Chapter 270: Same Party and Opposition to Different Parties
Weiyang Pavilion, meeting hall.
All the ministers and dignitaries in the entire central upper echelon who are qualified to sit here and are still alive have now arrived.
Looking at the seats that were once fully occupied, but now most of them were empty, a trace of sadness appeared on An Hong's pig face.
But in fact, there was no fluctuation in his huge eyes. He was even quite excited and gloating when he just got the news.
Whether it is the Feng family or Tian En, from his point of view, neither of them is a good person!
They are all traitors who have no respect for him as the emperor and have no respect for the entire royal family!
And now, those who were killed in the Feng family manor were either the traitors themselves, or officials who colluded with the traitors and had the same goals and demands. At the very least, they were the middle-of-the-road swingers, and their loyalty to the royal family was never firm!
The death of these people was a great thing for Emperor An Hong, who was bent on increasing the royal authority and centralizing imperial power!
The empty chairs represent the empty cakes!
The dead cannot be resurrected, so the rights they left behind must naturally be controlled by new people.
Of course, this incident has just happened. Such an appalling, inhumane case that tramples on the central authority and official dignity requires all those in power to gather together and discuss it.
Prime Minister Hu Cheng sat in the position where An Hong was going to attack. Compared with An Hong, he seemed to be really angry, even furious.
"Tai Yang, Zhu Lan, Academy, is it finally the turn of the Central Government now? In the past two years, thugs have appeared one after another in the East District, and the leadership has been slaughtered. Everything seems to have been premeditated! What about the Central Government? Is the current situation of the Central Government also part of someone's plan? How long has this world been stable? The city lords in the West District are unruly, and the East District has fallen into chaos. Now the Central Government is also going to be in chaos! What are they trying to do! Do they want all of humanity to return to the old century, when you kill me, I kill you, each city is independent of each other, society has no development, and only war continues!"
He glared at everyone present.
This was a rebuke as well as a warning. Now all kinds of information were being continuously gathered in Weiyang Pavilion. It had become completely clear who had done the massacre at Feng Family Manor.
Grace, Sun Wei!
A chosen one who is highly expected by Tian'en and the Feng family and who has just advanced tonight; a priest who once served under the Pope and is now wanted by the whole city!
This man and this woman jointly carried out this massacre!
But this kind of thing is definitely not something that these two people who have no access to core power can do. They must have other accomplices!
And the people who help them must be sitting in this meeting room!
Now the Science and Punishment Institute and the Criminal Department are on guard at all the main roads in the city. All the train stations have been re-confirmed to be under the control of the Shadow Prime Minister. At the same time, researchers from various research institutes have been temporarily mobilized and assembled to guard the vicinity of Weiyang Pavilion.
And in Chongmin District, the Shadow Prime Minister just issued an extremely dangerous warning, saying that people at the chosen level are fighting.
The entire central government was in chaos at this time!
Hu Cheng was extremely troubled by this. He didn't know who the trouble-making pastor Sun Wei was using as a scapegoat for, but he was sure that the chaos that existed in the central government was essentially a case of the party uniting to attack dissidents!
Le Mingxin was the last remnant of the Blood Gang decades ago. The riots he caused before his death were essentially the Blood Gang's revenge against their betrayers.
As for the pastor Sun Wei he left behind, it was obvious that he was not the successor of the Blood Party. He later came into contact with other political forces in the central government.
The imperialists, constitutionalists, and republicans have been arguing over the years about what kind of political system the central government will ultimately decide on. These parties may have had no contact with Sun.
When he was first summarizing the information about the high-level people assassinated by Sun Wei, Hu Cheng suspected that he was cooperating with the Republicans, that is, the group of big capitalists headed by Tian En. The leak of Qingyun's authority was too coincidental, and all those who died were from the imperial party surrounding the imperial power.
But after what happened tonight, Hu Cheng couldn't help but begin to doubt his previous judgment.
If Sun Wei is really cooperating with the Republicans, then what is his behavior now?
Rebel? Undercover? Crazy?
Hu Cheng couldn't guess the reason, but he understood that no matter what, such internal friction could not be allowed to continue!
The entire underground world is now in a turbulent time. Several cities in the East Region have become extremely sensitive because of the chaos caused by Green Day. If there is a big riot inside this city, what kind of problems will arise later? Hu Cheng simply dare not think about it! Fortunately, although those who died in Feng Family Manor this time were all powerful figures, few of them were actually doing things, and these people would not have any impact on the central government's government affairs.
The only potential risk is the redivision of these vacant positions, and that's why they are holding this emergency meeting.
It's not about tracking down the murderer, that's the job of the Detention Center and the Criminal Investigation Department.
It is not about appeasing the people. Whether the people are harmed or not has nothing to do with the overall situation of the central government.
Hu Cheng, who actually presided over this meeting, had already determined how to redistribute the vacant cakes before he came.
"The differences within the Central Committee should only be resolved at the negotiation table! Ever since humans entered the underground and the two towers of matter and spirit were built, it has been made clear that scientists are not allowed to participate in politics for this very reason! Now, how long has peace lasted? Are some of you going to destroy this long-standing consensus and plunge the world into conflict again?"
Hu Cheng slammed his fist on the table!
"Green Day has not been completely dealt with yet, and they are hiding in the West Region, ready to make a move! After the Pope's death, the priest named Sun Wei who was left behind has not been caught yet, and is stirring up a bloody storm in the Central Government! Most cities in the East Region are caught in the flames of war, and the Central Government's control over them is becoming increasingly weak!"
"Now there are powerful enemies all around us! And yet you are still thinking about fighting for power and profit inside! The decree issued by the cabinet to dispatch personnel to various cities in the East Region one by one to extinguish the rebellion and stabilize the situation has never been actually approved! What on earth are you trying to do!"
"For all the people who died in the accident tonight, only some important positions will be assigned to temporary personnel, and the other positions will be vacant! The matter of the East District can't be delayed any longer. Many of those rebels have completely occupied the entire city, and the people are living in dire straits! The cabinet's order to quell the rebellion must be implemented today. You will be given a month to prepare. After a month, you must determine the personnel to go out to quell the rebellion. How to arrange these vacant positions will be allocated according to merit after the rebellion is over!"
His words caused an uproar in the entire conference hall, and even An Hong, who was sitting in a high seat, frowned.
They were all sitting here with full preparations for how to better eat the empty cakes, but now the prime minister said that the cakes should be kept for now, and when everyone finishes their work, they can see how to eat them according to their work merits.
This will obviously cause great dissatisfaction among the Republicans.
Most of the people who died in the accident were from their side. Replacing all the vacant positions with their own people could only guarantee that there would be no losses. However, the prime minister said that the positions should be divided according to merit!
The Republican politicians simply could not accept this, but before they could raise any objections, Hu Cheng added one final sentence.
"Since Tian'en Company has branch offices in various cities and is more familiar with every city in the East Region, the task of suppressing the rebellion will be mainly assigned to Tian'en Company. The specific distribution will be determined by the cabinet's decree later."
Once these words were spoken, the scene calmed down a little, but even so, the Republicans were still very dissatisfied. However, they still had to give Hu Cheng some face and not get angry on the spot. This matter was definitely not over yet!
Quelling the rebellion is a trivial matter. There is no need for Tianxuan to step in. As long as the central government assigns one third-level and several second-level people to each city in the East Region to carry out the cleansing, the problem can basically be solved. The reason why this has not been done is that the central government has not been peaceful recently. As long as the central government goes out, with the distance between cities and the speed of trains, it will take at least two or three months to complete the mission and go back and forth.
No one wants to send their own people out to do things at a time like this, which would cause problems for the forces remaining in the central government.
Level three, this is never a small role!
Even though there are nearly two-thirds of the Chosen Ones in the center, they are subject to greater restrictions. These Chosen Ones are required to stay in the center, which is actually a disguised constraint. The domain-born device is the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. Sometimes the third level is more useful than the Chosen Ones!
What Hu Cheng is doing now is to force them to send people out to do things, first transfer the internal conflicts to the outside, and stabilize the increasingly chaotic situation in the central government. This chaos must not continue!
Just as the meeting was about to end, the other participants had already left, leaving Hu Cheng facing An Hong, listening to the emperor's dissatisfied words.
"It will take at least half a year until we return from suppressing the rebellion. With so many positions vacant, won't this have an impact on the central government's administration?"
Hu Cheng remained silent in response to his question. Just as the prime minister was organizing his words and thinking about how to explain to the emperor that the people below were the ones who actually did the work, an internal affairs officer suddenly ran in in a hurry!
"Your Majesty! Jiang Li is dead! Jiang Li is dead!!!"
Such news made An Hong, who was sitting in a high position, and Hu Cheng below stunned.
"Who! Who killed him?"
The pig-headed emperor sitting on the throne was furious!
(End of this chapter)
