Cosma Empire

The next day, all major newspapers in the empire reported the news. The accompanying picture showed Du Lin hugging Ophelia and showing off their engagement ring. They also reported on the surprise of the engagement ceremony incidentally, which made people marvel. Dooling's romance is based on money.

In an entertainment program in the evening, the host also used this topic to analyze how much money is needed to be romantic in this engagement ceremony, which is called the most romantic love.

After a quotation from a professional accountant, people finally got a frightening figure, at least 300,000, just an engagement ceremony.

Considering that the invited people are all members of the upper class of society, the food and drinks served at the buffet before the engagement ceremony will cost almost a hundred thousand.

Then there are those very famous "voices", at least 5,000 yuan for appearance fees, and more may cost more than 20,000 yuan, such as the number one baritone in the empire. Plus other messy things, three hundred thousand is just the minimum expenditure.

The host did not forget to tease in the show that the word romance may be equated with wealth from today on. Without money, there would be no romance that everyone would be jealous of, let alone a prince charming who would walk out of the dream, unless that prince was Du Lin.

The turmoil of this engagement ceremony has even spread abroad, and most people have positive comments on it, but there are always a few people who think it is extravagant and wasteful, showing off their wealth, but fortunately, such arguments are always only a minority After all, this is a world where the rich dominate society, and people's respect and fear of wealth are relatively common.

Du Lin didn't care about these discussions at all. It was impossible for a person to take care of everyone's emotions when he did anything. If he wanted to take care of everyone's emotions, he could just do nothing at all.

Even doing nothing can be unsatisfying because they're trying and you're slacking off.

In the afternoon, Du Lin went to look for his justifiable "Uncle Magus" again. As for why it was afternoon, there was actually a legitimate reason.

On the night of the engagement, Du Lin and Ophelia were finally able to synchronize their spiritual frequencies. Sometimes the frequency would be a little faster, and sometimes it would be a little slower. It was the first time in her life that Ophelia, who was at the same frequency as someone else's heart, hadn't fully adapted yet and needed someone to take care of her, so Du Lin took care of this woman who would become his wife in the morning, and didn't have a little time until the afternoon.

He went to see Muggs because he felt that there were still many unsolved mysteries in the empire that bothered him, including things he had been guessing, such as whether the relationship between Muggs and Powers was really in turmoil , Why Powers is still serving as the party whip, but Harry is out, these are very important things.

You know, there is still a year and three months before Magus will retire.

"Have you noticed?" Magus would read books and documents in the study if he had no business in the afternoon. This is an old man who respects knowledge, and perhaps this is why he is the prime minister.

He asked the housekeeper to bring over a pot of herbal tea, and the two of them sat down and closed the door. Muggs held the teacup but didn't take a sip, what was he thinking about.

After a while, he sighed and decided to talk about something deeper with Du Lin, "I told you last time that this wasn't the best time, do you remember?"

Du Lin nodded, "Yes, I remember this incident, you asked me to run again in the next general election.

", he paused, then asked, "Is it because you want to retire? "

"Part of it is because of this, but another part..." He hesitated again, not knowing whether he should tell Du Lin, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it didn't make much sense to say it or not, and Du Lin was also considered himself. People, let’s not talk about hiding it now. After he finds out, he will inevitably feel that he doesn’t trust him enough and destroy the delicate relationship between each other, so let’s talk about it.

He sighed again, "After I retire, Barr... that is, Kubal will become the prime minister of the empire...", this is definitely a huge bomb, Kubal is the leader of the old party, if Kubal comes to power in this general election, It means that the old party's ruling period is coming.

Everyone knows that the old party has been crushed by the new party for more than 20 years, and the old party's sphere of influence is also shrinking. Some people even think that the old party will eventually withdraw from the stage of history. But now that Du Lin clearly heard Magus telling him that the old party was going to be in power, his first thought was absurd. This was false news.

The votes of the old party have been firmly suppressed by the new party, and the reduction of the sphere of influence means that there will be fewer votes, so why can the old party be in power?

But soon he realized that this was not a fake, because Magus told him that these people must have some way to control the votes, maybe even by cheating!

This also made Du Lin a little bit distressed. If there is fraud in this kind of thing, is it possible that he will also face such a situation when he runs for the prime minister in the future?

Seeing the change of color on Du Lin's face, Maggs was a little proud. This little bastard seemed to be born to know everything and understand everything. This made him feel a little horrified, but now look at his helplessness. Maggs is still very relieved, at least this is a normal person.

He took a sip of the tea in his cup and laughed twice. He knew what Du Lin was going to ask, so he gave the answer without waiting for Du Lin to ask. The tacit understanding and synchronization at the level, people like Henry will never experience this kind of pleasure.

"After I step down, Powers will be the leader of the new party, the chairman of the new party committee will remain the same, and vice-chairman Dolly will be the party whip, so I told you it's better to wait, but you have yours Thoughts." Magus glanced at Du Lin gloatingly, and Du Lin's eyes became a little darker.

This is indeed not the best time, it can even be said to be the worst time!

When the old party is in power, the main resources of the entire society must be in the hands of the old party members. If you want to do a good job in office, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the cabinet's policy preference and resource allocation. You can only rely on your own efforts.

What is even more troublesome is that Powers, who represents the "popular faction", will come to power. This person has criticized Duhring and targeted him more than once before. Whatever his reasons for doing it in the past, it will not matter when he comes to power, what happened in the past will become a sign, a sign of trouble.

Powers doesn't like During, so naturally there will be a large number of Powers followers who will make things difficult for During when necessary, in order to ensure the correct political line.

Even if Powers has no prejudice against Duhring, he will not take back what he has done and his views. A party leader cannot waver in his position. authority within the party.

The old party, and the problems of the populist faction, the next eight years were indeed a troublesome time.

Du Lin had been meditating, and Magus didn't bother him. He quietly got up and walked behind the desk, put on his reading glasses, and read a book in his arms. Talking about some things can improve Du Lin far more than what Du Lin could get if he wanted to understand it, and some of these changes point directly to the core of politics, which needs to be understood by Du Lin himself.

After about forty minutes, Du Lin suddenly picked up the cup and took a sip of tea. He shook his head, leaned on the sofa and looked at the ceiling.

Magus lowered his head, glanced at Du Lin through the gap between the glasses frame and his forehead, and then put down the book, "Have you figured it out?"

Du Lin nodded fiercely, "I figured it out!"

Maggs laughed twice, "Tell me, let's see if you think right."

Du Lin sighed with a wry smile, "Contradictions, reconciliation!"

There are only two words, but it is enough to cause a huge change in Maggs' eyes. He really wants to understand, maybe this is the reason why he has always liked Duhring. This young man's sensitivity to politics is terrible. Many people You may not understand what's going on here, but this young man was able to find the core of the problem in less than an hour. This kind of intuition is simply frightening!

"Over the past twenty years or so, the empire has always been governed by a group dominated by nobles. Although the new party has given civilians more opportunities and opportunities to rise under your leadership, you are the representative of the great nobles. For nearly thirty years, people have been talking about a new era and a new society, but so far there has been no leader of the common people."

"The populists in the new party have already bred a lot of grievances. I heard that they have a saying that they are free elements who have been excluded from the core group. These grievances will always explode after thirty years of precipitation. , and at the same time, it also needs to meet the understanding and recognition of "new" by more ordinary people in society, so Powers must come to power."

"However, Powers knows too little about this empire. It is impossible for him to rule the empire for hundreds of thousands of years like a nobleman. He lacks many necessary conditions and accumulation. During the thirty years, his Emotions and rationality are gradually becoming extreme in the suppression. If the new party continues to be in power, Powers may do some terrible things, such as..."

"Purge the nobles!"

"So you are going to retire, ease the contradictions and differences between the populace and the aristocracy in the new party, let Powers become the leader, and ensure that the political line of the new party has always been consistent, and you have determined the correct political line for you to overthrow the royal family."

"The old party will be in power again, and we will ensure that Powers will no longer be extreme and have serious consequences for the empire, and we will spend the next eight years smoothly..."

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