, nor have we treated anyone like slaves."

"The slave era is already a thing of the past; it is a microcosm of an era; almost all the big families in the Federation had the habit of keeping slaves; it wasn't just us."

"We cannot be held responsible for what our ancestors did, and we cannot bear their responsibility and infamy; that is unfair to us."

That reporter interjected again, "Can you list some people?"

Mayor Williams glanced sideways at that reporter, "Before you ask a question next time, it's best to raise your hand, and I agree, then you speak."

"You look exactly like those representatives of capital interests, but I will still answer this question for you."

!

"The president's family, the family of the Speaker of the Senate of Congress, the family of the majority leader of Congress, the family of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of State... how many more do you want to know?"

"Do you intend to find trouble with them?"

"I could talk about such families for days!"

"I didn't deny that these things happened, nor did I think these things were correct or incorrect; that is history; what we need is just to face it squarely, rather than standing in a special position and wearing colored glasses to argue whether we are right or wrong!"

"Our ancestors relied on doing bad things to the indigenous people of this land to have our foothold; do you now also want to bear the consequences of the bad things your ancestors did?"

"Fuck, remember his name and newspaper; don't let this kind of person in next time!"

Some reporters started to applaud and cheer, but some people's complexions were not so natural.

The questioning reporter was invited out by two security guards; it wasn't that he was obedient and willing to follow the security guards away from here.

But those security guards had a red armband on their left arm; when he went out, his complexion was pale; he was considering when he would commit suicide out of shame because of the things his ancestors did!

After people left, Mayor Williams calmed down his emotions for a while and continued, "I want to do something for everyone; I want to continue to expand the scale of the city, accommodate more population, want to add some infrastructure, so that people's lives can be more relaxed and free."

"Where did I just say to?"

"I'm old; being interrupted by someone sometimes makes me unable to remember what to say."

The reporters pointed it out in a jumble, and he smiled apologetically and continued, "We should expel these refugees; they bring instability to the city; they sell their flesh, they steal, rob, occupy empty houses where no one lives; I don't know how many excessive things they have done that I can say."

"These people make our city more and more unsafe; they betrayed their motherland, betrayed their faith, and now just for some money, they can do such bad atrocities."

"Capital gangs, refugees, have become the cancer of this city!"

"I once thought that gangs were the biggest trouble we needed to solve, but now it seems that it is no longer our biggest trouble."

"I also thought before that police who take black money were the most tricky problem we faced, but now you look at those police, who among them has taken your black money?"

"Until I stood here, I realized that our enemies were never the ones we thought, but hidden under their harmless surface!"

"They want to force me to compromise, but today, I stand here, and I use the glory of the Williams family to guarantee to you that I will not retreat!"

"The moment people elected me as mayor, I had to fight for those who trust me!"

He waved his fist, "I know you are very interested in what happened this afternoon..."

"I have already asked Police Chief Bulu to come over; he will tell you what he experienced through his perspective, and finally restore a truth!"

"I don't mind some people trying to make me bow my head through squeezing and fighting, but all of that must happen within the rules, within our tolerance."

"If they try to use the lives and safety of the people to force me, I will only fight them to the last moment!"

Soon Police Chief Bulu walked in from outside; he started from receiving James's call, of course, some details were modified, and he kept saying "those workers, under the command of some people, refused to stop their atrocities, and started to storm our police team in an organized and scaled way, I authorized them to shoot..."

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