“…In the past two months, the Disciplinary Council, Beiqing Valley Government, and Demon Hunters have jointly conducted a large-scale anti-corruption campaign in Beiqing Valley Province.”
“This operation investigated the integrity of more than 1,700 farms, from the Beigu City Government to the entire province, accounting for 20% of Beiqing Valley Province. A total of 614 individuals, including corrupt base level management personnel from the farms and their accomplices, were arrested.
Of these, 99 were sentenced to death for particularly heinous crimes; 515 were sentenced to varying terms of labor and stripped of all their citizenship ranks and privileges. Additionally, 852 people were subjected to demotion of varying degrees and deprivation of official duties…”
“The main targets of this phase of the operation were the plantation owners from the local Beiqing Valley Province who had turned into base level farm managers when the Mutual Aid Society was restructured as the provincial government a few months ago.”
“Accordingly, those sentenced to death will be placed in death row cells, awaiting Skull Workshop and Servant Bot Workshop to carry out the execution as per your policy.”
“In the next phase of the operation, we plan to further expand the scope of investigation, predicting that it will take another two months to complete the anti-corruption work throughout Beiqing Valley Province.”
Gu Hang listened and nodded as he did.
At the moment, three people were sitting in front of him.
Lambert Hodgson, the highest judge of the Alliance, Oseina Qinko, the Alliance Premier, and Jason Morgan, the head of Beiqing Valley Province.
The one currently presenting the anti-corruption work report was Lambert.
His department, being the main responsible body for such tasks, naturally required him to make the detailed report.
In fact, Gu Hang felt quite reassured about this.
Lambert had experience in this field.
Back when the New Alliance had just been established, he had deftly handled the internal purge in Revival City. Now, he had even more resources at his disposal, not only the investigation teams from his own Discipline Committee but also the exceptional abilities of the Demon Hunters, and the full cooperation of the local government in Beiqing Valley Province.
His strategy was also sound.
Since the preliminary investigations had clearly identified the biggest issues with the base level managers from the old era, it was natural to start the investigations with them first.
Gu Hang fully understood the policies previously implemented by Jason Morgan. To reduce resistance and mitigate opposition, the primary goal was to restore the agricultural production in Beiqing Valley Province, and so, at the beginning, it was not feasible to crack down on all the landlords who had once held de facto power in Green Valley Region.
His approach did indeed contribute significantly to the production and construction in Beiqing Valley over the past several months.
With production rapidly restored, land reclamation efforts smoothly pushed forward, and the process of restructuring local governments faced acceptable levels of resistance…
Moreover, it must be said that the former wealthy landlords did have an above-average level of capability. Just look at Oseina, who came from the landlord class, a young lady brought up in wealth and afforded a complete education.
It was not as simple as just being literate; they were versed in calculation, accounting, law, management… In various aspects, these people were part of the elite class in Green Valley Region. They certainly outmatched the serf class in terms of abilities due to their significantly lower level of education.
To rule effectively in the short term faced with a vast environment of six million people over three million square kilometers, Jason Morgan really had no other choice.
It would be the same for Gu Hang. When he first recovered Revival City, he conducted a slew of purging actions to establish authority, but in the end, wasn’t he too dependent on the city’s intellectuals, engineers, business classes for governance?
However, it was now indeed time to sweep those historical issues into the dustbin.
Lambert Hodgson’s purge was quite severe. He examined more than 1,700 farms, arresting over six hundred, with more than eight hundred processed.
It wasn’t a bloodbath, but it was no light touch either.
During this entire anti-corruption campaign, some of the former elite did withstand the test. They were not caught in any serious wrongdoing during the purge, or they only had minor issues that did not tarnish their reputation; and they maintained a decent reputation among the public.
That was quite heartening.
After all, not everyone was worthless.
If all the elites of the old era were to be swept away completely, it would be impossible to replace them.
Of course, the current intensity of the actions seemed about right.
…
After Lambert had finished discussing the anti-corruption campaign itself, it was then up to the administrative officials Oseina Qinko and Jason Morgan to discuss their matters.
Firstly, there was the issue of how to fill the roles of so many people who had been dealt with during the anti-corruption campaign.
This is where the education department needed to step up.
Oseina had provided plenty of help to Jason Morgan by reallocating a large number of graduates from the Comprehensive Academy to Beiqing Valley Province recently.
Now, the graduates from various academies were very much in demand. Governments in various places across the Alliance desperately needed a large number of talents provided by Revival City to fill the reconstruction of all levels of government.
The Comprehensive Academy of the Alliance, over this period, had already trained a large number of candidates in various disciplines.”
This ‘talent’ requires quotation marks.
Because the training time is still too short, the abilities of these “talents” are quite doubtful.