On the Seven Towers

People outside the Provisional Government Gate were discussing the announcement, and in a conference room inside the Provisional Government Building, a group of people were sitting together and having a very heated discussion.

The meeting was presided over by Wang Jiyuan, the current chairman of the provisional government and the commander of the escort army. According to the policy formulated by the committee, after attacking the next city, military control will be carried out for six months. During the military control period, the top leader of the city is the commander of the army. Officials, administrative officials assist military chiefs in government management. After grasping the basic situation in the city and surrounding towns, and solving the main surrounding military threats, it will be handed over to administrative officials to take over.

Others attending the meeting included Zhao Zhixing, the military and political commissar, Qin Mu, the acting mayor assigned to Suero, Xiao Chen, magic consultant and representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as Suero City’s agriculture, industry, education, commerce, human resources, intelligence, etc. The main person in charge of each department. Most of these people have more than one year of government experience in Hewan New City and were transferred here.

It has been a while since everyone got up early in the morning to have a meeting, but everyone has not yet reached an agreement on the terms to be discussed at the meeting with the nobles and businessmen tomorrow. The focus of the debate is how to deal with and transform these nobles and businessmen.

Wang Jiyuan said this at the beginning: "After a meeting at midnight last night, everyone should have thought carefully about the three questions I raised when they went back. Who should be eliminated? Who should be punished? Who should be reformed? Now is the time for discussion, so don't worry. , we can say it openly. Our time is limited. Although the committee has given us the general direction of nationalizing Suero, we still need to adapt our approach to local conditions. As we all know, there are always problems in this world. Putting a knife to our heads, we must use the most efficient way to free up Suero's productivity."

Wu Jianshi, a twenty-five or six-year-old young man in charge of intelligence work in this region, has short, lean hair and very sharp eyes, but his words are a bit ferocious: "Chairman Wang, I think it is the simplest and most efficient. The method is just one word: 'kill'. It's not that I'm irresponsible or like to use rough methods. It's just that our time is too tight. How much time did we spend doing the same thing in our own history? If you do this, by the time the transformation is completed, the God of Nature will have long since awakened.”

"Then how do you kill him?" Zheng Rui, the director of the Municipal Commerce Bureau sitting opposite him, asked. He is about the same age as Wu Jianshi, and he is also a young man among cadres.

"These people are either corrupt nobles or cunning businessmen. After a little research, how many of them are clueless?" Wu Jianshi knocked on a folder at hand, "Our intelligence department has not stopped using these evidences in the past year. We have collected, witnessed, and physical evidence, and the evidence chain is complete. As long as the committee needs it, I can capture 90% of these famous people in Suero and kill half.

Those people are really unscrupulous and do all kinds of bad things without caring about leaving evidence. If you want to investigate someone in depth, just give me a week and I can get to the bottom of him. "

Zheng Rui said: "God, you'll catch 90% and kill half. You've done this, what's our reputation like? Are others still doing business with us? Which city will we attack again, and those nobles and merchants won't fight to the death? Why not?" Will there be mass surrenders like today?"

Cheng Sulian from the Education Bureau, who is in her forties and used to be an associate professor, also said: "If the solution was so simple and crude, we wouldn't have to hold this meeting. When everyone thinks about the problem, they can't just start from their own departments, but also from the perspective of their own departments. Think about it all. When we want to eliminate the nobles, we don't want to eliminate them physically, but to transform them into different and useful people. How to treat illnesses and save people depends on their attitude. What does it look like, do you sincerely join us?”

"Did they let go of what they did before?" Wu Jianshi asked.

Qin Mu said: "In a feudal society, directly copying our existing laws to deal with previous problems will definitely be bad. I think we can kill so many types of people. People are extremely angry, kill innocent people indiscriminately, and provide help to our enemies and cause huge consequences. Those who have lost money, and those who refuse to cooperate and resist our rule, will naturally have all their property confiscated. Except for those with serious crimes, other people who have committed various minor crimes should be punished according to their crimes. Just like what Chen Hansheng did in Alano Town.”

Wu Jianshi said: "But Mayor Qin, the place where Chen Hansheng lives is just a small town. By the same standards, he might have been the most guilty person there, but he might not be up to the typical standard you set here. "

Qin Mu said: "This is what I mean by adapting measures to local conditions."

"That's a little unfair."

Qin Mu said: "Any policy and legal fairness has a scope, and they are also the tools we use to rule this place. Don't put the cart before the horse."

Wu Jianshi frowned and said nothing, not sure if he had figured it out yet.

"So what about those who actively seek refuge with us?" Cheng Sulian asked.

Zheng Rui said: "We definitely won't recognize the title of nobility, and their territory will also be nationalized, but after all, it is something passed down from their ancestors. The solution I think is to buy it with money. If you give them enough money, they won't have too many complaints. The same is true for some key workshops and trading companies. I think it's worth spending this price to convert the economic attributes here. We can merge those small factories and trading companies together, engage in industrialized production, and create economies of scale."

"Let's not talk about the latter plan. But is it really feasible to buy it with money? All the surrounding land is very large. What price do you want to use to buy it?" Xiao Chen asked.

"How about 80% of the market price?" Zheng Rui asked.

Wu Jianshi laughed: "Old Zheng, your plan is even less reliable than mine. Have you calculated how much it will cost?"

"Of course I have calculated it. We must do installments. How can we give the money out in one lump sum? This time, we pay a down payment as a deposit, which is still affordable." Zheng Rui said.

Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "It seems that Director Zheng has been a businessman for too long. The installment payment was made with our own money at the beginning. You know, we are the ones holding cannons and have just won a victory. If you ransom us like you did, it would be a waste of our previous military budget.

In my opinion, the ransom must be made, but the payment must be made upon delivery!"