“Innovation across the ages!”
Hoston stood inside the venue chatting with Dulin. Dulin's ability to hold the cable television conference in Ilian was very important to Hoston, the mayor of Ilian, and this was also a political achievement.
What is political achievement
To put it simply, it is to let the upper class see the good side of themselves and publicize their achievements in various fields to a greater extent. This is political achievement. The achievements themselves are not entirely political achievements, because some things can be changed. Dulin's press conference focused the attention of the empire and the whole world on Ilian. This was a huge political achievement. People all knew that there was a city called Ilian on the east coast of the empire, and a city named Hoston. Mayor, during his tenure, he not only managed Ilian in an orderly manner, but also created an industry miracle in the 8th District and allowed cable TV to be born here.
Look, what an amazing mayor, he has grasped the economy, society, and science, and has achieved outstanding results, so he must be a long-term... right
Because of this incident, the relationship between Hoston and Dulin has eased a lot. Scott's resignation once made Hoston fall into shame and fear. What did he do in Ilian for so long? Scott knew about everything, good and bad, and was involved in it all. Did he have a deeper meaning when he ran to join Du Lin? For example, in the general election three years later, does Dulin intend to use the black materials in Scott's hands to prevent himself from becoming governor
This is not impossible. Everything in the political circle cannot be viewed too simply. Even if Mags farts while speaking, he may be hinting to some people that what he just said is It doesn't count, or he accuses some people of not listening to what he said. Even a fart can become so complicated, let alone a person who has dark information about himself, so Huo Siton felt that Du Lin was not a good person.
But this time, he felt that Dulin was good, and he also thought about it, and took the initiative to ease the previous conflict with Dulin - because Dulin was dismissed from his position as mayor of Otis City, and he has now left Otis City, and he is not interested in Dulin. He no longer has any influence. In addition, Harry has some minor troubles now and needs someone to help him. It is not a big problem for Horston to secure the position of governor of a state in the next term.
In order to strike up a conversation with Dulin, Halston chose something familiar to both of them as his opening remarks, Harry.
"Harry has been in a bit of trouble recently, have you heard?" The two of them stood by the door behind the media sign-in office and chatted. Or maybe it was Hoston who took the initiative to chat with Dulin. "He called me a few days ago. He complained to me that some departments were making trouble for him over things that may not even exist."
Du Lin has never heard of this. The relationship between him and Harry has always been about using each other. Later, Harry cheated him twice, and he regained some face. The relationship between the two was not as good as it was at the beginning. . No one can trick him and Dulin can still be his friend, except Mr. Kesma. So when he heard that Horston said that Harry was in trouble, his first reaction was to smile. Of course, he would never admit that he was happy, "Tell me more carefully, was it his wife who caught him having an affair?" "
"Haha..., that's not the case!" Horston smiled exaggeratedly and praised Du Lin's words. Although Du Lin is no longer the mayor, he still has a pivotal position. He is just the president of the association. With this status, no one should look down on him. "Speaking of it, he is unlucky. Did you know that the Cabinet passed the Anti-Official Crimes Bill after the New Year?" Dulin nodded, and Hoston continued, "In April, two businessmen complained to the Supreme Court of the Empire that Harry illegally misappropriated their assets and sold them to others, involving illegal transactions and official crimes. Now the Supreme Court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are investigating Harry's matters."
When Horston said this, the smile on Dulin's face became weird. Yes, this was a trick he had set up to take revenge on Harry for cheating him. To put it simply, three scammers took a piece of land in the city center on the pretext of developing it, then pretended to build something and ran away. At that time, they planned to sneak into the Federation from the East Coast. They defrauded Harry of more than ten million, which was enough for them to spend a lifetime in the Federation.
This matter was known to Du Lin. After all, he was the leader of the largest smuggling channel on the East Coast. Sometimes some smugglers needed to say hello to Du Lin when they wanted to pass through. Even if Du Lin is not involved in the smuggling business, as a courtesy these smugglers will tell Du Lin about when to send something to where from that channel. This is a courtesy and an unspoken rule. After they greeted Dulin, if Dulin's smuggling ship encountered them on the sea, nothing would happen to them.
But if these smugglers don't say hello to Du Lin, maybe Du Lin's smuggling ship will come to take advantage of them. These days, it's much safer to take advantage of them at sea than on land. After all the things were taken away, they were killed and thrown into the sea, and the boat was pierced. Even God could not know what happened here.
After knowing this, Du Lin asked the snakehead to bring the person to him. He gave the snakehead a benefit of 100,000 yuan and promised not to expand the matter. After all, the snakehead also relied on this business to make a living. After getting the people, Du Lin began to make plans to trick Harry. He first threw one person out and said that he had been deceived by his companions, and actively tried to find ways to raise money to build the developed land. On the other hand, Du Lin arranged for another person to send money to Harry, saying that he wanted the unfinished building.
Harry, who had just emerged from the whirlpool of the mid-term election, was faced with a tight situation, and the people Dulin arranged to give away 500,000, and gave away four times in total, which was 2 million. Faced with so much money, Harry also knew that he should do something after taking the money. He first regained the land to the state government by interfering with judicial justice, and then let it pass at the auction and let the people arranged by Du Lin take it. to the ownership of the land.
This was a very common power-for-money transaction, and the liar who obtained the land was also thrown into prison by Harry and sentenced to decades for fraud. If the matter ends here, it may be good for everyone. The businessman arranged by Du Lin got the land and built a building as he wished. Harry got two million in benefits and solved a bad project. building project, and distributed most of the auction proceeds to those investors who were defrauded, making up for part of their losses. The damn liar deserves to go to jail. Everything is positive and good, and everyone should be happy.
However, Dulin asked the two liars to go to the Supreme Court of the Empire to sue Harry for abusing his power, involving multiple crimes such as power-for-money transactions and official crimes. This became bad, and it made Harry very anxious recently. The two scammers confessed that they had to go to the Federal Headquarters for help because their capital chain was broken, and a few months later they brought back 7 million in cash to continue constructing the planned buildings.
Look, now the trouble is big. Not only did Harry collect bribes and forcibly re-auction other people's private property to others, he was also suspected of taking advantage of his position and power to put an innocent businessman in jail, and his sentence was still expired. For decades. This is simply an appalling corruption case. If Harry hadn't been ranked very high in the new party, if everyone hadn't been saying that Harry was Maggs' successor, and if Harry hadn't had any criminal record before, he might have been arrested long ago. Dry and fell down.
The current problem is still difficult to solve. The two scammers said that they can withdraw the lawsuit, but their land must be returned to them. The problem is that the piece of land has actually been given to someone else, and someone else has built a house and put it into operation. No matter whose conditions are met, it will mean a loss of at least nearly tens of millions of dollars, and it will also offend the other party. This is a Infinite loop without end.
Du Lin sighed empathetically, "Harry and I have a very good relationship. We are best friends. I didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing now. It's really disgusting. Someone must be trying to harm him." . But at the same time, this also reminds us..." Du Lin said pointedly, "Now the empire is gradually beginning to pay more attention to official crimes. It doesn't matter if you can take the money, but the money in question is thousands of dollars. Don’t take it!”
Halston's face froze. Originally, he wanted to use Harry's incident to talk to Dulin. Unexpectedly, before he said a few words, Dulin took the opportunity to "teach" him a lesson. It made him somewhat uncomfortable.
Fortunately, Du Lin patted his arm in time, "I'm very happy that you can come today. We are also old friends. There is nothing more important than friendship. You will also sit on the rostrum later. I will Arrange for you to speak."
Halston's expression softened, and he nodded with a smile, "That's troublesome." Being able to show up and say something at such a press conference is a great boost to his image and influence. s help. It is foreseeable that his name will be mentioned more or less in newspapers these days, allowing him to have a deeper impression in the minds of the people and senior officials.
Horston quickly left and went to find his secretary to write a short speech for him. After Dulin left, he found a place to sit down and relax with his eyes closed.
The release of cable TV means that it is time to spend money. A household may only need to purchase a decoder and pay service activation fees to access cable TV, but Dulin has to lay out a separate signal line for this household. It can cost as little as a few dozen yuan, or as much as a few hundred yuan. It may take several years or more to recover the cost from the opening fee. But this is something that has to be done. Large-scale infrastructure construction represents his unshakable foundation in this industry. This is also a necessary measure for him to monopolize this industry.
(End of chapter)