The Shadow Tycoon
Copyright© 2026 by CaffeinatedTales
Chapter 84: The Filter in the Flyer
The entertainment industry, the entertainment industry. It would not only become one of the most profitable places in the future, but also a place where many people would become influential.
The Federation was a magical country. As long as it had enough influence, a cat, a dog, a horse, even a pig could run for President.
Of course, if they could afford the expensive campaign costs, they might even have a chance of winning.
The birth of the Federation’s President was closely tied to public elections. According to the Baler Federation Charter and the relevant election laws, as long as one was a resident of the Federation and formally held a job, he, she, or it had one vote.
Yes, the “it” here was not a typo. So far, the Baler Federation already had more than a hundred animal citizens. This was, naturally, no miracle, though one could also call it a miracle: a miracle belonging to those animals’ owners, and a miracle of wealth.
The miraculous part was that as long as their owners were generous enough, someone would solve the citizenship problem for these pet citizens. They could even work, for example, by becoming “film workers.” This was not a metaphor and not an insult. There really were dogs participating in film shoots.
A politician who wanted to realize his own life value and fulfill his own ambitions in politics first needed people to know him before he could achieve those ideals that belonged only to himself. Only then would people cast votes for him.
Some people would choose to become actors. There were several members of the legislature in the Senate who had once been opera actors or film actors before entering politics, and there were also examples in some state legislatures of stars going into politics.
First, a politician needed people to know him, be willing to hear him speak, and then believe him. There was no easier way to make people know a person than becoming a star.
No one could recite the names of every mayor in every city across the seventeen states of the Baler Federation, but many people could name every star who had become wildly popular on the silver screen over the past few years. They even knew how many movies those stars had made, how the box office performed, what scandals they had, what perfume they liked, what brand of underwear they liked, what they liked...
Starting in the performing arts industry, becoming a sensation, and then entering politics was already a path people had proven effective. But it was not completely safe. At least in the northern states, it was not that effective. The Northerners were more traditional. They did not like their administrators to be “actors.”
But this trick worked very well in the South. People there were more progressive and active in accepting new things.
Even if actors had no plans to enter politics, some politicians were willing to build good relationships with actors and with film companies. It was not only because the entertainment industry could produce large and varied income, but also because it was an important channel for spreading political ideas.
So running the entertainment industry was absolutely not as simple as saying the money there was easy to make. One could also gain many unexpected things, such as friendship, such as proxies.
If Mr. Fox had no interest in investing in the entertainment business, William himself would later establish an entertainment company. Fortunately, Mr. Fox was an interesting man, and also a decent friend.
After briefly settling the decisions that would come next, the attention of the three men in the room, mainly the Foxes, shifted away from the new investment project and toward William’s Secondhand Auction.
When Mr. Fox entered, he had actually been holding a rolled-up flyer. At this moment, after letting Mr. Fox Jr. look at it, he handed it to William.
“William, I’m curious. Won’t you lose money doing this?”
The flyer was printed with promotional language, such as the largest and most complete secondhand trade auction market in the entire state, and so on. This was also the part Mr. Fox cared about very much.
After selling the collateralized goods to William, he had obtained a large sum of money to deal with the bank’s interest. Now his need for money was not so urgent. Very soon, as the first batch of loans entered the harvesting period, the money would begin rolling on its own.
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