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Blackstone Code - Chapter 156

Published at 15th of March 2024 07:35:17 AM


Chapter 156

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"I need some advice!"

The mayor standing on the podium rubbed his temples. "Now there are more and more unemployed people in our city and public security is getting worse and worse. It is said that some vicious cases have appeared in the surrounding cities. If we can't stop this situation, the city we have built for decades will return to the primitive era!"

Everyone knows that destruction can't bring prosperity, only construction can, but the current situation has forced some people to go where they don't want to.

If you can eat and wear without committing a crime, and there are some people in your hands, the vast majority of people in the world are still willing to be a good man.

But the mayor's words also made some people frown, because they only donated a sum of money not long ago. Now the mayor gathered them together to talk about how to save the city. It seems that he wants to get some money from people's pockets.

This feeling is very bad. No one likes to be blackmailed, even if the blackmailer is the well deserved master of the city.

There was no other voice in the silent room. The mayor looked at these people with expectant eyes, hoping that they could come up with some ways to solve the problem, but it was obvious that his hope was a little too optimistic.

No one spoke. Everyone kept a gentleman's posture and looked at the mayor on the podium. They were like some kind of decoration used to gather the number of people.

The expectation on the mayor's face gradually faded. His eyes swept over these people's faces. People at most avoided looking at him, but he couldn't get the answer he wanted.

This is bound to be a failed meeting. In fact, it was predictable on Wednesday. When Lynch took out 100000 yuan, many people had to take out more money, they felt robbed.

Afterwards, they investigated or did not investigate. Finally, some people may conclude that Lynch was not the "trust" arranged by the mayor, but they were still robbed.

If this was a few years ago, thirty or fifty thousand could be taken out anytime and anywhere for them, everyone would still have a lot of money at that time.

Now everyone's life is difficult. It's actually very reluctantly to get thirty or fifty thousand. Everyone feels some pain.

Now the mayor's purpose of convening everyone again, in fact, the people in this room know very well that they know what the mayor wants, but they are unwilling to compromise again, at least this time.

Endless compromises will only make the mayor blindly and wrongly estimate his influence, but in fact, people don't rely on him so much, and now they have an "example".

On Monday, the share price of ristoan group began to plummet. Many people regard this as an interesting news. Sometimes the existence of such a dominant group company in a city is not a good thing for other small companies.

Because the upward channel is basically in a semi closed state, the city hall will give priority to a large number of policies to this dominant local pillar enterprise, rather than to those developing small and micro enterprises to support their development.

Only when this group falls down, most enterprises will get some new opportunities and new policies. Therefore, they have been watching jokes and watching the stock price of ristoan group fall all the way. Some people even sold their stoan shares in order to push them on the edge of the cliff.

This is also one of the reasons why people are willing to pay money on Wednesday. People saw the terrible of the city hall. He just made a statement to the outside world, and the shares of riston group began to plummet. It is said that Neo and the board of directors issued some announcements can not change this fact.

Secondly, the fall of ristoan is good for the businessmen in the city. They can buy the industry of ristoan group at a low price, which is equivalent to making a lot of money. Therefore, even if they are tough, they have to pay money to support the mayor's measures.

But now the situation is a little different. Neo said publicly that he plans to end riston's business in Sabin and move his headquarters to the conservative territory in the next state.

The mayor of the capital city of the next state also indicated on Friday night that he would try to introduce external forces to help their city overcome this difficulty. They also promised the society that if riston group could negotiate and settle in their city, riston group would provide no less than 3000 jobs for their city.

This is only the early stage. By next year or the next year, they will provide more than 5000 job opportunities, which will immediately cheer the citizens of the whole city.

In fact, in this era, people's needs are really simple, that is, they will not starve to death and have a job, especially a job.

Work represents the stable life of everyone in a family. Work is necessary. At this time, nothing is more important than employment opportunities, absolutely not.

Now, it seems that all this is not as simple as people thought at the beginning. Riston may not have no way out. It is possible that they have already found a way out, so the mayor and governor will express their dissatisfaction with them.

The power of an example is infinite. Riston told people with living experience that if they want to solve some of their problems, the best way is to switch to the conservative party. Now the conservative party is facing the same problems as the Progressive Party, but they speak better.

People sat down and looked at the mayor, and the mayor also looked at them. Finally, the mayor had to take the initiative to speak, which made him feel as if he had been humiliated, "I need you to provide more jobs..."

"It's impossible, sir!" someone directly interrupted the mayor's speech, and this guy also attracted everyone's attention.

Lynch could not help but look at the brave warrior with a brave heart and interrupt the mayor during the meeting. What kind of mind does he have to do such a thing?

It was a young man in his early thirties, about thirty-two or thirty years old. He even took the initiative to stand up. I have to say that he has a good appearance, which is certainly not comparable to Lynch.

He is calm and not crazy, which shows that he knows what he is doing.

He looked at the mayor and continued to repeat what he had just said, "it's impossible, sir. I have a small metal processing factory under my command. I employ 27 workers, which is the largest scale I can maintain."

"Since the second half of last year, it can be said that the things I produced have been difficult to sell, but I still maintain this scale without change. I also pay wages to the workers. Although in the eyes of some people, it may be immoral for me to pay wages according to the minimum standard of the hourly wage law, at least I let these workers get a salary from me every month!"

"Since May this year, I haven't received even a penny back for three months. I can't support the wages of this factory and those workers. Don't say hiring more workers. If I can't find a way out before October, I have to close my factory, so it's impossible for me to recruit more jobs!"

"What's more!" his voice rose sharply, so that the mayor's scalp became numb. He pursed his mouth and looked at the man, while the young man continued, "And I don't think the current problem in Saibin can be solved by increasing job opportunities. Our problem is that our products have no market. Your Excellency, the mayor, the state government and the federal government should help us find a market, rather than let us bear the responsibilities we shouldn't bear!"

These words were very high sounding, at least in Lynch's view, and others began to applaud. Soon, the applause became a whole, which made the mayor's face worse.

In fact, many things in what he said are very correct. If you can't sell things, and the enterprise can't get profits and payment back, it's impossible to feed the workers.

What's the difference between letting factory owners and entrepreneurs add new jobs at this time and robbing them of their money?

His words represent the most real feelings of many businessmen at this time, and they will naturally support him.

The mayor looked at the young man and wrote down his appearance, but the young man did not seem afraid of the mayor's "malicious" eyes. He was not afraid at all.

This makes it inevitable that the mayor will not guess some things behind him. Maybe he comes from the arrangement of ristoian and Neo.

The applause soon subsided. They knew that if the applause lasted too long, it might make something worse. All they needed was to show their attitude, not fight the mayor.

Not everyone can leave the city, like the ristoian group.

Although going to other cities can get rid of some of the current difficulties, such as the wages of workers, there will be more severe competitive behavior and policy pressure in new cities. If they can't affect the lives of most people like riston, they'd better not run around.

The mayor pinched the bridge of his nose. He raised his hand and pressed it falsely to let the young man sit down, and then apologized to everyone, "I ignored your pressure in this regard..." this is the most apology he can do, and everyone readily accepted it.

"Then, can anyone give some solutions? I don't ask any of you to solve the problems that can't even be solved by the president, but at least it can be alleviated. Our situation is very bad!"

In the face of the mayor's inquiry, people remained silent. At this time, whoever has a way is against the capitalists of the whole Saibin city.

Looking at the unresponsive conference room, the mayor realized for the first time that some things were not as easy to solve as before. His face became worse. During the inspection of his eyes, he saw Lynch sitting in the corner.

This reminds him of what Lynch said when he had dinner with Lynch last week.




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