Chapter 306: Punishment Deters and Stabilizes Public Order

On the evening of April 20, in Xuhui, in the southwest of the concession, a temporary wasteland execution ground was executed, including 16 people who had been killed not long ago and 98 death row prisoners sentenced in previous cases, a total of 114 criminals who committed the most heinous crimes!

Although he knew that the scene would be a little bloody, Li Junhao still personally led the team to the scene, and he felt that he also needed to exercise his iron heart.

During the entire execution process, the 114 death row prisoners were divided into 19 batches, each batch of 6 people, and the execution team was also 19 batches.

Of course, during the execution, the veterans are also waiting on the side, and if there are recruits who can't complete the task, it's their turn to play, but the recruits who can't get their hands will lose the qualification to stay in the wolf warrior anymore.

The result was relatively good, although many recruits ran to the side and vomited after the execution mission, none of them escaped before the execution, which greatly exceeded Li Junhao's expectations, which made him very pleased.

As for vomiting after killing someone, that's not a big deal, it's just human nature! If you don't vomit after killing someone for the first time, it's either super strong-willed, or you're a big traitor, and these people are definitely not.

Actually, to tell the truth, Li Junhao, who seems to have been acting normally, has been churning in his heart, although he will not vomit, but he also feels very uncomfortable in his heart - 114 people of all colors have been deprived of their lives under his administration! Although he was very sure that these people were the most heinous people and should be killed, this was not killing the enemy on the battlefield, but executing them on the execution ground, and the shock was completely different.

After the execution, the team returned, and the rest of the work was naturally finished by the funeral industry who was responsible for burying the body, although they were also scared this time, but under the sufficient expense, they still started to work hard after vomiting.

I believe that early tomorrow morning, through their oral transmission, this matter will quickly spread throughout Shanghai, and it will definitely be a big shock for those who still want to be traitors!

As for whether the forces behind these dead people will hate themselves even more, Li Junhao doesn't care at all.

Sitting in the bulletproof car returning from the convoy, Li Junhao couldn't help but look back at the west, in the distance in that direction, millions of people have already started a big war, under the power of modern gunpowder weapons, I am afraid that the number of people who die every moment is more than hundreds!

Then, there will be more people involved in the war, millions, tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, and every day after that, hundreds of thousands of people will die in the war, and it will last for five years!

Call! He let out a long breath and said to himself: "Get ready, start to meet the blood and fire of the future!" ——

As Li Junhao expected, when daylight came on the 21st, the entire Shanghai Strait already knew about last night's execution, and had a new understanding of the ruthlessness of the concession authorities.

Although in the night of the original concession, people died every day, and there were not a few people who were murdered, robbed, and starved to death, and the number of soldiers and civilians who died in the two Songhu battles was even more tens of thousands, but it was unprecedented to shoot hundreds of people at one time because of a death sentence like this!

Of the 114 people sentenced to death, each of them has been publicly convicted of crimes, and all of them have been officially convicted by the criminal court, and some newspapers have even relisted all the charges of these people in the morning newspaper, so that people from all walks of life in Shanghai and Haihai know that this is the power of the legal system! And this is something that many people only realize now!

It should be said that from now on, the public security situation in the Huhai Concession will be many times better than before.

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In the days that followed, when the eyes of the whole world were drawn to Europe, the Far East remained calm, and the citizens lived and worked as usual.

Although the concession was still surrounded by the Japanese theater of operations, the relations between the two sides had miraculously eased, at least no more head-on clashes were discovered, and even the number of spies sent by the Japanese puppet side to the concession was much smaller.

At this time, the network of informants established by the Investigation Department and the telephone monitoring network under the responsibility of the Telecommunications Department were already in operation, and any disturbance in the concession could not be concealed from Li Junhao's ears and eyes, and if he wanted to, he could pull up all the nails buried in the concession by various forces overnight.

Of course, he would not do this, except for ordering the continued crackdown on Japanese puppet spies, nothing else should be conceded at all, or rather, there was no need to move, unless either side infringed on the interests of the United States or the Ministry of Industry; As for the various forces spying on each other's intelligence or something, it's not a matter at all, let them play, but if a vicious case comes out, it will be a different matter.

After a period of time, the various forces have also determined the bottom line of the concession authorities, so although they have their own affairs, they have all maintained rational actions, and even if there is really a conflict in private, they will take the initiative to deal with the aftermath and not make trouble for the police department, so they are very sensible.

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In this atmosphere, Li Junhao and his subordinates spent a rare period of peaceful life, and the progress of all work was also very smooth, needless to say, only the four months of tax revenue since 1940 far exceeded the whole year of last year, enough for the current concession's official expenditure, municipal construction expenditure and military expenditure, in this war period, it has to be said to be a miracle.

Of course, just like the problem that Li Junhao has realized, the biggest problem encountered in the concession economy now is the currency problem, because the Chongqing government continues to issue more fiat currency, which far exceeds economic growth, resulting in hyperinflation and faster depreciation of fiat currency!

At the end of last year, the market price of the exchange rate was 1:7.8 fiat currency in US dollars, 1:8.1 after the Spring Festival this year, 1:8.7 in mid-March, and by April 20, it had reached 1:9.2!

In this regard, Li Junhao's patience has been exhausted. Previously, he commissioned professors from the Department of Economics at Fudan University to study the currency issue, but these scholars have been insisting on such reasons as "monetary reform should be cautious" and "the currency circulating in the market cannot be easily changed", and they have not been able to come up with a suitable method for monetary stability.

Li Junhao admits that he is not an economic expert, not a financial expert, or a monetary expert, but he knows that a stable currency cannot only rely on the market to run itself, and the official must have an attitude.

(End of chapter)