Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 126 Looting and Raising Soldiers
After winning the first battle, Luo Cheng immediately sent flying cavalry to report back.

On the one hand, it is to repay the victory, on the other hand, it is to ask for credit, and on the other hand, it is to ask the county magistrate to deal with the bandits and fugitives in the village.

In the Zhangqiu County Yamen, Zhang Yichen heaved a sigh of relief after receiving the good news, with a look of joy on his face.

"This Luo lunatic is really good at fighting and suppressing bandits. Just dispatched troops, he already broke through a bandit's nest on the first day, that's amazing."

Zhang Yichen's staff members were also amazed after reading the detailed victory report.

"He is good at fighting, but he is not good at being an official. He is now a county lieutenant, and he is in charge of soldiers and lawmen. He is in charge of arresting thieves and suppressing bandits, and criminal and prison proceedings. He is good. After leaving the thief’s village, I’m going to ask the envoy how to deal with it.”

As a county lieutenant, he has to share the general affairs of the county with the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant happens to be responsible for this part of the judiciary.It stands to reason that it is up to Luo Cheng to decide how to deal with the bandits and fugitives, and then report the results to the county magistrate.

Zhang Yichen said, "After all, Luo Cheng is young, and he has just taken office as the acting county captain. If he is undecided, it is safe to ask me."

The aide said again, "Looking at his preliminary treatment, it is not bad, but it is still a bit too light, which is not in line with the law."

Since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the law has been revised. Although many laws of corporal punishment have been reduced, the law has also been simplified and simplified, but in general, the law is merciless, and those who dare to touch the law will be punished severely.

After the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, two laws were revised, namely the Kaihuang Law of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and the Daye Law of today's Daye Emperor.

In the first year of Kaihuang, at the beginning of the founding of the country, Yang Jian ordered Gao Jiong, Zheng Yi and other important officials to collect the criminal codes of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and go down to the Qi and Liang Dynasties.

In the third year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, the law was strict and strict, so many people were convicted of crimes. Su Wei and Niu Hong were ordered to update the law. The following 81 articles, including name regulations, guard bans, job systems, household marriages, stables, arrogance, thieves, litigation, fraud, miscellaneous laws, arrests and death, and imprisonment, total twelve articles.

The Kaihuang law also changed the names of the five punishments: flogging, stick, disciple, exile, and death. Bai, during the execution of the rod punishment, no change of person is allowed, and the system of eight discussions is stipulated to maintain the privileges of the nobles, bureaucrats and landlords, and the ten felonies of the Northern Qi Dynasty have been developed into heinous crimes, and the behavior of disrupting the order of the civil construction system has been strengthened.

In the third year of Daye, Yang Guang launched a revised version on the basis of Kaihuang Law, called Daye Law, with [-] chapters and [-] articles in total.

The Daye Law has a lighter punishment than the Kaihuang Law, and it also expresses lenient punishment for some articles in the list of ten heinous crimes.

Compared with the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty were more lenient on the law, but no matter how lenient they were, they would not be lenient to the bandits and rebels.

According to the convention, those who committed serious crimes like thieves and bandits would be executed after being arrested, or exiled into the army.Or they were not slaves directly, but were beaten as pariahs.

The thieves captured this time can basically be dealt with according to this example, and even the fugitives who are attached to them can be dealt with in the same way, especially this case, which involves rebellion and chaos, let alone spare.

You know, treason is a heinous crime, much more serious than thieves.

"Those people are also good people, but they voluntarily gave up their household registration, fled to the mountains, and became thieves. This is intolerable." The staff is very familiar with the law, "I suggest that those captured thieves The bandits are all beheaded, and those who escaped from the bandits are all demoted to slaves and classified as lowly, it is best to be directly listed as private slaves and sold publicly."

The staff suggested that those people should be reduced to slaves and then sold. The money obtained could be used not only to suppress bandits, but also to manage the superiors.

There were many slaves in the Sui Dynasty, most of which came from prisoners of war and bandits and rioters.

It is said that in the capital city of Daxing, [-]% of the population are slaves. The nobles, bureaucrats and scholars in Daxing City cannot live without slaves every day. Even in the many temples and Taoist temples in Daxing City, there are many slaves.

There are many slaves, and there are many slave transactions.

The market for slaves is huge, and the demand is also huge.

Both the Kaihuang Law and the Daye Law clearly stipulated the status of slaves. Compared with livestock property, slaves were the private property of slave owners.

The slave class in the Sui Dynasty was a huge group, in addition to the lowest-level slaves, it also included official households, miscellaneous households, trilogy, etc.

Miscellaneous households are official slaves driven by various divisions who have no official status due to the crimes of the previous generation.

Guanhu is the general term for Fanhu, that is, the households assigned by the previous generation or the households of the minority tribal prisoners of war assigned by the current dynasty.

Buqu is a slave who remains in the master's house to serve as servant after being released by the master.

The identities of these people are slightly different, but they are all sluts.

Slaves are not even worthy of a surname, and the trilogy has a name and a surname, but they all belong to the untouchables.

Slaves also include official slaves and private slaves. Official slaves are naturally subordinate to the government, while private slaves are privately owned.

According to the intention of the aides, all the fugitives in the village were beaten into official slaves and sold to private individuals, so that they became private slaves, and the Zhangqiu county government got a sum of money for selling slaves.

As for doing this, no one cares about the feelings of those fugitives. Anyway, they have given up their household registration in the Sui Dynasty, so they do not belong to the people of the Sui Dynasty.

Zhang Yichen thought for a while, and said, "Since Luo Cheng had killed the seven thieves when he broke the stronghold, the remaining 29 thieves don't have to be killed. They were not slaves. As for those who escaped from the thieves, they were not official slaves. Luo Cheng Didn't Cheng say to let them build a military station, then let them build a military station there. The rest of the property and fields, etc., are all confiscated to the government."

The staff reminded Zhang Yichen.

"Luo Cheng's vanguard has 2000 people, 1000 combat soldiers, and more than [-] auxiliary soldiers. These people are not government soldiers and have no food and wages. Now they are fighting to suppress bandits, and we have to give them some sweets. Order Luo Cheng to keep half of it as a reward for the county soldiers and township brave officers, and the remaining half to the county government, and then the envoy will give [-]% of it to Luo Cheng and other county soldiers and township brave officers as rewards."

The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.

The county soldiers and the village warriors brought their own dry food to fight, and it must be beneficial to suppress bandits.

It would be unreasonable to ask Luo Cheng to hand over all the seized proceeds.

"Those county soldiers and townships will definitely take the opportunity to snatch the spoils when they bravely suppress the bandits."

"It definitely will, but even if they rob privately, they will definitely keep some to turn in. Let's not care about the privately robbed ones. On the surface, the envoys have to leave half of them to Luo Cheng and the others, and then the rest Half of it and [-]% will be rewarded to Luo Cheng and other officers, and the last [-]% will go to the county government treasury."

"When the water is clear, there will be no fish!" the staff reminded.

No good, who will fight with you to suppress the bandits?
Zhang Yichen nodded, "Okay, come and write a letter to Luo Cheng!"

(End of this chapter)