President Pabul, who was the most eloquent lawyer and the most touching speech after participating in politics, was still able to speak calmly and clearly at such a moment tonight, and finally quieted down for the first time after Xu Le's questioning Noticing the president's expression, Xu Le's lips moved slightly, and he wanted to say something, but after all, he just spread his hands helplessly and sadly.
He had heard the president mention the dinner at the official residence, and there was a fierce dispute between the president and Zhong Shouhu at the dinner table, and there were great differences in the views of the two people on many things about attacking the empire, Zhong Shouhu was wary of the federal political axe's attempt to weaken the local military strength of Xilin, and did not agree that under the current circumstances, the Fourth Military Region would be the main force for attacking the empire.
It was probably after this controversy that President Pabur finally made up his mind to put the conspiracy plan, which had been launched long ago and was only waiting for approval, into the stage of space.
It turned out to be a Last Supper.
Xu Le stood alone on the side of the transparent wall, weakly spreading his hands beside his body, when he killed Medellin and was imprisoned in the Allure Military Prison, the old man was still fishing in Philadelphia and had never seen each other, the entire Federation was silent, and the politicians led by the Seven Families hoped that he would die immediately, only Mr.
President and the tiger in Xilin clearly showed a protective attitude, as a result "Mr.
President, do you remember the speech at the Nebula Awards that year, and I came to see it afterwards."
Xu Le raised his head, looked at President Pabur behind the wall, and said softly: "At that time, you once said a few words about Medellin: It is not as good as a lamp to go out, the lamp has light, and where it cannot shine is darkness, if you do something wrong, you must pay the price." ” "Then you say: Maybe I'm not a mature politician, but I'm a persistent adherent of federal law, and if I'm dead, you can dig up my grave and see what color it's inside, and I have the same attitude toward some of the dead."
There was silence in the room, and Xu Le paused for a moment and asked, "You are not dead yet, but it seems that we can ask in advance: when you decided to sell the surnames of Commander Zhong and his wife and those soldiers on the Ancient Bell to the Imperial Fleet, where was the federal law you worshipped What color will be in your grave in the future If you do something wrong, should you pay the price?"
President Pabur pursed his thick lips, his jaw showed a few deep sunkens, and after a long silence, he replied: "I admit that I have done something beyond the scale, but for the sake of this federation, the price I will pay must be paid later, and I am already mentally prepared to be judged by history." ” Xu Le looked at him and said mockingly: "If history is allowed to judge, the Imperial Expeditionary Force can also say the same, we don't need to resist."
The same can be said of Medellín, we don't need to bother.
Commander Zhong has even more reason to say this. ” "Mr.
President, don't you think this kind of rhetoric is shameless and hypocritical, if only history is qualified to judge you, then how can you be qualified to judge others?"
President Pabul's brows were heavy, and at this point in the conversation, Xu Le's words finally succeeded in angering him, he slowly got up from his chair, walked to the transparent wall, looked at Xu Le, who was close at hand but far away in the left sky, and said word by word: "Shameless hypocrisy Colonel Xu Le, please don't forget that you too tried Medellín with your own pen that stabbed you in the throat without being convicted by a court of law" Through the transparent and cold wall, Xu Le and President Pabur stood face to face, their eyes open without blinking, and they looked at each other's persistent eyes with a persistent gaze.
President Pabur pointed to Xu Le's face and said with a calm face: "Your experience should make you know better than most people that federal laws cannot perfectly protect the weak, and most of the time, it can only protect the powerful to escape due punishment, so the Medellín case was terminated, and the Ministry of Justice was anxious, so you will play the role of a judge yourself."
"The federal political axe is an elected political axe, facing the danger of imperial invasion, but it is necessary to always be vigilant against the warlords of Xilin, is there less law and discipline in the Zhong family and those families, but which district prosecutor's office can successfully send them to prison The glory of the Federal Charter, but in front of these powerful people who have countless scapegoats, and have even become accustomed to carrying scapegoats with them, and are ready to deal with the position of the charter, what is the law?"
Xu Le looked at the president's angry accusation, his eyes narrowed, because of the words scapegoat and the glory of the charter, he remembered the sword light on Hushan Road many years ago and the local prosecutor's office full of spring peach blossoms, and silently admitted in his heart that what he said was true.
"When you killed Medellin, you didn't need the law to prepare a book for you, what qualifications did you have to ask for a political axe" President Pabur looked at him with a calm expression and said: "The reason why I admire you and Shi Qinghai is your attitude towards things, and this is also the attitude I have maintained in this life." ” "Sin must pay a price, and in order to practice ultimate fairness and justice, good people should do whatever it takes, because morality is a fragile thing that needs to be carefully cared for by power."
"When I was expelled from the law firm because of that public interest lawsuit, and my wife was kicked out of my residence by those people laughing, wandering the snowy streets with tattered suitcases, looking for a small dark house to rent, I confirmed this, even if I was buried in a grave later, I have a clear conscience."
President Pabur's anger gradually calmed down because of these words, he put his broad palm on the transparent wall, looked at Xu Le and said very calmly: "We are not Schiller's Knights of the Sorrowful Country, and we are not radical, and we do not intend to use the army to sweep everything wildly, but when the reform of the Union is met with the desperate struggles of those families, the army will be the most powerful guarantee of the federal political axe."
"We have a long-term plan for the details, and this political axe has already pushed the parliament to pass the gold fusion algorithm, and in the next five years, my colleagues and I will take advantage of the current war situation to push for more bills to be passed."
"In the plan, I and the political axe will introduce an affirmative action bill to improve the access to higher education and employment opportunities of civilian students, the double-ring health insurance bill, and the income tax collection amendment bill, and then the political axe will work to make the fund equity exchange bill pass."
President Pabur tilted his chin slightly, his gaze firm and far-reaching: "Successive political axes have not been able to figure out how many resources those seven families have in their hands through those foundations that are as numerous as fish in the sea, and what industries they can exert on the security of the Federation under their cover, and these things must be accomplished during my tenure." ” "George Carlin said that information asymmetry is the root cause of social injustice in the Federation, and what we want to do is to open up this information and have the most effective and direct supervision by ordinary citizens of the Federation."
"Xu Le, don't worry that the federal political axe will become a military political axe, we will usher in a new and real elected political axe."
Pabur retracted his gaze, calmly looked at the silent Xu Le, and said: "You have meritorious service to the Federation, I don't want to give you any unfair treatment, I just hope that you can calm down and stand at the highest level to consider the vital interests of the people of the Federation." ” "I know it sounds like an ideal country that only exists in people's imaginations, but ideals have never been so close to reality as they are today."
"This is the Federation's best chance."
"We are idealists, liberals, pragmatists, no, we are all people who stick to our own rightness and fight to the end."
President Pabur looked at Xu Le and said in a deep voice: "We are all the same in our bones, we are a smelly and hard stone from Donglin. ” The president raised his right arm and pointed at Lee Jae-dao and Du Shaoqing beside him, and his calm and infectious gaze pierced through the invisible wall and landed on Xu Le's face.
"Join us, Xu Le."
It's really that day, no, will there really be that day Xu Le listened silently, thinking subconsciously, without saying his doubts, he suddenly felt that his brain was a little unable to turn, it turned out that the person who killed Medellin and the people he hated were the same kind of people in their bones, but how could Medellin and the tiger be the same "There are many innocent people who have died in your path."
He frowned, and said in a hoarse voice, "That's not right. ” "There is never perfect justice in the world."
President Pabur silently said: "For a long-term goal, someone always needs to sacrifice for it. ” Xu Le silently recalled Professor Shen's words in his heart, there was never any truth in the universe, so he asked, "Then why didn't you or me sacrifice?"
President Pabur was silent for a moment, and then said: "Schiller wrote a legendary novel in his early years, which told about a war around Xiangcheng, and in his later years, he wrote a story about the innocent dead who were led by the hero to become a shield during the war, and the death of the soldier saved the hero of Xiangcheng and indirectly saved hundreds of thousands of people, but for him, it was so sad. ” "I think this story can answer your previous question."
"I've seen the story, and it seems to me that the soldier's death was not a sacrifice, because no one asked his opinion, and that's where the sorrow comes from."
Xu Le squinted his eyes and said, "Similarly, you haven't asked the waitress of the Linhai Prefecture Gymnasium, the Xilin soldier on the Ancient Bell, if she is willing to die for your grand plan." ” "So, it's not a sacrifice, it's always a murder."
"In the Foundation building, those Secret Service agents who died under the guns of you and Shi Qinghai, should they be regarded as sacrifices, or were murdered by you?"
President Pabur's gaze suddenly became extremely sharp, and he stared at Xu Le's eyes with a sense of oppression, and asked in a deep voice: "If those innocent Secret Service agents can be sacrificed in your eyes, then why can't Zhong Shouhu and these people be sacrificed for the sake of the Federation?"
This is a very sharp and direct interrogation, Xu Le's eyes narrowed, his pupils suddenly constricted, and after a long silence, he pursed his lips tightly and raised his head, and said: "A few years ago, I told a girl on the iron tower that the justice obtained by sacrificing the innocent is not justice. ” "Then what is the difference between us and you, the difference is that Shi Qinghai and I have never harmed the innocent people, including those Secret Service agents in the Foundation building."
"Maybe that sounds like a quibble to you.
Because with or without subjective malice, the result of the same death was caused, but as I thought in the Charter Square after the snow, I always insisted that the motive is more important than the result. ” "It may be a bit naïve and stupid, but allow me to persevere."
To be continued: