Chapter 421: The Wind of Change in the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region
In October 1254 of the Sixth Era, the trial of the attack on the singer Heshia was held in the Four-Leaf Crystal Supreme Court.
After six hours of presentation, this case involving tens of millions of people and hundreds of large companies began to enter the first round of sentencing. First, the directors of 11 large companies who directly participated in planning the attack were punished to the maximum extent, of which 21 were sentenced to death, 48 were sentenced to life imprisonment, and 79 will face prison terms ranging from 20 to 40 years. In addition, among the other intermediate participants, 37 were sentenced to death, 61 were sentenced to life imprisonment, and 189 will face more than 20 years in prison.
After that, the 11 large companies directly involved will have all their assets confiscated and will be auctioned off and sold to other corporate groups willing to take over. Other companies indirectly involved will face huge fines of varying amounts, and will be blacklisted, with credit and evaluation downgraded, and will no longer be allowed to engage in certain sensitive and key industries.
This was only the first round of trials, and after the incident, the Star Domain officials received many letters of complaint and lawsuits, pointing directly to the various crimes committed by these hundreds of companies in the past 100 years, including but not limited to tax evasion, illegal competition, defamation, persecution, monopoly, bribery, vicious suppression, murder of innocent people, etc.
After receiving these letters and lawsuits, the court and the trial chamber stated that they would screen and review them one by one in the future. If it is true, a second round of trials will be launched.
Such a massive condemnation has set off a huge wave in the Star Domain intranet. Countless people were surprised to find that these originally glamorous brands collapsed almost overnight, and countless unheard-of black materials were exposed. The key is that these black materials are also well-documented, and some things can stand up to scrutiny.
This storm is also getting bigger and bigger, constantly destroying and changing the original situation in the Star Domain.
The collapse of a company that used to dominate a certain industry will inevitably leave a large market vacant. Taking advantage of this gap, countless latecomers began to catch up and compete with each other to seize these vacant markets. In the new round of reshuffles, many of the original overbearing clauses were also improved. Official agencies that were originally subject to the suppression of the group enterprise camp also gained a lot of space to display their power. New standards for many industries began to be sorted out. It was also an opportunity to start cleaning up some of the past problems and gray areas.
In November, Governor Temachi announced at a public meeting that in the next three years, the star domain government will focus all its energy on improving the internal political environment, sorting out and cleaning up the various chaotic and corrupt phenomena in the past, and governing and creating a more fair, transparent and clean political environment. The three singers in the star domain expressed their support for this and co-starred in the promotional video.
The trial of large enterprises has eliminated the stubborn malpractices of the past, and the market has regained vitality. The public security and business environment have been greatly improved. In addition, the singers in the star field have promoted the support rate of Governor Temachi, which has continuously expanded his prestige, enough to shake the vested interests of conservatives, implement new policies, and vigorously promote many new policies.
For a time, the governor was very proud and finally no longer bound by the internal civil service system and conservatives. He was able to show his talents. For an aspiring politician, this was simply the most enjoyable thing in life. For a federal governor of his level, money no longer had much meaning and temptation. Unconstrained and restricted, shaping the world into his ideal appearance was a more important pursuit.
Even if they are both star domain governors, there is a big gap. Not every star domain governor can encounter such a rare opportunity like Temaqi in hundreds of years. He has the opportunity to suppress the faction group entrenched in the star domain, gain extremely high prestige in the star domain parliament, and have the singing girl to help him endorse and promote support among the people, so that he does not have to worry about the crisis of public opinion. This opportunity to untie the shackles and let go often only exists during a certain historical transition period, and it is hard to come by.
"The governor has appeared on TV a lot recently."
In a high tower of the Edes Academy, several people were having a small gathering. Among them, Tilan was taking a nap on the soft purple sofa beside her, Dolores was drinking tea, and Avni had just turned her eyes away from the news projection.
"It should be very excited and full of ambition." Dolores put down the teacup and responded.
After entering the fourth grade, the temperament of this rich lady has become more graceful and mature, and she has lost her former immaturity. Just sitting there gives people a generous and calm temperament.
"It's as if having a tangible goal and motivation makes people full of energy." She tilted her head slightly and pressed her chin with her finger.
"Avni must have seen some officials. They are like dead wood, without any vitality, just muddily seeking benefits and calculating pros and cons, without any long-term ideas."
"Although they have power, it is only limited power. It has smoothed their ideas and ambitions, and they are obsessed with short-term interests and calculations. There is no glory." "
Fortunately, this governor still has some ideals and has also been given space to display his ideals. Naturally, he wants to do something to change."
"I know the kind of people you are talking about. I saw a lot of them when I was a child." Avni shook her head slightly.
"That's why I feel that officials as proud and energetic as Governor Temachi are extremely rare."
"I don't know how much he can change, and whether his methods are correct. I am a little worried about these things, because in the Federation, even if you start with a good idea, you may not be able to achieve a good result. There are too many variables in the middle."
After saying this, Avni stood up and came to the sleeping Tilan. She bent down and used the golden hair in front of her to gently scratch the girl's cheek, watching how the girl in a casual black dress would react.
"Don't disturb Tilan's sleep. She has been very tired recently." Dolores also came over and gently held Avni's hand to stop her from teasing Tilan, then brought a thin blanket to cover half of the girl's body, leaving only her calves and toes in black pantyhose exposed.
Looking at Tilan sleeping sweetly and comfortably, Dolores couldn't help but touch the girl's soft cheek with her fingertips, and then retracted her fingers.
"Tilan is so cute." Avni said in a low voice.
"Ah, did you just find out today?" Dolores covered her mouth and chuckled.
"Okay, let's not stand here for now. Let's go sit over there and discuss the celebration activities of the academy."
Because of the fall of the Saint Ingo camp, Edes Academy has a tendency to become the first academy of the next generation of Four Leaf Crystal. Now it has attracted more and more attention. In order to show the strength and atmosphere of the academy, the school board decided to hold a large-scale celebration in the near future. At this time, the academy will also be open to outsiders to visit and tour. For this celebration, many activities must be prepared. Now Tilan is too busy to split her time, so naturally Dolores and Avni and others will take over to help arrange and deal with it.
"On the one hand, we need to highlight the teaching strength and show the students' combat capabilities. The school competition is definitely indispensable." Dolores spoke first.
"It is definitely not okay to just fight and fight. Other cultural and soft power aspects must also be shown. I have to trouble Avni to think about and arrange these." Avni is currently the president of the Fenghua Opera Club, which is also the largest literary and artistic club in the school.
"Yeah, I know that, but there's also scientific research cooperation. I guess I'll have to ask Allen for help later."
"In addition, some sponsorships from cooperative enterprises, joint projects, etc., also require people to contact and arrange, so let Jin Senke do it." Dolores thought for a while.
"There are actually some celebrities among the students, and they are quite famous on the Internet." As a student of Edes Academy, the study schedule is actually very flexible. Many students participated in various film and television performances, as well as various competitions, etc. during their school years.
"Let Ruby contact them. She knows a lot about this."
"There are also some support projects for some poor areas, and students from ordinary families, their life and development in school also need to be shown, otherwise it will easily leave the impression that Edes Academy is an aristocratic academy that is not approachable enough. So let's find Valk for this." "
In addition, for joint training with northern universities, it will be much more convenient to invite Alice, Ellinda, Xianta, Okas and others who stood out in last year's winter competition to be representatives." "
It's a pity that Yingfeng, Wei Ke, and Elena have graduated this year, otherwise they would not be able to participate in this celebration."
"Yes, we are already in the fourth grade without realizing it, and we are already the oldest seniors." Dolores sighed softly, as if time had passed in an instant, and many people had parted ways before they had time to get to know each other and talk in depth.
In the past two years, not only Tilan was busy, but they also participated in it. They met many friends outside of Edes Academy and gradually understood many levels and fields that students could not access in the past. These experiences broadened their horizons and made them more mature than their peers, no longer limited to the small academy.
Compared with the highly elite, rigorous and etiquette-oriented Edes Academy in the past, the current Edes Academy can be said to be a hundred flowers blooming. You can see some young ladies with deep family backgrounds, civilian geniuses from ordinary families, and exchange students from various fields of northern universities. They brought their own unique atmosphere and lifestyle, making the originally single campus colorful.
After the two talked and discussed for a long time, Tilan, who was taking a nap, finally woke up slowly. She rubbed her eyes, then propped herself up from the sofa, shook her hair lightly, let it fall naturally, then tied it with a hairband and sat up.
Looking at the slightly cold ring on her finger, with the pattern of seven-sided wings engraved on the surface, the girl stretched her somewhat exhausted body, then stood up and walked towards the two people who were talking in the distance.
"Tilan is awake." Avni turned around and looked at Tilan who was still a little sleepy. She held her hand with a smile, pulled her in front of her, and then helped the girl sit beside her.
"We were just talking about the upcoming school festival. Does Tilan have any ideas for a program?"
"As for me, it seems that I can only sing a song or play the violin." Tilan couldn't think of any special program for a while. She leaned on Avni's shoulder a little lazily. The hair of this goldfish girl exuded a little warmth.
"Then let's play the violin solo and a song." Dolores helped Tilan arrange it.
After that, the two told Tilan about their ideas and arrangements. Tilan nodded from time to time and her eyelids closed from time to time.
"It's time to sleep again, Tilan." Dolores came over, picked up Tilan lovingly, and put her on the sofa beside her, letting her head rest on her knees, and slowly stroked the smooth long hair on her shoulder with one hand.
The two were of similar height, but Dolores' figure was much fuller. When Tilan lay in her arms, she exuded a bit of maternal radiance, or the temperament of an elder sister, making people feel at ease and relaxed.
"Dolores is snatching Tilan from me again." Avni said in a low voice, with a joking smile on the corner of her mouth, but she was not really angry.
Just as the three of them were chatting and overlooking the campus scenery outside the tower, thousands of kilometers away, the headquarters of Gray Dust Crystal was busy and bustling at this moment. Countless long-track freight trains kept coming in and out, unloading raw materials, and then loading the finished products onto the trucks and pulling them into the distance. Some went to the factories of other large enterprises, and some went to the airport and sent them to the star ports outside the space, and then transported them to other star fields and regions via freight starships.
Deep underground in the gray dust crystal, in the tightly sealed core area, the newly built production equipment is running at full capacity. On the huge square underground, a black obelisk stands, and its surface exudes complex textures of blue and white.
As the machinery rotates, a huge six-petal fan-shaped structure rises below the square, and each petal structure is subdivided into nearly a hundred layers, and each layer is filled with prepared white crystals. These crystals are about the size of cakes, each of which is regular in shape, with exquisite carvings inside, and matching protective frames, like palace lanterns, and the white crystals are the light source of the palace lanterns.
The most basic white crystal is a four-sided cube, twice as large is a hexagonal white crystal, and the largest is an octagonal white crystal.
When the tens of thousands of white crystals placed in the shelves rise, the shelves on the square slowly rotate to evenly arrange the crystals, and then the isolation walls rise around the square, and the hanging walls are lowered from the ceiling, fitting together and closing.
After the complete closure, the black obelisk in the center of the square gradually emitted a faint light. First, the vertical cross-section of the light surface slowly rotated, scanning the entire square. All the crystals that were scanned gradually lit up. Then the patterns of the obelisk changed, and the complex halo ripples continued to spread, like a special melody spreading.
In this way, in the ripples that rose and fell like water waves, these white crystals slowly became crystal clear, like flawless and clear crystals.
Finally, these prepared "rhythm crystals" were stabilized, and then the light on the obelisk slowly dimmed and returned to its original state. Then the closed isolation wall was lowered and pulled up. These prepared "rhythm crystals" were sent to another workshop for inspection one by one. Each piece was marked with a unique coding key, packaged, and placed in a unique metal white box. There was a seven-sided wing logo on the outside of the box, and the letter code "gray dust crystal" below.
Each piece of "Rhythm Crystal" produced in this way is sold for more than millions of federal coins. It is also an exclusive product of the giant enterprise "Gray Dust Crystal" and there is no alternative exclusive product.
Because of the contract with the star domain government, 90% of the "Rhythm Crystal" produced now will first be used for environmental restoration in the Four Leaf Crystal Star Domain, and the remaining 10% will be sold at a high price to laboratories and pharmaceutical companies in major star domains for material purification and special product research.
(End of this chapter)
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