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Chapter 894 Prices are soaring!

"Let's go, husband, get up quickly!" At 5:30 in the morning, Feng Li started calling out her husband Niu Zhenjie on time. The two of them had to get up at this time every morning, and then went to the park for an hour to walk together.

For busy office workers, there is not much time to exercise, and this time every morning is very valuable. Nowadays, office workers are severe computer users, and they have a series of "computer diseases", which is even worse without intensifying exercise.

If it were the past, Niu Zhenjie would have gotten up long ago without his wife calling him. However, last night he had a family gathering with a few friends to celebrate. He drank a few more drinks and slept a little late, so Niu Zhenjie did not get up on time today.

In fact, yesterday, the carnival of office workers in Zhongxian has never stopped. It lasted until the early morning. Many people are still releasing their excitement to the fullest. There are still many situations like Niu Zhenjie. There are no way, everyone is so happy. They suddenly go from being tightly "Moonlight Clan" to a person who earns more than 10,000 yuan in money and has free time (nothing! Wrong! Just half a day of leisure). It is inevitable that they are too excited.

"Wife, let me sleep for a while, then I'll sleep for a while." Niu Zhenjie said in a daze.

"Oh, what are you sleeping? Husband, I told you that life should be regular. Now that we have made more money, we must take good care of our bodies so that we can enjoy life better!" Feng Li said, lifting her husband's quilt without saying anything and pulling her husband out of bed.

Although Niu Zhenjie was a little reluctant, he still took a hurry and followed his wife out of the house and started a walk.

Along the way, I met many acquaintances, and everyone greeted him with a smile, and everyone's face was filled with excitement.

After walking back from the park, the two of them habitually came to the breakfast stall at the entrance of the community. They wanted to buy a few buns to go back for breakfast. The morning time was too short and there was no time to make it. Buying some ready-made ones to eat is the choice of many office workers like them.

"Boss, come ten buns." Feng Li said as she took out ten dollars and handed them over. The meat buns at the entrance of the community cost one dollar each. They tasted very good. The family bought ten buns and bought some soy milk, and breakfast was ready.

Feng Li handed over the ten yuan and waited for the boss to pick up buns for him, but unexpectedly, the boss's next words immediately made her good mood disappear.

"Sorry, the buns cost four yuan per person, and ten buns cost forty." The owner of the breakfast stall said with a chuckling.

"What? Four dollars per person?! Boss, you're wrong? Didn't you make a mistake? Didn't you make a dollar before? Your price increase is too fierce." Feng Li asked in surprise when she heard the words of the breakfast stall owner.

"You're right, how could you make it wrong? Now our Zhongxian is not the Zhongxian in the past. You all have high incomes. Of course, our price level needs to be adjusted according to income. What's this called? That, according to your words, it's called... Keeping pace with the times!" The owner of the bun shop said with a smile.

In fact, last night, all the self-employed people were not idle when they were having fun at all the office workers in Zhongxian. Take these breakfast stalls for example. When dozens of bosses met, they had a total increase in price without long.

According to their statement, these people who work now make too much money, and it doesn't rise in vain or increase. In many cases, they did the same. In the past few years, the county raised its salary once, but it was not much. It was only more than 300 yuan, but the salary had not increased yet. The prices of fish, meat, eggs, milk, and other side dishes, as well as some large and small restaurants have already risen first. These operators have a sharp nose, and they can't hide any movement from them.

"That can't increase so much. Your bun is so big. One dollar is no longer cheap. Now one is four yuan. Even in Yanjing, you can't use so much!" Feng Li said angrily.

"There's nothing to do, it's the price now." The breakfast stall owner obviously didn't want to talk nonsense with Feng Li, and said impatiently.

Just as Feng Li and the breakfast stall owner were arguing there, there was also an argument at a stall next to them.

"Do you make these pancakes from gold or silver? Twenty yuan per person? I think you might as well grab them!" A man who obviously came to buy breakfast after training stood in front of the pancakes stall and yelled angrily.

"It's just this price, don't you buy it!" The person who bought pancakes obviously didn't want to argue with the customers. He knew that the more he said, the more wrong he was. In fact, he knew in his heart that the customer's reaction was normal. The pancake fruits that were five yuan each had suddenly increased to twenty. Anyone would react like this. Now they only said nothing. They believed that it would be better after they got used to the price.

These are just two microcosms of countless merchants in Zhongxian. In fact, almost overnight, prices in Zhongxian's clothing, food, housing, transportation and other related service industries collectively rose by three to four times!

There are also some properties that are on sale in Zhongxian. The average price was originally between three and four thousand, but now they are all mentioned overnight to about ten thousand, which has increased by nearly three times on average!

Countless office workers had just been happy for a long time and added one night. After waking up the next day, they found that the part of their price increase was offset by the rising prices.

As a result, countless emotional people began to curse online and in reality, saying that these merchants had no conscience, and merchants also responded unwillingly, saying that the income has increased and the price has increased for granted. If you think it is expensive, you can not buy it!

In Chu Yang's office, Xu Lili reported the situation to Chu Yang with some angrily, and finally said angrily: "Chu County, tell me, are these people too greedy? It turns out that we office workers make little money, and now we have just made a little more, so they are jealous. One bun sells four yuan, a pancake sells twenty yuan, and a bowl of beef noodles dares to buy fifty yuan, which is higher than the price in Yanjing. They are just grabbing money!"

After listening to the secretary's report, Chu Yang's face instantly became ugly. He did not expect that these merchants in Zhongxian would dare to do this, and this was a blatant confrontation with the government!

Although the salary adjustment in Zhongxian is very large, it is just a reasonable adjustment. It is normal for the rise in income and prices to rise as a result, but there must always be a reasonable proportion. Such a bun selling for four yuan is simply to disrupt market order and raise prices!

He had a gloomy face and said to Xu Lili: "Call and ask Ma Liqun to come to my office immediately!"

Ma Liqun is the director of the county price bureau, and he was just promoted during this adjustment. Strictly speaking, it is enough to find the deputy county magistrate in charge of this kind of thing, but the salary increase was done by Chu Yang. Now that such a problem occurs, how can he ignore it?

The county price bureau was not far from the government compound, and Xu Lili called out. In less than ten minutes, Ma Liqun arrived at Chu Yang's office.

At the same time, he also came with Huang Xiaoyong, who had just served as the executive deputy county magistrate. This guy had just worked as the director of the Bureau of Commerce for less than a year and was promoted to such an important county leadership position. For him, he was simply a super rocket! The reason why he achieved such achievements today was entirely due to Chu Yang's efforts to promote it. So after knowing the situation of price gouging in the county, he immediately rushed over!

The two of them sat in Chu Yang's office. Looking at County Mayor Chu sitting behind the desk, he didn't dare to speak out. No one could tell. Chu County was in a very unhappy moment, very unhappy!

"It's not so good! It's not so good! What are they trying to do? Do they want to do the right thing with the government? Who gave them the power to increase the price?" Before the two of them could sit on the hot side, Chu Yang slapped the table.

When he slapped the table, the two of them were so scared that they immediately stood up from the sofa again.

A fine bead of sweat oozed out from Ma Liqun's face. While wiping his sweat, he explained to Chu Yang: "I really don't know about Chu County. These people are secretly connected, and they have done this before."

He said this and bit his teeth and said, "Please rest assured Chu County. I will definitely find out the people who are leading the price increase and fight this wind!"

Huang Xiaoyong, who was beside him, was also busy reviewing and said, "Chu County, I have not done my job well, please criticize the leader!"

Seeing the two of them having a good attitude, Chu Yang's expression calmed down a little. He looked at the two of them and said, "Old Huang, Lao Ma, you two are cadres I like, I hope you don't let me down. Increased income and treatment at the grassroots level is a care for comrades at the grassroots level. We must not let some unscrupulous businesses take advantage of the loopholes and take the opportunity to make ill-gotten gains! You two can go and investigate! Once you find any violations of laws and regulations, they will be dealt with seriously and will never tolerate them!"

"Yes, please don't worry, Chu County. We will not let go of a bad boss, and will also have a stable price level in Zhong County!" Ma Liqun stood up and said, patting his chest.

After coming out of Chu Yang's office, a light flashed in his eyes! He had only been working in this office for a few months. He originally wanted to achieve some results for Chu County to show him to repay his leaders' kindness, but unexpectedly, the results were not made, and the chaos came first!

He was now holding his anger in his heart, and hated the bosses who took the opportunity to raise prices and make a fortune!

"Huangxian, please don't worry if you leave this matter to me. If you can't do this well, I won't have the shame to stay in the position of the director of the Price Bureau. We are doing this. Don't worry, I will definitely solve this matter before getting off work this afternoon!" Ma Liqun said in a deep voice in Huang Xiaoyong's office.

"Liqun, we have been in a relationship for many years, of course I can trust you. But you are really careless about this matter. Have you seen it? Chu County is really popular!" Huang Xiaoyong narrowed his eyes and patted Ma Liqun's shoulder and said.

"Huangxian, I know the importance of it, just wait and see! If you don't do it well, you don't need to remove me, I will resign directly!" Ma Liqun gritted his teeth and promised.

After leaving the county party committee compound, Ma Liqun returned directly to the bureau. The car called and issued a notice on the way: The overall meeting of middle-level cadres and above will be held. No matter what the reason, they must not be absent. Those who do not come will just roll the bed and get out of bed!

The office director had never seen the director get so angry. After hanging up the phone, he ran away and was informed by the department. When Ma Liqun returned to the unit, the conference room was already full of cadres from the Price Bureau.

Ma Liqun entered the conference room with a dark face.

He has worked in the price system for more than 20 years, from an ordinary soldier to the middle-level, and then to the deputy director, and until this adjustment, he was directly promoted to the position of director. It can be said that he is clear about the price system. Although it is now recommended that prices be handed over to market regulation, the Price Bureau has considerable power to control prices. Ma Liqun is also clear about the small measures of individual business owners. Under normal circumstances, as long as they do not do too much, the Price Bureau will most likely turn a blind eye and will not care about them. But this time, they have done it!

Ma Liqun was definitely not a good man and a believer when he was in the law enforcement team. When he was in the law enforcement team, he didn't know how many vendors' stalls were smashed and how many shops had confiscated their business licenses! Although most people who enforce violent law enforcement like him are now criticized on the Internet, most people who really understand this industry can understand it. For the grassroots law enforcement officers, if there is no momentum, there is no way to enforce the law in many cases. Many people only see law enforcement officers beating hawkers on the Internet. However, not many people see some vendors being rude. Things are always two-sided. If those operators operate in a law-abiding manner, how could they have conflicts with law enforcement officers? It is obviously unfair to just push the responsibility to the law enforcement officers when a conflict occurs.

Of course, most of the cases that are posted online are extreme cases. In order to pursue the purpose of attracting attention, the Internet now infinitely amplifies some conflicts in society and invisibly acts as a driving force for creating conflicts. From this perspective, the role played by the Internet is actually very disgraceful. The Internet in China is still in an immature stage. The Internet itself lacks the order and norm it deserves, and does not assume its due social responsibility. These all require time to slowly change.

Ma Liqun sat in front of the stage, looked around at the middle-level cadres and deputy directors under him, and suddenly slapped the table.

"It's not so irrelevant!" Ma Liqun suddenly roared, and his voice buzzed the entire conference room!

"The prices in the county rose four times in one night! They were so bold. Who gave them this power? Do you also take the Price Bureau seriously?"

After roaring for a while, he said with a blue face: "After the meeting, everyone in the whole world will go to the streets to enforce the law! Before getting off work this afternoon, the prices must be reduced!"

The director of the big bureau made a ruthless move. How dare these staff members not rush? Law enforcement cars came out of the compound of the Price Bureau. All the staff of the Price Bureau on the car changed into uniform law enforcement uniforms, and they all seemed to be injected with chicken blood! The Price Bureau is doing this job. With the orders from the superiors, if they really need to investigate, these people are so familiar with the way!

Zhongxian Hotel, one of the most luxurious hotels in Zhongxian. Before noon arrived, the boss Ma Dazhuang proudly hummed a small song, waiting for today's great harvest.

After a night of busy work, all the menus in the store have been remade, and the average price of dishes has increased by three to five times. Of course, he is not worried that no one will come to eat. Nowadays, people from Zhongxian are really rich. He is a little brother who works in the county transportation bureau. He used to be reluctant to spend money every time he came here to eat, and others would invite him. As a result, this guy ordered a big meal worth more than 1,000 yuan last night, which was so generous. I heard that he can earn more than 13,000 yuan a month now, and with the salary he paid for half a year, he paid more than 60,000 yuan yesterday!

This number deeply stimulated Ma Dazhuang. Although he could earn one or two million a year when he was running such a big restaurant, he had to worry much. A small office worker could easily earn ten or sixty or seventy thousand a year, which was much easier than him!

In the past, when Ma Dazhuang faced these people, his sense of superiority was still very obvious, but since yesterday, this sense of superiority disappeared. In the past, he always looked down on those who work and earned such a little money every month, which was not enough for him to have a meal, but now it is different. Those people have become rich people, how can they not earn more than they can?

In fact, Ma Dazhuang also knew in his heart that the so-called price increase was just an excuse. In fact, for his hotel, there was no change in labor or raw material costs. Part of the increase was net income. Although the workers below were also clamoring to raise wages, they did not have the courage to clamor in front of him, but they were just talking in private. He was not worried that these people would not do it. Handymen like this could be recruited at any time!

The operating costs did not increase, but the profit suddenly increased by three or four times. Ma Dazhuang seemed to see a pile of banknotes flying towards him with wings.

However, his complacent mood did not last long and was interrupted by the lobby manager who rushed over.

"Mr. Ma, it's not good. Someone from the Price Bureau came and said that we raised prices, disrupted the normal operation of the market, and revoked our business license!" The lobby manager said in a panic.

"What? Price Bureau? I can't have a good relationship with them Director Li. Can they check my store?" When Ma Dazhuang heard the news, his eyes suddenly turned round!

When he rushed out, he saw several people wearing law enforcement uniforms in the Price Bureau, who were holding seals there, and he was anxious.

"What are you doing? Who asked you to seal it? I'll tear it all over it!" Ma Dazhuang said, and was about to tear it off!

"Ma Dazhuang, you can see clearly. This is a seal with legal effect. If you tear it up, you will be arrested now if you believe it or not!" A staff member of the Price Bureau shouted sternly when he saw Ma Dazhuang who was furious!

When Ma Dazhuang heard this, he was shocked and his movements immediately slowed down! (To be continued...)

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