Chapter 220, Counterrevolutionary Action
Milia De Jong's destiny changed dramatically after she was persuaded by her sister to enter Shifeng Zhongsi Academy together, and then was selected into the advanced training class.
She used to be indifferent to this so-called ideological cultivation, but she only got involved because she couldn't defeat her sister.
However, in Zhongji Academy, she thought about a lot of things.
After graduating from the Advanced Class, she was chosen by the Alliance Supreme Court.
At present, the alliance's political system can be roughly divided into three parts: the alliance army, which includes the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Alliance General Staff, various group armies, divisions and brigade-level units, and the governor himself directly oversees all military departments.
The second is the coalition government, with the Prime Minister as the overall person in charge and accountable to the Governor-General. It directly governs the provinces and has directly subordinate departments of civil affairs, production, development, commerce, culture and education, etc.
The third is the Supreme Court of the Union, with Lambert Hodgson serving as the Supreme Justice and responsible to the Governor-General. It has jurisdiction over the Legislative Council, Executive Council, and Disciplinary Council. The Demon Hunter team is a newly created organization affiliated with the Alliance Tribunal. The trial court is independent of the armed teams of the Three Sessions of the Supreme Court and is responsible for the execution of major events.
The Inquisition can be understood as the alliance's spy organization. Demon hunters can carry out secret arrests, secret interrogations, secret executions and other matters without going through the "Three Meetings". This is the power granted by the new "Alliance Secret Execution Law".
Initially, after graduating from Chungse Academy, Miss De Jong was recruited into the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which is affiliated with the Discipline Council. Then some time ago, when the Inquisition was established and demon hunters were recruiting people, she signed up and was selected.
After undergoing witcher training, Milia De Jong now carries a pistol and a short knife as her daily equipment; and their team also carries bolters, chainswords and exoskeleton suits. In order to be able to capture some areas that require special attack when necessary.
Moreover, after completing training, every demon hunter has mastered a little... special ability.
For example, Milia de Jong can make her eyes glow, and the creatures she stares at will become flustered and dizzy; after testing, some weak animals will even have a ruptured heart and die; his companions, There are some that can detect lies, some that can scare people... there are all kinds of them, even if they are not particularly powerful, they are somewhat practical.
This kind of ability seems to be called psionic power, but when the governor met with them, he also said that compared with serious psionicists, their psionic power is incomplete, only has a single function, and cannot It can be used flexibly and the strength is not too powerful.
But that's okay. In the past twenty years of her life, Milia De Jong only imagined that she would have extraordinary abilities when she was a child.
In addition to combat skills and psychic-like special abilities, there is also a considerable amount of knowledge, such as investigation, tracking, analysis, heresy characteristics, etc.
After the demon hunter team was established, they were divided into two teams. One team went west, going to the distant Western Desert, or even the western mainland, to collect intelligence.
De Jong's seven-man team patrolled the league to investigate corruption within the league.
And they inspected many cases in the Beiqinggu area.
Although they had the power to arrest, try and execute people secretly, when they set out, Justice Hodgson also told them not to use this power unless necessary or urgent. The alliance's normal system can solve problems. Normally, they only need to hand over the things they investigate to the corresponding government. Normally, they just want to supplement the areas where the alliance's normal investigation work is not done well.
Only when the alliance's system has been corrupted to a certain extent and supplementary investigations cannot achieve their goals will special powers need to be used.
This time, their inspection in Beiqinggu Province followed normal procedures.
In the Beiqinggu area, things like what happened to the veteran Puglia family are indeed not isolated, but occur on a large scale - of course, not everything is so bad, but those moths and corrupt elements are everywhere. On the farm, it is not uncommon for people to dominate and exploit farmers.
After investigating along the way, they couldn't possibly arrest so many people. They just wrote down some evidence and the list.
They originally planned to spend a month or two, and after basically going around enough times, they would directly divide the relevant intelligence, lists, and evidence into two parts. One part would be sent to the headquarters and handed over to the disciplinary committee; the other part would be sent to the North Qinggu Provincial Government. Under the supervision of the Disciplinary Committee, the outrageous grassroots management situation in Beiqinggu Province will be completely cleaned up.
As a result, when they found Weire Farm, they found out about the extermination of veteran Priya and obtained the key evidence of the diary.
At this point, the witcher team couldn't stand it any longer.
Before, it was just corruption, oppression, personal injury, violent beatings and the like. There are murders, but they are actually relatively few; not to mention, the current killings are aimed at injured and retired veterans who the Alliance has always demanded preferential treatment for.
That's shocking.
The demon hunters know very well how angry the governor will be if this matter reaches his ears.
They simply arrested the person and rushed to Chatan City without stopping.
The diary was slapped on Jason Morgan's face, and the demon hunters were waiting for an explanation from the provincial chief.
This matter was handed over to Morgan's sister-in-law, Milia De Jong.
If the answers given by Jason Morgan do not satisfy the demon hunters, then they may really use the power given to them by the "Alliance Secret Enforcement Law" to directly bring this senior alliance official back to the capital to accept the disciplinary committee review and undergo trial by the Governor.
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At this moment, Jason Morgan, who was being questioned, let out a long sigh and gave his answer:
"I know a little about the situation at the grassroots level, but I didn't expect it to be so serious. This is my responsibility. I will write a report and then personally report to the Governor on the specific situation in the province. Even if the Governor wants to treat For my inaction and poor performance, I will become the second high-ranking official in the alliance to be dismissed. However, I bow my head and plead guilty..."
"But what?"
"But before that, I have to personally catch all these rats in the province to leave a clean environment for the next head of Beiqinggu Province."
"Haha, what were you doing earlier?"
"Alas..." Jason Morgan sighed, "I will explain this problem to the Governor. But first, tell me where is the Chiklin you captured?"
"It has been sent to the Supreme Court of Fuxing City. This is a case with extremely bad consequences. Justice Hodgson is furious. He wants to use this person to calm himself, the governor, and the anger of the entire alliance. What do you want to do?"
"It's a pity..." Morgan sighed, "It seems that I won't have the chance to peel off his skin with my own hands."
"No need, this guy will definitely be sentenced to death, and then his skull will be made into a servo skull, and then thrown into service somewhere. Oh, now I heard that there is also servitor transformation technology, and the alliance now has special treatment for death row prisoners The use method will not directly kill the problem, which is a waste of resources.”
"Oh, I see...their sinful lives can continue to serve the governor, which really gives them an advantage."
"Yes."
"But it doesn't matter. There are still many people in Beiqinggu Province who need to atone for their sins in this way and continue to serve the alliance. I will catch them. I hope that you...the demon hunter team can assist me. Do this work.”
Milia De Jong hesitated for a moment, and then responded: "We generally do not accept tasks assigned by local officials of the alliance, and we do not need to cooperate with other people's work. However, this matter was initiated by us, so why not Let Beiqinggu Province’s own disciplinary bodies, police stations, and government forces cooperate with our actions.”
"Yes, no matter what, as long as we can catch those people."
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Gu Hang was certainly aware of the anti-corruption movement in the Beiqinggu area. Including the tragedy of the veteran.
That incident really made Gu Hang very angry personally.
As the only dictator of the alliance's political system, he puts aside personal emotions, values and moral concepts, and purely from the perspective of rationality and interests, this is also intolerable.
The destructive power of this matter is very obvious. The production capacity of the exploited people will be suppressed, which is a direct impact; their consumption capacity will also be suppressed, which will be transmitted to the entire society and form a negative impact; the grievances of the people will form dissatisfaction with the alliance government in society. The trend of trust will have a huge negative impact on the implementation of all future alliance policies; in extreme cases, it will bring about rebellion in local areas...
The impact of isolated incidents is limited, but according to the report sent by the Demon Hunter team, 40% of the 131 farms in the Northern Qinggu Province they investigated during this period had varying degrees of managers. Situation of corruption.
Things at Weire Farm are the worst. In other places, there is no such thing as killing your whole family if you don't obey.
Those grassroots managers will deduct people's allowances and benefits; use clever excuses to collect additional taxes; and use the production materials issued by the alliance to charge...
That's what the guy named Chiklin at Weire Farm did.
There are also those who are reaching out to the alliance. They will privately change the production quotas set by the provincial production bureau to increase the production quota of the people. However, when handing over the agricultural products, they will hand in the normal quotas and seek the difference for their personal gain; and then package them into black market commodities. For sale to the public…
Most of these corruptions were committed by the original plantation owners when mutual aid societies were reorganized into local administrative agencies.
The probability of encountering such things is much smaller for farms that have been split off or that are reclaiming new land. Many of those farm owners were elected from among the lower-level pioneers, and there were also grassroots officials directly appointed by the province. The purity of the team is much better.
But among them, some other situations also occurred.
For example, the production plan quota is deliberately increased and farmers under jurisdiction are required to increase their working hours. These grassroots managers are not greedy and will hand everything over. What they pursue is to get higher scores in the performance ratings of the government departments so that they can be promoted to higher ranks and positions faster.
But the people are suffering. Farmers who are also at level E5 can get twice as much work done.
There was also an eight-hour working day, and according to the most outrageous exaggerated production plan, Gu Hang could tell at a glance that the farmers under his jurisdiction were all exhausted and could not complete his plan.
Is this corruption?
Objectively speaking, the increase in production this brought has accelerated the province's agricultural development plan, but you must know that most of the workers in Beiqinggu Province are proletarians, not property owners. The land is not theirs, it belongs to the Alliance, and they are agricultural workers, not farmers.
Agricultural workers are a type of worker, which can essentially be understood as work, rank benefits and allowances, and can be understood as wages, and they are people who live by wages.
Farmers are people who have their own farmland and are engaged in farming. Their livelihood depends on the output of the land. They pay taxes and rent, and the rest is their own.
It is certainly a good thing if agricultural workers increase production significantly. After all, none of the extra stuff produced goes to the workers, it all belongs to the coalition government.
But Gu Hang... there was no need to do this.
If someone wants to do this, eight hours of work a day is obviously enough to meet the basic requirements, but he still wants to work 12 or 16 hours, then let him go, the government can provide faster promotion to reward him this behavior.
But this matter should not be mandated by administrative power.
But when it comes to specific matters, Gu Hang has troubles.
The one who blindly reported the production plan and squeezed the workers under his control to death must be punished;
But those who did increase the production plan quota, but used incentives to shout slogans like 'higher output, faster upgrades, more benefits, and a better life' to the workers, encouraged everyone to work hard. What about production?
What about those people who study practical agricultural machinery technologies, impart agricultural production experience, and increase production plan quotas?
There are too many situations.
Everything was done indiscriminately, and all enthusiasm was lost.
It is extremely difficult to manage a huge land and a huge population across the board.
Corresponding plans must be thought of; lessons learned from this time must be summarized.
As for the specific anti-corruption work in Beiqinggu Province, Gu Hang did not get involved too much.
He believed that the joint action of the demon hunters, the Disciplinary Council, and the provincial government would give him a satisfactory answer.
At present, the government agencies of the entire Beiqinggu Province have launched a massive counter-revolutionary campaign.
At that time, those who have committed serious crimes will be sentenced as they should.
The one who was sentenced to death, the Serving Skull Workshop, was short of materials.
Those who are not sentenced to death will be dismissed from their posts, demoted in rank, and sentenced to hard labor. There are special labor farm prisons where you can serve your sentence of hard labor with the minimum treatment of E2.
In fact, in order to avoid problems with serving sentences locally, a large number of people will be sentenced to serve their sentences in mines in Weixingcheng, garbage collection sites in eastern provinces, and ruined mines.
Gu Hang, on the other hand, hopes that Jason Morgan will give him a more reasonable and systematic plan to solve corruption, disguised corruption, and the behavior of disregarding the life and death of agricultural workers and greatly increasing work pressure in order to get promoted...
These exposed issues were Morgan's test questions and determined how Gu Hang would treat him personally.
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There are many new book friends, so I still want to update.
There are 4,000 words per day, and the two chapters combined are posted at noon. The amount is normal for full attendance. Occasionally, the amount of chapters will be 6,000 and up.
It’s not much, just update it normally.
Then, in the last two chapters, some book friends talked about water... I felt very frustrated...
I have been thinking about the structure of these two chapters for a long time. The first half talks about the retirement policy and the social situation in Beiqing Valley. The second half talks about corruption and introduces the corresponding policies of the alliance. (I believe everyone can see it, right? If not, then I’m too good at it...)
For fear of keeping the perspective down for too long, the tragic content of Cohen Puglia was reduced to one and a half chapters.
This is something that must be written about farming. It is very boring to keep on developing technology, building troops, fighting wars, and technology... This cycle is very boring.
Of course, I can also write it in other ways. For example, you can delete the specific story, and just write about the agricultural output value, agricultural distribution, and corruption in the alliance from the perspective of the governor, and how to deal with it... This is very fast, and the explanation will be completed immediately.
However, there is no real feeling, no characters, no flesh and blood.
If people really don’t like to write about characters...then I still have to write. If I write a novel instead of writing about characters, what else is there to write about?
All I can say is that my strength is limited, I will improve myself even more in the future, and don’t let everyone down!
(End of chapter)