Durin then made a phone call to his eldest brother, Mason, telling him that if he could, he would try to run in the general election in 18 months, whether it was mayor or councillor. There was no problem with money, and with plenty of money in his hands, it was not at all a problem to elect a principal official in a marginal city.

Mason has been the district police chief in Turner City for several years, and once had a chance to be promoted, he told Dohrin about it, and Dolin asked him not to agree. The chief of the regional police is considered to be the highest-ranking police officer in the "police" profession, and then he will either work as an administrator or be transferred to various investigation bureaus to serve as the head of a team or the top officer of a certain office. For a person who wants to climb up, they can accept this kind of promotion, but Durin doesn't want Mason to take this step, saying that it is a promotion, but in fact, his power is severely reduced, and his life may be in danger at any time.

Compared with the regional police chief, he has more power, has jurisdiction over the law and order issues of the entire city, and has more exposure to social levels, more resources, and more relationships, so not every regional police chief is willing to be promoted. Because they still have a second way to go, that is, to take the most crucial step directly in the election, and directly enter the high-profile political arena.

Based on Mason's work experience in the Turnaire area over the past few years, there are countless people who have dealt with him, whether it is a ruffian gangster gang member or a mayor, councilor and social elite, they have some friendship. With the blessing of Durin's wealth and the votes of the Guartes, there may not be no chance to challenge the mayor's position. Dulin also thinks that the possibility is very high, after all, the police department, as a violent organ in the region, will always hold some secrets that cannot be said, and in order to maintain this secret will always be just a secret, someone will make compromises.

The two brothers talked for a while before Mason agreed to Doolin's request, and he knew it was something he had to go through. He can't be the chief of police for the rest of his life, or his boss, or his boss's boss, or the mayor or governor, or whatever, and he doesn't let an official have too much influence in a certain area and do nothing. When a junior official's influence exceeds that of the highest local administrator, there is often a big problem, and for the sake of stability, Mason will definitely end up being transferred, even if he is not willing to be promoted, he will be transferred to another area to become a police chief.

So this step is just a matter of time!

For this plan, Doolin had a request, that is, to get votes from at least twenty cities, mayors, or councilors. Ten years later, the number will be doubled, and at least 40 cities, or even 50 cities, will be included in his system, and the process may be very difficult, and there will be many struggles, but he, and all of them, are ready to give everything for their ideals and pursuits!

Hursman was already waiting for him when he returned to the West, and he formed a seven-member campaign group, and signed a supplementary agreement with Doolin that the salaries of the working group would be raised to 1.2 million, with an average of 200,000 per person. Therefore, many well-known politicians will form similar campaign teams after retirement, or lead a certain team, often the income of two or three years can exceed the income of the previous middle class for a hundred years, and the work is not very complicated, which is very suitable for these politicians who want to continue to exert their residual heat after leaving the political arena.

Hirschman's team consists of two politicians who had served as governors, a policy researcher, a sociologist, and two members of the aristocracy — a turning point for Maggs to pimp Dühring, who was willing to play according to the rules of the game, and all the players present welcomed him in and began to accept him. His arrival will only make the aristocratic class more plump, and there will definitely be no unplanned things, and the nobles have this kind of self-confidence.

After all, it is not only the privilege of mud dogs and legs to lift the table, but also the nobles.

In fact, in addition to these people, there is a large group of peripheral members, these people are people who take money to do things, they are not the core, and they do not need to establish a working relationship with Durin. For example, the employees who put up posters, they have an egg to shake hands with Doolin and sit cordially together to talk about the campaign?

Next, the team was about to get to work, and for this team Durin had purchased another manor, right next to the manor where he now lives. Originally, this manor had an owner, a slightly famous mine owner, and when he learned that Dührin planned to buy another manor or villa nearby, he immediately gave his manor to Dürin. For the mine owners, a manor of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan may not be much money, and befriending Dulin is a more valuable investment. Durin was very grateful for this, and bought the property of the estate for a symbolic dollar, paying 17 cents in taxes.

After the new estate was renovated and briefly renovated, Doolin sat in a huge conference room for the first team meeting.

Hirsman sat at the top of the seat, looked at his teammates and nodded in satisfaction. Everyone has a big role to play, and he was the only one in the team at the beginning, but if you work hard, you can develop more team members, and that's exactly what happened. After a moment's deliberation, he said, "I'm sure you all know why we're here today, and we're going to spend the next seventeen months helping Mr. Doolin run in the three western states to maximize his goals and plans." ”

Regardless of the nods, Hersman asked, "Mr. Doolin, has your submission been approved by the New Party Committee?" and Dühring nodded, he is now a member of the New Party again, and the committee did not stop him at all when Maggs had said hello, and less than forty minutes after he submitted his application, Mr. Chairman signed the application and added his sealed personal file back to the list of party members. Hirsman looked at another person, "Let your people collect the composition and positions of the residents of the three western states, as well as social issues, we need the most accurate numbers, accurate to every household in each community." ”

Both the new and old parties have their own audiences among the people, and running in cities with large audiences can get more votes, which is also the basis of the campaign. In the three western states, which state has the most supporters of the new party, then Dulin will run in which state, so as to avoid missing the opportunity because of the wrong place to the greatest extent. And all of this costs money, and it costs a lot of money.

Regardless of the fact that there will be hundreds of people doing a census of approval for millions of people, it will cost a lot of money just to knock on the door and get people to fill out the form and in the process to bring those people to Doolin. The common way is to give small gifts, for example, the simplest is to give a pen, a beautiful ordinary pen costs about 49 points, for each family surveyed, after filling out the questionnaire, the enumerator will give him the pen used by the people surveyed, many politicians are using this small trick.

It doesn't cost much...... Well, if there are a million households that need to be surveyed, Doolin will have to pay 490,000 for it, plus the cost of printing it into a questionnaire, just by filling out the questionnaire and giving away a pen, Doolin has already spent about 600,000 in campaign funds. Therefore, campaigning is always a game of money, and how much money is spent and how it is spent is very important to the result.

Many politicians have their own experience in this regard, such as Harry, who has failed before the election, he has prepared 15 million for this election, and this is only the initial fund, and more funds will be invested in the later stage, because he is participating in the prime minister's campaign, and he can't afford to play this game without 35,000 funds!

As the most wealthy merchant in the empire at the moment, Durin chose to give away a pen as well as a few other things. These things are not cheap, for example, in the western part of the country, in addition to the pen, each person who fills out the questionnaire can also get a square scarf sponsored by a company, as well as six bullets sponsored by a military industrial enterprise, these things add up to a cost of up to 60 yuan, plus the previous one, just this survey, Duhrin spent two million.

Hirsman's initial proposal of five million in the first stage and an additional five million in the later stage may not be enough now, because Dulin, a big dog, is willing to spend money and is not afraid to spend money, and Hirschman is not against it at all, which will only make everything smoother.

After the investigation is arranged, it is time to start discussing some core matters.

Mr. Hirsman checked that the doors and windows of the room were closed before he smiled and said, "The last time I talked to Mr. During, I talked about a recent trend in society......", he nodded at During, after all, this is a very important clue provided by During, not the result of his work, he will not "swallow it privately", which also made the other members look at During, when their eyes returned to Hiringman's clue, the old bastard in Maggs's mouth continued, " With the rapid increase in the immigrant population, some social contradictions have gradually formed, and the empire has never accepted the immigrant population in the past few years, so our country has not yet discovered these problems and the troubles that may be caused, let alone have a very formal policy to solve these contradictions. ”

"And this will be an important bargaining chip for our success!"

"I have a data here, also provided by Mr. Dulin, so far, the total population of the western region has exceeded 7 million, and there are more than 100,000 in the fraction, of which there are more than 1.3 million immigrants, accounting for one-fifth of the total population, gentlemen, what do you think of?"

Without waiting for others to answer, Hirsman smiled very reservedly, very gentlemanly, and he said with a slight hint of arrogance, "Contradictions, disagreements, conflicts!"