Only three days have passed since the night of the Spring Festival.
But within these short three days, in the federal capital of Skyewo, great changes that people could not imagine were staged again and again.
With the academy represented by Su Mu and Lu Xi, it seemed that there was an irreconcilable contradiction with the Speaker's Residence; then even the Public Security Department, which originally belonged to the official residence, also began to have other ideas.
And at the same time when all the members of the Speaker’s residence left their relatives, many members of the Bundestag suddenly began to impeach the current Speaker of the Federation on a large scale.
Although according to the federal system, the Federal Speaker during his term of office will never step down easily unless he is treason.
But even so, knowing that their impeachment is not painful. However, the members of the Supreme House didn't care about the outcome at all, and constantly launched investigation proposals for the Speaker to the House.
So that in the end, even Speaker Wyatt himself was a little troubled, and directly and decisively refused to go to the House for self-examination, and let the House quickly set up an investigation team.
Speaker Wyatt's posture, on the contrary, has changed his opinion again.
After all, in the night of that day, the person who was first attacked by the assassins was actually the Federal Speaker himself. Now the Supreme House, instead of focusing on investigating the identity of the assassin, they have begun to target the Federal Speaker on a large scale. From the bottom of our hearts, everyone has obviously had some sympathy.
However, for Wyatt’s response, the legislators who had already determined the behavioral policy would naturally not back down because of this.
Since Wyatt took the initiative to request, they had already formed an investigation team in an instant.
Although the investigation team itself must be joined by Aiden, who is the leader of public security, even the Supreme House dare not make any tricks.
But even if it is inconvenient for others to do tricks, it does not mean that Wyatt has a clear conscience.
As for what happened that night, there are undoubtedly only a few people who are the closest to the truth. However, unfortunately, the two parties who are now gambling with each other through the investigation team happened to be the real insiders that night.
Whether it was the Federal Speaker Wyatt or the Medici family behind the Supreme House, they knew exactly what the other party did that night.
Therefore, at this time, both parties need to take the lead in finding out the other party's loopholes... Then they can use this loophole as a breakthrough point to directly insert a knife into each other's heart!
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However, when the situation at the top of the Federation made almost the entire Yunshang District trembling, Su Mu, who was a personal participant that night, convened the second meeting within the group again.
The last meeting within the group was discussing how to develop the forces of the Su Mu family.
And in various aspects, there is no doubt that relatively good results have been obtained. Even because of Tina's proposal, Su Mu secretly controls the underground world of Skyewo City.
Therefore, at this most sensitive time, when everyone is watching Su Mu's behavior, the second group meeting convened by Su Mu is only discussing a very single proposition:
"How do we... continue to make money?"
When Su Mu raised this question, except for Lu Xi and Su Tong, who knew Su Mu's thoughts in advance, everyone looked at Su Mu blankly, completely wondering which Su Mu was singing again.
The core element that maintains the existence of a group is, of course, something called interest.
And the most straightforward explanation of interest is undoubtedly money.
Therefore, from a purely rational point of view, Su Mu's discussion of making money within the group is not just a matter of negligence, but a reasonable thing.
However, reason comes to reason, but things that are reasonable are sometimes equally unreasonable.
In fact, although Su Mu has not reached the level of a first-line group in terms of manpower or power, it is because of the existence of the alchemy workshop, at least not inferior to the first-line group in terms of funding sources.
So when Su Mu today asked everyone to continue discussing how to make money as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone except Su Tong and Lu Xi subconsciously showed a ghostly expression.
"You are crazy about money... Why are you so anxious if you are not short of money?"
The most outspoken, it turned out to be Aviana, the eldest lady of the wizarding family. While everyone else was just slandering, Aviana had already blurted out the question in her heart.
However, Su Mu didn't care about Aviana's attitude at all.
Just because of the relationship with Lu Xi, the other party decisively joined the Su Mu group, which was not related to her. From this point alone, Su Mu was not qualified to be arrogant to others.
Therefore, in the face of Aviana’s doubts, Su Mu used her doubts instead, simply unreservedly revealing all his plans and predictions:
"From the perspective of our current state, we certainly do not need to continue to expand funding sources. After all, whether it is the funding needs of the Arcanum itself or the dirty hands we are trying to solicit, these can be fully supported with today's funding, and it is not We don’t need to take risks to expand."
"But the most critical issue is actually what Stanley mentioned at the last meeting... The completeness of our capital chain is now completely controlled by the channel of trade covenants. As long as we still do not master the more core alchemy , Then we will never have an absolutely stable source of funds."
Su Mu said this, but even his eyes were serious and awe-inspiring.
"I don’t believe in the Papal State, and even less in the trade covenant they secretly manipulate. Bastiao is someone I can’t see through at all. Putting his lifeline in the hands of such a person is definitely not conducive to our continued development. . So we must have new technologies, new channels, and even some kind of system established by ourselves."
"In today's world, in an era where all walks of life have long been divided, the only thing we can try to seize is actually... the highest-end alchemy market!"
"Only by mastering the top alchemy technology and thoroughly commercializing them, is this the fundamental element that we can continue to develop."
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Hearing that Su Mu's goal turned out to be the high-end alchemy market, Aviana slightly admired Su Mu's courage.
After all, the most cutting-edge alchemy, just like the scientific research in Su Mu's memory, is basically a bottomless pit that burns money, and no one can be sure whether it will succeed.
"How sure are you?"
As a member of a family of magic, Aviana, although she did not delve deeply into it herself, still understands the difficulty of achieving the ultimate in alchemy.
And after slightly estimating the success rate of Su Mu's forces, Aviana shook her head with some regret, and then continued:
"Although the alchemy laboratory is just a cover, whether it is the Bundestag or the organization of the Papal State, they have established this kind of thing long ago."
"However, I have to regret to tell you that the two parties only spent decades on the development of the Qi-powered feathership. As for the unique alchemy armor of the Papal State, it was after they gathered the power of the whole country. After more than a hundred years of experimentation, the corresponding results were truly obtained."
"So I think that instead of having the possibility of success in this matter, you will fill in a void that is almost impossible to succeed because of this large sum of money."
Aviana's inference is not without reason.
She obviously used facts as a reference, and then came to this slightly bleak ending.
But what is strange is that facing Aviana's worries, she was clearly far more sharp in the knowledge of alchemy than Aviana, but not only did not have Fabo Sumu's point of view, she even quietly expressed her support.
This attitude of Lu Xi finally made Aviana notice a bit weird.
So when Aviana finished speaking, she looked at Su Mu, who was still determined, with a little expectation.
At this time, Su Mu, as expected, while Aviana looked at herself in doubt, while unfolding a recruitment announcement from the Magic Academy, she also gently explained:
"The Alchemy Lab under the Arcane Society, although it was indeed a cover. But if I use it as a bait to attract students and promise to provide them with large research funds, will it continue to be a cover?"
"Although our funds are not much now, but fortunately, our consumption is now smaller, so the resources that can be used at present are actually still more than you expected. And as a return for the spring festival, we are in the academy. Winning students to conduct research for us, your dean uncle directly listed it as an innovation project of the academy."
"In this way, we not only have the most mages we serve in the mainland, but we also don’t need to worry about the supplement of personnel. After all, there will always be more talents in the Academy. Presumably, neither the Federation nor the Papal States have ever owned them. Such extravagant methods can directly recruit an entire generation of young alchemists."
"So about the certainty of this matter, although I dare not say how high it is... But the only thing I can be sure of is that it must be higher than you expected!"
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Now that the academy’s support has been ensured, it is actually only necessary to discuss some specific implementation methods for entering the high-end alchemy market.
In this matter, the representative of the academy is naturally the deepest relationship with Su Mu.
As far as the Mystery Society is concerned, if there is no person who can convince the public, it is bound to be difficult to manage in the management of the alchemy laboratory.
So Aviana, who was born in a magical family and had a good magical realm, naturally became the best candidate for Su Muyi to come forward to manage the laboratory.
Therefore, the next thing, in fact, all the people around were unable to intervene.
It was completely watching Lu Xi and Aviana, a pair of close friends in the boudoir, constantly putting forward conditions based on their respective positions, and establishing these conditions as the rules of the alchemy laboratory.
However, it was also at this time that the second group meeting in Su Mu's return was at the same time as the discussion between Lu Xi and Aviana was in full swing.
As Su Mu's current fund manager, Stanley gave Su Mu a strange look.
After that, Stanley, who rarely spoke today, got up and walked out of the meeting room silently, and expressed to Su Mu that he had something to communicate in private.
When Su Mu saw this, he also kept silent, and followed out quietly.
At this moment, Stanley seemed to be extremely careful to avoid the servants in the mansion. Then he stopped on a rooftop on the edge of the building, and silently turned to look at Su Mu's eyes.
Then the slightly dazed question was finally asked out of Stanley's mouth in a daze:
"So... why do you dare to summon me to this rally?" ()