On Nov. 1, with a day to go before the mayoral election, Lin Shangzhou sat leisurely on the sofa at home enjoying a beautiful day off, while the other mayoral candidates were now busy with final canvassing to persuade some wavering voters to vote for him.

In the past month, Lin Shangzhou has not carried out any canvassing activities except for the relevant news in the "Workers' Daily", and he prefers to work at the grassroots level rather than canvassing for votes; in the past month, he has visited almost every poor family in Strasbourg to check whether the government subsidies are in place, and in addition to the poor families in the city, he has also gone to nearby towns and villages to inquire about the living conditions of the peasants.

Occasionally, he would make a trip to Havott to see his research, or a machine shop to see how the union was doing.

All in all, the past month has been a busy one for him.

Lin Shangzhou looked at the newspaper in his hand carefully, and silently read the article published on it advocating voting for a certain candidate, and the pie drawn was good, but he didn't think that the candidate would really make the pie after taking office.

"How do you who are busy canvassing for votes know what the people want, hmph, political animals.

With a sneer, Lin Shangzhou closed the newspaper and threw it on the table.

At this time, Laetia came out of the kitchen, holding two apples in her hand, walked to the sofa and handed one to Lin Shangzhou, and then she picked up the newspaper and sat on the single sofa to read it.

After that awkward morning, Laetia spent a day calming down, and she will still have a long time with Lin Shangzhou in the future, what if she has been troubled by that matter, what will she do in the future?

So the next day she returned to her original state, and her relationship with Lin Shangzhou was still the same, maybe a little closer.

After seeing the canvassing article, she asked without raising her head: "Filitz, is it really good that you don't go to canvassing? This is a mayoral election, if you become mayor, won't you be able to do better things for the people?"

Lin Shangzhou explained: "There is no need to canvass for votes, I don't care about the mayor's position, if I really become mayor, there will be some unnecessary trouble." By

the trouble he meant was getting the attention of Berlin, and he didn't want to be exposed to the prime minister's eyes until he had enough support, let alone the chancellor's racist nephew, who would do something shady if he knew he was so good at getting along.

"Hmm,

" Laetia pouted under the cover of the newspaper, then put down the newspaper and said to him, "Well, I thought that if you could become mayor, then I could get a little more."

Lin Shangzhou smiled and said: "Just pay off the arrears slowly, don't worry, and didn't I raise your salary, why do you still want to raise your salary? "

After Laetia's hard work (in fact, Lin Shangzhou was too lazy to handle official business), her weekly salary was increased by Lin Shangzhou from 18 marks in the past to 25 marks, which is already higher than most people.

Laedia looked at him enviously and said, "You are thirty or forty marks a week, and your novels can bring you a minimum of a few hundred marks a week, no matter how high my salary is, it is impossible to be higher than you, hmph."

With that, Laetia gave him a blank look, picked up the apple and nibbled hard.

While chewing the apple, Laetia thought about other things, because she had just mentioned money, she thought of the investment that Lin Shangzhou told her some time ago, she remembered that Lin Shangzhou funded a scientist to conduct research, and at that time she was busy helping Lin Shangzhou deal with official business, so she didn't ask in detail, and today she remembered this matter again, she wanted to ask what kind of investment it was and how much it spent.

"Fritz, what did the scientist you were talking about research about, and how much money did you put into him?" asked

Letia curiously.

"That scientist is researching the 'Aether Communicator', which is a communication device, as for how much money I have invested..."

Lin Shangzhou smiled mysteriously, then clenched his right hand into a fist, and stretched out his index finger with his left hand to compare 10 to Ladia

"10?"

Ledia looked at Lin Shangzhou's hand suspiciously, and only after a while did she react and look at him in shock.

"100,000 marks?!"

"Uh-huh, 100,000 marks.

Lin Shangzhou nodded, he gave Havart another 50,000 marks at the end of October, and the use of 50,000 marks in just one month is enough to show how much money is a project for ether research, and it is true that only the country can study it, and it is indeed difficult for individuals to study well without stable investment.

If he didn't know Cecilia and had the possibility of getting titanium for the military industry, Lin Shangzhou estimated that it would not be long before he would go to Berlin to find Louis to pull him into this extremely money-burning project.

Louis's money is more burn-resistant than he is.

Laetia stretched out her hands and counted from her right hand to her left hand, counting from one finger to the left hand, after counting ten fingers, she looked up at Lin Shangzhou with shocked eyes and asked

, "100,000 marks, you just gave it to him?" "That's 100,000 marks!!

" Saying that, Letia suddenly thought of a very bad thing, and she said to Lin Shangzhou with fierce emotions: "Aren't you afraid of being deceived by him?!" We don't understand their research, what if he doesn't research at all but is lying to you, what if he cheats all your money away?!

" Laetia cared about herself like this, which made Lin Shangzhou very happy, and he replied: "Don't worry so much, have you forgotten that I go out once a week on Friday? I'm just going to him to see his research, he is really doing this research, so don't worry about running away with money."

Seeing

Lin Shangzhou reassuring such a stranger, Laetia was very unhappy, and she folded her hands on her chest and turned her head away in a sullen manner.

"Anyway, it's your money that was cheated, not mine, and I don't feel distressed.

Lin Shangzhou shrugged, picked up another newspaper on the table and read it.

Then, on November 3, the voting session for the mayoral election officially began, and the voting lasted for two days, and the statistical results came out on the night of November 5.

The finance minister was elected mayor of Strasbourg with 39 percent of the vote, while the remaining three candidates received 20 percent of the votes for the former mayor and 16 percent for the unknown councillor, while Lin Shangzhou received 25 percent of the vote.

The result of the defeat was expected by Lin Shangzhou, and it was also what he wanted to see, but his second vote rate was really beyond his imagination, and in his expectation, his vote rate could exceed 10 percent, who knew that it reached an astonishing 25 percent.

After the results were announced, some people were naturally happy and some were worried, and after the city council, Lin Shangzhou sent his congratulations to the new mayor in public, and then left the city council and returned to his home.

Not long after returning home, he heard a knock on the door, and when he opened it, he saw Louis standing behind the door, smiling and saying to him, "Long time no see." "

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