Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 271

271. Chapter 270, West Coast of the Continent

Gu Hang was a little hesitant about increasing the death penalty.

He felt that he was a little saintly.

But he really didn’t want to issue more death warrants just to increase the raw materials of servoskulls and servitors.

He didn’t think it was a suitable approach.

But on second thought, it was no big deal.

So he proposed his idea to Lambert.

“On the one hand, we need to improve the death rate of labor service.” 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 doing labor service, not enjoying themselves. Every bit of the alliance’s resources are useful now. Improving the humane treatment of prisoners 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 for ten-year labor service. Let’s make one thing clear. If the crime is really serious and it is worth killing, then the death penalty will be imposed. The use of the body is another matter; but if you don’t want him to die, or still hope that he can continue to return to society after serving labor service and reform, then try to sentence him to five years or less, and don’t torture him to death.”

Lambert nodded as he listened.

This is also good.

In the future, it is estimated that the number of ten-year labor service will be reduced to 20% of the original; for the remaining half, the serious criminals will be directly sentenced to death and made into servo skulls or mechanical servants; and for the other half with minor crimes,

they will simply be sentenced to less punishment so that they can have a chance to live. This will prevent the laborers from dying from overwork every day, which will cause him to be scolded; and the people in the mechanical servant and servo skull workshops will also be scolded for not having enough materials.

After talking about the situation of the prisoners, we returned to the main 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 after their on-site transformation

, corruption in the government is always a major problem that needs to be vigilant. However, there is also good news. Among the officials of the Alliance, more and more people have graduated from Zhongsi College. In Lambert’s anti-corruption campaign, those who have experienced Zhongsi College, not all of them have problems, but the probability of having problems is much lower than that of the transformed officials.

After a large number of positions cleared out during the anti-corruption campaign are replaced by these newcomers, the problem of corruption can be greatly alleviated.

Of course, under this premise, another issue may need to be considered: political stability.

The original ruling class was retained 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, they have suddenly been replaced by civil servants trained by the alliance itself, and turmoil is inevitable.

On the one hand, it is necessary to let go of those who are sabotaging, after all, those who have been removed from their posts may have considerable influence in their own local areas; on the other hand, these officials sent from the central government of the alliance must do well enough to quickly sort out the local situation and take over the political situation smoothly.

However, in general, although there have been some minor disturbances, no major incidents have occurred.

After all, the Alliance’s policies are generally good. Just the rank is set and there is a stable life. This is a basic tone, which determines that no major incidents can occur anywhere.

Why? Stable life is not enough, do you want to go back to the days of uncertainty and being treated as a non-human?

Most people are not stupid.

As for the small group of people with ulterior motives, there is no need to worry.

The Alliance has knives.

There is an army to maintain the overall situation; there is an anti-corruption committee to conduct investigations in secret; if they are more ruthless, the demon hunters may come to the door.

Since they can’t incite a major chaos, let them do their little tricks in secret, just as a training for the newly appointed officials.

After talking about anti-corruption, Lambert mentioned the third thing.

This is something related to intelligence.

“Before, when the ‘Monster Hunter’ organization was first established, we split that team into two. One team went south to investigate a corruption case in Beiqinggu Province, and the other team was sent west to investigate intelligence about Blackbird Heavy Industries in the west of the continent.”

“It is 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 information left over from the old alliance, some records from the elderly, and some oral accounts from merchants, we have roughly pieced together what the western part of the continent looks like.”

“From the Central Province, heading west is 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 dotted oases feed a small population. But it was also an important grain production area on the entire Angry Owl Star in the past. Oases alone certainly cannot produce so much food, mainly because under those oases, there are usually planting factories left over from the pre-war era.”

“The entire Western Desert has a population of only five million, so naturally there is a large amount of food to be produced.”

“However, the only thing that the Western Desert can produce is food. There are no other large-scale products, let alone industrial capacity. They can only rely on food trade to exchange for other necessities. Their main buyer is Blackbird Heavy Industry. 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, and the natural environment is very similar. Like the three eastern provinces, it is an urban agglomeration in the pre-war era, but now it is a ruin everywhere.”

“Blackbird Heavy Industries is stationed there. Fifteen million people work for them, and most of the population is engaged in low-end industries, from waste mine recycling, primary processing of raw materials, and gathering on a small amount of arable land to provide food… and on the west coast, there is a Blackbird City, which is the core industrial area of Blackbird Heavy Industries, with 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 trying to enter. Those who entered could not come out, and could not send out any information. Such a big city is like a black box, revealing nothing.”

“They are continuing to try to infiltrate, hoping to get more core intelligence as soon as possible.”

(End of this chapter)