Li Laiheng did not kill Zuo Liangyu immediately, mainly because the judicial organs of the Jieshuai Mansion had not yet been established. Before that, Zhang Pili told Li Laiheng all the methods of the village elders when they arrested Zuo Liangyu.
Li Laiheng felt that it was extremely necessary for Chuangjun to strengthen its local administrative and judicial resources.
It is true that the implementation of the new camp field law has greatly enhanced the efficiency of the Chuang Army in obtaining resources from local areas. However, this is more of a request. The Chuang Army has not established a complete set of local administration and management systems based on the material basis of the camp field system.
The judiciary comes.
Under such circumstances, the people cannot be organized, and their power can only be drawn from, but cannot be mobilized to mobilize the masses. These four words are simple to say, but too difficult to do.
Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, especially for the Chuang army, it was even more difficult.
Li Laiheng has no access to hundreds of thousands or millions of primary and secondary school graduates. Even if the military literacy class has been implemented for so long, it is difficult to say whether he can find thousands of people who are proficient in writing in the army.
Even the earliest Red Army had dozens or hundreds of times more human resources than itself.
There is no one to hold the bag, there is no one to hold the bag, there is a shortage of cadres, there is a shortage of cadres.
This is a problem that has troubled Li Laiheng from the beginning until now. If he wants to organize the people in the local area, he must spread his arrogance. On the basis of the camp system, not only in every prefecture, every state and every county
, and a complete political organization must be established in every township and every village.
In the final analysis, the camp system alone was far from enough to shape the Chuangjun regime. Sun Kewang was able to do it. That was because Sun Kewang enshrined the tablets of the gods of the Yongli court and borrowed the authoritative resources accumulated over the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.
As for Li Laiheng's current situation, it is naturally impossible to borrow the political resources accumulated during the Ming Dynasty's three hundred years of history. He can only build the political framework of the Chuang Army through his own efforts.
This is why he attaches great importance to the public trial meeting and must escort all the generals, officers and soldiers of Zuozhen back to Suizhou City for trial.
Li Laiheng planned to use this grand public trial to instill the idea that the Chuang Army was already part of the government and had the authority of political power into the hearts of the people in Huguang.
This will facilitate the next step of establishing grassroots political power.
It just so happened that the establishment of a judicial institution for the army was originally part of Li Laiheng's next plan. Now in order to hold a very large-scale public trial, it is also necessary to complete this step.
For the sake of convenience, Li Laiheng still set up the judicial organs in the Jiedushuan Shogunate. He directly borrowed the name of the shogunate in the Tang Dynasty's Jiedushuan Shogunate. He was responsible for the administration of justice with the Jiedushi Magistrate, and the subordinate officials under the Magistrate were called Tuiguan.
.
The person who served as the judge of Jiedu was Deng Yanzhong1, a Huguang Juren recommended by Gu Junen.
Deng Yanzhong was from Jiangling. He was born in Juren and had a relatively high social status. However, his journey in the academic field and officialdom was not smooth. He failed to pass the Jinshi examination and advance to a higher level. During his official career, he was not able to
He was good at human relations and returned to his hometown as an official at a young age.
Well, after all, it was Gu Junen who found him. He had a weird personality and was unreasonable, but he was within Li Laiheng's acceptance range.
After all, he was a civil servant. If Li Laiheng hadn't defeated Zuozhen and captured Zuo Liangyu alive, Li Zicheng had occupied Luoyang and Kaifeng, and the Chu army was increasingly showing signs of fighting for the top spot, Deng Yanzhong would definitely not have taken the huge risk to join the Chu army.
.
But now, at this time, people like Chen Kexin have taken refuge with Li Laiheng, and others such as Fang Yiren, Gu Junen, and Xie Zheng, who promoted academic affairs, are also from scholarly backgrounds.
Deng Yanzhong, a down-and-out scholar who had failed to become a county magistrate, was able to suddenly rise to the important position of Li Laiheng's commander-in-chief in the shogunate, which was considered a high achievement.
After all, although Deng Yanzhong himself was unreasonable, after a little contact with Li Laiheng, he felt that he was a loyal and honest hard worker! What Li Laiheng's literati lacked most was loyal and honest people!
Of course, it was impossible for Li Laiheng to let a person with unclear background immediately completely control the judicial system of Huguang Chuangjun. Although he appointed Deng Yanzhong as the Jiedu judge, all the officials recommended by his subordinates were from the field envoys of various states and counties. , Zhuang Envoy was transferred to the past.
It seems that Deng Yanzhong was playing some tricks in his appointment as the judge of Jiedu. Li Laiheng also asked Chen Kexin, who was now serving as Suizhou Shepherd and had been tested in the Battle of Suizhou, to "assist him", which was actually to supervise Deng Yanzhong.
In terms of employment, even though the gap in talents and cadres is extremely huge, Li Laiheng will not easily let go and casually absorb gentry and literati who have not tested by time into the core of the army.
Alas, but also because of this, the number of grassroots cadres in the Chuang Army has long been scarce to the point of extreme tension.
This time Pang Cun's incident made Li Laiheng feel that he must step up and improve the grassroots political power construction of the Chuang Army. The current problem is the lack of cadres, but the lack of cadres has to be done. He can only build the grassroots political power while cultivating cadre manpower and go on. Build a bridge one step at a time.
The Chuang Army is a blank piece of paper. Although the blank piece of paper has the advantage of being able to use it at will, traveling lightly, and having no historical baggage, at this time, it also shows the disadvantage of lacking the resources accumulated through history.
However, compared to the imperial court, Li Laiheng also had a huge advantage, which was the higher administrative efficiency brought by the "blank paper" of the army. Through the camp system, Li Laiheng could not harm the interests of the vast majority of farmers and tenants, and even With the increase in interests, the fiscal revenue of his own regime has increased to three or four times more than during the imperial rule.
In the area under the jurisdiction of Huguang Chuangjun, more than half of the food was in the hands of Li Laiheng. Controlling this most important hard currency allowed Li Laiheng to rely on a strong material foundation and in turn subsidize the construction of grassroots political power.
Fang Yiren actually suggested to him that he should simply restore the Baojia township official system centered on the three elders in Huguang countryside. However, although Li Laiheng was better than restoring the old style, it was only better than restoring the old style in the name of the official title. He really needed to implement the specific system. Especially the grassroots political system, which is the most important and most related to the daily lives of ordinary people, should we go back to the three elders and protect the armor?
Li Laiheng could not afford to be charged with such crimes during the Great Restoration.
His idea was to first send disabled soldiers in the Chuang Army, especially those from local places of origin, to each township and village to be responsible for the construction of grassroots political power at the village level.
In Li Laiheng's view, the first key to building political power at the grassroots level in rural areas is to establish a military presence of the intruders at the rural level. With the military presence as authority, judges and judges responsible for the administration of justice can then be sent down to infiltrate the situation.
In short, the military, judiciary, and the camp administrative system that Bai Wang has established in the local villages of De'an and Huangzhou must be established first to ensure that there will no longer be Pang Cun arresting Zuo Liangyu. The situation at that time.
In later history, Li Zicheng adopted the method of directly dividing the field forces of the Chuang Army into local garrison areas. As a result, as the territory occupied by the Chuang Army rapidly expanded, these divided garrison troops also became pepper-spreading cakes, spreading over and over again.
The more they dispersed, the main force in the field was finally weakened, and the local military power could not stop the counterattack of the gentry armed forces.
Li Laiheng currently controls nearly 30,000 field troops. With the destruction of Zuozhen, Xiangyang, Chengtian, and Jingzhou can be taken at any time. He estimates that it will not be too difficult to increase the field strength of the Chuang Army to 40,000 or 50,000 in a short period of time.
But if these troops are dispersed in the villages of various states, counties, and villages, they will suddenly be stretched thin.
militia.
In the end, the masses still need to be organized and mobilized. To rely on the people's own strength to defend the grassroots political power of the Chuang Army, the only more reliable method is to build a militia.
Li Laiheng also wanted to get things done in one step and build patrol police and joint defense teams directly at the grassroots level in the countryside. However, this would create a huge gap in the demand for cadres and talents, and it would be difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
Lack of people, lack of people, this is something Li Laiheng has emphasized a hundred times but still feels it is not enough.
Gu Junen originally suggested that the position of organizing local militia be called Jing'an Envoy, but Fang Yiren understood and was familiar with Li Laiheng's quirks better, so he used the official names of Tuan Lian En Envoy and Thief Catcher Envoy from the Tang Dynasty.
However, Li Laiheng felt that the word "Tuan Lian Envoy" could easily be used by the gentry for restoration purposes, so he gave it up and chose the title of "Tuan Lian Envoy".
The anti-robbery envoys of the Chuang Army were set up at the village level, and the personnel were mostly disabled soldiers from the local origins of the Chuang Army. The primary duty was to organize and train local militia, and the secondary duty was to cooperate with the local camp envoys and village envoys to check household registrations and records.
When measuring fields, the first priority is to prevent fire, theft, and soldiers.
In short, if you don’t build the grassroots political power and you don’t organize the local militias, the village sages, gentry, and clan elders will organize themselves. Even if the bandits who break into the army cannot completely control the countryside, they can still compete with the local restoration forces.
The public can always play a considerable role.
"Ah." Li Laiheng wiped the sweat from his forehead. The summer of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign has arrived. The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and he is getting more and more depressed. "There is a shortage of people! There is a shortage of people! Leshan, we have too much money in our pockets."
We are short of people! Just relying on a camp academy is not enough!"
Before Fang Yiren could answer, Gu Junen asked: "Jie Shuai, haven't we already opened the Jiefu examination? Why not open a few more subjects?"
"Brother Haozhi doesn't know the palace master's intentions. He doesn't tell whether the scribes selected by the Jie Mansion can be of the same mind as the palace master, but sends them directly to the grassroots level. This not only wrongs their talents, but also makes the palace master himself feel uneasy.
"Fang Yiren looked at Gu Junen with a smile. You still don't understand Li Laiheng. "The Suiying School is not enough... The Chuang Army already has a literacy class in the army. This class can also be formally established like the Suiying School.
It has become a school to quickly train talents for township officials."
"Just as Leshan said, we should set up township official schools in Suizhou, Anlu, Huang'an and Macheng."