Chapter 342: The Matrix (I)
At 2:13 p.m., near apartment building No. 134 in District 1, Jean sat on a bench, smoking a cigarette silently, his eyes fixed on a floor-to-ceiling window room on the east side of the sixth floor, where most people had already gone to work, and there were almost no people in the nearby residential area.
Jean was the only one in the deserted streets, and in such a city with a strict civic hierarchy, only work could make your life comfortable, and Jean had long been aware of these black craftsmen in the upper echelons.
They are all technical talents, many of them work in some large technology companies, but occasionally try to make some extra money, this group of people not only use homemade small machinery to process some jewelry, but also sell some equipment to the bottom through some unscrupulous businessmen.
In the city to have the qualification of craftsmen, it takes a lot of complicated procedures, not to mention, the most important thing is the high technical tax, as well as standardization, but also need to be regulated, because they earn more, so they need to pay more taxes, to manufacture a practical mechanical product, the price of small ones need to range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, large ones are often millions, and the tax starts at 30%.
Most of these machines are engineering material crushing and reduction machinery, wall formwork machines, liquid compressors, grinding and recycling machines, etc., as well as some core circuit board components of daily necessities, core computing graphics processors of mobile phones and computers, many core units of household appliances, multi-purpose optical quality transformers, aerodynamic quality transformers and so on.
All the products of science and technology in daily life, most schools have such courses, this is a bill passed 30 years ago, open the core technology courses of urban life, although the tuition is expensive, but as long as you can graduate successfully, the monthly salary is not less than 10,000, as well as various benefits and year-end bonuses.
There are pros and cons to this approach, which is conducive to the faster construction and development of the city, and will not cause the technology to be monopolized by big businessmen, and the Congress can effectively regulate it through taxation, but the disadvantage is that many people can master these technologies, and if these technologies are used to develop weapons, it will be more harmful to the city.
This is also the first time that Jean thought of this group of black craftsmen in the upper echelons, who might work in a large company during the day, and when they go home at night or during the holidays, they will use their spare time to develop and assemble machinery with raw materials obtained from the black market, and then sell them themselves to make huge profits.
The money received is a circle of nominal white funds rolled in the various shop areas on the ground floor, which is legal income, and there are all kinds of legal shops on the upper, middle and lower floors, and most of these craftsmen are small investors in these legal shops, and the shops can completely launder the money through various operations, and give these craftsmen in a legal name, and they only need to pay far less than the tax.
In the past few years, as far as Jean knows, the most rampant flow in the black market is biological batteries, as well as the light killing weapons possessed by those rioters, which makes Jean have to wonder who most of the black craftsmen in the upper echelons have provided and perfected such technology, and where the technical funds for the rioters come from.
Gene urgently needs to investigate these at the moment, instead of being led by the nose by those rioters, he plans to jump out and go straight to the source, funds, technology and materials, these three points, as long as he finds any of them, the other traps are just a trick, and he needs to make the rioters really think that the department is sparing no effort to arrest them.
And this morning Jean went to Morse's shop, only a slight threat, Morse found the accurate black craftsman at noon, and most of these black craftsmen have the company's additional tasks, the things produced in these companies, all of them are qualified, but there are more than the total amount of so-called defective products, most of these defective products are recovered in the name of processing and recycling, but in fact, the company sold these defective products at a low price to other people who need them, in fact, there are no defective products at all, Just to avoid the high technology tax, and the need to pay a patent fee to the inventor of the technology, most of the patent fee will go into the pocket of 10 subjects, because the 3,000 people there are scientists, and most of the things are invented by them.
These problems have existed for many years, because the urban population is expanding, the city needs to develop, and the corresponding supply of technical personnel and the supply of urban technical facilities must also keep up, so that the city can move forward rapidly.
Many of the remaining problems are now gradually surfacing, contributing to the collapse of the order, and when this order cannot carry the huge volume of problems, it will definitely collapse.
Jean exhaled a puff of smoke, and sure enough, he saw a shirtless man on the balcony, yawning and basking in the sun on the rocking chair on the balcony, as if he had just gotten up, he smiled and walked slowly, and when he came to the bottom of the sixth floor, he suddenly jumped up.
The man sitting on the balcony looked tired, yawning, looking sixty or seventy years old, with fluffy hair and blank eyes, this man's name is Yu Youzhen, who has worked in Hongyun Technology Co., Ltd. for almost 20 years, is already a level 3 technical commissioner, with a monthly salary of 18,000, and life is comfortable.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Yu Youzhen!"
Sou
Yu Youzhen's eyes widened, and he was startled when he saw a man in uniform appear in front of him, and he just wanted to get up, but found that he had been restrained by the power of telekinesis.
Jean held up a finger and walked over slowly, Yu Youzhen's eyes widened in horror, and he couldn't make a sound in his throat, and instantly a chill continued to rise from his back, and goosebumps appeared all over his body.
It's over, it's dead!
"I'm sorry, Mr. Yu Youzhen, this is an informal investigation, please cooperate, I'm the section chief of Section 13 Jean!"
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"The following is the fourth bill, which was proposed by Ida Councilor of District 29, the bill for women to re-enter the 29th district of Bright City, please take 10 minutes to review it carefully!"
Locke said and bowed and sat down, Le Xiao hurriedly looked at the content on the light and shadow panel, as Ida said to her this morning, he wanted to open a vocational training center in District 29 to help women in District 29 to work in some jobs in other districts, but Le Xiao saw the evil smiles of many councillors in each other's ears, so he was angry, and most of his disdainful eyes were focused on Ada.