Chapter 289 Major Decision
Throughout the dynasties, laws and law enforcement agencies have been important tools for those in power to maintain their rule. In a ruling group, the absence of people who are proficient in law means that the future rule lacks strong institutional guarantees. Therefore, talents such as Tao Donglai will be in charge of planning. At the beginning, Gu Kai, a legal professional, was brought into the core group of power.
If you just copy a few legal documents in a decent way, you don't need to worry about it. The large database contains various laws and regulations formulated by humans since the "Code of Hammurabi", and you can always find some applicable ones. Ready-made for the current environment. But establishing a judicial system and making it run smoothly is not something that a group of laymen can accomplish in a short period of time.
The Executive Committee has always believed that professional matters are best left to professionals. When there is a talent reserve, dedicated personnel should be used as much as possible. For professionals like Gu Kai who started their careers by studying law, the best career placement is in the judicial system. However, in view of the serious shortage of judicial professionals, when organizing and building the judicial system, the executive committee may have to use a figure with mixed reviews - Raisa, who is also a legal professional.
This is not only because Raisa often opposes the executive committee because of some "feminist consciousness", but also because someone has long pointed out that Gu Kai and Raisa are running the judicial system, which may affect the future judicial system. The situation has become a "family world" situation. Taking a step back, even if these two couples are very public-spirited and have no selfish desires, and they can handle all work impartially, in the future, practitioners in the judicial system, especially the departments responsible for litigation and case settlement, will probably be 89% or 90% People will regard them as their mentors, and it is very likely that their colleagues will form cliques.
This kind of situation only occurs in other departments, and the harm may not be particularly serious. In the future, for example, in the military system, there will definitely be a phenomenon of forming groups according to the seniority of training in military schools. However, once such a situation occurs in the judicial system, it will definitely have a negative impact on social stability. Therefore, so far, the Executive Committee has still not made a decision on the specific work arrangements of Gu Kerisa and his wife in the judicial system.
As for the leader of the police system, the Executive Committee has already made a conclusion, that is Ren Liang, who is still serving as the director of the Victory Port Management Committee. Among the current personnel of the Military and Police Department, Ren Liang can be regarded as the person who has made the fastest political progress since time travel. He was appointed as the head of the labor camp with a background as a prison guard. Because of his excellent work ability, he was promoted to the Port Management Committee. Director, and has done a great job in this new position. The Executive Committee believes that Ren Liang is a candidate worthy of entrusting him with important tasks, both in terms of work ability and political loyalty. Of course, this personnel appointment will not be issued immediately. The independence of the police system will take some time to plan and prepare. It is currently scheduled to be implemented during the organizational adjustment period on the first anniversary. In addition, Ren Liang's current work involves the development process of Victory Port, and it will take some time to hand over.
There were objective difficulties before him, and it was impossible for Harugong to turn a blind eye. Indeed, as Tao Donglai said, although building the cavalry force is important, there are other more important matters that need to be implemented first. But in the end, Tao Donglai did not forget to give Harugong some reassurance: "As long as there is a place suitable for large-scale horse breeding in our control area in the future, I don't need you to rush me, I will definitely remember to put forward the proposal. Bring it out for discussion among the executive committee members.”
Yan Chujie also added: "Don't worry, old man, you are not the only one who knows the importance of cavalry. If you want to fight on the mainland in this era, you will definitely not be able to do it without cavalry. It is not your job to form a cavalry team. Our entire military They all have a share! But if we want to conquer the mainland, we must first have a navy!”
Harugong's face relaxed a little, and he nodded to show that he understood these principles. He raised his glass and said, "I won't say more. I hope that the day when our cavalry will march across the Central Plains will come soon!"
On the morning of February 16, the Military and Police Department and the Ministry of Civil Affairs jointly held a grand public memorial ceremony at the Victory Port Pier to commemorate the combatants who died in this overseas battle. Ning Qi, as a representative of the Executive Committee, delivered a public speech at the ceremony, praising these sacrificed personnel as "who died for the benefit of the people of Victory Port and can be called martyrs." In his words, he compared them with the patriotism of all dynasties and generations who resisted foreign invaders. Soldiers are evaluated at a high level.
As a representative of the Military and Police Department, Yan Chujie read out in public the various commendations and rewards given to the martyrs by the Executive Committee and the compensation measures for their families: "Zhao Dazhuang, a soldier from the third squadron of the Haihan Militia Company, a certain month, died on a certain day in a certain year. Unfortunately, he died while fighting the South Vietnamese bandits. Now the Military and Police Department has decided to award Zhao Dazhuang the following awards..."
The Military and Police Department reviewed the military merits of these people as quickly as possible. All the sacrificed personnel were awarded third-class individual merit, and were posthumously awarded the honorary title of "Haihan Guards" and the corresponding award documents, medals and bonuses. The same standards apply to those who died in the Black Earth Port Vigilante Group. The generous pension given to the family members even aroused a burst of low cheers from the crowd of onlookers.
Before this, ordinary people only regarded joining the militia as a shortcut to enter the Haihan system and obtain naturalized citizen status. Although there were some risks, this path was much faster than working as a laborer or a farmhand, at least not You need to wait for the inspection period which ranges from one to three months. There are many people who are unwilling to take this road because they feel that there is no guarantee in being a leader. What's more, the Haihan Militia is clearly a private soldier of the Haihan gentlemen. To put it harshly, if you die outside, you don't know if there will be a coffin to collect it. . But this public memorial event completely subverted the local people's original understanding.
Serving as a soldier in the Haihan Militia certainly requires hard work, but the Haihan gentlemen did not treat the children of poor families as mere consumables. At least I had never heard of soldiers who died in battle being killed in the army before. The practice of assessing military merit one by one. Not to mention the means of these pensions, the pensions of the Ming army were not large in the first place, and sometimes they would be squandered by the officers who dealt with them. This was simply not the same standard as Haihan's. It is also unheard of for an official to hold sacrifices to a soldier in public, not to mention that a special high-end cemetery has been prepared for these soldiers who died in the battle - it is said that the graves are all used to build the dock landscape avenue. It was built with "Haihan Cement", and both in terms of sturdiness and cost, it is far from comparable to ordinary earth tombs. Moreover, there are usually dedicated people responsible for cleaning and taking care of it, and during festivals, there will be people offering incense and burning paper. How can this kind of treatment be comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty's army?
Yu Dashan squeezed in the crowd of onlookers and repeatedly praised: "The leaders are really kind! They give money and land. At least the family will have no worries about food and clothing in the future. These people who died in the war are not What a loss!”
Someone next to me whispered: "Then why do you refuse to let your son join the army?"
When Yu Dashan was exposed, his old face turned red and he hurriedly defended: "My son is young and frail, and is not yet qualified to join the army... Besides, when working for the executive committee, there is no distinction between high and low. This is what Mr. Ning said! I When my son works in the Guangdong Office, he is also doing his best for the Executive Committee! ”
"Just brag!" The person next to him seemed to be very aware of the situation of the Yu family and his son: "Who doesn't know that your little treasure is working with Shi Caishen and has a bright future in the future? No one who is a militia soldier can compare! ”
Yu Dashan snorted and simply didn't reply. Although Yu Dashan has no education, and the only few words he knows is his own name, which he learned from the "cadre literacy class", but as an "old employee" who has been in the Haihan system for ten months and is still developing well, Yu Dashan has already Have a certain political vision and sensitivity. Although the treatment in the Haihan Militia is very good, and Yu Dashan also admits this, there is only one way to get ahead after joining the militia, and that is to risk your life for military merit. This is obviously not a good choice.
And working with a Haihan leader like Schneider, the chances of getting ahead are at least dozens or hundreds of times higher than joining the militia as a soldier. From now on, the territory under Haihan's control will become larger and larger, and the chiefs will always need people to manage local affairs, so the first choice will definitely be the people around them who they can trust. Yu Xiaobao has been with the chief for a few years. Why can't he be promoted to a section chief or a division chief in the future? Maybe when he reaches his age, Yu Xiaobao can also hold a high-level position as "director of the management committee" somewhere.
While Yu Dashan was pondering his thoughts, he listened wordlessly to Yan Chujie reading the commendation order on the stage. Unlike him, there were many people in the crowd who were interested in joining the army again, because compared with ordinary work, after joining the army, there will be a more obvious difference in the accumulation speed of personal labor points and the level of income. improvement. But now that we see the relevant departments dealing with the aftermath of the militia soldiers, it basically relieves the worries of those who hold a wait-and-see attitude, and clears away the last psychological obstacle for them to choose to join the army. After the commendation order is issued, there is a grand sacrificial ceremony. In addition to the various kinds of incense, livestock and other sacrifices that are commonly used, the Yazhao Office even specially sent a team from Yazhou to perform rituals, and they were from both Buddhism and Taoism. Both sides of the altar at the sub-station chanted something, which can be regarded as What a wonderful sight. However, because the Executive Committee has always adhered to the policy of weakening the influence of religion in the control area, the appearance of religious figures did not last long, and they were taken away after each read a few passages of scripture.
After the sacrificial ceremony, the coffins of those who died in the war were carried onto ships waiting at the dock and transported to the cemetery on the east coast for burial. At this time, Yan Chujie walked onto the stage again, and the people who were about to leave stopped again, waiting to see what else he could do.
"I have a big announcement here." Yan Chujie said into the microphone in a deep voice, ensuring that the sound could be clearly transmitted to the ears of everyone present: "In view of the booming development of the local maritime industry, the Executive Committee believes that there is an urgent need locally. There is a force to maintain normal order at sea. In order to protect the personal safety of merchants who trade in Victory Port and to ensure smooth navigation in nearby waters, the Executive Committee has decided..."
The crowd in the audience held their breath and waited quietly for Yan Chujie to announce the new decision of the executive committee.
"...the Military and Police Department will be responsible for organizing and establishing a maritime security force. This force will be affiliated to the Haihan Militia, and its main garrison area is the southern sea area of Qiongzhou with Victory Port as the center." Yan Chujie paused. , after looking at the people in the audience, he continued: "From now on, the Military and Police Department will begin to recruit service members of the Maritime Security Force from the local people. For specific treatment and requirements, please pay attention to the announcements that will be posted everywhere tomorrow. ”
After Yan Chujie finished speaking and stepped down, the crowd in the audience responded with a roar and started talking a lot. Even the most insensitive person can realize that the Haihan Executive Committee intends to extend the control of the militia to the sea, and is preparing to expand beyond the Victory Port.
Prior to this, the Haihan Executive Committee had already been the actual controller of the Victory Port area. However, because the Executive Committee consciously concentrated its control on the small area of Victory Port, both the local people and the cliffs near Victory Port Prefecture, Lingshui and other areas have no strange feeling about the existence of Victory Port. On the contrary, it is because of the gradual prosperity here that many people have taken the initiative to settle here. Even the first batch of local naturalized citizens seem to have heard for the first time in their memory that senior officials of the Executive Committee have clearly proposed to control the sea areas near Victory Port through military means-it is said to be sea areas, but of course it also includes including areas near the coast.
Will this kind of expansion conflict with nearby officials? The vast majority of people do not have a definite answer to this question. Although there are also inspection departments and naval forces stationed locally, anyone who is not blind can see that these people are supported by the Executive Committee, and naturally they will not go against the Executive Committee. But if the Executive Committee insists on expanding its sphere of influence outwards, will the Ming Dynasty Yamen in other places agree with this approach? Or will they, like these local public figures, choose to submit to the management of the executive committee?
Among the people watching, the one who felt most frightened and uneasy was not the local people or the foreign merchants, but Luo Shengdong, who was still staying in Victory Port. Originally, when Haihan's expedition fleet returned, Luo Shengdong's replacement mission had been completed and he could leave. However, according to the prior agreement between the two parties, Luo Shengdong could get a piece of land from Shengli Port in return for this shift. So he stayed in Shengli Port for the past few days, planning to choose a place with better terrain to see whether to build a private house or a business store.
This morning, he learned that the Haihan people were going to hold a public memorial meeting. Luo Shengdong came over to watch the excitement and wanted to know the specific measures of the Haihan people for post-war pensions. After hearing this, Luo Shengdong discovered that the Haihan people's measures indeed followed their unconventional style. From ancient times to the present, military merits are mostly calculated by cutting off the enemy's heads in battle. Those who died in battle can also record their merits. And the rewards are so generous, which is quite new.
If it was just a new thing, I didn't expect Yan Chujie to reveal such a big revelation at the end. The establishment of a maritime security force sounds nice, but isn’t it actually the establishment of a navy?
Although Luo Shengdong has always known that the power of the Yazhou Navy is far inferior to the Haihan people, the official is the official after all. No matter how strong the Haihan people are, they are just the nature of militia and maritime merchants, and they still can't play well in many places. . For example, in the capital cities of Danzhou and Qiongzhou in the north, the Haihan people rarely sent military personnel to set foot in the local area, and even part of the freight tasks were handed over to the warships under Luo Shengdong. For this reason, Luo Shengdong never It's obvious, isn't it just because of Yazhou Navy's official status?
But after Yan Chujie announced the news, Luo Shengdong felt a heavy sense of crisis, which he had never felt since leaving the labor camp. Yan Chujie has made it very clear that the mission of this maritime security force is to maintain maritime order and security in the waters near Victory Port. To put it bluntly, it is to replace it and take over the affairs of Yazhou Water Village and do it by itself!
Although the Yazhou Navy has never participated in any form of battle since the conflict in the first half of last year that Luo Shengdong will remember for his whole life, this does not mean that the Yazhou Navy is not a fighting force. In terms of the establishment of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, on the entire south coast of Qiongzhou Island, if we do not count those guard soldiers who fought against the five scum, and only talk about regular troops in the true sense, there is only the Yazhou Navy - although this navy is currently Ninety percent of the patrol time is spent delivering goods for the Haihan people or performing various messy tasks.
Although Luo Shengdong loves money, he has not completely forgotten his status as a soldier. If the Haihan people's plan starts to be implemented, it is no surprise that Yazhou Water Village will be completely reduced to a decoration within the year, or gradually become a It has become a relatively special transport fleet under the name of Haihan Shipping Department. No matter which outcome it was, Luo Shengdong found it difficult to accept. From a certain point of view, he even felt that he had been humiliated - for such a big thing, no one on Haihan's side could tell him in advance! If he had not been in Victory Port at this time, he might have had to wait until the dust settled to get the news. By then, he would have encountered the Haihan Navy at sea, and what an embarrassing scene it would have been!
The more Luo Shengdong thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, and his face became gloomy. Wei Ping, who was watching the excitement with him, also noticed his emotional change and advised him: "Mr. Luo Qian, don't be impulsive! Since the Haihan people dare to announce this matter in public, let's look at their usual style of doing things. , I’m afraid it’s been well planned. If you recklessly start trouble with the executive committee, it might be counterproductive.”
Luo Shengdong said with a dark face: "The Haihan people have their own navy, so how will I, the Yazhou navy, deal with myself in the future? I, Luo Shengdong, am also an official of the imperial court, how can I be humiliated like this?"
Wei Ping sneered secretly in his heart. With your integrity, how dare you brag about yourself? If the Haihan people one day think of sending troops to attack Yazhou, you, Luo Shengdong, will probably be the first one to rush forward and lead the horse to the ground.
(End of chapter)