Chapter 0498 new equipment
In the cold wind city, East Fourth Street.
The people from the Inspection Office were nailing the door number at the entrance of the street, and the hammers and nails were smashing. There was a circle around watching the fun, chattering and talking nonstop.
Powell hid in this street and met a lot of people when he went out. It seemed that something extraordinary happened, so he subconsciously wanted to ask clearly.
In fact, there is no need to inquire, or even go over. At the intersection of the street, a propagandist from the inspection office held a wooden horn to inform the urban management regulations issued by His Excellency Victor Hugo.
Urban management?
It's so strange, Powell plans to listen.
The last time there was a chaos in Hanfeng City, the Supervision Office was destroyed by Master Hugo's move "turned into a dragon". The personnel of the Supervision Office fled and scattered, and not many people could gather together.
Another disbanded city institution is the Inspection Office. It is in charge of patrol, public security, cleaning, civilian cases, commercial taxation and other a lot of miscellaneous matters.
Without the Inspection Office, there were fewer officials who were arrogant and prosperous. However, some corresponding public services were stopped.
For civilians, they cannot count on public services, and their trivialities depend on themselves. But for urban managers, this institution cannot be stopped.
Deputy Speaker Hugo holds financial power, and he doesn't care about the quarrels in the parliament every day, and just implements his own urban reconstruction project in a constable manner.
The first thing is to rebuild the Inspection Office, recruit more than 2,000 people, and establish a three-level management agency of "city, district, and street".
The first director was Wilson, the former craftsman president who was filled with knowledge by the "Scholar's Touch".
This craftsman who was once captured by goblins and became the first official under Hugo to be sent to serve as a slave.
The Inspection Office has 2,400 people, and low-level civil servants trained by "Ruoqiang" as backbone. The most important of them are 700 quasi-military-managed urban management.
Urban management is responsible for urban security, fire protection, and ordinary civil disputes. They wear vine helmets and armor, and equipped with light weapons. They look weird and look weird, which scares the residents of the city as soon as they appear.
Unlike the soldiers of the police station who controlled and suppressed the past, the urban management was asked to solve various difficulties encountered by citizens in their daily lives.
For example, if someone is sick, he calls the urban management to help him send the hospital. If someone is missing, he calls the urban management to help him find it. If someone is caught in a fire, he calls the urban management to put out the fire.
As for the case trial, just call a wizard apprentice to "identify lies".
The minimum salary for each urban management is "one gold and five silvers" and is a very good job. It took a month to recruit and train, and many people are rushing to come.
Your Excellency Hugo will set up reasonable systems as much as possible to make this team a well-managed and efficient organization, so that the manpower and material resources of the whole city can be used by him.
With urban management, the nobles in the city did not feel it, but the civilians in the city felt it differently. At least, urban management did not collect taxes on anyone.
At least it is better than the inspector of the inspector who only knew how to "eat and get a slap" before.
The purpose of public services is to concentrate on spending money to greatly reduce the cost of urban operation. Ordinary families can specialize in their own work without having to worry about all kinds of trivial matters.
For the reconstruction of the inspection office, only Powell and other spies felt restricted. They called Adrian's hunting team "evil dogs" and the urban management became "dog legs".
These "dog-legged" patrol day and night, and keep 24 hours a day. If something happens at a time, they will support you everywhere.
There is no threat to a single urban management, but the organized hundreds of urban management units are very hindering to spies.
The Inspection Office is also responsible for cleaning up streets, building dilapidated houses, and renovating the water supply and drainage system. The entire city changes day by day, and ordinary residents can clearly feel that their living environment is getting better.
Just repairing toilets is a great act. Good water supply and drainage can greatly reduce the occurrence of diseases, and streets that are no longer muddy are also very comfortable.
Now, the people from the Inspection Office have begun to name the streets and nail the door numbers for each household. This kind of thing has never happened in the past.
The preacher stood on a wooden box and used a wooden horn to popularize various conveniences with door numbers to residents.
For example, Your Excellency Hugo will soon establish a post office and a bank to integrate the roads and transportation around the entire Hanfeng City. In the future, ordinary residents can also send letters, parcels and money to their relatives and friends.
When the Patrol Office was just rebuilt, Powell felt that this institution was in the way. But when he heard about the house number, he was sweating profusely and frightened.
It was obviously very hiding and there was no threat around him, but this spy seemed to have encountered some natural enemy, and he was stunned on the street and his head was buzzing.
How did Victor Hugo's head grow? How could he think of a house number that seems harmless but actually ruthless trick?
In the past, the urban management of Hanfeng City was basically in a state of sheep grazing. The powerful never cared about how many streets, houses, families, and population there were in the city.
When passers-by enter the city, they cannot accurately express where they want to go. Only landmark buildings such as the Wizard's Tower and the City Lord's Mansion can accurately guide the way, and only familiar residents in other areas can understand the path.
For example, Zhou Qingfeng once went to the "Crow Street" in the wharf area to kill evil insects and sacrifice. If he hadn't found the inner supporter, he would have been afraid that he would not even know where Crow Street was.
Because "Crow Street" is completely named by the residents of that street. Each street has a gate, and it falls dark and outsiders are not allowed to enter.
The residents across the street don't even know who their neighbors live.
Now, the Inspection Office will divide and name it uniformly, and also nail the door number for each household, and then count the residents, and set up a "street office" and "neighborhood committee".
The Inspection Office will arrange public security patrols and management personnel for each street to crack down on street bullies, collect the original power of scattered autonomy, and specifically solve various miscellaneous things encountered by residents in their lives.
In addition, migrant population must be managed and must be reported. Hotels and restaurants must be of grade to outsiders, and the Inspection Office will conduct regular inspections.
The biggest reason why the Inspection Office implemented this set is to tell residents that doing so can prevent thieves, robbers and all unstable factors. No underground organization can exist in Hanfeng City.
People who live a normal life naturally welcome each other with their hands and feet, but for those who cannot resist the verification of their identity, Powell, it is a catastrophe.
This..., this..., this is too cruel!
Just to catch the thief, the Inspection Office has spent so much effort to implement such a complex management policy?
How much does it cost? How many people will be hired? How many difficulties will it face?
The more Powell thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, his scalp hurt, like an ant. He was dizzy when he closed his eyes, and felt that he could not even survive in Hanfeng City in the future.
Victor Hugo is not short of money, people, and not afraid of any difficulties. He clearly wants to control the whole city, and he can do it if he can really think of it.
Just think a little bit...
The Inspection Office knows the exact address of anyone in the city, what job he does, how many people he has at home, and what social relationships he has. It will be too simple whether he collects taxes or arrests in the future.
Powell does not live in the void. Even if he disguises his identity, he still has to contact the outside world in daily life. He interacts with all kinds of ordinary people every day, and his every move is noticed and known.
If every street is controlled, how can the spies hide their identities?
It can't hide it at all!
Thinking of the situation he was about to face, Powell was so angry that he trembled all over, and his hands and feet were cold in broad daylight.
Can this Hanfeng City be better?
How should we live in the future to satisfy the ruler?
Tears were about to flow down.
The city is filled with oppression of underground forces. When will the gray people stand up?
Chapter completed!