Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 32 Harvesting and Cutting
"Boom...boom...boom..."

As the sun set and the evening drums sounded, people all over Nanjing began to rush home in a hurry.

Not only the common people, but also some officials were rushing home.

In such a scene, Zhu Gaoxu and the other two members of the Yulin Zuowei family, who returned home unhurriedly, looked very strange.

Looking at such a scene, Zhu Gaoxu was a little stunned: "This curfew is really confusing."

"There is no way, Your Highness..." Wang Jian intended to get closer to Zhu Gaoxu, so he explained: "The curfew is also to protect the people."

"Since the curfew was lifted in the Song Dynasty, children and women have often been abducted by traffickers at night and sold to Luchuan, Myanmar, Cochin, Siam, Nanyang and other places."

"Where to sell it?" Hearing Wang Jian's words, Zhu Gaoxu was a little stunned. He did not expect that human trafficking in ancient times was so serious.

"Myanmar, Luchuan, Jiaozhi, all the places in Nanyang." Wang Jian didn't understand why Zhu Gaoxu was making such a fuss, but thinking that he was a prince, he thought it was too good to be protected by the palace, so he didn't know about these things.

In order to answer his questions, Wang Jian could only explain in depth: "Both children and women are basically sold to these places, and some are even sold to Persia and Thailand."

"In the previous dynasty, the northern captives showed little consideration for the Han people and often ignored them. Therefore, the human traffickers became more and more rampant and even used the captured children and women to harvest and cut their offspring to make money."

"What is harvesting and cutting?" Zhu Gaoxu found that he didn't understand too much, so he could only keep asking. Fortunately, Wang Jian also knew everything.

"The harvesting and cutting method is to seize normal living people, especially children and women, and use knives, axes, and other methods to cut them into strange and disabled monsters, and let them go to the streets to beg."

"Some ignorant people buy children and women home, then kill them and then dismember them. After dismembering them, they perform rituals in an attempt to use the souls of the killed people to achieve the goal of "getting something for nothing".

"..." After listening to Wang Jian's description, Zhu Gaoxu felt that all the hairs on his body stood on end, and he felt even more horrified.

However, after Wang Jian described it, Zhu Gaoxu also thought of the many disabled children and women he had seen begging on the street in his previous life.

He thought it was a method of making money that only appeared in modern times, but he never thought that the source was the Yuan Dynasty.

"Are there no legal sanctions against these beasts?" Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife. Apparently after hearing the description, he hated the traffickers.

"Yes!" Wang Jian nodded without thinking: "According to the punishment in the "Criminal Law·Human Life", all those who participated in harvesting and harvesting will be executed without delay, and all their property will be compensated to the family of the deceased."

"The torturer's wife, son and family members, although not aware of it, have received his favor and must be exiled two thousand miles according to law."

"In addition, even if they are not involved in the harvesting and harvesting, anyone who knows the information but does not report it will be regarded as an accessory and be beheaded in accordance with the law."

At this point, Wang Jian saw that Zhu Gaoxu was listening carefully, so he couldn't help but talk about other penalties for human trafficking.

For example, buying and selling are the same crime, and those who prevent government officials from rescuing those who have been "cut off" can be beheaded on the spot.

It is not difficult to see from this that the Ming Dynasty established particularly strict laws on trafficking, harvesting and harvesting, and behind such strictness, it also represents how serious trafficking and harvesting and harvesting were in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. .

"In your opinion, how many people are harvested?"

After Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he asked Wang Jian. Wang Jian was stunned after hearing this. He did not expect that His Highness would pay attention to this.

"I haven't seen it, but I have friends who are on duty outside the city. According to their information, there are more than [-] people who were 'cut off' in the nursing home in Shangyuan County, Nanjing City, and most of them are Zhizheng. Children who were abducted and harvested during the [-]s."

"So many?" Upon hearing the number of more than two thousand people, Zhu Gaoxu stopped and couldn't believe it.

He has already learned about the situation in Nanjing City. Nanjing City is divided into East City and West City. The East City is Shangyuan County and the West City is Jiangning County.

In other words, if there are more than 2000 people who have been harvested in Shangyuan County, the number in Xicheng will not be much less.

In Nanjing, a city with a population of more than 30, there were actually more than 4000 people who were harvested.

Wang Jian's words gave Zhu Gaoxu a better understanding of what kind of chaos the end of the Yuan Dynasty was.

After coming to his senses, he continued to lead the team forward and asked Wang Jian: "Does the Almshouse only accommodate them?"

"More than..." Wang Jian told everything he knew.

To put it simply, starting from the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Han Dynasty would build institutions such as the Yuyingtang, Anjifang, Nursing Home, Futianyuan, and Luzeyuan, which were ancient welfare and charity institutions.

In the first year of Hongwu and the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to build an orphanage.Soon after, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the name of the orphanage to a nursing home and ordered each county across the country to establish a nursing home. The orphanages were intended to adopt people who were "lonely, disabled, sick" and infertile.

By the 17th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang loosened the scope of adoption and admitted orphans and poor and elderly people without anyone to support them into almshouses.

Those who should be adopted by the local government but fail to do so will be punished by an official's cane of sixty.

If food and clothing should be given but the officials withhold it, the officials will be considered guilty of stealing while in custody, and if more than 60 taels of supplies are withheld, they will be beheaded.

These various laws all show that Zhu Yuanzhang is considerate of the people.

But for Zhu Gaoxu, he had seen what the people of Dashuying Village Three looked like when they were notified of forced relocation.

Therefore, he did not think that Zhu Yuanzhang really cared about the people.

"Ten thousand people are like ten thousand people, and my grandpa is no exception..."

Listening to Wang Jian's narration, Zhu Gaoxu gained an understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang's multi-faceted nature.

He can be a benevolent sage who cares for the disadvantaged, or he can be a cruel tyrant who destroys ordinary people's families.

What he is depends on what Ming needs.

Zhu Gaoxu understood that if he really wanted to save his life and climb up the ladder, he would have to learn from his imperial grandfather and learn from his thousands of people and thousands of faces.

"Your Highness, we are here."

Wang Jian's voice brought Zhu Gaoxu back to reality, and Zhu Gaoxu looked back at Pao Ze behind him.

After walking these three miles, many people had a layer of sweat on their faces. Everyone looked at the streets next to them, wishing they could go home immediately.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also raised his hand and bowed to more than a hundred people in robes:

"Tomorrow is a day off, and the day after tomorrow is night duty, so we will gather here at midnight the day after tomorrow. I will wait for you here."

"Dismiss the class!"

"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious! It will be victorious! It will be victorious!"

More than a hundred soldiers shouted in unison, and then they relaxed, with smiles on their faces, and rushed into the streets in small groups.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at their backs with a smile on his face.

No matter what, for now, he can continue to be himself.

"Your Highness, you don't have to come in the future. You can take people to the Song Dynasty Duke's Mansion because of your humble position."

Wang Jian did not leave immediately, but showed off to Zhu Gaoxu.

However, Zhu Gaoxu did not respond. Instead, he turned around and patted the shoulder of this guy who was only in his thirties and was just trying out a hundred households:

"You don't have to be like this. I don't care what others do. You can just perform the normal tasks of trying out a hundred households here."

"After entering the military camp, you and I are brothers who rely on each other on the battlefield. Have you ever been so careful with your brothers at home?"

"I..." Wang Jian was stunned by Zhu Gaoxu's words, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer.

Seeing his appearance, Zhu Gaoxu also laughed and said, "Okay, go home. My family is waiting for you to eat. I'm leaving too."

After the words fell, Zhu Gaoxu didn't give Wang Jian a chance to speak, and turned around and walked back the way he came.

Looking at his back, Wang Jian opened his mouth, hesitated to speak, and finally touched the place where Zhu Gaoxu had just photographed him.

After a while, he left the alley with this unspeakable feeling, and at this time, the dusk drum sound in Nanjing City also completely stopped...

(End of this chapter)