blackstone code

Chapter 156 Small Power

"I need some advice!"

The mayor standing on the rostrum rubbed his temples, "There are more and more unemployed people in our city, and the law and order are getting worse and worse. It is said that some vicious cases have appeared in the surrounding cities. If there is no way to curb this The situation, the city we have spent decades building, will return to the original era!"

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

If you can have food and clothing without committing crimes, and you still have some people in your hands, the vast majority of people in this world are still willing to be good people.

But these words from the mayor also made some people frown, because they donated a sum of money not long ago, and now the mayor has brought them together to talk about how to save the city, giving people the feeling that he And trying to get some money out of people's pockets.

It's a bad feeling, and no one likes being blackmailed, even if the person who blackmailed them is the well-deserved master of the city.

There was no other sound in the silent room, and the mayor looked at these people expectantly, hoping that they could come up with some way to solve this problem, but obviously, his hope was a bit too optimistic.

No one spoke, and everyone kept sitting like a gentleman and looked at the mayor on the rostrum. They were placed here like some kind of decoration to gather the number of people.

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

This is destined to be a failed meeting. In fact, this incident was already foreseeable on Wednesday. When Lynch took out 10 yuan, many people had to take out more money. Feeling robbed.

Whether they investigate or not investigate afterwards, some people may eventually conclude that Lynch was not a "trust" arranged by the mayor, but they were still robbed.

If this was a few years ago, [-] to [-] yuan could be taken out anytime and anywhere for them, and everyone still had a lot of money at that time.

Now everyone is having a hard time. It is actually very difficult to take out [-] to [-] yuan, and everyone feels some pain.

Now the purpose of the mayor calling everyone together again, in fact, the people in this room are very clear, they know what the mayor wants, but they are not willing to compromise again, at least not this time.

The endless compromises will only make the mayor blind and miscalculate his influence, but in fact people don't rely on him that much, and now they have a "role model".

On Monday, the stock price of the Ristorian Group began to plummet. Many people took this as 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 semi-closed, the city hall will give priority to a large number of policies to this dominant local pillar enterprise, instead of supporting the development of those small and micro enterprises that are developing.

Only when this group falls, most companies will get some new opportunities and some new policies, so they have been watching jokes, watching the stock price of the Ristorian Group go down all the way, and some people even sold The purpose of buying Ristoian's stock is to push the edge of the cliff.

This is also one of the reasons why people are willing to spend money on Wednesday. People saw the horror of the city hall. He just made a public statement, and the stock of Ristorian Group began to plummet. It is said that some announcements by Neo and the board of directors cannot change this fact.

Secondly, it is good for the merchants in this city after Ristoan's fall. They can buy the Ristoan Group's property at a low price, which is equivalent to making a lot of money for them, so even if they bite the bullet , but also to spend money to support the mayor's move.

But the situation is a little different now. Neo has publicly stated that he intends to end Ristoane's business in Sabine and relocate the headquarters to the Conservative Party site in the neighboring state.

The mayor of the capital city of the neighboring state also stated on Friday night that they would try their best to bring in external forces to help their city overcome this difficulty. They also promised the society that if the Ristorian Group can reach an agreement, in their If the city is settled, the Ristorian Group will provide no less than [-] jobs for their city.

This is just the early stage, and by next year or the year after that, they will provide more than [-] job opportunities, which immediately makes the citizens of the whole city cheer.

In fact, under the background of the current era, people's needs are really simple, that is, not to be starved to death, and to have a job, especially a job.

Work represents a stable life for everyone in the family. Work is a must. At this time, there is nothing more important than employment opportunities. Absolutely nothing.

Looking at it now, it seems that all this is not as simple as people imagined at the beginning. Ristoane may not have no way out. It is possible that they have already found a way out, which is why the mayor and the governor will express their dissatisfaction with them.

The power of a role model is infinite, and Ristoane has told people with real experience that if they want to solve some of their troubles, the best way is to switch to the Conservative Party, and now the Conservative Party is also facing the same troubles as the Progressive Party. , but they speak better.

People sat in the audience looking at the mayor, and the mayor looked at them, and finally the mayor had to take the initiative, which made him feel as if he was humiliated, "I need you to provide more jobs..."

"This is impossible, Your Excellency!" Someone directly interrupted the mayor's speech, and at the same time this guy also attracted everyone's attention.

Lynch couldn't help but look curiously at this brave man with a brave heart. He interrupted the mayor's words during the meeting. What kind of heart does he have to do such a thing?

It was a young man in his early 30s, about 32 years old, and he even stood up on his own initiative. I have to say that he has a good appearance, of course not as good as Lynch.

He's calm, not crazy, which means he knows what he's doing.

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

"Since the second half of last year, it can be said that the things I produce have been difficult to sell, but I still maintain this scale unchanged, and I still pay the workers, although some people may think that I follow the "Hourly Wage Law" 》It is immoral to pay the lowest standard salary, but at least I let these workers still get a salary from me every month!"

"Since May this year, I haven't received even a penny of money back for three months. I can no longer support the wages of this factory and those workers. Let alone hire more workers. If I don't get paid before October If I had to find a way out, I would have to shut down my factory, so I would never be able to expand jobs!"

"And!", his tone rose sharply, so that the mayor's scalp tingled for a while, he pursed his lips, stared at this person, and the young man continued, "and I think the current situation in Sabine City The problem cannot be solved by increasing job opportunities. Our problem is that our products have no market. What the mayor, the state government and the federal government should do is to help us find a market, not to make us bear what we should not bear. Responsibility!"

These words were very high-sounding, at least in Lynch's opinion, and other people began to applaud, and soon the applause became one, which made the mayor's face even worse.

In fact, many things in what he said are very correct. If you can’t sell things, and the company can’t get profits and rebates, it’s impossible to support workers.

What is the difference between letting factory owners and entrepreneurs create new jobs at this time and robbing them of their money?
His words represent the truest feelings of many businessmen at this time, and they will support him as a matter of course.

The mayor looked at the young man and wrote down his appearance, but the young man didn't seem to be afraid of the "malicious" eyes from the mayor, he was not afraid at all.

This makes it inevitable that the mayor will not guess some things behind him, maybe he came from the arrangement of Ristoane and Neo.

The applause quickly subsided, and they knew that if the applause lasted too long, things might get worse. What they needed was to show their attitude, not to confront the mayor.

Not everyone is able to leave the city, like the Ristorian Group.

Going to other cities can certainly get rid of some of the current difficulties, such as workers' wages, but new cities will have more severe competition and policy pressures, if they can't affect the lives of most people like Ristorian , they'd better not run around.

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

"So is there anyone who can give some solutions? I don't ask any of you to solve the problems that even the President can't solve at present, but at least you can alleviate them. Our situation is very bad!"

Faced with the mayor's inquiry, people still remained silent. Whoever has the means at this time is making an enemy of the capitalists in Sabine City.

Looking at the conference room where no one responded, the mayor realized for the first time that some things were not as easy to solve as before, and his complexion became even worse. During his inspection, he saw Lin who was sitting in the corner strange.

It made him think back to what Lynch said when he and Lynch had dinner last week.

(End of this chapter)