"The police station is looking for me?" Jiang Sui put the medicine bottle back on the container, turned around and asked curiously, "Did they encounter something that they couldn't solve on their own?"
This inspection to Shuitucheng was mainly to clarify the type and source of the plague, so as to avoid relevant events popping up on the digital management panel in the future.
He had no intention of interfering with other government matters.
The main goal of the Governor's Mansion now is to quickly establish industrial zones, use the power of industry to popularize education, improve literacy rates, and unlock technology panels.
Of course, propaganda work cannot be stopped. As long as the national ideological trend of the "New World" can reach 100% and become a universal value recognized by the whole people, it will be much easier to deal with other forces.
The routine of slowly claiming one city after another and slowly fighting does not meet Jiang Sui's current urgent development needs.
In order to achieve maximum productivity, the unification of the planets must be completed quickly.
Using "ideology" as the reason for war not only enables all-out war, but also eliminates the need to spend huge energy on large-scale security wars after the war because of ideological unity.
Being suddenly invited by the local police station was indeed beyond Jiang Sui's expectation.
Gu Qinghuan reported the work verbatim: "They have captured a smuggler and want to invite you to see their law enforcement achievements these days. They want you to participate in the trial of this criminal."
"Is it smuggling or something?" Jiang Sui asked while continuing to look at the prices of medicine bottles on the shelves of the drugstore. "To be honest, in a place where there is not enough food to eat, not all smuggling is heinous. .”
"Mr. Governor, that smuggler is smuggling medicine." Gu Qinghuan replied.
Jiang Sui's movement to look at the price of medicines hesitated for a moment when he heard this answer.
He took a bottle of the cheapest painkiller from the shelf, shook it twice, walked to the front desk of the pharmacy, and asked, "How much does this medicine cost?"
The drugstore owner was so frightened that he trembled from the moment the Governor entered the door. At this time, he even couldn't speak clearly: "General... Mr. Governor, you don't know how high the purchase price and tax of these medicines are. In fact, we really don't make any money." ah!"
As a person under the rule of the Gerbil Gang, he certainly knew what the price tags on the drugs in the container meant.
Do you expect residents who can't even afford food to spend silver coins to buy medicine?
These high-end medicines have always been the exclusive enjoyment of gentlemen.
"Just answer whatever I ask you." Jiang Sui waved his hand, "I'm not here to ask for guilt."
The price is high, and to put it bluntly, productivity is insufficient.
"Report to the Governor...this bottle of medicine costs 1 silver coin."
"Where did you buy it from? Why is it so expensive?" Jiang Sui put down the medicine bottle and took a look outside.
Fortunately... these residents are quite obedient. Most of them try not to come out at home, and even when they do come out, they wear masks.
Otherwise, if you get sick, the cost of medication alone will be prohibitively high.
The pharmacy owner hesitated for a moment and replied: "Mr. Governor, most of the medicines are shipped from the empire."
The empire itself?
It makes sense that the drug prices are so high.
Not to mention the price of the medicine itself, the cost of space transportation alone is unimaginably high.
It can even be said that 80% of the price of these medicines is shipping fee!
"No wonder." Jiang Sui nodded clearly, "Okay, continue with your business."
After putting the medicine bottles back on the shelves, Jiang Sui greeted Gao Meng and Gu Qinghuan and walked out of the pharmacy together.
After leaving the pharmacy, Gu Qinghuan asked: "Mr. Governor, are you going to attend the court hearing?"
"Participate, of course you have to participate." Jiang Sui didn't hesitate at all. "We can just pass this court trial and take a good look at how far the local laws have developed."
Sometimes, the high crime rate is not entirely due to the criminal's personal reasons, but may also be due to backward laws.
Previously, in order to lower the crime rate, Jiang Sui only recruited more law enforcement officers, but did not solve possible problems with the law itself.
How could the legal system be sound in a place that has been ruled by the Gerbil Gang for so long?
In this legal environment, just reducing the crime rate is likely to have many negative impacts.
By then, such negative effects are likely to turn into inexplicable debuffs on the digital management panel.
Gu Qinghuan nodded: "Mr. Governor, are you attending the trial as an observer or as the supreme judge?"
The governors sent by the empire to various colonies could nominally rule the people under their control by any means.
In other words, Jiang Sui legally possesses the highest military power, the highest administrative power, can formulate local laws, and is also the highest judge.
Of course, due to practical problems, these powers cannot be radiated to other areas except the Governor's District for the time being.
"Attend as the supreme judge." Jiang Sui left the narrow alley and opened the car door. "Don't the officials of Shuitu City want to show me their achievements? Then we will greet them with the most solemn gesture."
Gao Meng on the side shook his head: "I won't go... I have to find a way to investigate the source of the plague."
Government affairs were not attractive to a pure scholar like Gaumont.
The Governor can handle the matter well and provide them with a stable research environment.
Jiang Sui turned around and said with a smile: "Mr. Gao Meng doesn't need to go to the court hearing, but I need you to do something for me."
"Don't you think it's a little strange that drug smugglers can get such cheap medicine?"
"It stands to reason that all medicine bottles are imported from the empire itself. No matter how much they are smuggled, the cost will not be low and they will not be something that ordinary residents can afford."
"But this smuggler is smuggling on a large scale...which means that his customer base must include many lower-class residents."
"So, these drugs must be generic drugs produced locally." Jiang Sui got into the car and asked Gao Meng to come up with him, "I need you to help me verify the difference between the effects of these drugs and the genuine drugs. "
"We have to know whether these drugs are effective."
If generic drugs are really effective, then such a talent Jiang Sui will never let go.
When the time comes to legalize pharmaceutical factories locally and produce all drugs independently, Tianhaixing's health level will definitely make a qualitative leap!
What generic drug?
From now on, it will be original and genuine medicine!
It's just a matter of borrowing a little bit of empire technology. The empire won't send anyone to check anyway.
Gao Meng nodded in understanding: "I understand... Then I will ask my team to investigate the plague first. You provide me with some generic drugs, and I will go to the laboratory to verify the effect."
After arranging the task, the governor's special car sped towards the local court.
