Chapter 1344 Conflict of Interest

This group of people who go north to aid in construction will bring changes to Shandong far beyond Chen Yixin. The military hopes to slowly hand over annoying civil affairs affairs to professional departments for management, so that officers can return to the military

Perform their duties. The Executive Committee has also realized that the occupied areas in Shandong are not suitable for maintaining military control for a long time. Sooner or later, if this continues, it will affect Haihan's strategic layout in Northeast Asia. It is time to incorporate it into formalized management.

in the system.

Of course, not everyone is willing to accept this new arrangement. For example, Chen Yixin still has a certain degree of hesitation about it due to personal reasons. In addition, there are also some people who hold real power and can obtain benefits through their authority. For example,

It is inevitable that I will be somewhat dissatisfied with the arrangement.

Whenever Haihan goes to a place, the first activities he starts are trade and immigration. Making money and absorbing the population can almost be regarded as Haihan's basic national policies, even taking precedence over the use of military means. In fact, Haihan is

Most of the time, military means are used to solve problems to protect the smooth progress of trade and immigration, but the outside world may not be able to see through this essence.

Those who manage and handle these affairs have many opportunities to profit from them. Even if they do not actively engage in corruption, there will be people who will continue to offer benefits in order to provide some convenience to the officers who temporarily act as supervisors.

Of course, the convenience provided by such a small gesture as loosening their hands may be of great benefit to the other party.

This kind of practice is not actually a secret thing in the military, but an unspoken rule that many people know. Most of the areas Haihan occupied overseas were occupied by force and then slowly managed.

Local affairs are almost always managed by the military. As time goes by and the situation increases, some people will naturally become familiar with the ways to make money, and then it will slowly spread among small circles.

Since it is not a secret, the big shots above are naturally aware of these tricks below. However, as long as it does not interfere with the overall situation and does not violate military rules, the big shots generally will not deliberately prevent the shrimp soldiers and crab generals from finding some food for themselves. After all, they want the horses to run.

Huan, you have to give some good food to eat. This principle is very simple and very practical, so even if there are military orders and regulations, power-for-money transactions cannot be avoided in the occupied areas controlled by the military.

Although Chen Yixin, who is in charge of civil affairs, disdains using such means to benefit himself, the officers under him who are responsible for specific affairs may not have such a high level of awareness. They are exposed to a large amount of money, and it is not easy to resist the temptation.

Among them, there are also some who are greedy and can't hold back their hands. However, as long as they are found out, they will be severely punished. This year, the military court of the Shandong Garrison has sentenced several such cases, including even

Including an Army second lieutenant and company commander.

It is difficult to say that it is impossible to stop this phenomenon, and it is easy to say that it is simple. The difficulty lies in the fact that this is a weakness of human nature. Even if a group of people who have gone too far are arrested every once in a while to scare the monkeys, there will still be resistance from others after a while.

Unable to resist the temptation of profit, they continue to engage in similar activities one after another. The most effective management method is to hand over these positions to the competent departments and let the officers withdraw from them. As long as they are completely cut off from these affairs, and so on

Incidents of taking advantage of one's power for profit will be greatly reduced.

However, not everyone can afford to let go of related interests, especially some people who are deeply entangled among them. Even if they have heard the news that the military is preparing to gradually hand over local jurisdiction, they still refuse to give up easily.

Make money from the affairs of your subordinates.

The 27-year-old Tie Pingjiang is a veteran who has been in the army for six years. His current position is a quartermaster in the Haihan Army stationed in Fushan. In fact, before coming to Shandong, Tie Pingjiang was not in the logistics department.

I didn't take up my post as quartermaster until I came here.

Haihan's military requirements for the garrison in Shandong are divided into two parts. The first is various materials that need to be transported by sea from the south, mainly military equipment; the second is general materials that can be raised nearby the garrison, such as grain, vegetables,

Livestock and poultry, etc. Needless to say, the supplies shipped from the south. The quartermaster only acts as a warehouse manager and registers, and there is no way to make profits. Even if he is extremely brave, he will never dare to use the military supplies in the warehouse.

Smuggled out and sold.

However, there are many tricks that can be manipulated in the supplies that are collected from areas near the station. These supplies are purchased with military funds, and the power of pricing and inspection is in the hands of the quartermaster. And Haihan is in Fushan

There are more than two thousand people stationed in the county, and the daily material consumption is not a small amount, and a considerable part of it is organized from local sources. This means that if the quartermaster allocates more or less abacus beads, it will be a big loss for the suppliers.

It will be a very impressive figure, and the amount of revenue will depend to a large extent on the tightness of the quartermaster's control.

Since it involves very practical income issues, suppliers will naturally try to open up joints and buy off the quartermaster responsible for inspection and appropriation, and Tie Pingjiang has become one of their targets. At first, Tie Pingjiang was not convinced about this "incompatibility"

Naturally, he refuses the benefits of "rules". Even though he is a novice in the military supply industry, he knows that the benefits given by suppliers cannot be taken casually. He still understands the principle of short-handedness.

But those suppliers would not regard Tie Pingjiang's refusal as the end. They believed that Tie Pingjiang's attitude only meant one thing, that is, the price was not high enough and failed to reach his psychological price. Only those with financial resources could supply.

Shang gradually increased the pressure until Tiepingjiang couldn't resist and was defeated.

So starting from the beginning of the year, at the beginning of every month, several groups of people would put a bulging envelope in the manifest and deliver it to Tie Pingjiang. In order to facilitate his use, these envelopes did not even contain banknotes, but instead

He didn't know where he exchanged the Haihan banknotes. The benefits he could get from these military purchase orders were dozens of times higher than the military salary, and the money came effortlessly. He only had to follow the normal procurement process.

Just do the operation and settle at the normal market price, and there won't seem to be any problems in the accounts.

When Tie Pingjiang discovered that this kind of gray income for one month was equivalent to one or two years of working in the army, it was indeed difficult for him to restrain his greed. At this juncture, the garrison headquarters gave him a new task, so that he could not control his greed.

He is also in charge of the local distribution and sales of Haihan products.

This kind of matter is originally the responsibility of the Ministry of Commerce and has no direct relationship with the military. However, the Ministry of Commerce only has two people stationed in the local area and they are simply too busy, so they borrow people from the military. And Tie Pingjiang got

After taking this new job, I discovered that the goods exported by Haihan here are quite profitable. The gray income I can get here is even higher than my previous income from working with suppliers. As long as I have a suitable partner to help carry the sedan,

It is not impossible to earn tens of thousands a year.

Tie Pingjiang accumulated a lot of contacts in just a few months as a quartermaster, and through these contacts he quickly found a financially powerful collaborator. But he didn't know that the person behind the collaborator he was looking for

It was Chen Zhongsheng, the prefect of Dengzhou.

After suffering a big loss in the attack on the Fushan Mine, Chen Zhongsheng's ideas have become much more pragmatic. He believes that it is indeed not easy to completely drive Haihan out of Dengzhou territory, but instead of sitting back and watching Haihan encroach on local resources little by little, it is better to

It's better to find ways to get more benefits from them. It happens that Dengzhou is in dire need of development, so it would be good to use Haihan people's money to subsidize military expenditures.

So after Chen Zhongsheng and several staff members combined, they decided to find a few agents to come forward to trade with Haihan. Although the relationship between the two parties was still hostile, Chen Zhongsheng also knew that Haihan's products were extremely popular in the market and the profits were quite high.

, this business can basically guarantee a profit without loss, and the money earned can be used to reorganize the army and strengthen the defense of Dengzhou City.

Chen Zhongsheng's agent represented the Dengzhou government, and there would be no problems in terms of procedures, financial resources, and connections, so trade channels were quickly established. It's just that Haihan really didn't know anything about the identities of these businessmen, or did he?

If he deliberately pretended to be confused and acted really, then Chen Zhongsheng would not know.

But since there are many opportunities to deal with the military attachés of the Haihan Army in this trade process, Chen Zhongsheng also gave specific instructions, asking the organizers to try to bribe the military attachés of the Haihan Army and try to find out the other party's military situation. People like Tie Pingjiang who had already received benefits

Officer Haihan is naturally the easiest target to attack.

Tie Pingjiang's workplace is also outside Majiapu. It is a row of warehouses built here by Haihan organized manpower at the end of last year. It is specially used to store various materials purchased locally. This place is only a hundred steps away from Chen Yixin's office.

The distance allowed him to give orders at any time. But even though he was right under Chen Yixin's nose, Tie Pingjiang still did not give up and continued to reap benefits from the affairs he handled.

On this day, Zheng Ai, a businessman who specializes in providing wood and stone materials to Haihan, came to visit. He was also one of the merchants who sent red envelopes to Tiepingjiang every month. However, Tiepingjiang did not know that Zheng Ai was actually from Chen Zhongsheng, the prefect of Dengzhou, so he only sent red envelopes to Tiepingjiang.

He treated him as his biggest benefactor, so he was relatively polite to him.

"A friend came to visit recently and brought some spring hair from Mount Laoshan. I thought Master Tie was a good tea drinker, so I brought some to Master Tie today. I hope Master Tie wouldn't dislike it," Zheng Ai said.

While speaking, he respectfully handed a wooden box to the table in front of Tie Pingjiang.

Tie Pingjiang said with a smile on his face: "Boss Zheng is so polite! We are all our own, so why bring any gifts!"

As he spoke, he opened the lid of the wooden box with his hand, and saw that in addition to tea leaves, there was also a kraft paper envelope. Tie Pingjiang understood and quickly put the wooden box into the drawer: "Gifts will not affect it."

Okay, let’s forget it this time, Boss Zheng won’t make an example again!”

Laoshan Chunhao is a kind of green tea produced in Northern Laoshan. It is not a famous tea in itself. Of course, Zheng Ai does not expect to make Tiepingjiang obey his orders with half a pound of tea. The key is naturally the wooden box

envelope inside.

Tie Pingjiang accepted it without reading the content, which made Zheng Ai relieved. He also heard that Haihan would gradually let the officers out of the civilian management arrangement in the near future, and was a little worried that these things would affect Tie Pingjiang's attitude.

Transformation occurred. But now it seems that Tie Pingjiang has no scruples and does not hesitate at all to receive the money he deserves.

Zheng Ai then said: "Master Tie, I have nothing else to do here today. It's just that there's been a lot of messy news outside recently. Let me tell you boldly, don't get angry if I'm not right. There are rumors outside that it's you who did this...

He is about to be replaced, is this reliable?"

Tie Pingjiang's face darkened, and he put the tea cup in his hand on the table. A lot of tea inside also spilled out. Zheng Ai couldn't help but shuddered, thinking that his question was indeed a bit too direct. Now I guess

It made Tiepingjiang angry.

"You can only believe one word of the rumors outside? A few months ago, there was a rumor that the Haihan Army was going to attack Dengzhou City. Do you believe it?" Tie Pingjiang said angrily: "The wind is like the rain, and for decades

Can you keep the focus now?"

Zheng Ai was at least ten or twenty years older than Tie Pingjiang, but after being taught such a lesson by a young man, he did not dare to make a mistake, but he still did not give up the question just now: "Can Master Tie tell me, this time?"

How true or false are these rumors?”

Of course, the news Tie Pingjiang heard was much more accurate than what Zheng Ai said. The command's plan to hand over civil jurisdiction to an exclusive department had actually been leaked a few months ago. When the outside world heard the news,

, it’s basically a certainty. But Tie Pingjiang doesn’t want to tell Zheng Ai the real situation, because after the other party knows the inside story of the matter, he will probably stop transferring benefits to himself. After all, it is to an officer who is about to hand over power.

As for the money, it would be more practical to keep it and give it to the next official in charge.

Although Tie Pingjiang knows that the headquarters plans to complete the handover work before the end of this year, he is now holding on to the idea of ​​​​taking an extra month if he can get it. After making enough, he can apply for retirement and use his earnings in Shandong.

With the money, they can go back to the south to buy property and land and become a farmer, and they won’t have to live and die outside for the rest of their lives. Before that, these Shandong rich people naturally squeezed out as much money as they could. Anyway, ill-gotten gains are not worth it.

No more fishing for nothing.

Tie Pingjiang said: "The more accurate news now is that the chiefs are discussing whether it is necessary to hand over the civil management of the military to the corresponding departments. However, this arrangement is still in the discussion stage and is still very early in the implementation stage. There are rumors and rumors outside.

, they are all unreliable. Don’t think too much about it. With me, Tie Pingjiang, your business will definitely be stable and will not be robbed by others."
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