"It's our turn!" Mr. John straightened the corners of his sleeves and said to his butler.
The whole plan butler was involved and helped Mr. John make many cover-ups and arrangements. After Mark told Mr. John that the special news agency was burned down, his first reaction when he woke up was that someone was going to attack the George family. Mr. John knows better than Mark or Arthur and his brothers and sisters that the foundation of the George family lies in these three feature agencies. Once there are mistakes in these three feature news agencies, the foundation of the George family will soon be shaken.
Maybe they can rebuild the feature agency, but at that time the right to speak in the newspaper industry may not be entirely in their hands. It only takes a few days for someone to stand up and actively work to overthrow the George family. Do an adequate job.
Facts have indeed proven this. The reason why Mr. John did not "wake up" immediately was that he hoped to attract more opponents. At the same time, he also used the fact that he was unconscious to make some people change their original plans.
Those who promoted the whole event may have prepared more decisive and brutal methods to cut off the foundation of George's family at first, but when he was unconscious, these people would slow down a little. In the cruel world of capital, food appearance is also a very important scoring point. Being able to fill your stomach without looking ugly is what all capitalists pursue. This is Mr. John's idea to attract more enemies and disrupt their plans.
When all the enemies were supposed to show up and these people started to tie their napkins in a pretentious manner, he appeared again, disrupting these people's plans again and messing up all their steps. Only in this way can the George family regain its strength. It doesn't matter whether Dulin did this or not, because in Mr. John's eyes, Dulin and the enemy were already equated. He may just be a vanguard, a vanguard, an inducement.
Just when Mr. John was about to open the door and walk out of the "ward", the phone rang suddenly. He frowned, walked over and answered the phone in person, "This is George Manor."
The voice in the receiver was a bit weird. The other party had made good preparations, maybe because he was afraid of being monitored. "During the cabinet meeting a few days ago, Maggs proposed a new bill, and the cabinet and the Ministry of Justice improved the content. This bill is called the "Anti-Industrial Manipulation Bill" and has been sent to the Imperial Parliament... "
Mr. John's face has changed a bit. You can guess the general content just by looking at the name of this bill. He covered the microphone, turned to look at the butler and asked, "What day is it today?"
The butler told him without hesitation that today was Monday.
Yes, yesterday was Sunday, so Mark originally scheduled the conference on Sunday. The conference was held during non-working hours and would not delay too much of the working time of these newspaper directors. Unfortunately, something went wrong and the meeting was postponed to the next day, which was today, in the open air at the George family's manor, so today is Monday.
Monday is a very ordinary day, but it is also a very extraordinary day, because it is the first working day of the week. Many companies and official departments will hold routine meetings to arrange work for the week. Similarly, as the Monday of the second week of October, it is also the day when the Imperial Parliament convenes in the fourth quarter of each year.
In accordance with the charter and convention, the Imperial Parliament convenes four times a year. The Imperial Parliament is convened on the second Monday of the first month of each quarter. The length of this meeting will vary from one day to five days depending on the content and process. In addition, if you encounter very special circumstances, you can also convene an extraordinary meeting. An extraordinary meeting only needs to be present with 35% of the members present, while a normal meeting requires 70% of the members to be present.
John already had some guesses in his mind. He lowered his voice and asked, "So how is the situation?"
"It has been passed. It has been included in the Imperial Code. Some members are discussing whether to incorporate this bill into the Basic Law. The favor I owe you has been repaid. I wish you good luck, Old John."
The phone line was cut off with a click, and John hung up the phone in a daze. He thought that he would not have too many opponents and enemies, they were all his old enemies. Those capitalists who surround us like sharks are not enemies. It is just their nature to be attracted by interests. Once they stabilize, they will naturally retreat.
To be fair, if he encountered such an opportunity, he would also linger at the table with a knife and fork, waiting for the moment to grab a seat.
But he never thought that Maggs would be involved. He proposed such a bill and passed it in the Imperial Parliament. To say that this bill has nothing to do with his George family, the old guy is willing to bet his head that after living for so long, his political sense is definitely the most sensitive, and this matter definitely has something to do with him. But why are the top leaders of the new party suddenly taking action against the George family? He couldn't figure it out, and sat staggeringly on the edge of the bed, his head feeling swollen.
Could it be that things have gotten so serious? Why is the whole world suddenly different
He asked himself that he had never sinned against the top management of the New Party. No matter what kind of political news, he asked the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of the feature agency to ensure a politically neutral stance. He had never favored any politician, nor was he inclined to any political news. political party. People say that the coverage of the George family is the most timely and fair, which is also the main reason why the George family survives to this day.
He considered whether it might be because of the issue of siding with others, such as reporting some news that damaged the image of the new party, but he had always been very cautious in this regard and would never make such a fatal mistake. Even the transaction between Mark and Dulin was messed up by him. The purpose was to ensure that the George family would always stay outside the political arena. They would not have any position and would always stand in a neutral perspective.
In fact, sometimes the position of ensuring neutrality is itself a subjective position, especially in the political arena.
There are three camps in the political arena, black, gray and white. For those big shots, the neutral George family is the grayest. He did maintain a neutral stance, but there is also a saying in the political arena - if not a friend, then he must be an enemy!
This is an affirmative expression. There are no "bystanders" in political conflicts. Either everyone is one of our own or the enemy. There is no neutrality.
The reason why the George family has the attribute of "politics" is related to the business they run, which is newspapers.
As the mainstream media platform in the world today, newspapers are more important to politics than any other industry. Whether it is as small as politicians criticizing each other or as large as strife between political parties, it is inseparable from newspapers as a way to express their opinions. But now this channel is not in the hands of any political party, but is firmly controlled by an "outsider", which makes many politicians feel very uncomfortable.
I advocated my political ideas and cursed my political opponents a few times. When I appeared in the newspaper, there were no more curse words, no words to attack the other party's political program, no words to greet the other party's family members, and only my own political ideas were left. .
For those politicians at the bottom of the political arena, this kind of newspaper without obvious direction and position is a good newspaper, but for big bosses who need to use newspapers and use newspapers as weapons to attack political opponents, this neutral model It is a cancer in the political arena.
They need newspapers with more obvious tendencies and positions to do their best to criticize, curse, and revil political opponents, and praise their great achievements without a bottom line.
At the same time, the George family is also the best tycoon to take the knife to. The newspaper tycoon is a little different from the tycoons in other industries. Tycoons in other industries cannot be brought down so easily. Take the railroad tycoon Colliers, for example. If he hadn't fallen by himself, could others have brought him down
Secretly digging a section of railway
Or should we spend our own money to build a new railway transportation network with more kilometers in total and covering a larger area
It's impossible. Only if this kind of person falls, or if another strong competitor appears, can Colliers feel the crisis and have the opportunity to fall.
Otherwise no one can do it.
Not to mention those steel tycoons. If one of their steel mills is blown up, they will still have dozens more. If all the steel mills are blown up, they can still sell ore.
But the George family is different. This family only has three feature agencies. Their roots are not deeply rooted in the ground, but exposed in the air. This is why Mr. John actively expanded his printing business before he felt old. In fact, he already had a sense of crisis at that time, but unfortunately it was not easy to cross the line. Not only would the egg be pulled, but the egg would also be pierced by sharp proportions, causing the egg white to spread all over the floor.
Now this hidden bomb has finally exploded. For Maggs, the George family is just an appetizer. Using the "Anti-Industry Manipulation Act" to kill a well-known industry tycoon will be fatal to the deterrent effect of large trusts and syndicates. , which is also beneficial to the empire’s control and restraint on capitalists.
Once the George family is sure to fall under the Anti-Industry Manipulation Act, Maggs will raise his butcher knife and chop down hard at the big capitalists who have monopolized other industries. Although this may not necessarily kill them all, it can at least let them know what fear is and what "truth" is.
As for the sacrificed George family
In the process of social progress, this family has contributed a small amount of strength, and history will remember this family and these people.
The first trust to fall under the Anti-Industrial Manipulation Act.
Being remembered by history is the highest honor!
(End of chapter)