At seventeen he had tried for a government appointment, but he had failed to get it, being poor and friendless, and for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the Mandalay bazaars, clerking for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing. then when he was twenty a lucky stroke of blackmail put him in possession of four hundred rupees, and he went at once to Rangoon and bought his way into a government clerkship.
The job was a lucrative one though the salary was small. At that time a ring of clerks were making a steady income by misappropriating Government stores, and Po Kyin (he was plain Po Kyin then: the honorific U came years later) took naturally to this kind of thing. However, he had too much talent to spend his life in a clerkship, stealing miserably in annas and pice. One day he discovered that the government, being short of minor officials, were going to make some appointments from among the clerks. the news would have become public in another week, but it was one of Po Kyin's qualities that his information was always a week ahead of everyone else's. he saw his chance and denounced all his confederates before they could take alarm. Most of them were sent to prison, and Po Kyin was made an Assistant township officer as the reward of his honesty. Since then he had risen steadily. Now, at fifty-six, he was a Sub-divisional Magistrate, and he would probably be promoted still further and made an acting deputy commissioner, with Englishmen as his equals and even his subordinates.
As a magistrate his methods were simple. even for the vastest bride he would never sell the decision of a case, because he knew that a magistrate who gives wrong judements is caught sooner or later. His pratice, a much safer one, was to take bribes from both sides and then decide the case on strictly legal grounds. This won him a useful reputation for impartiality. Besides his revenue from litigants, U Po Kyin levied a ceaseless toll, a sort of private taxation scheme, from all the villages under his jurisdiction. If any village failed in its tribute U Po Kyin took punitive measures--gangs of dacoits attacked the village, leading villagers were arrested on false charges, and so forth--and it was never long before the amount was paid up. He also shared the proceeds of all the large-sized
At seventeen he had tried for a government appointment, but he had failed to get it, being poor and friendless, and for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the Mandalay bazaars, clerking for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing. then when he was twenty a lucky stroke of blackmail put him in possession of four hundred rupees, and he went at once to Rangoon and bought his way into a government clerkship.The job was a lucrative one though the salary was small. At that time a ring of clerks were making a steady income by misappropriating Government stores, and Po Kyin (he was plain Po Kyin then: the honorific U came years later) took naturally to this kind of thing. However, he had too much talent to spend his life in a clerkship, stealing miserably in annas and pice. One day he discovered that the government, being short of minor officials, were going to make some appointments from among the clerks. the news would have become public in another week, but it was one of Po Kyin's qualities that his information was always a week ahead of everyone else's. he saw his chance and denounced all his confederates before they could take alarm. Most of them were sent to prison, and Po Kyin was made an Assistant township officer as the reward of his honesty. Since then he had risen steadily. Now, at fifty-six, he was a Sub-divisional Magistrate, and he would probably be promoted still further and made an acting deputy commissioner, with Englishmen as his equals and even his subordinates. เป็นแมยิสเตร็ดเป็น วิธีการของเขาได้ง่าย สำหรับเจ้าสาว vastest เขาไม่เคยจะขายการตัดสินใจของกรณี เพราะเขารู้ว่า แมยิสเตร็ดผู้ judements ไม่ถูกต้องคือจับช้า เขา pratice มากปลอดภัยหนึ่ง มี การเอาสินบนจากทั้งสองด้านแล้ว ตัดสินใจกรณีเหตุผลทางกฎหมายอย่างเคร่งครัด นี้ชนะเขาชื่อเสียงประโยชน์เมตตา นอกจากรายได้ของเขาจาก litigants, Kyin ปอ U ถูกโทรไม่ขาดระยะ การเรียงลำดับของโครงร่างภาษีส่วนตัว จากหมู่บ้านทั้งหมดภายใต้อำนาจของเขา ถ้าหมู่บ้านใดที่ล้มเหลวในส่วยของ U Kyin ปอเอามาตรการลงโทษ - แก๊งค์ dacoits โจมตีหมู่บ้าน ผู้นำชาวบ้านถูกจับกุมในค่าเท็จ และอื่น ๆ - และไม่นานก่อนที่ยอดเงินชำระแล้ว เขายังร่วมดำเนินการทั้งหมดที่ขนาดใหญ่
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