Gu Kecheng appointed Xuzhou's envoy to the four-sided prison city of Xudu. This official position also came from Li Zicheng. Niu Jinxing introduced the retro-official system of the pre-Tang Dynasty.
The prison envoy was an important envoy in the Tang, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties. It first appeared in the late Tang Dynasty. In the Later Liang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, it was changed to the prison wall envoy. In the later Tang Dynasty, it was renamed the prison envoy. It was also called the prison envoy in the other dynasties of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty.
Following this, it also appeared in the ten countries.
Regarding the envoys in the prison, "History of the Song Dynasty" clearly records: "All those who are guilty are to be served as slaves." Song Taizong also issued an edict in the second year of Yongxi's reign: "Those who have stolen more than seven times will be punished with sticks, stabbed faces, and slaves."
Prison City.”
It can be seen that in the Song Dynasty, the concept of prison envoy was more as an institution, which played the role of detaining criminals and providing labor services.
In the Eighth Year of Tianfu, Emperor Gaozu of the Later Jin Dynasty during the Five Dynasties period, there was also a relevant edict that said: If a household is created in a village without permission or a person breaks down and runs away, many people will accuse him and the accusation will be justified.
10. The tattooed face is assigned to serve in the prison.
This shows that the prison cities of the Five Dynasties already had the nature of a judicial institution to supervise the distribution of criminals and prisoners by the Later Jin Dynasty at the latest.
But the term prison envoy did not mean this in the Tang Dynasty and before the Tang Dynasty.
Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing, the pair of monarchs and ministers, as die-hard Tang Dynasty restorationists, certainly would not take the meaning of official positions when I gave them away.
The prison envoy in the Tang Dynasty was inherited from the Northern Wei Dynasty and was an official responsible for selecting militiamen, repairing and defending the city, and especially taking charge of the overall city defense and city defense during wartime.
In the late Tang Dynasty, there were so-called city defense troops in the state formation army. They were like the group of gentry regiments, heroes and slaves organized by Xu Du. They were city defense troops with the nature of militia, similar to those in the Song Dynasty.
The prison envoys were not involved in the custody of prisoners and the supervision of labor.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Pian was serving as the military governor of Huainan. At the critical moment when Yangzhou was surrounded by the rebel general Bi Shiduo, he appointed his son as the prison envoy. At least it can be seen that the prison envoy was appointed by the military commander, and he was
He is extremely close to important people.
The official system of Dashun was improved on the basis of the Tang Dynasty. Although the inner essence mostly adopts the connotation and spirit required by Ming Dynasty officials, both the name and some of the improved official systems are very similar to the official system of the Tang Dynasty.
Great connection.
In the Tang Dynasty, the prison envoys and the prison soldiers were both temporarily appointed. In the late Tang Dynasty, the prison envoys were temporarily dispatched officers and were not permanently deployed. Although the prison envoys in the Dashun army were also temporary, they were less
In the late Tang Dynasty, it became more fixed.
Gu Kecheng appointed Xu Du as the envoy of Xuzhou's city defense, which means that he almost handed over the important task of presiding over Xuzhou's city defense tasks to this young man who had recently joined the Dashun Army.
The huge trust and sense of responsibility, and of course the sense of crisis in the face of Dorgon's eager gaze, made Xu Du must be extremely energetic and devote his life and spirit completely to the defense of Xuzhou.
In order to strengthen the walls and clear the country, Xu Du had ordered the demolition of all residential houses and cottages on the outer edge of Xuzhou City. This would undoubtedly be a sudden disaster for the common people living outside the walls of Xuzhou City.
However, the material strength of the Dashun Army is so abundant. When the people's hearts are boiling and the hearts of the people are available, Yan Ermei also tried her best to persuade Xu Du not to affect the king's division that the Dashun Army has gradually established by demolishing private houses.
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After Yan Ermei saw the lucrative situation of Dashun Army Warehouse, he directly suggested:
"As the Theory of the Six Kingdoms says, with Dashun's distribution of material resources, it is enough to make the world's advisers and gift the world's geniuses. Now the wise chiefs are coming in full force, hoping to defeat the world with one blow. The battle is already underway, Dashun
If the army is victorious in this battle, not only the Central Plains, but also half of the world will be in the pocket of the Jin king.
Compared with such a generous reward, Xu Sheng, why should you be stingy with a little bit of golden corn and wheat?"
At Yan Ermei's strong request, Xu Du took out a large amount of military grain from Xuzhou's warehouse and used high amounts of money and grain as compensation to make up for the losses of all civilians who lived outside the city.
After this news was announced, the whole city was in an uproar. Although there were also a few cunning scholars and wealthy gentry who tried to exaggerate how vast and luxurious their fields and houses outside the city were, in order to defraud the Dashun Army from compensation.
But Yan Ermei is familiar with the Xuzhou gentry. As long as he is around, the ordinary people may not be able to control it. The first-class gentry with more fame and financial resources will definitely not be able to deceive Yan Ermei, no matter how much wealth they have.
As for ordinary people who were unfamiliar to Yan Ermei, even if they exaggerated their property losses, the money and food they could defraud in Dashun compensation was quite insignificant due to their size and experience.
Regarding the war in Xuzhou, the local military and civilians had long been prepared to pay a huge price and make sacrifices after being bombarded by various news during this period.
Most people have not considered whether they are the "price" to be sacrificed in the Dashun Army's strategy of "preventing Dorgon from taking Xuzhou at all costs".
However, when Xu Du decided to compensate the people for the loss of their fields due to the fortification of walls and clearance of fields, people suddenly had particularly strong hopes for the prospect of the Battle of Xuzhou.
In any case, a court like Dashun did allow the people of Xuzhou to feel the benefits of the "New Dynasty Elegant Government" for the first time. This is different from the camp field system. In the camp field system reform, some people benefited, and some people must suffer losses.
The reform of the camp-field system was a redistribution, a zero-sum game-style redistribution among limited interests. But now the people of Xuzhou are suffering heavy losses, relying on the extremely powerful agricultural productivity of the Dashun Army.
All over the world, in terms of agricultural production capacity, in the face of the farming system that Li Laiheng had consolidated and was rapidly promoting, the Qing court, the Southern Ming Dynasty, and even the small court of the Western Ming Dynasty under Zhang Xianzhong, they were all a firefly compared to a bright moon, not to mention insignificant.
It's simply unbearable.
Although Dorgon repeatedly emphasized the legend of "70 million taels of silver hidden in Kaifeng", it is just a legend.
However, what they saw during the Qing army's southern march was that every area under the jurisdiction of the Dashun army and every base area was full of vitality and prosperity, which convinced the Manchus that there was such a rule as the center of the Dashun regime.
Kaifeng must be a richer and more prosperous city than Yanjing, which was ruined in the hands of Chongzhen.
This is true. All warehouses in Henan and Hubei are either filled with grain, or filled with cloth and ordnance. The huge productivity liberated by the reform of the camp system has helped confiscate the Ming Dynasty vassal families and torture illegal
The huge amount of wealth obtained by the gentry and big landowners all resulted in Li Laiheng finally having a huge resource in his hands that even Emperor Chongzhen could not imagine.
According to Fang Yiren's estimate, after the summer and autumn harvests in the first year of Guangzhong, only the entire provinces of Hubei and Henan, most of Shandong, and a small part of Hunan, Shanxi, Beizhili, and Dashun
The political power will be able to control resources equivalent to nearly 30 million shi of grain at a reduced price.
What kind of concept is this?
According to the understanding of the elites of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was the most powerful country and the era with the strictest rule was the Hongwu period in the early years of the Republic of China. In the Hongwu Dynasty, the tax amount set by Zhu Yuanzhang was about 30 million shi. In the view of Ming Taizu, 30 million shi
The income was enough to support all activities of the Ming Dynasty, including its internal rule and external wars.
Now, Dashun only controls all of Henan and Hubei provinces, as well as parts of Shanxi, Beizhili, Shandong, and Hunan provinces, plus at most the prefecture and county of Hanzhong and Tongguan.
It has material resources equivalent to the annual income of the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period.
Based on this foundation, Xu Du was certainly confident about the prospects of the war.
"I was born to be the king of Jin to rule the end of the Ming Dynasty. When I meet the Holy Lord in my lifetime, I should achieve world-class fame like Guan Zhong and Wei Zheng!"