Inside the Duma Building, every legislator who encountered Wang Ye stopped to greet him.
Wang Ye smiled and nodded to each of them without slowing down, continuing toward his office.
Behind him, everyone's expressions grew somewhat complicated...
Just after he arrived at his office, his assistant Elena hurried in, stopped in front of Wang Ye's desk, and reported, "Boss, we just received word that yesterday, Konov contacted almost every force within the First Faction. But so far, no one has revealed what they discussed.
"Of course, he was probably just asking them to cast dissenting votes at today's assembly.
"But the key question is, will those legislators from the Kraviko Group really choose to support Luzhkov at such a critical moment?
"Their faction and the Moscow Faction have always been bitter rivals!
"Logically speaking, after meeting with Konov, they should have flatly refused him and released word that they would never protect Luzhkov..."
Naturally, attentive people had all noticed Konov's movements yesterday, and everyone knew what he was trying to do.
After all, the Moscow Faction was facing the threat of destruction. If he, as one of the faction's core figures, had made no move at all, that would have been truly abnormal!
Even a desperate rabbit would bite, let alone an old force in the political arena like theirs. The power they could unleash when driven into a corner was bound to be astonishing.
But the question now was whether he had achieved the results he wanted—whether he had reached an agreement with those legislators from the Kraviko Group. That was the crucial point!
Normally, when someone like him approached so many people for talks, bits and pieces of the discussions would inevitably leak out.
Yet strangely, every faction leader who had met with Konov kept their lips tightly