Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

Regarding the improvement of urban pricing power

8:04

There was silence in the entire Congress Hall. Everyone lowered their heads and looked at the first issue on the light and shadow screen in front of them. It was proposed by the eight major associations. There are problems and loopholes in the current pricing power, and specific improvements in pricing power are needed. The problem.

In the middle, there is a round table, and the six gods sit on chairs of corresponding colors in 3D human shapes of corresponding colors.

Only one blue chair was empty. Many people didn't quite understand what it meant. Although they had some guesses, no one cared about such a problem. They just looked at the first motion attentively.

The entire Congress hall was like a battlefield about to start a war, and there was a heavy sense of oppression in the air.

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The door behind the Business Department opened, and Ye Chunwang and Hawke walked in. Everyone looked at it for a moment. The two General Affairs Department staff members who opened the door quickly closed the door again. Hawke, Ye Chunwang and the people from the Business Department After nodding, he sat in the last row behind the administrative staff.

The gods have given everyone 20 minutes of reading time and thinking time, and a full-scale discussion on this issue will officially begin later.

Many people seemed a little nervous, because they did not expect that the issue of pricing power would be discussed at the beginning and it would be difficult to reach a consensus until tomorrow morning.

Discussions of proposals are arranged by the gods. This is also the issue that businessmen and families are most concerned about.

Because of the issue of pricing power, many people have suffered losses in the past. The pricing power of 9 subjects has made most businessmen timid and missed some opportunities. Many businessmen have already spoken out in protest.

Such a system will hinder the city's economy, and if businessmen cannot let go, the city's economy will even stagnate.

Alpha and the other section chiefs who went out in the morning came back half an hour ago, and Alpha seemed to be fine.

Clark stared at Wu Qun and others opposite. They came over to talk about pricing power at first. It seemed that it was not accidental, but intentional.

It was just 8:11

There are still 9 minutes left before the formal discussion begins, but at this time everyone has a clear mind. The section chiefs who came in later also learned from Locke about the pricing power that the congressmen had said before.

Everyone was not stupid, and they knew what Freya and the others meant. Locke sat in the seat closest to the gods, and he was responsible for presiding over the meeting.

However, everyone present was a little confused because they did not see Gene, the chief of Section 13, and Section 13 abstained from voting on the voting display.

Many people are already waiting for the time to end. Everyone is looking forward to the start of the topic, especially businessmen. This is an issue related to their wealth and life. Many businessmen have applied for the right to speak and will be in the discussion of the topic. , let businessmen speak if necessary.

The atmosphere in the entire hall became heavier and heavier as time passed. The relaxation that had just appeared briefly due to the arrival of Hawke and Ye Chunwang had disappeared.

Hawke and Ye Chunwang have already read the document, but they both feel a little strange, because the pricing power has been written into the law and is supported by the eight major associations. Merchants do not have independent pricing power for goods.

But now that this issue is on the table, it always feels a bit confusing. Just as Ye Chunwang was thinking about it, Hawke laughed and seemed to have understood it.

“It’s going to be a big show at the beginning!”

As Hawke said this, Ye Chunwang suddenly came to his senses, nodded and leaned back comfortably.

"It's time to start!"

As the red god spoke, the purple god next to him pointed towards the parliamentarian faction.

"Wu Qun, it's up to you to explain in detail."

Wu Qun stood up, a smile appeared on his serious expression, and he bowed first.

"First of all, on behalf of all the members, I would like to thank the six gods and all of you from the business department opposite for giving us the opportunity to enter here!"

After Wu Qun bowed, he put away the smile on his face.

"It has been more than 50 years since the city was established! All of you present, as well as those who participated in the important construction of the city in the past, constitute the main body of this city!"

Wu Qun slowly walked out of his seat and stepped onto a platform. As the platform slowly rose, Wu Qun stood on a platform more than 2 meters high, with his hands casually pressed on the table.

"In the past, our urban structure was very simple. Perhaps it could not be called a city, but a community where humans gathered. Chaos and unbearability were the true portrayal of this city in the past few decades. Here I want to raise a question! "

He raised his right hand, with his index finger extended from his right hand that was clenched into a fist.

"Are we serving the city, or should the city serve us? I hope everyone can consider this issue."

Freya behind Wu Qun smiled and nodded, and everyone was listening carefully.

"As the core part of the city's main body, the economy is the inducement that determines everything, and the pricing power directly determines the economic circulation speed and circulation quality!"

Hu Youran in the auditorium looked at Wu Qun in surprise. He did not use complicated examples to explain, but went straight to the core points. As expected, this guy is really powerful.

"Nowadays, because of the construction problems of the Angus family, the city's economic problems have become riddled with all kinds of chaos, making the city's management difficult and complicated, but the pricing power If left to the market, there will definitely be price chaos, speculation, resource monopoly and other problems!"

As soon as Wu Qun finished speaking, everyone in the business gallery and the family gallery looked at Wu Qun. Many people looked at Wu Qun with anger.

"So I think there is no problem if the pricing power is nationalized."

As soon as Wu Qun finished speaking, some businessmen could not sit still. Many people felt threatened. They had obviously contacted Wu Qun many times before and hoped that they could unanimously agree on the issue of pricing power. At least it can allow the business department to relax the control of pricing power, so that everyone can feel more relaxed, but now Wu Qun's speech has angered many people.

"Of course! I have raised the issue of economic flow speed and quality before. Now let's take a look at a typical example."

As he spoke, Wu Qun brought up a light and shadow screen, and quickly brought out the documents that had been prepared in the motion.

On the light and shadow screen is a chart of the changes in the economic structure of a chain restaurant in the past ten years. The changes in the economic structure three years ago had steady ups and downs, but in the past three years, the turnover of this chain restaurant has dropped a lot, and There have been times where I hit rock bottom all of a sudden.

"The bottom part is that this restaurant cannot bear its original size. Before the pricing power was returned to Congress, this store had independent pricing power, but after the pricing power was returned to Congress, , the store's turnover has begun to decline, and the stable tax revenue that chain stores could provide every year has now shrunk by more than 35% compared to before."

"What's the reason?"

The green god spoke, a high-pitched and serious female voice sounded, and Wu Qun bowed.

"The reason is the service fee. I have said before that the sudden return of state-owned pricing power has disrupted the originally normal flow of the market economy, and some merchants have received lower final prices for items than in the past, resulting in less profit. It was difficult to support the huge volume in the past, which ultimately led to this restaurant chain being able to sell off some of its restaurants to ensure that the restaurants in the places with the largest traffic can continue to make profits."

Wu Qun's voice became deeper.

"Because profits are low, chain restaurants that used to rely on independent pricing adjustments to support their economic size could only charge guests an additional service fee, but not every guest can understand and accept it. This restaurant chain My boss is also present, and I think it might be more direct to ask him to speak."

A middle-aged man with half a bald head who was allowed to speak stood up and kept saying some words of thanks.

"Our company has not been having a good time in recent years. In the past, the prices of our chain restaurants were much higher than the prices set by Congress, but then we would charge service fees to make up for the losses, but many customers hated our approach, and many stores Business started to slow down because the service quality, decoration, and freshness of the food in our store are better than those of similar stores in the area, so our food cannot be priced at the same price as theirs, and there is nothing we can do about it. Maintaining everything in the store will even reduce the salary of employees! In the past few years, our store has had some disputes between employees and customers. Their salary has been reduced by half than before, but they still have to provide the same service as before, so some The employees were not in a good mood.”

The middle-aged man said, and all the problems became clear. At this time, the merchant family breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let me tell you something first."

Brandon, the section chief of the Ninth Business Section, stood up, stared sharply at Wu Qun across from him, jumped out of his seat, and walked to the stage next to Locke.

"I personally understand what happened to this businessman friend just now! But..."

Brandon changed his usual soft style and became tougher in tone.

"Some people make money, and some people lose money. Many people are being patient. This businessman friend is not the only one who is having a hard time, but there are also people who have made money under this pricing system. Representative Wu Qun, please don't give examples of failures. , and I hope you can come up with some successful examples. The implementation of a system is inherently accompanied by the duality of failure and success. If it is only one-sided, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain the two core essential issues you raised!"

Wu Qun smiled and nodded. At this time, the originally happy businessmen looked at Wu Qun eagerly, hoping that Wu Qun could quickly come up with something more powerful to refute the opposite party.

Wu Qun nodded and brought up another case. It was a chain of small food supermarkets. In the past 10 years, before the pricing power was taken back to the state, the turnover did not fluctuate much. However, after the pricing power was taken away by Congress, After returning home, the turnover of this small supermarket chain began to rise in a straight line.

But the examples Wu Qun cited worried everyone, because indeed, as Brandon said, some people made money because of pricing, and some people lost money because of pricing issues. This is actually different from the past when businessmen set their own prices. During this period, it has a lot to do with increasing one's own economic volume after making profits. Some people operate very cautiously and always take one step at a time, but some people take bigger steps.

"Member Wu Qun, the examples you gave do not seem to have much to do with the two core issues you raised, the speed and quality of economic flows!"

Wu Qun smiled and nodded. Many people were worried about Wu Qun, but at this time Wu Qun raised his right hand again and extended his index finger.

"Do you still remember the question I asked at the beginning?"

At this time, everyone is thinking, and they all know that the two examples cited by Wu Qun are not enough to stand up, because the former is due to its relatively large size, and after pricing, it is difficult to support the previous huge size. The latter is because the size itself is relatively small. After pricing, business has improved and the economic size has increased, but in fact its material size is still the same as in the past.

The problem seemed to be back to the original point, but then Brandon realized that Wu Qun had dug a hole for himself from the beginning, and he jumped in stupidly. The two examples Wu Qun gave were misleading. thing.

Whether the city serves people or people serve the city, everyone now wants to understand the key point of Wu Qun's pun.

"Whether it is a city built by people or the people who live in the city, the relationship between everyone is mutual! Economic mobility is the eternal core. Because of the mobile economy, cities can develop and people can live. Everything is under control. In operation, pricing power can be seen as a suppressor, suppressing all aspects of the city, but it also hinders all aspects of people."

Wu Qun relaxed his expression and opened his hands slightly on both sides of the stage.

"I'm not saying that pricing power should be set by merchants according to market rules as it was in the past, but I want to point out a problem. Pricing is related to everything in the city and people. The current pricing power is too mechanized. Rather than being humane, because every industry is different, it is obviously not possible to only use 150% of the upper limit as a measurement standard. Such a standard will only cause problems in the balance of supply and demand, always maintaining a constant value, time Over time, the balance of supply and demand will no longer be a balance of supply and demand, but a balance of customization! Everyone should understand what I mean.”

Wu Qun raised his voice and continued.

"If an industry timidly maintains a constant value for a long time, a factory needs 100 workers, and what 100 workers produce will still be produced by 100 workers no matter how the efficiency changes, because everyone I am worried that next year’s pricing will make me lose all my money, so it is impossible to continue to increase the volume. But as you know, the current population in the city continues to grow, unemployment is still a problem, and the factory cannot increase the number of workers. , an industry is bound to remain at a constant value, how can development continue? How to employ more people, how to increase demand? This is the current situation of the city in the past three years after the pricing power was returned to Congress. The economy has been built by Angus The shutdown resulted in the Great Depression.”

As soon as Wu Qun finished speaking, the businessmen, people in the family, and the parliamentarians burst into warm applause.

Brandon took a deep breath but did not speak. Wu Qun waited for the applause to stop before continuing.

"Demand needs to be created, and to create demand is to allow the industry to have a point where it can continue to grow, rather than regulating it through the inhibitor of pricing power and forcing supply and demand to reach a theoretical balance. If the market economy If it's just a theory, there wouldn't be so many people unemployed now, there wouldn't be so many people living day by day, there wouldn't be so many businessmen shrinking back, and every New Year seems to be facing a trial."

At this time Brand said with a smile.

"So according to Representative Wu Qun, you mean to return pricing power to businessmen?"

After the tentative inquiry, the merchants and family members immediately looked happy, but as Wu Qun shook his head, everyone's faces were filled with doubts.

"Pricing power should be made into specific details, or industry-based. We cannot use the calculated values ​​​​feedback from such rigid data to determine pricing power. Instead, we should measure pricing power based on the future development trend of each industry. We must We must consider the sustainable growth of the industry in the next 10 or even 20 years. This is the purpose of our proposal to modify the pricing power this time. The economy should move slowly like a long stream of water in order to be able to feed most people in the city. Let everyone be the beneficiary, rather than someone failing and someone succeeding! It should be relative success and relative failure. Comparing success and failure, those with more profits will be more profitable, and those with less profits will have a certain loss. , this is the final conclusion reached by supply and demand!”

Brandon looked at Wu Qun without saying a word. He knew that there was no chance to refute now. The current pricing control is indeed based on data, and the result is exactly as Wu Qun said. The industry has begun. Stagnation, everyone is afraid of pricing power, many small and medium-sized businessmen are reducing their capital, investing only in parts that can make stable profits.

Although some people are still persisting in some industries that cannot make stable profits, the continued decline of these industries is difficult for many people to accept.

Industries that are unable to make profits will naturally be kicked out. Naturally, they will not be able to recruit more workers, and naturally there will not be much output. What will eventually lead to is the shrinkage of the market, and the shrinkage of the market will lead to a drop in demand. Businessmen Naturally, they will not try their best to create demand for products that they reject, and people will naturally not pay for them.

"Do you have anything else to say? Brandon."

The Orange God asked, and Brand shook his head and bowed. He originally wanted to wait until the Angus family's construction was stable before making adjustments to the pricing power issue, but now it seems that he cannot hold on. Yes, Wu Qun has explained everything clearly.

"Anyone else want to speak?"

The businessmen looked at Wu Qun excitedly, waiting for the voting to begin.

The first bill soon won with an overwhelming vote from the members. Although there were many abstentions, in general the first bill came to a successful conclusion.

The issue of pricing power will be handed over to the parliamentarians and Section 9 for detailed discussions in the future to improve the current somewhat rigid issue of pricing power.

"Okay everyone, you can start looking at the next topic!"

Regarding the specific amendments to the Trinity Law and the exercise of the legitimate rights of the administrative department

For a moment, Peristan and Xingyuan in the celebrity gallery looked at the motion in front of them with some surprise. The person who proposed it was Alpha Angus.

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Alpha. This question finally came, and everyone immediately thought of the Hydra case in the past.

This case has now become a textbook-level case, engraved in history, and has no conclusion at all.

But it is obvious that the motion proposed by Alpha this time is to improve some things in the Trinity Law and pull Hydera out of this quagmire from the side.

At this time, the crowd began to commotion. Everyone looked at the details of the motion submitted by Alpha and felt that something was wrong, because one of the clauses required that all members of the administrative department be equipped with weapons, which made many people feel uneasy.

Freya looked at everything Alpha proposed carefully, and always felt that if this breakthrough was opened, legal gun control would usher in a new round of high-pressure control in the city.

The current intensity is enough, and Freya feels that there is really no need to be so tough anymore.

It's just that in the last riot, it was true that a large number of officers died, and a riot of that scale was finally resolved by shooting, including the previous criminals who fled the city collectively. Similarly, when the criminals fled the city, the number of members of the bureau who were killed or injured was even higher.

There are still many people injured and disabled in that incident, because they had no weapons at the time, only stun guns, tear gas and other conventional suppressive and dispersal weapons, and the criminals directly took out heavy firepower weapons.

Fortunately, Alpha applied to lift the ban in time, and the people in the business department took up arms to fight back. However, in the end, more than 1,000 people were killed and more than 3,000 people were injured to varying degrees.

In recent years, there have been cases where some members of the administrative department died while trying to stop crimes, and some were even beaten to death.

Obviously, stun guns, tear gas, and handcuffs are not enough to solve all problems. Many people are afraid of entering Section 5 because they are afraid that when chaos occurs, they will be hurt in the process of stopping them.

Many people were silent, looking at the bloody fact reports submitted by Alpha, but when it comes to supervising the use of weapons, it is another difficult problem. How can we judge the situation? This is what Hydera did back then, and she pulled the trigger. Eventually the situation became extremely chaotic.

At this time, everyone was thinking about the same issues, and they were all thinking about the Hydera case, the Trinity Law that has been extended to the present, and the adjustments and changes made between the two.

In the brightly lit streets, Tamai was still patrolling. He held the brim of his hat and walked on the streets. When he occasionally saw chaos, he immediately went over to persuade and stop it.

Nowadays, the streets in the south are full of drunkards, who will gather at night. If they are not controlled in time, problems are likely to arise.

Tamai glanced at the dazzling Congress Hall. He sincerely expected Peristan to raise the issue of the Hydera case. It has been 15 years and no one cared about this poor soul. What is happening in prison? Like this, but repeatedly arguing about right and wrong.

It's just that Hydera seems to have figured it out recently. Tamay has visited him several times this year, and the two of them had a happy chat every time.

Tamai was glad that Hydera had become much more cheerful and willing to see them. Next year Tamai would leave this street and go to the bottom.

After meeting a colleague across the street, Tamai greeted him with a nod and the two walked in different directions down the street.

Today is an extremely important day. All 5 Section members in each district are on patrol. Someone must patrol the streets 24 hours a day.

Tamay continued to walk on the street. At this time, she looked towards an alley. Several women were talking to a few men. He immediately walked in quickly.

"Misses and gentlemen, please show your identification."

Several people suddenly came back to their senses and looked panicked. After Tamai looked at the identity certificates of several people, they were not from this area, and judging from their appearance, all Tamai could think of was illegal body trade. .

"Sir, we are leaving now."

Several men said they were going to leave, and the women also said they wanted to go home to watch the show. Tamai did not stop them, and they quickly left.

There was a sound of something being dragged, and Tamai looked over. A pale girl dragged a large suitcase out of the corridor. At this time, the landlord chased her out.

"It's okay to leave tomorrow."

The girl shook her head and said she would leave tonight, but the landlord became reluctant and pestered the girl.

Tamai couldn't stand it anymore and walked over quickly.

"Sir, Miss, do you have any questions?"

Tamai looked at this extremely beautiful girl. The girl lowered her head. She looked like she was sixteen or seventeen years old. The landlord turned around and was about to leave.

"Sir, please show me your ID card. Now I suspect that you may have violently treated this lady."

The landlord immediately panicked and shook his head hastily. Tamai looked at a torn bag on the girl's arm, which had burst. He directly picked up the girl's hand. The girl struggled and looked like she wanted to escape. It seemed, but Tamai grabbed him and directly called the nearby Section 5 staff member. The landlord felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly came over to please him and wanted to give Tamai some money, but was stopped. Tamai immediately twisted his hands and cuffed them.

"Sir, you are now charged with one more crime, bribery."

Tamai looked at the beautiful young girl named Baleka, who was still begging.

"Brother, please let me go. I'm really fine. The injuries here are..."

Tamai walked over directly, opened Baleka's back collar, and saw obvious scars underneath.

"Please explain how these scars came about, Miss Barak."

Baleka shook his head and squatted next to the big box, lowering his head, as if he didn't want to say anything. Soon more than 20 staff from Section 5 had come over, and two female staff led Baleka in. Planning to inquire in detail, Tamai looked at the landlord in the corner.

"Sir, if you still want to hide something, we will resist arresting you first."

The landlord still shook his head, not planning to say anything.