NOVGO.NET Chapter 1291 - 732: Prime Minister Zebert (2)
Chapter 1291: Chapter 732: Prime Minister Zebert (2)
The most crucial thing is that they have genuinely guided the masses.
For Gu Hang, the chants rose again, becoming more intense.
Prime Minister Zebert had to once again extend his hands, pressing down, attempting to subdue the cheers of the crowd.
But this time, he did not succeed.
The voices of the crowd grew increasingly intense, even showing a trend of becoming unified.
At this, Zebert lowered his hands.
He displayed a gentle smile, extending one hand with a gesture of invitation, as if generously allowing the people to cheer to their hearts’ content, unleashing their passion for hero worship.
He even turned his head, signaling to Gu Hang, inviting him to come up and say a few more words.
Throughout, his face maintained a gentle smile, like an elder at such a bustling celebration, knowing that he was not the main character and generously handing the stage back to the real protagonist.
But Salihoovich knew that Prime Minister Zebert was not pleased.
No matter how normal he behaved, how generous, how gentle his smile appeared, Salihoovich, through the intelligence gathered from various sources about this Prime Minister, had never found any virtues like ’generosity’ or ’magnanimity’ associated with him.
On the contrary, Salihoovich believed that Prime Minister Zebert was very concerned about his own authority.
Would such a person be indifferent to the events that had just occurred?
Would he not bear any grudge?
Salihoovich did not believe it.
Apart from speculation, there was another direction.
Not hard evidence, but a thought nonetheless.
He had watched a large number of Zebert’s speeches, both public and privately acquired versions.
From this, he summarized one characteristic: Zebert was an expert at concealing his emotions, almost never making facial expression management errors.
However, a subtle point was captured by Salihoovich.
That was when Zebert’s amiable smile was maintained, if the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes spread, it was a false smile, put on, and could even indicate inner emotions such as unease, anger, or dissatisfaction.
And this point, during the just transmitted live footage, was clearly observed by Salihoovich.
His heart sank.
Something bad had happened.
He wanted to elevate Gu Hang’s political status, but never intended to the point that it would cause Zebert to feel threatened.
Wouldn’t that be making a mistake while trying to be clever?
But it seemed this matter was not that simple.
Just now, Zebert had indeed pressed down the voice, and the people were genuinely ready to listen to him. But at the crucial moment, what was with the hecklers in the crowd?
Indeed, there were groups that Salihoovich had arranged to set the atmosphere. However, the Alliance’s atmosphere groups would not reveal themselves at such a moment.
“Investigate, find out who did it, and bring them out.”
“Yes!”
Operatives from the Foreign Affairs Bureau embedded in the crowd began to move.
Salihoovich had full confidence that their agents from the Foreign Affairs Bureau would definitely accomplish the mission. Additionally, by the traces left by these surfaced adversaries, attempt to trace this elusive puppet master’s true identity.
However, his mood did not improve in the slightest.
The current predicament remained.
Offending the Prime Minister was not a good thing.
Salihoovich understood that this time the Governor came to Holy Terra not just to receive honors, make an appearance in front of the broad Terran populace, and accumulate some political influence.
Gu Hang came with very clear political demands.
The “Alliance Plan” was a core issue, and Gu Hang even wished to go a step further.
On the surface, the biggest opponent of the “Alliance Plan” was the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Luo Fei. But in reality, Prime Minister Zebert was the crucial person.
The Sun Lord Suo He Kaim was once the most powerful figure in the Empire. The era of the Sun Expedition ended just over thirty years ago.
And Zebert had been the Imperial Prime Minister for sixty years.
Sixty years ago, he became Prime Minister with the support of the Sun Lord. He supported the Sun Expedition and could even be considered a great contributor to it, being a good partner to Suo He Kaim, stationed in the Central Empire, allocating resources, and extracting resources across the entire Empire to barely support the Sun Expedition’s progress.
However, in the later stages of the Sun Expedition, the Empire’s national strength became increasingly exhausted, and Zebert, at the helm of the Central Empire, bore the initial pressure.
At that time, not only in the Central Empire, but complaints about the Expedition were also widespread in various regional areas of the Empire.
They had indeed gained vast territories, but what was the benefit to the different empire regions that supported the expedition?
Even the Central Empire faced substantial opposition. While it involved oppressing others, the central officials also had to labor extensively.
If it was just the workload, it might be bearable, but the key issue was that the Sun Lord, like a father figure above the entire Empire’s institutions, had too high a status and too strong a reputation. Everyone else was just a dark star obscured by the sunlight.
He was in the way.
Moreover, his long absence from Holy Terra distanced him from the core of the Empire’s power. So, his expedition eventually stalled, and his ultimate demise outside was predictable.