Chapter 151: On the Parliament Hill

Although the Parliament Hill is called a mountain, it is only a small hill 25 meters high. Look at 1 wool line 3 Chinese network The parliament building is built on the top of the parliament hill, and three three-story small buildings are distributed in a triangle, representing the people's ownership, people's governance, and people's enjoyment. The three small buildings are connected by a rotunda in the middle, implying the principle of equal representation of the states.

At the time of the Parliament Building, the 25-metre Parliament Hill was already the commanding height of Fort St. John's, and from the spires of the three small buildings, the whole city could be seen at a glance.

The building of the parliament building on the commanding height of the city means that it is owned by the people, ruled by the people, and enjoyed by the people. But now, the wealth has built buildings taller than Parliament Hill, and I wonder if that means that the power of wealth and capital can trample democracy under their feet.

In front of the Houses of Parliament is the most famous lawn of the Federation, on which every president must take the oath of office. A huge statue of John Robespierre, standing next to the lawn. President John is shown on the statue with one hand held flat with his palm forward, symbolizing the eternal protection of the kingdom he has opened.

It's neither presidential swearing-in day nor a celebration day, so the lawn is empty, except for a handful of tourists pointing around the Capitol building, except for a single bird anxiously circling the statue of John.

A few days ago, the bird built a nest under the armpit of the statue and laid a few eggs. But this morning, the nest was cleared by the powerful sanitation workers of Fort St. John, and the birds were chirping in a hurry when they came back from foraging and disappeared from their nests.

President John wanted to shelter the entire Union forever, but now he doesn't seem to be able to shelter even a bird.

Luo Songxi and Lin Xiaoman were on this parliament hill, dressed as a couple who had come to play, waiting for the meeting in the rotunda to end.

After receiving the assessment task, Luo Songxi and the three quickly divided the labor, and the most professional Luo Qingming was responsible for collecting and analyzing data for them, because he said that after all, he had the status of the Joint Security Committee, and it was inconvenient for him to come forward directly.

Seeing Luo Songxi, he had to ask why it was inconvenient to come forward directly, Luo Qingming rolled his eyes directly at him.

If the Joint Security Committee can let go of the investigation of the case without hindrance, why should it come to you?

So the field work naturally fell to Luo Songxi and Lin Xiaoman.

But the good news is that since the other trainees have not yet returned from their internships, they have the right to pick simple cases first.

The first target Luo Qingming chose for them was the deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Industrial Affairs, Agiza, who will present the adjustment of federal industrial policy to the House of Representatives at the Parliament building today.

They were waiting for Chief Agiza to come out.

According to Luo Qingming's intelligence, Agiza is suspected of accepting large bribes from relevant shipbuilding companies in exchange for the Federal Bureau of Industrial Affairs' adjustment of industrial policies, favoring shipbuilding, ocean and other industries, increasing subsidies, and providing government loans.

Luo Qingming believes that among all the people on the list, Agiza is the simplest case, as long as he keeps an eye on Agiza, through the people who contact him, find the businessman who donated money to him, and then he can start an investigation into the company, so as to grasp the evidence of Agiza's bribery.

It is always easier to investigate businessmen than officials, and even the Joint Security Committee can do it itself - officials need authorization one after another, and there are still many excuses that can be found for investigating businessmen.

Azagi finally came out of the parliament building, a dark-skinned, short, middle-aged man, with a face full of exhaustion and unwillingness.

He spent four full hours in the morning, repeatedly explaining to the arrogant members of the House of Commons the details of the federal government's fourth industrial restructuring plan, but it was clear that this version of the adjustment plan did not satisfy the majority.

He felt like a prisoner in the courtroom, facing the prosecution's endless cross-examination.

Even the prisoner had the right to remain silent, but he did not.

From the very beginning of his tenure, President Sith Wilde began to adjust the industrial structure of the Federation, especially focusing on eliminating backward production capacity in the industrial zone around Fort St. John, and developing a large industrial base with a whole industrial chain in the coastal areas of the north and south where logistics are more convenient, land is cheaper, and labor costs are lower.

Everyone knows that such an adjustment is necessary in line with the future development trend of the Federation, but the Federation has experienced several economic depressions after the Second East-West War, and the Federation and the chaebols are not well funded, so to promote such a large investment, the Federation must be willing to spend money.

Moreover, when it comes to scrapping the old and creating the new, the interests involved are undoubtedly extremely huge. Both the ruling industrial and commercial party and the opposition construction party are extremely sensitive to the plan for industrial restructuring.

President Sisi has been in office for nine years, and with the two presidential terms about to expire, the three industrial restructuring plans launched by the two parties have not been able to achieve substantial results in the endless bickering between the two parties.

At the end of his term, President Sith abandoned his efforts to carry out a comprehensive industrial adjustment, and instead focused his efforts on the adjustment of the two industries, steelmaking and shipbuilding, hoping that his tenure would not end in any case with no inaction.

Mainly compared with other industries, the layout of the steel and shipbuilding industry in the coastal areas has begun to take shape, and the Southern Iron and Steel Group, invested by the Stuttgart family, and the Northern Iron and Steel Group, which has joined forces with several large conglomerates in the north, have already begun to put into production.

The shipbuilding industry, which is strongly related to the steel industry, also relies on Nangang and Beigang to have a certain climate, especially the emerging Beihai Heavy Industry Group in Beihai Prefecture, although the background is mysterious, but it has developed rapidly, and has the ability to undertake orders for ships in the Northern Military Region.

Starting from these two industries, it is relatively simple to negotiate with the existing giants to acquire the old factories in the industrial area around Fort St. John, so that they can merge and reorganize the original outdated production capacity and move out of the St. Johnburg area, where every inch of land is at a premium. At the same time, preferential policies are given so that industrial clusters in emerging industrial zones can quickly take shape.

But after all, when it comes to the redistribution of interests of hundreds of billions of federal dollars, how to cut the new cake is still very difficult for the government and the legislators representing the major chaebols.

Coming out of the parliament building, Chief Agiza walked down the parliament hill, took out a handkerchief at the entrance of a park at the foot of the hill, carefully wiped the sweat from his sideburns, and then got into an inconspicuous carriage.

Luo Songxi and Lin Xiaoman have been with Agiza for a week, but in this week, Agiza has handed over all the time except sleeping to the revision and writing of the industrial adjustment plan, and the rhythm of life at two points and one line is like an image of an excellent civil servant who has done his best for the Federation.

Until today, after the plan meeting, it seems that he is finally going to start socializing after a long time.

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It was former Speaker Maine Grice, who had lunch with Maine in a private mansion and stayed until four o'clock in the afternoon. What exactly he talked about with Myne we can't get into. ”

At dinnertime, Luo Songxi reported to Luo Qingming their harvest today.

Luo Qingming pushed the delicate glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his fingers slid through a large pile of information documents, Rao has an amazing memory, and it took a lot of time to find the information of Maine Glais.

Maine is 76 years old this year, he was born from the grassroots, and when he first entered the political arena, he had almost no background, and he finally sat in the position of vice chairman by relying on his earnest qualifications in the industrial and commercial party.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law was about to become a mother-in-law, she hoped to run for the primary election of the party's presidential candidate, but because of the corruption case in West Star State, she was cleanly ousted from power by Leonardo.

In this way, politicians with only qualifications and no background will hardly be paid attention to once their political life is over. Mr. Luo left politics and took on a senior advisory role at a real estate group called Flying Spur, according to Mr. Luo's profile.

For an industry like real estate, where connections are money, outdated and aging politicians do have a lot of residual heat.

Although the real estate group has little to do with the shipbuilding tycoons, Ageza's meeting with Maine is more like a pair of depressed old friends meeting for a drink of bitter water poured into each other.

But Luo Qingming still hopes to do the work more meticulously. He quietly returned to the Joint Security Committee to look up the information of the real estate developer.

At midnight, a carrier pigeon brought back Luo Qingming's discovery.

Half a month ago, the Beihai Heavy Industry Group had actually basically negotiated with the federation the terms for the acquisition of the fort St. John's shipyard controlled by the federation.

The St. John's Shipyard will be relocated north as a whole, and the shipyard's land at the mouth of the Wauka River will be converted into residential land as compensation and transferred to the North Sea State Shipbuilding Group at a low price.

The North Sea State Shipbuilding Group will join forces with a real estate developer to form a development company to develop the land into one of the most exclusive residential areas in Fort St. John, connecting it with the wealthy area on the Wauca River.

This real estate developer is Feichi Real Estate, where Maine works.

It looks like there's a clue.