Chapter 517: Confrontation [1]
Duhring's words completely stood on the commanding heights, the new party did not promise the royal family and the members of the old party to retain the aristocratic class when they "usurped the throne", and this privileged class was directly and completely crushed to the ground, and only the royal family was retained. At the same time, the imperial family no longer had the power to meddle in the politics of the empire, and from the day the new party came to power in full power, the imperial family became a mascot, or rather a spiritual symbol of the empire.
In the first few years, the royal family would appear in front of the public every year on Catholic Christmas Day, hoping to remind all citizens of the empire that their emperor was still alive and had been deprived of political rights by a group of villains, and that someone would overthrow the rule of the New Party and save the royal family from the siege.
However, this is useless, the fiasco in the early stage of the Great Patriotic War has made everyone in the entire empire see clearly the weak side of the empire, in the face of a group of business alliances that were not even worthy of carrying shoes for the empire, they were almost beaten to the death of the country! In the face of the national disaster, the performance of the nobles in the face of the national crisis, the performance of the royal family is very disappointing, they have not done what they should have done at all, so in the face of the "rumors" that the royal family constantly wants to restore, there is no wave in the empire at all.
The royal family is dead, and the nobles are dead.
Twenty years later, this year, Dühring's remarks are absolutely correct on the political line, and even Harry cannot find any reason to refute Dohring, not even because he is the New Party.
Politics, especially high-level politics, does not have a wall-riding faction that steps on two boats, it is either a friend or an enemy, and there is no third party.
Vitol's face was slightly red, he didn't know whether he was ashamed or annoyed, he wrapped his mouth, lowered his head slightly and laughed a few times, "Very good, Mr. Mayor pointed out my mistakes, thank you very much, then we can arrange these things ourselves!", he said and took the initiative to apologize to Durin and Harry and leave, and then returned to Felica's side.
"What's wrong with you? You look like you're angry!", Felica asked softly as she turned, Vitol had grown with her from a toddler to an adult, and she knew Vitor as well as he knew her.
Vitol lowered his head and coughed lightly, his clenched fist covering his lips, "Durin doesn't have any plans, and he refuses to plan his itinerary and life for the next few days as I suggested. ”
Felica glanced at Durin in some surprise, and Durin was also looking at her, smiling and nodding in acknowledgment, as if he was not at all embarrassed or evasive about the conflict with Vitol.
"What did he say? I can feel that you're angry. ”
Vitor repeated what Durin had just said, without adding or subtracting a word, and there was no trace of subjectivity in his tone. A big family like Fatima always has some unkind rules, and once they are violated, there will be serious consequences, one of which is to spread the word. In the process of conveying any words, no additions or deletions are allowed, and no subjective modifications and tones are allowed, which is to avoid some unnecessary troubles caused by the position of the subordinate to the greatest extent.
Felica didn't say anything after listening, and continued to socialize with the guests around her as if she didn't know anything, but her eyes were a little cold.
What is the most important thing about a centuries-old aristocratic family?
Is it the wealth that has been accumulated for hundreds of years?
Is it a network resource that has been precipitated for hundreds of years?
No, it's the glory of the family. These people have the best in the world from the moment they are born, and each of them is a lucky person born with a golden soup spoon, and while others feel that they are lucky, they are actually burdened with many responsibilities that others cannot imagine. The elders of the family will tell them that they will not live for themselves in this life, they can only live for the family, and that the glory of the family is their glory, and the future of the family is their life.
When someone dares to insult the glory of the family, they must fight back fiercely, even if it is a heavy price!
There is nothing more important than the glory of the family, not even the glory of the Holy Maiden!
On the sidelines, Harry sighed, "I knew I shouldn't have come." He glanced at Durin, his eyes were very complicated.
If a child does something that should not be done, then a person with the right three views will definitely put this responsibility on the child's parents. In the same way, when a mayor does something rude in front of a nobleman, people blame him and Harry, because Harry is Doolin's immediate boss and governor, and he should bear part of the joint responsibility.
Inexplicably to become an unreliable person in the eyes of those great nobles, Harry had a feeling of nausea eating flies, how good it would be to wait for someone to send money in his office, what do you have to run here for? show your face? It must have succeeded, Feliga will definitely not forget him, and it is possible that even Her Excellency the Holy Maiden will know how he behaved today.
Durin gave him a cigarette and patted him on the shoulder, this action is actually very out of line, Harry is his boss, he does this too without respect and inferiority, but now Harry has been tormented by Durin repeatedly and fifty, and he doesn't care about these small actions. He even dared to push back the Fatimid family, what kind of big deal was it if he didn't give himself face?
"Mr. Governor, we are the masters of this empire, these people ......", Durin smiled contemptuously, shaking his head, puffing on a cigarette, "They are not!"
Harry would like to ask him where he got the courage and confidence to say this, according to the current statistics of the New Party cabinet, in the whole empire, the enterprises or factories that belong to the public factories and other enterprises or factories that have jobs account for only 7% of the total working population of society, that is to say, there are still 93% of the people who have jobs, and the people they serve are capitalists. There is also a hierarchy among the capitalists, from the most ordinary small businessmen to the top plutocrats such as Fatima and the Hymn Consortium.
In this particular group, less than 10 percent of the chaebols own as much as the other 90 percent of the capitalists.
In other words, a family like Fatima owns about five percent of the total "market value" of the empire, so why shouldn't such a huge family be in awe of him?
Do you really think that the so-called new party in power can really settle these big aristocrats?
That is impossible, and if necessary, a top plutocracy only needs to launch a strike, at least hundreds of thousands of people will have no jobs to do and no place to go to work for a short time, and they will become a strategic weapon to coerce the cabinet into compromise.
Durin sensed that Harry was a little ...... despises himself, but he doesn't care, he originally came to this world empty-handed, and there is a father who specializes in killing nobles, what is he afraid of?
He is not afraid of anything, what he should be afraid of is these nobles, because their family has a big business and can't lift the table, but he Du Lin can lift it.
After the dinner lasted for a while, Durin saw Vitor leave the table suddenly, and he didn't care, no one in the land of Otis could hide anything from him. Next is the climax of the dinner, the gift-giving session.
Originally, the host of this link should have been Durin, but he was disgusted by Vitor and Dulin didn't bother to go up, and he didn't want to tie up the Fatimid family and transfer the errand to Harry. Harry didn't say anything against this, and even breathed a sigh of relief, it was obviously much better to do it himself than Durin to do it, and with the character of this bastard, he had to come up with something that could scare people to death.
When Harry presented Felica with the golden 1,000 gold chips in the red silk tray, the surrounding guests spontaneously began to applaud, "This is a small souvenir with very commemorative value, it will not be issued and circulated, and it will be numbered one, and it will only be given to the most distinguished guests!", the waiter holding the tray showed the golden chips in the tray around, and handed it to Vitol, who rushed back.
Felica smiled and thanked Harry for his generous gift, and she picked up the one-pound chips with both hands, "It's very beautiful, and it feels very heavy, is this pure gold?", and the guests around her whispered as Harry nodded. The denomination is only 1,000, but the value of itself is more than 30,000 yuan, plus the non-circulation and numbered certification, the real value is probably above its own value! (There is a clerical error in the front, it is 30,000, so I won't change it, just confirm it here.) )
Felica thanked Harry and all the guests in attendance before placing the chips on the tray for Vitor to put away.
It looks like a perfect comedy, the guests and the host are happy, and the atmosphere is even more lively.
Du Lin has been watching all this happen coldly, and in the face of this aristocratic girl who is difficult to detect her inner fluctuations from the changes in her face, Du Lin can still feel the gap between nobles and commoners in his heart. At least even if they are "humiliated", if it is humiliated, they will not immediately put their emotions on their faces. This cultivation alone is much stronger than ordinary people.
The dinner lasted until half past nine in the evening, and when Feliga mentioned that she was a little tired, the dinner officially ended. Guarded by a crowd, Felica was the first to walk out of the hall, but at this moment, Kina walked up to Durin and said a word.
"I feel a little wrong, there are a few more beggars at the door!"