Han Shizu

The autumn sun is like a thread, shining into the back garden of Yuan's house. There are no artificial mountains, green lakes, pavilions, pavilions or pavilions in the back garden of Yuan's house. Barely a decoration.

And the entire back garden is a school yard. Although the scale is small, the layout is well-organized, and everything is in accordance with the military regulations. This back garden has also become the forbidden area of ​​Yuan's residence in the past two years.

Even Yuan Ke's wives and concubines, if they want to enjoy the scenery, they can only go outside the village, to the bank of Minghu Lake, or to Dingbian Town.

"one!"

"two!"

The slogan of the drill echoed in the back house. At this time, there were about 30 people in the school grounds. It could be seen at a glance that they were all capable men, and they were holding refined steel knives.

Yuan Ke also has a batch of standard horizontal knives, but they are too conspicuous, and Yuan Ke dare not match them with his Zhuang Ding.The imperial court's control over military equipment does not include light equipment such as swords, and in remote areas like Yanzhou, almost everyone has a knife, most of which are distributed by the imperial court so that they can protect themselves.

In fact, apart from the lack of resources in the early years of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the imperial court confiscated iron and bronze wares from the people on a large scale to cast weapons. With the improvement of iron smelting technology and production, the use of iron wares was widely open to the people. .

The imperial court controls the mining, smelting, transportation and sales of iron, but it strongly supports the smelting and forging of folk ironware. After more than 30 years of development, the people of Han Dynasty have densely covered ironware and weapon workshops. The big ones are like ironware workshops, while the small ones For example, workshops, even basic rural units, also have one or two blacksmith shops.

The blacksmith who is good at smelting iron has always been one of the most popular occupations among the Han people, and the apprentice with the largest number of folks is the blacksmith apprentice. Although this industry is hard, it is indeed a technical job. After learning the craft, after leaving the teacher, Basically no worries about food and clothing.

And some factories originally operated by the imperial court have gradually given up the production of some ordinary ironware and farm tools, because there are enough substitutes for the folks, and the scale is larger and the output is higher, even if they are not as good as those produced by the imperial workshops. Delicate, but adequate.

The great Han Dynasty has abundant martial virtues, and one of them is probably reflected in the abundant weapons among the people. This is the so-called Tibetan soldiers in the people.But there are always advantages and disadvantages in everything. The reason why the local security in Dahan is always in a tense state, and there is a reason for rectification every few years.

Violent weapons are often people's guts. Children with knives can still kill people, and it is not uncommon for people to kill people when they disagree with each other.

As far as the local government is concerned, a single homicide case or a bandit murdering and stealing goods is nothing. The most troublesome thing is the fighting between villages.

Although this is strictly prohibited by Han law, there are always a few incidents every year, and once it breaks out, there will be heavy casualties, because the weapons they use are not poles and hoes, but "eighteen kinds of weapons".

For this reason, there are not a few people who lose their official positions. Even if the Chinese law clearly stipulates that the murderer dies, it cannot be fully applied to this kind of mass incident.

Although the Han law is strict, it is not as strict as the Qin law. If the law is strictly enforced, it will be difficult to even obtain basic evidence. to frighten the people.

As for strictly enforcing the law, unless it involves rebellion, it is impossible to severely punish ordinary people.

Someone once said that the imperial court killed officials swiftly and swiftly, but the government was timid about killing officials. The imperial court here, of course, refers to Emperor Liu.

In view of the frequent occurrence of public security incidents, endless fighting with weapons, and rampant bandits, last year some people believed that the inability to control civilian weapons was the biggest cause of instability in public security, and proposed to Liu Huang that they hoped to follow the example of the early days of the country, confiscating civilian weapons, and banning Ordinary people have swords, bows, guns and weapons.

However, this suggestion was rejected by Emperor Liu after a little weighing.The reason given by Emperor Liu is very simple. A kitchen knife, a hoe, and even a shoulder pole can kill people, and soldiers are banned from the people. Not to mention the difficulty, if it is really done, can the bloodshed of the people be avoided?
The root cause lies in people. Most common people lack education, do not know the law, and find it difficult to abide by the law. When something goes wrong, the blame lies with the local officials.

It is their duty for the imperial court to use them to guard the place, educate the people, and maintain law and order. Therefore, the law and order is unstable, and the reason is attributed to weapons.

As for the murderer, the crime lies with the person, not the sword of the murder, and can be dealt with according to the law.Thieves are infested, and they have their own arresters, officers and soldiers. This is their duty. If the local bandits are unclear and harm the people, the first person to blame is the local officials.

Therefore, Emperor Liu asked the Political Affairs Hall to formulate a regulation, that is, if there is any damage caused by armed fighting in the locality, the chief official should be held accountable first;

Whether it is the censor or Wu Desi, since then, one more item has been added to the monitoring of the local area, and this item of monitoring is not difficult.Once this policy was announced, it spread widely all over the world, and caused waves suddenly.

Of course, there are some claims about civilian weapons that have indeed aroused the concerns of many officials.That is, it is beneficial for the people to hide soldiers, but in peacetime, the people do not need to defend their homes and the country, and the people have weapons, which are the source of disasters. What if they are used against the imperial court?

It is true that common people murder and violate the law, fight with knives and weapons, or even gather together as bandits, are not important matters to the imperial court. The imperial court has its own coping mechanism, and it is difficult to directly endanger its own rule.

For the predators of the ruling class, the common people are like ants, the common people are like worthless, and the life-and-death struggle between ants, no matter how many casualties, no matter how great the loss, is not important.

Even those thieves and bandits who do harm and do evil are essentially just leeks. They have a big man's sky on their heads. The name of that sky is Liu. The people they killed were Han people, and the money they robbed "Qianyou Tongbao" or "Kaibao Tongbao" is printed on it.

But just as some officials worry, if the untouchables who have mastered swords use these weapons to resist the imperial court, wouldn't this be a great hidden danger?
Even Emperor Liu was taken aback by this view. However, Emperor Liu was not frightened after all. He also thought very clearly that the imperial court has the most powerful violent machine, and it must have the strength and confidence to suppress everything .

And more importantly, if the empire really came to the point where the people would turn against each other, it would not matter at all whether there was no limit to weapons, and that would mean that the empire should die.As long as there are no problems with the court, everything will be fine, and if there is a problem, it is not the only point.

In fact, due to the relationship between vision, there are often some survivors' deviations. In some people's eyes, what they see is the proliferation of weapons and the death and injury of disputes.

However, in general, the big Han is still peaceful, especially in the core areas of the mainland where the big Han ruled. Even if weapons are not allowed, not every household has a sword, and every household has a knife. Ordinary people, kitchen knives, axes, and hatchets are enough. Whoever is a serious person buys a weapon and prepares it, the price is not low. Isn't it good to have a plowshare and a hoe?

Compared with the inland areas, weapons in the frontier areas are really infested. For example, in Yanzhou today, no one dares to go out without a knife. Regardless of the farmers and herdsmen, they always have weapons around their waists during the labor process. of.

In the past, the imperial court had issued a series of restrictive policies on Mobei Khitan, and ironware was the most important one. However, while banning and allowing border people to hold weapons at the same time, one can imagine the final effect.

Even if there is no large-scale trade, small-scale, small-batch transactions are endless.

Of course, due to Emperor Liu's attitude, the blockade of Khitan still exists even in the 21st year of Kaibao, and the two sides are still in a hostile relationship. However, the exchanges between the people are becoming more and more frequent.

In the border market, there are quite a few people who are willing to take risks and trade with Khitan for huge profits.In this regard, the relevant departments did not pursue it fiercely, otherwise, if the smugglers are gone, what is the use of arresting smuggling officials?
Even now, the Khitan people in Mobei, in addition to bartering, the currency they use every day is the Dahan’s Tongbao. Precious metals such as gold and silver are also based on the "exchange rate" of the Dahan. It can be said that although the Dahan is still difficult to get from Mobei was conquered by force, but the economic impact quietly deepened.

If it weren't for the ban, the effect might be better if exchanges and trade were liberalized, but who taught the two sides to have feuded for decades, "the hatred is as deep as the sea"?

Under such a general environment, among Yuan Ke's trading partners, there are Khitan people. However, due to the distance, the risks are too great and the losses are heavy.

And Yuan Ke has no shortage of weapons, at least not such ordinary weapons as swords.