Chapter 275
Irene is actually somewhat resistant to suppressing the riot. If she had been notified to attend the meeting that night, she would have urged Paul to take measures such as persuasion and negotiation first. At this point, Hansel and Cecil were justified in their concerns.
But what really made her very unhappy was the attitude of a group of men towards her. In the process of quelling the riots, as a senior official of the Government Affairs Council, she was once again excluded from the decision-making level. Don't know about this. It wasn't until after the riot was quelled and Chief of Staff Schroeder read the report sent back by the army to everyone at the meeting that Irene found out with a confused look that something like this had happened. She remained resentful and silent until the end of the meeting.
Irene feels that she is now like a vase placed in the Government Affairs Council. Men admire her for a few times when they have free time, but when they encounter an emergency, they immediately throw her out of the sky.
Paul explained helplessly: "Oh...my education director, you know that the power of tradition is powerful. Even as a lord, I can't change anything immediately."
He put on an innocent expression, but in fact he never thought of calling Betty over for the meeting that night.
Irene understands Paul on this point. He can withstand the pressure of other men and let a woman be in charge of the field of education. This lord is already a rare enlightened person - of course this is also sticky. No one except the lords took education seriously.
When his father asked his sister to share the government affairs with him as a king, the resistance from the courtiers was also huge.
"Humph! Sooner or later I will shut up the Abbott gang."
Paul cheered her up: "I wish you all the best!"
"So, Lord Lord, how do you plan to deal with those rioting civilians?"
"Oh, this is not an ordinary trivial matter. There are too many people involved. It's up to me to say a word like in the past. The decision was obviously inappropriate, so I decided to select five outstanding magistrates from Alda and Bailding as [judges]. They will form a lord's court to jointly hear the matter, and Cecil and Ruth Hayden will be responsible for the investigation. The behavior of everyone in the riot will be recorded and then submitted to the judges for review. The judges will then formulate reasonable punishment measures based on the severity of the crime. "
That's about it. What Irene is most worried about is that Paul will take down all those involved in one sentence. Those who rioted were sentenced to death. This situation is all too common among local lords who hold military and political power.
“I also plan to use the [Lord’s Court] as a permanent institution, and this institution will hear large and small cases in the territory.”
“Are the magistrates in various places not competent enough?”< br>
"It is too unreasonable for law enforcement and judicial power to be concentrated in the hands of one person. From now on, the magistrates - or the police, can only arrest people but have no power to convict them. They must submit them to the court, and they can only proceed further after they are formally convicted by the judges." Punishment. I think this can avoid abuse of power to a certain extent."
After hearing Paul's explanation, Erin nodded: "This is a good improvement."
Although. The idea is wonderful, but what troubles Paul is how to concentrate this power in the lord's house. If tax contracting is the same, in those remote rural areas, private courts and private punishments of landlords and gentry abound, and local people have When there is a dispute, the first thing that comes to mind is not to go to the lord, but to go to a local and famous person to solve the problem.
But he does not have a powerful organization in his hands that can immediately control the countryside, and can only change it slowly.
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The riots that Paul named the "4.15 Incident" had a huge impact on him. Not only did he need to build the [telegraph] system, he also strengthened the construction of the Internal Guard and the public security department. As early as last year, the [Department of Public Security] was established in the Government Affairs Council, led by Ruth Hayden, who was born in the Home Guard. However, due to financial and other factors, Ruth has always existed as a bare commander. Now the Government Affairs Council plans to let this This is where the department really comes into play.
Huxin Town plans to establish a police force of 2,000 people in the next five years. They will replace the old sheriff system, maintain order in various towns, and provide police services at the appropriate time. Extend power to the countryside.
The internal security force was originally established to protect office spaces and the personal safety of high-level personnel, so it is very small. Now Paul plans to develop them into a team similar to the armed police in his previous life. As an important part of the public security field, it is imperative to expand its scale.
There is one more thing that needs to be solved urgently, and that is the livelihood of the salt people on the beach.
Unlike emerging industries such as porcelain, cans, and papermaking, the emergence of salt farms has a huge impact on the traditional salt industry. If no measures are taken, it will inevitably become the source of new unrest.
Therefore, the Government Administration Council proposed two methods:
The first is to guide the young labor force among the salt people to divert to emerging industries.
The second is to open a government-run salt farm to attract salt residents to work.
However, due to the recent war and a series of new measures, the Government Affairs Council did not have much spare money to build any salt farms. So at Paul's suggestion, the Government Affairs Council only provided technical guidance and left it to the salt residents to build the salt farms themselves. It's called [Collective Salt Farm], and every household has a share. In order to ensure fairness, the collective salt farm is managed by dedicated personnel assigned by the Government Affairs Council, and the profits obtained are distributed to the salt residents on a share basis.
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The interrogation of the rioters was carried out nervously and orderly, considering that many of them were the main labor force in the family, and it was true that they acted irrationally after being forced by Baden. Action, so most people were sent home after being admonished, but they were carrying fines that they might not be able to pay for their entire lives.
The Lord's Court finally identified 50 people who could not be sentenced lightly. They either committed the crime of robbing or killing innocent people, or they were the ones who took the lead in the riots.
"Sir, this is the punishment result we have initially planned. Among these 50 people, except for a man named Biso who is missing, all are already in custody."
Being appointed to the Lord's Court Chief Justice Thomas presented the verdict to Paul.
"Anyone else ran away?"
"Yes, this person named Biso is very suspicious. According to the salt people, this person usually does not do his job and is idle. After the riot, he encouraged them to fight against the lord's army. After all, he disappeared after the battle. We suspect there may be something wrong with him."
"Well, let's leave this to Cecil to investigate. I think some of the people here are still very young, even 16. Isn’t it too heavy to hang them or do hard labor for decades?”
Thomas said: “You are the lord and you can decide their fate.”
< br>Paul pondered: "Let me think about these people again."
(End of this chapter)