Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

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, it was not the general who led the army, but Zhang Guangdao, who was in charge of the Ministry of War, who was crowned king.

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 all been transferred back to the center, 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.

In fact, at a critical moment, the princes can also lead troops to fight. However, the possibility is slim. There are no forces around that need Ming to take action.

After the imperial meeting ended, Li Yanxian took the initiative to stay.

"What do you want to say, Shaoyan?" Zhu Ming asked.

Li Yanxian carefully arranged his words: "Your Majesty, most of the people in Shanxi and Shaanxi have feuds with Xixia. 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 hometown has been allocated to Linzhou. Splitting the Xixia's hometown is naturally a long-term plan, but it is inevitable that conflicts will intensify in a short period of time. 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 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. But the punishment must not be too severe because of this matter, otherwise the troops in Linzhou will be demoralized, because from the civil servants to the sergeants, they don’t think it is wrong 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 omissions and fill in the gaps 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 ones who are leading the trouble are the 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 pursue it? Even if the 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 His 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 away?"

"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, it can be completely controlled and they can 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."

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 the remnants of Xixia are provoked to rebel, they can still be brushed aside. 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 survivors of Xixia is a problem with the working methods, but not distributing relief food is a violation of the emperor's rule, 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 we not be severely punished?

What's more, Yao Pingzhong's operation is too retarded. He deliberately forced the Xixia survivors to rebel, hoping to quell the rebellion and perform meritorious service to please the army and the people. If he can really do a good job, the punishment can be reduced as appropriate, or even the merits and demerits can be offset.

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, it is all unforgivable!

Li Yanxian resigned and left.

Zhang Boring walked around outside and suddenly came back to see him.

Ju Ming smiled and asked, "What do you have to say?"

Zhang Bor 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 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 my best to reconcile the differences between civil and military officials, let military generals serve as officials in the Ministry of War, and let the Privy Council There are civil servants here, but their focus is different. The Privy Council is more military-minded, while the Ministry of War is more civil."

"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 take away many of the Privy Council officers. Power. Handing the military supervisor over to the Supervisory Council and not allowing them to interfere in daily military affairs is 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 can only ask questions, because Zhang Bor is a cabinet minister representing the military, and he himself needs to fight for the interests of the military.

The vertically managed military court system of the Military Commission can be affiliated with the Ministry of War or 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 if it is handed over to the Inspectorate, the military people really cannot accept it, and even the civilian officials of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council cannot accept it!

…

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 military training and fighting.

What should the Military Supervisor be responsible for?

First, criminal cases involving military personnel, especially those 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 actual operation, individual phenomena may not be bothered to deal with, but group phenomena must be dealt with, which is a great achievement for military supervisory officials.

Harassing the local area and oppressing the people are of course also within the jurisdiction of the Military Supervisor. But as long as it's not serious, I'd probably turn a blind eye.

As for destroying military marriages, there is no need to legislate separately.

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 the rape, then the law must be strictly followed. The sentence is whatever the "Da Ming Law" dictates, which is probably one to two years in prison, and the person is repaid to the people without being prosecuted, so the victim chooses to forgive and is too lazy to take care of it.

If a torturer does not kill the adulterer at the scene of the crime, he will feel regret after thinking about it and go to kill him elsewhere or kill him another day. Such a perfect crime of murder!

This kind of legal regulations began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and was used until the Qing Dynasty.

The kind of dipping pig cages and wooden donkeys paraded in the streets in movies and TV shows are completely illegal and criminal acts, and killing people is definitely a capital crime.

The formulation of laws in this way is the result of considering moral humanity and the legal system.

It is understandable that you caught someone raping someone and killed someone in passion, and you are not guilty of it. Both your morality and humanity are satisfied.

If you go to kill people afterwards, you are disturbing social order and must bear legal consequences. Because you can definitely go to the police and let the couple go to jail.

After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was also the "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.

"Fortress law" and "adultery law" are often used interchangeably. Why would you go to someone else's house at night? You said you were going to steal something? The owner of the house thinks you are here to commit adultery. Beat him to death immediately!

…

The chaos in Ningxia has gradually calmed down.

The death toll due to the rebellion, including the rebels who were killed, totaled more than 60,000 people.

More than 80% of the large landowners and pastoralists were either killed during the quelling of the rebellion, or were 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, the chief judge of the Supreme Military Court, personally took the military officers and military supervisors to Ningxia and Shaanxi.

This soldier's name is Fu Yuanheng, and he is the real initiator of following Ju Ming in weaving and managing.

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 Northern Song Dynasty. Even the two little girls at home were killed by the Song army that invaded the city.

Fu Yuanheng's family property was completely destroyed by Fang La. He was disgusted with the cowardly emperor and treacherous ministers, so Zhu Ming was assigned to Guizhou. He was the first among the Tai 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.

This time the military supervision system is very important.

In addition to the censors of the Supervisory Council, Ju Ming also drew personnel from the legal officials of various states. Most of them are young people, with the average age being only thirty years old.

Since they do not interfere in the daily and wartime affairs of the army, 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 clean, upright and conscientious person.

Well, he also writes very well, and is a calligrapher in history.

Fu Yuanheng got a new official position and went straight to Linzhou with his subordinates.

(If you say that Lao Wang's war scenes are ugly, you can go and watch Jackie Chan's new film to break the bottom line. The war scenes are simply beyond evaluation.)