A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 635 Public Trial
Rights and obligations complement each other. While enjoying rights, obligations must also be fulfilled, and vice versa. There is no obligation without rights, and there is no right without obligations.

In the division of the three types of household registration in the shogunate, Han nationality enjoys all rights, while naturalized nationality enjoys the right to employment, the right to education, and some rights to do business.Yi nationality enjoys some employment rights, education rights, and a very small part of business rights, such as setting up a small stall on the street.

The barbarians of barbarian nationality, after checking that their hands have not been stained with Han blood, have lived in the territory for a certain period of time, are familiar with Chinese, and have a sense of identity with the Han nationality, can apply for naturalization, store hair, change clothes, and change their names. It is not limited to the barbarians beyond the Great Wall or any country.

East Road currently has a population of more than [-]. After the delineation in the future, Han nationality will account for the vast majority. In fact, the population of East Road is composed of military households in Baoan Prefecture, plus the hundreds of thousands of victims brought back by Wang Dou, plus the influx over the years. The refugees and disaster victims, plus some military households and civilian households on the original East Road.

These people were basically housed in each of the forts, and because of the establishment of the new forts, the former military and civilian households in each city fled on a large scale, and secretly fled into the newly established forts. After the division, most of these people were Han nationality, and the old There are very few households.

Therefore, the three types of household registers are actually the most beneficial to ordinary people, and they have nothing, as long as they have a little harvest, they will be grateful, especially if the land is divided, they will be even more devoted to the shogunate.

These people are also the main targets of the Department of Civil Affairs and the Department of Naturalization. When the refugees enter the country, they are black, big and strong, and they are able to endure hard work. They will be sent to the newly established forts as soon as possible. They were granted naturalization status, and lived in Tunpu for a certain period of time, and they could basically become Chinese.

What Wang Dou valued the most was the self-cultivating farmers group. These people were his most loyal supporters. Ninety-nine percent of the soldiers in the army also came from this group.

As for the gentry, officials, scholars, businessmen, buddies, shopkeepers, and urban slickers who enter the country, they are not included in the list of sending them to the Tunbao, but they have to go slowly step by step, from the blue book to the green book, and then to the red book. .

Of course, at present, it is actually easy to switch from naturalized registration to Chinese registration. You only need to pay food and taxes according to the law.

Wang Dou didn't need them to swear allegiance. In the atmosphere of the shogunate, after they joined the Han nationality, the only way was to integrate, because in the future they would find that for various reasons, they had to protect the interests of their own group.

Letting officials, merchants, and gentry pay food and taxes together is actually the biggest purpose of Wang Dou's establishment of third-class household registration.

Xinzhuang.

Today's Xinzhuang is no longer what it used to be. It has a good appearance but is dilapidated and dirty inside. Just like the Jingbian Fort opposite, the houses are well-organized, the streets are tidy, and the residents who come and go have ruddy complexions and walk vigorously. wind.

In front of the fort in Xinzhuang, there is a large stele and an extremely tall statue of Wang Dou. The competition for Wang Dou's hometown with Jingbian Fort was unanimously supported by the whole fort.

The people of the castle have reason to be proud. A mere small castle has produced such a great talent as Marquis Yongning. Oh, yes, there is also Xu Yue'e and Miss Xu, who are also women.

When going out, when talking about these two things, everyone is very proud, they have completely forgotten that they scolded Xu Yue'e as a whole and drove her away.

The Li family in Zhuangxi still enters and exits the big mansion. Now Xinzhuang has become a military fort. Except for the Li family, the villagers have almost become military households. And because many tenants have fled, the Li family has to treat the remaining tenants as well. Improved treatment.

In the study room, Li Shichen, the head of the Li family, was meditating. He was wearing a square scarf and a blouse. Although he was nearly sixty years old, he still had a handsome face and was well maintained.

The butler beside him stood by, just waiting for the Patriarch's decision.

After pondering for a long time, his thick and deep voice sounded: "This is an opportunity, Uncle Fu. Tomorrow, I will invite Chief Jiabao to come and tell him that all of my Li family will join the military households, become Chinese citizens, and pay food and taxes according to the law."

The housekeeper was taken aback: "Master, is this really the case? If you really pay food and taxes according to the law, it is not a small amount."

Li Shichen sighed: "Uncle Fu, you have been with me since you were a child, and I have a heart-to-heart talk with you, there is no way to break it."

He said: "Xin Zhuang is the homeland of the Marquis of Yongning, and the elders in the hometown don't support it, how will he treat us? Besides, Yun Luo married Vice-General Zhong, and General Zhong is the confidant of the Marquis of Yongning. As the general guarding the East Road, we should set an example...

He fell silent again, not knowing what he was thinking.

Slowly, a smile appeared on his face again: "Furthermore, the East Road is booming now, and the income from local products is gradually not as good as factory buildings, businesses outside the Great Wall, etc. If you don't pay food and taxes, many industries cannot invest, let alone To be an official or a general, this is the most important thing, the big plan for future generations, we don't want to lose the big because of the small."

The gentry are actually shrewd. In the past, when they became officials or made a fortune in business, they bought land and properties. However, the development of the East Road, others harvested, and everyone can see it. This atmosphere attracted many gentry. All changed their minds.

Especially if they are not Chinese, they are not allowed to join the army, not to be an official, not even to be an official. What's more, they are digging into their bones and resisting?The blood of countless officials, generals, and merchants has proved that this road will not work, and the Marquis of Yongning is ruthless to the rebels.

So Li Shichen made a choice after repeated choices, not to mention that he had more reasons to do so than others.

Thinking about what the Li family had to pay, the butler still felt distressed, but he knew that the master's move was a wise choice.

In the first month of the first month, Donglu, which was being agitated by the three-type household registration system of the shogunate, came out with another big news. The big gentry and businessman in Baoan Prefecture, the Li family of Xinzhuang, announced to the outside world that all the land and shops under their name, Mining, animal husbandry, etc., will pay all grain and tax according to the law.

The gentry on the East Road were in an uproar, and countless people secretly scolded Li Shichen as a scum, a traitor, and a traitor. Pay food and taxes, and join the Han nationality.

In recognition of Li Shichen's leading and exemplary role, the shogunate announced afterwards that Li Shichen would be awarded the rank of sergeant, which only soldiers can have, and that members of his clan would be selected to study at the Xuanzhen Military Academy or the Civil Affairs Academy.

Ma Guoxi, Huailong Military Preparation Road, responded to this. There were fewer gentry in the East Road, but the court kept urging him to do more. He hoped that the prince of Yongning could provide some assistance to pay the court's summer tax and autumn grain, and the shogunate agreed to his request.

After the division of the three types of household registration in the shogunate, many gentry and businessmen, whether it was Xuanda or the outside world, wished to eat Wang Dou's flesh and sleep on his skin. They had enjoyed various rights for hundreds of years, but they were unwilling to bear even the slightest obligation. It has also become a matter of course.

Some of them, after seeing Wang Dou's vigorous development, didn't think about joining the shogunate, fishing in troubled waters, and reaping benefits. It's just that this hope is now cut off.

If you don't pay grain and tax, you can't join the Chinese nationality, and you don't have the power to join the army, politics, officials, officials, teachers, etc., and many commercial businesses that make a lot of money are out of their turn.

They wanted to gain, but they were unwilling to give anything, and they didn't feel the changes and temptations of the East Road up close, so they were naturally furious.

Therefore, it is understandable that the outside world is full of anger, and when the news reaches Shengjing, Dorgon is naturally overjoyed, and laughs: "God helps me!"

At the beginning, he used countermeasures to create a gap between the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Dou's move made the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty more wary of him, and won opportunities and time for the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, anti-scheming also depends on the person, mutual suspicion needs to be established, and it can be effective. If you want to drive Wang Dou away from his subordinates, it is naturally impossible.

The Qing Dynasty was full of joy. Of course, it was not without the worries of the ministers: "The greater the power of Wang Dou, although there are many opponents, but in front of the army's guns, he is nothing more than a chicken and a dog. Is their opposition really effective?"

As a barbaric group, they see many things more clearly, just like Wang Dou blatantly confiscating the homes of Shanxi merchants, but all parties are helpless, which proves this point.

Ning Wan and I explained to my master: "Of course it is effective. Although the king's thief is more powerful, but at this time he is only a subject. Gain precious time to recuperate!"

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On the 15th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Chongzhen, this day was supposed to be the Lantern Festival, but in the west of Yongning City, to the open space between the barracks, there were huge crowds of people, three floors inside and three floors outside, with no end in sight or side.

Today, when there is a public trial for profiteers and conspirators, upon hearing the news, not only soldiers, civilians, gentry, merchants and merchants of the East Road, but also thousands of people came out to watch the excitement, even Xuanfu Town, the rest of Xuanfu Town, and even Xuanfu Outside the town, in the capital, Shanxi and other places, there were a lot of crowds flocking.

A huge trial platform has been set up, and outside the cordon, there are soldiers of the Jingbian Army standing proudly, blocking the tide-like crowd outside.

On the stage, a huge roof was also set up, and the people sitting there were densely packed high-ranking officials, including officials from the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple, Ji Shiwei, Governor of Xuanda, Zhu Zhifeng, Governor of Xuanfu, Datong Governor Wei Jingyuan.

There were Dao Ma Guoxi in Huailong's military preparation, Wu Zhizhou's Wu Zhizhou in Yanqing Prefecture, officials and generals from various cities on the East Road, some high-ranking officials from outside, Yongning Hou Wangdou, Household Minister Ni Yuanlu, and the angel Wang Dehua, who also sat and listened together...

On the front desk stood dejected Fan Yongdou, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Jin Liangyu, Fan Qinluan, Lai Tianlu and others, as well as their clansmen, listening in horror as the officials of the East Road reprimanded them loudly .

Because the various divisions are not yet complete, and the evidence of the crime was provided by the East Road Shogunate, the one who announced the guilt at this time was Chi Dacheng, an official of the Zhenfu Division.

"...The profiteers have been colluding with the Tartars for a long time, selling grain and goods, funding the treacherous people, and doing everything they can."

"...In the early years of Chongzhen, there were constant famines in the territory of Dongnu. The slaves exchanged their children for food. The price of rice was as high as 80 taels a stone, and the price of cloth was 20 taels a head. Seeing the robbers and slaves, they were about to freeze to death and starve to death. The imperial court has nothing to worry about! It was these traitors who, based on Zhangjiakou, transported a large amount of grain and goods, so that the price of rice in the slave land was finally reduced to one, two or four shi, and the crisis was turned into safety. Since then, things have continued to deteriorate!"

"In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Hong Tai, the slave chieftain, ordered the Manchurian ministers to Guihua City, summoned hundreds of profiteers, and brought a large amount of goods for private trade..."

"These traitors not only funded the Eastern captives, but also provided information to the bandit slaves. I have a lot of evidence in my hands that the traitors of each family provided intelligence to the Tartars, down to the names of the guards at each pass and the number of soldiers. , the thin strips of equipment, the army has all the combat power, and there are even a considerable number of military intelligence pond reports!"

"The lands of Shenyang and Liaoyang fell, and Dongnu invaded several times, and these traitors have done good deeds!"

Chi Dacheng raised the Chinese book in his hand and shouted sharply.

The officials of the third department on the stage, the general Xuan, Wang Dehua and others were equally astonished. They all knew about the smuggling by profiteers, but they did not expect such a heinous and insane crime.

The people in the audience were also dumbfounded, and there was a complete silence.

Suddenly, the tens of thousands of people in the audience, like an explosion, shouted like an avalanche and tsunami: "Kill them, kill them, kill them!"

"Ling Chi executed, Ling Chi executed, Ling Chi executed!"

Fan Yongdou and the others had ashen-colored faces, trembling all over their bodies.

(End of this chapter)