"The city's permanent population is only over half a million, and beggars and refugees account for 1%. It's such a waste," Liu Xiang couldn't help but comment.
"Actually, the current number of refugee beggars is more than this." Mu Min said, "These are just beggars under the control of Guandi Temple people. There are also a large number of refugees pouring into Guangzhou."
With the deepening of the Guangdong strategy, although the Fubo Army tried its best to stabilize the place, the war would inevitably lead to the collapse of social order, and the limited administrative and military power of the Senate could not quickly appease the place in a short period of time. The disorder of local public security caused a large number of people to flock to the "stable" city of Guangzhou. A new refugee group was formed.
As usual, the city government's shelter for disaster victims was handled by the Cihuitang of the original Guangzhou Station. However, the shelter was not ideal. Because Cihuitang has taken in refugees over the years and sent them to Hainan Island, there is a saying in the market that if you go to Cihuitang, you will be "sold to open up wasteland overseas." Most of the current batch of refugees came to escape the chaos due to local unrest and were unwilling to go "overseas", so they would rather live on the streets begging than go to Cihuitang. In fact, every time Ci Hui Tang came to take in refugees, they would disperse and avoid them in every possible way.
As a result, a large number of refugees are scattered in various places, which not only makes it difficult to manage relief, but also becomes a destabilizing factor for social security. Not only are there frequent security cases, there are also many cases of human trafficking. Many victims of witchcraft cases are from this refugee group.
When the old and new regimes change, the masses do not understand and trust the new government. On the surface, the current security situation in Guangfu is much better than when it first entered the city. In fact, there is an undercurrent surging underneath and it is not peaceful.
"How many victims are there?"
"The number Director Lin reported to me yesterday was 9,000 people." Mu Min said.
"Is it accurate?"
"This number is calculated based on the porridge chips coming out of various porridge sheds in the city." Lin Baiguang said, "Some of them should be the same as those of Guandi Temple, but the error will not be greater than 500 people."
Lin Baiguang said that in order to help the refugees and prevent them from further dispersing, he approached Gaoji and asked the Federation of Industry and Commerce to come forward to provide porridge at the porridge shed.
"...Ci Hui Tang is currently not trusted by the disaster victims. They all say that they will be taken out to open up wasteland, so we have to ask the Federation of Industry and Commerce to come forward. This can at least stabilize people's hearts." Lin Baiguang said with a bitter smile.
"Stop talking about refugees, Mu Ju, you continue."
"The Guandi Temple has a total of sixty-four large and small sinus openings inside and outside the city of Guangzhou. Each sinus opening is controlled by a big bone, and each has its own sphere of influence. Most of them use various temples and palaces as their venues for activities. Many temples host I'm also annoyed with them for occupying temple property for a long time. I don't want to offend them." Mu Min said and unveiled a map of Guangzhou, on which the distribution of various sinuses was densely marked. Liu Xiang noticed that even Henan Island, which has inconvenient transportation and is relatively deserted, has a sinus opening.
"The business of each Doukou. I won't elaborate on it. I have explained it many times at the briefing meeting in the past. According to our in-depth investigation, the Guandi Temple people also monopolize the sale of vegetables from outside the city to the city to a certain extent. ——Our police officers have more than once cracked down on the criminal behavior of forcing farmers and vendors to buy vegetables near the checkpoint."
"How is the situation now?" Liu Xiang asked quickly after hearing this.
"After several concentrated crackdowns and the establishment of a non-staple food wholesale market, this situation no longer exists." Mu Min said, "This formed the first favorable factor for us to completely eliminate the Guandi Temple people."
Since the establishment of a wholesale market for grain and non-staple food outside Guanxiang, the practice of Guandi Temple men extorting vegetable farmers and vendors and forcibly collecting "passing money" has disappeared. The patrol system has also cracked down on beggars' behavior of extorting evil spirits and extorting shops. The economic income of the temple staff is not as good as before. The beggars no longer listen to greetings and obey the rules as they used to, and their cohesion is naturally not as good as before.
"... Judging from the intelligence we have collected, people within them are unstable. Common beggars and big bones have complaints, and many members of the gang are clamoring to reduce the amount of money they pay to the Gao family. After Gao Tianshi died suddenly , the Gao family itself also has a lot of controversy surrounding the Tuantou succession and inheritance distribution issues, and there is the possibility of internal strife."
"So this is the perfect opportunity for us to deal with the Guandi Temple troops."
"Yes, the people of Guandi Temple are currently disorganized, and there is no core leadership that can convince the public. Although Gao Dada, the eldest son of Gao Gao, has succeeded to the throne, several of his brothers are dissatisfied. Now they are reluctant to do so. Suppress the situation. In other words, the new regiment leader's control over the subordinates is not as good as before."
It seems that everyone has reached a consensus on how to deal with the Guandi Temple troops. Shen Ruiming thought to himself, the key depends on how to deal with the problem after solving it.
Sure enough, the next step was to discuss the details of the city's centralized collection and rectification of beggars and homeless people.
This task is easy to say, but very difficult to implement. First of all, beggars are widely distributed. They can be seen almost everywhere in and outside the city. Especially now that it is the summer season, there are many fruits and vegetables in the suburbs and the weather is warm. You can stay overnight and have a full stomach everywhere. Unlike in winter, almost all beggars gather in the city. and various checkpoints. Once the shelter is started, if the news spreads, it will inevitably cause a large number of beggars to scatter, which will in turn cause instability in the countryside.
"...So for this time of containment, not only must all the police and the National Army stationed in Guangzhou be mobilized, but we must also petition the South China Army Headquarters to call in part of the 6th Navy troops stationed in Guangzhou to coordinate. It is estimated that 6,000 people will be mobilized."
Secondly, the total number of beggars and refugees in the city is enough for fifteen thousand people. Cihuitang at Guangzhou Station transfers refugees all year round. It originally had a transit camp outside the city, but its capacity was only 1,000 people. There is simply no way to contain them all.
"It doesn't matter. There is a transfer camp built for Operation Motive on Hong Kong Island. It is not a problem to accommodate 20,000 people." Lin Baiguang said, "And there is a farm of the Agricultural Reclamation Alliance in Hong Kong. The beggars and refugees can be rehabilitated through labor on the spot. "
"There should be a distinction between refugees and Guandi Temple troops, and they cannot be lumped together."
"Of course, our municipal bureau has drawn up a rough resettlement plan." Mu Min said.
In this "final solution" plan, the general principle is "divide into two and treat them differently."
First, it emphasizes the differences among the people. There is a difference between refugees who have flowed into Guangzhou due to war, famine and other reasons and have to beg to make a living, and professional beggars like Guandi Temple people. The former are only held in Hong Kong Island for a short period of time, mainly to make a living and work in production. After their hometowns are in peace, they will be sent back to their hometowns to produce. Those who are willing to stay and work in local farming are also accepted.
The men and horses of the Guandi Temple should also be divided into two. The middle and upper-class figures such as Da Gu of the Gao family and various Doukou will be investigated for various crimes in the past. Those with bloody crimes will be executed. If there are no bloody crimes and public outrage, they will be transferred to Tiantian after being sentenced. They were forced to do hard labor in the Dutie Mine and other mines; those who had no public indignation but were indeed related to the middle and high-level officials of the Guandi Temple were forcibly immigrated to Taiwan. The family members of such persons also immigrated to Taiwan at the same time.
Although most of the lower-class people are exploited, there are many professional beggars among them, and some of them have committed serious crimes, especially various "skilled" beggars, involving fraud, extortion, human trafficking, theft, and tomb robbing. , selling stolen goods, concealing stolen goods... The general principle is that all those who are indeed guilty of crimes will be prosecuted and convicted in a classified manner; if there is no crime or the crime is minor, all young and middle-aged males who are capable of working will be organized into labor brigades for forced labor. Disabled elderly people who have lost the ability to work are handed over to the newly established Guangzhou Welfare Institute. All the orphans and women were moved to Lingao.
In the past, people from Guandi Temple who served as street sweepers, street watchers, and wimps for municipal administration and public security were accepted by corresponding units for re-identification, education, and use.
"This basically comes down to principles."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and someone asked a few more questions, and Mu Min answered them one by one. Finally, Liu Xiang made concluding remarks: "Beggars are a historical phenomenon that should disappear in human society. They are contrary to the progress represented by the Senate. They not only disrupt social order, but also seriously affect the stability of people's lives and the stability of the new political power. The management of beggars is an important part of the civil reform of Guangzhou. A few beggars are insignificant in front of the Senate. What is important is maintaining social stability and changing customs."
According to the Senate's way of thinking, there will be no beggars in the new world of the future. Everyone is a screw of society and must create social value. Lingao has now basically eliminated the homeless phenomenon, and even divination, performing arts, helping out, etc. have been intensively re-educated and become popular.
Shen Ruiming listened and wrote down key points and his own thoughts in his notebook. There is no doubt that the judicial trial of the Guandi Temple troops is a highlight. Not only because they were involved in the witchcraft case, but also the prosecution materials for all kinds of messy crimes mentioned in Mu Min's briefing were enough to keep him busy for a while.
The legal system of the Senate talks about "evidence". The Guandi Temple people have been here for more than a hundred years. Although there are numerous crimes involved, there is no clear physical evidence for most of them. Some cases are even old. Not to mention the physical evidence, there are about even There are almost no witnesses; if we say that the main focus is on witnesses, it involves too many areas. Shen Ruiming knew very well that the various criminal acts committed by the Guandi Temple men and horses, although the crimes sounded diverse, very few could be considered criminal crimes in terms of crime plot and case value, and the vast majority were public security cases. To gather the "huge value of the case", I don't know how many people have to testify. This is another human wave tactic...
He was thinking about how to effectively prepare prosecution materials - because judging from the general direction of the meeting, the Guangzhou Municipal Government had a "strict handling" approach, and the effect was to "catch them all in one fell swoop". Then your prosecution materials must be prepared according to the "severe and severe" approach...
Just as he was thinking about what to do, he suddenly heard Liu Xiang's name: "Xiao Shen, you are the prosecutor sent by the Judicial Office. Tell me what you think!"
