After sending Dilsina away, Dulin sat in the study and thought for a while, then called Mags.
When the call came through, Mags was tinkering with his gardening, not that he was pruning it. After all, as the head of a noble family, although there was nothing wrong with doing this kind of thing himself, it was still a bit detrimental to his dignity.
He was watching the gardener doing some gardening in the manor garden. It was the best season of the year, the intersection of summer and autumn, and the best time for most of the plants in the garden to grow.
The plants are beautifully maintained, and there is a sense of joy that is pleasing to the eye at a glance.
Mags was still in a good mood when he answered the phone. The empire was going further and further on the right path. For Mags, who had built a new era with his own hands, there was nothing more gratifying than this.
Therefore, his tone was filled with optimism and happiness.
"Do you know what Xia has done recently?" Du Lin didn't say too much. Now that everyone was on their own, the question was very direct.
He originally thought that Mags would say that he didn't know, or that he didn't know clearly, but to his surprise, Mags actually told him that he knew exactly what West Asia was doing recently.
This gave Dulin some indescribable subtlety. He could ensure that Mags knew what kind of bad reputation it would bring to him and the Timamont family if the matter in West Asia was exposed and went to court.
But even though he knew, he pretended not to know, which was amazing.
After thinking for a while, Du Lin asked, "She came to see me. Do you need me to intervene?"
Magers did not answer Dulin's question directly, but began to talk about his sister, "I don't have many opportunities to interact with my sister, but what I know about her from other people's mouths is compared to my own observation. Be more objective.”
"That is not a good child. She has the bad things in her that all nobles have and are the most wary of."
"Arrogance, vanity, hypocrisy, selfishness, arrogance... I can find at least thirty words to describe her shortcomings."
"I'm just his brother. That was the case before and that's still the case now, but that's just the way it is."
"She should learn some lessons, after all, I am old..."
There was a long pause on the phone, and after this period of silence, Maggs began to speak again.
"So, leave her alone. If a brief loss of freedom cannot make her understand that the world is not that simple, it will only become more troublesome in the future."
Dulin actually understands Magus's thoughts very well, because he also has many brothers and sisters, and these people are now relying on his power to achieve better development in society.
But his power cannot be eternal, and even if it is eternal, his life cannot be eternal.
Nowadays, people can pretend to be crazy and put benefits into the pockets of his brothers and sisters to please him, or even just to not offend him.
But if one day he dies and his brothers and sisters are unable to protect what they have obtained through their own strength, then these things will return to their original owners.
The cruelty of reality exceeds people's imagination. The reason why the world is so peaceful and friendly is simply because most people cannot see the slaughterhouse behind the "wall".
In the past feudal society period, how many families and companies in the entire empire relied on the royal family for survival. But when the royal family, which they relied on for their livelihood, was suddenly suppressed, the first thing that some of these people, I should say most, thought of was not How to save the royal family that gave them life and wealth.
It's about how to find more benefits for yourself from the royal family's withdrawal from the stage of history.
The loyalty sworn by generations of people is like the conscience in a dog's mouth when it comes to profit. It has been bitten to pieces. What's more, those people outside have never been loyal to the Timamont family, so why bother to save the fallen battleship? Drag yourself into the water
"I... have a small idea, why don't we give a push from behind. Within the scope of controllable risks, it may not be possible to make West Asia receive a more profound education, and by the way, we can also drag the two major consortiums and the Imperial Central Bank to do things for us. Something you can do.”
"They have been sucking blood from the empire for so many years. It's time to spit out some and feed it back to the empire."
When most ordinary people heard these words, they would immediately curse in their hearts. Dulin knew that Mags was not an ordinary person. He didn't say anything, but was silent for a moment and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I don't like Powers...", was Dulin's answer.
Magers, who is also a smart man, thought for almost two or three seconds, and then almost continued Dulin's words, "Schnoder is a good young man, he is better than most young people. , I think he may become an important figure in the new party committee in the future.”
When Dulin mentioned Powers, Magers immediately thought of Acting Governor Schnoder, who was temporarily replacing Dulin as governor in Ambiro State and presiding over daily work.
Dilsina's problem was that she definitely couldn't get the mining license from Dulin. Dulin's idea of those huge mineral resources had already been determined when he discovered them.
That will become the source of funds to transform the entire western region in the future. If it is transferred to capitalists for development at a low price now, the government will not only obtain a large amount of revenue in the early stage, but also rely on meager taxes to obtain profits in the future.
However, the current situation is slightly different, because Dulin is not in charge of the work. If they can bypass Dulin and obtain the mining license through Schnoder, they can completely carry out mining work.
When Schnoder's term as acting governor ends and Dulin returns to Ambiluo State to pursue these responsibilities, it will be bad luck for everyone involved.
Whether it is Schnoder, Dilsina, the consortium and the Imperial Central Bank, they are all criminals who use illegal means to destroy the empire's state-owned resources and steal the empire's wealth.
Dulin's hope was to reflect Powers' important role in this whole thing, so he said he didn't like Powers, and at the same time he was very careful not to reveal any other information. Preventing someone from eavesdropping is even guarding against Mags.
The two of them were very difficult to deal with. This was something everyone knew. Even if someone knew about the conversation between him and Mags, they could not use it as any evidence to accuse him of premeditating everything behind his back.
Maggs' reaction was also quite quick. He agreed to Dulin's request, but hoped that Dulin would keep Schnoder. Schnoder's role was very important.
In his plan, Schnoder will become Powers' replacement and the leader of the populist wing of the new party after Powers leaves, and plans to let him enter the new party committee, serving as a senior executive or even a deputy chairman.
No organizational force can be pure, and the "organization" itself is not pure either.
The so-called organizational group is nothing more than a group of people who gather together to achieve the same goal, forming a tight-knit group with strict organization, clear class, and roughly the same goal.
Some people's goals are the goals of the organization, and some people's goals are just staged goals of the organization. In this process, people who first satisfy their own pursuits will differentiate into the other two types of people.
The first type of person sets new goals and actively participates in the construction and activities of the organization in order to seek more benefits, while the second type of person becomes content with the status quo and goes with the flow, living day by day.
The latter have lost their ambition for the organization and have little value, while the former are full of risks, so a risk management and control mechanism is needed.
We call people in the same organizational group with different goals, different situations, and the same label a faction. Then the faction leader is actually the person who controls risks and completes risk control by establishing more means.
At the same time, the ultimate goal of the leader of the faction and the organized group is also the same. In other words, the goal of Powers and Magus is the same at the beginning-the Prime Minister of the Empire.
Schnoder is the person who will manage the risks of the populist faction in the future, because he works hard enough and knows how to be proportional. He rarely complains like Powers did that he has made so many contributions to the new party but has received nothing.
Whether or not the real Schnoder is who he appears to be, at least the way he appears now fits Maggs' definition of him.
After more than 20 minutes of discussion between the most insidious people in the two empires, the matter was finalized. Dulin took people to the imperial capital early the next morning on the grounds that he wanted to attend the IFTO member states meeting.
As for the daily work in Ambiro State, Schnoder will still handle it. Before the handover, Schnoder will preside over the work here as the acting governor of Ambiro State.
This move made many people have an inexplicable feeling. When did Du Lin, who was extremely passionate about power, actually be so confident and bold to hand over his territory to others to manage it on his behalf
Even Schnoder himself felt that this was abnormal. Something terrible must have happened somewhere unseen. This made him feel that a wave of conspiracies was coming, and he became increasingly cautious about work issues.
That night, while Powers was reading at home, an unexpected guest suddenly came to visit. A capitalist who was active in the South came to visit with some small and inexpensive gifts.
Although Powers was a little confused, he still invited the person into his study.
(End of chapter)