My days with the tyrant Chapter 319: If you want to get promoted or make a fortune, please go elsewhere. If you are greedy for life and fear of death, don’t enter this door.
Chapter 319: If you want to get promoted or make a fortune, please go elsewhere. If you are greedy for life and fear of death, don’t enter this door.
They don't need to worry about such small things, just arrange a confidant.
The next day, Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division carried out routine blackmail on the merchants along the street in the name of rectifying the street appearance in Jubaomen Commercial Street...
I say routine because they do it all the time.
After all, they can't control the military households in this city, and the Wutai Mountain gang doesn't dare to control them either. The craftsmen households are also under the Ministry of Industry.
The only people who are really suitable for them to attack are businessmen.
Just now, in the capital city, commerce can be said to be extremely developed, especially Sanshan Street in Jubaomen, which was originally a commercial street. Now it is even more densely populated with merchants. In order to facilitate transportation, a new type of road with stone underneath and concrete on top has even been built. Business prosperity is of course inevitable.
The street appearance is chaotic. Nancheng Bingma Division makes most of its extra money from this street. Street appearance, fire prevention, theft prevention, etc. In short, there are many names, and the merchants have already been fed up with it.
This time a merchant doubled the fine again...
On the birthday of the emperor, his subordinates will naturally prepare birthday gifts, and the money will definitely be extracted from merchants.
It is also common practice for fines to be doubled.
But this time, the merchant didn’t know who gave him the courage. He had the audacity to refuse to pay, and even claimed that he was going to beat the drum. The enraged deputy commander of the Nancheng Army and Horses Division immediately ordered him to be captured and brought back to his senses. This merchant
He resisted with a big gun and beat the commander with a big gun. The latter was so angry that he ordered a siege, but the merchants and their clerks resisted vigorously. Then the surrounding merchants shared the same hatred, and the two sides fought in Sanshan Street. During the battle, the deputy commander was held in a copper bag.
The imperial edict in the box was opened.
Patrol officers from the anti-theft camp immediately rushed to arrest people. In the end, dozens of people were arrested, but then all the merchants on Sanshan Street went on strike.
Then I went to play the Denwen drum.
And soon most of the capital city joined the strike. After all, this kind of thing was also done frequently by the military commanders in the other four cities.
For a time, the people in the capital were in a state of panic, and some people even surrounded the soldiers and horses.
"This kind of thing..."
Yang Feng said with some embarrassment.
Then he looked at the father-in-law, who kept his head down.
"Actually, the key is that the rules have not been established. The capital has developed too fast in recent years, but the rules are still old and cannot keep up. It is inevitable that some corrupt officials will profit from them.
We can't blame them, after all, there are no rules, and there are no restrictions on their clever names.
Similarly, because merchants are not bound by rules, they will naturally not know how to advance or retreat, so the key is to set up rules.
But the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division is an official, and it is a principle that an official cannot harm the people. In the absence of rules, an official cannot accidentally harm the people. We can say that the people are wrong, but the government does not have laws in this regard. If there is no prohibition by law, it can be done.
It is a principle, so the fault still lies with the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division. But after that, the court can issue special regulations, such as no random construction, no littering, etc. Those who violate it can be fined however much, but the fine cannot be confiscated.
City Soldiers and Horses Division.
The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division can issue tickets.
But you have to go to the bank to pay the money, so the fines and confiscations will go to the household department, and the fines and confiscations will go to the household department in the first place. If the merchant fails to pay the money within the time limit, he can be jailed."
Yang Feng said.
The Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division are now loyal to the state leader because apart from being filial to the state leader, the rest of the fines are basically divided among themselves. Such fines are originally set by them themselves and have nothing to do with the Ministry of Household Affairs.
But now we can only issue fines and have no power to collect money.
That’s a hell of a punishment!
Of course, you can still make money privately.
But making money privately is considered corruption and perverting the law.
The censor who patrols the city...
It's finally my turn to appear.
"The person who was arrested?"
The Queen Mother said.
"Except for the one who killed someone, just let them go. The fine imposed by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division has no basis. It's not like there are no penalties for infringing on the interests of merchants in Da Gao. What the merchants did was indeed inappropriate, but it's okay if there is no law.
They were safeguarding their rights. As for the accidental killing of the deputy commander during the resistance, this is at best negligent wounding, and he will be hanged according to the standard of accidental wounding in a fight, but those who hold the imperial edict will be reduced to a hundred sticks and three thousand miles of exile."
Yang Feng said.
Then……
Can be redeemed.
Injuring someone in a fight is punishable by hanging, but holding a high imperial edict is punishable by death.
This system was still implemented until the Jiajing period. During the Jiajing period, there were many examples of people who had committed crimes and had their family titles reduced or reduced because of their family members.
But after the penalty is reduced to one hundred rods and three thousand miles traveled, according to the law, you can pay the money and be exempted from sin.
So in the end, the merchant paid at most some money, and the deputy conductor who was killed also received at most some money. The ransom money was used to compensate the victim.
The deputy commander of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division is not the commander of the guards, the deputy commander is a seventh-rank official.
“So best.”
The Queen Mother said.
How could she know so many things? Besides, Yang Feng's arrangements were completely reasonable and legal. In fact, this kind of matter was left to the little princess to handle, but outsiders were beating the drums, and the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division was her father's subordinate, so
She was the one who asked her to make the decision. She also knew that her father was corrupt and perverted the law. How could someone with this status not be corrupt and pervert the law? It can be said that this time it aroused public outrage, and half of the capital joined the strike. Her situation was already unstable, and she relied entirely on the military and civilians of the capital.
With the support of Yang Feng and the little princess, we must not offend the soldiers and civilians of 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's Auntie Lao."
The Queen Mother quickly said to her aunt.
The father-in-law was still silent, not knowing what he was thinking.
Yang Feng and the little princess left immediately.
"Now I'm afraid that Yingtian Mansion will deliberately interfere with it, that is, not to allow redemption, as a way to retaliate against us."
said the little princess.
Foreclosure needs to be determined by local officials during the trial. It does not mean that it only meets the standards. In fact, it is normal practice to award foreclosure if it does not meet the standards, or to deliberately not award foreclosure if it meets the standards.
Naturally, the civil servants of the imperial court would not cooperate with them.
"Wrong, they will cooperate very cooperatively in sentencing and ransoming, and then use this to provoke the father-in-law's hatred towards us. After all, his face will be ruined."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Losing your face? It's good that you didn't make other people's heads fall to the ground."
The little princess sneered.
Of course, the facts are indeed as Yang Feng said. The next day, Yingtian Mansion sentenced him to hanging for accidentally injuring someone in a fight. However, because there was a major reduction in the sentence, and then the redemption was allowed, the family of the merchant gave the money that afternoon.
It was handed over to Yingtian Mansion, so on the same day, he was welcomed by the merchants along the street with gongs, drums and firecrackers, and he returned to his business like a hero.
Immediately afterwards, all the troops and horses in the five cities were withered.
Some commanders even panicked and began to pay fines to those merchants.
But on the same day, the industrial and commercial management regulations formulated as quickly as possible were also announced to the world in the form of an imperial edict.
Not only the capital city, but also the management of industry and commerce in all cities must comply with this regulation.
This is easily solved.
These days, there is no need to consider whether it is convenient for the people or whether it will trigger public opposition. As long as it is formulated, the people must abide by it. At most, if they find something unreasonable later, they will gradually modify it, but at least before it is modified, they must abide by it no matter what, even if
It is inconvenient for the people. This is actually a law specifically aimed at urban industry and commerce. Especially business regulations are very necessary. As Yang Feng said, the capital's economy is developing too fast, and the original laws can no longer keep up.
Up.
There must be new ones.
Of course, in the eyes of the court officials, this was actually depriving him of the biggest piece of money that the emperor could make.
Who told him to talk too much and say something about all the officials running away?
This is the price of talking too much.
but……
This is a happy event!
This means that Guozhang and Yang Feng have become enemies.
Although everyone understands that at least for now, the state leader 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 developed slowly, and no one expects to be able to solve Yang Feng now.
So soon the birthday of the abbot was celebrated. Not only the civil and military officials in the capital, but also several retired officials, distinguished generals outside, and even several vassal kings all sent gifts or congratulated them in person.
Just like the Donglin Party treated Empress Zhang and her father during the Apocalypse, they held the head of state in high esteem, as if their daughter was really the lord of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Ambassador Yang simply ignored their behavior of playing house, and besides, he had no time to pay attention to these people.
After all, he had to rebuild the court.
Not only did he rebuild the court, he also had to rebuild the entire ruling system.
The current Ming Dynasty is close to the government orders not leaving Yingtian Mansion. Orders sent to various places to arrest those criminals, most of them have fallen into disgrace. That is to say, several counties around Yingtian Mansion have arrested them, not to mention Jiangxi, Huguang and others.
The province, even the local officials in Suzhou, did not arrest them. In fact, after receiving the order, the Suzhou prefect immediately resigned and ran away. As for the local garrison, although they started arresting people, they had already gotten the news and ran away. It was similar in other places.
If the officials do not arrest, the guards will be ordered to arrest them, and they will run away in advance. After all, the number of guards is limited, and it is impossible to complete the arrest task in time.
Even the health centers in provinces like Jiangxi and Huguang are not sincere in arresting them.
In the end, of the thousands of people on the little princess's list, only a few hundred have been arrested so far, and most of them have disappeared.
In fact, the imperial court's control over local areas was basically lost.
This is also an inevitable result. No matter how strong Yang Feng is, he cannot defeat the world alone. He gives orders as much as possible in the capital, but officials outside the capital have to enforce them for him.
They won't implement it.
Or drag.
Or it can be done in a positive and negative way.
Or he deliberately messed it up. Some local officials deliberately used arrests, extortion, and random implication to deliberately arouse public anger, so that the criminals who were originally just arresting criminals turned into evil deeds that harmed the local area. The local people began to be hostile to the court, and even
He also deliberately spread rumors that Yang Feng wanted to usurp the throne, so he took the opportunity to purge loyal ministers and then manipulated public opinion to turn the people against Yang.
There are various means.
They are all masters at this game.
Most of those on the arrest list were actually fleeing south, to areas controlled by the Jianwen court.
Anyway, Annan and Guangxi are both vast and sparsely populated, especially Guangxi. These people who fled south were all members of the He clan who fled south. As loyal ministers and righteous men who yearned for the bright future, of course they were properly accommodated by the Jianwen Dynasty. In short, they really had a sense of well-dressed people who fled south.
At least according to the standards of the gentry, Yang Feng, the pseudo-imperial court, already had the smell of the wind and rain, the trees fell and the hozens scattered. The imperial decrees were implemented around Yingtian Mansion, but after Zhenjiang, they began to be violated.
Yang Feng needed to do more than just rebuild the imperial court, but also reestablish local control.
so……
"Is it difficult to be an official?
The key to this question depends on where the butt is.
If it is really for the people, then this official position is not difficult. Don't take bribes and bend the law, don't disturb the people, do what is beneficial to the people, and don't do what is harmful to the people. It's that simple. But if it is for your own promotion and wealth,
That would be troublesome. You have to think day and night about how to make money, you have to collude with the local gentry to create clever names, and you have to do your best to squeeze out every drop of blood and sweat from the people.
He also had to curry favor with his superiors, work hard for his future, and be wary of being caught. After all, being caught in the hands of Emperor Taizu Gao meant you would be stripped of your skin.
It can be said that they are fighting every day, but they never think about the people for a moment.
So my request to you is very simple, just sixteen words. If you want to get promoted or make a fortune, please go elsewhere. If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, don’t come here."
Ambassador Yang said to their first batch of college students.
This is the result of seven years of partnership between him and Zhu Yunxi. After these students were enlightened and literate, they were selected from official schools in various health centers and then studied in Mount Wutai. In fact, they graduated last year. After all, in this era, we need to teach
They don’t need too much knowledge. That is to say, there is a lack of teachers, so they can only be taught by Yang Feng or those students who are smart and progress quickly. Therefore, the teaching speed is limited, but five or six years is enough.
Then he worked as an intern at Wutaishan Industrial Park, various banks, businesses, and even mining sites for more than a year before reuniting in the capital.
There are more than 500 people in total.
Not much.
But fortunately, this education system has been completed and is running well.
So now the second batch of internships has begun, and there will be more than a thousand graduates next fall.
This was originally Zhu Yunxi's plan to use new imperial examinations to fill the officialdom and replace those Confucian officials, but he died too early and did not wait.
Now it belongs to Yang Feng.
"Enke will start next month. You will all get the status of a civil servant and then take part in the imperial examination. This imperial examination is limited to Yingtian Mansion. It is completely based on the five subjects of the late emperor. Except for liberal arts, all the other subjects' test questions are set by me.
So I will give you the answer."
Yang Feng said.
The students burst into laughter.
"Don't laugh. In order to take care of you who are also applying for these subjects, the test questions are the simplest. I guess most of you knew it when you were in elementary school, so there is no need to worry about it. I might as well give you the answers directly and don't give you full marks when the time comes.
.All of you will be admitted, and some others will be admitted by the way, but you must keep my words in mind. If you also become corrupt and bend the law, then I will really learn from Taizu. As for these days, your main job is to follow me.
If you are close to your adopted daughter, you can pursue whoever you like, and take them all away after the test.
Don’t be sorry, I know that you have already been in love with each other since you were in school.”