Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 377
at the same time.

Emperor Zhu had already woken up and was having breakfast in the Shanghai Palace.

Breakfast is simple.

Xiaolongbao, millet porridge, boiled eggs, and a plate of pickles.

Although it is simple, it is also the handwriting of the chef of the royal chef in the imperial palace, and it resounds loudly on the table.

However, Emperor Zhu's mind was not on this either. There were thick materials and newspapers on the table, with chopsticks in his right hand holding a barbecued pork bun, and the materials in his left hand, looking at them intently.

Empress Luo walked in, but Emperor Zhu didn't notice.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, you haven't started your breakfast yet. Would you like to have it warmed up?"

Queen Luo sat down.

In fact, she couldn't understand Emperor Zhu's concern about the Cao Gang acting as a porter.

This has been the case since ancient times.

The coolies on the wharf have to worship the top of the mountain, isn't that how the Cao Gang came about.

What's there to be afraid of?

Can these workers still rebel?

But now that Emperor Zhu is Zhu Sheng in Ming Dynasty, his worries are often different from others, so Empress Luo dare not refute.

"No need, I'll just deal with a few mouthfuls."

As Emperor Zhu spoke, his eyes were still fixed on the contents of the newspaper.

Empress Luo went over to take a look, and it turned out that it was the big news in Shanghai these two days.

It's a lawsuit.

It is a lawsuit between Huang Si, the leader of the Cao Gang, and the Shanghai Drug Enforcement Bureau.

In Empress Luo's opinion, this lawsuit was a very common corpse law case.

At most, the boss of the Cao Gang offended the members of the Tiandihui, and they were punished with the power of the government, that is, they were exiled to Siberia.

no big deal.

Could it be that Emperor Zhu thinks that the bosses of the Cao Gang are pitiful and wants to make them stand out?

According to Empress Luo's understanding of Emperor Zhu, this is definitely impossible.

Emperor Zhu was still very aware of his identity. If he helped the Cao Gang today, someone would interpret it as Emperor Zhu planning to attack the Meritorious Meritorious Group tomorrow.

In the position of Emperor Zhu, his every move will be speculated and analyzed by others.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu would not take action on such trivial matters easily.

But it was different from Queen Luo's imagination.

Of course, Emperor Zhu would not come forward for the Cao Gang.

He also doesn't think that the Cao Gang was framed by someone, he doesn't care about these things, the only thing he cares about is this corpse law contest - a Ming Dynasty's corpse law system, and the gangster boss of the Cao Gang who destroys social harmony contest between.

The result of this contest.

Emperor Zhu was a little worried.

A reporter from [Junzi Daily] interviewed Wu Wanghai, a lawyer who defended Cao gang boss Huang Mu.

Emperor Zhu had already seen this name from the information sent by Jin Yiwei.

A young man who came back from Europe with crooked thinking.

I thought that after graduating from college, I would be safe and secure.

I didn't expect to have a relationship with Cao Gang now.

This is not a very good sign.

The combination of educated youth and the Cao Gang, which can organize thousands of workers, is really dangerous.

In addition, there is a dangerous bud in the Ming Corpse Law—the referee circle of the Ming Empire is likely to ruin the game of becoming a lawyer and making money in the future.

Judging from the review articles of several major newspapers bought on Shanghai Street.

The signs of corruption have already appeared.

First of all.

It's a question of who the law of corpses serves.

These newspapers have always believed.

Corpse law should be independent and impartial, and treat everyone equally.

Listen, listen.

What kind of fallacy is this!
How could the Corpse Law of the Ming Empire be independent?

Isn't independence accidentally exploited by foreign forces?
The media circles of the Ming Empire should advocate that other countries' laws should be independent, how can they put this on themselves?

These gangs of propaganda are all full of wine and food.

I don't know how low the level is.

Who does the Corpse Law of the Ming Empire serve? This is a political issue!
The corpse law of the Ming Empire is of course to serve the interests of the Ming Empire!
"Your Majesty, Duke Lan and Duke Zhao are here."

"Invite them in!"

Emperor Zhu put down the newspaper in his hand, and soon Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si, two veteran officials, walked in. After Emperor Zhu asked them to sit down, he sighed and said.

"You two dear friends, now our Daming looks good on the surface. We have repeatedly won foreign wars, and the local economy is developing rapidly. It can be said that the national strength is thriving. But there are many hidden dangers. The first is because of the city. With globalization and industrialization, a large number of farmers have entered the city, which has become the soil for the vicious expansion of gangs and other evil forces. The second is Daming's Corpse Law. Daming's Corpse Law has signs of corruption! These two hidden dangers combined, I am afraid that the future will be It will become the source of the Ming Empire's weakness!"

Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si looked at each other.

The worry on Emperor Zhu's face didn't look like a fake at all.

But to them, or to most people, the emperor's worries seemed unfounded.

The Tiandihui, the largest gang in the Ming Dynasty, is dominated by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the embodiment of the power of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty among the people.

When elementary school students in Daming shouted "Long live the emperor, march forward for the emperor."

If you want to find a country similar to the Ming Empire in history.

Probably the Second German Empire, or the Japanese Empire after the Meiji Restoration.

But the difference is that the population and resources of the Ming Empire are more than ten times that of these two countries!
With the size of the Ming Empire, their opponents can only be super-large countries that may exist.

In fact, in Emperor Zhu's opinion.

That is, Tsarist Russia, the United States, and the three countries of France that may unify half of Europe.

As for the British Empire.
Their territory is indeed huge.

But their homeland is too small and the population is not large.

Wait until the death-death trench warfare mode breaks out in the future.

Can the British Empire still catch people from famous places and enter the trenches?
not to mention.

Now the Indian colony of the British Empire is only left in the circle of Bengal.

Other places are either too sparsely populated, less than the population of the British Isles.

Either the local indigenous tribes are too primitive to use these human resources with the capabilities of the British Empire.

Therefore, Britain, which has a weak underbelly that is too narrow, is not actually an opponent that Emperor Zhu is eager to weaken.

before this.

Emperor Zhu took action against the Russian Empire, occupied Eastern Siberia in Tsarist Russia, and now supports the Ottoman Empire to fight an endless war with the Russian Empire.

With the change of the mode of war.

The current war mode is obviously beneficial to the defender.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu is not in a hurry to launch an attack on the Russians now-the opponent is hiding in the trenches, but it is really not easy to attack.

During the First World War, the two sides consumed each other's lives between several trenches, which became the most brutal mode of war in history.

Although Emperor Zhu didn't worry much about the lives of his subjects, he didn't want to waste their lives in these places in vain.

and he also knows
How can we break through this trench warfare mode.

But it's useless to know.

He has to wait for technological advances.

Therefore, in the west, in the direction of Russia, the expansion of the Ming Empire has temporarily come to an end.

Support Ottoman to fight a war with Tsarist Russia that lasted for more than ten years or even decades.

And the Ming Empire can focus on the New World—as long as the Ming Empire can establish a powerful Chinese country in the west of the New World, then there will be no conditions for the United States to dominate the world in the future!
even.

In this time and space, whether or not there is America is another matter.

In the future, it must be the Ming Empire that will dominate the world.

But when this glorious era has not yet come.

Emperor Zhu had already seen the signs of the decline of this great empire.

Because of these signs, it has been staged many times in history.

For example, the British Empire dominated the world for 200 years in history.

In London, in Manchester, and in Liverpool, there are large numbers of republicans, Chartists, and Irish separatists.

These people created chaos in major cities, turned the streets of London and Manchester into battlefields, and even dropped bombs on Windsor Castle and Downing Street on a regular basis.

However, the corpse law system of the British Empire was not able to sanction the enemies of these empires very well.

Those leaders who launched the Chartist Movement, such as Lovett, O'Connor, Harney and Jones, were enemies of the British Empire but they were all safe and sound. This is the most fundamental reason for the decline of the British Empire!
Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si looked at each other, wanting to say something but didn't know how to say it.

In their view, the new Ming Dynasty is a prosperous age that has never been seen in history.

The king in front of him is the true first emperor through the ages.

His empire is as far away as the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the land he conquered can be compared with Mongol (the period of the great expansion of the Mongol Empire was actually not during the period of Genghis Khan, but during the Mongol period. super empire on the Baltic coast) on a par!

The two looked at each other, and they really didn't know what to say. A mere gang and a little corruption in the corpse law system could become the source of the Ming Empire's weakness?

If someone else said this, the two of them would not believe it.

But the one who said this now is Qiangudi Yidi, the Guangfu Emperor of the new Ming Dynasty.

They have to think about this possibility.

The first emperor of the ages saw the crisis hidden in the prosperous age, so it must be reasonable.

Finally, Luo Fangbo spoke: "Your Majesty, do you think this Wu Wanghai is a hidden danger? Why don't you tell Jin Yiwei to give him to..."''

Jinyiwei is of course a spy organization directly controlled by the emperor and not bound by the legal system and administrative system.

Of course there is no problem asking them to kill Wu Wanghai.

But this is not the victory of the Daming corpse law system, but the victory of the imperial power against Wu Wanghai personally...

This is meaningless. Because if one Wu Wanghai is killed, there will be tens of thousands of Wu Wanghais.

In addition, it is quite dangerous to use Jin Yiwei to kill people.

Because this can easily lead to the loss of control of this huge intelligence system!

This requires that the power to use Jinyiwei to eradicate someone cannot be delegated at all, and must be firmly held in the hands of the emperor!
Otherwise, once Jinyiwei is controlled by careerists, the throne of the emperor Laozi will be unstable.

That is to say, the number of "Wu Wanghai" who can be secretly eradicated by Jin Yiwei is limited. It is impossible for the emperor to ignore other things and just engage in assassination, right?
Moreover, the assassination order should not be issued indiscriminately, otherwise the power of the commander of the Jinyiwei will also slowly expand. After the death of Emperor Guangfu, it is not known whether the emperor commanded the Jinyiwei or the Jinyiwei commanded the emperor.

Obviously, it is very dangerous to use Jinyiwei to replace the corpse law system to attack the enemy, and it might cost the lives of our descendants...

So what about placing the legal system under the administrative system?

In fact, the concept of independent corpse law began to be implemented after the new bureaucrats of the "Daohua family" gradually entered the corpse law department.

At present, only a few prefectures with a particularly developed economy have established courts that are truly independent of the administrative system. In most areas of the Ming Dynasty, magistrates are still subordinates to the chief executive, and in some places even magistrates also serve as magistrates.

In those areas, corpse law serves the administration.

Magistrates pass judgment on the orders of the Chief Executive.

But under this system, administrative officials have too much power, and most of these administrative officials are Confucian scholar-bureaucrats with outdated brains and questionable conduct.

If these people are allowed to continue to grow, in a few years, the Ming Empire may go back to the old path of the former Ming Dynasty.

Now Emperor Zhu is working hard to promote the independence of corpse law.

I just want to use the legal talents of the Daohua Department to control the law and use them to restrain the scholar-bureaucrats and bureaucrats.

This is also his first step in supporting the new bureaucrats of the Daohua family...

But can these college students really become qualified officials to defend the interests of the Ming Empire?

At this time, Song Xiang, the prefect of Shanghai, and Dai Quheng, the governor of Jiangsu, came hand in hand.

Today the two of them are going to accompany Emperor Zhu to visit the countryside in Shanghai Prefecture.

Now that the Spring Festival has passed, it is time to prepare for planting.

In the past two years, the rural areas of Shanghai Prefecture have also undergone tremendous changes.

First, of course, is the rapid concentration of land.

The urban area of ​​Shanghai is just around the corner, and life in a metropolis is more attractive to some young people.

Therefore, in the rural areas of Shanghai, it is much easier for landlords to withdraw their tenants than in Sichuan.

in addition.Due to the proximity to the port, the cost of emigrating from Shanghai to the Northeast, Southeast Asia and the United States is also relatively low.

There are more and more stories of immigrants becoming rich, and most young people in extreme poverty are willing to go out and make a living.

Second, the crops grown in rural Shanghai are also changing.

Half of the original "Land of Fish and Rice" has disappeared, replaced by large swathes of cotton fields, all of which are planted with good cotton seeds imported from the Americas.

"Don't go to the countryside today. Go to a trial."

Emperor Zhu raised his finger to the next copy of "Gentlemen's Daily" spread out on the table.

Song Xiang glanced at it, nodded quickly and said, "I'll make arrangements now."

Emperor Zhu waved his hand, "There's no need to arrange anything, just let us change into our clothes and go by ourselves. I just want to see how my Daming Tribunal handles cases."

Tribunal trials are public.

Anyone can attend.

As long as there are enough places on site.

Many journalists will go to hear the trial and then write about it in the newspaper.

(End of this chapter)