Chapter 220, Anti-counterrevolutionary Action
Milia de Jong's fate changed dramatically after she was persuaded by her sister to enter Xifeng Zhongsi College and then was selected into the advanced training class.
In the past, she didn't care about this so-called ideological cultivation, but she got involved because she couldn't resist her sister.
However, at Zhongsi Academy, she thought about a lot of things.
After graduating from the advanced training class, she was selected 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 army groups, and division-level units. The governor himself directly governs all military departments.
The second is the Union Government, with the Prime Minister as the general leader and responsible to the Governor-General. It directly governs the provinces and has directly subordinate departments such as civil affairs, production, development, commerce, culture and education.
The third is the Supreme Court of the Alliance, where Lambert Hodgson serves as the Chief Justice and reports to the Governor. It has the Legislative Council, the Executive Council, and the Disciplinary Council under its jurisdiction. The Demon Hunter Team is a newly established organization that is affiliated with the Alliance Tribunal. The Tribunal is independent of the armed forces of the three councils of the Supreme Court and is responsible for the execution of major events.
The Inquisition can be understood as the Alliance's secret service organization. Demon hunters can conduct secret arrests, secret interrogations, secret executions, etc. without going through the "Three Meetings". This is a power granted by the new "Alliance Secret Execution Law".
Initially, after graduating from Zhongsi College, Miss De Jong was brought into the Independent Commission Against Corruption under the Disciplinary Committee. Then some time ago, when the Inquisition was established and the Demon Hunters were recruiting personnel, she signed up and was selected.
After undergoing demon hunter training, Millia de Jong now carries a pistol and a dagger as her daily equipment; and their team also carries bolters, chainswords, and exoskeleton suits, so that they can take over some places that require special attacks when necessary.
Moreover, after completing the training, every demon hunter has mastered a little bit of...special abilities.
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 die of a ruptured heart; his companions include those who can detect lies, those who can instill fear in people... There are all kinds of them, and even if they are not particularly powerful, they are more or less practical.
This ability seemed to be called psychic power, but the Governor also said when he met them that compared with real psychics, their psychic power was incomplete, had only a single function, could not be used flexibly, and was not very strong.
But that's okay. In the past twenty years of her life, Milia de Jong had only fantasized about having extraordinary powers when she was a child.
In addition to combat skills and psychic-like special abilities, there is also a considerable amount of knowledge, which is investigation, tracking, analysis, heresy characteristics and other knowledge content.
After the Demon Hunter Team was formed, they were divided into two teams. One team went westward to the distant Western Desert or even the west of the continent to collect intelligence.
De Jong's seven-man team will tour the league and investigate corruption within the league.
And they discovered many cases while patrolling the Beiqinggu area.
Although they have the power to secretly arrest, try and execute, when they set out, Chief Justice Hodgson also told them not to use this power unless it is necessary or urgent. The normal system of the alliance can solve the problem. Normally, they only need to hand over what they have investigated to the government that handles it. Normally, they just need to supplement the areas where the normal investigation work of the alliance system is not in place.
Special powers will only be used when the alliance's system is corrupt to a certain extent and additional investigations can no longer achieve their goals.
This time, their inspection in Beiqinggu Province followed normal procedures.
In the Beiqing Valley area, incidents similar to those encountered by the family of veteran Puglia are indeed not isolated, but occur on a large scale - of course, not every incident is so bad, but there are many cases of parasites and corrupt elements acting tyrannically and exploiting farmers on various farms.
It was impossible for them to arrest so many people during their investigation, so they just wrote down some evidence and made a list.
They originally planned to spend a month or two to basically go through the whole process, and then directly divide the relevant intelligence, lists, and evidence into two copies, one to be sent to the headquarters and handed over to the Disciplinary Committee; the other to the Beiqinggu 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 the Weire Farm, they discovered that the retired veteran Priya and his entire family had been murdered, and obtained the key evidence of the diary.
At this point, the Demon Hunter team could no longer endure it.
Previously, there were only cases of corruption, oppression, personal injury, and violent assaults. There were also murders, but they were relatively rare; not to mention that this was the extermination of an entire family and the targeting of the injured veterans who had always requested preferential treatment from the alliance.
That would be a big deal.
The demon hunters knew very well how angry the governor would be if he heard about this.
They simply arrested the man and rushed to Chatan City without stopping.
The diary slapped Jason Morgan in the face. The witchers were waiting for an explanation from the provincial governor.
This matter was handed over to Morgan's sister-in-law, Milia de Jong.
If the answer given by Jason Morgan fails to satisfy the demon hunters, they may really use the power granted to them by the Alliance Secret Enforcement Act to bring this senior Alliance official directly back to the capital to be examined by the Disciplinary Committee and tried by the Governor.
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At this moment, Jason Morgan, who was questioned, let out a long sigh and gave his own answer:
"I know something 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 the specific situation in the province to the Governor-General. Even if the Governor-General wants to punish me for inaction and incompetence, and I will become the second senior official of the Alliance to be dismissed, I will bow my head and plead guilty. However..."
"But what?"
"But before that, I have to personally catch all these rats in the province and leave a clean environment for the next head of Beiqinggu Province."
"Hehe, what were you doing so early?"
"Ah..." Jason Morgan sighed, "I will explain this problem to the Governor. But first, tell me, where is the captured Zeckerling now?"
"It has been sent to the Supreme Court of Renaissance City. This is a case with extremely bad consequences. Chief Justice Hodgson is furious. He wants to use this person to appease himself, the Governor, and the anger of the entire alliance. What do you want to do?"
"What a pity..." Morgan sighed, "It seems I won't have the chance to peel off his skin myself."
"No need. This guy will definitely be sentenced to death, and his skull will be made into a servo skull and thrown into service somewhere. Oh, I heard that there is now robot transformation technology. The Alliance now has special ways to use death row prisoners. They won't just kill them directly. It's a waste of resources."
"Oh, I see...they can continue to serve the Governor with their sinful lives, which is really an advantage for them."
"Yes."
"But it doesn't matter. There are still many people in Beiqinggu Province who need to atone their sins in this way and continue to serve the Alliance. I will catch them. I hope you... the Demon Hunter Team, can assist me in this work."
Milia de Jong hesitated for a moment, then responded: "We generally do not accept tasks assigned by local officials of the alliance, and we do not need to cooperate with others. However, this matter was initiated by us, so why not let the disciplinary committee, police station, and government forces of the Northern Qinggu Province cooperate with us."
"Yes, anything is fine, as long as we can catch those people."
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Gu Hang was of course aware of the anti-corruption campaign in the Beiqinggu area.
Including the tragedy of the veteran.
That incident did make Gu Hang very angry personally.
As the only dictator of the alliance, this is also intolerable from a purely rational and interest perspective, leaving aside personal feelings, values and morals.
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 people's resentment will form a trend of distrust of the Union government in society, which will have a huge negative impact on the implementation and implementation of all future Union policies; in extreme cases, it will lead to rebellion in some 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 that they explored during this period had varying degrees of managerial corruption.
What happened at Weire Farm was the worst. In other places, it would not be so serious that your entire family would be killed for not obeying the rules.
Those grassroots managers would deduct people's allowances and benefits; collect additional taxes under various pretexts; and charge fees for the means of production issued by the alliance...
That's what the guy named Zeckerlin at Weepy Farm did.
There are also those who reach out to the alliance. They will privately change the production quotas given by the provincial production bureau, increase the production quotas of the people, but when handing in the agricultural products, they will hand in the normal quotas, seek the difference in the middle for their own benefit, and then package it as black market goods and sell it to the people...
These corruption incidents occurred on a large scale when the mutual aid societies were reorganized into local administrative agencies and were committed by the original plantation owners.
The probability of encountering such incidents is much lower for the farms that have been split off and reclaimed new land. Many of the farm owners are elected from the grassroots pioneers, and some are grassroots officials directly appointed by the province. The purity of the team is relatively better.
But some other situations also occurred among them.
For example, they deliberately increase the production plan quota and require the farmers under their jurisdiction to increase their working hours. These grassroots managers will not embezzle, but will hand over all the money. What they pursue is to get higher scores in the performance rating of the government departments so that they can be promoted to higher ranks and positions faster.
But the people suffered. The same E5-level farmers could do twice as much work.
It's still an eight-hour work system. According to the most outrageous and exaggerated production plan, Gu Hang could tell at a glance that the farmers under that guy's jurisdiction would be exhausted and still could not complete his plan.
Is this corruption?
Objectively, the increase in production brought about by this has accelerated the province's agricultural development plan, but it should be noted that most of the workers in Beiqinggu Province are proletarians, not property owners. The land is not theirs, but the alliance's. They are agricultural workers, not farmers.
Agricultural workers are a type of worker, which can be essentially understood as going to work, and the rank benefits and allowances can be understood as wages, and they are people who live on wages.
Farmers are people who own their own arable land and are engaged in farming. Their livelihood depends on the output of the land. They pay taxes and rent based on the output, and the rest is theirs.
It is of course a good thing that agricultural workers have significantly increased their production. After all, none of the extra production belongs to the workers, but to the Union government.
But Gu Hang...there is no need to do this.
If someone wants to do this, and eight hours of work a day is enough to meet the basic requirements, but he insists on working twelve or sixteen hours, then let him do it. The government can provide faster promotion to reward this behavior.
But this should not be something that is enforced by administrative force.
But when it comes to specific matters, Gu Hang feels conflicted.
The one who made a false report on production plans and put too much work on the workers under his charge must be punished.
But what about those companies that have indeed increased their production plans, but in an incentive way, shouted slogans like "higher output, faster upgrades, more benefits, better life" to the workers, encouraging everyone to work hard?
What about those who research practical agricultural machinery technology, impart agricultural production experience, and increase production plan quotas?
There are too many situations.
They do everything without distinguishing right from wrong, and that kills their enthusiasm.
It is extremely difficult to manage a vast amount of land and a huge population with a one-size-fits-all approach.
We need to think of corresponding plans and summarize the lessons learned from this experience.
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 anti-counterrevolutionary campaign.
At that time, those who have committed serious crimes will be sentenced accordingly.
The Servo Skull Workshop, which was sentenced to death, was in need of materials.
Those who are not sentenced to death will be dismissed from their posts, demoted, and sentenced to hard labor. There are special labor farm prisons where they serve their hard labor sentences with the minimum treatment of E2.
In order to avoid problems with serving sentences locally, a large number of people will be sentenced to serve their sentences in places such as the mines in Weixing City, garbage recycling sites in the eastern provinces, and ruins mines.
Gu Hang, on the other hand, hoped that Jason Morgan would give him a more reasonable and systematic solution to solve corruption, disguised corruption, and the behavior of ignoring the lives of agricultural workers and greatly increasing work pressure in order to get promoted...
These exposed problems are Morgan's test questions, which determine how Gu Hang will treat him personally.
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There are quite a few new book friends, so I still have to talk about the updates.
4,000 words a day, and I post two chapters together at noon. This is the normal amount for full attendance. Occasionally, the chapter will be over 6,000 words.
Not much, just update as normal.
Then, some readers said the last two chapters were boring... I felt really frustrated...
I spent a long time thinking about the structure of these two chapters. The first half talks about the retirement policy and the social situation in Beiqing Valley, and the second half talks about corruption and introduces the corresponding policies of the alliance. (I believe you can see it, right? If you can't see it, then I'm too inexperienced...)
In order to prevent the perspective from being delayed for too long, the tragedy of Cohen Puglia was simplified to one and a half chapters.
This is something that must be written when writing about farming. The cycle of technology, building soldiers, fighting, technology... is very boring.
Of course, I can also write in other ways. For example, I can delete the specific story and directly write about agricultural output value, agricultural distribution, corruption in the alliance, and how to deal with it from the perspective of the governor... This is very quick and it will be explained immediately.
However, there is no sense of reality, no characters, no flesh and blood.
If everyone really doesn't like to write about the characters... then I still have to write. If I don't write about the characters in the novel, what else is there to write about?
I can only say that my ability is limited. I will try to improve my skills in the future and not let you all down!
(End of this chapter)
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