Chapter 891: Launch

"Mr. Lance!"

"It's great to see you!"

On the docks, a congressman in his forties came up with a smile on his face. This was actually an equal, and even a slightly humble, gesture.

He walked to Lance's side, shook the hand Lance had extended, and even shook it twice.

In fact, you can't say that congressmen are useless. The Speaker of the House, and some senior congressmen, have also stayed in the House of Representatives for a long time.

But in any case, their influence, their status in the political arena, is never as good as that of the senators in the Senate.

The Federation has a very obvious "characteristic." Most of the people who have won the election and have been sworn in as the president of the Federation have come from the Senate, and a small part are governors who have participated in the election and won.

And in the House of Representatives, not a single president has been born.

In addition, the term of a congressman is only two years. Besides a very small number of people who can serve as a member of the House of Representatives for a long time, a considerable portion of the other congressmen will be gone after two years.

Once they have left the House of Representatives, and have lost this identity of a congressman, their status simply cannot be compared with that of a governor, a secretary of state, or the like. Some are even worse than a mayor!

The best place for a congressman to go after leaving the House of Representatives is the state legislature, or to find a place to work as a mayor or the like, but this is also not so easy to do.

Their glory is only for two or four years. Once the time is over, their days will not be too comfortable.

Although Lance was just a gangster boss, his current corporate transformation had also been seen in the eyes of many. He was different from the gangs in the past who had taken the initiative to lie on the chopping block and had thought it was a whitewash.

He might be the first to successfully transform.

Maybe, in the future, this congressman would still have some work dealings with Lance.

Then there was no need for him to be arrogant. This set of tactics would have no effect on a person like Lance, and would only make him look cheap, so he did not do so. He was very enthusiastic.

"Senator Cleveland and the other gentlemen are already waiting for you. Please follow me!"

Lance did not insist on taking his own convoy. He had seen the car that the congressman was taking him to, which was Senator Cleveland's car.

It was not particularly far from the docks of New Golden City to Senator Cleveland's manor. It had taken thirty-five minutes to arrive, mainly because there was a little traffic jam on the way, otherwise it could have been a little faster.

After Lance had handed his coat and soft felt hat to the maid who was waiting by the door to help him with his coat and hat, he had followed the congressman into the room.

This was not the main hall or the main building, but a smaller building next to the main building. It only had two floors. After coming in, there was a very spacious hall.

On the second floor, there was a circle of corridors built around the wall, so that if there was any important person speaking here, even if the area on the first floor could not accommodate so many people, people could also go to the second floor.

There were not many people in the room. When they saw Lance come in, Senator Cleveland had stood up, and then the other senators had slowly stood up.

Senator Cleveland looked very happy. He waited for Lance to walk over and shake his hand, and then he immediately turned around and put his arm around Lance's. "You must know him."

A person who was playing along nodded and said loudly, "Yes, Mr. Lance White. I don't know if they know him, but I definitely do!"

Lance showed a friendly smile to the person who had spoken.

Senator Cleveland also said with a smile, "That's right, this is Lance."

"The young, amazing Lance, and also the creator of the 'Awakening Plan'."

He patted Lance's shoulder, motioned for him to sit by his side, and then everyone sat down again.

"We were just talking about your achievements in your career. How is it, are you having fun in Rapa?"

Senator Cleveland had had Lance sit by his side, entirely because the "Awakening Plan" had a very high feasibility.

And there was no need for aggression, no need to bear a bad name, and they could get a large piece of land, and rich, untapped resources. They had all shown an interest in this plan.

When a person's value has reached a certain level, people will selectively ignore his origin and background.

Even if Lance's identity in their eyes was an unclassy gangster boss, at this very moment, they were treating Lance as a friend of Senator Cleveland, a think tank who could provide an effective plan.

Lance seemed very relaxed, not at all stage-frightened by the fact that the gentlemen in this room were either rich or noble.

He had even faced an execution. How could he be afraid of such a small scene?

After Lance had sat down, he had very casually crossed his legs, and his hands were holding the knee of his crossed leg. "It's alright."

"After my observation in Rapa, I found that their situation is about the same as we had imagined. The unequal social resource distribution plan is also very unfair, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge."

"The most crucial point is that many people actually cannot, by relying on the local agriculture, to fill their stomachs, but until last year, they were still exporting grain."

"Although the total amount of exports is very small, it can be seen that the local regime does not care about the survival of the ordinary people."

Senator Cleveland nodded and said, "The intelligence personnel we have planted in other countries to collect intelligence have also given us the same answer."

"Including the Jede Republic, their grain is always not enough to eat. The Jede Republic will import grain, but for other countries, it is already very good if they can not export grain."

"This is very similar to the prerequisites you mentioned in the 'Awakening Plan'. So can we say that we can start to implement it?"

The people here had all read the "Awakening Plan," and they were all shocked by the brain of a guy like Lance, who had come from a gangster background!

The Speaker of the House, after reading the "Awakening Plan," had called Lance "a force comparable to an army group"!

Lance nodded slightly. "I think, it's possible."

Senator Cleveland nodded with great satisfaction and looked at the others. "Then let's start to implement it according to the plan."

A look of excitement, more or less, appeared on the faces of these decent gentlemen. Some of their expressions were even a little twisted!

The deepest pleasure of a person in power comes from the manipulation of other people's fate, which is also the core of power.

The greatest pleasure of the congressmen comes from their work, to formulate the laws and rules of the Federation. A show of hands between a small group of them will often decide the future of tens of thousands of federal people.

This kind of pleasure will not act on the body as nakedly as a sexual climax, but it will act on the spirit, on the soul, in a continuous process!

Now, Lance had given them an even stronger climax. They would decide the fate of the people of eleven countries, just because they had refused the goodwill of Congress—to station troops and to annex.

The thought of the entire Yalan region falling into hell made the eyes of these civilized, polite, elegant, and gentlemanly gentlemen flash with the flames of a demon!

Awesome!

Indescribably awesome!

Perhaps they will soon need some young girls, to fiercely vent this inner pleasure in the form of carnal desire!

Today, they must be terrifyingly strong!

Lance was the drafter of the entire plan, and the gentlemen here were the ones who had completed it. They had to have some sense of participation.

In the future, when they needed to stand on the territory of Yalan and read the "Declaration of Voluntary Accession to the Federation," they would have merits, and not just be there to fill a position.

They talked about a series of subsequent plans, until a few hours later.

After confirming every key step, the discussion finally stopped.

Lance had spoken less. He had already done a good enough job. As long as the plan was successful, and Yalan was annexed, he would be a great hero of the Federation.

The honor that belonged to him would not be small, so now there was no need for him to go and fight for the remaining honor with these gentlemen.

This was like he was the drafter of the strategy, and the other gentlemen in this room were just the formulators of the tactics under the strategy. Even if their tactics were so brilliant, it would be very difficult to suppress all the honor and benefits brought by the success of the strategy!

After the discussion was over, Senator Cleveland had seen the others off. In the room, there were only Lance, Tom, and his chief of staff left.

Senator Cleveland, who had been discussing for several hours, was also a little tired, but his spirit was excited.

"What are you going to do with the role of those spiritual leaders?" he lit a cigarette.

Since it was an "awakening," there must be a few to take the lead.

For the adults, they just needed to have the "spiritual leader" this change, and did not need to know who the spiritual leader was, because the people under them would go and dig.

"I was originally very fond of Ambassador Cassia, but later I thought about it. Although he lived a very poor life in Rapa, he is also a privileged class. The low-level people cannot find a common ground with him."

"Gomez is also not good. He is a typical rich, privileged class, and is also the specific person in charge of the ruling group's exploitation and oppression of the low-level society."

"People can't treat him as one of their own, so we need to find some people from the bottom of society."

"The level of education of the people of Rapa is not very high, but they are still very respectful of cultured people, such as the role of a school teacher."

"They know how to instill their own knowledge into others, and they naturally also know how to spread their own ideas to more people."

"For them to become the first batch of awakened ones would be a good choice."

"There are also some other roles. I have been observing recently."

Senator Cleveland nodded with great satisfaction. "Alright, the autumn harvest is coming soon. Before the Harvest Festival, we will start to launch the whole plan..."

Then Senator Cleveland had had Lance go and relax, but Lance had refused. It wasn't that he was incomparably loyal, but that he knew how to control his own desires.

If the senator was with him, he wouldn't have minded. This was a means of promoting their relationship.

However, it was clear that he and the senator were not yet qualified to be together. Of course, it was also possible that the senator played a little more wildly or was a little more perverted. He still needed to work harder.