Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 420 Dali Nanzhao Lancang Chapter: Cleaning up Chaos in a Poor Province
New Sichuan, Songpanwei, Chengdu Prefecture, Long'an Prefecture, Tongchuan Prefecture, Qiongzhou, Meizhou, Yazhou, Tianquan Liufan, Lizhou, Sichuan Xingdusi, Dongchuan Prefecture, Wumeng Prefecture, On the basis of Mahu Prefecture and Jiading Prefecture, it also expanded the area south of Zalen Lake in Qinghai Province, Yushu Prefecture and Duogan Prefecture, and expanded the entire Hengduan Mountains into Sichuan.

Sichuan became another Ming province whose territory was almost completely covered by mountains.

Zhu Houyong climbed up the Hengduan Mountains in a bumpy journey, then came down from the Hengduan Mountains and entered Chengdu Prefecture, the richest city in Sichuan.

New Sichuan has a population of 1.2 million, but the main population lives in Chengdu Prefecture.

According to statistics, the small Chengdu Plain has a population of 9000 million, and Chengdu, the provincial capital, has a staggering 3600 million people, second only to Chongqing.

However, the urban agglomerations around Chengdu, such as Hanzhou, Deyang, Jianzhou, Ziyang, Qiongzhou, Meizhou, etc., all have a population of about 10 million.

The narrow Chengdu Plain has become the most densely populated area in Sichuan.

Zhu Houying took a train and passed through the Hengduan Mountains. What he saw was a sparsely populated ecology mostly based on farming and tourism. He could even walk for dozens of miles without seeing a single person.

When you enter the Chengdu Plain, all you see are people, overcrowded.

The economy of New Sichuan is very mediocre, but if we calculate the list of the top 100 cities in the Ming Dynasty, Chengdu is firmly in the top 20, and is even expected to be ranked 15th and 10th. If we really want to compare, Chongqing may not be his opponent.

The entire New Sichuan economy is almost self-contained.

Daming has the entire industrial chain.

Moreover, as the main route into Wushen, Chengdu also has to bear the heavy burden of assisting in the defense of Wushen and supplying supplies to Wushen.

In addition, Yunnan and Dali provinces in the south also need blood supply from Chengdu to a certain extent.

It is the core place supporting the economy of the three provinces.

No matter how much the central government values ​​Chengdu, it cannot be overemphasized.

When the Ming Dynasty implemented the ten-capital system, it once wanted to upgrade Chengdu to the capital, which shows the importance the court attached to it.

But some courtiers believed that if Chengdu was upgraded to the capital, where would Sichuan be suitable for building a provincial government? Therefore, the idea of ​​Chengdu being upgraded to a capital city was abandoned.

There are two main entrances to the river. One is from Gansu to Xining, which is the traditional entrance line. The other is from Chengdu and goes up through the Hengduan Mountains. It is extremely difficult to build one. The completed heavenly road.

There are actually two Daming Roads, the Qinghai-Tibet Line, which is actually the same road as the post station built by the Yongle Dynasty. It is also the most common road to the sky and has been used by all dynasties.

In the 39th year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty built another highway from Chengdu. It was hailed as an impossible project at the time.

As a result, with the joint efforts of the government and the opposition, it took seventeen years to complete.

The third road starts from Dali Province and connects Kunming-Dali and the entire Baiyue.

This road was built in the 44th year of Jingtai, mainly as a supporting project for the Zhonghua River, and it has not yet been completed.

After the three roads are built, there will be three roads to enter the city: Wuzhen, which leads directly to Qinghai-Gansu-Shaanxi and enters Beijing; directly leads to Chengdu-Chongqing-Wuhan and enters the heart of the Ming Dynasty; directly leads to Dali-Kunming and enters the land of Baiyue. It extends in all directions.

As for the railway line, there are also two lines: one is to take the old road, the road from Yongle to Xiuxian Station; the other is to go to Chengdu, but this road is still in the theoretical stage and the construction is difficult. It has to wait. After the temperature in Uzbekistan increased and the electrical revolution matured, new railways with internal combustion engines were built directly.

In the 66th year of Jingtai, the first internal combustion engine train factory in Ming Dynasty was listed for manufacturing in Chengdu, which means that two years later, the first internal combustion engine train in Southwest China will be born in Chengdu.

As the heart of the southwest, Chengdu is normal no matter how prosperous it is.

Chengdu is precisely the area where the Wushen people gather most, and the Wushen people like to live in Chengdu.

As of the 400th year of Jingtai, the total population of Wusheng was only 200 million, and less than million people remained in the mountains. The young people had already walked down the mountains and integrated into the secular world.

When the Ming Dynasty peacefully captured Wushuang, the population of Wushuang was only 120 million.

The main reason for the population explosion is that people left the snowy mountains, went down the mountains to live in cities, and lived together with Han people. With sufficient food, the population naturally increased.

But those who have been out of the snow-capped mountains for twenty years have basically forgotten the difference between themselves and Han people. Like the second generation who grew up in the Han area, they are completely Han people.

In the more than 40 years since Huairou Wushen's reign, there are no more four million people who can't understand Chinese at all, and those who can't speak Chinese yet are all old men and women, that is, hundreds of thousands of people, young people, The children are now speaking and practicing Chinese.

Even on top of the snow-capped mountains, you can communicate normally in Chinese. There are occasional old men who can't speak, but they all understand.

There are no other language exams in Ming Dynasty, only Chinese.

But you need to study a foreign language.

It is mainly a book compiled of all the words in the world, such as twenty-six letters, some English, French and German words, some Mongolian, Zhenyu and other interesting words and sentences.

The Ming Dynasty College Entrance Examination consists of 11 subjects, including Chinese, mathematics, politics, history, geography, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, foreign languages, plus one subject. The College Entrance Examination is also divided into two examinations: a written examination and an interview.

The college entrance examination does not distinguish between arts and sciences, everyone must study.

There is no test paper for eloquence, it is mainly for interviews. The interviews are after the college entrance examination. You can't let yourself go during the summer vacation. You have to practice interviews. The university has an entrance exam, which is the interview. Only after the candidates pass the interview can they enter the university.

Ming Dynasty was very strict about entering and exiting the university, cultivating talents rather than useless people. Going to university is not to delay employment, but to learn knowledge. Going to school is not to take exams, but to exercise ability. Therefore, there are a large number of repeaters every year. A large number of graduation certificates will be issued.

Ten subjects, the full score is 800 points, Chinese and mathematics are 150 points each, politics, history, geography and economics are combined into one paper, a total of 250 points, and physics, chemistry, life and external affairs are combined into a paper, a total of 250 points.

The old emperor attached great importance to the development of Ming writing.

Since the 10th year of Jingtai, we have been constantly translating foreign books to fill in the Chinese language and enrich the Chinese language. The dictionary has been updated every five years and overhauled every ten years, each time adding a thick volume of new text.

By the 66th year of Jingtai's reign, Jingtai's Cihai, the largest cihai, had more than a hundred books. Ordinary people would not buy such reference books at all.

While the imperial court was eliminating other cultures, it continued to nourish Chinese characters from other cultures, enhance the vitality of Chinese characters, and continue to promote Chinese characters.

Even their own countrymen can't learn English, French, and German very well, but students from Ming Dynasty can understand it a little.

In recent years, Ming Dynasty has been promoting Mandarin.

This Mandarin was also discussed intensively for decades, and it was not completely finalized until the 58th year of Jingtai, and it was not promoted nationwide until the 62nd year of Jingtai.

What exactly is Mandarin? This range is really too big. During the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the accents were completely different. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Nong's soft language was designated as the official Mandarin.

However, as Emperor Taizong moved the capital to Beijing, a large number of wealthy households moved in from all over the country, and after extensive integration, the Nanjing Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty became distorted.

Even Zhu Qiyu's speech is different from the accent of Nanjing people, or it is completely different.

Don't talk about him, Emperor Taizong's accent tends to be a northern accent.

But what he said was different from today's Mandarin, and the Northeastern dialect was not like that of later generations.

With the opening of the sea in the twelfth year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty became more and more inclusive. The entire Gyeonggi Province accommodated a population of 200 million, with people from all over the world, and the accents became even more mixed.

Even the emperor's forty-one sons spoke with different accents!
After spending time with any master, I learned their accent.

If you use Beijing movies, you still can't understand it, because the Beijing dialect of this era is still in the development stage and has not been completely finalized.

The more mature ones are Nanjing dialect, Cantonese, Minnan dialect, Henan dialect, Shaanxi dialect and Sichuan dialect.

After a long discussion, hundreds of millions of people from both the government and the public participated in the discussion. There was a heated discussion about which language should be designated as the national language of the Ming Dynasty. The people have been arguing for decades.

Because there is no unified dialect, it is really difficult. How can we do business if people from all over the world can’t understand each other? How to integrate?

The initial discussions were mainly based on Yayan, but Yayan is obscure and difficult to understand and is not suitable for official Chinese. It is necessary to determine a very standard Mandarin that everyone can understand.

Finally, in the 58th year of Jingtai, the new national standard was determined, which was basically in line with the Mandarin of later generations.

However, the pronunciation method of Mandarin will cause some words to lose their original meaning, because words are spoken first and then written down. Chinese characters are hieroglyphs and are derived from shapes. Changing the pronunciation method will cause some words to lose their original meaning. Lost its original meaning.

Especially if the text is simplified, the text will lose its original charm.

This statement has been discussed for more than three years.

In the end, the Central Committee overcame all opinions and decided to promote the new national standard.

In fact, later generations of Mandarin were also developed through discussions. It was based on the Beijing dialect and took into account the north and the south. The prototype of Mandarin that emerged in the late Qing Dynasty was finalized little by little.

Although Mandarin is now being promoted, it will take three generations of efforts to make all children speak Mandarin.

It's definitely not possible now. Not to mention the old emperor, not even the prince or grandson can speak it. Everyone speaks with their own accent.

Zhu Qiyu's accent is an elegant dialect mixed with some Beijing flavor, some Mandarin added, and a lot of dialects learned from Manchu culture and martial arts. He had to have an interpreter beside him when he spoke, otherwise everyone would not understand.

Zhu Jianjian's words were also mixed with Mongolian and Moscow dialects, mixed with many accents, which made even the old emperor feel awkward.

The most interesting thing is Mongolian. As the largest language in the world for hundreds of years, it disappeared completely in just forty years. Even if you want to find a Mongolian expert now, you can't find it, although there are some literary works circulating in In this world, no one will talk about it.

The Mongols are the quickest to abandon their culture, but they speak with a Mongolian flavor, which makes them sound Mongolian.

In their second generation, the Mongolian flavor disappeared, but the Mongolian flavor was integrated into the local dialect, and a new dialect was born within the dialect.

Fortunately, the dialects cannot be understood well by each other, but they all write the same words and recognize the same words.

Get off the Chengdu City Circle Train.

Zhu Houying sat on the special train, opened the curtains, and looked at the bustling crowd outside.

Everyone wears different clothes, such as suits, Chinese tunic suits, robes, short coats, horse skirts, and casual clothes. Some wear top hats, square scarves, melon skin hats, sun hats, and ancient hats, and some have long hair. Some have their hair disheveled and combed in a Western style, some still have dreadlocks, but many have shaved their hair short and wear trendy clothes.

There were also many women who got off the train, and their clothes were even more eye-catching. Some wore suits and trousers with turtleneck sweaters, some wore thick cheongsams and white stockings, some wore traditional skirts, and some were avant-garde. The short skirt with high heels and flaming red lips looked embarrassing, but no one could move their eyes away.

High heels paired with a skirt was considered avant-garde in the Shang Dynasty. It broke the boundaries between tradition and modernity. Pairing it with a pair of stockings at most made the men of the Shang Dynasty go crazy.

But in Ming Dynasty, madness has not reached its limit.

Zhu Houyong suppressed his desires. Boys should protect themselves when they go out.

"It's really blooming."

Zhu Houyong believes that if you look at Chengdu alone, Chengdu is more developed than Chongqing, but Sichuan suffers from occupying too much desolate land.

But after the north is raised, the climate in the south becomes warmer, and the Hengduan Mountains may become a treasure land.

There is also the development of science and technology, and the natural chasm has become a thoroughfare.

The name Hengduan Mountains only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. Now the old emperor calls it casually, and he doesn't know what it means.

It was a Gongsheng named Huang Maocai. He saw the mountains between the Lancang River and the Nu River running parallel to the south and blocking the road, so he vividly called it the Hengduan Mountains.

Zhu Houying left the prosperous Chengdu and took the train south to Dali Province.

Because Yunnan Province is too big. After Yunnan was merged into Laos and northern Annan, the territory was too large. With the annihilation of Luchuan, the central government split Yunnan Province into two provinces, Dali Province and Yunnan Province.

Dali Province, including Lijiang Prefecture, Yongning Prefecture, Beisheng Prefecture, Yao'an Prefecture, Dali Prefecture, Heqing Prefecture, Yongchang Prefecture, Longchuan Xuanfu Division, Ganya Xuanfu Division, Nandian Xuanfu Division, and Limasi, These original Yunnan Province territories.

Luchuan Kingdom was added, which is Upper Burma, with the Great Jinsha River as the southern provincial boundary and the Naga Mountains as the western provincial boundary. Together, it is Dali Province.

The abbreviation of Dali is Bai, because Dali is a country founded mainly by the Bai people. Now that the old name is used, "Bai" is used as the abbreviation.

When Dali Province was first established, the provincial government was placed in Dali. However, in the 49th year of Jingtai, it was moved to Ruili, the capital of the Luchuan Kingdom, and Ruili was used as the provincial government of Dali Province.

Dali Province, with a total population of 7000 million, is the province with the lowest population among the many provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

In a huge territory, there are only 70 million people.

Mainly because Dali is not suitable for growing food. Food is mainly supplied by the Chengdu Plain and the Siam Plain.

As an inland province, the total economic volume is definitely very low, and the per capita income level is not high. Even if the court invests in development, except for tea, cigarettes, and tourism, Dali Province really has no resources to offer.

Therefore, the current resident population of Dali is only 3000 million, with a net outflow of million people, all of which went to the southern province of Myanmar.

Southern Myanmar Province was renamed Lan Xang Province by the central government this year.

Northern Myanmar was renamed Nanzhao.

The reason why I went to Lancang Province (Southern Myanmar) is that it is mainly a coastal province with many job opportunities, and the central government may choose a city in Lancang Province to be the new capital. The future prospects are unlimited.

Not only people from Dali fled, but people from the entire southwest moved to Lancang Province.

But for a province as big as Dali, with a permanent population of just over 30 million, the imperial court was also anxious. In the 55th year of Jingtai, it proposed a policy to revitalize the southwest. The imperial court believed that the southwest should give full play to its own advantages and maintain its competitiveness in the national competition. core competitiveness.

Cigarettes, tea and tourism are the three legs supporting the development of Dali.

The imperial court would allocate a sum of money every year to revitalize the development of the southwest.

Ruili, the provincial capital of Dali, was supposed to be the capital of Dali Province and should attract talents from the entire province, but Ruili did not do it.

As of the 230th year of Jingtai's reign, Ruili had a total population of million, ranking second to last in the national provincial rankings. At the bottom was the capital city of Wusheng, which was even worse, with a population of only over .

The largest city in Dali Province is Dali City, with a population of 420 million.

The imperial court rated it as a mid-level city.

It is also one of the few provinces that does not have a large city. Ruili, the provincial capital, is not even rated as a mid-level city and is only a small city.

But housing prices in Dali are really cheap.

In Dali, the house price is only 800 yuan, while in Ruili it is 500 yuan. Real estate speculators often leave crying when they come.

But he's not alone.

There are also Wushen and Qinghai accompanying the list, so you are not alone.

As ordinary people living in Dali, it is still very comfortable. There is no fast pace in big cities, but there is a slow and happy life.

Zhu Houyong really has nothing to observe. This place is too poor. There are five or six high-end shopping malls in the entire Dali City. Compared with Chengdu, they are simply in the sky and underground. Chengdu is even smaller than a hair on his legs. Dali is rich.

This was once the province of Dali, a city that the imperial court spent tens of millions to develop.

When I was in Jingtai for 40 years, Dali was selected as one of the top 100 cities with the most potential for development. The imperial court invested in it every year, but nothing happened.

Some people say that why people are leaving their hometowns one after another is because this place is ruled by the Ming Dynasty during the day and under the rule of evil forces at night. Living here makes people feel scared every day.

But these were rumors after all. The Central Committee did not receive the report. They also sent people to investigate secretly, but nothing was found.

In the fifty-eighth year of Jingtai, the old emperor sent his confidant Peng Yi as governor of Dali to oversee military affairs for a two-year term.

Peng Yi did not report anything to the central government.

After that, the imperial court did not investigate further. In fact, the imperial court had already divided the counties into different levels. No one cared about such garbage areas.

Zhu Houyong was even less interested in this kind of bad place.

Dali Province is not a heartland place. Even though it is a thoroughfare to many provinces, these provinces are all super poor provinces. They can be regarded as border provinces and poor provinces.

The entire center didn't care, so naturally he didn't care either.

What the imperial court cares about is either an economically strong province or a province with an important strategic location. In a place like Dali, where rebellion can't be a big deal.

Zhu Houying only stayed in Dali and Ruili for two days each, and then went south to Nanzhao.

Nanzhao Province is northern Myanmar. It was originally intended to be called Jinsha Province. However, the name Nanzhao is actually not adjacent to northern Myanmar. Jinsha Province is more suitable.

However, the court believed that the place name Jinsha had little value, and using Nanzhao could indicate the sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty. After all, Nanzhao was one of the Chinese dynasties that once ruled here, and it was more legal, so the name Nanzhao was used.

Nanzhao Province, abbreviated as Burma, actually takes Mandalay and cuts it diagonally, placing the Arakan Mountains completely in Nanzhao Province.

Nanzhao Province is close to the sea. Its outlet to the sea is in the Rakhine State of India. The provincial capital is Mandalay, but it is called Bagan. Its ancient name is Bagan. The Bagan dynasty established its capital here.

Compared with Dali to the north, Nanzhao was much richer.

Nanzhao's total population is 1 million, and it only exceeded million this year, because as a large province with access to the sea, the population is really small.

There are many reasons. The terrain of Nanzhao is rugged and it does not have the innate conditions of a populous province. The outlet to the sea is not a natural port. To transport goods from the port to the mainland, you have to pass through the Arakan Mountains. This raised mountain range has a natural geography. The cost of crossing the dividing line is very high.

Secondly, the terrain of Nanzhao is too bad. To the east and west, there are two populous provinces, Bengal Province in the west and Lancang Province (Southern Myanmar) in the east, which directly sucked away the population of Nanzhao like crazy.

These two provinces are not only absorbing the population of Southwest China, but also the population of Nanzhao.

The court's good policies must be implemented first in the two provinces with superior economic conditions. When it is Nanzhao's turn, they will be leftovers.

Moreover, the imperial court had to revitalize Dali and Yunnan, two brothers in distress.

There is really very little support for Nanzhao.

There are two big cities in Nanzhao, Bagan and Arakan. Bagan has a population of 1200 million and Arakan has a population of 1020 million, which is enough to qualify as a big city.

Zhu Houyong was not very interested in Nanzhao. Among the fifty-seven provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Nanzhao was among the provinces with a very low sense of presence.

It was still called Northern Burma at that time.

It was renamed Nanzhao, but the economy did not improve.

In the 62nd year of Jingtai, the imperial court invested 100 million in Nanzhao to develop tourism in Nanzhao. As a result, Nanzhao's tour groups were so powerful, and there were endless cases of rip-offs. Before tourism started, its reputation collapsed.

The city of Bagan was burned down during the war. The Bagan city we see now was built in the Ming Dynasty, but was demolished in the 62nd year of Jingtai. A new city was rebuilt to imitate the characteristics of Nanzhao's capital city, just to develop tourism.

It turns out that the tour group not only costs money, but also lives.

Bring tourists into the tropical rainforest, and if you don't pay, leave them in the rainforest and treat them as missing persons.

They also force tourists to buy jade. They buy jade bracelets worth one thousand or two thousand dollars in a jewelry store and sell them for tens of thousands. If they don't pay, they will withhold their certificates and won't let tourists leave.

A bunch of chaos, too many to count.

Since the development of tourism in the 64th year of Jingtai, the imperial court has received memorials from Nanzhao Province almost every day, all about tourism.

Last year, the imperial court issued an imperial edict requiring Nanzhao to regulate tourism.

The result was that it fell on deaf ears.

At the beginning of this year, three people from a tour group disappeared. They found severed body parts in the tropical rain forest and were eaten by wild animals.

This incident made a big fuss and exposed the tourism chaos in Nanzhao.

It coincided with the prince's purge of the court.

On May 17, Zhu Jianji sent 30,000 troops to Nanzhao to take over the military and administration of Nanzhao province. He began to arrest people on a large scale and took care of the tour group.

When Zhu Houyong entered Nanzhao Province, the whole province was in panic.

The prince's army is arresting people all over the province. All the prisons are full of people, and people are being tortured to death every day.

All the travel agency owners are running away, going deep into the mountains, and those who are timid are running away to other provinces.

"What does the Imperial Grandfather want to do?" Zhu Hooying stayed in Bagan. He did not walk around or inspect the local customs to avoid causing unnecessary misunderstandings.

With rounds of torture, the truth about the travel agency soon surfaced.

These travel agencies are backed by powerful people. Local powerful officials have backers in the central government. As long as the court sends people to investigate, they can get the news in advance and destroy the evidence. Therefore, the court sends people to make secret visits and nothing can be found.

It really killed people, but they could rely on their vast network of connections to reduce major problems to minor issues. There would be someone in the court to help them talk, and everything would be fine soon.

But this time!
The backer of the court was arrested first, and the local officials didn't know it. The army came in military trains, suddenly took over the military and political affairs of the province, and immediately began to arrest people, including big tigers and small flies, and stewed them in one spoonful.

Caught everyone off guard!
Moreover, what the court is investigating is not a trivial matter like a travel agency!
To those in power, the death of a few people is nothing. As long as the people do not rebel, it is nothing to the people in power.

Even a small rebellion is nothing, just annihilation.

It was purely a fool's errand to hunt rabbits, and the travel agency was beaten.

The boss is not afraid of running away, isn’t his family still there? The family members have all run away, aren’t the Nine Clans also there? There are always people to blame, and as long as these people are touched, those who ran away will come out on their own initiative.

In the past, these businessmen could find connections, but the court would never kill them all. Those who stole hooks would kill those who stole the country. Even the prince admitted that businessmen were also scholars and members of the ruling class. So, why bother to kill them all?

But this time is different.

Zhu Jianjian didn't get what he wanted, and officials all over the world were in trouble.

Similarly, the biggest ones in their court also wanted to take the opportunity to eliminate the cancer, so it was time to pay them back.

The businessmen wanted to find connections, but found that the people they were looking for had been arrested. Only then did they realize that a disaster was coming, and there was nowhere to escape if they tried to escape.

Even if the person runs away, can the money run away? Can the nine tribes run away?

How could he escape from the Ming Dynasty without the help of the Nine Clans? Even if you escape from the Ming Dynasty, where can you go? The world is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty. As long as the imperial court issues an order, he will have nowhere to hide.

At this time, all major families will inevitably fight for survival, and the martyrs will cut off their wrists.

That's not all that was dug up.

Involved in crime!

Dali can only be ruled by the Ming Dynasty during the day, but it is not the Ming Dynasty at night.

This time there was a massive manhunt, and officials all over the world wanted to investigate and arrest him. This kind of thing could not be hidden. There was no umbrella above, so how could it be so dark?

In just one month, 120,000 people were arrested and more than 20,000 were beheaded.

Ming Dynasty did not execute people, only beheaded them.

Before beheading, they had to be paraded through the streets.

There used to be decapitation meals, but in the thirty-seventh year of Jingtai, the court canceled the decapitation meals and charged beheading fees to family members. If you want to have a good meal before you die, you don't have to think about it. If you can't eat it, the beheaded family will have to pay for it. money.

Parading has been a thing since ancient times. As for how long and how many streets to parade, it is determined by the local area and depends on the situation.

The Ming Dynasty did not abolish torture, but also added many more tortures.

Different crimes require different tortures, which is very reasonable.

For example, if an official commits a capital crime, he or she will be beheaded. There is no punishment that cannot be meted out to the official, and there is no immunity for the scholar-official. Everything is done according to the ancestral system.

However, generally speaking, it is difficult for officials to commit capital crimes. Only the following situations: treason; intentional homicide; embezzlement to a certain amount; arson; drug trafficking and arms trafficking; explosion; and rape. These seven situations are the death penalty.

This is immunity.

The law has been so lenient on officials, yet hundreds of officials are still beheaded every day.

Corruption to a certain amount, this amount is set relatively high, but it is not written out. Officials from both the government and the public know that embezzlement of more than 30 yuan in total is a death sentence. In terms of current prices, it will cost at least one in the capital. A building of one hundred feet is a death sentence.

The Ming Dynasty did not allow the use of torture on suspects, and torture was an inevitable hurdle for interrogation.

However, there are strict requirements on how to torture, and the standards for torture are strict. Beating can be done, but within a certain range. In fact, local criminal investigators are encouraged to try not to use torture instruments.

The lawyer system has become very complete after decades of development.

In order to maintain judicial justice and prevent lawyers from becoming lackeys of the powerful, the Ministry of Punishment has strict regulations on lawyers and on hiring lawyers. It is prohibited to play word games or take advantage of legal loopholes. Judicial fairness must be maintained.

Suspects have the right to hire a lawyer, but they must obtain the consent of the relevant departments. If they do not agree, the lawyer has no right to participate in the case.

Of course, there will definitely be more unjust, false and wrong cases, but if lawyers can intervene in the case at will, the law will become a lackey of the powerful, and the law will become a piece of paper that only cares about the common people but cannot control the powerful.

Other laws can be used to control unjust, false and wrongful convictions.

Emperor Taizu attached great importance to governing the country by law, and he imposed extremely strict regulations on the Ming Dynasty Law.

During the Jingtai Dynasty, the old emperor was also an emperor who attached great importance to the law. He always believed that the law was a weapon to protect everyone in the Ming Dynasty and that improving the law represented the progress and strength of a country.

However, many old customs remain unchanged.

Extorting confessions by torture, torture, parades, etc.

From the Yongle Dynasty, officials were not punished to punishment, but under special circumstances, officials were punished, and scholars and common people were equally guilty.

Sure enough, this inspection operation.

Many law firms have been implicated. In the entire Nanzhao Province, it is estimated that more than 20,000 lawyers are involved in the case. It is expected that more than 10,000 people will be executed, most of them will be exiled, and only a few will be able to save their lives, but their lawyer qualification certificates will be revoked. , impose a fine.

Fighting gangs and eliminating evil and maintaining judicial justice are not just words.

And those implicated are not only law firms, but also property, real estate, hotels, local shops and other industries, implicating more than one million people.

Zhu Houyong smacked his tongue, his imperial grandfather was too brave.

One province dares to arrest millions of people. There are fifty-seven provinces in the Ming Dynasty. How many people have to be arrested? Aren't you afraid of rebellion?
I'm really not afraid.

Not only was the fourth child not afraid, but he was also waiting for people to rebel so that he could show off his abilities.

After being caught, all departments in Nanzhao were paralyzed.

Large numbers of officials were either dispatched from the central government or replaced from local areas.

Basically, it is supplemented from local places.

During the more than ten years of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty suddenly expanded its vast territory, reformed the government, and sent imperial power to the countryside. There was a great shortage of talents in both the government and the public.

But in the sixty-sixth year of Jingtai, there was really no shortage of people in the government and the public. Even the candidates and scholars were overcrowded!
Let alone scholars, scholars have been replaced by university graduates.

By the 66th year of Jingtai, there were already 800 million college students in the Ming Dynasty. From a political point of view, a university graduate is a scholar, and as he goes up, he can become a Jinshi.

It can be said that there are scholars everywhere in the Ming Dynasty.

If the court is extremely short of people, it can be recruited from the society.

However, there were also many people in the Ming Dynasty!

It cannot be described as excessive, but as excessive.

After graduating from Taixue, you will be promoted to candidates, which is equivalent to graduating with a doctorate.

As of the 270th year of Jingtai, there were 230 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and the number of people who were not in politics was as high as million.

In other words, only 30 of the candidates have found government jobs, and they are most likely only low-level civil servants, not officials.

The unemployment rate in Juren is the highest.

Speaking of Jinshi, after passing the imperial examination, you can enter the Imperial College to study, but you cannot pass the Jinshi after graduating from the Imperial College. This is just a channel for learning.

Passing the Jinshi examination is the beginning of a career in politics.

As of the 34th year of Jingtai, there were Jinshi in Ming Dynasty.

Because Jinshi is expanding its enrollment.

When Jingtai was more than ten years old, Jinshi was very valuable. When he went to the local area, he was also the eighth-grade county magistrate, which was equivalent to the deputy county magistrate.

At that time, due to the extreme shortage of people in the imperial court, even scholars had the opportunity to be promoted.

But now, the number of Jinshi has been expanded every year, and the first, second, third, fourth... all have reached the twelfth list.

However, when he started as a Jinshi, he was the section chief of a local county.

Local counties adopt a three-level system of county magistrate, director, and section chief.

Normally, you can become a county magistrate in six years, but that's on a theoretical level. If there is no one in the center, you won't be able to become a county magistrate in ten years.

Because it’s too curly!

In the past, the Ming Dynasty continued to expand its territory and was short of a large number of grassroots officials, so anyone could get a job.

Nowadays, the local market is only so big. Officials from all over the country have to occupy official positions. They have given birth to a group of sons, sons, nephews and a group of relatives, all waiting to become officials. The typical situation is more wolves and less meat.

There are also the families of the palace maids in the palace. The eunuch’s family has adopted sons and nephews, and the maid’s family is already very popular, but there are also many poor relatives, so they need some help.

In addition, relatives of the Xungui family said.

There are also those men and women who are always in need of accommodation at home.

As a result, grassroots officials can be involved in death.

It stands to reason that a Jinshi can become a county magistrate in six years. However, if there is no one in the court, he will be wasted at the grassroots level and will not be able to get promoted.

Over the years, it has become increasingly difficult and difficult to read.

It has been involved. It is not that someone in the court can be promoted, but that one has to have a strong relationship to be promoted.

This is ironic, just talking about building a good relationship is just a hooliganism, you need money.

Being an official is just for power, wealth and sex. If you don't pay, why should you be promoted?

As a result, the government was in chaos, corruption was serious, and the imperial court was suffering from cancer. If bloodletting treatment was not carried out quickly, the Ming Dynasty would be gone.

So, the court is arresting people, and some people are laughing in the crowd. The day has finally come, and it’s finally my turn!
These people are the Jinshi who were wasted in their place and could not be promoted.

These people are the Jinshi who were supposed to enter the officialdom, but were snatched away by the powerful.

When the imperial court purged officials and the three big mountains that were weighing on them were removed, they could directly fill in the gaps, and even seize the opportunity to leap into the sky.

Zhu Houying temporarily stayed in Bagan.

Because people were being arrested everywhere, it was very possible that these people would jump over the wall and attack him, and they might as well just stay here and wait for the storm to pass before patrolling again.

During this period, he sent people out to learn about Nanzhao Province.

In this province conquered by the Ming Dynasty, where did the local indigenous people go?
After seeing the terrain of northern Myanmar, Zhu Houyong did not believe that the local indigenous people could be completely wiped out. Some of them must have been killed, but more of them became Ming people.

After many visits and checking local chronicles, I finally found out.

In fact, the local people are mainly Burmese, Mon people, and Piao people, while those in the north near Daming are Dai people.

They are of the same race as the Dai people of Yunnan.

Therefore, when the Ming army came here, the Dai people were forgiven, because they both belonged to China, so the Dai people were not massacred.

There were many Burmese, Meng, and Piao people who disguised themselves as Dai people and merged into the Ming Dynasty.

The local natives were good at fighting, and most of the captives they captured were sold to the Chu State, and some were sold to Oceania.

The rest are the natives hiding in the mountains. These are usually eliminated, captured, and sold, and a small number of them become Ming people.

According to Ming Dynasty estimates, the entire population of Myanmar is about 270 million. The Ming Dynasty killed men and sold about . The remaining men and women were merged into the Ming Dynasty and became the Ming Dai people and the Chinese Miao people.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have wiped out the local area, but in fact it only killed the majority, mainly to minimize the number of men, so that it could become a very small number, and finally be broken into pieces and swallowed up.

The reason why they were not sent to China as slaves was because the five countries in Oceania gave them a lot of money.

Moreover, the five countries need warriors to resist natural enemies, so it is just right to use Burmese natives to make the journey. Those who survive will become Ming people in Oceania, and those who die will have a bad life and be fair.

Among the indigenous women, there were about one million women, and the good-looking ones were sold for 200,000 yuan to the Ming Dynasty, while the rest were married to immigrants.

The remaining 30 men became the Dai people and survived as Chinese Miao people.

Anyway, Myanmar disappeared, leaving only two provinces of Ming Dynasty, Nanzhao and Lancang.

(End of this chapter)