Chapter 100: Homecoming
"Lord Mayor, you have to take care of this matter!", Ernst and Karul sat in the mayor's office, pouring out their "grievances" to the mayor.
The mayor, who was called the executive before the reform of the New Party, is now called the mayor. The mayor has a lot of power, basically except for the army, he has no power to transfer, and he is qualified to manage all the big and small things in the entire Tennell City, and give the final implementation opinion.
Peter looked at Ernst and Karol calmly, and did not show any tendency in attitude, and after listening to Karul's story, he basically sorted things out. To put it simply, Durin's moonshine had successfully stopped Karol and Ernst's moonshine business, causing them to plummet their income, and now they were here to ask for help. Peter had no sympathy for this, and there was some joy in his heart.
Whenever people outside talk about Turnier's "Big Three", Peter will never be the slightest bit happy, but will have some worries.
How did the feudal imperial dynasty be overthrown by the new party? It was nothing more than paying no attention after the defeat and letting the new party, which had accumulated enough strength, gain the upper hand, and then put an end to the long imperial dynasty. It may be too flattering to describe three unruly guys in a small city as a change in a country, but it's all the same. The Big Three already have enough tacit understanding between each other, and while sticking to each other's bottom line and never giving in, they will never cross the border even a step.
Years of getting along have made the "war" tend to be peaceful, especially in the past two years, whether it is Wood, Karul or Ernst, there has not been any small-scale war, which is a dangerous signal, which means that the three parties have reached a high degree of tacit understanding and pace to a certain extent. Just as the last thing anyone in power wants is for their men to become party members, Peter doesn't want to see the triumvirate of wealth and connections colluding to attack and defend the alliance.
This is a dangerous signal, and once they have gathered enough power and have the same "outward" aggressiveness, they may have to do something to change the current pattern of Tenaire City. So even if Wood hadn't died outside Godol's manor, Peter would have found an opportunity to challenge one of the Big Three, and then another person would come to power. Only by putting enough pressure on them to maintain a certain competitive situation with each other can it be convenient for the upper class to intervene in the lower society.
It's just that before he could do anything, Wood was dead, and a new giant was starting to appear, which was a good thing, as it is now.
Come to think of it, it had been a long time since Karul or Ernst had come here for help, and he had to thank Doolin for breathing new life into the moonshine market, which was beginning to spiral out of control, and bringing about positive changes.
Peter felt this very well.
Let's not talk about it, let's talk about Wood, who is dead. He dedicates most of the money he earns every year to the bigwigs above as political donations, and his purpose is self-evident, that is, to obtain a real "place". Once Wood, Karul, and Ernst get what they want, they will occupy a large enough place in the political ecosystem of Turner City to form a whole new old party faction to compete with the existing factions, which is not a good thing and means that something is out of control.
Our Mayor Peter doesn't want to see that happen.
But now that the problem is solved, and without his hands, there is Dulin to solve a fool like Wood for him, making the competition even more fierce.
He raised his hand to stop Karul from continuing to curse and abuse, "I'm not very good at Chiguoguo's interference with the operations of the merchants, these things shouldn't be in my hands, and I don't think it's necessary to take care of them. Peter crossed his legs and continued: "Internal competitiveness can lead to evolution, and it was established many years ago in the era ......of the Ogding dynasty", Peter smiled and shook his head when he said this, and did not continue. It's not that he doesn't want to say it, it's that there's no need to say it.
Neither Larull nor Ernst had received an aristocratic elite education, and what Peter was trying to say might be difficult for them to understand, and of course it was possible that the mayor felt that it was better to keep his mouth shut than to open his mouth. In short, he expressed his opinion on this matter with his own attitude - that is, I don't care, don't come to me.
Karul angrily dragged Ernst to say goodbye to the mayor and left the mayor's office, and through the window he got into the car and left the city hall, and the mayor only smiled faintly.
What you want is that you fight back and forth, otherwise how to regulate and manage?
At this point, Durin was ready to go home, and with the other two "giants" signing a new plan, the next thing was to go on a frenzy of drinking and sending these obviously overprepared products out of town. But before that, he needed to go home.
It's been more than two months and almost three months since he left home, and Mr. Kersma's words still linger in his ears, and he wants to go back and show those people how successful he is. He was a young man, with the vanity that a young man should have, and he wanted to show off.
The car he had gotten from Wood had been repaired and washed to reveal the shadow of a man, and Durin sat down satisfied. After explaining the affairs of the city to Dover and Ellis, he took two familiar members and began his first homecoming.
People are always in love with home, and they will always inadvertently think of their home, the people at home, and even whether the vegetable in the vegetable field around the house is as vigorous as before he left. The bumpy road made his thoughts and emotions ferment constantly, and he was almost immersed in memories of his family throughout the journey, even if he had not been away from home for a long time!
There was a noticeable force when the car came to a standstill, and in a peculiar shaking, he woke up, and looked at the familiar streets around him and the crowd that was gradually gathering, and a smile appeared on his face. The young man sitting in the co-pilot got out of the car, opened the door for him and welcomed him out, stepping on the homeland of his home with his feet on the ground, facing the warm sun, Durin had a long-lost smile on his face.
"Hey, that's not ...... Is it the third son of the old fellow?", someone recognized him, and exclaimed.
At this time, Du Lin and before he left home, they were judged to be two people.