Chapter 206 Meeting? Usurpation!
Chapter 206 Meeting? Usurpation! (End)
It seems... that's really the case?
After listening to Leon's analysis and questioning, the rebels who were originally bowing in a daze, unsure whether they were really against their leader, finally became completely "awake".
That’s right! That’s it!
Although I didn't understand as well as little Baggins and couldn't directly say why, I definitely vaguely sensed that something was wrong, so I felt that Nathan was not suitable to be the leader!
No wonder, no wonder I suddenly bowed to little Baggins just now. It turns out that although I don’t understand the reason, I have already started to think so in my heart...
"You...you guys don't let him fool you!"
Noticing the gradually changing expressions of the people in the room, and their vague attitudes leaning towards the other side, the middle-aged man realized that "the situation is hopeless" and said anxiously:
"Think about it! How old is little Baggins this year? Besides, apart from a few years of public school when he was young, he has never been to school since he was thirteen or fourteen. How could he know so much?
Use your brains! Those words just now, can a person who has only attended public school for three or five years say them! I doubt that he is not little Baggins at all!"
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After hearing the middle-aged man's reminder, the expressions of the gang members in the room suddenly changed, and they vaguely discovered that there was indeed something wrong with "Little Baggins".
A few people who walked around the valley frequently and knew a little about little Baggins' family situation immediately cast suspicious eyes.
What Nathan said...is not wrong?
Let's not talk about why the little Baggins, who was said to be silent and withdrawn, suddenly became so eloquent. With his level of community school dropout, it would be impossible for him to improvise and give such a clear analysis of the situation, not to mention the subsequent progressive, aggressive and heart-piercing questioning.
……
Sure enough, I was a little too hasty... But it doesn't matter!
Feeling the suspicious looks from the rebels, Leon couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly, then sighed quietly, and said with disappointment:
“Sir Nathan, you still don’t understand where you went wrong.
Do you think that by questioning my identity, forcibly calling me an impostor, and getting rid of me, the person who dared to stand up and question you, you can make you, the leader, right again?
To be honest, I even think you are a little pathetic now, pathetic because you can't even figure out who your real opponent is!"
After a pretentious rambling to redirect the focus of the topic, Leon sat back in his chair and continued to stall for time calmly under the gaze of everyone:
"Mr. Nathan, before I tell you the answer, could you please tell me what is the first textbook that a six-year-old child is given by the community school after he enters school?"
"Why are you talking about this?"
The middle-aged man was caught off guard by Leon's strange question, but he quickly reacted. He definitely couldn't let the topic continue to be dragged away by him, so he interrupted directly:
"What we are discussing right now is your identity! It has nothing to do with any public school textbooks! Don't try to evade my questions in this way!"
"I'm just answering your question!"
After getting the topic back once again, Leon spoke very quickly:
"If you have forgotten, I will tell you! The first set of teaching materials in the community school was reading, writing and pronunciation, and the material used to teach children to read was the history of the kingdom for nearly three hundred years!
The first sentence that all Kingdom children learn when they learn to read and write is how the Kingdom was born! Do you remember what that sentence said? "
"Of course I remember!"
The middle-aged man tried hard to gain the right to speak:
"But that sentence has nothing to do with the current situation..."
"There are relationships!"
Relying on the excellent dialogue skills brought by [Elite Performer], Leon took back the topic with a loud shout, and recited with a serious face:
"With the joint support of nobles, citizens, factory owners and merchants, the royal family drove out the previous rulers and absorbed the scattered city-states that could not bear the plunder of other kingdoms, thus establishing the current kingdom.
This is the first sentence most people learn! "
"So what is the difference between this and now..."
"So it wasn't that the royal family founded the kingdom and then gained the support of the majority; it was that after gaining the support of the majority of forces, the current royal family successfully established the kingdom! Even a child knows this!"
After explaining his interpretation of this sentence, Leon looked at the dazed middle-aged man and shook his head.
"If you are really ready to save this country as you said, then what you should do is to show the changes you can bring so that more forces are willing to support you, instead of launching random attacks and making everyone fear you or even hostile to you!"
"That's easy for you to say!"
Feeling a little flustered by Leon's words, the middle-aged man gritted his teeth and tried to argue:
“We are a rebel party! Those who choose to join us are either impoverished veterans, bankrupt civilians with nowhere else to go, or workers who are oppressed and can’t make a living.
What value can these people provide? Why do you think those forces can support us? Instead of having those unfounded daydreams, you might as well do as I say and first..."
"You see, this is the biggest disagreement between you and me."
After interrupting the middle-aged man's argument again, Leon shook his head and provoked seriously:
"Sir Nathan, I don't know where you come from, but I know one thing...
Even though you founded the rebellion, you look down on us from the bottom of your heart and don’t think we have any value!"
Got it!
After hearing what Leon said, the middle-aged man realized that he had made a mistake and looked startled. He then quickly made up for it:
"This is not a question of respect or disrespect! I am stating the truth! No one, whether it is the nobles, merchants, or the parliament, will support us!"
"Then have you ever thought about why those people won't support us?"
After feeling the slight vibration of the small mirror in his arms and the patting of his belly by the dog's paw, he knew that Senior Emma was about to come. With a clear mind, Leon said:
"Because under your leadership, we are just a will-o'-the-wisp that burns wherever we go, and we have never even opened our mouths in the sun to ask for what we really want!
Or to put it more bluntly, it is precisely because you have never looked down upon us from the bottom of your heart and have never tried to explore our value, so the rebels in your hands are just some weapons to launch attacks, and of course they will not get any support! "
As Leon spoke, he secretly touched the horns of the black goat and took a peek at the soul state of the rebels.
Annoyance, complaints, suspicion...
Steady!
After their deliberate instigation, the rebels have become increasingly dissatisfied with the middle-aged Joshua. When Senior Emma arrives, it is estimated that when the middle-aged Joshua opens the door to rescue people, they may not be willing to follow him!
……
"Sir Nathan!"
Counting from entering the meeting room, it only took Leon a little more than a meal to stir up the rebellion to the brink of disbanding. He continued to add fuel to the fire:
"Over the years, there have been thousands of veterans who have retired due to injuries near the capital alone. There are also hundreds of thousands of workers who risk having their limbs crushed by machines and work for more than ten hours a day, but their salaries are barely enough to support their families!
There are still small workshops that are constantly going bankrupt under the impact of large factories; farmers who can only work on noble farms after their land is occupied and grain prices are squeezed down; and poor citizens who can hardly find a stable job...
Do you know how many of these people there are in total?"
"I... probably..."
"You can't possibly know! Because you've never looked down on people like us, so you don't even bother to take the time to pay attention to us, so how would you know such a thing?" "..."
Facing the middle-aged man who was choked and speechless, Leon, who also didn't know how many of these people there were, slowly stood up and said seriously:
“There are so many people living in pain and longing for change. If you really see them and are willing to help them, and let one tenth of them... or even one percent of them begin to agree with us, no one will dare to ignore our opinions!
If you do this, even if the royal family does not support us, they will not arrest us; even if the nobles do not support us, they will not dare to continue to bully us; merchants and factory owners do not support us, but they will not hate or even be hostile to us! "
"..."
“Once we start trying to speak out in the sun and let citizens and workers see hope for change in us, this first force will slowly move towards us!
With this real fulcrum, there will be more things we can do next!"
"The royal family wants to check and balance the nobles and control the increasingly large merchant group; the parliament wants to limit the power of the royal family and the nobles and regulate the business behavior of the Chamber of Commerce; the nobles want to have more power and want to really get a share of the business; the merchants want to break free from the constraints and establish more laws that are beneficial to business to prevent being oppressed and exploited by other parties..."
After briefly explaining the basic demands of all parties in the kingdom, Leon calculated the time for Senior Emma to arrive while earnestly making promises:
“If you want to gain support, you must first make yourself valuable enough!
When we truly become a force, we become an important enough weight. When we invest in the game between these forces, we can influence the direction of the balance. In exchange, the forces that get our support must also pay certain benefits.
Factory owners who want to rely on our support to avoid being exploited by the royal family and the nobility need to give up salary space to ordinary people; the royal family who want to suppress the old nobility through citizens and workers needs to be given more protection in legislation;
If the parliament wants to gain support from the citizens, it must not only help push for the passage of relevant legislation, but also provide seats in the parliament..."
When he said this, Leon paused for a moment, looked at the expressions of the rioters who were listening intently in the room, and raised his tone slightly:
“Everyone! Once those who follow us have truly tasted the benefits we bring, and more people have seen the significance of having someone speak for them, more and more people will begin to approach us!
And when we become truly powerful and become a force comparable to the royal family, the nobility, the parliament, and the Chamber of Commerce, we can even turn around and actively force other forces to make concessions to us!"
“At that time, nobles who don’t want to be completely crushed must please us! Merchants and factory owners who are worried about being boycotted and bankrupted can only choose to treat us well!
As we get more and more seats in Parliament, the Prime Minister will have to consider our opinions when issuing decrees! When the royal family makes important decisions, they even need to consult us first! And this! It’s not even the end! "
It's... not over yet? We've already been so awesome, and there's going to be something even more awesome?
Hearing that this was not the end, the rioters in the room could hardly bear it anymore. They clenched their fists with rapid breathing, staring at the glowing "Little Baggins", wanting to hear how fierce the rioters could be in the future.
For those old-timers who are truly well versed in politics, as long as they put their mouths on this empty pie made by someone here, they can taste that the filling of the pie is not solid enough.
After all, although the feasibility of this thing is not completely impossible and is definitely much better than wishful thinking, the degree of its feasibility is still quite limited.
Just how to make everyone unite and avoid being divided is a difficult problem that cannot be avoided, not to mention how to deal with the counterattack of other forces or even the oppression of other forces. If these things cannot be solved, I am afraid we can only be dragged into endless wrangling.
But for those rebels whose average education level is only in community public schools, or even those who dropped out of prenatal education and cannot write anything except their own names, this pile of bright and beautiful pie is enough to make them faint.
As for the so-called wooing and division, the so-called counterattack and oppression...
It's so funny. Over the years, we have been chased by the army and the secret police and dare not show up. We can only hide in mud houses in a valley 800 miles away from the royal capital. We might even run into a big tiger baring its teeth when we go out to pee. How could it be worse than what is happening now?
……
It’s over! Completely finished!
Seeing that everyone in the room was staring at Leon fanatically and no one was looking at his gang members, the middle-aged man felt a chill all over his body.
What Director Aquarius said was true to every word! This man, who was not sure if he was Little Baggins, was extremely dangerous.
After working hard for so many years, he finally gathered a force strong enough to attack the boarding tower, but he destroyed everything in less than thirty minutes.
He not only destroyed the rebels, but also destroyed his own plan to avoid war by attacking the boarding tower and concealing the kingdom's mineral resources.
It's over! From now on, everything is over!
After gritting his teeth, middle-aged Joshua stared at "Little Baggins" opposite him, regretting that after he found that all six pointers were moving last night, he did not go over and kill him directly, and even gave him the opportunity to attend the meeting!
I am really stupid!
Looking at "Little Baggins" who stood up in the expectant gaze of everyone and seemed to want to say something, the middle-aged man couldn't help but take a deep breath, then slowly stood up as well.
"Mr. Nathan?"
After noticing his actions, Leon raised his eyebrows slightly, then stopped speaking and stared at him, and took the initiative to ask:
"Do you have anything else to say?"
"Have."
The middle-aged man nodded slowly, then opened his mouth and said:
"I was wondering, what if I had...Nicole?"
Along with his surprised voice, the door behind Leon creaked, as if it was pushed open. Leon's heart skipped a beat, and he turned around and looked over, and then...
"boom!"
A silver-white nail with a thread suddenly shot out from Leon's heart, flew into the empty door and disappeared.
And this is not the end. Before Leon, who was shot, could turn his head back, the middle-aged man who hated him so much pulled the trigger continuously, bang bang bang bang bang bang, firing seven shots in a row, directly hitting Leon's back and making it a bloody mess!
"what?"
"Little Baggins?!"
"NATHON!!!!!!"
"What I want to say is, if only I had done the same thing back then!"
After emptying the magazine from behind and directly killing the bad "Little Baggins", the middle-aged man, who still had hatred in his eyes, threw away the nail gun in his hand, raised his hand and pointed at the rebels in the house and sneered:
"Besides, you idiots! Do you really think you can do what he says?
Those nobles and merchants are not doing charity, will they honestly abide by the laws of the kingdom and play those open things with you?"
"Haha, I don't deny that little Baggins has the ability to do what he said. After all, it only took him one meal to make you betray me. He really has a terrifying talent in this regard.
But do the nobles and merchants need to win the argument with little Baggins like me? They only need to spend a small sum of money to hire a desperate fool with a gun like me... Bang! "
After raising his hand and making a shooting gesture, the middle-aged man sneered:
"Wake up! I am the only one who can truly save the kingdom!
No matter how beautiful the road that little Baggins points to you looks, his useless ability that can only make people bow down to him can't protect his safety at all! As long as he, the leader, dies, everything will be nothing but empty talk...you...why haven't you died yet?"
"Excuse me... Bah!"
After getting up and spitting out the fishy and salty blood foam in his mouth, Leon touched the healing hole on his chest, then covered himself with clothes and turned around, giving an embarrassed smile to the rioters in the room whose brains were on the verge of shutting down.
"I just realized that my ability seems to be more than just making people bow to me. I may also be immortal."
(End of this chapter)