African Nationhood

Chapter 218 Building a clean government
  At the Guest House in Anhai Town, three young men in old-fashioned clothes, Liu Jiazhao, Cao Jifu and Shen Deyao, sat together smoking Lucky cigarettes, looking at the sky outside the window and sighing.

The three of them have been living here for more than half a month. Since attending Boss Shi's wedding, they have become forgotten people.

I don’t know what the meaning here is, but they were detained?

But it doesn't look like it. After all, they are not allowed to travel here, but they can't board the ship and go back.

Their families, wives and concubines are all in the Qing Kingdom in the Far East, and they have no relatives here, so staying here is boring enough.

Although Nanhua Company is the ideal that everyone strives for together, after staying in the Qing Dynasty for several years, several of them have slowly been assimilated by the Qing Dynasty, becoming old-school and focusing on ostentation.

They had to have someone accompanying them when traveling. Relying on the fact that Nanhua Company was a British colonial company, they enjoyed a lot of convenience in the Qing Dynasty.

Because of their power, local officials and local powerful people in the Qing Dynasty inevitably got involved with them.

Cao Jifu was just a private lawyer in the original time and space, but now he has become a sworn brother with the son of the magistrate of Shanghai County, the magical city. The goods of Nanhua Company are resold by his sworn brother and the profit doubles.

Liu Jiazhao was only a middle-level member of the government in the original time and space. Now he not only married the daughter of Master Daotai of Huijia Chaobingbei Daotai in the Qing Dynasty as his concubine, but his wife was also the legitimate daughter of a wealthy local family in Shantou.

And Shen Deyao, a businessman from the original time and space, became more aggressive with the convenience of Nanhua Company's platform.

Not only did he resell the company's goods and raise prices privately to make profits, he also secretly supported thugs to disrupt the underground order in the Hong Kong market.

The colonial government of Hong Kong had already issued a document to the Colonial Office, which in turn forwarded it to the South China Company.

The impact of this product was very bad, seriously affecting the relationship between Nanhua Company and the colonial government of Hong Kong.

Shi Jintang has decided to win over this classmate Shen. His wedding is an opportunity to transfer these three foreign officials back to their hometown and clean up their relationship network.

Therefore, for so many days, no one has come to socialize with them. It is estimated that other students have got the news and dare not interact with them.

……

"Snapped"

Shen Deyao shook off the cigarette butt in his hand, "Damn it, what do you mean by Shi Wenyuan? Why do you want to lock us here?"

The Liu family looked after the angry classmate Shen, who immediately stood up and grabbed the bloated Hong Kong tycoon.

"Why should Ling Wen be angry? There must have been some changes in the company. Maybe Mr. Shi was too busy and didn't have time to see us."

The thing that bothers Shen Deyao the most now is Liu Jiazhao, who never forgets to fawn over Shi Wenyuan and is such a bitch.

He was the one who persuaded him to seek refuge with Shi Wenyuan in the first place, and now he is holding him back from making trouble. When will this useless life end?
  "Get out of the way. I will definitely find out from them today."

After saying that, Shen Deyao threw Liu Jiazhao away and walked out.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw a guard with a gun standing outside, glaring at him fiercely.

"what's up?"

Shen Deyao was frightened at this moment. He stammered: "No, it's nothing. I want to go to the toilet."

The guard didn't give him any face, "Didn't you just shout that you wanted to find someone to argue with? I'll call you for whoever you want to find."

Shen Deyao became even more timid after hearing this. He could be considered a dragon on the ground in Hong Kong, but not even a worm here in Anhai Town.

"No, I just need to stay."

The guard snorted coldly and closed the door.

At this time, the three people in the room were stunned, "What the hell is going on? We didn't know when the guards came outside the room."

Shen Deyao and Cao Jifu were even more unsure. Their bottoms were dirty. Looking at the guards outside the door, they had already confirmed that the company was going to take action on them.

Liu Jiazhao is the calmest among the three. Although he knows how to maneuver, he has no bad deeds.

His shortcoming is nothing more than making friends with local places, but it is also for work. How can we carry out immigration work without making connections with those local powerful people?
  ……

After waiting for another two days, someone finally came to see them. The expressionless Ouyang Geng led the guards and first announced the results of the review of Shen Deyao and Cao Jifu.

Shen Deyao secretly resold the company's goods and increased prices to make a profit, with illegal gains totaling 10.3 pounds.

He also privately supported thugs to disrupt order in Hong Kong, tarnished the image of Nanhua Company, and caused a negative impact.

For first-time offenders, in addition to confiscation of illegal gains, they are also required to do hard labor for two years. After the two-year sentence is completed, they will be directly expelled from Southwest Africa and will never be allowed to enter the country.

Cao Jifu made friends with the powerful people of the Qing Dynasty. Although his methods were covert, he still gained a lot of money.

It was found that the amount was as much as 3 pounds, and the company will confiscate the illegal gains.

For his first offense, he was sentenced to one year of reeducation through labor and then directly expelled from Southwest Africa and never allowed to enter the country.

Shen and Cao were stunned after hearing the punishment, but they had no choice but to accept the punishment.

For these students studying in the United States, reeducation through labor and confiscation of family property are light punishments, while deportation to Southwest Africa is the heaviest punishment.

Everyone can see that Nanhua Company is prospering and Shi Jintang can really create a great cause.

But if they cut off contact with Nanhua Company at this time, how can their lives be bright?
  Therefore, Ouyang Geng hated these two classmates. When Shi Jintang saw the review report of the Chancery Department, he dropped the tea cup in his hand in anger.

Shi Jintang originally wanted to punish the two classmates severely, but Ouyang Geng persuaded him.

After all, if we are all classmates, if we ignore the feelings, it will only make other classmates feel cold.

Therefore, the two of them were sentenced lightly, sent to reeducation through labor, and then expelled from Southwest Africa.

This corruption incident of expatriates sounded the alarm for Nanhua Company. Shi Jintang instructed Ouyang Geng to vigorously carry out anti-corruption propaganda, and also instructs the company to conduct anti-corruption reviews of the following regions.

In addition to strengthening the verification and anti-corruption education for expatriate employees, anti-corruption classes will also be held at Anhai Town Middle School.

We will strive to have all mid-level and high-level officials assigned abroad take a turn in the first half of 1887.

The corrupt deeds of Boss Shi's two expatriate classmates must be vigorously publicized to let the officials of Nanhua Company know that even Boss Shi's classmates will be punished if they violate the company's laws.

If there are still people who can't think about it, the company will not be lenient.

This time the integrity review of Nanhua Company also investigated and dealt with a number of small and medium-sized corrupt officials. The amount of crimes committed was not large, but it was worthy of attention. Boss Shi published a signed article in the "Nanhua Newsletter" solemnly stating that corruption is a red line.

Once it is discovered that in addition to being punished, the family members of corrupt officials will also be affected, and their credit will be affected. Not only will they not be able to get loans, but they will also be cut off from benefits such as land distribution.

……

After this battle, the Nanhua Company issued a decree: When any expatriate personnel takes office, they must be followed by someone from the Chancery Department.

Once the dispatched personnel of the Chancery Department discover that the dispatched officials have violated laws and regulations, after verification, the dispatched personnel will immediately replace the dispatched officials.

This decree will be a huge benefit to officials in the justice system.

They were originally assigned, and they did not get along well in the officialdom. With this anti-corruption law, they instantly became the "Sword of Shangfang" that everyone respected.

……

As for Liu Jiazhao, although he received some oral education, he was promoted instead of having nothing to do.

The deputy commissioner of education is responsible for the relationship training of expatriate officials. His family will later move to Southwest Africa.

In addition, Nanhua Company selected more than ten refining officials and rushed to the Qing Dynasty.

This time, in addition to the previous three points, Nanhua Company opened new treaty ports such as Tianjin, Xiamen, Yantai, Jinling, and Hankou, as well as Vladivostok, Temple Street, Hailanpao and other places in the outer northeast.

These places will be the immigration recruitment points for the Nanhua Company, and several points in the outer northeast will also be the bridgehead for the Nanhua Company to contact the Russian Far East government.

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