When the representatives of the three major groups - Salvador, Julio, and Marcus - heard Ribbs' "Capital Recasting Plan", their eyes suddenly lit up with disbelief.
They had been smuggling goods around America all their lives and had never delivered goods openly. They couldn't even imagine what Ribs proposed.
Transport and sell goods openly and honestly, and only have to pay 40% lower than Kruen's exploitation?
This is like stepping from hell into heaven! The three of them said almost in unison, with uncontrollable excitement:
"Mr. Speaker, you are wise! I will leave it all to you!"
"We'll prepare immediately! We guarantee the highest quality of supply!"
"Happy cooperation! Long live Mr. Ribs!"
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The oppressive atmosphere in the meeting room was swept away.
Alfred expressionlessly began to arrange for the three people to leave through the secret passage.
Heisenberg understood what he meant, his eyes flashing with excitement about the huge source of "legal raw materials". He immediately returned to his new laboratory and began to prepare to receive and transform these "special goods".
After the negotiation, Ribbs returned to City Hall and immediately summoned the City Hall's chief legal advisor, and orally stated the core points of the "Regulations on the Circulation Management of Special Medical Raw Materials."
A carefully crafted, vaguely worded bill was drafted to circumvent existing restrictions on banned substances.
At the same time, a special operating license application tailored for Heisenberg Holdings' Corning Biotechnology was quickly drafted.
A few days later, the proposal was quickly voted through in the city council, which was controlled by Reebok, with almost no substantive discussion.
The voices of opposition were as weak as the hum of a mosquito and were soon drowned out by the praises of "supporting reform", "improving the business environment" and "promoting the development of the medical industry".
In Chicago, the law has truly become an extension of Ribbs's will, giving his vast financial and gray empire a bright and beautiful coat.
When Ribs signed the document as the Speaker, a subtle hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Don't I make all the laws in Chicago?" These words echoed silently in his mind again.
The news that the "Regulations on the Circulation of Special Medical Raw Materials" was passed by the City Council at lightning speed quickly made headlines in Chicago media.
Like a stone thrown into a lake, it caused ripples in Chicago far bigger than Ribbs had expected.
The Chicago Tribune asked in an almost pointed headline: "'Specialty Medical Ingredients' - A Gray Area in Drug Regulation, or the Opening of the Floodgates to Legalization?"
The article expressed great doubts about "special source natural ingredients" and the exclusive license suddenly obtained by "Corning Biotechnology", a new company that was established less than a month ago.
There are also voices of support.
The Chicago Sun-Times' economic column was relatively mild: "Will the Innovation Act transform the medical industry? Speaker Ribbs's push for new regulations may inject vitality into the biopharmaceutical industry."
The article emphasized the bill’s “positive impact” on “optimizing the raw material supply chain,” “reducing pharmaceutical company costs,” and “promoting the development of local biotechnology,” and quoted several anonymous “pharmaceutical industry insiders” who made optimistic predictions about the potential economic benefits.
Naturally, City Hall's official propaganda has spared no effort to tout the new bill, packaging it as another masterpiece of "reshaping Chicago's economic structure" like the Blue Roof Project, and a manifestation of his "wise" and "forward-looking" leadership.
Social media has become a battlefield for debate.
Some people cheered, believing that this represented an "enlightened drug policy" and a "realistic solution" that would enable the lower-class people suffering from illness to obtain affordable medicines and reduce the violence of the black market.
"This is overt drug legalization! Ribs is selling the soul of Chicago!"
"Special medical ingredients? That's ridiculous! Who doesn't know what those 'natural ingredients' from Colombia are?"
"He makes the laws and he benefits! This is even more shameless than a monopoly! The entire Chicago government is rotten!"
"What about our children? Will they be able to buy legally packaged goods near schools in the future?"
"Where is the state government? Where is the FBI? Is there anyone who can control this Chicago king?"
Alfred would collect the reports every day and calmly present them to Ribbs in detail.
"It takes time for the public to adapt, and the direction of public opinion can be balanced through continuous...positive guidance. Some radical individuals and groups can also be precisely 'appeased'."
While reading these reports, Ribs said calmly: "Does it matter whether you understand or not, support or oppose?"
Alfred's response was still simple: "Understood."
In Ribbs's view, the method of dealing with public opinion troubles is essentially no different from solving street problems.
Either buy them off with benefits, put pressure on them with power, or make them disappear completely.
The only difference is that the latter requires more sophisticated and legal packaging, such as license revocation, tax investigation or accidental car accident.
He is now the rule maker, and anyone who dares to challenge the rules will be ruthlessly crushed by the rules themselves or eliminated by more primitive forces.
He looked out the window again, and the neon lights flickered, outlining the outline of the power map he had created with his own hands.
The blue-roofed construction site is brightly lit, symbolizing the prosperity of infrastructure; the Black Rabbit Security vehicles patrol the streets silently, representing controlled order; and the bill that has just been passed is like an invisible pipeline, injecting a steady stream of wealth into Heisenberg's secret treasury through his "Corning Biotechnology".
After the "Regulations on the Circulation Management of Special Medical Raw Materials" came into effect, all goods of the three major groups legally flowed to the "Corning Bio" pharmaceutical company established by Heisenberg.
No one is willing to suffer injustice and go through the underground industrial chain controlled by Kruen.
Kruen's main source of income - the huge profits from underground transactions obtained by squeezing the three major groups - was quietly cut off by Ribbs!
A surge of rage nearly overwhelmed Kruen's sanity.
He felt like he was being made a fool of. Reeves pushed him out as the bad guy to offend all the suppliers. After squeezing all the money out of them, he turned around and kicked him away, and went to eat all the food himself!
And it's more "elegant" and "legal"! And that 40% profit? Kroon didn't believe Ribs would be satisfied with that. The huge profit margin from legalization is the real fat meat.
This not only cuts off his source of income, it's practically overturning his desk!
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