There was a lot of food on the small table. Ophelia took Aunt Winica's arm and glanced at Dulin sheepishly.
Ninety-nine percent of the food on the table was prepared by Winica. Originally, Ophelia also wanted to make a specialty dish, but it was a pity that it failed. The expensive ingredients were dumped into the trash can. I don’t know which rat in the sewer is so lucky that he can eat a meal worth tens of dollars.
Compared with Winica's cooking skills, Ophelia is obviously far behind. Mags and her have been living at No. 1 Empire Avenue for these years.
The "small" villa there was not enough to recruit the chef class here, so most of the time Winica prepared three meals a day for Mags, and over time she developed superb cooking skills.
After the four of them took their seats, Dulin and Magers stopped talking about work, but talked about some interesting news in the empire recently, including the lawsuit against the cable TV group.
With the rapid popularity of cable TV, more and more households have access to cable TV signals, and at Dulin's request, the TV Group adopted a brand-new policy to promote the access rate of cable TV signals.
They give TV sets to people who need them in the form of "agreement gifts", but there is a prerequisite. These buyers must sign an agreement to subscribe to a full-channel cable TV signal in installments for ten years.
Currently, the cost of subscribing to all channels for a year is less than 300 yuan, which is no longer an unbearable expense for many families.
In particular, access to cable TV signals is no longer like the past, where you can play endless content just by buying tape. It can be said that you buy it once and enjoy it for life.
In order to prevent someone from ordering a TV set and selling it as a way to cash out, there are clear provisions in the default clause.
When something like this happens, the cable group can sue the defaulter for more than ten times the price of the TV set.
This policy has greatly accelerated the popularity of television and audio-visualization, and more and more civilians have begun to enjoy the fun brought by television.
The expansion of the market and the increase in access users mean that television using new media as a communication method is changing people's lives.
The most obvious example is that the sales of major newspapers have obviously declined to varying degrees. People watch news in the morning and watch news in the evening. They no longer need to flip through newspapers to find the content they like.
The development momentum of the cable TV group is extremely rapid, but it also faces some troubles. In the middle of this year, someone already filed an antitrust lawsuit against the cable TV group.
Most of these people are from tape companies. The popularity of cable television signals has compressed their business to the limit. People will no longer foolishly spend a few dollars a day to buy tape to watch a one-day program.
This has caused a large number of tape companies, including upstream and downstream companies, to face severe business crises. So challenging the TV Group is obviously the only way out.
Here, people working at the TV Group still have to thank Dulin for his foresight. When he built this company, he made it very clear that the group company did not operate any content.
They are only responsible for laying lines and are not involved in content provision. If all content providers want to join the cable TV group and provide their content to thousands of households, they need to submit a channel plan and at least three issues. That is, three days of broadcast content for the cable TV group to review.
This regulation avoids antitrust prosecution and investigation to a certain extent. The reason why the content cannot be admitted is not because the cable TV groups are holding back, but because the content of these content providers is not up to standard.
However, despite this, these lawsuits are still undergoing repeated court debates, and it may be difficult to determine the winner in a short period of time.
Many people have begun to pay attention to cable TV. It has brought too many changes and surprises to people's lives, even in this family.
"Your aunt will drop all her work at 7:45 every night, and then sit in front of the TV and wait for that thing called..." Magus looked at Winica, who said something The name of the TV series.
"Yes, it's "The Revenge of Count Covill". I never thought that such a childish, false and unrealistic plot could attract such a noble lady to watch it on time every day!"
Winica just smiled at Magus's compliments, "I know those are all fake, but the actors' performances were very serious and it was easy for me to fall into it. This is more interesting than an opera."
Comparing it with opera is what most upper-class people think when they watch TV series for the first time. They are particularly disdainful of these TV series and think that they are a kind of spiritual dross. However, these same people fall into it faster than ordinary people. Be faster.
At present, some companies have established business connections with cable TV groups and added some lines to provide content. The largest number of them is news content transferred from print media.
Both the New Party and the Old Party now have their own mouthpieces on cable television, and both parties are constantly bickering and yelling at each other across the channels over some trivial matter.
"Cable TV is a very interesting thing. It simplifies some complex issues and also gives people more channels to learn the 'truth'. As long as the content is controlled well, it won't be a big problem.", after a chat. After the meeting, Maggs finally said a decisive word.
With Maggs' words, it would be difficult to lose the lawsuit.
After lunch, Du Lin said goodbye to Ophelia and left. He stood behind the window and watched Du Lin holding the girl's hand as he walked further and further away. Magus hummed a few times with a half-smile.
It's a little funny, a little uncomfortable, and has some elusive flavor.
When Duhring said he was going to jump from governor to the new party committee, Magers realized that Duhring was not willing to wait another eight years. He wanted to directly attack the position of prime minister.
But his current firepower is still lacking. This is not because Magus is blocking Dulin because of some selfish interests, but because in his opinion, Dulin is really a little behind.
According to the current election process, voting for local leaders starts from each region first, and then expands to the continent. The more the new party or the old party wins, the more dominant the party will be in the final election. .
There are currently only two parties in the empire, so this result is inevitable and certain, and no one can change it!
However, there is actually a problem here. Even if the new party has an advantage in the general election and wins more final votes, the new party may not support Dulin's coming to power.
Maggs has "blurred" some things during his administration, leading many people to believe that the state election is the final result and that the so-called final election is just a process issue.
Not really!
In the past, everyone would vote for Magers because his reputation, status, and power made everyone willing to vote for him, but Dulin is not him. He has not yet been able to fully prove himself within the new party, then he will There are opponents.
Dulin's process of growing from scratch over the years has not been reliable, and it has only improved slightly in the past two years. He does not have dominance within the new party, and not many people will believe him.
Even if he is now a noble and is married to the Timamont family, it may not be able to sway some people's minds, so it is obviously impossible for others to vote for him.
People will be more inclined to vote for other prestigious people who have proven their achievements in politics, rather than Dulin, who is not yet thirty-five years old by then.
He is too young, which is also his fatal flaw. People's bad nature will not allow people to admit that a person younger than themselves can be better than themselves now. This is tantamount to denying their own abilities and efforts over the years.
If he wants to find a way out of the impossible, he must establish his own system within the new party. Only with a large number of followers behind him can he hope to sit in that position, but there is only hope!
This was precisely why Magers immediately guessed why he wanted to run for office when he mentioned that he wanted to join the committee of the new party - he wanted to form his own political force and then influence the voting direction of the new party in the general election.
Only in this way can he have any hope of getting a chance in this general election. If he stays in Ambluo State, he will have no hope at all.
So is the final election really that simple and straightforward
Not entirely true. In the general election during the Maggs administration in history, the old party took the initiative to vote for the new party committee chairman and Powers, knowing that they were losing, in an attempt to use them to defeat the difficult Maggs. .
Killing smart people and sending them to a fool is also in line with the demands of the old party, and this method of operation is not complicated. You only need to close your eyes and write down the names of the new party members.
Therefore, if Dulin wants to come to power, it is definitely not just a matter of establishing his own faction within the party, but also outside the party and society.
In any case, this is not an easy task. It seems a bit ridiculous to want to use four years to complete Magers' more than ten years of accumulation.
But this is actually a good idea. Let Du Lin get a head start and let him understand that there may be opportunities to soar at the bottom, but the higher you go, the more everything must be done according to rules and procedures.
By the time of the next general election, more than ten years later, he will be almost in his forties. When a man is young and has abundant experience, that is his most perfect moment!
(End of chapter)