The world is declining day by day, and petty fights are purely to stop the boiling, and even if the strength of the imperial court is great, no matter how strong the determination is, most of the internal officials are absurd in their duties, resulting in rampant thieves inside and outside the capital, hooligans and evil people overflow the city, and the scoundrels are rampant in the township, and the government has repeatedly banned it, and it is difficult to exterminate it.

In this dilemma, the emperor's reaction was very weak.

"There are many thieves in Gyeonggi, and they ordered the Jinyi Guards of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be arrested, and they still ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate to unveil the list and prohibit the official school from disturbing the people."

"Ordered Jinyiwei to command Chen Duan to arrest thieves in Shuntian and Baoding, and there were many thieves inside and outside the capital."

"'There is a person in the Jingshi who kills a family of three, and there is a murderer in the middle of the day, and it is not unattainable today, and it is strictly forbidden to beg.' He ordered to stop patrolling the city's imperial history and patrolling officials, and now he is limited to arrest. ”

"Summoning the Jinyi guard officer Yu Risheng, Liu Qiao knelt outside the threshold, and said: 'Thieves inside and outside the capital are rampant, and strict arrest is in charge of your duties, if you neglect again, you will be punished immediately.'" ”

"The emperor is 'robbed and killed in the city is often heard, the roads outside the city are blocked, the Jinyi guards the east and west divisions, and the patrol and arrest of the five cities Yamen are in charge? It is to make thieves come here. 'Ordered to call back'

Anyway, the emperor said a few words, and the people below had a meal, and the law and order would be better, but it didn't take long for it to return to the original state.

The reason why there were so many thieves in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was also related to its military system, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were treated very poorly, their status was extremely low, and there were many fugitives. However, the household registration management system of the Ming Dynasty, the road introduction system is very perfect, and these fugitive military households are all black household registrations, and they dare not enter the process, and they can be brought out by people in the countryside.

However, they have some martial arts, and their courage is much greater than that of ordinary people, so they simply gather and become thieves.

Inside and outside the capital, traitors and evildoers flourish day by day, in groups of three or five, and the day is to commit murder and harm people, and at night they are debaucherous and gambling, and even take advantage of people's wives and daughters and take revenge for others, which is impossible to enumerate. Robbers and thieves are more likely to do so. ”

Even the prince of the imperial history of the capital was "afraid of thieves entering his room, and defended many times all night until he fell asleep".

During the Zhengde period: Yang Tinghe, a scholar, said: "Recently, Wuqing, Dong'an and other counties have ......, there are thieves, as little as 40 people, more than 100 people, wearing armor and weapons,......, burning houses, killing and capturing people, robbing property, officials inside and outside the tolerance are all victimized, the road is impassable, and in the capital, Dongzhimen and Dashiyong and other squares, robbers are robbed and killed during the day,"

During the Wanli period: "Thieves inside and outside the capital have occurred, and each should patrol and arrest the reserve officer, although he is not in charge of the place, there are those who can cooperate to capture him, and the record will be used." ”

During the Xuande period: "The prohibition of arresting and stealing in the capital is strict." When there were many thieves in the capital, Liu Guan and others discussed in the five cities of the soldiers and horses to increase the number of officers and soldiers with 100 people, every 50 families set up patrols to arrest one, and ten people guarded it at night, and there were thieves and those who violated the night ban were listened to and arrested. According to his proposal, he ordered the British Gong Zhang Fu and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to send troops to help him. ”

During the Tianshun period: "With many robbers inside and outside the Beijing Division, the Imperial Court was ordered to issue a list to arrest everyone, and if the original arrest and the first accuser were confirmed, the reward was 2,000 yuan of thieves, the official flag and the military academy were promoted to a level, and the folk craftsman was rewarded with ten taels of silver" ("Ming Yingzong Records" volume 297, November Renyin of the second year of Tianshun);

During the Hongzhi period: "First of all, the Beijing master traitored Ma Ji, gathered all the evil young Ma Cong and others at night, entered the people's women's house with a knife, forced them to commit adultery, robbed their wealth, and obtained them by the lawyers. ”

During the Jiajing period: "Stealing into Yang Wei's camp and commanding the commander-in-chief Cai Xiong's house, killing his wife and four children, patrolling the imperial history to hear." His Majesty was arrested. ”

During the Apocalypse: "Inspecting the imperial history of the imperial city, Xu Yangxian, Wang Yizhong, and the director Huang Wenxing witnessed the negligence, and the thieves appeared, and they wanted to strictly open and close to prevent rape and thieves. ”

Vicious incidents occur frequently, and even the eunuchs' families are not immune. Those thugs have no fear of the officials, and if they find a loophole, they will still kill people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was much worse than the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Even rebellion, rebellion, and rebellion by monks are not uncommon. According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the officials in the straight room and the palace people in the palace were slightly disordered, that is, they were punished with the crime of "obscenity", and in the late Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs in the palace not only tied up with the palace maids, but also the provisions and punishments in the "Da Ming Law" can be said to have been clearly stipulated in the guards: where the palace forbidden guards and the guards of the imperial city gate should be unworthy, forty lashes, and those who should be guarded by the guards, and those who replace and replace them without permission will have sixty rods each, and those who are not guarded by other guards and those who are replaced and replaced by others without a name, each with a staff of 100 ...... Each gate of the imperial city, each paved with a straight guard of the officer's flag, the restraint is not strict and tolerant of the situation, the soldiers in charge of the duty, the point can not be seen, more than ten people, each staff 100,......。 Where the gates of the city should be closed and the lock is not locked, the rod is eighty, the rod is one hundred, and the gate of the capital is added one grade, and there is a rush of official business, and those who open and close at the time are not subject to this limit. If the gate of the imperial city should be mistakenly not locked, the staff of the person who does not lock it is a hundred, and the army is sent to the far side, and those who open and close it without permission from time to time will be hanged, and those who have a purpose to open and close it will not be considered.

The palace ban is so strict, in fact, most of it is decoration, scaring people.

One of the three major cases in the Wanli period, the "assault case" -- on the fourth day of the fifth month of the 43rd year of Wanli, a man with an unknown origin, armed with a jujube stick, actually rushed into the gate of the second palace and broke into the Ciqing Palace where the prince lived, trying to harm the prince. One person and one stick, breaking into the deep palace alone, can actually break through several palace gates and go straight to the eaves of the palace, and hit the prince, the difficulty is comparable to Jing Ke's assassination of Qin!

Of course, some people are plotting behind the scenes and secretly arranging the reasons for releasing water, but the emptiness of the palace ban can also be seen.

This is like a big-eared scraper, slapped the face of the court.

The world is so chaotic, I can't help but be careless.

When they went out, it was already dark, and the two family members who were walking in the front were each holding a lantern in their hands, but there was no official position written on it.

If it is in the locality, the county magistrate sometimes comes in the mood at night, goes out for a walk to check, and the word 'main hall' will be written on the lantern, which is majestic, and everyone is evasive when they see it. But that's the place, in the capital, and you don't do that.

You are a five-grade official, in the locality, in a state and a government, you are a top-notch character, but in the capital, it is really nothing. If you play the official light, you will inevitably be perceived as too public.

It's better to keep a low profile.

When I met a night watchman, it was just a matter of going up and explaining something, and it was nothing. If you get into trouble, it's not beautiful.

The group left the gate of the house and headed west in the direction of Jishuitan.

The streets were quiet, and there was no one but them.

It's curfew. The Ming Dynasty is not called a curfew, it is called a night curfew, which is more concise and clear, anyway, the essence is the same. The dusk drum is sounded at three o'clock on the first watch, and travel is prohibited, and the ban on business is allowed only after the morning bell is ringed at three o'clock on the fifth watch. Those who walked on the streets on the second, third, and fourth shifts were beaten with forty boards, and in the capital it was fifty boards. Those who commit a night after the night ban on the first watch and shortly before the ban on the fifth watch are flogged for 30 boards, and the capital is 40 boards. In order to enforce a curfew, every city with a government office had to lock its gates at night and prohibit entry and exit. and the keys of the gates shall be given to the magistrates. At the same time, at the intersection of the main street, the fence should be blocked, the fence has a door, the door is closed, and there is a "card room" similar to the post box of later generations, which is guarded by the government officials and is not allowed to pass.

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