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Chapter 259 Autumn Fu Twenty-four
"This is easy, I just have to contact Master Wang as usual." Wu Yadao.
The head of the fast class and the office clerk of each household are very high-profile jobs in the county, and it will cost a lot of money to make up the difference. Taking Lingao's vacancy as an example, it would cost two hundred taels of silver to fill the position of House Secretary. The fast class leader must also show a certain amount of filial piety before he can take up his post. This benefit was taken by the county magistrate. Of course, this kind of thing doesn't happen often.
"I will naturally contact Master Wang about this matter." Xiong Buyou said. I feel very disgusted with these endless bad rules. A remote and backward small border county has a lot of these things.
However, for now, the county government’s sign must be kept, so just follow this rule. A few hundred taels of silver is nothing for the Traveling Group.
"It's just that you have dealt with Chen Minggang and a group of his men. How will this year's autumn ceremony be?" Wu Ya expressed concern.
"Don't worry, this little food is not within easy reach for us." Xiong Buyou patted his chest. In fact, he himself didn't know what Wu De would do. I don't really care - there is always a way anyway.
"The plan for now is to ask Zhou Qi to take over Chen Minggang's stall as soon as possible." Wu Ya said, "How many strings of grain have been collected and given, and how much has been received in the warehouse. These are all complicated. Things. Although Zhou Qi is a veteran, Chen Minggang has to keep a few of his subordinates."
"Thank you Wu Zanfu for your advice." Xiong Buyou will be in charge of the county government this time to complete the work of taking over the county government, so he is not in a hurry to resign, but chats with these two about daily life. In fact, he had already known the family status of these two people, and now he was just trying to build a relationship, while also getting to know the details of the county government.
Lunch at noon was provided by the women's cooperative restaurant, and it was very elegant. There is also fine wine. Several people chatted happily. Wu Ya and Sun Ruiwu were both minor officials who had been stuck in the same place for more than ten years. They had despaired of promotion and regarded being an official as just a means of making a living. Compared to Wu Mingjin, he has much fewer worries and can speak freely.
When they talked about the three classes and six rooms in the county government office, the two of them became very angry. Lingao has always been a place far away from the emperor. Not only are the local tycoons extremely tyrannical, but the subordinate officials are also intricately connected and control the county affairs, not paying attention to the officials at all. The main hall of Wu Mingjin is better. Assistant officers like Wu Ya and Sun Ruiwu have many things that they are required to do. The benefit is naturally that you get as much as you give and don’t dare to care about it.
"Those of us who are officials are really becoming officials." Wu Ya complained, "We have been the historians and bookkeepers of five or six counties - they are all evil soldiers from far away states. In the past twenty years, I just became a county magistrate, and I was sent to this place. If I serve one term, it doesn't count. If I serve a second term, even if I am transferred, I don't know where to go to become a minor official."
Sun Ruiwu also sighed. While Xiong Buyou was talking about socializing, he was making up his mind. Although these two petty officials were in the ruling class, they were obviously dissatisfied with the reality. They have been serving in the local government for a long time, have rich experience in local administration, and know a lot about the rules of the officialdom, so they can be attracted and exploited. The Intelligence Committee has currently issued a notice to all departments, asking them to pay attention to whether there are any targets for development during their normal work.
At that moment, he tried hard to deal with them and said some words to defend the two of them. Although the two of them knew that these were just polite words on the scene, they still felt much better when they heard the Australian, who was usually "all-powerful", praising them. They felt like they knew each other and had met each other.
The meal didn't end until after two o'clock in the afternoon. Xiong Buyou personally sent the two of them home - Lingao County is a small place, and except for the local subordinates, the officials all live in the government offices with their families. Then he took the opportunity to chat with their family members and check out the situation. Only then did he return to his headquarters in Yanei.
The county government has been de facto taken over. The action team members of the Operations Division of the Political and Security Administration, who changed into Zaobao uniforms, controlled all entrances, exits and key departments. The next step is to start a comprehensive cleansing of the county government agencies.
Wu De and everyone have discussed the plan to take over the county government several times. How to arrange and handle the three classes and six rooms in the county government office. If they are eliminated all together, the administrative affairs of the county and others will be paralyzed, which is against their original intention. After several discussions, it was decided to start cleaning from the powerful and key departments.
The so-called powerful department of the Crossing Group is the "three squads". Among them, the Zao squad is responsible for patrolling, standing in the hall, and torture; the Kuai squad is responsible for public security and anti-theft; and the Zhuang squad is responsible for guarding local security forces. These three "squads" are departments with a "knife handle" nature and must be taken over.
The takeover model is similar to that of the Bopu Inspection Department. However, the inspector is an official after all, and the Traveling Group cannot appoint or remove him at will, so he still needs to use the inspection officer as a sign. Class 3 just doesn’t matter. Replace it completely from top to bottom or replace part of it and leave part as you wish.
"Among these three departments, Zhuangban is the one with no technical content," said Dong Weiwei, an "expert" on the history of the Ming Dynasty, based on her historical knowledge and collected intelligence. "The eighty Zhuangban in this county are not only responsible for the most basic county security. In addition, it has no effect at all. In the past, the anti-bandit operations in the county basically relied on the local militia and Xiangyong."
The Minzhuang under the jurisdiction of the Zhuang Ban is different from the regular Ming Dynasty garrisons such as camps and guards. It is a local security force specially used to guard prefecture and county yamen. It also often undertakes missions such as escorting prisoners, escorting food and wages, and patrolling local areas. As for its combat effectiveness, it is naturally out of the question. In the Qing Dynasty, the strong squads were called "foxes", which meant that they only relied on the official power of the fox to fake the power of the tiger, and had no combat effectiveness at all.
The strong leader of this county is a butcher named Li Heng. This man is the only butcher who owns a butcher shop in the county. After buying this job, he often did evil things in the countryside, buying and selling by force, causing great indignation among the people.
Another "political deed" of this powerful leader is that he often takes advantage of the opportunity of escorting prisoners for exile and instructs his men and prisoners to rob along the way. Many robberies and murders were committed.
Such incredible things were not uncommon at the time. It can even be said to be a "hidden rule" that is not surprising.
"Purge all the Zhuang class, and take all the Minzhuang leaders and subordinates to the study class. Then we will conduct a detailed screening." Wu De said, "Li Hengmin is very angry, so he can ask the county government to remove his errand. He will be imprisoned first. There will be a public trial and execution in the future when there is a suitable opportunity."
An infantry company was transferred from the army to fill the gap in "people's strength". Instead, in this way, the defense of the county will be completely controlled by the crossing group.
"For us, the most useful part of Zaoban is in torture." Dong Weiwei said, "It's not very useful, but if you say they have technical content, I don't have any objection."
"Someone has to do the dirty work." Wu De said. Of course there are time travelers doing "dirty work" now, Zhou Dongtian is one, but the number is far from enough. After all, most time-travelers have grown up in a modern civilized society. It is not a big problem for them to shoot and kill, but most people will not be able to torture a living person.
"These people are all cruel and ruthless, but they can do it. There are many things they can do."
"Zaoban can stay still for the time being." Xiong Buyou said, "They can't make a fuss anyway."
"No, there are too many people in Zaoban. We can't support so many people who are relying on the financial system." Wu De said, "Their ICBC salary is very meager, but they will take money off the people's heads. So we only need to keep a few people." That’s it.”
In addition, Zaoban is in charge of the county government's own security and the escort of county officials when they come in and out. It is also responsible for many miscellaneous tasks in the county government.
"Zaoban must be firmly in our hands, so that we can completely control every move of everyone in the county government."
In the end, it was decided that the entire Zao class should be admitted to the training class, and seven or eight Zao slaves who could be "reformed and utilized" would be identified first to continue the torture work. Another group of interns from the Political and Security Administration were sent to replace them.
"Then they can't all be promoted to class and clear the way," Zhou Botao asked.
"Is this difficult?"
"I know it's not difficult, but it's hard to train interns. Isn't it a waste to use them to do this?"
"No waste at all. This is where they are needed." Wu De smiled, "Don't worry, after the population is exploded on a large scale, the interns in the crash course will no longer be rare. Now let them have an internship opportunity , will be the backbone members from now on.”
The last thing to deal with is the fast class. The fast class is the most popular among the three classes. In theory, the express class is to maintain social order, but in fact it has the opposite effect. Generally speaking, the fast class only catches foreign thieves who are "blind" and "ignorant". As long as they have registered to surrender to them, they will not only protect them, but sometimes even participate in them personally. Some Kuaiban leaders themselves were the bandit leaders in the county. The common people were greatly harmed by them, and even the gentry were often blackmailed by these people. They are a group of people in the county that everyone hates but no one dares to offend.
Wu De plans to completely replace the police crash course officers with trainees from the police crash course. A modern police system was established in the county.
"But this fast class is no longer a county-wide institution." Wu De explained, "its actual status is only equivalent to the level of the county police station."
The plan has been decided and implemented in an orderly manner. As soon as it gets dark, the watchmen follow the order and bang their clappers on the street to shout "curfew". There is no night market here, and no one is walking around at night. Now, in a moment, there are no pedestrians on the street. The army troops on standby outside the city drove into the city one by one, starting from Minzhuang at the gate of the city and then to the county government office.
The government officials from the third class were gathered one after another according to the roster. Some people realized that the situation was not good since the afternoon, but after the city gate and county government were controlled, they had nowhere to escape and had no choice but to surrender. ,.
