The telephone line itself was in the hands of the authorities, and it did not matter who invented the telephone and the telephone line, but the telegraph office controlled the business. In order to facilitate some special connections, the privileged class may never recognize itself as a privileged class, but it has always quietly displayed superhuman privileges.

Maggs and all cabinet members have special contact details, and although they are still telephones, they can ensure that they are not intercepted or recorded.

Then Maggs gave Dührin a very unfamiliar number, and the moment Dührin dialed it out, the operator of the Van Lier telegraph office saw the red light above his head flashing, and he immediately put down all the operations in his hand and reported the matter to the director of the telegraph office. Under the supervision and observation of the director, the operator inserted a plug into a socket at the top of the wiring cabinet. The flashing red light becomes solid.

During this process, all plugs on the wiring cabinet are unplugged to indicate that there is absolutely no possibility of eavesdropping and recording. It doesn't matter if someone is calling the police and waiting for the police to help them, or if a pregnant woman living in an slum is struggling and terrified to call the hospital. You know, there can be a brief signal conflict in this simple thing like a telephone, which happens a few times a year, and it happened to happen this time at the Van Lier telegraph office.

It took three telegraph offices to cease working altogether before Dühring's call was picked up again by Maggs.

"I attended a meeting two days ago, a meeting of the Earth God Cult, and I felt that there was something wrong with this religious organization. ”

After listening to Durin's first sentence, Mags fell into thought, he seemed to have heard the name of the Earth God Cult somewhere, and after waiting for about a minute, he suddenly realized, "Is that the organization that advocates eating to cure diseases?", maybe Mags has not realized the seriousness of the problem, "What? They let you eat too?"

"It's not funny at all, it's a huge organization that includes at least half of the celebrities and wealthy businessmen in the west, as well as government officials. They've built their altar in the belly of the mountain, they've been doing something horrible and illegal, and I think this organization is very destructive, and their purpose is not to get more money, maybe some amazing purpose that we don't know about......"

As Durin relayed to Maggs what he had seen and heard in three days, Mags's face gradually became solemn. The Earth God Cult, the seat of Mother Earth God, whether it is the name of the people or their self-title, is actually dirty. But what they are engaged in is not earthy at all, and it is very fashionable. Maggs could imagine that no one had told him what it meant to this day.

At the very least, the western state government has been infiltrated, and it is an official at the level of a governor, not an inconspicuous little role. Whether all three governors have become the umbrella of the Sagoditas, Magus is not sure, but as long as one of them is not, it means that there is a problem in the cabinet. Someone is trying to stop this news from going up, and a tight network has been formed to block all the leaks of the truth about the Cult of the Earth God.

Today, these people can get the governor and even cabinet members to provide them with shelter, so if one day they want to do something that shakes the empire, will they have to wait for the matter to break out before it can be exposed? If that happens, I'm afraid it will be too late.

"This news is very ......important," Magus pondered for a moment, "I will arrange for someone to investigate the Earth God Cult, you don't expose yourself, I will send someone over in a few days, and the next time there is a meeting, bring that person there." ”

After hanging up the phone, Durin shrugged his shoulders, the local official surveillance system was probably completely infiltrated, and at the same time, Durin began to think about another thing - whether Memnon that fool knew that there was such an organization in the western underworld when he was alive, and if he knew, what was his relationship with the Earth God Cult, and whether there was any cooperation. If he doesn't know...... , maybe the people under him have also been infiltrated, right?

But when you think about it, you think it's unlikely...... , really a troublesome organization.

At this time, a large-scale "extermination" operation was underway in the west, and Memnon's death meant that the Kadima Party with Memnon as the core had lost its sole support, and during the time that Memnon was in power, the Kadima Party had eroded the three state governments in the entire west through threats, intimidation, bribery, etc., and even the governor became a puppet. Even if these people are unwilling to serve the Memnon, when they think of the money in their pockets, the better life their families have now, and the threat to the life of the Memnon, these people have no choice but to compromise.

But now, Memnon is dead, and they have taken the initiative to cut off the relationship with the Scarlet Dawn, and the people of the Scarlet Dawn have also been caught and run away because of Memnon's betrayal, and all the advantages of the Forward Party have been completely destroyed, and these government officials who have been suppressed for a long time have begun to deal with these people and problems left by Memnon.

No one likes to be threatened, even if the other party sends a lot of money to him, especially the arrival of the new mayor of Van Lier, which completely kicks off the reckoning.

Police cars roar through the streets every day, and Kadima members are arrested and detained, and what awaits them is certainly not a fair trial, most of whom are being held in the Van Lier District Jail. This is the former stronghold of the Move Forward Party, and it is also the city with the largest number of Move Forward members. The prison was emptied of a separate cell for members of the Kadima Party, who awaited the death penalty or an indefinite sentence in which they would never see their freedom.

"Ladies and gentlemen!", the new mayor is called Julio, who held the position of mayor of a developed city in the south before coming to Van Real as mayor. It may seem like a punishment and a demotion to be transferred from the developed south to the backward and closed west, but not always, at least not in Julio's case. He came to Van Lear to run for governor in three years, which is too difficult to run for governor in the South.

The developed regions must be very prosperous, which promotes the role of capitalists in elections, and without a strong consortium behind them, it is a dream to run for governor in the south. The capitalists, who control a large number of factories and hold millions of jobs, hold almost seventy percent of the vote, and whoever can benefit them, they will get the workers to vote for whomever they want.

Without so many supporters behind him and the help of big conglomerates, Julio had no choice but to run for him in the southern cities. This man was very open-minded, and at the same time wary of capitalists, and he was a young man whom Maggs was optimistic about. He came to the West to give him the opportunity to take the most crucial step in the promotion of governor in this relatively simple place in the West.

Julio was standing in the conference hall of the Grand Hotel Van Lier, seated by local celebrities and businessmen, and as the newly appointed mayor of the city, he was sure to meet with important people in the local community. This is a very necessary act, at least he must express his governance philosophy and determination in this venue today, so that the local celebrities know him, and let him have a more intuitive understanding of the local celebrities.

"My name is Julio and I am honored to be in this beautiful western city of Vanlier in a very important role. Before I came to Van Lear, I had a lot of guesses about what kind of city it is, what kind of living atmosphere it is, what kind of history and culture it is, what kind of business scale and infrastructure it is, and ...... here", he smiled slightly, "What can I do for you after I come here?"

"I'm from a southern city and the environment is different from here, which scares me. If I want to contribute to the city, I need everyone's help, and that's why we're meeting today......"

Looking at Julio on the stage, Henry pouted, he was not interested in southerners, this prejudice came from his brother's attitude towards him, and even all the southerners he brought with him became clowns in Henry's eyes. He tilted his head and said to Dorin, "I hate to see him slick, many of the merchants in the South are liars, and he may have been dealing with them for so long that he forgot that he was a government official, not a businessman." ”

Henry cannot be wrong or right, and the attitude of government officials towards people in society varies greatly from north to south. In northern cities, government officials are more rigorous, and northern merchants and consortia often have aristocratic backgrounds. It doesn't matter if you offend someone with no background in the north, but offending someone with an aristocratic background can easily lead to unbearable passivity. No decree is enforceable, and citizens who have lived in the north for generations are more likely to recognize the influence of the nobility over their locality, unless the official also has a noble background.

It is also very strict in the management of the city - this does not conflict with prudence, and it is necessary for every northern city manager to ensure the sovereignty and position of each city at all times.

This is not the case in the cities of the South, which is more economically developed, has more contact with the Federation, and is more open-minded. They run the city as if it were a "business", where everyone can sit down and talk about anything, and even discuss policies. Perhaps it is precisely because of this management style and attitude that the economic development of the south has been more rapid, and businessmen can obtain more government support and make more visible contributions to the economy by conveying their demands.