When dealing with ordinary people, you had to talk to them about pensions, medical insurance, and education.
Their world was small—so small that they could only focus on those things.
When chatting with politicians, you had to talk to them about regional politics, political prejudice, voters, and achievements.
They were obviously more concerned with confrontational events and how to turn them into political capital for themselves.
When dealing with capitalists, you had to talk about profits.
How much money something could earn, what rate of return an investment offered, and how to use the resources in everyone's hands to manipulate the market and achieve an actual monopoly.
That was what they cared about. They wanted to spend their valuable time on equally valuable things.
But when dealing with idealists, you had to talk about glorious, great, and righteous things.
Society, welfare, and rights, for example.
They liked making themselves utterly exhausted, even miserable. They liked it.
The moment Lin Qi opened his mouth, he spoke of the interests of Maliro and the Maliro People. Whether they were politicians or idealists at that moment, none of them could ignore those things.
And...
"I've joined forces with several congressmen and plan to introduce a proposal targeting Maliro—"
"Appropriately appointing a number of Maliro officials to important positions to soothe the emotions of the local people. This should produce around three to five Federal Congress members and one to three governors."
"And the corresponding local government officials, such as mayors and State Legislature members."
Once these words were spoken, even an idiot would realize that this was a wonderful opportunity to join the Federation! The thing troubling Maliro's middle and upper classes most was that they had no good way to join the Federation. The Federal people had always taken a firm stance