18th century total war

Chapter 63 The Abandoned Official
"Epstein, Mitchelson... and others have committed corruption and dereliction of duty. The evidence is complete, and they are now hanged in public!"

In the center of Rennes City Municipal Square, on a high platform on the gallows, Karl, wearing the military uniform of a colonel of the Black Dragon Legion, announced the first public execution of an executive since the Black Dragon Legion occupied Rennes City in front of hundreds of onlookers. List of officials.

As the announcement ended, several men in white prison uniforms were escorted up with frightened faces.

The man at the head seemed to know Karl's identity when he saw Karl, and shouted at him: "I want to meet Mr. Li Wei, my loyalty to Mr. Li Wei can be learned from heaven and earth. What Mr. Victoria did before entering Rennes, I embezzled money from the French Constituent Assembly, and I did not embezzle a penny from Mr. Levi.

I am wronged!

I don't want to die! "

"I am also a loyal subject of Lord Li Wei, please spare my life, I will never make any mistakes again..."

In front of the gallows, there were cries and begging for mercy, which seemed to be quite wronged.

However, the citizens of Rennes who were watching watched with relish, and did not feel that the trial was wrong.

The few bureaucrats who were taken to the gallows were also well-known figures in Rennes. Before Li Wei led his troops to capture Rennes, all of them were "celebrities" who were corrupt, accepted bribes and didn't do serious things.

Obviously, all the people Li Wei tried this time are typical...

As for the fact that these people committed crimes before Li Wei settled in Rennes, the details of Li Wei's honesty and dedication after he settled in were subconsciously ignored by the citizens of Rennes.

They came here just to watch the excitement, as long as the ones who were hanged were not themselves and their relatives and friends, the citizens would not care who died!

Not to mention that Li Wei executed a notorious corrupt official, even if he executed a real honest official, the citizens would not care.

How can the low-level citizens who are struggling under the food and clothing line all day pay attention to the good or bad of the bureaucracy?
The reputation of these officials who were hanged on the gallows was the result of the publicity of Karl and his party in advance.

Karl looked at the prisoners who were bound and 'sent' to the gallows with cold eyes.

He didn't say a word, because he knew that these people were indeed 'wronged'.

They may have been corrupt officials, but they held important municipal positions after all. When Li Wei "inspired" administrative officials, they were all bureaucrats within the 100-person quota.

Since they have been brainwashed and enlightened by Li Wei, these people will naturally not continue to engage in corruption, bribery or even dereliction of duty.

It's a pity that these people don't have much talent, but Li Wei's 100 administrative staff's "enlightenment" quotas have been exhausted, and the extra quota needs to be vacated for truly talented people. These people are naturally screened out by Li Wei, Become an abandoned useless person, and casually settle the previous crimes and send them to the gallows.

The public execution is only to warn the civil servants in Rennes who have not been "inspired" not to engage in petty tricks behind their backs. Their superiors have all been executed. If they are really tough, they can try it.

This can be regarded as the last contribution made by these incompetent and corrupt officials.

Li Wei doesn't care whether bureaucrats are corrupt or dereliction of duty, but Li Wei can't bear corrupt officials who are incompetent, especially those in important official positions, even if they do nothing!

Do less and make less mistakes, do not do the right unspoken rules of officialdom, when it comes to Li Wei, there is only one word - die!

Not a few people were ordered to be killed by Li Wei, and the execution of a few incompetent bureaucrats is really not a big deal.

What's more, they still need to give up the precious "attestment" places.

Facts have proved that it is not that people with higher official positions are more talented. When Li Wei enlightened administrative officials, he only registered their positions and official grades, and there was no way to gain a deeper understanding of their personal abilities.

More than a month has passed, and with the supervision and reports of many 'attractive' officials, Li Wei has naturally figured out the basic information of these administrative officials under his command.

Under the premise that the brainwashing quota of administrative personnel is limited, Li Wei can only deal with those incompetent people, and make room for the capable people who are later discovered.

The few bureaucrats executed by the gallows did not take bribes after Li Wei settled in because they were "enchanted". If you use Tai Chi, official methods, and connections, you are using the best skills, so why don't you do serious things!
If it wasn't for the loyal bureaucrats that Li Wei taught, they didn't hide much when Li Wei asked, Li Wei would still be kept in the dark.

What Li Wei needs now is not a master of interpersonal communication in the officialdom, but a down-to-earth and capable administrative official who can do practical things.

As a high-ranking person who decides with one word, the last thing Li Wei needs is old fritters in the officialdom!
This kind of official is very good at being a man, so other peers and even superiors rarely criticize him, and he earns as much as others if he doesn't do anything, which can easily ruin the atmosphere of the entire officialdom.

Naturally, Li Wei couldn't keep such a person.

Hanging them and leaving a whole body is already an act of benevolence and righteousness.

Several bureaucrats abandoned by Li Wei were being executed outside, but Li Wei met a spy chief who had just been arrested in the high-level office of the city government.

Oh, by the way, the other party's apparent identity is a very successful businessman.

A businessman who makes his fortune by earning profits from second-hand middlemen.

This kind of businessman has no fixed business. Basically, whatever is lacking in a city, he can buy and sell it to the city.

With luck, the profit is still considerable.

Of course, it is very easy for this kind of middleman to inquire about information when traveling all over the world, which is an important part of the crude espionage system of this era.

If it weren't for the businessman named Manide in front of him who bribed the soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion in the security barracks in order to find out information, it would be impossible for Li Wei to find him.

Manid never expected that he was already very cautious, and he just bought a trivial guard, and the money he gave was enough for the guard to spend the rest of his life without any worries, and he married a wife and gave birth to a child...

However, such a heavy bribery of a pawn got Manid into it...

Obviously, people outside don't know that the Black Dragon Army has been brainwashed by Li Wei to the point of being willing to die for him.

It's not that Li Wei has never discovered such cases of bribing soldiers or low-level officers before, but this time Manid was not an ordinary informant, but a spy leader directly under the city of Paris!
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