I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 365 Completed Beijing Household Reform
Time soon came to the second day.

After the early court, Li Tian came to the cabinet.

Seeing Yang Shiqi and others seemed to hesitate to speak.

Li Tian threw a decree drawn up yesterday in front of them.

There are many contents, but the most important one is to behead Liu Gang and others for public display.

Seeing this, Yang Shiqi and others were taken aback.

He never expected that Li Tian would be so happy that he would kill all the criminals together.

Seeing that they all seemed a little stunned, Li Tiandan smiled and said,

"Why, didn't you guys still worry about dealing with a lot of unjust, false and wrong cases at once? In front of the people of the whole capital, killing these thieves should be all right!"

Yang Shiqi said with a bitter face, a little embarrassed, and a little surprised,

"Your Majesty's doing this can indeed share some of the public opinion of the people, but there are many cases in which they still need to confess. If they are all killed at once, many cases may become unsolved cases."

Li Tian said a little unhappy,
"This is also a helpless solution. Two more muddled cases are better than doing nothing!"

"What Your Majesty said is true, the old minister is confused."

In fact, what Li Tian said is correct, and what Yang Shiqi did is also fine.

The interrogation methods of this era actually have much wider requirements for witnesses and physical evidence than those of later generations.

If encountered, the interrogators feel that the case is indistinguishable, and if the criminal refuses to confess.

Clamping sticks, killing power sticks and other punishments go up to say hello, and almost half of the people will basically confess whether they did it by themselves or not.

Even honest and good officials, most of them do this when trying cases.

Therefore, the imperial court still pays more attention to unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

After the local trial, the death penalty and other serious punishments must be sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for filing. After a rough review by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, it will be handed over to Dali Temple for final verification.

If Dali Temple also thinks there is no problem, Shi Shi Shaoqing Zhengqing and others will distribute it to the area after reviewing it.

If you encounter a relatively important and influential case, you may even need the emperor's cabinet ministers and others to carry out the last step of Zhu Zhu's approval.

The death penalty is generally waited until after the autumn, and dealt with together.

This is not only to allow enough review space for ordinary mortals, but also to allow time for review for places such as the marble of the Ministry of Punishment.

Even under such a few-step process, there are still many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

Not to mention, cases directly handled by Jinyiwei and Dongchang did not go through the marble and other places of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

General places, even the Ministry of Criminal Justice and other places, are not qualified to touch matters handled by these two places, which means that they have many opportunities to create unjust cases.

In the original history, why did Jinyiwei and Dongchang make people so afraid.

It is because they have the right to directly convict people without being reviewed by other yamen.

Unless the criminals encountered were particularly well-connected, and the matter was brought directly to the emperor's desk, and the emperor was alarmed to intervene in person, those who were really wronged could be cleared of their grievances.

Just like Zhang Yiliang, if Li Tian hadn't met Zhang Qinghuan and believed Liu Gang and others, Zhang Yiliang and others would have their heads chopped off in autumn.

That is true, and what is false becomes true.

Although Li Tian also hated such things, there was nothing he could do. In this era, there were no cameras, recorders and other things that could record the crime process.

The only way to prove whether a person is guilty is basically the confession of the prisoner.

However, things like confessions are very easy to falsify, and they cannot be completely trusted.

If you want to hear a case clearly, you have to go through a long review.

However, most of the cases mentioned above are private cases.

In cases involving officials, such as officials corrupting and framing others, even if they kill a few wrong people, it is not wronged.

Because, even if these people were not involved in this matter, they must be related to other cases, and killing a few by mistake is no big deal.

The reason why Li Tian made such a quick decision was that he didn't want to be too bothered by this matter, and the second was that the longer Liu Gang's matter dragged on, the more suspicion it would arouse.

The case Liu Gang committed is too serious, no matter what the reason is, he will die. The only way for Li Tian to keep him alive is to let him hide his name and appear as another identity.

That's why he would rather miss some cases than quickly cut through the mess and expose this matter.

Seeing that although he agreed with Li Tian's actions, he still cared a little in his heart, so Li Tian quickly changed the topic and said to Huang Zhun,
"Zhongchang, how is the household reform in the capital going? Has it all been completed?"

Huang Zhun, the head of the household reform bureau, has been very proud since he took office, except for being made things difficult by some dignitaries at the beginning.

There is no other reason, but because he has money in his hand, which is several times more than the national treasury.

Later generations said that those who are rich are uncles, and those who are rich are self-willed. This principle is also applicable in ancient times.

With a population of more than 200 million in Beijing and its surrounding areas, after the household reform and ID card subscriptions were all carried out, the household reform bureau obtained nearly 500 million taels of silver.

In addition to funding the construction of the Tiangong Institute, the Tiangong Bureau, and the construction of the Tiangong Bureau's cement blast furnace and other local expenses, he still has more than 300 million taels of silver at his disposal.

With a smile, Huang Zhun handed over the detailed records of the household reform to Li Tian, ​​and said arrogantly,
"Half a month ago, there were more than a dozen counties around the capital, with a total of 220 million people, all of which had completed records.

Now the Hukou Reform Bureau is doing the final sorting work, and I believe that in a few days, the census of the floating population will be completed. "

I flipped through his progress report casually, and saw the huge number at the end related to the silver of the identity card.

Li Tian was so happy from ear to ear.

"Good job, Zhongchang, your Household Reform Bureau has done a very good job. Pass on my will, and the Household Reform Bureau will give two more months' salary at the end of this year as encouragement."

After talking about the rewards, he still felt unsatisfactory, and then said,
"Just paying more money seems almost meaningless! How about it, Zhong Chang, you are a selection of outstanding staff within the Household Reform Bureau.

Divided into monthly and annual, each person will be awarded 50 taels to 100 taels of silver per month, and [-] taels to [-] taels of silver for the year! "

Hearing that such a high reward is actually going to be issued, even if the household reform bureau has money, it can't be spent like this.

Huang Zhun quickly said,

"Your Majesty, the salaries of the Hukou Reform Bureau are already far higher than those of colleagues in other yamen. If money is distributed here, I am afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among colleagues in other yamen!"

Li Tian raised his eyebrows and said loudly,
"Whoever dares to have any dissatisfaction, let him directly tell me that as long as their yamen can also think about household reform, they can do things well and earn money for the court, and I will also give them money!"

(End of this chapter)