Chapter 270, West Coast of the Continent
Gu Hang was a little hesitant about adding the death penalty.
He felt like a bit of a saint.
But he really didn't want to issue more death warrants just to increase the raw materials for servoskulls and servitors.
He didn't think this was an appropriate approach.
But on second thought, it's no big deal.
So he proposed his idea to Lambert.
"On the one hand, we need to improve the death rate of laborers." Gu Hang said, "I know that we can't invest a lot of resources to improve the living conditions of prisoners. They are criminals who are there to perform labor, not to enjoy themselves. Every resource of the alliance is useful now. Improving the humane treatment of criminals is far from a priority."
"However, what you need to solve is the corruption of prison guards and labor supervisors. The problem of withholding the treatment of prisoners and deliberately abusing them must be clearly put to an end. This is different from improving the treatment of labor prisoners."
"I agree to significantly reduce the number of sentences of 10-year hard labor. Let's be clear about one thing. If the crime is really heinous and it is worth killing, then sentence him to death. The use of his body is another matter. But if you don't want him to die, and you still hope that he can serve hard labor and return to society after reform, then try to sentence him to five years or less, and don't torture him to death."
Lambert listened and nodded.
This is also good.
In the future, it is estimated that the number of ten-year labor sentences will drop to 20% of the original amount; for the rest, half of the serious criminals will be directly sentenced to death and made into servo skulls or robot servants; and the other half with lighter crimes will simply be sentenced to lighter sentences so that they can live.
In order to avoid working himself to death from overwork every day, he would be scolded a lot; the people in the robot servants and servoskull workshop would also be scolded for not having enough materials.
After talking about the prisoners’ situation, we returned to the topic of anti-corruption.
The fact that so many officials have been removed from their posts actually shows that the alliance’s anti-corruption work is not going well.
Although there are historical problems left over from the bad habits of the original rulers that are difficult to change after they were transformed on the spot, corruption among officials is always a major problem that requires vigilance.
However, there is also good news. Among the officials of the alliance, the number of graduates from Zhongsi College is increasing. In Lambert's anti-corruption campaign, those who have experienced Zhongsi College are not all without problems, but the probability of having problems is much lower than that of converted officials.
After a large number of positions cleared out during the anti-corruption campaign are taken over by these newcomers, the problem of corruption will be greatly alleviated.
Of course, under this premise, another issue may need to be considered: political stability.
The original ruling class was kept in order to ensure a smooth transition of power. In addition, these people were indeed the most capable, most suitable and most knowledgeable about the local situation that could be found at the time, so they were naturally chosen.
Now, with the sudden replacement of civil servants trained by the alliance itself, turbulence is inevitable.
On the one hand, we have to let go of those who are trying to sabotage, after all, those who are removed from office may have considerable influence in their hometowns; on the other hand, the officials sent from the central government of the alliance have to do well enough to quickly sort out the local situation and take over the political situation smoothly.
However, in general, although there were many small troubles, no major incidents occurred.
After all, the alliance's policies are generally good. Once you have a certain rank, you will have a stable life. This is a basic tone that determines that no major trouble will occur anywhere.
Why? You don't want to live a stable life anymore, and want to go back to a life of uncertainty and being treated as a nobody?
Most people are not stupid.
As for that small group of people with ulterior motives, there is no need to worry.
The alliance has a knife.
There is an army to maintain the overall situation; there is an anti-corruption committee to conduct investigations secretly; if you are a little more ruthless, the witcher might come.
Since they cannot incite major unrest, let them carry out small actions in secret as a training exercise for the newly appointed officials.
After talking about anti-corruption, Lambert brought up a third matter.
This is a matter of intelligence.
"Before, when the Demon Hunter organization was first established, we split the team into two. One team went south to investigate the corruption case in Beiqinggu Province, and the other team was sent west to investigate the intelligence about Blackbird Heavy Industries in the west of the continent."
"It's very difficult for the team going west to contact our headquarters here. In the past year, the news has been intermittent and they often lose contact, which is quite worrying. But fortunately, after a period of time, they always get in touch again and send back some information."
"So far, by sorting out this information, combined with some data left by the old alliance, some records of the elderly, and some oral accounts of merchants, we have roughly pieced together what the western part of the continent looks like."
"From the Central Province, heading west, you will reach the Western Desert. That is where the land is vast and the population is sparse. The vast desert is as large as the three central provinces and the three eastern provinces combined; the scattered oases support a small population. But it was also an important grain production area for the entire Angry Owl Star in the past. The oases alone certainly cannot produce so much food, mainly because there are usually planting factories left over from the pre-war era under those oases."
"The entire Western Desert region has a population of only five million, so there is naturally a large amount of food available for production."
"However, the only thing that the Western Desert can produce is food. There are no other large-scale products, let alone industrial capacity. We can only rely on food trade to exchange for other necessities. Their main buyer is Blackbird Heavy Industries. Only a few oasis territories near the east do business with us."
"Further west from the Western Desert is the area actually controlled by Blackbird Heavy Industries. The area there is only about half the size of the Western Desert, about the size of the three eastern provinces. The natural environment is also very similar. Like the three eastern provinces, they are all urban clusters in the pre-war era, but now they are all ruins."
"Blackbird Heavy Industries is based there. Fifteen million people work for them, and most of the population is engaged in low-end industries, such as recycling waste mines, processing raw materials, and providing food on a small amount of arable land... And on the west coast, there is a Blackbird City, which is the core industrial area of Blackbird Heavy Industries, and there are seven million people gathered there."
"Blackbird City should be their heavy industrial output center, but the control there is very strict. Our people have failed several times in their attempts to enter. Those who entered could not come out, nor could they send out any information. Such a big city is like a black box, revealing nothing."
"They are continuing to try to infiltrate, hoping to obtain more core intelligence as soon as possible."
(End of this chapter)
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