Chapter 826: Dominating Southern Xinjiang (52) Economic Terror

On November 12, in accordance with the spirit of the "Framework of the Package of Laws for National Salvation", Ropier announced the beginning of the rectification of the Standing Committee, which marked the end of the Standing Committee that had been formally established on December 22, 2924 and had been in use for nearly three years.

Through the reorganization of Ropier, the Standing Committee was replaced by the National Salvation Committee, which became the chairman of the National Salvation Committee, and the chairman could promote six members to the National Salvation Committee without going through the parliament to form a group of seven representing the committee.

According to the "Framework of the National Salvation Decree" adopted on 11 July, the National Salvation Committee was established against the background of Sibber's crisis, and the ultimate purpose was to enable Sibber to transition from the chaotic state caused by the Great Revolution to a normal state, with the medium-term task of ending the intervention war, and the short-term task of repelling the intervening army and fulfilling the promise of price control.

Therefore, when the National Salvation Committee was established, Ropier made it clear that the National Salvation Committee was not the same as the previous Standing Committee, it was not a formal body, it was of a temporary nature, and as long as the final purpose was achieved, the National Salvation Committee would be dissolved and the power would be returned to the National Assembly.

In addition, the biggest difference between the National Salvation Committee and the Standing Committee is that his power is unimaginably greater, even greater than that of the former Seliti III.

This is so because Ropier, in the Framework of the Package of Salvation Laws, stipulates that in order to prevent Siber's energies from remaining in useless internal friction at the most dangerous moments, the institutions established should have appropriate more powers.

When the National Salvation Committee was formally established, Ropier made it clear that only the chairman of the National Salvation Committee had the power to propose bills to the National Assembly, and the other members could only recommend that the chairman vote on bills, and once the bills were initiated, they would first be voted on within the committee, and the voting of the National Salvation Committee would also abide by the "spirit of compromise".

If a bill is proposed by the Chairman and is not passed by the National Salvation Committee, the Chairman can still initiate a bill in the National Assembly, but with the same requirements as before, that is, two-thirds of the votes are required.

However, once the National Salvation Council has passed a bill and the chairman of the committee has initiated it in the National Assembly, the number of votes required in the National Assembly will be no longer two-thirds, but one-third.

The basis for the introduction of this bill is that the National Salvation League holds only 20% of the seats in the National Assembly, and it is too difficult to win two-thirds of the votes.

The list of the remaining 6 members of the committee was announced on the 13th, Eibak, a clothless man, was elected as a member, Siber commander Ji Weiluo was also elected as a member, and 2 were Lopier's diehards, and the remaining two members were Werner, the leader of the Order League, and Aidan, the leader of the Civil Rights League.

The reason why the other allies were brought in was because Ropier wanted to show that the National Salvation Committee was not a master of one of the Leagues of the National Salvation League.

However, even with the entry of two other allies, Werner was now known as the grass on the wall, and it was impossible to oppose Ropier in a clear manner, and even if Aidan was against everything, it was not at all to worry because of the spirit of the compromise.

However, there is another question, that is, Ji Weiluo is the commander of Siber, and he is the general with the highest military status in the entire Siber, if he joins the National Salvation Committee, then who will coordinate the military deployment?

In this regard, Ropier said that Ji Weiluo was the commander of Siber, and he said that the two facts of the National Salvation Committee are not in conflict, and Ji Weiluo can completely join the National Salvation Committee and continue to exercise his duties, and a discerning person can see that this means that the Siber army has bypassed the National Assembly and is controlled by the National Salvation Committee.

After the establishment of the National Salvation Committee, Ropier began to try to achieve short-term goals, first of all, to fulfill the basis of his own government, that is, the promise of a price limit to the people.

After several days of discussion, Ropier's vigorous and resolute work formulated the "General Price Limit Act", which was passed by the National Salvation Committee with 6 votes in favor and 1 vote against, and the only person who opposed the "General Price Limit Act" was naturally only Aidan of the Civil Rights League.

After the National Salvation Committee was passed, Ropier formally proposed to the National Assembly on the 15th to implement the bill, and after voting, the "General Price Limit Decree" received 41% of the votes in favor, although less than two-thirds of the votes were in favor, but according to the provisions of the "Package of National Salvation Decree Framework", it was allowed to pass and be passed.

Excerpt from "History of the Fall of the Parsons Dynasty"

"Ropier's reign of terror consisted of two pillars, economic terror and political terror, and the pillar of economic terror was the General Price Limit Act. ”

"Although the "Grain Price Limit Decree" implemented by the Order Alliance has made a certain attempt to limit the price, stipulating that the price needs to be limited to December 2923, this price is set according to local conditions, and the price limit is only the price of grain and other prices. ”

"In this way, first, the scope of adjustment is very small, and second, the division of regions is unclear and unclear, leaving a lot of room for businessmen to operate. ”

However, the General Price Limit Act was not the same, it covered not only foodstuffs, but also 23 necessities of life, such as salt and fuel, and Ropier imposed that the national price should be at the price level of Battiros in January 2921, beyond which it was considered illegal. ”

Soon after the promulgation of the "General Price Limit Decree", Ropier proposed a second edict, the "General Mobilization Decree", which ordered Siber to mobilize in full and fight a real all-out war with the Holy Order.

From the beginning of the General Mobilization Decree, the National Salvation Committee called on workers and soldiers to dedicate themselves to a better future, and to limit prices and wages across, so that factories could produce at full capacity.

Ever since the dragon fruit bubble burst, every winter, Sibber would starve and freeze to death because they didn't have enough money to buy the expensive food and fuel that survived the cruel winter, and usually joined the Clothless movement the following year.

The year 2927 was the first time to make an exception, because this year Ropier had issued the "General Price Limit Decree", which forced prices down, so that the masses could finally buy enough food and fuel to survive the winter.

However, when the old problems were solved, new problems arose, and when Ropier formulated the price limit decree, he carefully examined the prices of the last few years to ensure that food and fuel were available to the vast majority of people at this price level.

However, it is precisely because the vast majority of people can buy it that the inventory of shops in various places began to shrink sharply and quickly sold out.

Many families have bought enough food and fuel to last the winter, but the panic of the tragic memories of the past few years has led them to buy and hoard just in case.

It should be said that the behavior of this kind of person is understandable, but there are some black businessmen who are not, and through their keen sense of smell, they have long seen that the prices caused by this price limit will inevitably lead to a run, so they use their own savings to hoard on a large scale, preparing to take the opportunity to make a fortune.

The fact that black traders can make so much money cannot but tempt those who are still serious and law-abiding, and they have also begun to withhold their inventory in order to keep these products for sale on the more profitable black market.

As a result, the prices of necessities in the formal channels have indeed fallen due to the rigid regulations, but they are also lacking due to the influx of large quantities of goods into the black market, which makes the prices on the black market high, and the lack of goods in the formal channels has led to the masses having to go to the black market to buy, and the price limit law has been bypassed.

Some unclothed men who were dissatisfied with this went to Ropier's house and directly reported the situation to Ropier, which aroused the great attention of Ropier, and held a meeting overnight to discuss the corresponding measures.

Ropier's measures can be summed up in two plans, strict control and strict control, strict control is to strictly maintain the quantity of goods sold by each merchant, and to introduce measures on restrictive purchases and rationed purchases, and strict control is to strictly arrest and crack down on hoarding and smuggling on the black market.

With the order of these countermeasures, Battiros soon had a beautiful scenery, and there were long queues at the entrance of each business, and citizens had to go through long queues to buy their own quotas.

The Holy Order spies infiltrated Battyros filmed the scene and soon made it to the newspapers in the South with the headline "Sib's economy is on the verge of collapse", accompanied by images of long queues to buy quotas.

None of these measures had a good effect, and Ropier believed that because of the unfavorable punishment, the courts basically belonged to the pro-Siali faction, and hated Ropier's mandatory price limit, so after catching the vendors, the punishment for them was quite light, and the insignificant fines stimulated the activity of the black merchants.

Ropier felt that the best way to do this was for the National Salvation Council to take control of the judiciary, or at least to purge the current judges.

However, after discussion with his staff and other committee members, Ropier sadly found that this was an unrealistic idea, and that there was almost no solution to it.

It is useless to simply control the judiciary, because any law depends on people to enforce it, and Ropier cannot purge judges in the same way that he purged parliament.

You must know that after the promulgation of the "Parent Law of 2925", the then ruler of the government carried out a comprehensive purge of the judicial circles, expelling all judges who were inclined to the nobility and replacing them with new judges who were inclined to reform.

The law is something that needs to be studied, and Siariel has spent a lot of time trying to raise qualified judges, which is the reason why the judicial community has no fear of Ropier, and Ropier does not rely on them, but can only rely on the group of judges who are inclined to the nobility, which is not as good as the current group!

After a long day of discussion in the committee, the only answer that could be obtained was that of Eibak's severe punishment of the offender, or that of Judge Ropier.

At this time, the dilemma seemed unsolvable, but after all, it just seemed that the so-called only unthinkable could not be done, so Ropier fully excavated his own brain hole and found another way to solve this problem.