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Chapter 680 "Do you know 'K'?"

"Why ask this question?"

Si Enji looked back at He Ao.

"I saw the photo you put in the back room of the store," He Ao said calmly, "Those who stand with you are the ruling team of Snava?"

Then he paused, "And I seem to have heard your name vaguely. During Snava's administration, you were the deputy director of the city's medical and health department, Si Enji?"

"It sounds like you are very familiar with that period of history."

Si Enji looked at the fading images of the park on TV, "Do you know 'K'? In fact, we did the same thing as 'K' back then, except that he succeeded and we failed."

As he spoke, he smiled self-deprecatingly, "Of course, it's normal that you don't know. The Kaijet Group has blocked all news about 'K' and forbids anyone to discuss him,"

He paused for a moment, "And 'K' has not appeared in people's sight for several years, maybe he has already given up what he did back then..."

He Ao stood beside him, watching him calmly.

"Let's get back to the topic," Sienji shook his head and smiled, with a long tone, "When Snava found me, I was still teaching at Wetland Medical University, and he persuaded me to return to San Jon and join him team, and work together to reform health care."

"Forcing large enterprises to purchase basic medical insurance for their employees, establishing basic medical clinics on a large scale, and providing low-cost and simple medical services."

He Ao answered slowly, "These are the only medical reforms I remember. The medical clinics established by the city government seem to have been sold to medical consortiums. It seems that the medical insurance bill has not been abolished?"

"But in fact, it exists in name only. The consortium will only buy medical insurance for a few old and core employees."

Si Enji glanced at He Ao, walked to the iron stool near the window and sat down, "However, this bill does allow many people who did not have medical insurance to have medical insurance, and they still have it now,"

He turned his head to look at the city where lights and night were intertwined, "And this is why Snava had to commit suicide. Of course, he didn't tell any of us beforehand."

"I remember that when the incident happened, it was the last year of Snavana's term of office. In that year, there was no food anywhere in the market, and the news was full of opposition and accusations against him," he said.

He Ao also stared at the city under the night outside the window, and said in a calm tone, "The parliament opened the impeachment procedure against him. I remember that an officer of the city defense army was killed in the building of San Jon's largest media, the Daily News. The city defense army There was also a declaration of no confidence in the city government."

"Yeah, that was the most tumultuous year I've ever been through in my life,"

Sienji looked out the window,
"The real situation at that time was actually worse than what the outside world knew. Our reforms offended all the big consortia in San Jon City at the same time.

"In particular, the city's corporate income tax reform led by Snava, the reform of workers' working hours, the act of restricting food prices, the policy of supporting free competition of small grain consortiums, and the unfair competition investigation of the Kaijiete Group have completely offended Kaget Consortium.

"In the beginning, our reform went smoothly. The municipal taxation has been greatly improved. The accumulated debt has finally been suspended. The municipal government has enough financial surplus to support us to build some public facilities, such as the city center park and small clinics. .

"But things don't always go well, especially after we offended the Kaijet Group,
"In the beginning, the Kaijet Group hoped to replace us in the next city government by supporting other candidates, but Snava's reforms made his support rate continue to rise. After realizing that we could not win us through the election After that, the Capjet Group used other solutions."

Speaking of this, Sienji laughed,
"Honestly speaking, as a super consortium that has only emerged in the last ten years, the Kaijet Group itself is not valued by other old-school super consortiums. household'.

"But even such an 'upstart' is a huge super consortium that we cannot resist. At that time we were still young, the average age of the team was no more than 50 years old, and Snava was only 45 years old.

"In Commonwealth, where the average mayor is in his 50s, we were really a very young team, so we thought at the time that we could change the city, change everything we saw.

"And it turns out we were really young."

Si Enji looked at He Ao who was standing, got up slowly, picked up two chairs from the side, and walked towards He Ao and Jia Qian.

"Thank you uncle."

Jia Qian took the chair, thanked her sweetly, and put a chair behind He Ao.

He Ao reached out and touched his granddaughter's head, and sat down on the chair.

Si Enji sat back by the window, and the faint light poured down from the window, drawing a shallow outline of his backlit figure,

"It was the city council that was first affected. The city council of San Jon is elected every two years. One term of the mayor will go through two terms of the city council.
"In the year when the mayor is elected, the city council will also be re-elected. At the end of the second year of the mayor's administration, that is, in the middle of the term, the city council will be re-elected.

"We didn't have enough seniority and we didn't have a deep party background, so we didn't have full control of the council at the beginning, but in the first two years, we controlled the city council through the ruling coalition.

"Throughout the administration, most of the bills were passed in those two years."

"Midterm elections gone wrong?"

Ho asked softly.

The city council election in the mid-term of the mayor's administration is called a mid-term election.

"Yes,"

Si Enji's eyes were deep and deep, as if he had fallen into a long memory,

"After the first two years, the Kaijet Group has clearly sensed our threat, so they tried every means to interfere in the mid-term elections, buy off congressmen who were not fully compatible with us, or support opposing congressmen to replace our original congressmen .

"After this time, although we once again controlled the parliament, we only obtained the support of a simple majority in the parliament, that is, just over half of the members of our ruling coalition.

"Of course, this is also considered a 'victory', but when we were celebrating the victory, we did not expect that the Kaijiete Group had already planted a 'bomb' for us.

"And this bomb has also become an important hand in overthrowing us."

"speaker?"

Ho asked softly.

He didn't know what kind of bureau the Kaijet Group had set up, but he knew that the current mayor, Crott, seemed to be the speaker of the second parliament during the Snava administration.

"Yes,"

Si Enji looked up at He Ao, as if surprised by He Ao's sharpness, then he spoke slowly and continued,

"Different from us, Crott is a political family in San Jon City. In addition to five senators, a dozen members of the House of Representatives, and countless city councilors in his family, in the city council at that time, his faction had A lot of MPs.

"In the first Parliament, he and his faction were not in our governing coalition, they were a parliamentary centrist.

"In the mid-term elections, Facing the pressure from the Kejet Group, Snava had to seek more support. At that time, Crott's faction became a key force.
"After lengthy negotiations, in the end, he expressed his willingness to support us, but only if the position of speaker of the new parliament is reserved for him, and Snava agreed to his conditions.

"And this has become one of the things we regret most in the future."

Si Enji looked up at Crott, who was talking on TV and has now become the mayor.

"Croter has no position, or his position depends on who gives him more benefits.

"When the Kaijet Group decided not to use normal means to get us out of power, he became a sharp knife inserted into us,

"Of course, in the beginning, he didn't show his true colors right away.

"The prelude to Kaijiete's 'war' was 'food'. At that time, the food price limit bill we drafted had just come into effect. The law stipulated that the food price in San Jon City should not exceed 20% of the federal average food price.

"This bill was calculated by us. Because there is no transportation fee, normal food producers can make a high profit even if the price of food in San Jon is lower than 20% of the federal average price. .

"What's more, the 'capability' of the Kaijiete Group is that they have a grain synthesis technology with a yield much higher than that of their peers, and they are willing to pay their employees wages that are lower than normal grain manufacturers."

"This bill is a little too urgent."

Howard sighed lightly.

Xito was also one of the ordinary people who experienced the incident that year. At that time, almost 90.00% of the grain in San Jon City came from the Kaijet Group, and the city government had no qualifications to negotiate with the Kaijet Group.

Of course, even if there is no food price bill, the Kaijiete Group will still find other reasons to attack.

"Yeah, we were all too young then,"

Si Enji also heaved a long sigh. During the long years of living alone in seclusion, he also recalled the past countless times.

"In the second week after the food price bill went into effect, the KJT Group announced that they would be suspending most of the food sales in San Jon because the food prices imposed by the city government were 'too low' and they could not maintain normal business activities. .

"The food supply in the whole city has suddenly changed from normal supply to less than one-tenth of the original, but the factories of the Kaijiete Group have not stopped."

Speaking of this, Si Enji smiled wryly,
"The citizens of San Jon work in grain factories and produce a lot of grain every day, but they can't buy any grain themselves."

"Because that's not San Jon's factory."

He Ao said calmly.

"That's not San Jon's factory..."

Hearing this sentence, Si Enji was taken aback.

He chewed these words repeatedly, and after a while, he came back to his senses, raised his head, and stared at He Ao, as if he wanted to see the past that the old man had experienced from the face of this old man.

What is reflected in his eyes are only the wrinkles engraved by history and time.

After a brief silence, Si Enji continued,

"Because of the Kaijet Group's operation, San Jon City has fallen into an unprecedented food crisis. At first we wanted to buy food from other grain consortiums, but those consortiums didn't want to offend the Kaijet Group.
"At the same time, the Kaijiete Group pulled its own mercenary group to the commercial road in San Jon City, in the name of defending its grain export caravan, but these mercenaries are actually used to interfere with the , of caravans buying food from other cities.

"In the underground market, a large amount of high-priced food of unknown origin appeared, and the price of food doubled to three times. We tried to crack down on these underground markets and tried to control the price of food, but the effect was not good.

"Because in normal supermarkets and markets, people simply cannot buy food.

"The shortage of food caused chaos in the whole city. Immediately afterwards, the Kaijiete Group began to bribe the media. The media in the entire San Jon city almost simultaneously began to attack the city government and the mayor. From the food price bill as a breakthrough, they completely denied us. All policies and acts.

"In this case, as the speaker of the council, Crott was the first to attack us, manipulating the city council to enter the impeachment process of the mayor.

"Almost at the same time, a large number of cabinet members' personal morality issues were exposed and rumors spread.

"Although we all know that these accusations are false, but when more people believe the message, it becomes difficult to prove the truth."

"But at least,"

He Ao got up slowly and walked to the window. As he approached, the homeless people hidden under the city lights and the shadows of the buildings slowly appeared.

"The people of San Jon have not lost their trust in you, at least in my neighborhood, even though people can no longer afford food, even though my neighbors and I can only eat one and a half meals a day, the vast majority Time labors in hunger,

"But no one stood on the street and opposed you."

Si Enji raised his head and stared blankly at He Ao.

This is the first time he has heard the evaluation of this matter from people who experienced those things from the perspective of ordinary people.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but something seemed to choke his throat, making him speechless.

"Until then, the tricks of the Kaijiete Group are not enough to cause a devastating impact on you in a short period of time,"

He Ao turned his head to look at Si Enji, and continued calmly, "The last straw that breaks the camel's camel is the city defense army?"

"Yes,"

Si Enji took a deep breath, and he also stood up, standing beside He Ao, looking at the homeless people in the shadows of the night, "The incident that caused things to completely get out of control was a killer who broke into Liangdu Daily's Building, tried to shoot the editor-in-chief of Liangdu Daily, but accidentally shot and killed a major of the city defense army who was working in Liangdu Daily.

"And that killer was also killed in the counterattack of the city defense army.

"Liangdu Daily was the media that published the most 'black material' about us. Almost overnight, this news was published in all newspapers and news, pointing the finger at us and instructing killers to assassinate the editor-in-chief, 'trying to use abnormal Extreme means to exclude dissidents'.

"The whole incident suddenly escalated into a vicious incident. A 'criminal' who ordered the killer to kill cannot be the mayor of San Jon. Even the people who originally supported us were born in the indiscriminate propaganda. Suspect.

"If it's just that, we can still hold on.

"But this incident resulted in the death of an officer of the city defense army. The city defense army declared their distrust of us almost the next day and sent us a questioning letter. Only then did we know that the city defense army also It has long been infiltrated by the Kaijiete Group.

"The announcement issued by the city defense army almost confirms our 'hired killer'. At the same time, the city defense army also announced the lifting of the 'protection' of Mayor Sinava, and took back the mayor's special bodyguard team.

"And with the mayor's guard alone, we simply cannot resist the extraordinary killers that may appear.

"Of course, the Kaijiete Group did not send killers, because after the City Defense Army expressed its position, our ruling coalition collapsed, and a large number of MPs fell to Crote.

"The impeachment vote that was originally dismissed was opened for the second time, and it is foreseeable that this time, it will be successful.

"That night, Clotte visited us late at night and gave us a 'decent' proposal.

"They demanded that Snava and the deputy mayor resign immediately so that they can avoid the consequences of impeachment.

"If you agree, Kaijiete Group can help us arrange a plane and send us to Dawn City or Wetland, so that we can all survive.

"And if you don't agree, after being successfully impeached, the Kejet Group cannot guarantee our safety.

"In fact, things have come to this point, and we have almost no room for resistance.

"That night, several ministers of the city cabinet fled by plane overnight,
"It is foreseeable that after we are ousted, Clott can stigmatize us, negate all our bills and policies logically, and then reverse all the efforts we have made, and everything will be restored to the way we never were. the way it used to be.

"And this is what the Kaijiete Group wants after such a big circle.

"If they don't do this, and directly cooperate with the city defense army to assassinate Snava, a mayor who is assassinated will be sympathetic. At the same time, after Snava dies, our team will still take over the position of mayor. It will be very difficult to change the bill we left behind.

"The rest of us ate our last meal that night,

"During that meal, Snava talked to us a lot about the things we've come along the way. He encouraged me to run for mayor. I was only 36 years old and the youngest member of the team. He said that the future in my possession."

Si Enji's tone became slower and slower,

"After that meal, Snava went back to the mayor's mansion to rest, and we lived next to the mayor's mansion that night.

"The next morning at five o'clock, I was woken up and the maids heard gunshots and found Sinava lying in a pool of blood, so they sent someone to call me.

"When I arrived, he was sitting on a white sofa with blood pouring out of his chest. He shot himself in the heart. He was hopeless at that time. I went up to try to prolong his life." life, but he just held my hand.

"The ones who remained came one by one and entered the room, we watched him, and he watched us,

"And then he died."

Speaking of this, Si Enji took a long breath, "He left two handwritten suicide notes, one for the public and one for us.

"The one given to the public stated the slander and blows he suffered, and expressed his willingness to defend the constitution of San Jon and the Commonwealth with his life, and defend justice.

"The one given to us hopes that we will make appropriate concessions and keep as many results as possible."

"A mayor who commits suicide is also sympathetic."

He Ao said slowly.

"yes,"

Si Enji stared out of the window, and also at himself reflected in the window,
"Snava's suicide completely reversed the trend of the entire public opinion and stopped the impeachment process that had started.

"The deputy mayor took over the position of mayor according to the procedures. Sinava's suicide suddenly became a hot topic in the entire federation. Even Irons sent a letter to ask what happened. The FBI even set up a special investigation team.

"Under the influence of such huge public opinion, Kaijiete Group had to suspend its original actions,

"Although in the end we still had to stop the unfair competition investigation of the Kaijiete Group, revise the food price bill, and change most of the policies in the grain industry, but more bills and policies we implemented have been left behind. down.

"Snava used his life to try his best to keep these things."

Si Enji sighed, "Although many of them were removed one by one by Crott during his eight years in office, many of them survived in name only like the health insurance bill."

"But at least they're still there."

He Ao answered the words calmly.

"Yeah, at least, the city still has traces of Snava's visit,"

Si Enji turned his head and glanced at He Ao, "Old guy, you are a good listener. After so many years, this is the first time I have told this story to other people completely,"

He took a deep breath, opened his mouth, and finally said softly, "Thank you."

"Need not,"

He Ao shook his head, "I also solved my doubts."

Si Enji looked at He Ao, he wanted to say something, but in the end he only showed a smile, and then he looked behind him, "Your crutch seems to be healed."

The roar of the lathe had stopped at some point. Standing in front of the lathe, Temok took out a new silver crutch from the lathe.

It was still a crutch with a crank, and the whole transformation was integrated, as if it was cast from some kind of steel.

But He Ao still saw a series of fine ring lines on the crank of the crutch.

Howo and Sienji walked towards Temok.

"Old man, the production time of this crutch is a bit urgent, and it hasn't been colored yet."

Seeing He Ao approaching, Temok said apologetically.

"fine,"

He Ao shook his head, "It looks pretty good too."

"As long as you like it, we are very lucky. The overall material of this crutch has reached the limit of D-level, and ordinary D-level can't damage the body of the stick at all,"

Holding the crutch, Temok showed He Ao a look at the bottom, "I made this bottom for you into a pointed form, which can be used for attacking, and can also be easily inserted into the ground to fix it.

"Besides, this crutch has a small mechanism,"

He held the crank of the crutch, glanced at Jia Qian who was standing aside and poking her head, "little sister, let me go."

"it is good!"

Jia Qian nodded obediently, then turned to get out of the way.

"Look, just turn this crank,"

Temok held the crank of the crutch and slowly rotated it. The originally curved part became straight slowly under the rotation of his hand.

At the same time, as if some kind of mechanism was triggered, several sleeves inside the crutches also popped out one after another, and the whole crutch instantly turned into a long metal stick about [-] meters long.

"This crutch will become a metal rod, and I will do what you want,"

He put the stick down, showing the indentation at the top of the stick with two small notches, "Leave a bayonet for your butterfly knife here, so you can use this metal stick and butterfly knife to form a A long gun."

He Ao walked to the top of the long stick, took out the butterfly knife in his arms, and inserted it into the depression of the muzzle of the gun. The entire blade of the butterfly knife fit perfectly with the depression.

click -

The latch of the butterfly knife popped out and just stuck on the small opening in the depression.

Temok took advantage of the opportunity and handed the combined silver gun to He Ao.

He Ao raised the gun and stretched out his hand to stab forward, the body of the gun flew out like a dragon, passing through the air, making a rustling sound.

"Good gun!"

He Ao sighed, then twisted the base, the muzzle retracted, and became a crutch again, but the butterfly knife could still be embedded in the top.

This means that this long gun can also be turned into a crutch gun at any time,
Then he took back the butterfly knife, put his cane on the ground, and looked at Temok, "Thank you, I like this very much."

"It's all right," Temok said with a smile, "It's just as long as you like it."

Holding a new crutch in his hand, He Ao looked at Si Enji beside him, and said slowly, "I'm going out soon, can I trouble you to take care of Jia Qian?"

Jia Qian grabbed He Ao's clothes at once.

He Ao squatted down, looked at his granddaughter at the same level, and said gently, "Where grandpa goes this time, Jia Qian may be in danger."

Jia Qian couldn't resist pollution, and He Ao didn't know if there would be anything that couldn't be seen in the headquarters of Evolution.

Jia Qian stared at He Ao with her eyes wide open.

In the end, she bit her lip lightly, and slowly let go of her hand, "Then grandpa will bring ice cream for Jia Qian when he comes back."

She looked at He Ao, her eyes sparkled, "I want a vanilla and a strawberry."

"it is good."

He Ao reached out and touched her head, then he reached out his hand and took out the bracelet controlled by Eve remotely and logged into the black market account from his pocket, and put it on Jiaqian's hand.

Then he got up and looked at Si Enji.

Si Enji didn't know what He Ao was going to do, he just stared at He Ao and sighed softly, "Old man, come back alive."

"Ah."

He Ao nodded slightly, walked towards the door with a cane on his hands.

The rusty iron gate opened automatically, and Eve's remote-controlled off-road vehicle had already stopped in front of this small gate.

At this time, He Ao suddenly turned around and looked at Si Enji who followed him to the door.

"what happened?"

Sienji was a little puzzled.

"In two months, there will be a new mayoral election."

He Ao said slowly.

Hearing this sentence, Si Enji was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "We can't succeed, we can't run against Crote supported by Kaijiete Group, the mayoral campaign needs a lot of exposure, eight years have passed, people may I don't remember us anymore."

He Ao turned his head sideways, looked at the city under the night, and the shadow of the homeless under the city, "Why don't you ask yourself."

Si Enji followed He Ao's gaze, slightly distracted, "However, even if it succeeds, it is only on the road we have walked. We alone cannot resist the Kaijiete Group."

He Ao turned his head and glanced at him, "Do you know 'K'?"

Sienji was taken aback for a moment.

But when he was dazed, He Ao's figure had already got on the off-road vehicle and disappeared into the night.

At this moment, Si Enji suddenly realized something. He stared at the direction where He Ao disappeared, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

　Two-in-one, more than 7000 words, too much to write, later, please ask for a ticket.

　
(End of this chapter)