Du Lin's words completely stood on the commanding heights. When the new party "usurped the throne", they did not promise the royal family and members of the old party to retain the aristocratic class. This privileged class was directly and completely suppressed to the ground, and only the royal family was retained. . At the same time, the royal family no longer has the power to interfere in the empire's politics. From the day the New Party took full power, the royal family became a mascot, or the spiritual symbol of the empire.
In the first few years, the royal family would appear in public every Christmas Day, hoping that in this way it could remind all the citizens of the empire that their emperor was still alive, but had been deprived of political rights by a group of villains, and hoped that someone could Subvert the New Party's rule and rescue the royal family from siege.
However, this was of no use. The disastrous defeat in the early days of the Great Patriotic War had made everyone in the entire empire see clearly the weak side of the empire. Facing a group of merchant alliances that were not even worthy of carrying shoes for the empire, they were almost beaten. The subjugation of the country! In the face of the national crisis, the performance of the nobles and the royal family was very disappointing. They did not do what they should do at all. Therefore, in the face of the "rumors" that the royal family continued to want to be restored, it did not create any waves in the empire at all. .
The royal family gave up, and so did the nobles.
Twenty years later this year, Dulin's words are absolutely correct on the political line. Even Harry can't find any reason to refute Dulin, and he can't even refute it - because he is New Party.
In politics, especially high-level politics, there is no such thing as a fence-sitting faction. They are either friends or enemies, and there is no third party.
Vitor's face turned slightly red, and he didn't know whether it was shame or anger. He covered his mouth, lowered his head slightly and laughed a few times, "Very good, Mr. Mayor pointed out my mistake. Thank you very much, then." We can arrange these things ourselves!" He said and took the initiative to apologize to Dulin and Harry, apologized and left, and then returned to Felicia.
"What's wrong with you? You look like you're very angry!" Felicia asked softly when she turned around. Vitor had accompanied her from a young child to an adult, and she knew Vitor well. Just like Vitor's understanding of her, she was very detailed and familiar.
Vitor lowered his head and coughed lightly, covering his lips with his clenched fist, "Dulin has no plans and refuses to arrange his schedule and life for the next few days according to my suggestions."
Felicia glanced at Dulin in surprise, and Dulin was also looking at her, smiling and nodding in greeting, as if he was not at all embarrassed or shy about the conflict with Vitor just now.
"What did he say? I can tell you're angry."
Vitor repeated what Dulin said just now, without adding a word more or subtracting a word, and there was no trace of subjectivity in his tone. A large family like Fatima always has some unkind rules, and there will be serious consequences if violated. One of them is spreading the news. No additions or deletions are allowed during the communication process, and no subjective modifications or tone are allowed. This is to minimize unnecessary trouble caused by the standpoint and views of the subordinates.
Felicia didn't speak after hearing this, and continued to entertain the guests around her as if she didn't know anything, but her eyes were a little cold.
What is the most important thing about a noble family with a history of hundreds of years
Is it wealth accumulated over hundreds of years
Is it the human resources accumulated over hundreds of years
None, it is the glory of the family. These people have had the best of everything in the world from the moment they were born. Each one of them is a lucky person who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. While others lament their luck, they are actually burdened with many things that others cannot imagine. responsibility. The elders in the family will tell them that they will not live for themselves in this life, they can only live for the family. The glory of the family is their glory, and the future of the family is their life.
When someone dares to insult the honor of the family, they must fight back fiercely, even if they pay a heavy price!
There is nothing more important than the glory of the family, not even Your Majesty the Saint is more important than the glory of the family!
On the side, Harry sighed, "I knew I shouldn't have come." He glanced sideways at Du Lin, his eyes very complicated.
If a child does something he shouldn't do, a person with correct views will definitely place the responsibility on the child's parents. In the same way, when a mayor does something rude in front of a noble, people will blame him and also blame Harry, because Harry is Dulin's immediate boss and the governor, and he should bear part of the responsibility. joint and several liability.
Inexplicably becoming an unreliable person in the eyes of the great nobles, Harry felt as if he had eaten a fly. It would be better to just wait for others to send money to him in his office. Why do he have to come here? Show your face? It must have been successful, Felicia will never forget him, and it is possible that even the Holy Lady will know about his performance today.
Du Lin gave him a cigarette and patted him on the shoulder. This action was actually very illegal. Harry was his boss, and what he did was so disrespectful. But now Harry has been replaced by Du Lin. I had a splitting headache from doing it over and over again, and I didn't care about these little tricks anymore. He even dares to push back members of the Fatima family, so what's the big deal if he doesn't give himself face
"Mr. Governor, we are the masters of this empire, these people..." Dulin showed a contemptuous smile, shook his head and blew out smoke while saying: "They are not!"
Harry really wanted to ask where he had the courage and confidence to say such a thing. According to the statistics of the current New Party cabinet, in the entire empire, public factories and other enterprises or factories with jobs only accounted for 100% of the total working population in society. Seven out of ten people, that is to say, 93% of the people who have jobs, serve capitalists. Capitalists are also divided into different levels, from the most ordinary small businessmen to top chaebols such as Fatima and the Chant Consortium.
Among this special group, the wealth owned by chaebols, which account for less than 10% of the total, is roughly equivalent to the wealth owned by the other 90% of capitalists.
In other words, a family like Fatima owns about 5% of the empire's total "market value". Why shouldn't such a huge family fear him
Do you really think that the so-called new party in power can really deal with these big nobles
That is impossible. If necessary, a top chaebol only needs to launch a strike. At least hundreds of thousands of people will have no work to do and no place to work for a short period of time. They will become a strategic force to coerce the cabinet to compromise. arms.
Dulin felt that Harry a little... despised him, but he didn't care. He came into this world empty-handed, and there was a father who specialized in killing nobles. What was he afraid of
He is not afraid of anything. What he should be afraid of is these nobles, because their families have a big business and cannot lift the table, but he, Du Lin, can lift it.
After the dinner lasted for a while, Dulin saw Vitor suddenly leaving the table, and he didn't care. In the land of Otis City, no one could hide anything from him. Next comes the climax of the dinner, the gift-giving session.
Originally, the host of this session was supposed to be Du Lin, but after being disgusted by Vitor, Du Lin was too lazy to go up. It was not like he wanted to curry favor with the Fatima family, so he transferred the job to Harry. Harry didn't express any objection to this, and even breathed a sigh of relief. It was obviously much better to do it by himself than Dulin. With the character of this bastard, he might have to come up with some "surprise" that could scare people to death.
When Harry presented the brilliant thousand-dollar gold chip in the red silk tray to Felicia, the surrounding guests spontaneously began to applaud, "This is a small souvenir with very commemorative value. It is not It will be issued and circulated, and it will be numbered one, and will only be given to the most distinguished guests!" The waiter carrying the tray showed the golden chips in the tray to the surroundings, and then handed them to Vitor who rushed back.
Felicia smiled happily and thanked Harry for his generous gift. She picked up the one-pound chips with both hands and said, "It's very beautiful and feels very heavy. Is this pure gold?", at Harry's nod. , the surrounding guests all exclaimed softly. The denomination is only one thousand, but its value exceeds thirty thousand. Coupled with the fact that it is not issued for circulation and has a numbered certification, the real value is probably higher than its own value! (There was a clerical error earlier. It was 30,000, so I won’t change it. Just confirm it here.)
Felicia thanked Harry and all the guests present again, then put the chips on the tray and asked Vitor to put them up.
It seemed like a perfect comedy scene, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves, and the atmosphere became more lively after that.
Du Lin has been watching all this happen with cold eyes. Facing this noble girl whose inner fluctuations are difficult to detect from the changes in her face, Du Lin doesn't say anything, but he can still feel the gap between nobles and commoners in his heart. At least even if they were "humiliated", if that was humiliation, they would not show their emotions immediately on their faces. Just this cultivation is much stronger than ordinary people.
The dinner lasted until 9:30 in the evening. When Felicia mentioned that she was a little tired, the dinner officially ended. Protected by a group of people, Felicia was the first to walk out of the hall. However, at this moment, Keena came to Dulin aside and said a word.
"I feel something is wrong. There are a few beggars at the door!"
(End of chapter)