Tang Qi Tan

Of course, during the assembly time before preparing to send troops, Jiang Tian also reorganized the security departments of Provence, Maritime, and Lower Alps provinces.Replace the original establishment of magistrates, circuit judges and attachés recruited from various places with dispatched police established at the city and town level.

The police forces in these cities and towns are uniformly organized according to the proportion of the census; they are currently divided into three levels: provincial capital-county city/city-city town; and some of the main members come from the local resettled Freedom Army The soldiers, some of them were eliminated knight retinues.

Therefore, in a sense, instead of relying on their professional investigation and criminal investigation capabilities on the job, it is better to rely on their own certain force and familiarity with the local advantages to prevent various vicious local security incidents and potential lawlessness. The deterrent and intimidating power of groups.

Even so, it was infinitely better than the old system of retinues of magistrates and circuit judges, both good and bad, cronyistic.Moreover, it also gave a new way out and source of income for those children who had just returned to many local knight families who could not awaken their bloodlines to inherit.

You must know that the main reason for the decline and bankruptcy of these knight families with bloodline inheritance is the result of the unsustainable result of the soaring prices of goods in the kingdom and the severe reduction in output income.Therefore, there are only one or two awakened bloodlines that can be supported in each generation.

In addition to becoming each other's retinues, attendants, and servants, other people have to find ways to find another way out.Therefore, after these thousands of establishments are taken out, it is tantamount to binding the future wealth of the next generation of these knight families into the free army system and becoming a group of vested interests.

With the passage of time, it gradually became a staunch defender of the existing system; and then separated from the old aristocratic class that was suppressed and liquidated more completely.In conjunction with this, there is also a re-constructed judicial system, which is the kingdom's original system of circuit judges.

According to the tradition of the kingdom, every city in the local area has a magistrate hired by the town hall, and a magistrate in the township; they are responsible for handling and adjudicating disputes and disputes under 100 ecu and 50 ecu respectively, as well as stealing and swindling Misdemeanors, first-time offenders, etc.

The circuit judges sent by the capital, provincial capitals, and county cities specialize in handling relatively large amounts of property disputes and economic disputes, and also regularly try various criminal cases reported by the localities; only the low-level circuit judges in the county can only accept civilians. , the common people and the small merchant class.

The middle and senior circuit judges in the provincial capital are further responsible for accepting cases of knights of benefices / knights in line, honorary (life) lords.And only the royal justices from the capital's highest court can justifiably hear disputes, lawsuits, and even crimes among nobles.

It seems that the hierarchy is strict and reasonable, but after a long period of operation, it has become a place where corruption and lawlessness are hidden; because with the financial collapse and financial constraints of the kingdom, the positions of judges at all levels, It turned out that nobles can buy it with money.

And those who bought the position of judges, in order to return their capital and make profits as soon as possible during their term of office, will only intensify their efforts to earn extravagantly, stealing money and perverting the law under clever pretexts; and the entourage they rely on as minions and accomplices, except for a few Peishu recorders and accountants, etc. In addition to civil positions, most of them are extremely vicious people.

This directly or indirectly caused the great suffering of the kingdom's middle and lower classes, and even together with the special existence of taxpayers and mercenary groups, it was called several major cancers of the kingdom.In this regard, Jiang Tian can only copy another example of the existence of time and space, which is the template of the French Revolution.

Three types of arbitrators, magistrates and trial judges are initially established.The arbitrator has no term of office and is not permanent. It is recommended and nominated by the city or town. The local head of household has a certain reputation and wealth, and both parties agree. Then the magistrate is set at the city level.

The term of office is three-year rounds, which can be part-time or full-time, and receive corresponding salaries and subsidies; among the civilian personnel recruited by the Free Army, select some with experience in the industry.You don't need too much knowledge, as long as you can recite and read the law fluently.

Finally, they are more professional trial judges; they are familiar with the legal classics of the Kingdom, and are proficient in various precedents, and can also comply with the policies formulated by the Freedom Army. They also have more generous salaries and subsidies, which require at least several years of professional qualifications; Has the majority of criminal sentencing powers.

However, this is somewhat difficult for the free army that is currently opposed to the traditional old aristocratic class.Therefore, for the time being, magistrates and arbitrators are still used to maintain daily routines; when encountering major cases and criminal crimes, they are still reported to the local garrison chief for handling.

The ordinary judicial process, on the other hand, refers to the mature experience of later generations and is divided into four stages: mediation, arbitration, judgment, and appeal/review; in order to filter out most trivial and cumbersome civil disputes step by step, and reduce the burden on the judicial system. Maintain stress and focused use of resources.

However, this involves another problem, which is the need for supporting laws and regulations; the patching method of deleting and modifying the old kingdom laws/royal decrees of the past dynasties can no longer meet the needs; but, fortunately, Jiang Tian can also sacrifice A killer from another time and space.

That is to say, the "Tang Law Discussion" and "Tang Six Classics" that were revised during the heyday of the feudal dynasty, and after the magical reforms of the predecessors of the traversers, were gradually used and evolved. The code of law cannot be achieved in one leap.

Therefore, there are at least a hundred members of the editorial team, which is carrying out this significant code project; Naturally, it has also become the first choice of judges.

As for the rural areas, although through this round of storm-like liquidation and investigation operations, the remnants of the old nobles hidden in places such as Provence, the Coast, and the Lower Alps have also been swept away by those who caught them by mistake. Once again, a large area of ​​mansion and manor real estate was searched.

But for these, the follow-up disposal of the land properties that almost occupy the best and most fertile land in the major provinces made Jiang Tian feel a little difficult for a while.At least it is impossible to carry out land reform and divide the land. At most, it would be great to let the people from the surrounding area remove some crude benzene and large objects.

Because he does not have enough qualified cadres, nor does he have enough correspondingly conscious groups to mobilize; not to mention that there are still a large number of tenants and serf groups scattered and living on these lands.Years of arduous hard labor made him extremely insensitive to changes in the outside world.

If the Freedom Army directly liberates or de-registers, I am afraid that they will dare to starve to death and flee for you in the next moment.Not to mention that there are still a certain number of vassal farmers who live on the corresponding manor industry system and provide labor as a price for receiving protection.

Therefore, the Freedom Army can only send people to count and grasp the status quo of various production materials reserves, labor allocation, and output of different plots, and then declare that everything will remain basically the same, and at the same time, abolish those miscellaneous expenditures and extras. Labor labor, it will be directly under the management.

Then they were severely punished and executed. Some of the middle and lower management personnel such as managers, village heads, and village chiefs with obvious crimes and the greatest resentment were used as prestige and deterrence under the management of the new regime; The lower-level management and acting officials with a lot of connections with the nobles.

Then, from the remaining self-cultivating farmers and tenants, they were asked to select several families with good reputation and reputation, and after a simple inspection by the Free Army, they were appointed as the successors of these vacant positions.This is enough to keep the stewards, village chiefs, and village chiefs who have been retained for a period of time.

In the end, Jiang Tian planned and set up dozens of model farms/rongyang farms on the most fertile and conveniently irrigated land, and directly recruited refugees from other provinces and bankrupt farmers who lost their land in this province, and used the wounded ones eliminated by the army. Remnants of soldiers as the backbone, conduct guiding operations.

In these farms, a farming system similar to another time and space will be implemented, semi-military management and collective labor will be provided, and public livestock, tools and seeds will be provided; although it is only an expedient measure, it is sufficient at the current level of productivity It has been maintained for a long time.

In the future, these model farms/rongyang farms, which are used as industrialized agriculture and experimental fields, are fully operational and have trained enough agronomic technicians and management personnel; Jiang Tian will consider further replicating and expanding this model, and extending it to more on the land of the kingdom.

As for directly granting land to soldiers, or simply turning back the wheel of history and assigning fiefdoms to his subordinates, it is not in Jiang Tian's consideration for the time being.The reason is also very simple. The current strength of the Freedom Army is not enough to withstand the chain reaction brought about by this series of measures.

When Jiang Tian preliminarily arranged the affairs of the rear, and marched towards the north of Dor Province with the newly formed and supplemented second and fourth corps; the strength of the troops had shrunk by half compared to when he came; On the contrary, it has increased a lot, mainly due to the result of changing clothes.

Although, there is no way to use larger caliber artillery for the time being; but as long as there is enough gunpowder supply, the Congreve/Hale rocket with a poor hit rate can also make do with it.In addition, there is actually a transitional solution, which is the so-called Levins projectile/flying thunder cannon.

It is a trench weapon that is rolled into a tube with a thin iron sheet and buried in the ground, and black powder is used to project the burning material or gunpowder packets; it is also the prototype of the "unconscionable cannon" rebuilt from gasoline barrels in the liberation war of later generations.Although compared with modern conventional artillery, it has poor accuracy and short range;

But for most cold weapon troops in this era, it is like a light and portable large-caliber mortar.And because it fires incendiary and charged gunpowder packets, it is more powerful against enemy forts and arrays than ball bullets and shotguns fired by small and medium-sized artillery.

In addition, he ordered the integration and expansion of more than a dozen local garrison teams led by Thiago and Podos in the frontier provinces such as Gard and Ardèche, respectively, into the characteristic garrison teams of the corresponding provinces.