LATEST UPDATES

Blackstone Code - Chapter 196

Published at 15th of March 2024 07:31:49 AM


Chapter 196

If audio player doesn't work, press Stop then Play button again








Lynch sat politely at Vera's house for a while and left. The couple stood by the door and watched him leave. Then they closed the door slowly.

The smiles on both faces converged at the moment when the door was closed, as if they didn't want to laugh or had never laughed at all.

"Is buppen fun?", gap returned to the sofa and sat down. He turned on the TV, which had the TV play replayed last night.

The ratings in the afternoon have never been very high, and it is difficult to sell the advertisements at a good price. Fortunately, the advertisements in this period are bundled with the advertisements in prime time in a matching way and sold together.

But this still can't solve the problem of what to play in the afternoon. In the end, they can only broadcast the content of the golden file of the first day in the afternoon again, at least saving part of the cost of program production or program purchase.

The program that has been seen on TV makes people feel very boring. It is not as fresh as last night.

Vera packed up the tea set left by Lynch and said casually, "it's OK. She saw some things that are difficult to see at ordinary times."

"For example?" asked gap.

Vera looked at him, "for example, jumping from a building, I was afraid at first, but I became a little numb when I saw more. These days, there have been a lot of news that cars driving on the road have been flattened by jumpers and hurt the driver..."

Gap listened carefully. He really didn't know these things. They wouldn't be reported on TV or newspapers, which would only make the society more chaotic.

He could also feel how terrible the situation was at this time through these descriptions. His expression was a little more serious, but finally he couldn't help asking his doubts.

"I've heard that these days, people treat you as a couple, and you don't argue."

Vera glanced at him and didn't answer the question. At first, she argued, but people didn't believe it. Instead, they would think she was untrue, so she didn't admit or deny it at all. Sometimes she even told one or two small jokes that only adults would understand.

This made her quickly integrate into these ladies, and in essence, she didn't want Lynch to be excluded by bupenn's social circle.

Vera didn't expect that things over there would soon reach gap's ears, but she had a clear conscience, so she didn't explain.

Looking at his increasingly strange wife, gap suddenly felt powerless. He also paid attention to Lynch's career development so as to attack and make fun of Vera at any time, but what he didn't expect was that Lynch's career was getting bigger and bigger.

And his wife, who even got the title of certified public accountant, he didn't really look down on, actually became the head of the office.

Even in terms of salary, he is about to catch up with him, not counting the partner's dividend.

This makes him have an unspeakable sense of frustration. When Vera is just a "toy", she must rely on gap, which makes him feel that he dominates this woman. He completely ignores her value and existence and regards her as an ornament to decorate his perfect life.

But when she began to realize her value and no longer needed to rely on him, he had a sense of crisis and panic.

The silence between the husband and wife also suppressed the atmosphere in the room. After a moment, gap broke the calm. "Next year I may go to work in the next state. Maybe everything will be better in a different environment."

Economy, environment, life, and the relationship between them are likely to get better. This is what gap thinks.

When Vera needs to rely on him again, he can try to be the master again.

It's just that his ideas are doomed to failure.

On the other side, Lynch, who came out of gap's house, sat in the back seat of the vehicle. He looked at the situation on the street for a while and asked the driver, "what happened in Saibin recently? Why didn't I see the bus?"

In the past, buses in Saibin were almost everywhere, which greatly facilitated the travel of citizens.

Lynch didn't realize this when he got off the train, but now he has noticed that there hasn't been a bus all the way. This is very abnormal.

He thought it was the drivers who were on strike. After all, wages in many places can't be paid now. It's normal to make a noise. Unexpectedly, the driver told Lynch that Saibin public transport company was bankrupt.

"It is said that their boss invested all his money in the stock market, and then you should understand..."

Of course, I understand that the financial tsunami has swept everything, and the boss of the transportation company soon has no money on his book. The current economic situation is so bad that many people have given up taking the bus as a short-distance means of transportation. They choose to walk in order to save 25 points.

The empty car rate continues to increase, but the consumption has not decreased much. Less buses for one or two shifts can not improve the current situation of transportation companies. If the reduction is more, the city hall will not agree.

After all, they signed the agreement at the beginning, and the city hall also gave certain financial subsidies to the transportation company.

Under multiple factors, the failure of the transportation company to pay immediately aroused the panic of the driver group. Now what we fear most is that there is no job and no salary.

They blamed the boss's investment failure. Driven by some people, these drivers drove the car home directly, so that there are not many buses in Saibin now.

Even if there is, the drivers are operating themselves, and they may still lose money, because the fare they run down in one day is not enough for the fuel they consume.

Now the city hall is also urging the transportation company to fulfill its responsibilities as soon as possible, otherwise it will terminate the contract and take the other party to court.

The boss of the transportation company, like a scoundrel, refused to carry out the requirements of the city hall.

In short, with the arrival of the financial tsunami, everything has become chaotic.

"Recently, there are more and more people wandering in the street. There have been many appalling robberies. Although the police station is very busy, but..."

The driver asked, but he didn't go on. Lynch already knew what he was going to say.

In the past, when society was relatively stable, vicious cases appeared, and criminal groups could be targeted soon, even specific to a certain person, because only these people would do so.

However, with the social unrest, every unemployed person may be a potential criminal, which makes the work of the police station more heavy. The cost of finding criminals becomes higher and higher, but more cases are happening constantly. They can only focus their limited police force and case solving cost on those cases that are easier to detect.

As for the rest, I'll say it when everything gets better.

Early the next morning, the mayor called Lynch and asked him if he had time.

Not long later, the two met in the mayor's office.

"Talk about the topics you talked about last time..." the mayor asked his secretary to bring some drinks and closed the door.

I haven't seen him for half a month. The mayor has some old manners, which may have something to do with his haggard look at this time.

Ristoan went all the way to the black. The investigation team has begun to investigate ristoan's business behavior in Saibin city and the state during the production period, and encouraged people to report complaints.

They want to keep ristoan, in various ways.

Before they could dismember a Henghui, now they can dismember a ristoan. Now there is only one excuse.

As for whether it can be realized in the end, it is difficult to say that the mayor can't put all this on the can, including his previous ideas.

Previously, he contacted some capitalists and business owners to take over some gaps left after the departure of stoan group. Everyone talked very well. As a result, he did not expect that the financial tsunami also swept these businessmen.

Many of them have begun to sell their assets for self insurance. Let alone let them invest in new industries, whether they can survive the end of the year is unknown.

More people have lost their jobs. The unemployment rate in Saibin has exceeded 19%, and it is not very good in other cities. The state government has raised the alert level, and the army can go out at any time to suppress possible riots.

At the same time, the current situation has also intensified some political changes. Things that could not be discussed before can now be discussed, such as changing the employment structure.

This is the times, the trend and the demand of society. People no longer require more security. They just want a job and a salary that can support their family.

As for the others?

Think about it when you're full!

"How do you plan to employ people in a cooperative way?", the mayor was afraid that Lynch would not remember, and directly named the core theme.

Lynch keenly reminded, "this is cooperation, not employment!"

Then he said, "I don't have an employment relationship with these people. They sell me what I need, they make a profit, and I get what I want."

The mayor frowned. He could hear the hidden meaning behind Lynch's words. He didn't want to bear any responsibility and guarantee, which made the mayor feel... Too cold?

However, this is the capitalist. They always have a way to reduce costs and release profit margins.

The mayor nodded and picked up his pen, "give an example and talk about it in detail..."

This mode of cooperation is actually a variant of "piece work", but no one has considered such a method in this era, because the strength of workers is not small. With the help of workers' unions and the socialist party, workers are not a vulnerable group.

When necessary, they can also force the capitalists to taste the workers' iron fist.

So when talking about work and employment, people first think of the protection and rights of workers. Such "cooperation" as Lynch said has never been considered, because workers will go crazy!

Previously impossible things, because of the financial tsunami, and more things have taken a turn for the better.

More than ten minutes later, the mayor said in his incredible tone, "this is what you said. There is no insurance, no guarantee, no guarantee of minimum wage, and even nothing that can restrain you!"

"The workers will not agree. This is the most shameful, despicable and obscene exploitation and oppression I have ever seen!"

Lynch shrugged, "but I can give them a bite to eat, and they will agree!"

=

① , using the TV programs that have been broadcast to hint at the cooling of the relationship between husband and wife, the passionate relationship will become numb and lose color with the long life. The author vividly and implicitly named the changes of the relationship between husband and wife through the replayed TV series, which is amazing. The profound writing skills are hard to find for thousands of years!




Please report us if you find any errors so we can fix it asap!


COMMENTS