"The number of Manchu Qing royal family members executed is much more than this." Vézé said lightly. Not long ago, Lin Asheng presided over the Political and Legal Committee and signed an order to execute thousands of Manchu Qing officials. This was just the beginning.
"They are the enemy." Lin Asheng tried to refute.
Vézé was unmoved. "What we need to establish now is order. If we let those bad guys go, it will have a very bad impact in the future. It is tantamount to opening up a path that allows lawbreakers to make a living by breaking the law. This kind of path may be worse than Manchu Qing. Manchu Qing is only the enemy, but the people in the inner circle are corrupting the culture of the country and affecting the foundation of the country. "
The reason why Lin Asheng opposed Vézé's crackdown was that he could not accept the number of people killed and the intensity of the killings. The crackdown was too severe. However, it did not mean that he was against Vézé's point of view. Lin Asheng nodded slightly after listening to Vézé's views on the culture of society.
Seeing that Lin Asheng was no longer against it, Vézé explained the next step of the plan. "Of course, this crackdown is a campaign of purge. What we need to do next is to use the power of this purge to establish a system. Many things will have a system to operate, and at the same time, there will be corresponding theories to guide them. "
"The goal is to establish and strengthen the National Security Bureau and the Anti-Corruption Bureau?" Lin Asheng said as if he was talking to himself.
Wei Ze, on the other hand, looked very confident. He said seriously, "That's right, including the property declaration system. Now that the old brothers don't have their own property, they will declare it after the declaration. If the future officials want to become civil servants, they will have to accept the system. If they don't accept it, we will not accept it. Although the process will be very difficult, once the system is completed, many problems will be solved easily. With the system to rely on, many conflicts in the future will naturally be solved by the system. "
"It's not that the problem is easy to solve, it's just that there's a system to solve it." Lin Asheng, who was in charge of judicial enforcement, couldn't help but correct Vézé's mistake.
Seeing that Lin Asheng had understood the core of the problem, Vézé struck while the iron was hot and said, "Old Lin, the military law system, with the military court, many problems in the army have a clear resolution system. A lot of things in the army were backed up. With the public security, procuratorial, and judicial systems, there were solutions to all kinds of judicial problems and conflicts. With the establishment of the National Security Bureau and the Anti-Corruption Bureau, those who wanted to be corrupt would definitely take the risk, but those who didn't have the guts to become corrupt officials knew that there were some lines that they couldn't cross. If the anti-corruption campaign is just a sport-like implementation, when the time comes, when the officials protect each other, how many people will have to go to jail? "
Not long ago, Lin Asheng was in charge of the National Security Bureau in Guangdong, and he also cleaned up the Guangdong Customs. Later, he went to Fujian to take charge. Nearly a thousand civil servants of all levels were sent to prison by the Central Investigation Team in the two provinces. Thinking of the tragic purge, Lin Asheng could only sigh deeply. After a while, Lin Asheng said, "If we can really make those who are afraid rein in at the brink of the cliff, it will be a good thing."
"I'm also worried about another thing. If we don't draw a clear bottom line, there will definitely be people who are afraid of making more mistakes, and in the end, the bureaucratic system will not do anything. If we let them do something, they will demand the right to do whatever they want. If we don't let them do anything, they will do nothing. Hmph! " Vézé's final cold snort contained a strong will. Even a hardcore Vézé like Lin Asheng felt a chill in his heart. A leader who was too smart and strong would put too much pressure on his subordinates. Even if Vézé did not do things harshly, this kind of psychological pressure could not be completely dispelled by not harshly scolding.
It could not be said that there were no people who did not have psychological pressure. As the saying went, those who had no desires were firm. No matter how other people speculated about Zuo Zongtang's future, Zuo Zongtang himself was completely open to his career. After working for a few years in the new government, Zuo Zongtang found that China was moving towards a new era. The defeat of the Manchu Qing and the destruction of the Chu army no longer had any negative effects on Zuo Zongtang. With the new government's flourishing atmosphere, it would be inconceivable that the Chu army had won a complete victory instead of the Manchu Qing.
Zuo Zongtang fully supported the crackdown in Guangdong. No matter if it was the "classics" and "Dao" of the old era, or the "classics" and "Dao" of the new era, Zuo Zongtang had a strong dislike for "deviating from the Dao". He learned many new things from the Restoration Party, but it only made Zuo Zongtang acknowledge the new era and the order of this new era. "Conservative" thinking was still one of Zuo Zongtang's most basic understandings.
Zuo Zongtang and Jiang Zhongyuan, who was already loyal to the Manchu Qing, were both representatives of the "statecraft" that rose in an era of unprecedented social conflict. These people believed that the problems of the world had to be solved. They valued practice and were good at learning. The Guangdong Provincial Party Committee finally decided to promote Zuo Zongtang to the position of deputy director of the Civil Affairs Bureau. After becoming a deputy director, he would be in charge of the "Vegetable Basket Project". This old comrade, who was about to turn fifty-seven, amazed Wei Changrong with his enthusiasm.
As for the triads, Zuo Zongtang didn't simply categorize them as "jackals of the same lair". Instead, he made a careful distinction. In Zuo Zongtang's eyes, there was a clear distinction between Hailufeng's direct bullying of the market and the Chaoshan region's monopolistic management.
Bandits were brave and ruthless, so Hailufeng's gang was cleanly wiped out in one fell swoop. On the contrary, after the Chaoshan region's leader saw the report written by Zuo Zongtang, he immediately ran away. In the detention center's meeting room, Hailufeng's leader, Cai Hanwu, was brought in with heavy handcuffs and shackles. After the handcuffs and shackles were fixed to the iron rings on the table and the floor, there were also police officers watching from the side. This Cai Hanwu really seemed to be a tiger that refused to give up. After being arrested, he actually dared to attack the police and comrades from the procuratorate during the interrogation. The heavy handcuffs and shackles would probably only be removed after his death.
Zuo Zongtang very politely handed Cai Hanwu a cigarette, and the police officer next to him lit it for Cai Hanwu. After taking a deep puff, Cai Hanwu's face showed a satisfied expression. He praised something. Because he was using the local dialect, the translator gave an explanation that Zuo Zongtang could understand. "Yunyan, not bad!"
"You've been sentenced to death, you won't live for long. I see that you're also a man, but I don't know if you're willing to help us. "Zuo Zongtang said.
After the "translator" explained Zuo Zongtang's words to Cai Hanwu, Cai Hanwu's face showed a fierce expression full of hatred. He said fiercely in the local dialect, "Don't even think about asking me to help."
Regarding Cai Hanwu's reaction, Zuo Zongtang was not surprised at all. He said slowly, "The Chaozhou gang's leader ran away, we haven't caught him yet. You've been fighting with him for so long, and now he's still at large, but you've been sentenced to death. Don't you think helping us catch him is helping you get back at him? "
After understanding Zuo Zongtang's words, the hatred on Cai Hanwu's face grew, but there was also a cunning expression. Without waiting for Cai Hanwu to state his conditions, Zuo Zongtang said, "If you think we can't catch him, then you're wrong. It's just a Chaozhou gang, after we get rid of the Chaozhou gang, someone will be willing to answer. I'm giving you this chance so that you'll feel better when you die. After all, you've been fighting for so long, the number of brothers who died in each other's hands must be at least eighty, if not a hundred. You claim to be a good man, don't you want to use our hands to avenge your brothers? "
When Zuo Zongtang led the Chu army, he had annihilated many rebellious groups in the pugilistic world, so he knew the mentality of these people very well. In less than an hour, the leader of the Hailufeng gang, Cai Hanwu, finally revealed some of the secret hideouts of the Chaozhou gang leader that the public security agency didn't know. When it was time, Cai Hanwu gritted his teeth and said, "I've told you everything I know. Whether you can catch him or not depends on your ability!"
How could such a gang leader overwhelm Zuo Zongtang in terms of momentum? Zuo Zongtang sneered, "With or without your information, this man can't run away." After that, Zuo Zongtang stuffed the opened pack of cigarettes into Cai Hanwu's pocket, and then said to the policeman next to him, "Give him two more dishes and a bottle of wine today. If he's willing to tell us what he knows about the Chaozhou gang, give him more dishes and wine. "
After that, Zuo Zongtang left, ignoring Cai Hanwu's expression.
Cai Hanwu, the leader of the Hailufeng gang, had wanted to kill the leader of the Chaozhou gang for a long time. The information he provided was obtained after a lot of inquiries about the secret hideouts of the Chaozhou gang. The public security agency immediately mobilized people to raid these hideouts, and the arrest work was quite effective. The third in command of the Chaozhou gang, as well as several important fugitives, were arrested. Many of the women of the Chaozhou gang leaders were also arrested.
Zuo Zongtang didn't want to compete with the public security agency for credit. What he was most interested in was the Chaozhou gang's black accounts that the public security agency had found. The part about bribing officials in these black accounts was naturally handed over to the prosecutor's office. The supply network of the Chaozhou gang that monopolized the market was not confidential, so Zuo Zongtang began to read it in the prosecutor's office's archives. Originally, Zuo Zongtang wanted to catch the leader of the Chaozhou gang and get this part of the information from him. Now that he had the black accounts, Zuo Zongtang could directly analyze this part of the data. The gang leaders would forget and lie, but the accounts written in black and white wouldn't lie. As long as there was enough analytical ability, the accounts could "tell" the truth better than people.
The new government now had one day off every five days, and Vézé didn't want to create the concept of a week. Therefore, he adopted the traditional China's rest model. Even if he had two days off every five days, Vézé wanted to make it a Chinese tradition. Naturally, Zuo Zongtang didn't know this, and he didn't care about it.
Five working days after seizing the black accounts, Zuo Zongtang produced the first draft of Guangzhou's "vegetable basket project." The specific implementation content was quite complicated, but the core concept was very simple and very "novel."
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