Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 137 Dongmen City Police Station ([-])

The sky is clear and cloudless, the winter in Lingao is coming, and the hot and dry weather has cooled down a lot.The autumn harvest is coming to an end, and the people who have been busy all autumn have begun to have leisure.

The population of Bairen Beach has increased, and the usually empty proposed highway has attracted many people to walk because of the convenience of the road.

The commercial activities in Dongmen City have greatly enhanced the connection between the traveler and the local people. In addition to salt, the rice milled by the rice mill is clean and beautiful. The shells are all clear, without encroachment and leakage, which is many times better than the workshops in the countryside.The best part is that the means of payment are flexible and diverse. Of course, money can be used, and paddy, rice, rice bran and even straw can be used to offset the processing fee.As a result, many nearby grain households were attracted to mill rice, and outsourcing processing accounted for [-]% of the workload of the rice mill, and the processing fee alone could receive more than a dozen shi of rice per day.There is still a lot of chaff.Because the processing here is convenient, the roads are easy to walk, and no one collects taxes, Dongmen City vaguely has the meaning of the county's grain processing wholesale market.During a routine inspection, Dongmen Chuiyu discovered that grain households from neighboring counties also came here to buy and sell processed grain.It seems that profit is something that can really make people forget their lives.

Some of the land along Dongmen Street has been bought, and several shops are under construction.Most of these shops are opened by big households in the county. Apart from the business opportunities in Dongmen City, they also rely on this to get close to the short-haired people. Once there is something, the shopkeeper can directly negotiate with the short-haired people.Bricks, tiles, and wood are all ready-made. Building materials such as old bricks, tiles, wooden beams, and columns are continuously transported from the demolition site of Goujiazhuang in Damei Village. Except for some traversers for their own use, most of them are sold cheaply to buy land and build houses. shopkeepers.

Lin Quan'an, the first small trader to do business with short hair, has become the largest wholesaler of non-staple food in the local area.After the Goujiazhuang investigation mission, he was rewarded with 20 taels of silver.After a large number of people migrated to Bairen City, his non-staple food supply doubled again.He built a shop in Dongmen City, hired an accountant, and hired four or five assistants to push carts to the countryside every day to buy live pigs, chickens, ducks, poultry eggs, and vegetables.Lin Quanan already planned to go back to Fujian to pick up his wife in a few days, or build a house for his wife in his hometown, marry a concubine and put him in Lingao... Such a bright prospect of life makes him feel elated.

What makes him a little unhappy is that the food for the long-term workers is so good, which makes him sad, not because he cares about the money for the short-haired workers-in theory, the long-term workers can make more money by eating well-but This set a bad example: several of his clerks quit their jobs and went to Shorthair.Although Lin Quanan made a lot of money, the nature of a capitalist still made him insist on not raising the salaries of his employees—anyway, there are always people who are willing to do it.

But the situation has changed recently. Originally, the busy farming season is coming to an end, and there is no wheat planting in Lingao. After harvesting the rice, most of the farmers come out to do odd jobs. In the past, part-time workers in the slack season did not need wages at all.But recently, Shorthair has recruited a large number of workers in Dongmen City. These short-term workers in the slack season have been recruited by them. Many mainland farmers who crossed the sea to Lingao to make a living have become short-haired long-term workers. As a result, the domestic helper market has never been tense. , and under the benchmarking effect of shorthairs, the price of the entire labor market has risen a lot.

After the increase in wages, the activity of the market has also increased a lot.Even vendors from Lin County were attracted to buy and sell goods here.Except for merchants, as long as the locals are not worried about three meals, they all come to Bairen Beach with their wives and belts to look at the dioramas. They can’t go to the city. Short clothes with buttons, weird rattan helmets, long blunderbusses with short swords, houses built on the beach, and huge pipes underneath... Those who are more interested will go to Bopu Port along the simple road , to see the legendary steel giant ship.

Common people are less afraid of short hair.Dongmen Chuyu discovered that the commercial awareness of the Chinese people is really strong. Not only are there various vendors in Dongmen City, but there are also tea stalls on the highway. There are tea stalls under the three blockhouses along the way.Now the military soldiers stationed in the gun towers are often harassed by vendors. In addition to some people trying to sell vegetables, chickens and ducks to them, they also have to drive away women who show off their beauty to them—not because of their revolutionary will. To be firm, I really feel that I am not blessed to accept it.

The ensuing public security issues have also begun to emerge. Lively places will always attract people from all walks of life. In addition to overt or covert prostitutes, there are stalls for gambling stalls, followed by pickpockets and thieves. Then there are beggars again.All kinds of tricks of the rivers and lakes have appeared here one after another.

The most serious problem is of course theft.Every day, a few unlucky people were stolen for money and goods. In the end, even Li Mei's welfare store had some things stolen.Although the "Dongmen City Comprehensive Management and Law Enforcement Team" managed by Dugu Proposal is busy catching thieves every day, they are not professionals after all. The common people in Ming Dynasty look similar to them, and they don't understand the language. achievement.It is rare to catch a lot of people, kneeling on the ground, babbling in dialects they don't understand, and some people are crying and screaming all the way, rolling all over the floor when they enter the office, and finally let them go .Then, there was a brawl over a gambling quarrel.

Not long after, the first murder occurred, which aroused the vigilance of the travelers: a scene familiar to the travelers in the past occurred in the market: a street fight.

Group fights in the 21th century are no different from those in the [-]st century, except that they look more dangerous. Instead of watermelon knives, there are baked bamboo scoops, sharpened wooden sticks, and of course bricks and the like. , the lively and bustling market was in a mess, crying and shouting, and soon a bamboo tent stall not far from Dongmen Street burst into flames.By the time Dugu’s law enforcement team put on full equipment and heard the news, the military team had already dispersed, leaving behind seven corpses and devastation—more than a dozen stalls were burned .

Dugu's mouth was twisted in anger when he proposed, and the other executive committee members who came over were also shocked by this scene.Since the establishment of Dongmen City, there has always been positive news: the number of vendors has continued to increase, more and more people come to buy and sell things, and some people are willing to buy land to open shops... Generally speaking, this is the harmony between the traversers and the aborigines The best specimens to get along with.

Now that the specimen has become like this, although the loss is not big, but a fight to the death in the market will damage the market and their reputation anyway.And the most embarrassing thing is that Dugu proposed marriage and investigated for a long time, not to mention the murderer, he didn't even clarify the cause and effect.As a last resort, he found the Executive Committee and asked to train the police.

"It's not a problem to rely on our law enforcement team!" Dugu Proposal finally realized the crux of the problem, "We don't understand the language of the locals, so we can't understand the situation below."

"Can the security team transfer some people to maintain it?" Xiao Zishan is not too interested in the matter of training local police, and he feels that these local people cannot be trusted right now.

"How can the security team take care of us?" Dugu proposed very clearly. He had been to the security team several times. Seven or eight people were too busy to interrogate prisoners, identify personnel, and organize files. How could they have time to help him maintain security? Besides, when they went, the problem of language barrier still exists.

"We are indeed too busy. Now the security team is like the internal security team." Ran Yao said helplessly, "I think it is completely possible to organize and train the police. Now that the population under control is large, such law enforcement agencies are needed to maintain social order."

The first police organization of the traverser: "Dongmen City Police Station" was established in this way, Dugu proposed to serve as the director of the police station, and Mu Min served as the instructor of the police station. As the name suggests, it is to guide the work of the police station.After all, she worked in law and order, and the main problem in Dongmen City was law and order.

The police station is under the leadership of the security team, and the funds are paid by the local management department. In other words, the Dongmen City Industrial and Commercial Office is responsible.

"Well, how can I have money?" Dugu proposed to Xiao Zishan, who was in charge of civil affairs, crying, "The house in this police station is the office of our industrial and commercial office. Now Dongmen City does not collect taxes, so there is no way to spend money." "

"Then charge some security fees. The current police stations also charge businessmen."

"How can this work? Isn't it charging randomly? Besides, now is the critical moment to attract investment—"

"Hmph, stop crying about being poor." Xiao Zishan snorted, "What about the money for the land sold by your industrial and commercial offices? You don't give the land to those shop owners for nothing, right?"

Dugu was at a loss for words when he proposed marriage. The small treasury of the industrial and commercial office did have more than 100 taels of silver from leased land. The executive committee did not issue a land ownership policy, so this kind of land sale was in the name of leased land, and the price was relatively low.This money should be handed over in theory, but because the policy is not clear, the financial department cannot enter the account, so it has been stored in the Dongmen City Industrial and Commercial Office.

"But this is misappropriation of public funds. Besides, there is nothing to say about the land policy, and it is not easy to reimburse the money used."

After thinking about it for a while, Cheng Dong said: "In this way, your industrial and commercial office first fills out a payment form, and the source of income is clearly stated. I will make an irregular income. Then I will return the full amount to you as the office expenses of Dongmen City. You don’t have to bring the silver with you.”

"Okay, that's good, then let's do it this way." Seeing that the problem was solved, Dugu proposed to leave happily.

"You really have a way." Xiao Zishan said.

Cheng Dong shook his head again and again: "Our financial system also needs to be reformed."

(End of this chapter)