Mr. Kesma was better at fighting than politics. Dulin only chatted with him for a few words, and he impatiently picked up his pipe and returned to the house. Anyway, this matter has been handed over to Du Lin. What he does is his business and has nothing to do with him. Well done, of course Mr. Kesma had the foresight and knew his children well, so he gave the task to him boldly and confidently.
If Dulin didn't do a good job, it could only be that Dulin failed to live up to Mr. Kesma's expectations, which would make Mr. Kesma feel sad. At this time, he would think of the whips, sticks and other things hanging at home. .
Compared with Mr. Kesma's indifference, Mrs. Kesma was very happy because Dulin told her that he was about to take office in Otis City as acting mayor. The reason why there is a generation is because it is the practice of the new party to use this word to distinguish members who have climbed up to the management bit by bit through the party system and those members who have spent a little money to "bought" them. Only if Dulin does this job well will the word be removed from the party.
Of course, with or without this word, the power that belongs to Dulin will not be less, and the power that does not belong to him will not be more.
After Mrs. Kesma was happy, she sighed with emotion. She didn't expect that her son would also become a noble...
Du Lin wanted to explain that she was not a noble, but after thinking about it, she decided to forget it. If she thought the word noble was more appropriate, then she would be a noble.
In addition to seeing Mr. Kosma, I came back this time to communicate with Mr. Kosma. After staying at home for almost three or four days, and even taking Dufo on a hunting trip, Du Lin left Alfalfa Town with Dufo and Kena...
Well, yes, Keena. Old Uncle Leighton demanded that Dulin must take his eldest son out to see the world, otherwise he would lie on the ground and roll around, and the whole town would come to see that little Dulin was prosperous and learned not to fall out. The way to recognize people. In the end, he had no choice but to take Kina with him under Mr. Kesma's Ruowuowu signal.
After staying in a big city for a few days last time, Kena didn't want to come back at all. Being in a big city like Orodo was like going to the place where the gods live, with beautiful buildings everywhere. , there are more pedestrians on the road than in the town combined. Especially at night, there are always some enthusiastic young ladies who want to drag him to certain places to let him be a judge to evaluate the skills of the young ladies.
He loved that place so much, but he went back anyway. He is a very obedient guy. When he was fighting, his father said to use force, so this bastard used force. His father might not be allowed to use force, but this bastard just stood there like a guest waiting for his friends to loosen his bones. He does look a little stupid, but he is definitely not stupid. In the words of the world in Dulin's dream, this is called inner show.
He knew it in his heart, but he just didn't show it.
When he was sitting in the car, he was a little interested in a long box he was carrying. He asked casually. Keena said it was a fishing rod. He liked this fishing rod the best. He could catch big fish every time. This time I didn't bring anything with me when I left home, I just brought this fishing rod with me, and I vowed that when I got there, I would catch a few big fish for everyone to try.
Dufo held a three-minute silence for him. That damn place in Odis didn't even have a lake, not even a big river.
fishing
hehe!
Du Lin glanced at Dufo and suddenly felt that sometimes people can be quite happy if they are simple.
After a long journey that lasted for nearly a week, the three finally got off the bus at the station in Otis. It seemed that the steam locomotive didn't like this place either. After leaving the three people behind, it didn't even have fifteen minutes to rest and wait at each station. It just continued to move forward. In the blink of an eye, it could only see the butt of the car, and it was still there a few seconds later. Disappeared into a patch of vegetation.
Du Lin looked at the station and felt that the first thing he should do was to repair the station. There was a feeling here that made him go to the west. If the plants here were not so lush, it might be no different from the west. One of the two hooks on the station sign fell off, and the remaining half probably won't last long. Whenever the wind blows, it creaks and sways back and forth. There were several holes in the roof, which had not been repaired, and the benches on the platform were in a state of decay.
This place is worse than the words describe it. When I came out of the station, not to mention the staff, there wasn't even a mouse. It was like the place was abandoned. Fortunately, they had notified the city hall here before they came, and the people here sent a car to pick them up.
A carriage.
And there is still no carriage, only a bucket, the kind often used to pull and deliver fodder in rural areas.
The person who came to greet Du Lin was a young man in his twenties. The smile on his face may have been a little more numb, and it was very stiff. After reluctantly saluting, he pointed to the three small stools inside the truck and said, "Funds here are very tight, so I'm very sorry that I can only use this kind of car to pick you up." He said he was sorry, but he couldn't. Without showing any apologies, he sat directly in the coachman's seat.
The three of them got into the truck, and after a bumpy ten minutes or so, they finally entered the city center of Otis. If Du Lin really wants to join politics, he is probably feeling cold now. Fortunately, he has no such thoughts. In the final analysis, he is just running for his own interests, so he is not too dissatisfied with the situation here. .
The highest floor in the entire city of Otis does not exceed the fourth floor. The only fourth-floor house is the city hall, but it doesn't look as good as the residential houses in Ilian. The mottled outer wall has dents here and there, which are the wounds left after the outer layer fell off. From the front, the city hall is surrounded by a courtyard wall as high as a person, with a guard box and no gate. There are some vegetation inside, which seem to lack maintenance and are wantonly competing with the plants next to them for living space.
The four-story city hall has four rows of continuous windows from east to west, that is, eight rooms on the first floor and thirty-two rooms on the fourth floor.
After the carriage stopped in the yard, the young man casually tied the reins to a tree. The old horse took the initiative to stand in a shady corner, gnawing on the lush grass on the ground. The young man introduced the three Dulins to the municipal government. After entering the mayor's office in the hall, he left voluntarily. Later, Du Lin found out why this guy looked so bad because he was the director of the transportation bureau here.
The director of transportation in a city with less than ten cars in total is a really promising job.
Keena looked at the dusty mayor's office, immediately put down the salute, took out a rag and started to tidy the room. He worked diligently, so Dufo had no choice but to follow suit with a rag. He originally wanted to ask someone to clean it, after all, it was not an easy job.
Du Lin just glanced at it and then said that he wanted to look around.
Only six of the thirty-two rooms were occupied; the other rooms were either empty or covered with dust. Some people were not excited at all about Du Lin's arrival, and were very numb.
Dulin called these people, including the director of the Transportation Bureau who sent him, to the conference room and cleaned it for twenty minutes before holding his first meeting after taking office.
It was at this first meeting that his original plan to develop well was completely thrown aside. There are only seven people in more than ten departments in the city hall, and some of them hold two positions. Everyone has a numb smile on their face, just like a routine. From their mouths, Dulin gradually learned that this was the "place of exile" of the New Party, and that all those who were thorny and guilty of others would be exiled here.
As time passed, some people voluntarily resigned from their positions in the party and here, choosing to go home and find another job. There are also some people, such as the seven people who stay here, who are waiting and looking for opportunities while earning a living.
They had no idea how to develop the city as Dulin proposed. The entire city has a population of no more than 400,000, 70% of which are old people and children. Young people who have some ability have left the city to work. The only profitable job here is to make handmade blankets for those capitalists, and other tasks that must be done by hand.
It can be said that if you are assigned here, you are destined to die.
And Du Lin also understood more and more what Mayor Ilian was thinking. He was forcing Du Lin to beg him. As long as Du Lin opened his mouth, he could open his mouth wide and ask for a piece of meat from Du Lin's body. But is Dulin the kind of person who can compromise at will
Of course he is not!
In the eyes of others, this city may be lifeless and without any possibility of development, but in Dulin's eyes, this city has great potential. Because he and others looked at him differently, and the way they chose was also different.
Odis is located in the southern part of the imperial capital. It is at the heart of the entire empire. The only drawback is the lack of rivers, and the terrain here is not very good for east and west access, so no railways have been built, only north-south railways.
But there is an advantage here, that is, steam locomotives traveling from south to north to the Imperial Capital and further north pass through here, which provides considerable convenience for smuggling and collecting railway protection fees.
Yes, he plans to engage in his old trade and smuggle as mayor!
There is no doubt that once those smugglers know about this, they will definitely flock here. No place will be more convenient and safer than here. The arrival of these financial backers is destined to develop this place into something else!
Dulin is very confident!
(End of chapter)