The next afternoon, Holmes knocked at the door of Count Odegar's villa, where His Excellency had two estates in the imperial capital, but they were some distance from where he worked.

He is an old man, and he is not suitable for waking up too early every morning and then taking a car to spend a lot of time in the crowded rush hour of the imperial capital, rushing to the place of work, and possibly being late because of this.

He could have lived on First Avenue less than a fifteen-minute walk from the New Party office building, and every day he had plenty of time to sleep until he woke up naturally in the morning, then eat some breakfast and walk to work.

Unhurried, you can also exercise, which is suitable for the work and life of the elderly.

In recent years, the traffic in the imperial capital has become more and more congested, and the imperial capital is the first city in the entire empire to set up a no-parking section, and it is also the first city in the empire to implement a no-parking section in the whole road.

In the past, it was hard to imagine that one day the roads of the imperial capital and even all parts of the empire could be full of all kinds of vehicles, and in a press release more than a decade ago on the cabinet and the economic development of the country, the reporters mobilized four cars under their command in order to match the photos and content, and also mobilized some cars from other people, and parked them on First Avenue for the reporters to pose for photos.

At that time, many people were imagining what a wonderful world it would be for everyone to have a car that could run in the future.

Today, this ideal is halfway realized, but people have also discovered that behind the beautiful ideals is not good, and the crowded traffic and the large number of roads that do not allow parking make drivers miserable.

Some newly developed villa areas and communities, on-street parking and parking spaces in community parking lots have also started to be marketed as property rights.

The times are changing too fast, and people have not had time to enjoy it, and they have been forced to adapt to it.

Holmes stood outside the villa and waited for about two minutes, before His Excellency opened the door for him, and it was normal for people to be old and slower, and he very politely invited Odegar to sit down in the study, and asked the butler to bring him snacks and flower tea.

He also explained to Holmes that the doctor had told His Excellency that he was no longer allowed to drink any irritating beverages or eat any irritating foods.

Among them, coffee and wine, and some foods with a lot of spices can no longer be eaten, although the old man has many complaints about this, but he has always firmly complied with it, because he is also an old man who is afraid of death.

The more people come, the more afraid they will be of death, because they know very well that death is no longer an unattainable thing, death is hovering around them, and they can already smell death from their own bodies!

Protecting your body can be painful, but rather than living longer, restrictions on eating and drinking are not a problem.

After the two were seated, the butler closed the door as he left the room, and after a few moments of greeting with His Excellency the Chairman, Holmes explained his intentions directly.

At their status, at this level, if the relationship is not a little strange and estranged, then there is no need to go around in circles.

Maggs would never say ambiguous things to Kubal, just as Holmes would not say some maddening riddles to Odegar, they are both from aristocratic backgrounds, Odegar can be regarded as Holmes's elder, and it is not a cultured practice for juniors to say inconsequential words in the face of elders, and the two sides have always had a good relationship, so to speak, good colleagues in the same circle.

After explaining his intentions, Holmes was not blindly optimistic, and he also asked the question, "Is there any additional resistance between me and my goal?", referring to Durin, he didn't know where Dohrin had come, so he needed to figure it out first.

His Excellency hesitated for a moment and nodded, "You know, now we're in some trouble, everybody is starting to have more of their own ideas, and we can't make sure that everyone's ideas and interests are aligned with the collective good, and we can't force everyone to accept their own ideas. ”

"I know you're a hard worker, and I know a little bit about how Woodland has evolved over the years, but I don't fully understand how you're going to solve your current situation if you do what you want to do. ”

Holmes smiled not nervously at all and asked, "Is this the first question in the interview?"

His Excellency shrugged his shoulders with a smile, "If you think thinking about it will make you happier!"

Holmes kept a smile and began to organize the thoughts in his head, he had thought about this issue before he came here, and this was his chance, if everything had been going well for the New Party, he wouldn't have been the one who could be the one, colloquially known as the key one.

He's got some plans, and all he has to do now is find what he thinks is the best fit to put together.

His Excellency did not urge Holmes, he quietly drank flower tea, sat behind the table and looked at the newspaper on the table with glasses, and for about ten minutes Holmes coughed lightly and ended his thoughts.

His Excellency also plucked his eyes, rested his hands on the table, and looked at Holmes expectantly.

Holmes's ability to work and govern is also very good within the new party, and he is looking forward to whether Holmes can give him some valuable ideas and reminders, at least to solve some of the problems that need to be solved urgently.

"Attraction, cohesion, these are the two keys to solving all the problems at the moment, and I beg your pardon for saying something that may offend His Excellency Maggs, for whom His Excellency Maggs is the greatest attraction. He's like a magnet that draws everybody. ”

"His great political ambitions, his far-reaching thinking and vision, all these things make us deeply admire him, and for the past thirty years we have always believed that as long as His Excellency Maggs does not leave that position for a single day, the Cabinet, the New Party, we, and even the Empire, will not be beyond our control. ”

Holmes's remark made His Excellency the President very much agree, Maggs is still a leader, when he is the prime minister, how can there be so many things?

No matter who he was, they were all abiding by the rules he had made, no one dared to offend the rules he had made, no one dared to cross that line, and those 30 years were the most brilliant time for His Excellency the Chairman and for all the veterans of the New Party, and it was the golden age of the New Party.

This is the main reason why many people don't know what to do for a split second after Magus leaves and falls ill, one second they are still in heaven, the next they fall into hell, and their minds don't have time to react, and everything happens.

Holmes himself is also very emotional, that golden years allowed the empire to regain its strength and embark on a broad road to rejuvenation and power, it can be said that everyone living in the empire today, they enjoy the life they enjoy, not God gave them, not from the agate river, but Magus and the new party gave them.

But they seem to have forgotten about it, people, it's really too good to forget.

Of course, emotion is sighing, his own affairs still can't be interrupted here, he continued, "But now that His Excellency Maggs has left us, the attraction, cohesion and social value he generated are also being stripped away with his departure, so what we urgently need to do is to re-strengthen these two points, attraction and cohesion." ”

"We lost the election campaign to the old party, which we left behind for 30 years, with revenge and revitalization as the slogan and program of action, first let the people in the party who have not left have a direction, a goal, and then give them some motivation. ”

"Stabilize this part of the people, and then we create some bright ......spots," he suddenly smiled, "for example, if the core members of the old party or the imperial party or the labor party suddenly join us, it will inevitably play a decisive role in the current house." ”

"After solving these two problems, we can build momentum for the election campaign in advance, and use the great revenge as the core idea to open the curtain of the election campaign in advance......

The idea of great revenge has always been one of the mainstream values of society, and revenge if you are hurt by others has always been one of the norms for people to behave in the world.

In court, if a criminal case is the result of an act of revenge with cause, both the jury and the judge will consider a discretionary mitigation of the sentence.

The idea put forward by Holmes, including the previous ideas, is very good, and it is indeed one of the solutions to the current dilemma.

His Excellency the Chairman pondered for a moment and asked, "So where do you think we should start?"

At this time, in the depths of Holmes's heart, he was overjoyed, for the meaning of this sentence was almost tantamount to telling him that His Excellency the President intended to give it a try in his own way, and if he succeeded, there was no doubt that he, as the one who had contributed to the plan, would have the support of His Excellency.

The closer he got to the goal he needed, the more careful he became, "Start with some commoners, according to my understanding, it is these commoners who are the most shaken, and the aristocratic faction is still very calm, only by letting these wavering people understand that the situation will change quickly, can the current situation be curbed in time." ”

There are three reasons why the populace is wavering, the first is that Bowers is now a puppet, and he has given up on himself, which makes the members of the civilian faction who thought they were victorious very dissatisfied, but they have no good solution to Boworths's problem.

Secondly, the rise of the Labour Party has a very great impact on the common people, and the core layer of the Labour Party is basically all ordinary working-class people, which makes the common people have a sense of closeness and even superiority to the Labour Party, and the ability of these people in the Labour Party to engage in sports far exceeds that of the Imperialist Party and even the new and old parties.

Finally, the populist faction of the new party does not yet have a new "leader" who can handle it, and the lack of a leader can indeed be distracting, and it is easy for them to waver when they receive the temptation from the imperialists.

Based on the above views, Holmes believes that it is these people who really shake the foundation of the new party, but it is the aristocratic and Maggist factions who are very rational and calm.

This could ...... It's not an appreciation, sometimes when more people are crazy, sanity and calmness can be a deeper madness, but it doesn't show it.

His words made His Excellency the President think for a long time, and in the end there was no judgment on whether it was wrong or right, but it was not appropriate for His Excellency to do so now, nor was it appropriate to do it directly from the civilian side.

Once it is done, it means intensifying the conflict between the populists and the new party, which will make the consciousness of the two sides more antagonistic, which is not a good choice, unless the situation continues to erode until finally it has to be done.

Thinking of this, His Excellency the Chairman inevitably sighed a little, how good it would be if Maggs had not been admitted to the hospital, how could there be so many troubles, he would have solved everything with a pat on the head alone.

After chatting with Holmes for a while, Holmes said goodbye and left, everyone's time is precious, and there is no time to stay for a homely meal or something.

He had been gone for less than ten minutes before Durin arrived.

In fact, he had already come, but he had waited elsewhere for a while, and did not appear immediately, and when Holmes had left for a while, he knocked on the door of the villa.

After waiting for another two or three minutes, His Excellency the Chairman personally opened the door for Duhrin and invited him to sit down in his study.

After a round of dim sum and flower tea, the room was full of faint tea fragrance, and His Excellency the Chairman raised his eyes to look at Durin, and asked with a smile, "Did you see Holmes?"

It was a coincidence that Durin had arrived, which made him sure that Durin had already arrived, but had just hidden himself and observed, and would come as soon as Holmes was gone.

This is not an offense, it only shows that Durin takes the meeting between himself and Holmes very seriously and he is also careful.

Durin nodded generously and acknowledged, "I happened to see him leave when I came. ”

His Excellency the Chairman smiled and continued, "Just now I talked to Holmes about some ways and means to solve the current predicament within the party, are you interested in learning about it?"

"Why not?", Durin took a bite of a pancake, the pancake still had some residual temperature, it should have just baked, it was much better than Mrs. Maggs's cooking, at least not so sweet, and there was some floral aroma in it, "This is a good opportunity to understand the gap between me and Holmes, if I can, I want to find out." ”

His Excellency did not hide his secrets, he directly took out Holmes's plan, Durin listened very carefully, after listening to it, he thought about it, and at the same time ate another piece of Bo cake, and at the same time shook his head, "Too rigid, not flexible enough, the mind has been stiff and solidified, this is an old antique and his stupid method." ”

Holmes laughed, he pointed at Durin, and also took a piece of pancake and ate it, "Very mean comment, can I know why?"

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