Chapter 990 0985 [The emperor has a lot to consider]
Ju Ming had promised long ago that he would be crowned king when he destroyed Jin, and he would be crowned king when he destroyed Xia.
But this time when Xia was destroyed, the person who was crowned king was not the general who led the army, but Zhang Guangdao, who was in charge of the Ministry of War.
Now, there are three princes with different surnames in the Ming Dynasty.
One is Bai Qi, one is Li Bao, and the other is Zhang Guangdao.
Deng Chun, the coach of Zhengxia, was awarded the title of Duke.
Deputy Commander Li Yanxian was awarded the title of Duke.
They have both been transferred back to the Central Committee, with the former serving in the Privy Council and the latter serving in the Ministry of War.
As long as he is not crowned king, he will still have the opportunity to lead troops in the future. Maybe one day Li Yanxian will be thrown out as the head coach.
At a critical moment, the princes can also lead troops to fight. However, the possibility is very slim. There are no forces around that need Ming Dynasty to take action.
After the imperial meeting ended, Li Yanxian took the initiative to stay.
"What do you want to say, Shao Yan?" Zhu Ming asked.
Li Yanxian carefully arranged his words: "Your Majesty, most of the people in Shanxi and Shaanxi have feuds with Xixia. Currently, about 30% of the generals who are staying in Ningxia are from Shanxi, but 80% of the soldiers and immigrants are from Shanxi. They are related to the Xixia survivors.
Conflict is inevitable, and officers cannot suppress the matter too much."
"Especially Linzhou, which is stabbing Louzi this time, is still under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi, and a large area of Xixia's old land has been allocated to Linzhou. Splitting the Xixia old land is naturally a long-term plan, but the intensification of conflicts in a short period of time is inevitable. More
What's more, the officials there are all locals. Not only the soldiers will definitely oppress the Xixia survivors, but the Linzhou officials will also definitely take revenge."
"The officials and soldiers in Linzhou all want to vent their anger on the Xixia remnants. How can the governor and generals suppress them? If they dare to suppress them, they will no longer be able to manage officials and lead troops."
"Yao Pingzhong is okay at fighting, but he is a fool when it comes to managing the army and the people. He has offended many friendly generals, and he cannot suppress the sergeants to vent their anger internally. If he were punished for other things, many generals would rejoice in his misfortune, and so would his officers.
I won’t complain about anything. But we must not punish him too severely because of this matter, otherwise the Linzhou garrison will inevitably lose morale. Because from the civil servants to the sergeants, they do not think that it is wrong for them to oppress the Xixia survivors."
"How can a political order or a military order resolve a centuries-old feud?"
After Zhu Ming listened patiently, he nodded and said, "What you said makes perfect sense."
Li Yanxian said modestly: "I am not as smart as your Majesty. I can only check for your Majesty's mistakes in the smallest details."
"Do you know where Yao Pingzhong and Linzhou Zhizhou Hu Xiang went wrong this time?" Zhu Ming asked.
Li Yanxian was a little confused: "Didn't they wantonly oppress the Xixia survivors and force the people there to rebel and wreak havoc on the three prefectures?"
Ju Ming sneered and said: "To bully the ordinary Xixia survivors, even if they kill them casually, they will not cause any trouble. The leaders of the trouble are those big herders and big landowners. These people are the ones the court wants to deal with, no matter how hard they bully them
Who will investigate? Even if the imperial censor and military judge report these matters to the court, I will just report them and ignore them."
Li Yanxian became more and more confused: "I am really stupid. I don't know where they went wrong. Please ask your Majesty's holy teachings to clarify my confusion."
Ju Ming said: "The imperial court has issued a military order and has reserved enough money and food. It must provide relief to the people without too many deaths. What are they doing? Withholding the relief food and not distributing it. Even if it is distributed, it will only be a little, and the poor people will also die.
Libi. Those poor people are said to be remnants of Xixia, but how many of them are descendants of the Han people who were taken captive?"
"Their mistake was that they did not carry out the court's orders, or that they did not carry out the court's orders thoroughly."
"Let me tell you a heart-breaking thing. If they follow the imperial order and distribute all the disaster relief food, they will not provoke all the people at the bottom to rebel. Even if something happens, they can completely control it and take the opportunity to kill.
Those big landowners and big herdsmen are just oppressing a few Xixia survivors. As long as they don't kill people casually, will the court care about such trivial matters? I am so busy with government affairs every day that I will care about such nonsense?"
Li Yanxian suddenly understood, cupped his hands and said, "I understand."
Li Yanxian did understand.
It is not wrong for the officers, soldiers, and officials of Linzhou to oppress and humiliate the Xixia survivors. At most, it is because of flaws in their working methods. Even if they provoke the Xixia survivors to rebel, they can be brushed off. After all, the centuries-old hatred is there.
This kind of ethnic conflict should be handled with merit if handled well, but it will be a minor fault if it is not handled well.
Their fault was disobedience!
Not listening to the emperor or the court, the disaster relief grains that should be distributed were not distributed seriously.
Oppressing the Xixia survivors is a problem with the working methods, but not distributing disaster relief food is an act of bullying and rebellion, which means that the court cannot control the government and the army!
Government and military orders have been issued, how dare you discount them?
Such an act that goes against the will of the imperial court will be nothing if nothing happens. Now if it causes a big mess, how can it not be severely punished?
What's more, Yao Pingzhong's operation was too retarded. He deliberately forced the Xixia survivors to rebel, hoping to put down the rebellion and make meritorious service to please the military and the people. If he could really do a good job, he could reduce the punishment as appropriate, or even offset the merits and demerits.
But this guy failed to keep an eye on the rebels, and even allowed the rebels to cross the border across provinces and sweep across the three northern prefectures of Ningxia.
Regardless of the cause, process, or result, they are all unforgivable!
Li Yanxian resigned and left.
Zhang Boring walked around outside and suddenly came back to see him again.
Ju Ming smiled and asked, "What do you have to say?"
Zhang Boring said: "Your Majesty has deep intentions in doing things, but I am just a little confused. Why is it that the Military Supervisor does not belong to the Ministry of War or the Privy Council, but is handed over to the Inspectorate?"
Ju Ming sighed: "If military generals are left unchecked, they will inevitably be arrogant and domineering. But if they are controlled by civilian officials, they will be too strict, and they will not be able to lead troops to fight calmly. I try to reconcile and downplay the distinction between civil and military officials, and let military generals serve as officials in the Ministry of War, and also let the Privy Council
There are civil servants here to handle affairs. But the emphasis is different. The Privy Council favors military affairs, while the Ministry of War favors civil affairs."
"If the Military Supervisor is subordinate to the Privy Council, how can the Ministry of War suppress the military generals? Will the military ministers in the Privy Council protect the military generals? But if it is subordinate to the Ministry of War, a hundred years later, the Ministry of War will secretly seize many of the Privy Council.
Great power. Handing over military supervisors to the Supervisory Council and not allowing them to interfere in daily military affairs is already the best way."
Zhang Bor suddenly realized this and immediately bowed and resigned.
When Zhang Bor was about to retreat to the entrance of the palace, Ju Ming shouted: "Who asked you to inquire? Tell them exactly what you said!"
Zhang Bor was so frightened that he didn't even dare to deny it. He quickly bowed and said: "I obey the order."
Zhang Bor was indeed instigated by the Ministry of War and the Privy Council to come to the emperor to find out what was going on.
He could only ask questions, because Zhang Bor was a cabinet minister representing the military, and he himself needed to fight for the interests of the military.
The vertically managed military court system of the Military Supervisor can be affiliated with the Ministry of War, or it can be affiliated with the Privy Council. Anyway, the meat is rotten in the pot, and power still belongs to the military. Next, the Ministry of War and the Privy Council can still fight.
Only handing it over to the Inspectorate was really unacceptable to the military, not even to the civilian officials of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council!
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The next day.
Zhang Guangdao finally breathed a sigh of relief when he received the detailed formation plan of the Military Supervisor.
Not much power was taken away from the military.
In daily training, marching and fighting, military law is still enforced by military judges in the army. The military chief will not interfere with army training and fighting.
What should the Military Supervisor be responsible for?
First, criminal cases involving military personnel, especially cases involving civilians.
Second, economic cases involving military personnel, especially embezzlement of military funds and deduction of food and salary.
Third, if soldiers have been enslaved, abused, or exploited for a long time, they can also complain to the military prison. In practice, individual cases may not be bothered to deal with, but group phenomena must be dealt with, which is a great contribution to the military prison officials.
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Harassing the local area and oppressing the people are of course also within the jurisdiction of the Military Supervisor. But as long as it is not serious, they probably turn a blind eye.
As for destroying military marriages, there is no need to introduce separate legislation.
In ancient times, there were laws regarding adultery, which generally meant that killing someone in passion at the scene of an adultery was not a crime.
But if it is not the scene of catching an adulterer, then you have to strictly abide by the law. According to the "Da Ming Law", the sentence is whatever it is, which is probably one to two years in prison, and if the victim chooses to forgive, he will not bother to take care of it.
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If a torturer doesn't kill the adulterer at the scene of the rape, then he feels regret after thinking about it and goes to kill him elsewhere or kill him another day. That's a proper crime of murder!
This kind of legal regulation began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and was used until the Qing Dynasty.
The kind of illegal and criminal behavior seen in movies and TV shows, such as soaking pig cages and parading wooden donkeys in the streets, causing death is definitely a capital crime.
The enactment of laws in this way is the result of considering moral humanity and the legal system.
It's understandable that you caught someone raping someone and committed a murder in passion, and you're innocent of the crime. Both your morality and humanity are satisfied.
If you go and kill people afterwards, you are disturbing the social order and must bear legal consequences. Because you can just report it to the police and let the bad couple go to jail.
After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a "fortress law". If you broke into someone else's house at night without any reason, the homeowner could kill the intruder directly!
But there are two conditions: one is to break into a house at night, and the other is to be beaten to death immediately (passionate killing on the spot).
You can't kill them if you break in during the day, and you can't kill them if you chase them out.
The "fortress law" and the "adultery law" are often used interchangeably. Why are you going to someone else's house at night? You say you are going to steal something? The owner of the house thinks you are here to commit adultery. He will be beaten to death immediately!
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The chaos in Ningxia has gradually calmed down.
The death toll due to the rebellion, including the rebel soldiers who were killed, totaled more than 60,000 people.
More than 80% of the big landowners and herdsmen were either killed during the quelling of the rebellion, or captured and executed. The remaining 20% of the survivors were frightened and angry, but they had no choice but to have their fields and pastures taken away.
The first "Dajunzheng" of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the chief judge of the Supreme Military Court, personally took the military officers and military supervisors to Ningxia and Shaanxi.
This man's name is Fu Yuanheng, and he is the real initiator of following Ju Ming's direction.
He was born into the Fu family, a prominent family in Suzhou, and his grandmother was from the Gong family in Suzhou.
One of the ancestors of the Gong family even sacrificed his family to defend the Southern Tang Dynasty in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. Even the two little girls in the family were killed by the Song army that invaded the city.
Fu Yuanheng's family property was completely destroyed by Fang La. At that time, he hated the treacherous emperor and treacherous ministers, so Zhu Ming was assigned to Guizhou. He was the first among the students to follow Mr. Zhu to Guangxi.
But after Ju Ming rebelled, Fu Yuanheng changed his name to Fu Shou and agreed to the uprising relatively early.
Also serving as an official with him was Lei Guan, but it was a pity that Lei Guan died young, otherwise he would have been a high official.
The military supervision system is very important this time.
In addition to the censors of the Supervisory Council, Ju Ming also recruited people from the legal officials of various states. Most of them were young people, with an average age of only thirty years old.
Since they do not interfere in the daily and wartime affairs of the military, they do not need to be proficient in military laws and regulations, but only need to be familiar with the military structure and relevant laws.
Fu Yuanheng is a person who is honest, upright and responsible.
Well, he also wrote very well. He was a calligrapher in history.
Fu Yuanheng got a new official position and went straight to Linzhou with his subordinates.
(You said that the war scenes written by Lao Wang are ugly. You can watch Jackie Chan's new film to push the boundaries. The war scenes are simply impossible to evaluate.)