Monday, New Party Office Building.
This is an inconspicuous building. It looks like a stone at the bottom of a long river of history, silently accumulating the charm of the years. Occasionally, the mottled exterior wall can make people feel a trace of the cruelty and ruthlessness of time. .
It is still standing here, but the people inside have changed many times. For it, it may only be a moment in the process of birth to destruction, but for humans, it is already a lifetime.
The office building of the New Party is located 300 meters east of the intersection of Imperial Second Avenue and First Avenue, next to the Imperial National Library and the Museum of History. It is not very special. There is no sign hanging at the door, only a simple house number.
When you enter the main building through the vestibule, you will find that not only the appearance of this building is very "old", but the interior decoration design and the placement of some things are also a bit out of date.
But it cannot be denied that these seemingly ancient decorations give people a sense of elegance, dignity and grandeur.
Originally, the place was covered with cashmere and camel hair carpets. Later, Maggs decided that cleaning the carpets would cost too much and take up too much worker time, so he removed all the carpets in the entire building, including those in his own office. .
This can save a lot of expenses on carpet cleaning, as well as more man-hours.
Some people once thought that this was a face-saving project - the old party members working opposite were wearing shiny leather boots and stepping on soft camel hair carpets. They regarded Maggs's measure as an attempt to please the people, and they were very satisfied with it. Disdainful.
But until today, this measure has not been changed. On the contrary, the old party has also canceled all kinds of carpets laid on the ground.
The floor is now made of marble that can reflect human figures. Every week, a professional team will be responsible for cleaning the scratches that may remain on it and repairing some pitted wounds. Compared with the cost of cleaning the carpet, it can be said that it is almost nothing.
New party members in twos and threes, wearing decent clothes and carrying various briefcases or handbags, walked in from the door. They were all discussing the Western Battle Royale game that ended last night.
A police sergeant from Kurwood, a remote town, successfully stood out from thousands of people and became the champion of the first competition.
Many people are crazy, crazy about losing millions of pain to themselves, and crazy about joy.
Joining him on the stage were more than a dozen multi-millionaires and millionaires who were born because of him. These people only paid fifty cents and received millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of times in return. .
There is no better way to get rich quickly than this way of betting, and many people have already called the organizer and the Ambluo state government to ask when the second competition will start.
Some unpleasant things happened during this process. One of the contestants disappeared mysteriously. After a long search after the game, there was still no trace of him. The organizers believed that he might have been captured by some predators that slipped through the net. Killed, or lost in some special place and died there.
This incident did not cause any disturbance. The organizing committee promptly contacted his family and compensated him with dozens of times the current social standard death pension, which made the family members of the deceased who were originally angry about this instantly It calmed down.
They and the family members of the deceased, including the deceased, expressed that they were relatively calm. The current social standard upper limit of death compensation/pension is 18,000 yuan, which is double what it was a few years ago.
The organizer threw away half a million yuan. The father of the deceased, his wife and an infant child who was represented all expressed their acceptance and praised the attitude of the person in charge of the organizer.
This unpleasant incident did not dampen the joyful atmosphere in Ambiluo State. The entire empire and even the entire world were discussing the game and its star-making and money-making abilities.
It is like a black hole of funds, swallowing up a lot of loose funds in the world in one breath, creating numbers that shock people and are as hard to surpass as myths.
Some people also considered creating another battle royale imitating the battle royale in Ambiluo State. Anyway, the things they used were available on the market, but these people soon gave up this idea.
Because there is one thing they cannot buy, and that is effective broadcasting and live broadcasting. If they do not solve this problem, the cable TV group and Dulin will be unable to get around the difficulties. In the end, they will return to the starting point, and a large amount of effective income will fall into Doolin and the Cable Group's pockets.
Although it cannot be done on a large scale, there are also some remote and barbaric small areas that have begun to organize and hold such activities. Their scale is smaller and more cruel and barbaric, which just satisfies the preferences of some people.
People were talking about it and what Doolin would do today.
The current situation of the New Party is obvious to everyone. In fact, these people may not know what the problem is, but it is also a problem.
Magus's retirement is not meaningless. On the one hand, he intends to use his retirement to make the future leaders of the empire realize that even if they become the prime minister of the empire, they will not continue indefinitely, and they can also give way to The person appointed by himself, the prime minister, is not the emperor. This is impossible.
Secondly, he also needs to use this method to gradually dilute his "influence" within the new party. This influence does not mean that he has to completely give up his rights and give up guiding the new party, but that he will start to get used to it within the new party. Days without Maggs.
His years as the "Imperial Parliament Hill" of the new party have made people accustomed to looking up at him when they encounter problems that cannot be solved, and then waiting for his instructions and following his instructions to solve these problems.
He is still just a human being, and he will die one day, so before he dies, while he is still able to do something, he will solve all the problems he has left behind. This is his purpose.
But he fell too fast, so fast that people had not adapted to the feeling of having no one to rely on, and were defeated by this feeling of helplessness.
At 9:46 in the morning, two-thirds of the seats in the huge semicircular conference room were occupied, and some people were unable to make it because of the long distance.
Just five seconds before nine-fifty, when the meeting was about to begin, the door to the conference room was pushed open, and Du Lin walked in with his head held high.
People on both sides of the aisle greeted him, and he responded in a seemingly polite and easy-going manner, then walked to his seat in the second row.
According to the current ranking within the party, Du Lin's ranking is still outside the top ten. This is not to say that everyone is deliberately making things difficult for Du Lin and not giving him a higher ranking, but that his status in the party is indeed not as high as ordinary people imagine. high.
Inner-party status and political status are not the same thing. There will be no problem that high political status means high intra-party status.
In the first few years after Magers overthrew the royal family, he was not the Prime Minister of the Empire, but he was already the leader of the new party. In addition to the changes in political status, the improvement of the party's status mainly depends on whether this member has influence on the party. There is enough value and contribution.
The first person on the list is Powers, the leader of the new party. At this time, he is sitting in the middle of the podium, wearing a pair of reading glasses and looking at something. The chairman of the new party committee sitting on his left is the second person in the party. His responsibility is to manage the New Party Committee and comprehensively preside over and arrange the daily work of the New Party.
The third and fourth positions are the two vice-chairmen, one is responsible for specific external affairs and the other is responsible for internal affairs. Currently, Dolly is the fourth position, mainly responsible for personnel transfer and other issues within the new party.
Next is the New Party's money bag, the Finance Department. The top executive of the Finance Department sits on the far left of the first row. He is the fifth-ranking figure in the New Party. He is a fat man, fair and tender.
The sixth person is the top official of the New Party's Ministry of Internal Affairs, who is mainly responsible for intra-party discipline issues and the investigation and punishment of members who violate regulations.
Originally, according to the arrangement, the Ministry of Internal Affairs should be above the Ministry of Finance, but Maggs' influence on the new party was so terrible that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was in a state of having nothing to do for a long time.
In a large power organization, any functional department will soon be marginalized once it becomes idle.
People dare not blatantly marginalize the Ministry of Internal Affairs so that it is not ranked, but it is a fact that his position is indeed indisputable.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also looked fat and white, with a smile on his face and a talkative look. He sat first on the right side of the first row.
Next is the party whip. Because the new party is not currently in power, the power of the party whip will be infinitely reduced. It will not be able to control matters outside the party, and it will not be tough to speak within the party, so it ranks seventh.
However, the position of the party whip is still vacant. Powers was very disappointing when he became the new party leader, but he left a very deep impression on people in the position of the party whip.
Rigid, old-fashioned, harsh, unkind and unsmiling are almost all compliments to him, and he has indeed achieved what a party whip should be.
After he came to power, he originally planned to give this position to Schnoder, but Schnoder had some unpleasant conflicts with him before, so the position was shelved.
When the committee met, the leadership table did not say that new party whips would be allocated, let alone voted for, so it was left vacant.
Next is the New Party Development Department, which was Dori's previous position and ranked eighth in the party. It is mainly responsible for the development of members of the new party organization, organizing internal activities, and issuing some gifts and benefits.
Although this department is inconspicuous, it can link up with the bottom to the top of the new party. If there is a capable person in this position, as long as the means are used well, it is even possible to oust the chairman and vice-chairman of the new party committee, so it is the eighth .
The current top minister of the Ministry of Development is a young woman, about thirty years old. She sits in front of Du Lin and chats with others. She occasionally looks back at Du Lin, and Du Lin greets her with a slight nod.
The top officials of important departments such as these constitute the real "leadership" within the new party. Although Dulin is the governor of a state, he is only ranked 19th within the new party. This is due to him and Mag The relationship between Sri Lanka and his own personal factors.
When Dulin sat down and waited for less than thirty seconds, the chairman of the new party committee raised his wrist and looked at his watch, then tilted his head and whispered a few words to Powers, and Powers nodded. , stood up.
Then everyone stood up with a roar, and after a few opening remarks, sat down again.
It's a bit stupid, I almost missed the mark, it would be exactly like some school classes.
There was not much to talk about at this month's regular meeting. There was no news from Mags for a month, some work had stopped, and people were not in the mood to work.
Coupled with the constant harassment and poaching by the God's Party, people are in panic. Who can focus on their own work? They are all paying attention to the changes in the new party and the changes in the political situation of the entire empire.
After all, it is inevitable that the eldest prince's imperial party will have some thoughts about its strong desire to rise. Whether it is the civilian faction, the aristocratic faction, or the fence-sitting faction, they are all weighing the pros and cons and considering them.
So I didn’t do a monthly summary, I just talked about some work arrangements for next month, which was very routine.
In fact, the arrangement of party work is not as mysterious as people think. Most of it is the allocation and arrangement of some daily work, plus the expiration of some advance plans. This is the monthly meeting.
During the Mags period, every monthly meeting he hosted would be postponed until two or three in the afternoon or even into the evening, but today, it only took a little more than an hour to basically cover everything.
Powers yawned and seemed not very energetic, while the Chairman squinted his eyes slightly, as if he was asleep.
With such an occasion and such an attitude, it's no wonder that everyone is preparing to withdraw. If he hadn't fallen too deep into the trap, Du Lin would have considered whether to leave.
Just when Powers asked everyone if they had any proposals and was about to end the meeting, Dulin stood up.
Powers looked at him blankly, thinking that Du Lin had sat the whole time without saying a word and was just going through the motions, but he didn't expect that he actually stood up in the end.
Suddenly, his head felt a little tingling. He reluctantly but pretended to be normal and asked, "Mr. Dulin, do you want us to know any proposals?"
Du Lin shook his head. He walked around from his seat, stood on the aisle, straightened his clothes, and strode towards the rostrum. As he walked, he said, "I don't have any proposals, but I have a few words. I want to discuss it with you! ”
Powers looked at the Chairman. The Chairman still had his eyes half closed, as if he was asleep. Powers stopped talking and watched with cold eyes, letting Dulin do this!
(End of chapter)