Earth Era

Although they had known Daniel's straightforward and bold communication style before visiting him, the CEOs were still slightly surprised when Daniel said this directly. After a slight adjustment, the president said cautiously: "We can contribute ten percent of the company's profits. If you can increase the energy price by twenty percent."

Daniel waved his hand: "With 20% of your company's profits, I can increase the energy price by 50%. That's it."

Several CEOs looked at each other, and they all saw a hint of joy in each other's eyes: "In that case, thank you very much, Mr. Daniel."

Daniel left here proudly, and a few hours later, he quietly sent a message to an unknown mailbox.

"I bought twenty pears for fifty yuan."

During the Economic Reform Committee working meeting, the portable computer on Wu Wei's wrist vibrated slightly. Opening it, Wu Wei saw this somewhat strange message. But he didn't show any surprised expression on his face, and deleted the message directly as if he was mentally prepared.

"It is imperative to increase energy prices." Wu Wei emphasized his tone, "Under the premise of long-term low energy prices in the past, waste was very serious and gave birth to many bad living habits. Among them, new tax sources There is great potential to tap this. Once the profits of energy companies increase, their tax payments will inevitably increase. I think it is more appropriate to increase energy prices by 50% on the current basis."

The participants hurriedly took notes, and it took more than ten minutes for Wu Wei to stop speaking.

"Chairman, according to the procedures, energy price increases must be announced. When do you think it would be better to announce this news?"

"Now."

"good."

The staff left in a hurry, and just a few minutes later, a piece of bombshell news appeared on the homepages of major media. Almost as soon as this news appeared, crazy protests and abuse swept the entire Internet.

Han Luochang also learned the news immediately.

"Is the price increased by 50%? Does Wu Wei want to provoke a popular uprising? The economic reform policies implemented previously have emptied all the people's savings. If energy prices increase again, they may not even have the fuel for cooking. We can’t afford it! Not to mention relaxing in the game, I’m afraid even the lighting needs to be used. No, I will never allow this policy to be implemented.”

Han Luochang made up his mind in the shortest possible time. Just half an hour later, several investigation teams quietly left the Integrity Commission headquarters and went to unknown destinations.

A few days later, the Economic Reform Commission announced that an official named Zhang would be responsible for the overall advancement of the matter. But just one day later, the official named Zhang was arrested by the Integrity Commission for serious dereliction of duty. Later, the person responsible for the matter was changed to an official named Wang, but he was also directly arrested the next day.

Then came the third, then the fourth, until no one was willing to take on the task.

Every time an arrest is made, the Integrity Commission immediately publishes the criminal facts and evidence of the corresponding official in major media. The facts are clear and the handling is accurate.

Every appointment of an official will trigger overwhelming protests, and every move by the Integrity Commission will trigger overwhelming praise. Between this contrast between positive and negative, the reputation of the Integrity Commission and Han Luochang once again rose to an incredible height.

Everyone understands that at this moment, only Han Luochang can block the implementation of this policy, and only Han Luochang has enough qualifications and strength to fight against Wu Wei.

I don't know how many times Wu Wei came to Han Luochang's office angrily.

"Han Luochang, are you deliberately going against me? Don't you like to arrest people? You have the ability to arrest me too!"

Facing the angry Wu Wei, Han Luochang just said slowly: "Sorry, Chairman Wu, I don't know what you are talking about. I am just fulfilling my duties and fighting against illegal crimes. Is this wrong? Of course, if Wu If the Chairman thinks you should be arrested, please confess your crime. After I have enough evidence, I will apply to wake up the Head of State and the Head of State will issue an arrest warrant himself."

At this moment, there seemed to be a flame burning in Wu Wei's chest. He knew very well that Han Luochang was sent by Shen Qingyuan to specifically restrain him. This was the balancing act of the superior. Wu Wei had no objection to this arrangement. But when it comes to specific matters, the feeling that no matter what he does, there will be someone secretly pulling him back, preventing him from being able to perform as he wishes, still makes him furious.

"Very good, very good. All the reputation belongs to you, and all the guilt belongs to me. Han Luochang, is this what you want? I tell you, economic reform is imperative, and one day you will regret what you have done. What you did.”

Han Luochang said indifferently: "I abide by the law and work according to the rules and regulations. I don't know why I regret it."

"Humph." Wu Wei sneered, waved his hand and left.

The increase in energy prices was finally not implemented because of his own interference, but Han Luochang already felt some fatigue deep in his heart. He has done things like this countless times in the past ten years. Although his reputation has been continuously improved, and Wu Wei is indeed beaten by everyone, Han Luochang knows that these are actually meaningless.

As long as Shen Qingyuan didn't announce Wu Wei's dismissal for a day, he could only persist like this day by day. Han Luochang knew that no one could do this job except himself. The most important thing is that I don't know when it will end. Moreover, there are some things that if Wu Wei is determined, even if he wants to stop them, he will be powerless.

After all, he is only the chairman of the Integrity Commission and is not in charge of economic reform matters.

"Alas." Han Luochang sighed softly and focused on his work again.

Central Academy of Sciences, Experimental Base No. 309.

Looking at the experimental data in front of him, Huang Yuan once again shook his head in disappointment. He originally thought that this would be a breakthrough. In order to verify this conjecture, he invested a lot of resources and manpower, and it took him five years to prepare the relevant experimental equipment, but the final result still disappointed him.

Experimental data shows that this is just some variation of electromagnetic force under special circumstances. It is still within the coverage of the existing theoretical framework and is not new physics.

He originally thought that when the head of state woke up this time, he would not have to bear that kind of pressure when he went to report to work, but the reality gave Huang Yuan a hard blow, making him even a little depressed at this time.

"A huge investment of resources, a large number of low-level scientific researchers supplemented by the emphasis on education, almost all the experimental equipment needs, a relaxed academic atmosphere, and a long period of more than ten years, are these... not enough?"

When the plan first started to be implemented, Huang Yuan had long been mentally prepared to get nothing, but when the reality was really before his eyes, he still felt a little hard to accept it.

Huang Yuan irritably swept the messy scraps of paper in front of him into the trash can, then stood up and stood in front of the porthole of the base.

This is the best-located office space in the entire scientific research base. Here, you can directly see the vast universe outside through the portholes, and see the long line of light composed of countless spaceships and space bases. Whenever he felt irritable, Huang Yuan would stand here quietly looking at the scenery outside the window. No matter how irritable his mood was, he would eventually calm down. But this time Huang Yuan failed.

His mood was still agitated and he still couldn't calm down for a long time.

The auditory hallucinations in my ears seemed to be a little more serious, as if countless people were talking in my ears, even if I covered my ears tightly, it would not help.

Because of the constant rotation of the base, the scenery outside the window is constantly changing. Sometimes it's the vast stars, sometimes it's the bright and dazzling Phoenix Star, sometimes it's the huge human fleet, sometimes it's the huge planet beneath our feet.

When the huge body of New Jupiter came into Huang Yuan's eyes again, Huang Yuan's mind moved slightly, as if he remembered something, but he couldn't think clearly clearly. When the base continued to rotate and a shining star in the distance came into view - it was another large planet hundreds of millions of kilometers away from here, New Saturn -, that idea finally became clear.

When the whole idea was finally fully presented in his mind, the auditory hallucinations in his ears completely disappeared in an instant, and the aura of aging and decadence disappeared in an instant. Huang Yuan rushed to the desk as quickly as possible, grabbed a pen and a piece of paper, and started sketching and calculating quickly.

A large number of complex formulas and data appeared on the manuscript paper, quickly filling up the blank space. Huang Yuan grabbed another piece of manuscript paper and continued to write.

The scenery outside the window was constantly changing and rotating, stars appeared and disappeared, disappeared and appeared again, I don’t know how many times it repeated. Footsteps sounded from time to time outside the office, sometimes densely, sometimes sparsely, but in the end it was completely peaceful.

No matter how the external world changes, Huang Yuan always lies on the desk and continues his calculations. When the manuscript paper next to him had piled up into a thick pile and his wrist began to feel some pain, Huang Yuan finally put down the pen in his hand.

At this moment, Huang Yuan's originally aging and cloudy eyes shone with a strange light. His stooped body seemed to straighten up in an instant.

He knew that when the head of state woke up next time, he wouldn't need to bear that kind of pressure again. The auditory hallucination that has always been lingering in his ears will probably never appear again.

Holding the manuscript papers in his arms, Huang Yuan murmured to himself: "I will repay the debt I owe, and you don't have to pester me anymore."