Chapter 105 Local Guard
Sometimes Mr. Ksma is really interesting because he doesn't act like a farmer who is merely a mere farmer. It may be misunderstood to use the word merely here, but that's the case.
For example, when Dulin, who had already made great achievements, took out 5,000 yuan to ask Mr. Kesma to help him with a "small favor", he might have never seen Mr. Kesma, who had such a large sum of money in his life, without any excitement. His hands did not even tremble, just like the one on the table was not 5,000 yuan, but only 50 yuan, or 5 yuan. His eyes only stayed on the stack of banknotes for about 0:5 seconds, and returned to Dulin's face without any nostalgia.
"What do you want me, a farmer, to help you?" Mr. Ksma moved his butt back to make his back fit more with the back of the rattan chair, and corrected his sitting position.
Du Lin was organizing language. During this period of time, he understood a truth. Sometimes the word "Dao" contains more than the literal explanation of the word. To put it simply, money, subordinates, power, status, reputation and other things that can be turned into actual interests can be described by the word "Dao". When the social classes and soft and hard power of two people are similar, the "Dao" can be "speaked" with words. At other times, as long as there is an asymmetry in some aspects, it is very likely that "Dao" is not something to be said, but done.
How to improve your "reasoning" level?
Dulin has considered many aspects, such as becoming a white glove for a big shot like Wood and Gordor, or becoming a "scavenger" who specializes in dirty work. However, these methods not only require him to have stronger strength and power, but also require time to accumulate. Trusting a person is not something that can be done in three or five days, or in three or five sentences. This takes a long time to accumulate. The opposite is that it only takes a moment to destroy these.
What Dulin needs is a solid foundation, not this kind of water tower.
He wanted Mr. Ksma to help bribe another sheriff in the town - which could be pronounced as a sheriff. During the Patriotic War, that is, during the Civil War, in order to effectively resist the omnipresent federal army, the Empire followed the advice of the prime minister and gave various places the power to form guards, which specifically refers to the countryside, such as towns, or villages. The final executor of this order was the sheriffs of each town, and they would become leaders and commanders of the local guards. In addition, the Empire also entitled another authority for these sheriffs.
They can buy standard rifles, even war machines and weapons platforms at the Arms Bureau for low-priced money.
This policy played a miraculous role in the war. It turns out that the richer people are, the more afraid of death. In the early days of the outbreak of the war, the nobles still occupied a large tract of land in the empire, and they were the landlords in the actual sense. At the same time, they also pushed these nobles to the forefront of the war, either "donate money" to the sheriff to form a local guard, and purchase weapons and other more advanced weapons for them to resist invaders that may appear anytime and anywhere.
Or you just flee to the imperial capital honestly, and then you are depressed to receive the tragedy of the territory sweeping by war, and the plunder and destruction of wealth and real estate.
So at that time, many nobles gritted their teeth and took out a large amount of money to arm the local guards. Many local guards in the territory of aristocrats with a long history were even more armed than those of the regular Imperial Army.
but!
They were cheated.
With the new government order issued by the Emperor of the Empire, the "Special Recruitment Act during the Patriotic War" was passed in the imperial capital, a large number of local guards armed to the teeth were drawn and reorganized into regular troops, which means that the Empire used troops assembled by nobles to fight without paying any price. Although many nobles had a lot of resentment and dissatisfaction with this, considering the consequences of the failure of the war, they could only break their teeth and swallow them, and also showed an expression of "I am willing to give everything for the Empire."
After the war, a large number of troops formed by the nobles, as well as the Guartes and the Provincial Ya people, were damaged on the battlefield, and the class conflicts that were about to break out were instantly calmed down. At the same time, according to the narrative of conspiracy theorists, the imperial royal family colluded with the New Party to betray the nobles, and completely ended the feudal imperial dynasty that lasted for hundreds of years. The reason for all this was that during the war, the imperial royal family plundered too much wealth and materials from the hands of the nobles through various policies and special wartime laws, which made the nobles feel dissatisfied.
Regardless of the reasons and consequences, the local guards' decree issued during the war seemed to have been forgotten, and it was not cancelled because of the end of the war. It can still be enforced according to the decree at that time.
Another issue is involved. Since there are loopholes that can be exploited, are the tycoons and bigwigs all exploiting this loophole?
The answer is no. Although the special decree during wartime was not cancelled, after the New Party took office after the war, many restrictions were added to this decree. For example, in non-war periods, local guard members in each town were not allowed to be more than seven people, and weapons and equipment were not allowed to be equipped with no more than three rifles. It was not allowed to purchase or place any war machines and weapons platforms, which had strict restrictions on these powerful weapons of destruction. At the same time, there were agents from the Imperial Police Investigation Bureau also patrolled the entire empire, and local gendarmeries were also strictly investigating such violations.
So no matter how much money those big guys spend, it is meaningless. It is better to support a group of ruthless thugs than to have this money.
But there really is no further loophole in this law?
In fact, this is not the case. According to the provisions of the "Rights and Obligations of Local Guards in Non-Wartime", when "hazardous" beasts appear around towns and villages, it is necessary for the guard to actively eliminate these "hazardous" beasts in order to ensure the safety of citizens' private property and the infringement of civil rights.
Sometimes, whether there is a "hazardous" beast is the final decision!
There are not many seven people, but if these seven people are as surprise soldiers and have three rifles, the effect they can achieve is definitely not as simple as the "seven people".
Chapter completed!