Chapter 342 Matrix (Part 1)

At 2:13 pm, near the 134th apartment building in District 1, Gene sat on a bench, smoking silently, his eyes fixed on a floor-to-ceiling window room on the east side of the sixth floor. At this point, most people have gone to work, and there are almost no people in the nearby residential area.

On the deserted street, there is only Gene. In such a city with a strict citizen hierarchy, only work can make your life comfortable. Gene has noticed these black craftsmen in the upper class a long time ago.

They are all technical talents, many of whom work in some large technology companies, but occasionally they will find ways to make some extra money. This group of people not only use homemade small machines to process some accessories, but also make and sell some equipment to the bottom through some illegal merchants.

To qualify as a craftsman in the city, there are many complicated procedures, and the most important thing is the high technical tax, as well as the standardization, which also needs to be regulated. Because they earn a lot, they need to pay more taxes. To produce a practical mechanical product, the price of a small one ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and a large one can easily reach millions, and the starting tax is 30%.

Most of these machines are engineering material crushing and reduction machines, wall template 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 mass changers, aerodynamic mass changers, etc.

For all technological products in daily life, most schools have such courses. This was a motion passed 30 years ago, which opened up the core technology course of urban life. Although the tuition is expensive, as long as you can graduate successfully, the monthly salary is not less than 10,000, and there are various benefits and year-end bonuses.

This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. It is conducive to the faster construction and development of the city, and will not cause the technology to be monopolized by big businessmen. Congress can effectively supervise through taxation. 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 Gene thought of this group of black craftsmen in the upper layer. They may work in a big company during the day, and when they go home at night or on 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 all white funds with a name that has been rolled in various store areas on the bottom floor. It is legal income. There are various legal stores on the upper, middle and lower floors. Most of these craftsmen are small investors in these legal stores. Through various operations, the stores can completely launder this money and give it to these craftsmen under legal names. They only need to pay a fee far lower than the tax.

In the past few years, as far as Gene knows, the most rampant black market products are bio-batteries and the light-killing weapons owned by the rioters. This makes Gene wonder who provided the technology to perfect the technology among the majority of the black craftsmen at the top, and where the technology and funds for the rioters come from.

These are what Gene urgently needs to investigate. Instead of being led by the rioters, he plans to jump out and go straight to the source. Funds, technology and materials, as long as any one of these three points is found, the other traps are just a trick to make the rioters really think that the Action Department is doing its best to catch them.

This morning, Gene went to Morse's shop and threatened him a little. Morse found the right black craftsmen at noon. Most of these black craftsmen had extra tasks for the company. The things produced in these companies were all qualified, but there were so-called defective products that exceeded the total amount. Most of these defective products were collected in the name of processing and recycling, but in fact, the company sold these defective products to other people in need at a low price. In fact, there were no defective products at all, just to avoid the high technology tax and the patent fees that needed to be paid to the inventors of the technology. Most of the patent fees would go into the pockets of the 10th department, because the 3,000 people there were scientists, and most of the things were 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 talents and urban technical facilities must keep up, so that the city can move forward rapidly.

Many of the problems left behind have gradually surfaced, adding bricks and tiles to the collapse of order. When this order cannot bear the huge volume of problems, it will definitely collapse.

Gene exhaled a puff of smoke, and sure enough, he saw a shirtless man on the balcony, yawning and basking in the sun on a rocking chair on the balcony. He seemed to have just woken up. He smiled and walked slowly over. After arriving at the bottom of the sixth floor, he suddenly jumped up.

The man sitting on the balcony looked tired and yawned. He looked to be in his sixties or seventies, with fluffy hair and dull eyes. This man was Yu Youzhen. He had worked at Hongyun Technology Co., Ltd. for nearly 20 years. He was already a level 3 technical specialist with a monthly salary of 18,000. He lived a comfortable life. He stayed up late last night to rush some things. He had so many orders and jobs from other places that he couldn't finish them until the end of next year.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Yu Youzhen!"

Swoosh

Yu Youzhen widened his eyes, watching a man in uniform appear in front of him. He was startled and just wanted to get up, but found that he had been restrained by telekinesis.

Gene raised a finger and walked slowly over. Yu Youzhen widened his eyes in horror, unable to make a sound in his throat. In an instant, a chill continued to rise from his back, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

It's over, I'm dead this time!

"I'm sorry, Mr. Yu Youzhen, this is an informal investigation. Please cooperate. I'm Gene, the head of Section 13!"

"The following is the fourth motion, proposed by Councillor Ada of District 29, which is the motion for re-employment of women in District 29 of Brilliant City. Please take 10 minutes to review it carefully!"

Gary Locke bowed and sat down. Le Xiao hurriedly looked at the content on the light and shadow panel. It was the same as what Ada had said to her this morning. She 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 many councillors whispering and grinning, and she was very angry. Most of the contemptuous eyes were focused on Ada.