One hundred and twentieth first advance to the detachment
Chapter 121 Advancing to the detachment
The prosecution of "war criminals" was proposed by several people in the Law Club. Of course, the mastermind behind it was Ma Jia.
Although the arbitral tribunal controlled by the Law Club spares no effort to promote the idea of "ruling the country according to law", formulates a large number of - or rather plagiarizes - various laws and regulations, and actively publicizes and encourages people to file lawsuits. But so far, their judicial
Business is still very little.
For Lingao, a city with a population of less than 100,000, apart from Dongmen City's summary court, which has a lot of small public security and commercial cases to satisfy its needs, the other three courts are deserted and only turn once a week.
Judges basically have nothing to do except compiling laws and regulations. They are often seconded by various departments to do administrative or other tasks.
Having nothing to do is a dangerous sign, and Ma Jia is worried about it. Moreover, if too many people are seconded, the people's support will gradually disappear.
We need to give them a little stimulation and give them some work! Ma Jia thought. But the business volume of the arbitral tribunal cannot be changed out of thin air. The busiest department in the arbitral tribunal is obviously the General Security Administration of the People’s Republic of China, but this department is essentially
Damn it, he is unwilling and unable to interfere.
The judicial system lacked important and eye-catching actions. After the Chengmai victory, all of Ma Jia's thoughts turned to the issue of "war criminals."
For many elders, the issue of "war criminals" is just a boring act of taking off your pants and farting - everyone has been caught, and if you want to kill, behead or torture them, you can do whatever you want, so what's the point of interrogating war criminals? Furthermore, what is the basis?
A law, which treaty? In the end, it was nothing more than a play that I talked about, directed and acted.
However, Ma Jia's proposition still won the support of the majority of senators in the Senate. Although "everything should be done in accordance with the law" sometimes seems to be hypocritical, rigid, and even ridiculous, it is better than the small number of people with Tianxian who can arrest people at will.
A much more progressive system.
The matter of "trialing war criminals" in Majia was thus decided. A special war criminals court was established, and prosecutors and defense lawyers were appointed.
Of course, this is absurd from a fairness perspective - there is no international treaty or international law in this time and space. The Ming government has never concluded, recognized, signed, or participated in any such thing.
The so-called "war criminal trial" is nothing more than a method used by the time-traveling group to impose a new social order on this time and space. However, there are different views on this idea within the law club.
If we really follow the international laws and international treaties of the old time and space, the time-traveling group committed quite a few war crimes in its battles with officers and soldiers. Yuan Qiushi hanged dozens of prisoners in prisoner-of-war camps and enslaved prisoners on a large scale...
These things can qualify as "war crimes". Therefore, some opposition elders believe that committing "war crimes" is just asking for trouble and tying their own hands.
Under such doubts, the Standing Committee of the Senate held a hearing on the necessity and rationality of the "war criminals trial."
The purpose of the hearing is of course not to discuss "whether it is fair", but "whether it is reasonable".
"So-called war crimes," Ma Jia said at the hearing of the Standing Committee of the Senate, dispelled the concerns of the senators with one sentence, "this is a crime only committed by losers."
Ma Jia also elaborated: The trial of "war criminals" is not simply intimidation, revenge, etc., but more about occupying the moral high ground and promoting one's own "***ness." This is a very important matter in the ideological field.
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So the war criminals trial began with great fanfare.
At this time, the attention of the Executive Committee and the Senate had turned to other places. To be precise, it had turned to the entire Hainan Island.
The plan to occupy the entire island of Hainan was changed to "Summer Awakening" under Wei Aiwen's suggestion. The results of Spring Awakening were so bad that it was unanimously opposed by many people. As a concession, it was changed to "Summer".
Under the adjustment of the General Staff, the Army, which had rested for several days after the military parade, began to implement the "Summer Awakening" plan.
"Xia Xing" mobilized four battalions of troops, divided into two *** detachments, east and west.
The West Detachment is based on the 3rd Infantry Battalion and strengthens the military, engineering, supply and medical teams. The goal is to occupy Danzhou and expand the "purple zone" controlled by the Lingao regime to the Danzhou-Changhua border.
The goal of the East Detachment is much larger. According to the General Staff's plan, the first phase of expansion is to complete the occupation of Chengmai, Qiongshan, Ding'an and Wenchang counties in the east. It is composed of the 1st, 5th and 6th Infantry Battalions.
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These four counties, like Lingao, were the basis for the government's rule in Hainan. They were developed early, had a large population, and had a solid foundation for rule. Taking these counties would also declare the complete collapse of the Ming Dynasty's rule in Lingao.
As for the southern states and counties, the population is sparse. There are only a few thousand men, women, old and children registered in a county. The magistrates of many counties have been vacant for a long time. The rule of the Ming Dynasty is completely symbolic. They can be picked at any time.
In addition to military personnel, each detachment also has a county work team personally selected by Liu Muzhou. In addition to the elders, each work team also has several indigenous cadres who work on the spot and take over the county administration.
The first phase of the operation to occupy the entire island of Hainan went very smoothly, and could be called "determined by propaganda." The army, with the support of the navy, carried out an "armed massacre." The villages along the way fell into the wind, and Danzhou was the first to fall.
——Actually, the army did not plan to attack the city. They planned to set up camp first, and then use both soft and hard tactics to force the officials in the city to obey their orders. In short, they still boiled the frog slowly. However, the officials in the city took the initiative to open the city and surrender. So.
The success greatly surprised Yu Zhiqian, the commander of the third infantry battalion in charge of the westward expansion. Originally, he thought that the officials in the city would stay behind closed doors and make him go through a lot of trouble.
Danzhou Zhizhou committed suicide with great integrity. This Jinshi master, who had been in office for less than half a year, did not do any more combat operations to add prisoners to the elders - he knew that all this was in vain, so he simply took poison and committed suicide.
The surrender was presided over by Danzhou Dianshi. He and the gentry in the city waited tremblingly at the city gate for the arrival of the West Detachment.
After rest and replenishment, the West Detachment's military morale was higher than before the Battle of Chengmai.
The letter was sent by Danzhou's Dianshi. Like Sun Ruiwu, Lingao's Dianshi, this person had despaired of the future of being a disaster official for such evil armies in distant states. Although he would not openly surrender to the enemy, he had a great wait-and-see attitude.
Therefore, he neither committed suicide nor escaped, and stayed in the city to preside over the surrender in the name of protecting the seal. If the bandit Kun could stay for a long time, he would have no objection at all to changing his court to serve this group of Australians.
“I originally thought I had to live outside the city, but I didn’t expect it to go into the city so smoothly.”
Yu Zhiqian, the captain of the detachment, said arrogantly to Liu Yixiao, the captain of the Danzhou work team.
"The cheaper things are, the less good they are." The captain of the work team said with a gloomy face. "Who knows what these officials are secretly planning? I think we should be vigilant!"
The classics say that Zhizhou committed suicide. Who knows whether Zhizhou is really dead or has another plan? Liu Yixiao believes that we must remain fully vigilant to avoid being taken advantage of by the enemy.
According to the rules, except for a few small teams that take over city defense and key departments, the main force of the army does not enter the city - this is not for reasons such as benevolence and justice, not to disturb the people, but because the health department is seriously worried about the health conditions of the local towns.
.The military generally does not enter densely populated areas before necessary epidemic prevention and disinfection is carried out in towns and cities to avoid contracting the disease.
But the gentry who greeted them at the city gate breathed a sigh of relief - indeed, Australians deserve the words "Autumn has no fault"!
Liu Yixiao said a few polite words, and then followed Dian Shi and the gentry to the state government office. Danzhou has a slightly larger population than Lingao, and the market is a little more prosperous. But at this time, the streets were empty and there were no pedestrians. There were only a few people outside the government office.
There were more than a dozen yamen clerks and other figures waiting on duty, looking dull.
The yamen was very dilapidated and looked worse than some antique buildings from the past. Liu Yixiao went in and took a look. There was a coffin parked in the yard - this was Zhizhou who had committed suicide.
"Open!" he ordered.
There is nothing interesting about dead people. The reason why you want to see them is to confirm that Zhizhou is really dead. Liu Yixiao took out a book from his bag. This is the "Compilation of Basic Situations in Danzhou" compiled by the Foreign Intelligence Bureau. The first volume is about the size of the yamen.
There are also official resumes and photos.
The photo was taken with a telephoto lens. Although it is not very clear, the facial features can still be identified. Although the dead man in the coffin has a distorted face, thought to have been poisoned, it is clearly the same person.
Liu Yixiao sighed and nodded: Brave people are always respected.
"Prepare yourself properly." He said, "Are Zhizhou's family members still in the city?"
"Yes, yes." Dianshi said cautiously, spying on his expression, "They are all in the back office. Do you want to go and have a look..."
"No need. Tell them not to commit suicide!" Liu Yixiao was not interested in Zhizhou's family. "Quickly prepare a boat and send twenty taels of silver to pay a memorial ceremony. Just let them leave with the coffin."
"Master's grace will be unforgettable for them..."
Liu Yixiao nodded impatiently and asked a few more questions. Most of the government officials and clerks in the city fled - what they did in Lingao had already spread here, and the subordinate officials were afraid that they would also fall into Lingao.
His colleagues suffered the same fate and had long since fled away with Xinruan.
Liu Yixiao ordered the indigenous cadres in the work team to enter the county government office, receive archives and documents, and inventory the warehouses. Seals were affixed to each house one by one to prepare for the subsequent cleaning.
Danzhou's warehouses suffered heavy losses. A few days ago, the leader of the Zhuang squad led dozens of Minzhuang and other government officials to rob the county's bank. Now the bank is empty and nothing is left. Others are packed with soft goods.
There were some losses in the fine warehouses, etc., but there were no losses in the grain and salt warehouses.