Chapter 303: Open Conflict
After Lin Xianjue led his people away, the director of the Science and Discipline Institute did not immediately let the people present leave.
The matter of the rule fragments has not been investigated clearly. He knows better than anyone that if the matter is not found in a short time, the longer it is delayed, the slimmer the chance will be.
But before he really started to thoroughly investigate all the chosen ones present at the time, a message had already reached him.
A senior official of the former cabinet who was dismissed by the shadow prime minister and whose original authority was contacted him, and told him that the decision-making letter signed by the Minister of Personnel Qi Lin and one-third of the upper echelons, based on the basic framework of the original cabinet, and using the rules of the shadow prime minister's special status agreement, was to re-establish a new government.
This made the director of the Science and Discipline Institute completely unable to stay!
Just as Lin Xianjue said before he left.
Scientists have their own agreements. According to the regulations left to them by the two towers, all those who master the rules cannot directly participate in politics!
Whether it is an imperial system or a republic, it is still a political matter in the final analysis. Political matters should of course be participated in by politicians. They can control remotely from behind and become agents of any party, but in essence, the shadow prime minister, the artificial intelligence of the highest central government affairs, does not have any high-level authority.
And now Lin Xianjue has seized this opportunity.
After seeing An Hong's speech on the live broadcast, Hu Cheng was disheartened and resigned from his position as prime minister directly from the cabinet. After the shadow prime minister agreed to his resignation application, Hu Cheng's cabinet was also disbanded.
The authority to reorganize the cabinet should have nominally returned to the emperor at this point in time, but at this time, An Hong was also cut off by Li Wei!
The cabinet and the royal family, the two highest decision-making levels, lost their decision-making effectiveness together, which means that the central government has no government at this moment and has become a purely anarchic city, which has led to the shadow prime minister entering a special state agreement.
Instead of going to Weiyang Pavilion, Lin Xianjue, who got the news first, seized the biggest opportunity and sent a decision letter to all senior officials of the Republican Party, asking them to sign and agree. Then he handed the decision letter to the personnel minister of the Republican Party, asking her to go to the nominally dissolved cabinet and use the bill in the special status agreement to form a new interim government!
This new government is the only legal government in the central government now, and those who want to select new candidates from the royal family to take over An Hong's throne must pass the review of this new government!
In other words, the Republican Party has actually won half of the battle now!
Lin Xianjue controls the old cabinet and the new parliament, and the director of the Kejie Institute has the support of the entire royal family.
When there is a conflict between the cabinet and the royal family, the power and priority of the cabinet are far greater than the royal family itself!
Therefore, the director of the Kejie Institute became extremely anxious.
He even abandoned the missing rule fragment and stopped investigating and searching in person. Instead, he took a few chosen ones to find the surviving royal relatives and gathered conservative political councilors and ministers.
After all, the interim government is still an interim government. If you want to remove the word "interim" in front, it is not something that can be decided by the approval of one-third of the dignitaries in the entire central government. The number of votes must exceed 70%, and more than two-thirds can truly determine the permanent government.
They are now racing against time to win over the centrists, split the hostile factions, and regain the authority of the interim government as quickly as possible!
Zhao Mingda saw all the scenes that happened in Weiyang Pavilion.
There was still no one to arrange to clean up the headless body of An Hong lying on the ground.
Obviously, half a day ago, he was still the highest emperor in the name of all mankind. His every move was watched by countless eyes. He enjoyed supreme authority and had innate honor.
But now, he has become a corpse that no one cares about. He is the center of all conflicts, but he is the least important one.
The central government is really going to be in chaos.
An Hong's death has completely intensified the conflict between the republican and conservative factions, and it has been completely exposed.
Lin Xianjue and his people will not give up this opportunity, and the director of the Discipline and Rehabilitation Institute will definitely fight to the death to defend the interests of their people. No one is willing to give up, and no one is willing to retreat.
If the conflict is allowed to intensify like this, what will happen in the end, Zhao Mingda can't imagine, and dare not think about it.
Now, there is actually only one thing in his mind.
Before leaving Weiyang Pavilion, he took a last look at the crown that fell on the ground. Without the rule fragments, this crown naturally lost those dazzling halos.
After coming out, Zhao Mingda did not go home or return to the Discipline and Rehabilitation Institute, but drove straight to a remote residential area in Jianzhang District.
Soon, he stopped in front of a somewhat old but not shabby apartment. He did not knock on the door, but directly entered the password and walked in as if he was back home.
The people in the apartment seemed to have heard the noise outside, so they opened the door and stood in front of the entrance, looking into the yard.
After seeing that the person coming was Zhao Mingda, Cheng Che pushed the door open completely.
"How come you have time to come to my place at this time?"
"Of course I shouldn't come to you at this time. Lin Xianjue has completely torn his face with my immediate superior. They just had a big fight. I, the deputy director, came to the deputy director of Tianen Science Department. If it gets out, I won't be able to stay in the Science and Rehabilitation Institute."
Although Zhao Mingda said this, he didn't mean to stop at all. He walked directly into Cheng Che's house. After entering the door, he didn't need the host to greet him. He picked up the kettle and poured himself a cup of warm water, and then drank it all.
Cheng Che carefully observed the outside of the courtyard. After confirming that no one followed Zhao Mingda, he closed the door again and frowned at his old friend.
"You are out of date. After Fengzi defected from the Central Government, I resigned from all my positions. Now I am just an idler who retired early and stayed at home. If it weren't for someone deliberately targeting me, no one would use this to trouble you."
"Heh, they are deliberately targeting me. You didn't see how skilled those two people were in accusing each other."
Zhao Mingda sneered, but didn't say much about what happened in Weiyang Pavilion. Instead, he looked at Cheng Che with a serious expression.
"I came to you at this time for another matter. Do you remember when we went to the sun to pick up Fengzi?"