AWB Chapter 365 Doing More
Chapter 365 Doing More
"Bi Yunfeng, do you want to rebel?"
Looking at the group of sergeants pointing their guns at him around the conference room, his expression first turned to shock, then to anger.
The Academy of Sciences is not only staffed with civilian personnel. Many of those who are stationed in the rear and commanding the front lines are even former soldiers who have served in the Space Force. After all, during the Trisolaran Crisis, the PDC had very high restrictions on the recruitment of the Space Force. Not only must they have military skills, but they must also have considerable scientific research capabilities.
It can be said that they were all the elite of the elite, drawn from the seven sons of national defense in those years.
Others might be intimidated when a gun is pointed at them, but they will not be threatened in the slightest.
"Everyone, please be patient."
Bi Yunfeng's loud voice attracted everyone's attention. He then took the opportunity to walk quickly to the podium, waved to the soldiers below, and signaled them to put their guns away. Only then did the expressions of the officers below soften a little.
"The situation was urgent, and I had no other choice. I hope you can understand!"
“Rediaz attempted to mobilize the three fleets to start a tug-of-war with the Star Ring Group in the solar system, but he felt the stakes weren’t high enough and wanted to use the Ring World as well to force the Star Ring Group to withdraw its troops. I, Bi Yunfeng, am the first to oppose this inhumane behavior.”
As he spoke, he took out the seal that Wei Cheng had given him and showed it to everyone.
"From this moment forward, the fleet will be under my command!"
Everyone was taken aback at first, but soon some sharp-eyed people recognized what Bi Yunfeng was holding.
"This is... well-prepared."
"Why did Wei Cheng hand over the ministerial seal? This is outrageous! Is he trying to drag the entire Academy of Sciences down with him?"
However, some people have raised questions about this.
"Could this be something Bi Yunfeng forced him to do? Wei Cheng must know what this seal means; can't he just give something like this away so easily?"
But they quickly dismissed this idea. It was almost 2330 years ago, and they were still using physical seals precisely to prevent this from happening.
If Wei Cheng was being coerced, he could simply send an authorization to Bi Yunfeng directly from the Academy of Sciences' backend system, which would benefit both Wei Cheng and Bi Yunfeng.
Bi Yunfeng could bypass everyone's authorization and directly call upon the fleet with a higher-level command, instead of kidnapping these officers to attend the meeting as he is doing now.
The reason Wei Cheng didn't choose to do so is probably for another purpose, but what that purpose is is not something they need to worry about. They will do whatever their superiors say, and if something really happens, they will have a reason to complain.
Wei Chengdu has agreed. What are we supposed to do? Disobeying military orders means death, and disobeying them also means death. Please show us a way to survive.
We're all here to work within the system. What's this talk of betrayal? As long as someone is willing to step forward and take the blame for the consequences, then even if it's a huge deal, the law won't punish the masses.
Thus, all the sergeants raised their hands to show their willingness to obey Bi Yunfeng's orders. The imagined resistance never even happened. They were all just working people. As long as they were paid their wages as usual, it didn't matter who they worked for!
Moreover, Bi Yunfeng's words make some sense. If Radiaz really is suspected of using the Ring World as a stake, then it involves their interests.
After all, most of the people here are just mid-level officers of the Earth Federation. The Ringworld is their only way to leave the solar system. If it is destroyed, Radiaz has warp drive ships, but they may not have them.
"What do you plan to do? Even if what you say is true, we don't have enough people to overturn the order of a commander-in-chief personally appointed by President Luo."
At this moment, someone stepped forward to pour cold water on Bi Yunfeng, but he seemed to have expected it and calmly said.
"I know that with just our small group, we definitely can't change anything, so my suggestion is to use the power of the masses to put pressure on the local federation."
"However, we must also prepare for both possibilities. Once we break ties with Radiaz, the Star Fleet at the front line must follow immediately and be separated from the other two major fleets to ensure the safety of the Ringworld."
“The Sun and Moon Fleet is Luo Congmin’s private army and will not completely obey Rediaz’s orders. In the end, the only thing we need to deal with is the Central Army. Once the pressure from above comes down, even the Central Army may not completely obey him.”
Although Bi Yunfeng had made his point to this extent, some people still expressed concern.
"What if we fail? What if the public doesn't accept it? Or what if Rediaz himself has other tricks up his sleeve? Wouldn't it be very dangerous for us to just follow your nonsense like this?"
Do you have any other options?
Bi Yunfeng suddenly asked.
"Don't you understand? We've never been betraying anyone; we're just living for ourselves."
“You, me, we all just want to live. Right now, the power behind the Star Ring Corporation is unclear. If Rediaz really chooses the radical path, it may backfire. He thinks the Star Ring Corporation wouldn’t dare to cause damage to the Ring World, but the truth is quite the opposite.”
"Why does he dare to gamble? Why does he dare to gamble with the lives of billions of people? It's because he doesn't care at all. But would you dare to gamble with him?"
A teacher once said that politics is nothing more than increasing our supporters and decreasing our opponents. Before we start a struggle, we must first know what our task is so that we can distinguish who our enemies are and who might become our friends.
Bi Yunfeng cleverly used this political wisdom to turn what was originally a coup into a struggle between the spaceship faction and the ring world faction.
I understand. Now I understand everything.
This time, no one objected to Bi Yunfeng's decision.
Soon, the entire Academy of Sciences sprang into action, and everyone began to exert their utmost efforts.
A network of relationships centered on the Academy of Sciences is gradually spreading outwards.
But simply achieving this step is far from enough, since all of Bi Yunfeng's current power is authorized by Wei Cheng.
However, Wei Cheng himself only had one-third of the power of the Academy of Sciences; the other two were in the hands of Wang Miao and Ding Yi.
Bi Yunfeng couldn't very well send people to search for the two men, and besides, if they were found, Bi Yunfeng would most likely be arrested.
Therefore, his other identity came into play.
Cao Bin and Bi Yunfeng have always been marginal figures in the Lin Party, but no matter how marginal they are, they are still members of the Lin Party, so he was still assigned a political judge position to investigate corruption.
Previously, Luo Congmin and Zhang Xiang had already conducted a major purge of corruption within the Dilian organization. It can be said that the biggest fish had all been caught, and the money they embezzled had already flowed into the national treasury.
Now all that's left are small fry. With Bi Yunfeng taking office at this critical juncture, all he needs to do is wrap up the anti-corruption work.
But what if he doesn't want it to end so abruptly?
When Tao Wenbo, the head of the local publicity committee, was escorted into a car with two of Bi Yunfeng's cronies holding guns to his head, he was completely dumbfounded.
"No, gentlemen, there must be some misunderstanding. How could I possibly embezzle or accept bribes? I've only been in office for less than a month!"
"Besides, even if someone wanted to bribe me, they wouldn't bribe someone like me who's in charge of the publicity committee. I'm just someone who hands out publicity banners. Do you think they'd try to bribe me by adding ads for document processing and stamping to the banners?"