After seeing off Schnodder, Ophelia took the initiative to lean over, looked at the disappeared car and asked casually, "Your friend, he is really generous, and he is a good person, what kind of business do you have?"

The meaning of this sentence is that the donation of 500,000 yuan did not appear in the charity event, indicating that Schnoder's donation was not for fame, but purely for love.

If the donor does not ask for the donation of non-charitable activities, the general foundation will not take the initiative to announce it to the public, of course, there may be some small problems, but those are not any problems.

Compared with those true philanthropists who donate 1,000 yuan and are eager to spend 3,000 yuan to buy the second page of the headline to promote their benevolence, Schnoder's generosity and kindness are like ......

"He's a friend of mine, the mayor. ”

Durin's answer put Ophelia's next guess directly to snuff out, a mayor can donate half a million yuan, even if she doesn't know much about society, she knows that there must be something wrong here.

The more she comes into contact with the orphanage, the more real the underclass society appears in front of Ophelia's eyes.

She now also knows that many families have an income of less than 200 yuan a month, and she also knows that an ordinary family can save no more than 500 yuan in a year.

Living, or rather living, has become the only motivation for most people to struggle to survive in society.

They never think about living in a luxurious and elegant manor, nor do they fantasize about eating hundreds or thousands of dollars in a meal, their only pursuit is that the family can eat well, buy a few new sets of clothes every year, and try not to get sick.

After many years of perseverance, their lives will not improve, and the savings in the bank will gradually be drained of value by the bank and society, and by the time you come to your senses, a house has shrunk into a bottle of inferior wine.

Five years ago, one dollar could provide a family of four with three good meals a day, but now, one dollar may only be enough for a family of four to enjoy a modest meal.

After working all his life, the old man who had saved hundreds of yuan suddenly found that his life savings were worthless, and the unbearable mental blow made some people crazy, and some people had to re-enter society and work hard for survival.

This was the case with some of the elderly in the orphanage, whose children had died during the war, and the Empire had also issued pensions, thinking that they would be able to save their money to provide for themselves.

But now they realize that a few hundred dollars in the bank may not be able to survive even a year.

The elderly here are actually very lucky, because they no longer have to struggle for survival here, and they don't have to worry about starving to death or dying of disease in some remote alley.

But outside the walls, the real society, the cruel world is like a monster with a wide open mouth to absorb nutrients from this world, devouring all kinds of lives every minute and every second.

With this understanding, Ophelia was naturally able to recognize what the amount of half a million meant.

It means that if the current 350 yuan for an elderly person is guaranteed for a year's expenses in the welfare home, then this money can ensure that 150 new elderly people in need can be added to the welfare home and support them for 10 years.

It also means that it can provide thousands of families in need of relief, and can avoid losing hope in life due to short-term financial difficulties!

This is hope, living hope, and this is also the value and meaning of the existence of welfare homes and foundations, they are like a ray of sunshine shining into a world full of fog, bringing people a little warmth, a little light, and a little hope.

She quickly put aside the question of how Schnodder, an official, managed to get half a million and be able to donate so generously, if for some reason a man was to show kindness and generosity.

Even if this benevolence and generosity are hypocritical and fake, the moment it shines, it still illuminates the darkness and sends light into the dark lives of some people.

As long as someone benefits from this, then at that moment, he is not hypocritical!

After solving this trivial matter, the time has reached ten o'clock, and it will not be long before you can have lunch, and you will not have much fun waiting for lunch to go to the countryside to pick fruit.

So today's trip was temporarily canceled, and the two discussed it and decided to go to Mags's house for dinner at noon.

Of course, this suggestion was made by Doolin.

He needs to talk to Maggs about his job change, which will certainly not change in the short term, and will not change until the midterm elections in three years' time.

But a lot of the process needs to be prepared and arranged in advance.

There is currently no vacant vice-chairman of the new party committee, and Durin's ascension to power means that someone has to take a step back.

Each of the two men who could be appointed vice chairman of the new party committee had an extremely complex network of connections, and even Maggs needed to go through some tricks.

Talk to Maggstone in advance to avoid problems when the time comes, and everyone's face will not look good.

Magus, who received the call, was not surprised by the visit of Durin and Ophelia, who had been in the imperial capital for some time, and he had wondered if it was time to come.

Changes in imperial diplomacy also had a very significant impact on the managers within the empire, and international trade and international relations were likely to change the industrial structure of certain regions and create new types of economies.

This time, Ambiluo has shown its face in the international arena, and many representatives of the members who came to attend the meeting of the World Financial and Trade Organization have gone on a trip to Ambiluo before attending the meeting.

In addition to those who were invited by Doolin to go, there were others who followed suit.

Honestly, backcountry stuff is all over the place in those little countries, and they don't think there's anything fun about the Westworld in Ambiluo, it's all these things outside every day when they push the door when they're at home.

However, as long as they went, the effect was very amazing, and Durin asked them to take pictures outside some scenic spots, and made a photo wall, which was covered with pictures of many national leaders and high-level representatives, so that the entire empire of people who love to travel have a strong interest in this place.

In the words of the advertising slogan, it is "what is it that attracts the attention of these royal nobles and makes them unforgettable for a long time".

This trick is very ordinary but effective, and the backbone of tourism is always the middle class, and the middle class is always in search of style and class, as well as class, and the influx of tourists into Ambiluo has brought great momentum to the tourism economy of Ambiluo.

The Cabinet also seems to have come to understand what Doolin meant, and intends to promote the natural and pristine scenery of Ambiluo as a selling point to the world, along with other tourist cities, such as Illian, Otis and other famous tourist cities.

However, the possibility of sustainable development of the tourism economy is still in the wait-and-see period, and a very simple truth is that people who have been there once may not have to go a second time.

The tourism economy is not like the industrial economy, as long as the tools produced by human beings are mostly consumables, they have a life expectancy, and the more sophisticated the instrument, the shorter the lifespan.

This also means that there will be a steady stream of factory orders, coupled with the upgrading of technology, the sustainable development of the industrial economy has been proven.

But what about the tourism economy?

In addition to this, the first stage of what two insidious and despicable people planned together has also been completed, and what to do next should also meet.

The two major consortia plus the Imperial Central Bank have already started their early procession, which has entered the Yagur Mountains since Schnood signed his name on the mining license application yesterday.

A large number of machines have also begun to be transported, and many onlookers have been encountered as they pass through the outskirts of the Yagur Mountains, which have long been turned into tourist attractions.

For the sake of a steady stream of profits, these people have invested heavily in it, and it is said that they have ordered a large amount of mining and excavation equipment from several prominent heavy industry enterprises in the empire, and it seems that they are ready to carry out large-scale excavations.

But looking back, I think about it again, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it, after all, after spending so much money, you must always be worthy of your own investment.

How happily they are digging now, and how miserable they will cry after a while.

Arriving at Mags' estate, Ophelia helped her aunt make lunch, while Durin and Mags went to the study.

The study area here is much larger than the study room in Villa One on Imperial Avenue, and if it weren't for Maggs saying that this was his study, Durin would have thought it was a small library.

Seven huge bookcases, five meters high and six meters wide, were filled with all kinds of books, most of them old handmade books, some of them in thread-bound bark and sheepskin versions, and the rest were basically hand-bound hardcovers—thread-bound on the inside and carved wood on the outside.

The lingering smell of ink and the dust particles flying in the sunlight made people feel calm when they entered the room, and Durin casually took a copy and opened a few pages, and stuffed it back in.

It's not that he doesn't like to read, it's just that he can't understand it, it's all Ogurdin's script, which is very different from the current lingua franca.

In fact, the Gualt script and the Ogding script are in the same place, even if you have not learned the Ogding script, you can roughly understand it, but unfortunately, the Gualt script Dulin does not know much.

The study here is very simple and atmospheric, there is no "small desk" in the study, but a huge round round table with pure solid wood.

Du Lin couldn't help but curiously tapped a few times with his knuckles, it was indeed whole, and it was also complete.

He looked at the table and shook his head, it had grown for I don't know how many years, and the giant tree that needed at least seven or eight people to hug was killed by the lumberjacks in the environment where it grew because Mags had taken a fancy to it and wanted a table.

In the natural world, life and death are endless, and weakness is the original sin!

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