There was a lot of food on the small table, and Ophelia took Aunt Venica's arm and glanced at Durin with some embarrassment.

Ninety-nine percent of the food on this table was prepared by Vinica, and Ophelia also wanted to make a specialty dish, but it was a pity that it failed, and the expensive ingredients were dumped into the trash, and I don't know which rat in the sewer had such good luck to eat a meal of dozens of dollars.

Ophelia is clearly far from Vinica's cooking, and Maggs and she have lived at One Imperial Avenue all these years.

The "cramped" villa there was not enough to recruit the chef class here, so most of the time it was Vinica who prepared three meals a day for Mags, and over time developed a superb cooking skill.

After the four of them were seated, Durin and Maggs stopped talking about work, but talked about some interesting news in the empire recently, including the indictment of the cable TV group.

With the rapid popularity of cable TV, more and more homes are connected to cable TV signals, and at Dooling's request, the TV Group adopted a new policy to promote cable TV signal access.

They give away the TV set as an "agreement gift" to those who need it, but here there is a precondition that these buyers must sign an agreement to subscribe to a ten-year term of all-channel cable signal.

At present, the cost of a full-channel subscription is less than 300 yuan a year, which is not an unaffordable expense for many families.

In particular, the access of cable TV signals is no longer like in the past, and you can buy tape to have endless content, so you can buy it once and enjoy it for a lifetime.

In order to prevent someone from ordering a TV set and selling it for cash, there is also a clear clause in the default clause.

In the event of something similar, such as the case with the cable television group, it can bring a claim against the defaulter for more than ten times the price of the television set.

This policy has greatly accelerated the popularization of television and audio-visual, and more and more ordinary people have begun to enjoy the pleasures brought by television.

The expansion of the market and the increase in access users mean that TV with new media as the mode of communication is changing people's lives.

The most striking example is that the sales of major newspapers have clearly fallen by varying degrees, and people will watch the news in the morning and the news in the evening, and they no longer need to flip through the newspapers to find their favorite content.

The cable TV group is growing rapidly, but it is also facing some troubles, and an antitrust lawsuit was filed against the cable TV group in the middle of this year.

Most of these people are tape companies, and the popularity of cable TV signals has squeezed their business to the limit, and people are no longer stupid enough to spend a few dollars a day to buy tape to watch a show that is only one day.

And this just caused a large number of tape companies, including upstream and downstream enterprises to face a severe business crisis, so challenging the TV group, is obviously the only way out.

Here, the people who work at the TV group are still grateful for the foresight of Doolin, who made it very clear when he built the company that the group of companies did not deal in any content.

If all content providers want to join the camp of the cable TV group and provide their content to thousands of households, they need to submit a channel plan and at least three episodes, that is, three days of broadcast content for the cable TV group to review.

To a certain extent, this provision avoids anti-monopoly prosecution and investigation, and the content cannot enter, not because the cable TV group is stuck and does not give in, but because the content of these content providers is not up to standard.

However, despite this, these lawsuits are still being argued in repeated court proceedings, and it may be difficult to distinguish the winner in a short period of time.

Many people have begun to pay attention to cable TV, which has brought too many changes and surprises to people's lives, even in this family.

"Your aunt would drop all her work every night at 7:45 and sit in front of the TV waiting for the ...... called," Maggs looked at Vinica, who said the name of a TV show.

"Yes, it's "The Revenge of the Count of Coville", I never thought that such a naïve, false and unrealistic plot could attract such a noble lady to watch it on time every day!"

Venica just smiled at Maggs's compliment, "I know it's all fake, but the actors are very serious and it makes it easy for me to fall into it, which is more fun than opera." ”

Compared with opera, the vast majority of high society knows what they think when they watch TV dramas for the first time, and they are particularly disdainful of these TV series, thinking that this kind of mental dross is the same people, and they fall into it faster than ordinary people.

At present, some companies have carried out business docking with cable TV groups, adding some lines as content to provide, the largest number of which is some news content transferred from print media.

Both the new and old parties now have their own mouthpieces on cable television, and the two sides are arguing and scolding each other over the channel over trivial things.

"Cable TV is a very interesting thing, it simplifies some complex issues, and it also gives people more channels to get the 'truth', as long as the content is controlled, it is not a big problem. After chatting for a while, Maggs finally said something decisive.

With Maggs's words, it is difficult to lose a lawsuit.

After lunch, Dhurin said goodbye to Ophelia, and stood behind the window and watched Dürin take the girl's hand and walk farther and farther, Maggs snorted a few times with a smile.

There is a little bit of laughter, a little bit of unpleasantness, and some unpredictable tastes.

From the moment the governor jumped into the new party committee, Maggs realized that Doolin was not willing to wait another eight years, and he wanted to directly challenge the prime minister.

But he still lacks some heat now, not because Maggs is holding Durin back because of some selfish interests, but because in his opinion, Durin is really a little worse.

According to the current election process, the voting for local rulers will start at the local level, and then expand to the intercontinental, and whoever wins the more seats of the new or old party, which side will have the greater advantage in the final election.

At present, there are only two parties in the empire, so such an outcome is inevitable and certain, and no one can change it!

However, there is still a problem here, even if the new party has the advantage in the general election and wins more final votes, the new party may not necessarily support Duhrin to come to power.

Over the years of his administration, Maggs has "blurred" some things, making many people think that the state election is the final result, and the so-called final election is just a matter of process.

Not!

In the past, everyone would vote for Maggs because of his popularity, status, and power that made everyone vote for him willingly, but Doolin is not him, he has not yet fully proven himself within the new party, then he will have opponents.

Dühring's process of starting from scratch in these years has not been solid, and it has only improved slightly in the past two years, he does not have the power to dominate the new party, and not so many people will believe him.

Even if he was now a nobleman, and he was married to the Timamont family, it might not be able to sway some people's minds, so it was obviously impossible to get everyone else to vote for him.

People are more inclined to vote for other people of prestige who have proven themselves politically successful than for Dulin, who was not yet thirty-five years old at the time.

He is too young, which is also his fatal flaw, the inferior nature of people will not make people admit that a person younger than themselves can be better than their current self, which is tantamount to denying their own abilities and the efforts they have worked on for so many years.

If you want to fight your way out of the impossible, then you must establish your own system within the new party, and only with a large number of followers behind him can he hope to sit in that position, but there is hope!

That's exactly why Maggs immediately guessed why he was running for election when he mentioned that he wanted to join the New Party Committee – he wanted to form his own political force and then influence the direction of the New Party's vote in the general election.

Only then will he have any hope of gaining a glimmer of hope in this general election, and if he stays in the state of Ambiluo, he will have no hope at all.

So is the final vote really so simple and straightforward?

Not necessarily, in the general election during the Maggs administration, the old party, knowing that it was defeated, took the initiative to vote for the chairman of the new party committee and Bowers, in an attempt to use them to defeat the difficult Mags.

Killing a smart person and sending him to a fool is also very much in line with the demands of the old party, and this method of operation is not complicated, you just need to write the name of the new party member with your eyes closed.

Therefore, Duhring's desire to come to power is definitely not only a matter of establishing his own faction within the party, but also outside the party and in society.

In any case, this is not an easy task, and it seems a bit ridiculous to use four years to complete the accumulation of more than ten years of Mags.

But it's actually good to let Durin hit his head first, so that he understands that there may be a chance to soar to the sky at the bottom, but the higher he goes, the more everything must follow the rules and processes.

When it comes to the next general election, more than ten years later, he is almost in his forties, and it is when a man is in the prime of life and has plenty of experience, that is his most perfect moment!