I heard that being assigned to the national police made Li Yongxun depressed for a time - she had seen "policemen" in Dongmen City who wore bamboo hats, black uniforms and leggings, and a white stick hanging from their waists - not to mention theft and robbery. Case", even arguing, throwing garbage and spitting everywhere. It's simply better than "having more control than a dog". Judging from the scope of their responsibilities, they are generally the fast-shift catchers in the Ming Dynasty Yamen, out-and-out "cheap servants".
"What do you know?" Ke Yun saw that she was in a low mood and knew what she was thinking. "The national police are not the express team of the county government - they are an out-and-out powerful department directly under the Senate. The police are not untouchables. We There is no such thing as a pariah in the Song Dynasty in Australia. This job is not something ordinary people can do, and there are many naturalized people vying to do it."
"Well, do police officers count as officials?" Li Yongxun asked pitifully.
"Of course, forget it. You see, after you join the job, you will be promoted to a trainee police sergeant, and after three months of service, you will be promoted to a second-class police sergeant - this is the rank and file, a serious 'cadre' under the Senate. Monthly salary, various subsidies, uniforms every year... Do you think the government officials in Ming Dynasty have this kind of treatment?"
In addition to the "squad leader", the rest of the government officials are nothing more than "registered" official government officials and "official" helpers. Not to mention the official status, it is not even considered as a "official official". As for things like wages and benefits, the yamen has never considered them.
Li Yongxun was a little tempted. The "official body" thing was so attractive. Even if he was a "sesame official", he was still an "official" after all. She usually envied Ke Yun's uniform and his serious, calm and authoritative attitude when he was "serving the public" - this kind of "majesty" was completely different from the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
His Feiyu suit, embroidered spring knife, and "waist badge" were all just "jokes" in the final analysis. It can't be true. The police position in Lingao is a real "official status" and a real "official duty".
To take a step back, even if I don't want to, is there any choice left in Lingao, the hometown of Australians? Ke Yun's words that "Ziming Tower is short of people" are still in my ears.
"But I think of my sister's pedestrian division..." Li Yongxun looked at Ke Yun's black uniform and sighed.
Ke Yun smiled: "It's still a long time. Take your time."
So Li Yongxun officially became a "policeman." First, he filled out the "Registration Form for Public Servants" and was then assigned to the "Police Administration Study Class" in Fangcaodi. Since the national police was expanding at that time and the police system was being refreshed, a large number of personnel were urgently needed. Li Yongxun himself was able to write and calculate, and he had a "family background", so he did not attend the three-month police short-term training course. Instead, he entered the one-year police administration class.
In addition to studying, Li Yongxun also thought about writing letters to her family and cousin in Foshan several times, but she shrank when she thought of Ke Yun's words. Besides, how could she send them to them after writing? The inn is under the control of the Australians, and there are no acquaintances here to entrust. This matter was delayed.
One year of studying at Fangcaodi changed her a lot. When she graduated, she got excellent grades and was subsequently assigned to work in the household registration office. The police rank was also promoted to trainee associate officer.
The work at the household registration office was very boring. Although she wore the black uniform that she once envied, she was still engaged in paperwork every day. As the Central Government Administration began to establish the island-wide household registration system, countless household registration information flooded into the household registration office. Just producing household registration files made the entire household registration office extremely busy.
Originally, Ran Yao and others hoped that the household registration "yellow books" collected from various county and prefectural government offices in Hainan could provide some kind of reference. The result was the same as what the people in the big library said: "I became even more confused after referring to it." The "Yellow Book", which has been compiled for more than ten years since the Apocalypse, does not provide detailed household registration information, and is even a "Book of the Dead": it is full of people in their 100s and dozens of years old.
After tasting the "yellow book". Li Yongxun's original love for Ming Dynasty was even less. In addition to the newly trained police officers at the household registration office, there are also several retained clerks from each county's households, who are very careful with Australians. Even these old guys have to admit that they are much better than themselves when it comes to the rules of doing things: in a word, the set of things that the Australians brought and implemented is many times better than the oral and heart-to-heart instructions passed down from their ancestors, and what they regard as secrets. .
Although Li Yongxun has some complaints about the job she is engaged in, she has been in the officialdom since she was a child. After another year of rigorous police study, I have developed good habits of obeying discipline. And although Ke Yun no longer appears as often as before. But I will always meet and chat with her in ten and a half months - obviously. Ke Yun's "supervision" of her did not end. If I don't be careful at all times and fully integrate into the Australian system, Ziminglou will still be "empty".
There are some small adjustments to the boring work. Li Yongxun was designated as an "elective" in "Interrogation" at the police school. This course was taught by Zhou Dongtian himself. After graduation, he started working "part-time" in the interrogation office.
This kind of "part-time job" doesn't happen every day. When the correspondent silently sent a "temporary overtime notice", Li Yongxun knew that he would be busy again in the evening.
Li Yongxun's part-time job is "interrogation", or rather "torture".
The interrogation office works in the basement below the atrium. The thick leather-covered door is always closed. To enter this place, one has to pull a bell rope, and then a small window will open in the door, revealing the guard's scrutinizing eyes.
Unrelated personnel are not allowed to enter. Even people like Li Yongxun who often come here for "part-time work" cannot enter without an "overtime order".
Once you enter this door, there is another staircase that spirals down to the basement. At the bottom of the stairs is a locked iron gate guarded by guards - when standing here waiting for the door to open, you will occasionally hear shrill screams, in addition to the buzzing of the ventilation pipes.
Passing through the iron gate, there is a long corridor with a vaulted roof. Gas lights are on day and night. The corridor is made of terrazzo, with drainage ditches on both sides, and the walls are all covered with ceramic tiles. There are doors on both sides, the doors are covered with thick leather pads - and there are viewing windows on them.
According to the contents of the notice, Li Yongxun entered one of the rooms and started her "assisting interrogation" work.
The subjects of interrogation include both men and women, and that's all for women. Li Yongxun's family biography contains the "Women's Torture" secretly passed down by Jin Yiwei, which is specially used to torture female prisoners. But asking her to torture a male prisoner made her uncomfortable for a while: especially when the prisoner was still naked.
Although she felt uncomfortable, she did not hesitate when "working" - her father often said: When you are on duty, you are on duty, there is no need to think about it. Just do whatever your boss tells you. Chief Zhou, who had given her lessons, said: There is no distinction between male and female prisoners.
Li Yongxun works hard. He has both family skills and "modern influence". Once he gets started, he will immediately become proficient in the "business". Not only because of her solid "business" skills, but also because of her psychological advantages: in a society with a strong culture of male superiority and female inferiority, being stripped naked and tortured by a young woman is a great humiliation for many people, so they collapse It will be much faster. Soon, she gained a small reputation in the basement - even the husbands of Qiongzhou Prefecture and County Yamen who were employed by the National Police and the Political Security Bureau were impressed by this girl: This girl is really good at it.
Some people have guessed that she should come from a "gongren" family - the unique skills she shows are definitely not something ordinary people can have. Li Yongxun followed Ke Yun's instructions and never dared to say anything about his life experience and family.
The sense of accomplishment from working overtime at night provided a small relief from Li Yongxun's boring daily work. Although working overtime is hard work, it also has small benefits - for example, you can get overtime pay that is half higher than normal overtime work. This has become very important to Li Yongxun who originally had no concept of money.
After Li Yongxun officially joined the national police, he moved into a dormitory area specially provided for single police officers. There is no rent to pay here, just water and gas bills. The police headquarters also issues meal coupons based on the shift they work. She didn't spend much on food. She was a single woman and didn't have to support her family, so she should have plenty of money.
However, she lived a tight life every month - Li Yongxun, like all young people who broke away from family control and began to live independently in big cities, soon got lost in the prosperity of Lingao.
Of course, her hometown Nanjing was one of the few prosperous big cities at that time, but its material richness was far from being comparable to Lingao. Not to mention the dazzling array of delicious, fun, and useful things here, the social atmosphere in which women can wander around and consume at will makes her fall into the hedonistic consumption trap faster.
She had no worries about food and clothing since she was a child, and lacked a sense of worry about money. She had no family to support in Lingao, so she was naturally unorganized.
First there were all kinds of perfumes, cosmetics, and trinkets, then all kinds of "delicious food" that she had never eaten before, and then she fell in love with buying all kinds of "magazines." Recently, it's clothes - although she wears uniforms almost every day, as a woman, she has a natural craze for clothes. In the past, there were very few types of ready-made clothes in Dongmen City, and they were all work clothes of various styles. Later, in order to digest the loot and withdraw currency, Lingao Garment Factory began to consciously produce and release modern styles of "fashion": some were modified according to modern styles, and some were designed and produced based on the "improved Hanfu" provided by the Hanfu Party members. have to.
In this way, Li Yongxun became a "moonlight clan" who lives in high places. The temporary overtime work in the basement became an important supplement to her long-awaited income. (To be continued) r655
