my days with tyrants

Chapter 318 Please go elsewhere for promotion and fortune

They don't need to worry about such trivial matters, just arrange a cronies casually.

The next day, Nancheng Bingmasi carried out routine extortion on the merchants along the street in the name of rectifying the appearance of the street in Jubaomen Commercial Street...

Routine because they do it often.

After all, they have no control over the military households in this city, and neither do the Wutai Mountain gang, and the artisan households are also owned by the Ministry of Industry.

Only businessmen are really suitable for them to attack.

It just so happens that in the current capital city, commerce can be said to be extremely developed, especially the Sanshan Street in Jubaomen, which was originally a commercial street, is now densely populated with merchants, and even for the convenience of transportation, a new road with concrete on top of the stone at the bottom has been built. Of course, business prosperity is inevitable. The streets are chaotic.The vast majority of Nancheng Bingmasi's extra money is obtained from this street. The street appearance, fire prevention, anti-theft, etc., in short, there are so many names, and the merchants are almost exhausted.

This time, a merchant doubled the fine because of it...

For the birthday of the head of the country, the people under his command naturally have to prepare birthday gifts, and the money must be exploited from the merchants.

Doubling fines is also routine.

But this time, the merchant didn't know who gave him the courage. He dared to refuse to pay, and even claimed that he was going to beat the Dengwen drum. The enraged Deputy Commander of Nancheng Bingma Si immediately ordered him to be taken back to make him sober. Holding the big patent to resist, he used the big patent to command.The latter was furious and ordered a siege, but the merchant led his staff to resist fiercely, and then the surrounding merchants fought against each other, and the two sides fought in a scuffle on Sanshan Street.

The patrolmen from the Pirate Camp immediately rushed to arrest people, and dozens of people were arrested in the end, but then all the merchants on Sanshan Street went on strike.

Then went to beat the Dengwen drum.

And soon half of the capital city joined the strike, after all, the other four cities' soldiers and horses also often do this kind of thing.

For a while, the crowd in the capital was jittery, and some people even besieged Bingmasi.

"This kind of thing..."

Yang Feng said with some embarrassment.

Then he looked at Guo Zhang, who kept his head down obediently.

"In fact, the key is that the rules have not been established. The capital has developed too fast in the past few years, but the rules are still old and can't keep up. It is inevitable that some corrupt officials will take advantage of them.

You can't blame them, after all, there are no rules in themselves, and there is no restriction on their clever names.

Similarly, because there are no rules, the merchants will naturally not know how to advance or retreat, so the key is to establish the rules.

However, the Wucheng soldiers and horses are officials, and it is a principle that officials should not harm the people. In the absence of rules, officials cannot use false names to harm the people. We can say that the people are wrong, but the government does not have laws in this regard, and it can be done without laws prohibiting it. It's a principle, so the fault lies with Wucheng Bingma Division.But after that, the imperial court can formulate special regulations, such as no random construction, no littering, etc., and how much fines can be fined for violations, but the fines cannot be confiscated into the Wucheng Military Division.

The Wucheng Bingma Division can issue tickets.

But you have to go to the bank to pay the money. In this way, the confiscation will go to the household registration department, and the fine and confiscation should go to the household registration department. If the merchant fails to pay within the time limit, he can be arrested in prison. "

Yang Feng said.

The Wucheng Bingma Division is now loyal to the father of the country because the fines are basically distributed privately except for filial piety to the father of the country. This kind of fine was originally set by themselves and has nothing to do with the Ministry of Households.

But now they can only issue fines and have no power to collect money.

That's a fart!

Of course, you can still make money privately.

But this privately making money is corruption and perverting the law.

Patrolling the Censor...

Finally it was my turn.

"The one who was arrested?"

said the Queen Mother.

"Except for beating people to death, you can just let them go. There is no basis for fines from Wucheng soldiers and horses. It's not that there are no penalties for this kind of infringement on the interests of merchants in the edict. It is indeed wrong for merchants to do so, but there is no law. They are defending their own rights. As for the accidental killing of the deputy commander during the resistance, this is at most a negligent injury, and the sentence is hanged according to the accidental injury in the fight, but those who hold the imperial order will be reduced, one hundred sticks, three thousand miles."

Yang Feng said.

then……

Can be redeemed.

Fighting and accidentally injuring someone is hanged, but with a large discount.

This system was still enforced until the Jiajing period. During the Jiajing period, there were still many criminals, because there were examples of great reductions in the family.

And after reducing the rod to one hundred and traveling three thousand miles, according to the law, you can pay the money and get rid of the crime.

So in the end, the merchant paid at most some money, and the deputy conductor who was killed also collected at most some money, and the money collected was to compensate the victims.

The deputy commander of the five city soldiers and horses is not the commander of the guards, and the deputy commander is a seventh-rank official.

"So best."

said the Queen Mother.

She didn't know so many things, besides, Yang Feng's arrangement was completely reasonable and legal. In fact, this kind of matter was left to the little princess to handle, but it was outside the drum, and Wucheng Bingmasi was her father's subordinate, so Only then asked her to call the shots.She also knew that her father was corrupt and perverted the law. How can someone with this status not be corrupt and pervert the law? The princess's support should not offend the soldiers and civilians in the capital.

"The case itself is not important, what is important is that relevant laws must be enacted as soon as possible."

Yang Feng said.

"Then there will be Aunt Lao."

The queen mother hurriedly said to her aunt.

The national abbot remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Yang Feng and the little princess left immediately.

"Now I'm afraid that Ying Tianfu will deliberately obstruct it, just not to allow ransom, and take revenge on us."

said the little princess.

Redemption needs to be determined by local officials during the trial. It does not mean that it is enough to meet the standards. In fact, it is a routine practice to sentence for ransom if it does not meet the standards, or to deliberately not sentence for ransom if it meets the standards.

Naturally, the court officials would not cooperate with them.

"Wrong, they will be very cooperative in the sentence of redemption, and then use this to provoke the hatred of the country's father against us. After all, his face is disgraced."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Disgraceful? It's not bad to not let other people's heads fall."

The little princess sneered.

Of course, the facts are indeed as Yang Feng said, Ying Tianfu sentenced him the next day, and sentenced him to hang for accidentally injuring someone in a fight. It was handed over to Ying Tianfu, so they returned to their own business like a hero amidst the welcome of gongs, drums and firecrackers from the merchants along the street.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers and horses of the five cities all withered.

Even a few commanders panicked and began to return the fines to those merchants.

But also on the same day, the industry and commerce management regulations formulated at the fastest speed were also proclaimed to the world in the form of imperial decree.

Not only the capital city, but all cities' industrial and commercial management must follow this regulation.

This one is easy to fix.

These days, there is no need to consider whether it is convenient for the people or whether it will cause public opposition. As long as it is formulated, the people must abide by it. It has inconveniences.This is actually a law specifically aimed at urban industry and commerce.In particular, business regulations are already necessary. As Yang Feng said, the economy in Beijing is developing too fast, and the original laws can no longer keep up.

There must be new ones.

Of course, in the eyes of the court officials, this is actually depriving the country's father of the biggest piece of money, and directly depriving him of it.

Who told him to talk too much, and ran to say that all the officials had run away?

That's the price of talking too much.

but……

This is a happy event!
This means that Guo Zhang and Yang Feng have become enemies.

Although everyone understands that at least for now, the head of the country has no ability to fight against Yang Feng, but as long as he is hostile to Yang Feng, it will be fine.

Ability can be cultivated slowly, and no one expects to be able to solve Yang Feng now.

So very soon the birthday of the head of the state will be celebrated, not only the civil and military officials in the capital, but even a few old officials, noble generals abroad, and even a few vassal kings, all either give gifts or celebrate their birthdays in person. Just like the Donglin Party treated Empress Zhang and her father at the time of the apocalypse, they praised the head of the country, as if their daughter was really the lord of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Ambassador Yang simply ignored their playing tricks, and besides, he had no time to talk to these people.

After all, he had to rebuild the court.

Not just rebuilding the court, he had to rebuild the entire ruling system.

The current Ming Dynasty is close to government orders not leaving Yingtianfu. Most of the orders sent to various places to arrest those criminals have been ignored, that is, several counties around Yingtianfu have arrested them, let alone Jiangxi Huguang. Province, even the local officials in Suzhou did not arrest them.In fact, the prefect of Suzhou immediately resigned and ran away after receiving the order. As for the local garrison, although they started to arrest them, they got the news and ran away long ago, and the same is true in other places.If the local officials don't arrest them, the guards will be ordered to arrest them, and they will run away early. After all, the number of guards is limited, and it is impossible to complete the arrest task in time.

Even the guards in provinces like Jiangxi and Huguang didn't really want to arrest them.

In the end, only a few hundred of the thousands of people on the little princess's list have been arrested, and most of them have disappeared.

In fact, the imperial court basically lost control of the local area.

This is also an inevitable result. No matter how strong Yang Feng is, he will not be able to fight against the world by himself. He gives orders as much as possible in the capital, but outside the capital, officials will execute them for him.

People will not implement it.

Or drag.

Or the positive and the negative.

Or he intentionally ruined it. Some local officials deliberately aroused public anger through arrests, extortion and extortion, and turned criminals who were originally caught against crimes into evil deeds that harmed the local people. He also deliberately spread rumors that Yang Feng was going to usurp the throne, so he took the opportunity to purge loyal officials, and then manipulate public opinion to make the people turn against Yang.

There are various means.

They are all masters at this.

And those who are on the arrest list are actually mostly fleeing south, to the area controlled by the Jianwen court.

Anyway, Guangdong, Guangxi and Annan are considered to be sparsely populated, especially in Guangxi. These fleeing to the south are all fleeing from the south. As loyal ministers and righteous men who yearn for the light, they are of course properly settled by the Jianwen Dynasty. In short, they are really quite well-dressed. the taste of.At least by the standards of the gentry, Yang Feng, the puppet imperial court, already has a bit of a taste of being shaken by the wind and rain, and the trees are falling and the monkeys are scattered.

What Yang Feng needs to do is not only to rebuild the court, but also to rebuild local control.

and so……

"Is it difficult to be an officer?

The key to this question depends on where the butt is.

If it is really for the people, then it is not difficult to be an official, do not corrupt the law, do not disturb the people, do what is beneficial to the people, and do not do what is harmful to the people, it is as simple as that.But if it is for your own promotion and wealth, it will be troublesome. You have to think about how to make money day and night, you have to collude with the local gentry to set up a name, and you have to do everything you can to squeeze every drop of blood and sweat from the people.

He still had to curry favor with his superiors, seek his future, and fear of being caught. After all, being caught in the hands of Emperor Taizu Gao was to peel off the real grass.

It can be said that there is intrigue every day, but there is no moment for the sake of the people.

So my request to you is very simple, that is, sixteen words, please go to other places for promotion and fortune, and don't enter the door if you are greedy for life and afraid of death. "

Ambassador Yang said to their first batch of college students.

This is the result of seven years of partnership between him and Zhu Yunxi. These students were selected from the official schools of the guards in various places after they were enlightened and literate, and then studied in Mount Wutai. In fact, they had already graduated last year. After all, this era needs to teach They don't need too much knowledge.That is to say, there is a lack of teachers, so only Yang Feng or those students who are smart and fast-moving can teach the class, so the teaching speed is limited, but five or six years is enough.

Then I practiced in Wutaishan Industrial Park, banks, firms, and even mining sites for more than a year, and then regrouped in the capital.

There are more than 500 people in total.

Not much.

But the good thing is this education system is done and it works well.

So now the second batch of internships has also started, and there will be more than 1000 graduates next fall.

This was originally Zhu Yunxi's plan to use the new imperial examinations to stuff the officialdom and then replace those Confucian officials, but he died too early to wait.

Now it belongs to Yang Feng.

"Enke will start next month, and you will all get the status of candidates, and then take part in the imperial examination. This imperial examination is only limited to Yingtianfu, and it is completely in accordance with the five subjects of the late emperor. Except for liberal arts, all the other subjects are written by me. So I'll give you the answer."

Yang Feng said.

The students laughed.

"Don't laugh, in order to take care of those of you who also apply for these subjects, the test questions are the simplest. I guess most of you will know it when you were in elementary school, so there is no need to worry about it. It's better to give you the answers directly. Don't get full marks by then. All of you will be admitted, and others will be admitted by the way, but you must remember my words, if you also become corrupt and perverting the law, then I will really learn from Taizu. As for these days, your main job is to be with me The righteous daughter is so close, she will chase after the one she likes, and take them away after the exam.

Don't be embarrassed, I know that during your school days, you have already hit it off. "

Yang Feng said with a smile.

These people have to be firmly grasped.

(End of this chapter)