Blackstone Code

While Lynch and Catherine were talking about education, the president was also sitting with his key confidants and staff to talk about the issue.

The atmosphere is very harmonious. After half a year of smooth transition, the federal government has placed its own people in important positions. The president has truly taken the country into his own hands.

The air-conditioning vents sprayed out cold air to make the temperature in the room very pleasant. The gentlemen sat or stood around the President, all their eyes focused on the President.

"...Next we have three directions, education, medical care and social security!"

Mr. President's words were not easy. At this time, the door opened and everyone looked back. Mr. Trueman walked in with his briefcase.

"There's a bit of traffic on the road." He was late and needed an excuse.

Mr. President looked at his watch and said, "It only takes fifteen minutes to walk from your place."

"But the road is a bit congested." He found a place to sit down. Mr. President did not continue to talk about this matter, he was just late.

He took the coffee from the staff, said thank you, and then asked, "Where was that?"

"We just talked about the three major reforms. We have to choose one." Mr. President's attitude was very firm and it was not a joke.

The three major federal reforms are education, medical care and social security. There are many problems in them and urgent changes are needed.

However, because there are too many interests involved, any change is not easy to accomplish, and may even trigger attacks from those who have lost interests.

Seeing that Mr. Trueman had nothing to say, Mr. President continued what he said before, "Every president before us has talked about these problems, but no one has been able to solve these problems."

“We might be the first to do it, and history will remember us.”

"What we have to do now is to choose one, put it on the chopping board, and then think about where to start..."

The atmosphere in the room was relatively depressing. No one spoke. The president was a little disappointed, but it was as expected.

Behind these three major systems are the interests of numerous capitalists. If he wants to touch these now, it will definitely trigger opposition.

He is the president, and he will go home after patting his butt. Others still have a long way to go. What will they do in the future?

His eyes stayed on everyone's face for a moment, but these usually very sharp people seemed not to notice that the President was looking at them, pretending to be deep in thought.

Until, his eyes fell on Mr. Trueman.

"If you have to choose, choose education." Mr. Trueman gave his own answer, which was surprisingly consistent with the president's own thoughts, which also put a smile on his face.

He stopped looking at others and kept staring at Trueman, "Tell me why you chose education."

Mr. Trueman took a sip of his coffee, "Because this is all we can chew!"

"Education groups are different from medical groups and insurance groups. The biggest difference is that if we change some education rules, it will not touch the core interests of the education group."

"They may be dissatisfied with our actions, but they will not do anything excessive. There is no need for people to destroy a city for a fly."

Nowadays, what the so-called education groups do is no longer limited to the relatively simple business of monopolizing knowledge. What they operate is actually a kind of human network, a kind of "gang".

This seems a bit unbelievable. How come the education group is related to gangs?

This happens to be the case, for example, the Holy Peace Alliance, which can be said to be the largest interest group in the field of education.

What do they want?

It is people’s concern for alumni status, people’s yearning for candidate members of Saint Peace Society, and the ability to establish rich and reliable social networks and relationships by attending Saint Peace Society school before graduation.

This is why so many parents are willing to spend a lot of money to send their children to prestigious schools. Even if these prestigious schools are unwilling to recruit sponsored students, they still have to try their best to get their children into them.

This "commodity" brings higher profits and more terrifying influence than monopoly knowledge, but the negative effects it brings are minimal.

People never hate those schools of higher education that do not accept their children. They only hate that their children are not good enough and that they are not rich enough. In short, they do not think this is the problem of the school!

How terrible?

Not even medical groups can match this. At least some people will criticize medical groups, but few people will criticize education groups.

Therefore, in this case, changing the education system will not really affect the interests of those education groups.

Public universities sell knowledge, while private universities sell the secret to success. They are not the same thing!

Everyone in the room knew this, but they were unwilling to stand up first. Mr. Trueman stood up, and the President thought again about the day he stood in his office expressing his despair for this country and for the capitalists. and indignation.

This just makes the president trust Trueman even more, because he knows that he has no one else he can rely on except himself.

Mr. President nodded, "I also talked about the issue of education reform in my declaration of office. This is the time for me to fulfill my promise. I don't want to be called a 'liar president' when I retire!"

"So Trueman, where do we start?"

Without much hesitation, Mr. Trueman said, "Start with a lower standard."

"I thought you were going to say build more public schools," the president said in a lighthearted tone. It was a joke.

The construction cost of a public school is not high, but the maintenance cost is not low, and not every city can afford it financially.

The more advanced the school, the greater the cost. Now many states in the federation only have three or five universities, and many cities have no public universities.

Unaffordability is a big problem. If many public schools are to be built, it will put a heavy pressure on federal finances.

In addition, the source of teachers will also be more troublesome.

Mr. Trueman shook his head, "There is no need. We just need to expand the existing school campus so that it can accommodate more people to study."

"The reform of primary schools and middle schools should not be too big, and universities...", he pondered for a while, "We can encourage local governments and private partners, or give grants to those who are willing to establish private universities, but follow the new rules we have formulated. Some help."

"For example...students."

"There will be many people who want to go to college but can't afford it, such as Lynch..."

The room suddenly burst into laughter full of good intentions or not so good intentions. Everyone knew that Lynch was actually good at studying. Because he had no money and no insurance for further education, he stopped going to high school.

Although he is now enrolled in the Holy Peace School, everyone who knows him knows that this is not a real school.

That deep-seated sense of superiority made people laugh. They finally found a side that performed better than Lynch. They went to college!

Mr. Trueman was also laughing, "Education reform can allow more people from the bottom of society to support our political platform, and we can also elect more talents for the federation. They will change this country!"

There is a kind of luster on everyone's face, a kind of luster full of mission.

Once education reform succeeds, they will become an essential part of the history of the Union, because each of them promoted the progress of this country.

Mr. President nodded, "Don't reveal this matter yet, we still need to wait."

"A lot of this year's budget goes into the pockets of the military. We don't have the funds to launch this reform. Next year, or the year after, when the finances are looser, it won't be a problem."

"And this requires more detailed discussion and research..."

This is normal and there is nothing wrong with it.

The tone of this education reform seems to have been set. They don't even have the idea of ​​talking about health care reform and insurance reform, because they know that those are absolutely impossible things.

Rather than being hated or even retaliated by capitalists, let’s talk about the issue of education. People are more concerned about this.

In the next few days, the entire federation was very calm. More and more people accepted Shimo's "offer". They borrowed a sum of money from Shimo and then used it to compensate for the damage caused to Shimo. loss, and then have to pay the installments of this money every moment.

It sounds a bit confusing, but this special move was quickly learned by banks. They adjusted the calculation method of personal installments, adopting the method that the faster you repay, the lower the interest, and the slower you repay, the higher the interest. , and it had some miraculous effects for a while.

In addition to these, in early June, two things slightly touched a nerve for some people.

The first thing was that there was a fight in Marillo. The former backers of Shishi lost their financial support. When they still had money to maintain their own scale, the general launched a war against their neighbors.

This is not a battle between gangs. A group of you and a group of me are hiding behind the trash cans across the street, holding up their pistols in an unknown direction and pulling the triggers with their eyes closed.

Except for the passers-by who were killed, no one on the other side might be injured.

This is a war, a real war, with more than 30,000 people participating on both sides!

The peaceful situation in Marillo was suddenly broken, which also led to great pressure on the border, with Marillo people trying to cross the border into the Federation every day to seek asylum.

But now...federal policy is to prohibit labor immigration, in other words, they refuse to allow ordinary people to come here in any form.

Unless they have money.

Or have technology!

At this time, Sanchez, who had disappeared for a while, reappeared in Marillo. He held high the banner of "Peace and Friendship" and began to recruit people. The slogan was to create a truly peaceful Marillo, a Marillo and Marlow. A country where people can live in peace.

This is as funny as someone saying that shit will become delicious after being processed, but some people really believe it.

There are always fools with dreams, right?