Life at the Top

Chapter 2418

After the three words “gun ban” came out of Moana’s mouth, ripples formed like a stone thrown into a calm lake.

Everyone’s expressions changed suddenly. Even Warwick, who had been attacking Owen just now, frowned. C0pyright © 2024 Nôv)(elDrama.Org.

“Mr. Adrian, isn’t your proposal a little radical? Although these mercenaries will indeed cause trouble for everyone, they are also required for certain important security and military activities. Won’t asking them to hand over their guns affect our safety even more?”

The person who spoke was a member of a small Qari family.

In Qari, not all forces could afford to support their own army and it was only a privilege for the large financial groups. As for those small families, if they wanted to ensure their safety in the war-torn Qari, they had to cooperate with the mercenary groups.

As for the issue of foreign powers using mercenaries to harass them, they were not as worried as those big families. After all, they were not as big and powerful as those big families, so the enemies would not target them in an attack. A few mercenaries were enough to protect them in this case.

Warwick frowned first. After that, his brows gradually relaxed as if he thought of something.

“Halik, you’re so naïve. How can anyone be unaffected if this happens? Even if we keep this discussion a secret, it will definitely reach the ears of the United States when the time comes…”

“In order to destroy our covenant, they will definitely send people to bribe these mercenary groups. At that time, do you think we or the United States can offer more benefits to the mercenary groups?”

Owen had an unpleasant look on his face at this moment. He did not expect Moana to propose this.

Although he mentioned the use of garrisons to protect the interests of these families before, in reality, he was not prepared to consume too much of his country’s reserves here.

His original plan was actually to buy some mercenary groups and let them masquerade as part of the garrison to fool these families. Even if there was a conflict at that time, it would be nothing more than an internal fight, and it would not affect the United Kingdom’s interest.

Unfortunately, Moana’ s proposal had ruined his plan.

Owen was about to speak when Solander interrupted him.

This time, he did not stand by his nephew unconditionally as before, but said solemnly, “Our tradition in Qari is to bear arms. Won’t rashly promoting the ban on guns cause chaos among the people?”

Warwick said flatly, “Uncle, we must decide on the lesser of two evils this time…”

Then, the forces began to clash fiercely over whether to implement the ban on guns.

For a while, there was a verbal confrontation.

Owen naturally opposed the gun ban proposal. After all, for him, it was more in the interests of the United Kingdom to disrupt the situation.

Shulman and the others were happy to see this. Now, it was a critical moment to discuss the distribution of benefits. The fact that the United Kingdom was taking the lion’s share could not be changed, but they were very happy to see that the United Kingdom was embarrassing itself.

The local forces such as Solander and the others gradually started to agree to the gun ban under the arguments of Warwick and Astor.

In the end, the meeting voted on whether to promote the gun ban and finally, it passed with a large number of votes. However, this entire time, none of these people here worried that the local government would have other opinions on the gun ban.

For these people, the senior government officials in their own countries were more like puppets, and their opinions did not matter.