Chapter 848 Cannes G20 meeting (1)

   "Zhong Sheng, what should we do next?"

  After returning to the hotel, Zhong Shi and Jiang Shan were still in a state of shock, but compared to tens of minutes ago, they were much calmer. After hastily packed his luggage, Jiang Shan pushed open the door of Zhong Shi's room and asked about the other party's arrangement, "Do you want to rush back to Hong Kong overnight? Or hide in the American consulate?"

   "It's not necessary!"

Zhong Shi waved his hand immediately, and said decisively, "Now we can be sure that our every move is under the surveillance of Papandreou. If we have some abnormal behavior, he may think it is a sign of guilty conscience. If we let him know that we have falsely preached the imperial decree, then the whole thing will be bad."

   "That's the truth!"

  Jiang Shan thought about it for a while, and immediately understood, and his heart was no longer as flustered as before. "According to what you said, don't we need to do anything while we're staying in Athens?"

   "It's not good to do nothing, after all, we are only playing the role of microphones now."

  Zhong Shi thought about it carefully, and then continued, "Well, let's go around casually these two days, and take some time to visit the US embassy and show their people that we have a backstage."

"If two days later, there is no further information on this matter, it means that we are safe. At that time, we don't have to go back to Hong Kong, we can go directly to Cannes, because the G20 summit will be held there soon, and the world's leaders will gather together. Gather together to discuss the economic situation. Let's go and have a look, maybe there will be some unexpected gains!"

   "At least let them throw a mouse!"

  Jiang Shan clapped his hands and said excitedly, "As long as we make a high-profile appearance, they will be less afraid to do anything to us. Is this the reason?"

   "You can say the same!"

   Regarding Jiang Shan's statement, Zhong Shi was noncommittal. After experiencing the initial panic, he carefully analyzed the situation, and found that he was indeed a little too worried.

   And the facts are indeed developing according to Zhong Shi's prediction.

   "What, they swaggered into the US embassy?"

  After hearing the report from his subordinates, Papandreou frowned involuntarily after he hadn't slept well in the past few days. After pondering for a while, he asked again, "Do they have any other activities?"

"nothing special."

   The person who reported to Papandreou was a person in charge of the national intelligence agency. His appearance belonged to the kind of bland, unremarkable one thrown among the crowd. But think about it, good-looking intelligence officers only exist in movies, and the more ordinary intelligence personnel in real life, the better.

  This intelligence chief named Cicerus has a strong logical reasoning ability in addition to his excellent memory. Although Papandreou did not disclose any more information to him, based on the whereabouts of Zhong Shi and others in the past two days, this guy easily judged that the whole incident might be related to the United States.

He thought about it carefully, and finally confirmed to Papandreou, "I have secretly investigated all the places they have been to and the people they have contacted in the past two days. Basically, they are ordinary citizens of our own country. , nothing suspicious."

   "It seems that they are indeed messengers."

  Papandreou frowned slightly, but the next moment he saw Cicerus still in front of him, he immediately realized his slip of the tongue, and immediately waved his hand to signal him to go out.

   "By the way, Mr. Prime Minister."

Although Cicerus only said a word, Cicerus's head was already spinning rapidly, but it was a pity that the other party quickly realized his mistake and stopped talking, which made him feel very moved It was a pity, and just when he was about to quit unwillingly, he suddenly realized that the whole thing was not over yet, "Do we still need to continue to monitor them?"

   "Also, I want to remind Mr. Prime Minister that this guy seems to be quite famous. If something happens in our Greek territory, it will be difficult for us to explain to the international community."

  The result of Cicerus' analysis was that Papandreou was going to attack Zhong Shi and others, so he advised them tactfully.

"understood!"

  Papandreou waved his hands helplessly, and replied, "What we need to do now is not monitoring, but protection. Let your people **** them out of the country safely, but don't let them discover your existence."

  Although he is the prime minister of a country, Papandreou does not seem to have a better way of dealing with Zhongshi. The other party entered the US embassy in such a high-profile way, naturally telling himself that everything he said was true. In this case, Papandreou had to weigh the serious consequences of what he wanted to do.

   "Let Bruno, Dennis and Adonis come to see me!"

   Distraught, Papandreou pressed the secretary's call button and informed the other party to call a few confidantes to come to discuss.

  These people are the prime minister's confidantes, and they claim to be the prime minister's personal assistants. Although they don't have official titles, in fact their power is no less than that of ordinary ministers.

  Bruno is a young man in his thirties with brown hair. His specialty is privatization theory. Dennis is in his fifties, his hair is already half gray, and his specialty is public image management. The other Adonis is a few years older than Bruno, less than 40 years old, and he has the highest status among the three. Before Papandreou ran for the prime minister, he was Papandreou's campaign manager, and he stayed in the prime minister. After the official residence, he was Papandreou's full-time assistant, so what he said represented Papandreou's meaning to a certain extent.

  In fact, this man named Adonis also has a position that is unknown to outsiders, that is, the white gloves of the Papandreou family.

   "The thing is..."

After the three of them were seated, Papandreou didn't say a single irrelevant word, but went straight to the point. After briefly recounting the conversation he had with Zhongshi a few days ago, he spread his hands and asked, "You guys?" Is there any good way?"

  Since they can be Papandreou's confidantes, they will naturally not be fuel-efficient lamps. They were all well aware of the things about the Papandreou family, so when they heard what Papandreou said, none of them seemed too surprised.

  However, everyone was shocked by what Zhong Shi said, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

   "So, this guy is really the spokesperson of the US government?"

  Bruno said first, "Even if the evidence he has is true, if he really has ulterior motives, then we can use this to confuse the public and fool the whole thing."

   "Basically impossible!"

Adonis waved his hand and stopped the other party's futility, "Although some superficial things can be erased, it is difficult to erase the traces of some things that involve foreign countries. Also, this kind of thing is basically free testimony , even if Mr. Prime Minister denies it, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop everyone's mouth. Unless these things can be perfectly covered up, it is impossible to escape the investigation."

"Also, regardless of whether he is the spokesperson of the Americans, what he has at hand may be exposed. We can't bet on this. It would be fine if he published it, but if it was published by the US government, then We basically have no way to deny it."

   "So, it's better for us to carefully consider the conditions he offered." After calmly analyzing it, Adonis directly blocked the so-called off-the-market move.

   "You mean, launch a referendum?"

  Bruno asked in surprise, "If this is the case, then according to the current public opinion, it is very likely that the final decision to suspend the rescue will be reached. How should we explain it then?"

   "It's really hard to explain, but we can push this blame to the opposition party, can't we?"

Dennis suddenly said, "Do you still remember? At the EU summit some time ago, he expressed his commitment to reduce Greece's debt by 30%. Although so far, no final policy has emerged. But don't forget, the New Democratic Party We are very dissatisfied with this decision.”

  The EU summit once planned to write off Greece's debt by 50%, but this move was unanimously opposed by the European banking industry. They later had to postpone the plan and reduce the deduction to 30%, but even then, there was still no agreement across Europe.

  As the Greek banking industry that holds the largest share of Greek national debt, it is even more strongly opposed to this proposal, because they hold the largest share of Greek national debt. If the deduction is really successful, then their losses will also be the largest. Their sentiment has been exploited by the largest opposition party, the New Democratic Party, which is why there are voices in Greece that say "Greeks decide their own problems".

  Papandreou's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this, and he motioned for Dennis to continue.

"As long as we say that the opposition parties cannot agree with us on this matter, in order to prevent the country from being plunged into a partisan struggle and make the situation worse, we will delegate the voting power to all citizens and let them decide the future of the entire country. In this way, we not only share the public grievances caused by austerity, but also preserve our own political future, isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?”

   "The most important thing is that the promise to foreign countries has been fulfilled, and we don't have to worry about Zhong Shi and others breaking out."

At the end, Dennis clapped his hands even more excitedly, "Regarding the referendum, we were pressured by the opposition party and we had no choice but to do so. From the beginning to the end, we were under pressure from vested interest groups. interests, driving the whole country to a dead end. Wouldn't your popularity be higher in this way?"

  The most brilliant thing about Dennis is that he also involved the opposition party. In this way, the reason for launching the referendum is logical, and most importantly, it has an explanation for Zhongshi and the United States, and it also does not damage its own popularity.

   "But if it really breaks face with the EU, what will our country do?"

  Papandreou thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the truth, but he looked further. After all, if a mess was left in the end, then it would not be very meaningful for him to sit in the position of prime minister.

   "The people are stupid, there is no doubt about it."

Dennis snorted coldly, and said unceremoniously, "When they find out that the country is bankrupt, various public services have been seriously shrunk, and the whole society is in turmoil, they will regret their choice today. Then we will negotiate with the EU again. , to make sure they start backing up again for all that they're against now."

   "In this case, there is nothing to lose from the beginning to the end. It is just that ordinary people pay the price for their stupidity!" Dennis finally dropped a cold conclusion.

   "Then when do you think it would be better to announce the referendum?"

  Papandreou thought and thought, and finally felt that this method is the best so far. Immediately, a big stone fell in his heart, and he began to seriously consider the possibility of implementing this plan, "Is it in the near future or will it be delayed for a while?"

   "Of course I strike while the iron is hot!"

The three said in unison. After they glanced at each other, Dennis finally said, "Mr. Prime Minister, you need to form a consensus with the Social Democratic Party before announcing the news, and then you have to get the approval of the Congress. The referendum will be officially held next year. The whole matter must be carried out with lightning speed. After all, it has been a long time, and there will be no such perfect excuse if the EU or the New Democratic Party repeats itself.”

   "Okay, implement as soon as possible!"

  Papandreou slapped his thigh and said excitedly, "I can also give an explanation to the American side."

   Thanks to the book friend Doctor Xiao, for the reward for the dirty meow king! Reject any activities this weekend, write a good book, and don’t let everyone down~ I haven’t written enough during this period, and the votes are not strong enough, I still have the cheek to hope that everyone can continue to support~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)