Memnon, who had just returned from a meeting, took off his coat and hung it on a hanger, and there was only one butler and two maids in this villa besides him. Memnon didn't have a wife, but he had several lovers, maybe even more, for no one knew where Memnon had gone during those tumultuous years, or whether the guy had kept his crotch in check while he was outside.

According to common sense, he can't control it, and it is said that he has many illegitimate children, so many that people have long been numb. At first, there were people who cared about it, but soon they found that Memnon himself didn't care about the illegitimate children born of overnight relationships, and they cared for it too much. Even many people secretly rejoiced that Memnon had no wife and no formal children, and in the future he would be so old that he would die, and the power would not be passed on to his next generation, which was a good thing!

Some of the tired Memnon looked to be about sixty years old, his temples were gray, and his brown hair was already a little gray, which was characteristic of aging. He has maintained it quite well in the past few years, and he doesn't look old like ordinary old people, but when he is old, he is old, and there are some things that he can not accept, but even the gods have to bow their heads in the face of time.

The butler had already greeted him, an old man who looked to be about the same age as Memnon, he was tall, a little slender, and he was wearing a gown, "Sir, you are back. ”

The farmer nodded, and walked towards the house, the butler followed behind him, and after the two entered the study and closed the door, the farmer sat down in his chair and breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up at the butler, "How's the investigation going?"

A stiff smile appeared on the butler's grim face, as if he couldn't smile at all, "Sir, things have come to an end, and we followed the girl to Ilian, where she met a young man named Dorin. According to our survey, this young man named Dohrin had been with Turner for a while. He was a moonshiner there, and later spent four months in prison for some trivial matter, disappeared after the Great Gold Heist, and reappeared in Illion. ”

Memnon asked thoughtfully, "You mean that the gold may be in the hands of this man named Durin?"

As the leader of the Move Forward Party, one of the most powerful and most prestigious people in the party, Memnon knew very well that they were almost going to lose to the old party. If it weren't for the sudden robbery of the 30 million worth of gold used to suppress the Forward Party at a critical moment, maybe they would have been pushed back after a brief resurface. He wanted to thank the robbers who robbed 30 million gold bricks, but at the same time he also had his eye on the 30 million.

With these 30 million, he will be more confident of taking the ruling power of this state in the midterm elections in half a year, and once he has mastered this state, he can exert his ambitions and move steadily and forcefully towards the highest power in this empire step by step. He used to think that those who died generously for the sake of their ideals were fools, and although he still thinks that those people are fools, he can do such things.

He's not for some great ideal, he's for power, he's for money.

He is a businessman, no matter what kind of skin is used to cover his essence, it cannot change what is in his bones, he is a businessman. He was grateful to those people, including Mr. Kersma, who had turned him from a mule and horse dealer to a big man this year, and he was thankful that he had been able to make it this far.

For the sake of supreme power and ideals, he must make 120,000 efforts, the most indispensable of which is money.

He sent someone to Turnell to collect clues, and the robbers did a very clean job and couldn't find much useful information, so he had to keep an eye on the only eyewitness in the case who might know the robbers, which was Alyssa. Eight months of close surveillance almost made Memnon give up, and if he hadn't needed the 30 million too much, he might have had people withdraw long ago. Fortunately, just when he was almost losing patience, Alyssa's watchmen noticed an anomaly.

She went to Illion and met with a young man named Doolin who had been in Turner last year. If this was just an ordinary young man, maybe those supervisors would have given up after a while, but the news that this moonshiner named Duhrin actually owned a villa worth 350,000 yuan and also co-operated a jewelry store suddenly cheered everyone up, and they thought they had discovered the truth.

So the news was sent to Memnon.

The butler replied in a deliberate and uncertain tone: "There is no evidence that this young man named Durin is a participant in the Great Gold Heist, but the people below think that he is most likely the target we are looking for, so they are still closely watching and monitoring." This person has some power and is also very prestigious in the local area, and our people are not easy to get close to, so they can only watch from a distance. ”

Memnon nodded, "The next six months will be crucial for us in the Forward Party, as long as we can make a positive impact and not worry about the mid-term elections, they will not vote for us." Let people keep an eye on this guy, and if they can be sure that it's him, they will arrange for someone to do it directly. Remember, we don't care if a little guy lives or dies, but the money in his hand must be found!"

"I see!"

There was a brief silence in the room, and Memnon closed his eyes as if he had fallen asleep. It took him a while before he opened his eyes, and the positive energy on his face that was full of red light when he first came back had disappeared without a trace, leaving only Shen Shen and Sen Ran. He supported his chin with one hand and played with a delicate lighter with the other, his eyes fixed on the lighter, but he was thinking about something else.

Shapuk was too old to think about backing down, and what was even more hateful was that he was still pulling a group of people to stand on his side. If we miss this midterm election, we will have to wait four years. In four years' time, no one can say what kind of world it will be, and we can't wait that long. After waiting for a long time, people's boiling blood will cool down. He's too troublesome, arrange for someone to talk to him and convince him!", said Memnon laughing, with a hint of indifference hidden in his laughter.

Decades of affection are vulnerable in the face of power and desire!

Shapuke was the party whip of the Move Forward Party, the number three man, and initially Memnon's idea was to put this somewhat stubborn old man in this position for more advantages than disadvantages. But in fact he got one thing wrong, power is important to him, money is important, everything is important, he is not one of those old "revolutionaries", he cannot understand their spirit of "ideals above all else". And this guy Shapuke is that kind of person, he values ideals more than anything else, and he even quarreled with Memnon several times during this time, so that Memnon could not get off the stage.

Memnon's idea was to move the federal welfare system directly over as soon as possible, first to win the hearts and minds of the electorate, and then gradually adjust the internal structure and other things. But Shapuk thinks that the Federation's set of things is good, but it is possible that it will not be suitable for the Empire!

He did want to create a "new world", but not at the cost of a crumbling foundation. It has become the norm for citizens of the Union to pay various fees, but people on the Empire have never paid anything other than taxes. Asking them to pay a monthly pension and health care fund for their old age is really killing these people.

Many families only get enough money for a month to work for their daily needs, and then save a little. If they are asked to contribute to pensions and health care, there will be problems in their lives. This kind of thing should not be done by citizens, and Sharpke's idea is that it is up to the capitalists to pay these benefits for those employees, and his idea is that the capitalists pay a little more and the workers pay a little less, so that everyone can accept it. But the problem lies in this place, the rapid growth of imperial capitalism has become a terrible force, and it is possible that these capitalists, who make profits by oppressing the workers, will come up with an extra sum of money to pay their employees?

Obviously, it is impossible, and if the Kadima Party wants to go further and take power over the entire state in its hands, it cannot do without the help and support of these capitalists.

So Memnon came up with a "bad idea", which was supposed to pay the workers twenty-five yuan a month, but now only twenty-two yuan was paid. Of the three dollars missing, two and a half dollars were handed over to the Move Forward Party as welfare payments, and the remaining 50 yuan was given to the capitalists as "accident compensation". If an employee has an accident in the course of work, the required treatment and various compensation costs will be paid out of this 50 percent.

As soon as this idea came out, it was immediately approved by the capitalists, which amounted to them once again lowering the wages of their employees by 50 percent. It may seem like a small amount of money, but when a factory has thousands of people working, it's not a small amount. A factory of 3,000 employees can deduct 1,500 yuan a month, and they don't have to pay another amount of money for any accidents.

All the expenses are shared equally among the workers, and the capitalists do not have to take out a penny, which they are happy to do.

And this is where the difference between Memnon and Shapuk lies, and at the same time, it also makes Memnon think about getting Shapuk down. What he needs is an obedient symbolic party whip, not the kind of "party whip" that can point at his nose and scold himself and make him unable to get off the stage.

The butler was silent for a moment, "I will personally go and convince him!"

"If you go in person, then I'm relieved. He put the lighter away, sat up straight, and suddenly asked, "By the way, did that guy from Kersma reply to the message?"