Chapter 794: A Bloody Case
Pity left a seven-year-old child, living on the streets, but Pan didn't care, if there were no neighbors who couldn't bear to give the child some food to spend the day, in the past few months, I'm afraid the child would have starved to death on the streets.
The yellow camel survived the battlefield this time, and he was full of thoughts about going back, and used the reward silver to buy a few acres of land for his family, and lived a comfortable life for a few days.
I don't want to, as soon as I get home, I find that my family is ruined, and even the yard is not my own.
That night, the yellow camel broke into Zheng's house with a knife and killed five members of Zheng's family.
Hearing this, Wu Zheng said in a deep voice: "If you intercede for this yellow camel, this king can't allow it." It is only natural to kill people to pay for their lives and repay debts. Although this is pitiful, after all, he killed five members of the Zheng family. If this king does this for personal gain, will he not bend the law? ”
Jiang Quanyi hurriedly said: "But he is a hero and a hero, if it weren't for Zheng Rong's thief's wolf's heart and dog's lungs, if it wasn't for Pan's water-based Yanghua, if it wasn't for the local county government's corruption and perversion of the law...... How did he get to this point? ”
Wu Zheng said sharply: "But in fact, he just destroyed all people." What is this Zheng from, he deserves to die, but his family doesn't deserve to die, right? Moreover, he was unstable in the case of a yellow camel, and when he saw that something happened to his family, he did not sue the official, and committed suicide in retaliation, so he should be brought to justice...... Otherwise, if there is such a person in the people, how can the surrounding people live in peace? ”
Jiang Quanyi knelt on his knees with a "plop", and said angrily: "Lord Wang, there are more than 20,000 people, and there are only more than 300 lives left...... Besides, he reported to the official for the yellow camel, but the government doesn't make decisions for him...... The prince can't see death without saving! ”
Wu Zheng's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and asked, "Did he report to the official?" ”
"Yes. He did report to the official, but Xiushui County ordered Zheng Youde to be a distant relative of the Zheng family, and he accepted a bribe from Zheng Rong, claiming that the yellow camel surrendered to the Qing court and should be expelled and pursued, and there was nothing wrong with punishing the Pan family and leaving the family property to the Pan family. And the old man of the Huang family committed suicide by hanging the beam because he couldn't think about it, and he had nothing to do with the Zheng family, so there was the murder of the yellow camel...... Lord Wang, I regret my humble duties, I finally returned to Jiangnan, thinking that my brothers hadn't been home for almost a year, so I allowed them to go home...... I don't want to, I don't want to do something like this...... ”
"You'll have to introspect." Wu Zheng said in a deep voice, "This kind of thing, as a major general, you didn't even notice it in advance, and you didn't take precautions, so you can't get out of it." ”
Wu Zheng's words are really right.
After a long-lasting war, the surviving soldiers returned home, and there was a precautionary measure in ancient times, that is, the local government quietly inquired according to their registration to see if there were any changes in their families, so as to respond and prevent them in advance.
In order to prevent such a vicious incident as the yellow camel.
Obviously, if such a thing had been known in advance, a fool would have understood it, and he could not immediately let the yellow camel go to visit his relatives.
But the other way around, Jiang Quanyi really doesn't have the ability to give orders to the counties of Jiaxing Prefecture.
Because Jiaxing Mansion is Wu Zheng's territory, and Jiang Quanyi's ministry has not yet been officially reorganized, his identity is still the deputy general manager of Yixing Chaojingwei, and even his position assigned by Qian Sudian to be in charge of this remnant department is temporary and not recognized.
Vice President Qian is a sixth-grade official, but this is a military position, and he can't control the local government.
Of course, he could apply to Jiaxing Mansion or the General's Mansion, but Jiang Quanyi did not do this, but on the spur of the moment, he directly let these people go.
Jiang Quanyi glared at Wu Zheng angrily, and there were tears in his eyes.
Wu Zheng could understand, but there was also some light, Wu Zheng shouted: "What? Do you still want to do something to this king? ”
Jiang Quanyi roared angrily: "Don't dare to be humble!" But the prince, there is a reason for the incident, and the local government cannot deal with it impartially, which is also one of the main causes of the homicide, and the prince can't ignore it...... They are all heroes of the imperial court, which one is not scarred? ”
"Get up and speak!"
"The prince didn't agree, and he was humble...... and if you are lowly you do not rise. ”
Wu Zheng said angrily: "Love can't afford it." ”
As he spoke, he turned back and sat down, thought for a while, and said, "If what you said is true, the yellow camel has already reported to the official, and the local government has not done anything, and its feelings are pitiful." But this king is strange, the yellow camel killed the Zheng family at night, why didn't he run away? ”
Jiang Quanyi said hatefully: "It's infuriating, after this yellow camel killed someone, he didn't run away, but went to the county government to turn himself in." If you run away overnight...... Jiaxing Mansion is not far from Hangzhou Mansion, and he can return to the barracks the next day, and he can protect him from his humble position. ”
Wu Zheng said angrily: "You should be the military camp under the command of this king, and they are all places to hide filth and dirt? ”
Jiang Quanyi arched his hand and said: "I lost my word...... But isn't that the reason, we can't suffer losses for our own brothers, right? ”
This is really good, there is a Ming beginning, a soldier, is a slave soldier.
This has to start with Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, who stipulated that any class must bear the shade.
In other words, the father is a carpenter, and the children and grandchildren are carpenters.
The father is a military household, and the children and grandchildren must be military households, otherwise it is illegal and must be dealt with according to the law.
This is also the origin of the folk song "Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and mice are born to burrow in the ground".
At that time, the status of the military households was lower than that of the lower ninth rate, and it was almost comparable to the slave soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, just like the slave soldiers of the Song Dynasty were imprinted on their faces.
This is completely different from the nature of Qi Jiguang's recruitment, Qi Jiguang's recruitment is a good citizen, not a military member.
It is equivalent to spending money to hire people, and it can be disbanded at any time after the fight.
The salary was also very high, at that time it was eighteen taels a year, which was one or five cents a month, which was slightly lower than the salary of the Northern Expeditionary Army now.
This is also one of the main reasons for the strong combat power of the Qi family's army.
Later, Qi Jiguang died, and this army stayed in the north at that time, and also fought a lot of battles, sometimes winning and sometimes losing.
Because the imperial court had no money, it could not afford the consumption of this army, so it disbanded this Zhejiang army, and of course retained part of it.
One of them, that is, Qi Jin's department, the main component of which was the Zhejiang army, but in the end it was also wiped out in the battle of Hunhe Bridge, and Qi Jin himself was martyred in this battle.
In the later period, because of the loss of military households, there was a shortage of personnel, but all those who could not get along outside or who committed crimes had impersonated military households to avoid justice, and the government also turned a blind eye to this because of the need for political achievements, so the army became a place to hide dirt and dirt, and the combat power became more and more low, until the entire military hoarding system was destroyed.
By the 32nd year of Jiajing, more than 100 Japanese robbers robbed Hangzhou from Huiji, invaded She County, Huizhou, to Jixi and Jingde, slaughtered Jing County to Nanling and then to Wuhu, and after wantonly burning and killing on the south bank, they were killed from Taiping Mansion to Yingtianfu.
This gang of Japanese robbers traveled for more than 80 days and more than 3,000 miles.
As many as 120,000 Ming troops along the way were stunned, and they did not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle.
Therefore, later the imperial court could only rely on Qi Jiguang to recruit Zhejiang soldiers to exterminate the Japanese invaders.