Start with Planetary Governor

Chapter 270, West Coast of the Mainland

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

He felt like a bit of a virgin.

But he really didn't want to issue more death warrants just to increase the raw materials for servo skulls and servitors.

He didn't think this was an appropriate approach.

But on second thought, it’s no big deal.

So he pitched his idea to Lambert.

"On the one hand, it is to improve the mortality rate of labor force." Gu Hang said, "I know that we cannot invest a lot of resources to improve the living conditions of prisoners. They are criminals and they are there to perform labor service, not to enjoy happiness. , every resource of the alliance is now useful, and improving the humane treatment of criminals is far from being a priority."

"However, what you need to solve is the corruption of jailers and labor supervisors. The problem of underpaying criminals and deliberately mistreating criminals must be clearly eliminated. This is two different things from improving the treatment of labor prisoners."

"I agree to significantly reduce the number of sentences of ten years of hard labor. Let us make one thing clear. If the crime is really heinous and requires death, then the death penalty is imposed. The use of the corpse is another matter; but if you do not want him to die, We still hope that he will serve hard labor and return to society after being reformed, so try to sentence him to five years or less, and don’t torture him to death."

Lambert listened and nodded.

That's good too.

In the future, it is estimated that the number of ten-year hard labor will be reduced to [-]% of the original number; of the remaining, half of the vicious criminals will be directly executed and made into servo skulls or servitors; and the other half, with minor crimes, will simply be sentenced to less. , people can have a way to survive.

To save the prisoner from overwork every day, he would have to be scolded a lot. The machine servants and people who serve the skull workshop over there don't have enough materials, so they will also be scolded.

After talking about the situation of the prisoners, we returned to the topic of anti-corruption.

The fact that so many officials have been dismissed actually shows that the alliance's integrity work is not good enough.

Although there are historical issues left over from bad habits that are difficult to change after the original rulers were transformed on the spot, corruption in official governance is always a big problem that requires vigilance.

However, there is good news.Among the alliance officials, more and more people graduated from Zhongsi Academy.In Lambert's anti-corruption campaign, those who have experienced Zhongsi Academy are not without problems, but the probability of problems is much lower than that of converted officials.

After a large number of positions cleared during the anti-corruption campaign are taken over by these new people, the corruption problem can be relatively alleviated.

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

The purpose of retaining the original ruling class was to ensure a smooth transition of power.In addition, these people were indeed the most capable, most relevant, and most knowledgeable about the local conditions that could be found at the time, so it was natural to choose them.

Now, with the sudden replacement of civil servants trained by the alliance itself, turmoil is inevitable.

On the one hand, it is necessary to let those who are willing to wreak havoc, after all, those who are dismounted may have considerable influence in their own hometown; on the other hand, these officials sent from the center of the alliance must do a good enough job themselves , able to quickly straighten out the local situation and take over the political situation smoothly.However, in general, although small troubles did occur, major incidents did not occur.

After all, the alliance's policies are generally good. Just by setting the rank, you can have a stable life. This is a basic tonality, and it determines that no matter where you are, no big trouble will be caused.

what?A stable life is just a thing, but do you want to go back and live a life of precarity and not being recognized as a human being?

Most people are not stupid.

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

The alliance has a knife.

There is an army to control the overall situation; there is an anti-corruption committee that secretly conducts investigations; if we are more ruthless, the demon hunters may come to visit.

Since they couldn't instigate a big chaos, they were allowed to make small moves in the dark and act as training for the newly appointed officials.

After talking about anti-corruption, Lambert brought up a third matter.

This is an intelligence-related matter.

"Previously, when the 'Demon Hunter' organization was first established, we split the team into two. One team went south to investigate corruption cases in the Northern Qinggu Province, and the other team was sent to the west. Go investigate the information about Blackbird Heavy Industry 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 contact has been lost from time to time, which is quite worrying. But fortunately, after a while, they will always get in touch again. Go ahead and send back some information."

"So far, by sorting out this information, plus some information left behind by the old alliance, some old people's records, and some oral accounts from businessmen, we have roughly pieced together what the west side of the continent looks like."

"From the central province to the west, there is the Western Desert region. It is really vast and sparsely populated. The vast desert is as large as the three central provinces and the three eastern provinces combined; there are dots of oases that support a small population. . But it was also an important food production place on the entire Raging Owl in the past. Oasis alone will certainly not be able to produce that much food. The main reason is that under those oases, there are usually planting factories left over from the pre-war era."

"The entire Western Desert region has a population of only 500 million, so naturally there is a lot of food available for production."

"It's just that the only thing the Western Desert region can produce is grain. There are no other large-scale products, and there is no industrial capacity. They can only rely on grain trade in exchange for other necessities. Their main buyer is Blackbird Heavy Industries only does business with us in the few oasis territories near the east."

"Further west from the West Desert is the actual control area of ​​Blackbird Heavy Industry. The area there is only about half the size of the West Desert area, which is about the size of the three eastern provinces. The natural environment is also very similar to that of the three eastern provinces. They are all urban agglomerations from the pre-war era, but now they are in ruins.”

"Blackbird Heavy Industry is stationed there. Fifteen million people work for them, and most of the population is engaged in low-end industries, recycling from ruined mines, primary processing of raw materials, and gathering on a small amount of arable land to provide food... And in On the west coast, there is Blackbird City, which is the core industrial area of ​​Blackbird Heavy Industry, with 500 million people gathered there."

"Blackbird City should be their heavy industrial output center, but the control there is very strict. Our people failed several times to enter. Those who entered failed to come out, and no information was sent out. Such a big city, like It’s like a black box, nothing can be revealed.”

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

(End of this chapter)