blackstone code

Chapter 2016

In late October, Mr. Truman had an unexplainable premonition, and he began to speed up the work in hand.

And put the main energy on the collation and evaluation of the "Anti-monopoly Law".

In any society, there are people who go against the mainstream and go upstream, and they are not rare.

In a highly commercialized and capitalized world like the Federation, there will always be some people who maintain a high degree of vigilance against capital.

Among them are some pure scholars and experts.

These people submitted many constructive suggestions during the drafting meeting of the Draft Amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law.

Lynch also attended the meeting, but he didn't speak during the whole process. He couldn't do something like confronting the capitalists of the whole federation.

It's not that he's incompetent, but that he's not stupid enough.

If he was stupid enough, he would definitely say a little bit.

But he was too smart, and he didn't even want to be left behind.

In the revised proposals that have been drafted so far, some key clauses have been added.

For example, "The actual and indirect owners of the enterprise can only own no more than three enterprises with the same content in the same industry."

This article is tantamount to directly guillotining those large capital groups that take advantage of the loopholes in the "Anti-Monopoly Law" to dismantle a single monopoly enterprise into group companies.

A company may or may not have products, but controls the vast majority of the market, which is a monopoly.

A company with 99 subsidiaries and 99 products monopolizing 90.00% of the market is not a monopoly.

Nothing substantial has changed.

After adding this item to the previous content, many large industry leading groups are facing the end of being dismembered!

Others put forward the suggestion of "adding more social links" to redisrupt the upstream and downstream distribution of enterprises in order to avoid enterprises' monopoly on the industry.

To put it simply, most steel factories now have their own mines, and they mine and make steel by themselves.

In the new proposal, steelmaking enterprises cannot directly own mines and mines, but must purchase various ores from second parties and then smelt them.

This adds more social links, which helps to avoid and guard against the emergence of market monopoly.

If necessary, as long as one of the links is stuck, the company will not be able to monopolize.

Various proposals are added every day, and by the end of October, there have been eleven new articles to be added to the Anti-Monopoly Law.

This is also called the "New Eleven Articles" by some people, and has aroused widespread concern.

This also makes the capital forces unable to sit still.

If Mr. Truman intends to promote the passage of this amendment bill through Congress, no problem, the capitalists can bear it.

However, it seems that he intends to force the passage through presidential privileges before the end of his own centralization, which is unacceptable to everyone.

If you can't accept it, then you have to not accept it!
On November [-], as the armistice agreement between the Federation and the Penteo Empire was signed and started to be implemented, a large number of troops withdrawn from the Penteo Empire began to return to the Federation one after another.

Except for a part of the garrison that will stick to the "New Federal Harbor", the other troops will withdraw to the federal mainland.

For a time, almost all ports on the east coast were full of people every day, holding various flags and slogans, welcoming these triumphant sergeants home!

Of course, there is a lot of grief, too, and tons of urns are sent back to the Commonwealth every day.

The bodies of those who were sacrificed there could not be transported back and had to be burned on the spot.

In fact, the ashes in the urns in the hands of many people come from the bottom of the big furnace.

Those were the ashes of tens of thousands of people, not just one individual, so it would be a good way to mix them together.

As long as there is still a family paying homage to these heroes, the heroic spirits will not go far away.

On November [-], the FBI seized an illegal poker game based on a report.

In the Federation, gambling is a special industry, and it is only legal to participate in gambling in designated places, that is, licensed casinos.

Otherwise, it is illegal to participate in gambling elsewhere.

The reason why such behavior is illegal is because most of the organizers of the poker game will not take the initiative to declare taxes.

Secondly, this also violates the laws and regulations related to the management of special industries.

The organizer of the poker game that was reported and arrested this time was a federal aboriginal woman, and other poker game participants were also subject to different penalties such as fines and community voluntary labor.

Those who participate in gambling are relatively less punished.

But the organizer of the game will be subject to heavier punishment.

It is said that the cash involved in the reported poker game exceeded 130 million!

This is already a considerable amount of money in the current stage of illegal poker games, and it has also attracted the attention of many media.

But in such a seemingly innocuous arrest, investigators found an IOU while searching for evidence.

A 400 million IOU, owed by Joanna.

This made everyone feel tricky. There are quite a few people named Joanna in the Federation, but they can owe 400 million, or are there people in Bupain, maybe just one or two?

And one of them is the First Lady of the Federation.

And this is the full name, not only the name "Joanna", but also her last name, full name.

The news was quickly sent to the Presidential Palace. Mr. Truman has more gray hair, and he has been busy with the issue of the draft amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law.

When he first heard that Joanna owed 400 million outside, it was because of gambling, but he didn't react!

"It's unlikely, Joanna has no habit of gambling, maybe she got the wrong person."

He paused, "No, I'll ask her tonight, don't reveal this matter for now."

For hours, he couldn't concentrate on his work.

The FBI quickly sent over the original IOU.

It is added between two transparent materials, which can well reflect the content on it, and it will not be accidentally damaged by people.

Looking at the familiar signature, Mr. Truman knew that this was his wife's autograph.

He was all too familiar.

In the evening, Joanna didn't come back until after nine o'clock like before, reeking of alcohol.

Mr. Truman was already sitting on the bed, the covers covering his legs.

When he was young, he didn't think he would be afraid of the cold like his father or his grandfather, but at this age, he realized that he would also be afraid of the cold.

Joanna glanced at Mr. Truman strangely, because he didn't do anything tonight, just raised his head like that, leaned on the soft bag at the head of the bed, and looked at the ceiling.

After washing her body, Joanna lay on her side in her pajamas, then turned off the bedside lamp, and said "good night".

They even communicate less now.

This time, Mr. Truman did not give her a chance to rest directly.

"Can you play cards?"

he asked suddenly.

Joanna's originally peaceful heart was like someone had suddenly thrown a boulder into the lake, suddenly splashed with shocking waves!
She swallowed, "No, what's wrong?"

There was no expression on Mr. Truman's face, but he slowly turned his gaze to his wife.

"When I was young, my father told me that there are many things in this life that one should not be curious about."

"Gambling is one of them."

"I have always been very obedient, and I also have the ability to judge when I am an adult. I know that when I am a person, I don't need to do anything, as long as I participate in some games, I can get the fun of money."

"It's addictive enough because it's not just fun, it's money."

"I stay away from it. There are really unavoidable games. I will also declare that I will not play with money."

"I remember when the two of us met, we also talked about this issue."

"You said you don't play cards or gamble."

Mr. Truman was very principled when he was young. Before marrying Joanna, he asked her if she had any bad habits.

Joanna answered no.

These words, these past, suddenly made Joanna sit up in shock, she turned on the bedside lamp again, and looked at Mr. Truman.

She stared at Mr. Truman with a seemingly tough attitude and expression, "You don't believe me?"

Mr. Truman sighed softly, "400 million, did you lose it all at once?"

Joanna, who was still about to argue with Mr. Truman, turned very ugly in an instant, hiding a trace of panic!
"How did you know?"

Mr. Truman suddenly sneered, "The woman you wrote the IOU was reported for organizing an illegal poker game and was arrested."

"While collecting incriminating evidence, they found the IOU."

"When I saw the signature, I knew it was you."

At this moment, Joanna froze for a moment, and an indescribable...surprise suddenly appeared on her face?
She moved her body and grabbed Mr. Truman's arm with both hands, "As long as this IOU disappears, everything will be fine!"

"You can do it!"

Mr. Truman looked at his wife very disappointed, "You know, I never use power on myself."

"It doesn't belong to me, and it doesn't favor me."

"Besides, I don't think your trouble is as simple as this IOU!"

"Joanna, in my memory, you have always been very cautious, why did you become like this?"

"How many questions do you have?"

Joanna gradually calmed down, she was silent for a while, then shook her head, "I lost a little money, and the money for this IOU was paid by that woman for me."

"The part I lost is legally owned. As long as the issue of this IOU is resolved, everything else will be fine."

"I promise, I won't gamble again, and I won't make any other problems..."

"Help me, because we are husband and wife!"

Mr. Truman's emotions are complicated, he doesn't know what to do, because it concerns a person for whom he feels a lot of guilt!

He didn't give Joanna any answer, and went to the guest room to rest with the quilt in his arms.

That night, neither of them slept well.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, Mr. Truman, who was woken up, saw the headline on the front page of the Federal Daily——

"Who Stole the Charity Money! "

(End of this chapter)