After the New Year, in addition to the pilot project of imposing "sin tax", the East China Government's other key task is to continue the war in the north, collect Shanxi and Shaanxi, and completely unify the northern region.

So as soon as the New Year ended, Qin Zheng immediately began to mobilize troops and collect supplies and prepare for a new war. In fact, the preparations for the war began before the New Year. Beijing's local administration has been completely managed by the local government, and now all the public security in Beijing has been handed over to the National Guards. At the same time, Beijing has initially established a police system to maintain daily order. Therefore, both Qin Zheng and the army have been completely freed from the complex affairs of maintaining local public security and order, and can concentrate all their energy on the new war.

Of course, this is also because Beijing's social order has been completely restored, so Qin Zheng was able to handle war affairs without any worries. The newly established Beijing Police Station made an indispensable contribution to the restoration of the social order in Beijing. After all, although it is not difficult to maintain the daily order in the local area, it is quite complicated and cumbersome. Because of the newly established police force, only a few people transferred from Qingdao, most of them were recruited from the local area, and a considerable number of original officials, yamen runners, public officials, etc., not only lack experience, insufficient training, but also a variety of good and bad quality.

Because they were the original public, although this group of people had little power in the Qing court, they directly managed the grassroots people, and they all came over the world. They had been trained as old men and were very difficult to manage. If they were negligent, they would cause trouble, extortion, take charge, and neglect their duties. Although the matter was not big, it would affect the reputation of the East China Government. For a long time, the East China Government had always shown themselves as honest, disciplined, and people-friendly. Beijing was the capital of the Qing court, and it was very likely that it would be the capital after the founding of the East China Government in the future. Therefore, it must not be careless in Beijing. After all, once the image of the government collapsed, it would take a huge price and time to repair it.

During this period, the police chief Li Zhengdong became the busiest among local officials in Beijing. He had to keep an eye on various police teams every day. On the one hand, he had to pay attention to the public security in Beijing, and on the other hand, he also paid attention to the behavior of the police team and whether there was any violation of discipline. Moreover, more than 10 police officers have been fired, all of whom were originally servants of the Qing court. Because during the New Year, most people were unwilling to cause trouble, and they were often willing to lose money to avoid disasters, which gave these old people the opportunity to take advantage of it.

However, nothing happened during the entire New Year period. It is estimated that more than 10 police officers were fired before and given enough warning to others. After all, although they were a policeman in the East China government, although they were strict in management and various disciplines, their treatment was much better than being a servant in the Qing court. The monthly salary of the Qing court was only 1 tael of silver, and incense would be burned if they could get half a year's monthly salary in a year, the servants could only go to blackmail the people, otherwise they would not be able to live.

In the East China Government, the salary of an ordinary inspector is 5 silver dollars per month. With various subsidies and labor costs, it can reach 7-8 silver dollars, or even about 10 silver dollars. It can be converted into 5 or 6 taels of silver, and it is paid in full every month. Therefore, this job is quite difficult. After all, the servants are not born bad people. If they have a generous income, there is no need to ask the people for it. It is not cost-effective to lose this job if they are impoverished.

But no matter what, the New Year has passed safely, so Li Zhengdong also breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the police team was slowly getting on the right track, so he could also relax.

And at this moment, Li Zhengdong received a report that a theft occurred in Prince Gong's mansion.

Prince Gong Puhua was one of the organizers of the royal family's escape from the west of Beijing. Although he accompanied him to take away nearly a hundred family members, servants and maids, he still left 230 people to guard the mansion. However, after the East China Government occupied Beijing, it took no politely to collect Prince Gong's mansion and dismiss all the left-behind servants. Of course, not only Prince Gong's mansion, but also all other uninhabited mansions. There are many princes, Beile, and many wealthy families. Of course, some of them did not escape, but just fled to the suburbs of Beijing to hide, and waited for Beijing to restore stability before returning. Therefore, the East China Government also set a limit for three months. If anyone who returned to Beijing to claim real estate within three months can return the house. The houses that remain vacant after more than three months will be collected as the government.

It is still within three months, and some people from the ministry have come back to claim the house. After confirmation by the East China Government, they also return the house to them. However, the people who can come back to claim the house are basically civilians or merchants. Most of the princes, Beile, and ministers have fled from Beijing and are almost impossible to come back. Therefore, there are many vacant houses, and most of them are large-scale luxury houses.

The houses of ordinary officials or wealthy families were requisitioned as residences or offices by the East China Government. When Prince Beile left Beijing, although there were many things he took away, most of them were fine and soft items, and were mainly gold and silver utensils. However, things like porcelain, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, which were not only not easy to carry, but also in troubled times, these things were not easy to be realized, and most of them were left behind. There were almost all of them left in the mansion. These things had great cultural relics and historical research value. Therefore, these mansions were sealed by the East China Government, and the utensils and items in the mansion were also registered and locked in the room. Of course, more than 10 people were left to guard each mansion. Of course, they brought naturalized people from Qingdao, which was very reliable and decided to use them later.

The Gong Mansion is such a mansion. In the old time and space, the Gong Mansion was one of the very famous attractions in Beijing. Of course, it is not because of the named Prince Gong, but because its original owner was Heshen, a famous powerful minister during the Qianlong period. Therefore, it took longer to count the Prince Gong Mansion than other mansions. It took 5 days to count the items in this mansion, and 16 people were arranged to live here to guard it.

Now there is a theft in Prince Gong's Mansion. Although it is not surprising that theft case occurred when the situation is unstable, Prince Gong's Mansion has a great impact after all. Therefore, Li Zhengdong, as the director of the Beijing Police Department, naturally did not dare to be careless. He sent Zhou Mian, deputy director who was specifically responsible for criminal reconnaissance, to lead the team to Prince Gong's Mansion to investigate the scene and investigate the case.

Before traveling through time, Zhou Mian was a security guard in a foreign company. This person had a hobby, which was that he liked to read detective novels or films and TV series, and also had a certain understanding of criminal investigation knowledge. Therefore, after the establishment of the East China Government, he volunteered to take up the position of criminal investigation. When he was in Qingdao, he used the knowledge he learned in the old time and space, and of course, he also used modern instruments and equipment to solve several major cases, so he became famous and became known as a "detective" within the East China Government. This time he sent him to work in Beijing, which is also a reference to his previous experience. Generally, in the first few months of occupying a big city, criminal cases will rise sharply. Having him in Beijing will also help improve the speed of cracking criminal cases.

However, although the East China government has occupied Beijing for more than a month and many criminal cases have occurred, there are no major cases that are difficult to solve. Therefore, Zhou Mian also feels bored. Now that theft case of Prince Gong’s Mansion has occurred, Zhou Mian can’t help but feel excited, hoping that this case will be a bit challenging.

So Zhou Mian took six assistants to Prince Gong's Mansion. Among the five assistants, two were naturalized people brought from Qingdao, and they were also Zhou Mian's students, one was Feng Yu, the other was Chen Jibai, and the other three were all new police officers recruited in Beijing.

The Prince Gong’s Mansion was in Beijing, so it arrived soon. At this time, everyone guarding the Prince Gong’s Mansion was waiting. The person in charge of the Prince Gong’s Mansion was named He Yizhi, and he would receive Zhou Mian’s party.

Among the 16 people guarding Prince Gong's Mansion, 6 are full-time guards. In addition to keeping the keys and information of Prince Gong's Mansion, they are also responsible for cleaning the cleanliness and hygiene of Prince Gong's Mansion every day. The other 10 people have other jobs, go to other places to work during the day and come back to rest at night. Of course, they also have the task of patrolling the entire mansion at night.

When they arrived at Prince Gong's Mansion, Zhou Mian first asked He Yizhi about the detailed situation. In fact, the situation was not complicated. In the morning, the two people who were responsible for cleaning the mansion found that the gate of the main hall was opened and the lock was thrown on the ground. When they entered the main hall, they found that a gilded Buddha statue of the Tathagata worshipped was missing, and a pair of jade carved unicorns placed in the main hall were missing. So the two hurried to tell He Yizhi.

After hearing this, He Yizhi personally rushed to the main hall to check it out and confirmed that what they said was the truth. He did not dare to be lazy. So he hurriedly asked someone to report the case to the police station. At the same time, he asked other people who had other jobs to stay in Prince Gong's Mansion and waited for the police station to send someone to investigate and collect evidence. Because he had experienced a theft case before and had some experience, he knew that once the case broke out, all the people living in Prince Gong's Mansion were suspected, so he kept them all.

Although other people who have other jobs are unwilling to leave, they are indeed not suitable to leave at this time, so they have to ask someone to ask for leave and stay and wait. Of course, during the waiting period, He Yizhi sent someone to inspect the entire Prince Gong's mansion and confirmed that nothing was wrong with the other houses.
Chapter completed!