National Juggernaut

Chapter 528 Invisible Hand
It is still a dilapidated street, with moss and stains on the unmaintained buildings, and the whole street looks like ruins that have not been cleaned for several years.

The ground is full of mud and dirt, so you have to be careful when walking on the road. Trash cans and wild dogs are mixed together. Pedestrians on the road come and go in a hurry, and they stare at each other with wary eyes when they meet by chance.

This ghostly place, if you take it out to shoot doomsday movies and zombie dramas, you don't need to build a studio.

"How is it? It's a good place. Although it's not as clean as the outside, it's very free and no one cares about it."

But Yu Junxiang, who was walking in front of Zheng Li, looked relaxed and contented. Since entering this area, her steps have become much lighter.

".This is District [-]. It is controlled by the Snake Fan Gang and the Pink Gang. You can tell from the name that they do business, but the Pink Gang is pretty good to us kids. Their main backbone is women. After all They are also a group of miserable people”

With this local snake leading the way, the introduction along the way is simple and straightforward, and it also saves Zheng Li a lot of trouble.

But the more he listened, the more his eyebrows furrowed together, and he was even a little irritable.

"There are gangs everywhere, even a gang that grows medicine in an old garden."

"Actually, it's not considered a gang anymore. It's just a group of people organized and controlled that area. This is actually a good thing. The most dangerous thing is that there is no gang-controlled area. No one controls what they do. Children like us are dare not approach"

Now, Zheng Li understood more and more.

"...When the official social order in a region collapses, other forces will naturally fill in and formulate new order rules. If there is no order in a place, then the weak will not be able to survive."

When he heard about gangs, he subconsciously connected them with the gray and underworld elements he had come into contact with before, which meant the more troublesome half-tone criminals. Now it seems that most of the so-called gangs here are a group of "street office ", "Resident Mutual Aid Association".

It's just that there are no factories here and there is not enough farmland, and it is impossible to manage and live. These things are all contaminated with local illegal business, and the members are more or less breaking the law.

But now, after only a few blocks, Zheng Li saw two black armbands in uniform, and at least three plainclothes. I have to admit that it is a bit difficult to pretend to be local residents. Their expressions and dresses It was too "clean", Zheng Li could see through it at a glance.

But they came and went more hurriedly than the residents, and obviously didn't care about other people's opinions.

They vigilantly inspected every passerby, and after spotting Zheng Li, they hurried to the next destination.

And the two black armbands wearing uniforms are pressing a group of local people to the temporary checkpoint and station. Judging from the sturdy tattoos and bald heads, they don't look like good people.

Along the way, Zheng Li also passed through three checkpoints. Even without asking Xiao Junxiang, Zheng Li knew that this was definitely not a local resident product.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has fully settled in this area and started a large-scale "cleaning".

No matter how arrogant and domineering the local gangs were, they were actually a collection of losers, and they were nothing compared to the "sweepers" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were truly proficient in killing.

"... The problem is not that simple."

Zheng Li has already realized that something is wrong.

The task received by the Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot be to maintain local law and order. That should be the responsibility of the previous Iron Man Autonomous Region government, or the work of the soon-to-be-established autonomous region management team.

The tasks they received could only be "cleaning up the remaining forces of the Aters", "looking for possible whale treasures", "finding special items smuggled in by the Aters", these jobs fit the positioning of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

If this is the goal, sweeping up local gangs, arresting lawbreakers, and deterring local gang members are just a means rather than an end, and it is just a side effect of looking for "useful clues".

Looks like there is no difference?In fact, the difference is huge. They are constantly declaring their existence with practical actions, which will naturally make these locals fearful or even afraid to move, and the gangs that will be wiped out will also make the local law and order relatively better for a while. .

And when everything comes to an end, no matter whether they complete their work in this area or not, they will leave, which means that the terrorist order they established will collapse in an instant.

The vacuum of order that has been cleaned up will be quickly contested by remnants and new gangs. Everyone in the local area knows that the more territory the better they can live. At that time, there will be a series of mutual killings, and finally a new balance will be reached.

And in this process of the weak eating the strong, the ones who are finally injured are obviously the local weak.

".It is necessary to prioritize the establishment of a security force to directly take over the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to avoid a vacuum of order."

Zheng Li wrote down the first item in his work notes, and planned to bring it up when he met with other managers later, so as to avoid the worst situation from happening.

From the perspective of the local managers, since the Ministry of Internal Affairs is sweeping the fallen leaves in the autumn wind, then don't waste their ability to clear the payment. After the local gangs have completed the reorganization, they are entrenched together, forming a relationship between the local managers and the local gangs. The confrontation is another round of troubles.

".Let's chat with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The leaders of the big gangs are all detained first, and they will be used later."

Zheng Li's headache became more and more serious. He had already found that the job he was about to take up was indeed quite difficult to handle.

"This normal company and enterprise can't be found. How do these people live?"

"No, many of them are organized outside, but they don't have to pay taxes here. This is why we live here first. Even if the need to maintain the spirit blade is removed, selling spirit crystals is still our main source of living expenses."

With the guidance of the locals, Zheng Li saved a lot of effort.

Even in the Fourth Ring Road, basic headcount fees have to be paid, and taxes for normal operating companies and enterprises are naturally indispensable, but even if there are countless gray businesses, small workshops, and flesh and blood factories here, none of them will report to collect taxes.

"Uh, add a note to the work notes, asking the tax bureau to come here to build a branch office. This is a tough nut to crack."

Zheng Li knew on his knees that it is impossible for people here to pay taxes obediently, but since he wants to form a stable management team here, he can only ask his superiors for money without taxes. Any superior would consider the need for the survival of this incompetent governing body.

The rules of Shiqian City's various districts are that after paying part of the tax, the remaining districts use it for themselves. If they don't want to break the unspoken rules of the "local faction" in the outer districts, they must build up the local finances.

"It's getting more and more headaches. There is no legal business. I can't collect gang transaction tax later."

Thinking about it, Zheng Li felt more and more that there was no solution to this damn autonomous region, or letting it rot naturally was the best solution.

Instituting a new order where there has never been official order, and establishing a well-functioning system of government management?Zheng Li suddenly felt that the mess the mother orangutan left for him back then had become less stressful.

Zheng Li shook his head and closed his notebook. At this stage, just write down the questions.

For further work, let the new team members have a headache together, maybe they have more complete plans and handling experience.

He was somewhat interested in another thing that Yu Junxiang mentioned.

"Taxes? Spiritual crystal head tax, is it the root cause of you children choosing this area?"

"It's not just this, there are many reasons, but a spirit crystal can be sold on the black market for 150 yuan (recently increased), even after deducting the transaction fee for the black market and the protection fee for the local gang, we can still get 90 yuan. Based on this calculation, even if we can’t find a job here, we can barely survive. But if we live in other districts, we still have to pay taxes.”

Zheng Li was speechless. He really didn't expect that the spiritual crystal tax payment system that seemed to be beneficial but harmless in other areas would become an invisible hand that forced these children into no-man's land.

In this way, it also explains why many losers end up in this district. Saving one spirit crystal a month is an extra income of nearly [-] yuan, which is a lot for these people.

Generally speaking, adults have an average psionic index of 4.5, which means that about 4 to 5 psionic crystals are produced in a month, but here, there is an additional problem.

".We children are not strong in spiritual power. It is good to produce three spiritual crystals a month, but you must feed one or two spiritual blades. If you don't feed them, the spiritual blade will die completely soon. If you drop it, you won’t even be able to produce a single spirit crystal in the future.”

Adults average 4.5 pieces a month, but adults also have a minimum of 2 blades. These children and downcasts with one blade or even zero blades will never produce more than 3 blades per month.

Even for local adults, there are not a few who produce one or two coins every month.

Then, it is very difficult to keep one's spirit blade from degenerating, and it is very difficult to take out one and sell it. Being able to save one spirit crystal every month is already a huge income.

And because there are black markets everywhere in the local area, spirit crystals can also be sold at a higher price, and it may be easier to live than working in certain areas.

Zheng Li was speechless. The ingenious design of "protecting the weak" and exerting collective strength formulated by the sages turned out to be one of the root causes of the downcast everywhere.

Spirit blades are "alive", they or they all need to eat spiritual materials regularly and devour soul fragments, otherwise they will be like creatures that have not eaten for a long time, even if they do not enter death, they will become quasi-vegetative people in eternal sleep.

Spirit crystals are the cheapest and cheapest spiritual material. If you only feed this, although the spirit blade will not perish, don't even think about going any further. It's not bad if it doesn't degenerate.

If that person exchanged most of his spirit crystals for living expenses, and then gave Spirit Blade the minimum spirit crystal nutrition, then he, whose spiritual energy and physical nutrition are both hovering between life and death, may never become a double-edged man for the rest of his life. .

Seeing this situation, Zheng Li no longer had a headache but a headache.

He has already foreseen that if the poll tax is re-imposed here, it will take away the last living place and rations of those children and the down-and-out!
Mass protests?According to the tough local folk customs, collective riots are predictable.

Even if they don't make trouble, since they can't bear it and are willing to leave obediently, that is tantamount to sending them to hell.

But it is absolutely impossible not to levy.

That is, without mentioning the operation of the local government, it is impossible to allow the local government to have the privilege of "no tax" if it is only reincorporated into the Shiqian City system.

Otherwise, don't say whether other districts will go to heaven and ask for the same conditions.

As long as the most basic administrative and living order is established in the local area, those big enterprises and companies will frantically rush in to avoid taxation, and countless middle- and low-level people will voluntarily flood in. They will break the balance of the entire peripheral area of ​​Shiqian, and they will be dragged by the guards immediately. talk heart to heart.

"... In this regard, write a report, and I can't make me alone. Let the decision-makers see it earlier and start worrying about it earlier."

Zheng Li did not hesitate to throw this matter beyond the limit of his ability.

No matter what the final result is, whether the higher-ups have to take it on themselves (then give us more discretion first), or issue policies and send commissioners separately, the sooner the better.

"On the necessity of local tax reform, and its possible extremely serious consequences."

Zheng Li began to think about the topic and outline of the report, and Yu Junxiang was still enthusiastically introducing the local situation to her "master"
"This gang runs XX, there are 2XX people, the most ruthless is XXX"

Along the way, Zheng Li has listened to too many such introductions, and met several times Yujunxiang's famous person, passing by under the pressure of a black armband. Now she doesn't say "the leader of such and such is super powerful", but just introduces the name directly and business scope.

The work of administration is the process of finding, collecting, and solving problems, and the problems that Zheng Li collected along the way can be solved by him alone.

Of course, in some areas, it is more customary to skip directly to the last step and solve the problem directly. Zheng Li only hopes that the colleagues he meets later will be more reliable, and don't be the one who "solves people".

Yes, colleagues, the first plenary meeting of the new temporary team will naturally be held in this autonomous region.

Zheng Li is now on his way to the meeting, and then looked at the local situation from the perspective of a manager, and collected a bunch of questions, and even many of them have no solution at all.

"I hope that the colleagues who are waiting will be more reliable, or they can bring more detailed instructions from above. What do they think about this area? It is only a transitional stability, and it is enough to fill in the security holes for the surrounding area. It can be as messy as it is. It is really necessary to bring this area into the city's management and control system. That is epic difficulty."

But Zheng Li felt that if it wasn't for the latter, the superiors wouldn't need to be so troublesome, organizing a professional management organization, and even transferring him.

"Even if there is no boss to lead the flight, don't come to hold you back."

At this time, Zheng Li can only pray that the future leadership team will be reliable. In such a difficult working environment, another pig teammate is really hopeless.

But let alone, soon he met his old acquaintances, as well as strangers who looked familiar.

(End of this chapter)