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Chapter 665: Being crowned king with different surnames
The battle in the north was victorious, and Mobei and Beihai (eastern) were recovered by the Ming army.

Only the northern and western parts of the North Sea remain, which have not yet been conquered.

But it's not a big problem anymore. The Cossacks don't have any decent castles on the north side of the North Sea. They are basically some wooden palisade and rammed earth strongholds.

There is no way, it is too cold here, and I have neither time nor energy to build a castle.

The Cossacks in the north can notify the garrison in Lingbei Prefecture and slowly send troops to deal with them.

As for the Cossacks west of the Beihai, these guys now know that the Ming army has swept away everything east of the Beihai, but there is nothing they can do.

Not only was it impossible to defeat them, but the entire area west of the North Sea had long been plunged into a state of anarchy.

The Yenisei Warlord personally went to Nerchinsk to deliver his life, leaving the Yeniseysk Castle without a leader. Officials at all levels took the opportunity to embezzle the property and farms left by the Yenisei Warlord, while slowly sending people to notify Her Majesty the Queen in St. Petersburg.

When the Queen of Tsarist Russia knew the news, she would send new military governors and even support part of the troops to Yeniseisk. It is estimated that the entire west of the North Sea was taken over by the Ming army to kill rabbits.

The empire lost a large territory in Far East Siberia. What does that have to do with the down-and-out nobles who stayed in Siberia?

They just come to take advantage of the opportunity to make money, and then return home in good clothes and enjoy life in St. Petersburg.

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Nanjing City.

The latest and final version of "Da Ming Law" was finally officially released this year.

It took several years for the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple to compile such a complete set of national codes.

In the old version of the Ming Dynasty Code, many clauses have become obsolete after hundreds of years. Moreover, the "Da Ming Code" was promulgated in the early Ming Dynasty, and many of its clauses were inevitably too strict, and could even be said to be unreasonable.

All of these must be modified, and the degree of modification must be carefully considered.

Zhu Yijiong has personally read the latest version of "The Laws of the Ming Dynasty" and read it for more than a month. He couldn't be more serious. Who made him the emperor now?

The revised "Da Ming Law" also has more detailed regulations, which greatly reduces the misjudgment of the law and the room for favoritism and malpractice.

Perhaps because of several major cases in the past, the emperor frequently exiled three ethnic groups, and many children were also exiled to bitter and cold frontier places with their parents.

Officials of the Sanfa Department made corrections to this. The old version of the "Da Ming Code" stipulates: "Those who are over seventy years old, under fifteen years old and disabled, and who commit crimes of exile or less shall be redeemed. Those who are over eighty years old, under ten years old and Du Ji, those who commit rebellion, rebellion, and murder shall be punished by the deceased. Those who steal and hurt others will also be punished. Those who are over ninety and under seven years old will not be punished. Even if there is an order, they will not be punished. If there is any stolen goods, the person who receives the stolen goods should prepare it."

In human terms, if a person commits a crime under the age of seven, he does not need to bear criminal responsibility. However, if he commits a crime after the age of seven, he will be held responsible. However, he can petition, that is, ask the emperor for instructions on whether to show mercy outside the law.

But petitioning basically depends on whether the local magistrate is willing to do this troublesome thing, which means that the magistrate can sentence whatever he wants.

Previously, when the emperor exiled three tribes, no officials came forward to seek mercy, which resulted in a particularly large number of children being exiled.

The new version of the law revised this article, raising the original age of mourning from under seven years to under ten years old, and those under ten years old are not required to bear criminal responsibility.

If you are over ten years old or under thirteen years old and have committed a crime, you can petition the emperor to see if he will show mercy.

However, no matter how the modification is made, if the crime is extremely heinous, such as intentional murder, cruel means... they will all be punished in accordance with the law, and those who deserve to be beheaded will be beheaded.

Officials have made such changes. As long as the new law is promulgated, many children in the bitter and cold frontier areas can be released.

Adults may be able to bear being exiled to guard the border, but children may find it difficult to adapt.

Zhu Yijiong read it word by word and sentence by sentence, and wrote Zhu Zhu: "Yes."

The subsequent criminal laws did not change much. Basically, some of the criminal laws that were too strict in the previous Ming Dynasty were relaxed appropriately. Some of the criminal laws that were too loose were slightly aggravated.

Speaking of which, the exile frontiers of the Ming Dynasty and the New Dynasty were more relaxed than those of previous dynasties, because the government not only ensured that the exiled criminals were provided with food and medicine, but also did not engage in forced slave labor, and even provided land allocation and tax exemptions.

For such preferential treatment, it is actually more appropriate to say that they are immigrants, but they are not allowed to return to the mainland after immigration, and those who have not removed their status as criminals will also be restricted in the imperial examination. Even if there is no criminal status, the family's exile will be recorded in the government's internal archives.

Even if you pass the imperial examination to become an official in the future, you will definitely be treated differently, but you will not be exempted from the title directly. This will not give the emperor face.

But when it comes to personal promotion, they will definitely deliberately make things difficult for you, no matter how outstanding your political achievements are.

This is inevitable, as human nature is, and it is impossible for the emperor to eliminate these.

……

The new "Law of the Ming Dynasty" was fully published, and the generals in the North, including Yang Gong (mainly the generals participating in the war, not all), also returned to Beijing one after another.

As soon as these generals returned to Beijing, they began to thank guests behind closed doors, fast and bathe.

In this battle, the Ming Dynasty completely regained Mobei and the east of Beihai. From now on, there will no longer be Mongols in the northern border, and there will be Mongols under the control of the Ming Dynasty Dusi.

None of these generals achieved the achievement of sealing the wolf to Xu, because they could not find the wolf to stay in Xu Mountain.

But at the foot of Yanran Mountain in Mobei, generals such as Yang Gong all carved steles and biographies below.

Le Shi Yanran is not only an honor, but also a merit.

The emperor had already let out the news in advance that after this battle, Yang Gong would be crowned king.

All civil and military officials were shocked when they received the news, but no one came forward to object.

After all, the emperor had already hinted at this matter a few years ago, but it was just a few years later that everyone ignored it.

But unexpectedly, such a move came suddenly this year. No one thought of admonishing the emperor, because this was the first living king in the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Ming Dynasty, there have been no kings with different surnames in China. The posthumous titles such as Xu Da's are not counted, nor are the Three Feudatories of the Manchu and Qing dynasties, because the San Francisco vassals actually brought capital into the organization and were soon replaced by the Manchu and Qing dynasties. Done.

Now, the emperor wants to grant a title to a living king with a different surname. Even if it is only a title in name, without actual fiefdom and power, it is still a title of king.

For these civil servants and generals, this is something they cannot ask for no matter how much merit they achieve.

The edict to make the king was issued on the fifth day after Yang Gong returned to Beijing.

The royal title assigned to him was Prince of Changshan County. He was only a county prince, and it was impossible to give him a title as a prince.

Moreover, the title of the county king can only be passed down to one generation, and his grandson will have to be reduced to the title of Duke.

This was Emperor Zhu's special decision to show mercy. People should not think that he was a petty person. What happened to a generation of princes?

Yang Gong, who was granted the title of Prince of the County, will formally retire from the Central Military Governor's Office in the future and will no longer lead troops in battles. He will also live in Nanjing for a long time.

The other generals also had their own rewards. For example, Fu Yunsheng, the Marquis of Taiyuan, was raised one level and became the Marquis of Han.

During the battle in Mobei, the Ming Dynasty produced many more nobles and the first king with a different surname.

Especially since this person with a different surname was a military general, the news would quickly spread from Nanjing to all provinces across the country.

There will be countless literati who will come out to oppose the emperor's decision, but there will also be some who are eager to give it a try.

If the wolf is granted the title of Xu, and Shi Yanran is restrained, he will have the opportunity to become the king.

This martial spirit, as well as the spirit of enterprising and pioneering foreign affairs, were naturally cultivated.

An illusory title with no real power, only salary and honor. In exchange for these, it is such a bargain!
(End of this chapter)