Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 220

Chapter 220: Anti-counterrevolutionary Action

Milia de Jong, her fate changed dramatically after she was persuaded by her sister to enter the Xifeng Zhongsi College and then was selected for the advanced training class.

In the past, she didn’t care about this so-called ideological training, but she participated because she couldn’t resist her sister.

However, in Zhongsi College, she thought about a lot of things.

After graduating from the advanced training class, she was selected by the Supreme Court of the Alliance.

At present, the political system of the Alliance can be roughly divided into three parts: the Alliance Army, which includes the Military and Political Department, the Alliance General Staff, various army groups, and division-level units. The Governor himself directly governs all military departments.

The second is the Alliance Government, with the Prime Minister as the general person in charge and responsible to the Governor. It directly governs the provinces and has directly subordinate civil affairs, production, development, commerce, culture and education and other departments.

The third is the Supreme Court of the Alliance, with Lambert Hodgson as the Chief Justice and responsible 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 affiliated with the Alliance Tribunal. The Inquisition 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 a spy organization of the Alliance. Demon hunters can conduct secret arrests, secret interrogations, secret executions, etc. without going through the “Three Councils”. This is the power granted by the new “Alliance Secret Execution Law”.

At the beginning, after graduating from Zhongsi College, Miss De Jong was taken to the Independent Commission Against Corruption under the Disciplinary Council. Then some time ago, when the Inquisition was established and the Demon Hunters were recruiting personnel, she signed up and was selected.

After going through the Demon Hunter training, Milia De Jong now carries a pistol and a short knife as daily equipment; and their team also carries a grenade gun, a chain sword and an exoskeleton suit, so that when necessary, they can take down some places that require special attacks.

And, after completing the training, every demon hunter has mastered a little bit…special abilities.

For example, Milia de Jong can make her eyes glow, and the creatures she stares at will be flustered and dizzy; after testing, some weak animals will even die of heart rupture; his companions have lie detectors, some can make people feel fear… There are all kinds of them, even if they are not particularly powerful, but they are more or less practical.

This ability seems to be called psychic power, but the governor also said when he met them that compared with serious psychics, their psychic power is incomplete, has only a single function, cannot be used flexibly, and is not too strong.

But it’s okay. In the past twenty years of Milia de Jong’s life, she only fantasized about having 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, which is investigation, tracking, analysis, heresy characteristics and other knowledge content.

After the formation of the demon hunter team, they were divided into two teams. One team went west to the distant Western Desert, or even the west of the continent, to collect intelligence.

De Jong’s seven-member team patrolled the alliance to investigate corruption within the alliance.

They found many cases in the Beiqing Valley 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 at will unless it is necessary or urgent. The normal system of the alliance can solve the problem. Normally, they only need to hand over the things they have investigated to the corresponding government. Normally, they just need to supplement the investigation work of the normal system of the alliance.

Unless the system of the alliance has been corrupted to a certain extent and the supplementary investigation has failed to achieve their goals, they need to use special powers.

This time, their inspection in the Beiqing Valley Province followed the normal process.

In the Beiqing Valley area, things like what happened to the veteran Puglia’s family are indeed not isolated, but happen on a large scale-of course, not every incident is so bad, but there are many cases of those termites and corrupt elements who are domineering and exploiting farmers in various farms.

After investigating all the way, they couldn’t catch so many people, so they just wrote down some evidence and the list.

They originally planned to spend one or two months, and after basically going through a circle, they would directly divide the relevant intelligence, list, 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 was thoroughly cleaned up.

As a result, when they found the Weire Farm, they found out that the retired veteran Puglia had been exterminated, and got the key evidence of this diary.

At this point, the demon hunter team couldn’t stand it anymore.

Before, it was just corruption, oppression, personal injury, violent beatings and the like. There were also murders, but they were actually relatively rare; not to mention that this was a family extermination and targeted the injured veterans who had always requested preferential treatment from the Alliance.

That was a big deal.

The demon hunters knew very well that if this matter got to the governor’s ears, he would be very angry.

They simply arrested him and rushed to Beitan City without stopping.

The diary slapped Jason Morgan’s face. The demon hunters were waiting for the provincial governor to give an explanation.

This matter was handed over to Morgan’s sister-in-law, Miria de Jong.

If Jason Morgan’s answer did not satisfy the demon hunters, they might really use the power granted to them by the “Alliance Secret Execution Law” to bring this senior official of the alliance back to the capital to be examined by the Disciplinary Committee and tried by the Governor.

…

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. Even if the Governor wants to punish me for inaction and poor performance, I will become the second senior official of the alliance to be dismissed, and I will bow my head and plead guilty. But…”

“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 the Beiqinggu Province.”

“Haha, what were you doing earlier?”

“Alas…” Jason Morgan sighed, “I will explain this issue to the Governor. But tell me first, where is the Qickerlin you caught?”

“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 calm 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 then his skull will be made into a servo skull and sent somewhere to serve. Oh, I heard that there is also servitor 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… 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 the Beiqing Valley 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.”

Millia de Jong hesitated, then responded: “We generally do not accept tasks assigned by local officials of the alliance, and we do not need to cooperate with the work of others. However, this matter was initiated by us, so why not let the Beiqing Valley province’s own disciplinary agencies, police stations, and government forces cooperate with our actions.”

“Okay, anything is fine, as long as those people can be caught.”

…

Gu Hang certainly knew about the anti-corruption campaign in the Beiqing Valley area.

Including the tragedy of the retired veteran.

That incident really made Gu Hang very angry personally.

As the only dictator of the Alliance, apart from personal emotions, values and moral concepts, 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 whole society and form a negative impact; the resentment of the people will form a trend of distrust of the Alliance government in society, which will have a huge negative impact on the promotion and implementation of all future Alliance policies; in extreme cases, it will bring about rebellion in local areas…

The influence of isolated incidents is limited, but according to the report sent by the Demon Hunter Team, 40% of the 131 farms in the Beiqing Valley Province that they explored during this period have managers with varying degrees of corruption.

The matter of Weire Farm is the worst, but other places are not so bad that you will be exterminated if you don’t obey.

Those grassroots managers would deduct people’s allowances and benefits; collect extra taxes under various pretexts; and charge fees by means of production materials issued by the alliance…

That’s what the guy named Qi Kelin from Weire Farm did.

There are also people who reach out to the alliance. They will privately change the production indicators given by the provincial production bureau to increase the production quota of the people, but when handing in agricultural products, they will hand them in with normal indicators, seeking the difference in the middle as their own interests; and then package them into black market goods and sell them to the people…

And these corruption situations occurred on a large scale when the mutual aid association was reorganized into a local administrative agency, and those original plantation owners committed them.

The probability of encountering such things in the split farms and the farms that reclaimed new land is much lower. Many of those farm owners were elected from the grassroots pioneers, and there were also grassroots officials directly appointed by the province. The purity of the team is relatively better.

But there are also some other situations among them.

For example, deliberately increasing the production plan quota and requiring the farmers under their jurisdiction to increase their working hours. These grassroots managers will not embezzle, and will hand over all of their income. What they pursue is to get higher scores in the performance rating of government departments so that they can be promoted to higher ranks and positions faster.

But the people suffer. The same E5-level farmers can do twice as much work.

There is still an eight-hour work system. According to the most outrageous exaggerated production plan, Gu Hang can see at a glance that the farmers under the jurisdiction of that guy are all exhausted and cannot complete his plan.

Is this corruption?

Objectively, the increase in production brought about by this 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, but the alliance’s. They are agricultural workers, not farmers.

Agricultural workers are a type of worker. In essence, they can be understood as going to work, and the rank benefits and allowances can be understood as wages. They are people who live on wages. Farmers

are people who have their own arable land and are engaged in farming. Their livelihood depends on the output of the land. How much output they produce, pay taxes and rent, and the rest is theirs.

It is of course a good thing that agricultural workers have greatly increased their production. After all, the extra production does not belong 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 such behavior.

But this should not be a mandatory requirement of administrative power.

But when it comes to specific matters, Gu Hang will be entangled.

The one who reports the production plan blindly and puts the workload of the workers under his jurisdiction to death should be dealt with;

but what about those who have indeed increased the production plan quota, but in an incentive way, shout out slogans such as “higher output, faster upgrades, more benefits, and a better life” to the workers, encouraging everyone to work hard? What about

those who study practical agricultural machinery technology, impart agricultural production experience, and increase the production plan quota?

There are too many situations.

If they are dealt with indiscriminately, their enthusiasm will be destroyed.

It is extremely difficult to manage a large amount of land and a large population with a one-size-fits-all approach.

The corresponding plan must be thought of; the lessons learned from this time must be summarized.

As for the specific anti-corruption work in Beiqinggu Province, Gu Hang did not intervene too much.

He believed that the joint action of the demon hunters, the disciplinary committee, 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 action.

At that time, those who have committed serious crimes will be sentenced as they should be. For those

who are sentenced to death, the Servo Skull Workshop is in need of materials. For

those who are not sentenced to death, their positions will be removed, their ranks will be reduced, and they will be sentenced to hard labor. There are special labor farm prisons, where people 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 greatly increasing work pressure in order to get promoted without caring about the lives of agricultural workers…

These exposed problems are Morgan’s test questions, which determine how Gu Hang will treat him personally.

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There are many new book friends, so I still have to talk about the update.

4,000 words a day, and the two chapters are posted at noon. The amount is the normal amount of full attendance. Occasionally, there will be 6,000 or more chapters.

It’s not a lot, just update normally.

Then, some book friends said that the last two chapters were water… I felt very frustrated… I

thought 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, and the second half talks about corruption and introduces the corresponding policies of the alliance. (I believe you can see it, right? If you don’t see it, it’s because I’m too bad…)

In order to avoid the perspective from falling for too long, I also simplified the content of Cohen Puglia’s tragedy to the point where it seems to be completed in one and a half chapters.

This is something that must be written when writing about farming. It is very boring to keep going on about technology, building soldiers, fighting, technology… Such a cycle is very boring.

Of course, I can also write it 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 is explained immediately.

However, there is no sense of reality, no characters, no blood and flesh.

If everyone really doesn’t like to implement the characters… Then I still have to write it. If I don’t write characters when writing a novel, what else can I write?

I can only say that my strength is limited. I will improve my skills in the future and don’t let you down!

(End of this chapter)