Chapter 146 Icebreaking Operation, Prelude

Sitting in the mayor's seat, Zhou Mingrui reached out and took out the dusty files that had already piled up here.

“This is the government affairs accumulated by Tingen City in the past time.”

Medea stretched out her hand and tapped in front of her, and the next moment invisible wind appeared.

The breeze carried everywhere here and left the archives with dust. The environment here was clean and clear.

"Thank you." Zhou Mingrui said, and then opened the file in his hand. Unsurprisingly, it was a case in which a worker died due to illegal suppression in the factory.

There are so many cases of this type, it can be said that they include almost all the factory owners in Tingen City. Every one of those capitalists stepped on the line of illegal action and went to heaven.

"Who should we target?" Leonard flipped through the file in his hand, trying to choose a very, very abstract capitalist.

Unfortunately, there are too many people who meet this condition. Almost every archivist he meets is a master of abstract art, a great artist who shines in this field.

"Mr. Vicroll, the tobacconist."

Listening to Zhou Mingrui's words, Leonard touched his brain, turned to the description page of the tobacco merchant Mr. Vicroll, and looked at his corresponding information.

"Watson, the word tobacco is the key point."

“What’s wrong with tobacco?”

"Believe me, Watson, there's something seriously wrong with this thing."

The word tobacco is a very memorable thing for Zhou Mingrui.

Businessmen running the tobacco business have always been making quick money. They have become accustomed to making a lot of money every day by selling tobacco and processing it into some "dangerous" things...

Once you step on the accelerator of sin, it is impossible to brake again!

Either fall off the cliff or die suddenly...

"What do we do?" Leonard asked directly.

"The population of Tingen City is only so large. He definitely dumped it not only in Tingen City, but also in other cities."

"So, you plan to rely on the tax plan to carry out disposal and rectification."

Zhou Mingrui nodded.

The Loen Royal Family has not announced a ban on smoking addictive products made from tobacco. Regarding this type of cigarettes and advanced versions of tobacco products, they are all products protected by the relevant laws of the Loen Kingdom.

And people here don’t realize what smoking these things means.

Tobacco products that have more than one effect, including addiction, hallucinogens, and paralysis, bring unimaginable pressure and problems.

Zhou Mingrui understood that he had no way to directly declare a ban on the absorption of hallucinogenic and addictive products such as tobacco. The laws of the Loen royal family did not yet include this provision, so he could only choose to use tax exports to complete the rectification of the tobacco industry bit by bit.

"Let's go and investigate the corresponding industry."

As Zhou Mingrui finished sorting it out, several people rushed in different directions to work on the corresponding content.

Mitya reached out and tapped her palms, happily heading to the middle-class neighborhood in Tingen City.

"What happened here?" Leonard looked at Iron Cross Street in disbelief.

He didn't know what happened, why when he came here again, he saw the same loss of control and chaos as on the street.

If there was originally a certain order here, the shops and passers-by at least still retained their vitality. When asked about their views on Tingen City, passers-by also described that life was thriving.

Now, I don’t know what happened, but everything here seems to have changed, from a neighborhood that still had hope to an earth engulfed by chaos.

Living person? Just a zombie thing.

Stopping a passer-by, Leonard pulled him to a deserted street and loudly asked him what happened.

The passerby lowered his head, as if he were dead, and he uttered feeble words and told Leonard the truth.

“The machines came, the steam machines replaced us, we lost our jobs, we lost our jobs, we lost our houses, our wives, our children were trafficked.

I have... nothing left. "

Leonard squeezed the man's shoulder, feeling the touch of flesh and bone, and quickly reached out and pressed his shoulder a few times.

There was no trace of flesh, just like a skeleton covered in skin.

"This is it." Suddenly, Leonard noticed a package in the passerby's bag.

"Let go!" The passerby used his last strength. He looked at Leonard ferociously and looked at the package with red eyes.

"What's in here..."

"The source is tobacco." The old man told Leonard the answer.

Leonard let go of his hand, returned the package to the passerby, and watched him running around in embarrassment on the street.

He stepped on the puddles that had not yet disappeared on the street, and the passers-by whose feet were already wet didn't care at all. He grabbed the package as if it was his own life.

"Old man, can tobacco bring such a big disaster?"

Leonard found it difficult to understand.

After all, this thing was just a normal product a few months ago.

"Boy, what do you think the impact of tobacco will be during these turbulent times?"

What the answer is, Leonard will understand after just thinking about it.

In such a turbulent period, when steam engines replace workers, causing large-scale layoffs, the number of unemployed people surges, and social conflicts become more and more intense, what will those factory owners and capitalists do?

The answer is conflict transfer.

——The outside world cannot be transferred, so the ordinary citizens of Tingen City will naturally be chosen.

Let the ordinary people of Tingen City suffer again, for our great interests!

These people chose to sacrifice these unstable factors for their own interests and abolish these laborers that may bring them danger.

...Tobacco is one of the means.

It is a sinful weapon, a butcher's knife that kills people without blood.

Wanting to understand the principle, Leonard seemed to see those well-dressed celebrities stepping on the mountains of piles of corpses, enjoying happiness in the blood.

Clenching his fingers, Leonard didn't care at all that his nails pierced his palms and dripped bright red blood.

"Old man, is this the evil of human nature?"

"I have no idea."

Shaking his head, Leonard held up his hat, put his hands in his pockets and walked deeper.

As he went deeper and deeper, Leonard also saw that the closer he got to the deep, originally normal slums, the more unemployed and homeless people were slumped in the corners of the streets...

Under this shocking situation, Leonard seemed to see the sin burning here.

"Lawyer Watson, please come with us."

Leonard turned around and found himself surrounded by a group of gang members.

"What do you want to do?" Leonard suppressed the idea of ​​using extraordinary power to solve the problem and used his identity as a lawyer to intimidate him.

The leader was a tall and thick-set man, who seemed to have just made a career change from a dock porter and had a perfect round of employment.

"Our old man wants to see you."

After hearing this, Leonard thought for two seconds and nodded.

Anyway, let's meet the gang leader here first.

Led by gang members, Leonard soon met the so-called "gang leader" here.

He was the person Leonard saw last time, and he was also an ordinary person that Medea had a chance encounter with.

"Boss, people have been brought here."