Chapter 75: Are night watchmen more terrifying than city guards?
The full name of the so-called urban management department is actually the "Urban Public Security and Street Sanitation Management Department." This is a department that does not exist in other cities and can only be found in Renweiting City. Its main responsibility is to assist the city police superintendent in maintaining street security and ensuring that
The safety and cleanliness of street public facilities, specifically, involves performing chores, including but not limited to checking household registrations, checking floating population, maintaining public water pipes and fire hydrants, and even cleaning city sewers, etc.
In addition, they also have an important responsibility, which has led to the hated reputation of the urban management department, and that is to ensure that the main arterial roads in the city blocks are unobstructed. Based on the "Lunweiting Business Law" promulgated in the 1950s
The Law stipulates that all commercial transactions conducted outside the market areas designated by the municipal government are illegal. Among them, financial transactions such as stocks and securities must be conducted in the financial center on Lewell Avenue, meat, grains, flowers and handicrafts
Commodity transactions need to be carried out in the garden market, fish, seafood and fabric commodity transactions need to be carried out in the dock or port market, real estate transactions such as land, houses and forest farms need to be carried out in the city hall, carriages, ships, steam machinery and other bulk transactions
Commodity transactions must be conducted at the notary center.
Transactions conducted in these designated places without exception require payment of handling fees linked to the number of transactions. Even in the cheapest garden market, the handling fee required for every ten transactions can reach half a shilling.
It is euphemistically called market management fee, but it is actually a disguised increase in business tax.
It is said that the original purpose of this regulation is to ensure the orderly conduct of various trading activities in Lunweiting City, and at the same time limit the business scope of street vendors, peddling children and mobile traders - after all, this is the capital of the kingdom, Sigli
How can this city of ten thousand cities, which is known to everyone in the Asian continent, be like other cities with street vendors occupying the streets? Farmers and company employees jostled each other, horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts collided, and horse manure was everywhere.
The sewage and sewage make the city look unsightly, and the big shots above won't be happy if they see it, so it would be better to straighten it out.
However, after the promulgation of this regulation, it aroused dissatisfaction and protests from the people. They could not accept that they had to pay extra handling fees for no reason while doing normal business. They bluntly called it a "turd law" and refused to implement this unreasonable regulation.
.So even now, the streets and alleys of Renweiting are still filled with the cries and shouts of street vendors, nakedly mocking the existence of this law.
In desperation, the authorities established the so-called "Urban Public Security and Street Sanitation Management Department" to enforce regulations and promised that all fees collected would be used for the construction and maintenance of urban public facilities (it is said that this is a joint intervention of religious groups).
results, but the authenticity cannot be verified). Despite this, the public still did not buy it, mocking the law enforcement officers wearing dark blue uniforms as "blue dogs" and calling them every time they went out to crack down on the illegal operations of street vendors.
The name "comes to hunt birds" is a metaphor for the vagrants who were expelled outside the city walls due to moral corruption in the Middle Ages and had no choice but to hunt birds to satisfy their hunger.
As the poorest, most chaotic, and least well-managed neighborhood in the entire capital, Qixing Pan District has always been the focus of the city management department, and the vendors here have long had ideas on how to deal with this monsoon-like cycle of cleaning operations.
They had their own experiences. So, when Sister Livia ran back panting and told them, "The city management is here," Olvera heard a warning shout from the noisy crowd: "Those blue-skinned people are here."
The dogs are here to hunt the birds again!!!”
The originally lively street suddenly fell silent for a moment, as if all the sounds had been sucked away. The next moment, the crowd dispersed in a hurry, and the momentum was as unstoppable as a flood that had released its gates: the vendors selling cooked food on the street quickly turned on the boilers,
He threw the coal and unsold food on the three-wheeled cart, turned around and pushed the cart away; an old linen sheet was spread out under the corner, selling buttons, thumbtacks, hairpins, cotton ropes and other handmade products.
The old woman only needs to lift up the four corners of the cloth and tie a knot, and then she can easily carry all the goods on her back; as for carrying a basket along the street selling flowers, dry bread and boiled quail eggs for two pence each
The other boys and girls were even simpler. They turned around and ran into the dark and narrow alleys, disappearing in the blink of an eye. If you have the leisure and elegance to wander around the entire Qixing District, maybe you will soon.
I saw them still hawking on other streets.
The entire street became empty in less than three minutes. All the vendors along the street disappeared. Pedestrians on the road also hurried away for fear of being caught and blackmailed by the blue dog. Only one person was probably not taken away in time.
The oil-paper bag was slowly floating away along with the dust that filled the street.
Olvera, who was still standing there blankly, was greatly shocked. She deeply realized the abundant vitality contained in the seemingly ordinary bodies of the citizens of Renweiting, as well as the warm emotions of the government departments and the people.
They were all scenes she had never seen before in Rosting City, Nimschel City or even Lottana City.
She couldn't help but want to recite a certain famous line from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities". Unfortunately, before she could say it, Sister Livia interrupted her thoughts: "Okay, let's run away."
"Why, Sister Livia?" Medien asked in confusion: "We are not illegal traders, so we shouldn't have to worry about the urban management, right?"
As for the issue of blackmail, the Spiritual Prayer Society is a local snake in the Seven Stars area. Although it is half dead, it still has a certain influence. How dare those blue dogs blackmail the people of St. Anville Cross Church?
"Oh, it's not those blue dogs I'm afraid of."
After Sister Livia habitually said that inappropriate nickname for children, she glanced at the end of the street and found that it was still some time before the city management arrived. She lowered her voice and explained to them: "It's the people hidden in the blue.
The night watchman among skinned dogs."
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Night watchman? How far away, how familiar, how strange and yet so missed is a name. I feel like I haven’t been in contact with them for a long time, and I still miss them. For example, Xie Mi, his face turned pale with fright, and he started to look at Mei.
It got stuck in Tian's collar.
"Why do the night watchmen and the city management act together?" Medien asked doubtfully, and at the same time, he pulled out the little goblin that had got into his clothes and put it back on his head.
In this regard, Sister Livia's answer was so natural: "This is how the night watchmen act."
That's right, unlike the balance of order, which has clear responsibilities and is only responsible for hunting down aliens and pseudo-cultists, and has its own independent establishment, the scope of responsibilities of the night watchman, who is responsible for the internal stability of the city, is relatively vague. To a large extent, it can involve the city's public sector.
Various fields, therefore, often need to cooperate with other departments to perform tasks in coordination with each other. Affected by this, the members of the Night Watch do not have a fixed establishment and often work among the city police superintendent, city defense department, city hall, commercial and tax office, and parish committee
Even among the team of street patrol police officers, they look no different from ordinary law enforcement officers on the surface. In fact, they just use this disguise to secretly investigate whether there are traces of alien or pseudo-cult activities in their jurisdiction.
As the department responsible for urban security and street public affairs, the city management department naturally has its personnel lurking and infiltrating. Every cleaning operation conducted by Blue Dog is actually equivalent to the daily survey operation of the night watchman.
"Our Spiritual Prayer Association's position in the Seven Stars Area is rather awkward. Master Mufasa once warned us that if we encounter the actions of the night watchmen when we go out, it is best to retreat and avoid being caught by them and exploiting the situation. Besides, those
This guy's nose is really very sensitive, even worse than a rabid dog on the Scales of Order. I'm afraid they will see through your disguise and discover your true identity."
Sister Livia looked back at the guests including the traveler elves, light elves, mirror elves and vampires, and said helplessly: "Although I am not very convinced, I still follow Lord Mufasa's advice here.