The next day, the main newspapers of the empire reported the news, with a picture of Durin holding Ophelia and showing their engagement ring, and also reported the surprise of the engagement ceremony, which made people have to marvel that Doolin's romance is based on money.

In an entertainment program in the evening, the host also used this topic to analyze how much money it takes to be romantic, which is called the most romantic love engagement ceremony.

After an offer from a professional accountant, people finally got a frightening figure, at least more than 300,000, just an engagement ceremony.

Considering that the invitees are all upper-class figures in society, the food and drinks served at the buffet before the engagement ceremony will need to be almost hundreds of thousands.

Next are those very famous "voices", which cost at least 5,000 yuan for their appearance fees, and more may cost more than 20,000 yuan, such as the first baritone in the empire. Add in the rest of the mess, and three hundred thousand is just the minimum payout.

The host did not forget to joke in the show, the word romance may be equated with wealth from today. Without money, there would be no romance that would make everyone jealous, and there would be no Prince Charming who would come out of his dreams, unless that prince was Doolin.

The turmoil of this engagement ceremony has even spread abroad, and most people have a positive evaluation of it, but there are always a few people who feel that this is extravagant and wasteful, and they are showing off their wealth, but fortunately, such arguments are always only a minority, after all, this is a world where rich people dominate society, and people's respect and fear of wealth are still relatively common.

Du Lin doesn't care about these discussions at all, it is impossible for a person to take care of everyone's emotions when he does anything, and if he wants to take care of everyone's emotions, then just do nothing.

Even doing nothing can be dissatisfying because they're still working hard and you're lazy.

In the afternoon, Durin went to his rightful "Uncle Mags" again, and there was a valid reason why it was afternoon.

On the night of the engagement, Durin and Ophelia were finally able to synchronize their psychic frequencies, sometimes a little faster, sometimes a little slower. Ophelia, who was in the same mood as someone else for the first time in her life, had not yet fully adapted and needed someone to take care of her, so in the morning Durin was taking care of this woman who would become his wife in the future, and he did not have a little time until the afternoon.

He went to see Maggs because he sensed that there were still many unsolved mysteries plaguing him in the empire, including things he had been speculating about, such as whether there was really a match between Maggs and Bowers, and why Bowers was still the party whip and Harry was out, which were all important things.

You know, in a year and three months, Maggs will retire.

"Do you notice?", Maggs would read books and read documents in his study in the afternoon when he was not on official business, an old man who was in awe of knowledge, and perhaps this was why he was the prime minister.

He asked the butler to bring a pot of Qinghua tea, and after the two of them sat down, the door was closed, but Maggs took the teacup but did not take a sip, he was thinking about something.

After a while, he sighed and decided to talk to Durin about something a little deeper, "The last time I told you, this wasn't the best time, do you remember?"

Durin nodded, "Yes, I remember this, you asked me to run again in the next general election." He paused and asked, "Is it because you're retiring?"

"Part of it is because of this, but the other part ......", he hesitated a little, not knowing whether to tell Durin or not, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it didn't make much sense to say it or not, and Durin was also his own person, not to mention hiding it now, after he knew it, he would inevitably feel that he didn't trust him enough and destroyed the delicate relationship between them, so let's talk about it.

He sighed again, "After I retire, Bal ...... It is the ...... that Kubar will become the prime minister of the empire", this is definitely a huge bomb, Kubar is the leader of the old party, if Kubar comes to power in this general election, it means that the period of the old party will come.

Everyone knows that the old party has been pressed to the ground by the new party for more than 20 years, and the old party's sphere of influence is constantly shrinking, and some people even think that the old party will eventually withdraw from the stage of history. But now that Dühring clearly heard Maggs tell him that the old party was going to power, his first thought was that it was ridiculous, that it was fake news.

The old party's votes have been crushed by the new party, and the shrinking of its sphere of influence means that there will be fewer votes, so why can the old party be allowed to govern?

But soon he realizes that it is not fake, because this is what Maggs told him, and these people must have some way to control the votes, maybe even through cheating!

This also makes Durin a little painful, if there is fraud in this kind of thing, then when he wants to run for prime minister in the future, is it possible to face such a situation?

Watching Durin's face change color, Mags was a little proud, this little bastard was like he was born to know everything and understand everything, which made him feel a little frightened, but now looking at his helpless appearance, Mags is still very relieved, at least this is a normal person.

He took a sip of the tea in the cup and laughed twice, he knew what Durin was going to ask, so he didn't wait for Durin to ask, he said the answer, and this is also the tacit understanding and synchronization between smart people and smart people at the level of wisdom, people like Henry will never experience this kind of happiness.

"When I step down, Bowworth will be the leader of the new party, the chairman of the new party committee will remain the same, and Vice Chairman Dolly will be the party whip, so I told you, it's better to wait, but you have your ideas. Maggs glanced at Durin a little gloatingly, and Dorin's eyes became a little deep.

It's not the best of times, if not the worst of times!

If the old party is in power, the main resources of the entire society will certainly be in the hands of the members of the old party, and if they want to do an excellent job in office, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the cabinet's policy tilt and resource allocation, and they can only rely on their own efforts.

Even more troublesome is the coming of Bowers, who represents the "common people", who has attacked Durin more than once before, against him. Whatever his previous motives were for doing so, it would become irrelevant when he came to power, and what had happened in the past would become a signal, a sign of trouble.

Bowers did not like Doolin, and naturally there would be a large number of Bowers' followers who would embarrass Doolin when necessary to ensure the correctness of the political line.

Even if Bowers did not have any prejudice against Dühring, he would not retract what he had done and his opinions, and a party leader could not waver in his position, even if he did something wrong, he must stand up to maintain his authority in the party.

The old party, and the problems of the populist faction, the next eight years will indeed be a troublesome time.

Durin had been pondering, and Maggs didn't bother him, quietly got up and walked behind the desk, put on reading glasses, and read a book in his arms. There are some things that have improved Durin far less than he himself has figured out, and some of these changes go straight to the heart of politics, which requires Durin to understand it himself.

After about forty minutes, Durin suddenly picked up his cup and took a sip of tea, he shook his head, leaned back on the sofa and looked at the ceiling.

Maggs lowered his head and glanced at Durin through the gap between the frame of his glasses and his forehead, then put the book down, "Figured it out?"

Durin nodded vigorously, "Figured it out!"

Maggs laughed twice, "Let's talk about it, see if you're right." ”

Du Lin smiled bitterly and sighed, "Contradiction, blend!"

There were only two words, but it was enough to make Mags's eyes change dramatically, he really figured it out, maybe this is the reason why he always liked Durin, this young man's sensitivity to politics is so terrible, many people may not understand what is going on, but this young man was able to get to the heart of the problem in less than an hour, this intuition is simply terrifying!

"For the past twenty years, the empire has been ruled by a group dominated by aristocrats, and although the New Party has given more avenues and opportunities for the common people to rise under your leadership, you yourself are the representative of the great nobility. For nearly thirty years, people have been talking about a new era and a new society, but so far there has been no leader of the civilian class. ”

"There has been a lot of resentment among the populace faction within the New Party, and I have heard that there is a remark among them that they are excluded from the core group. These grievances have always erupted after 30 years of precipitation, and at the same time, they also need to satisfy the awareness and recognition of the 'new' by more ordinary people in society, so Bowers must come to power. ”

But Bowers knew too little about the empire, and he could not rule the empire for hundreds or thousands of years like the aristocracy, and he lacked many necessary conditions and accumulation. For thirty years, his emotions and intellect were gradually polarized in repression, and if he remained in power with the New Party, Bowers might do something terrible, such as ......"

"Purge the nobility!"

"So you are going to retire, to ease the contradictions and differences between the commoners and the aristocracy in the new party, and let Bowers become the leader, to ensure that the political line of the new party will always be carried out, and that you will be the correct political line to overthrow the royal rule. ”

"Let the old party govern again, and ensure that Bowers will not make any more radical influences that will have serious consequences for the empire, and get through the next eight years ...... peacefully"