Chapter 354: Big Shot
"This house is Saline's home...... You may not know Sarin, but he's a great character. ”
"Saleen is an American, a postdoc in the Department of Polymer Chemistry at Princeton, who at the age of 30 was still teaching students at Princeton University and at the same time the head of a national program in the United States."
"But Salin is a man of ideas, and after finishing his national project, he started a private study on a special drug."
"Later, he made a breakthrough in his research, and his private research, the research funding, was sponsored by himself, so he owns all the patent rights."
"Using his own patents, he easily got hired by a world-class pharmaceutical company, became the chief scientist of that company, and became a partner of the company six months later, and now the total value of the company's shares is about three billion dollars, and Saleen owns 18.75 percent of the company's shares."
"See this mansion? This is a 90 million Australian dollar purchase by Saleen, it is his and his wife's resort, his wife is his student, eight years younger than him, a Ph.D. from Princeton University, a very beautiful person, and now probably wants Princeton to resign, because their company is an Australian company, so they moved here and became Australian citizens. ”
As he walked, Kirk told Su Peng about the owner of the mansion where the dinner was held.
Su Peng nodded as he listened, and sketched an image in his mind with these descriptions.
This Mr. Salin, who is probably close to forty years old, is mild-mannered, very family-loving, active-minded, and knows how to enjoy and be sophisticated.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have spent $90 million here. Buy this mansion.
Saying that, Su Peng and Kirk had already walked to the main entrance of the mansion, and there were already two full-time doormen standing at the door, Su Peng and Kirk showed their invitations and entered the mansion.
After passing through a Renaissance-style corridor, Su Peng and Kirk arrived in the backyard of the back house.
The backyard covers a large area, and there are even two small Chinese-style pavilions in it, but where it should be a pond, it has been converted into two large swimming pools.
Next to the pool, there are tables with food. There were all kinds of food on it, which looked hearty, and Su Peng saw long arctic shrimp and caviar that looked good.
The dinner party even hired waiters, who looked like they had been invited from the hotel temporarily, and they were very polite, carrying trays and various drinks, interspersed in the venue of the dinner party, but they did not make people feel chaotic.
About seventy or eighty people have come to the dinner. Many people came with their families, as well as a number of children, all dressed in suits and some wearing bow ties. It looks like it's been well groomed.
After Kirk walked in with Su Peng, soon, some guests came over and surrounded Kirke.
You can see it. Kirk is quite popular here, and these people have a good conversation with Kirk and have a good relationship. However, it may also be the reason for the similarity of Kirk's strength and status.
This is also a more helpless point, only people whose identity and status are not too different are the easiest to become good friends, this social rule is applicable everywhere, especially in capitalist society.
These friends of Kirke, among the people who attended this dinner, belonged to the middle level, neither the highest nor the lowest, and they also showed a polite curiosity about Su Peng beside Kirke, and several ladies inadvertently inquired about Su Peng's personal information.
Su Peng is also full of social etiquette to deal with, he doesn't come much on this occasion, but he has never eaten pork, and he has seen pigs run, diplomatic rhetoric Su Peng remembers a lot, and now he uses it to deal with it, and he doesn't feel difficult at all.
After a few rounds of tentative communication, Su Peng and the other party probably have a general understanding, these friends of Kirke, understand that Su Peng's ancestral home is China, and he is a person who accumulates wealth by operating "minerals and special luxury goods", and then immigrates to Australia, and Su Peng also probably knows that the approximate life content of these friends of Kirke is mostly the director of some small and medium-sized companies, and they do not worry about food and clothing, but they are not particularly rich, and their total assets are probably about millions to tens of millions of Australian dollars. Judging by the level of consumption of their activity content, people with liquid assets in the million-dollar range.
Su Peng's own assets have far exceeded this class, but Su Peng didn't deliberately talk about this, showing off his wealth can easily cause estrangement, Su Peng's words are very low-key, but during the conversation, people feel that they should be strong.
In this way, Su Peng was slightly bored to talk to these friends of Kirke, half an hour later, Su Peng had already met a few more friends, and the people who attended the dinner party were almost one hundred and thirty or forty people, and the host of the banquet, Salin, had also seen it, and the image in Su Peng's mind was no different, he wore a casual dress, but it showed the casualness of the host even more.
After a while, Su Peng suddenly heard a commotion and applause in the banquet venue.
Following those voices, Su Peng turned his head and saw a very burly man in his forties enter the venue of the dinner, and as soon as he entered, he had an extremely strong aura.
This person may be the only person who entered here with a bodyguard, as soon as he entered, many guests of the dinner party immediately surrounded him, many people talked to him, this person was in high spirits, walking and talking to the people who came to greet him, like a successful person.
"Hey, Sue, I see, this is a big shot."
Beside Su Peng, a white man with a slightly short stature said to Su Peng with a champagne.
This person is the character that Su Peng just explained, he is a little familiar, and he has only drunk a few glasses of wine with Su Peng, and he no longer treats himself as an outsider.
"Who is this man? How do I see him so familiar? ”
Su Peng looked at this person, and he also felt that it seemed very familiar, but he definitely didn't see it with his own eyes, just like the familiar eyes of passers-by who once passed by you.
Although Su Peng has a good memory, not everyone who passes by his side every day can remember.
"Sue, you are naturally familiar with it, Canberra's airport and train station have this man's campaign slogan."
Hearing this, Su Peng immediately realized.
When I came back from Sydney by train, I saw this man's campaign ad when I got off the train.
"He's Ruckervin." Su Peng said.
"That's right, it's him, the number four in the Australian Liberal Party...... However, the leader of the Liberal Party is past his age, his health is not good, and he plans to retire, while the No. 2 person is older than the party leader, and the No. 3 person has just had a political scandal, and his reputation has plummeted, and his support is not much worse than that of Rudd, and it may be worse, so now this Rudd Kevin is actually the most likely person to take over the position of leader of the Australian Liberal Party. ”
The little white man who was familiar with himself said to Su Peng.
When Su Peng heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Doesn't that mean that he ......?"
"That's right, it's an election year soon, and the Australian Communist Party is very vocal this year, and if they succeed, maybe this Mr. Ruckervin will be the new president of Australia."
The little white man nodded and said to Su Peng.
Su Peng listened, narrowed his eyes, and also looked at Lu Kewen, who was surrounded by the stars of the guests.
Australia's elections are more distinctive, Australia adopts a federal system in the form of a national structure, with the federal government at the top, then the state government, and the local government below the state. Therefore, Australia's elections are mainly divided into three levels, one is the federal election, which produces federal representatives and senators; second, the state legislature elections; The third is the election of local governments below the state level. It can be said that these three types of elections have different characteristics because of their different scope of application, different rules to follow, and different organizational structures.
As a British colony, the Commonwealth of Australia largely follows the British parliamentary model in terms of political system. According to the Constitution, the highest legislative body of the Federation is the Federal Parliament. The Australian Federal Parliament is composed of the Queen (the representative of the Federal Governor), the Senate and the House of Representatives, and at the same time, in terms of organizational structure, it is roughly based on the model of the US Congress, adopting a bicameral system.
Australia now has dozens of large and small political parties, the main ones being the Labor Party and the Liberal Party. Founded in 1891, the Australian Labor Party (Australian LabourParty) is Australia's largest political party, with close ties to trade unions, mainly representing the interests of the working class, and has been in power 12 times since 1940, and the current leader Kevin Rudd is also the current Prime Minister of Australia. The Liberal Party was founded in 1944 as the Coalition Party of Australia, founded in 1931. It mainly represents the interests of industrial and commercial owners, and has been in power for many times. From 1996 to 2007, the Liberal Party was in power for eleven and a half years and successfully led Australia from a recession in the early 1990s to an economic boom. Other minor parties include the National Party, the Democrats, the Greens, Family First, the Non-Nuclear Australia Party, the Progressive Alliance Party and the Australian Communist Party.
The leaders of these political parties will automatically become the prime minister of Australia, that is, the highest power person in Australia.
And the person in front of him, Kevin Rucker, is the No. 4 man in Australia's Liberal Party, and is likely to take over the position of party leader, and if the Australian Liberal Party wins the election next year in the near future, he may become a ......
Prime Minister of Australia! (To be continued......)