Chapter 592: Raising Slaves
The next day, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, for those who are officials in the court, the winter vacation is over, and they will start to work hard. In fact, as far as the feelings of most officials are concerned, going to work is not terrible, anyway, there will be nothing to do in the first month of sitting in the yamen, but it is too painful to go to the early court.
The early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty begins at the beginning of the morning every day, which is converted into hours at seven o'clock in the morning. It is said that seven o'clock in the morning is not too early, but they still have to rush from their residence to the palace, and then slowly walk to the outside of the Fengtian Temple, which is equivalent to a person who lives in Shunyi to go to work in the center of Beiping every day, which has a long way to walk, and the working time is not nine o'clock but seven o'clock. If it's snowing in the winter, it feels too sour.
Of course, Yun Xi also knew the pain of the officials, so after today's court, he announced: "All Aiqing go to the court every day ,......, suffer, and from tomorrow, the early court will be postponed until the middle of the morning." ”
Yun Hee's will won the praise of all the officials, who praised Yun Xi for "showing compassion for the courtiers." "Even the old-fashioned Confucian ministers don't mention anything about the 'ancestral system' - it's really painful to get up early to go to court, especially in winter.
Of course, Yunxi will not just announce this edict. Although he has been walking and talking in the house with Xiyao every day these days, he is also thinking about major events in the court.
"Fengtian carried the emperor's edict and ordered all prefectures, Zhili Prefecture and Tongguo County to abolish the officials in Tianfu and Hangzhou, set up the police instead, and set up corresponding officials. Tomorrow, the "Yingtian Hangzhou Erfu Restructuring Record" will be issued for officials in various places to follow suit and implement. ”
"Yingtian Hangzhou Erfu Restructuring Record" is the restructuring experience compiled by Yun Xi let Lian Zining, Hu Guang, Xia Yuanji, Huang Huai and others, and Yun Xi compiled this book after summarizing. This is very normal in the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a 'fool's tutorial' on how to be a qualified magistrate, as long as all magistrates follow Zhu Yuanzhang's fool's tutorial, there is no problem, but unfortunately not every magistrate is a workaholic.
Yun Hee plans to write a new fool's tutorial based on the actual working hours of most of the current magistrates, and is organizing long-time magistrates to write down their daily work routines for reference.
"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says that all the prefectures in the world will increase the position of magistrate according to the size of the city, and govern the police, and this is admired."
The general judgment is the sixth grade, and Yun Xi found that the previous management of the police level with the general judgment and the county lieutenant was too high, so he changed it to the seventh grade of the pusher.
"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and decrees that all counties in the world should set up county lieutenants to be in charge of criminal prisons and judicial affairs."
"Fengtian carried the emperor's edict and appointed Xia Yuanji as the prefect of Xi'an, plus the title of political officer, and admired this."
"The emperor of Fengtian carried the edict that all prefectures and counties in the country, except in the event of military disasters, floods and droughts, etc., are forbidden to accept homeless people and beggars, and if there are such people, they will be exiled to the frontier."
There were not many homeless people and beggars in this era, and the local government should still be able to manage it, if the emperor in the late Ming Dynasty suddenly issued such a decree, it would either be ignored by the local officials, or the Ming dynasty would be unstable.
Yun Xi issued five more wills in a row, and the ministers were not surprised: this is very normal for an emperor who issued five wills on the first day of the court.
And most of the will is a matter of course, everyone has long expected it, only Xia Yuanji was suddenly appointed as the prefect of Xi'an, which makes people scratch their heads, but it has nothing to do with most people, so everyone doesn't have to think about it.
On the first day of the early dynasty, most people would not have anything to report, so after Yun Xi gave these wills, there was nothing to do, and he announced his next dynasty.
The next day and the 17th were the same, Yun Xi announced several more decrees, which were all insignificant and trivial matters in the eyes of the officials, and no one cared.
On the third day, Yunxi did not announce his will, everyone thought that nothing would happen today, and when they were about to hear the words 'retreat from the dynasty', they suddenly heard Yin Huanghuai of Ying Tianfu stand up and say: "The minister has this music." ”
Everyone's eyes turned to Huang Huai. In fact, the people who noticed that Huang Huai came to the early court this morning felt that something was wrong: although Ying Tianfu Yin was a Beijing official, he was also a magistrate, and he did not have to go to the court except for the great court meeting. Since he was in the court, he must have something to say.
Sure enough, Huang Huai said loudly: "Your Majesty, the first emperor made it clear in the "Da Ming Law" that it was forbidden for officials and eunuchs to keep slaves and maids, but now the powerful families in the capital keep dozens or even hundreds of slaves and maids. ”
Yun Xi said: "I know, Jian Yi. ”
"The minister is here." Jian Yi said.
"The Imperial Court ordered the Imperial Procuratorate to send an imperial history inspector who appeared in the capital and had no office next month, and ordered the families who kept slaves and maids to return the slaves and maids to their native places." Yun Xi said.
The matter of raising slaves and maids cannot be banned in this era, Zhu Yuanzhang has not been able to completely prohibit it, and Yun Xi is even more impossible. But since someone brought it up, let's hit a few early birds to warn.
He promised to return to his original position.
Yun Xi was about to tell Huang Huai and Yu Shi to cooperate to shoot the first bird, but Huang Huai suddenly said: "The minister still has this music." ”
"On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the minister reported to the Yingtianfu Ya to listen to the general sentence of the police in charge of Zhongcheng to divide the summer, and the Liangguo Mansion killed three slaves and maids, and asked me to exile the families of the three slaves and maids to the northwest at the Ying Tianfu. The courtiers inquired carefully and learned that the three men had been killed for slandering the Lord, and that the family of the man who had been killed had been interrogated and that this was indeed the case. ”
"Your Majesty, the minister has read the "Da Ming Law" several times, but he has never seen the "Da Ming Law" stipulate that the family that hires the people can slander the lord and execute the slave and maid."
"What's more, even if the slave maid himself is guilty, such a crime will not affect the family, and the Liang Guogong Mansion will expel them from the mansion and the ministers will have nothing to say, but it is even more contrary to the "Da Ming Law" to exile them to the northwest."
"Your Majesty is asked to deal with Liang Guogong's two violations of the "Da Ming Law"."
"Moreover, the minister has been in charge of Shangyuan Zhixian since the first year of Jianye, and the slaves of the Liang State Mansion have many illegal things, and the people in Beijing are afraid of the power of the Liang State Mansion and are unwilling to issue a prime minister's complaint. Among them, there is a matter involving Lan Mingxuan, the eldest son of Liang Guogong, and the minister does not dare to decide on his own, so he asks His Majesty to deal with it. ”
Impeachment of the Liang Guogong Mansion? The officials present exchanged heads and ears. Who doesn't know that Lan Yu's second son, Lan Lian, died for Yun Xi? Who doesn't know that Lan Siqi is more favored in the palace than the genuine county lord? Who doesn't know that the current Liang Guogong Lan Zhen is very useful and capable of fighting, so he is very much used by His Majesty?
"Huang Huai wants to ask His Majesty to punish the magnates in Beijing, it is estimated that it is because the magnates in the capital have too many illegal things and can't help it. But how to choose to target the Lan family? ”
"Hey, the servants of the Lan family do honor the Lan family's forces, and there are many lawless, although it is not a big deal, they buy at a low price, and bully the people, but since His Majesty set up a patrol police, the patrol police have also taken care of these trivial matters; Although they didn't dare to take care of the people of the Lan family, they would always report the matter to the officials, and it was estimated that Huang Huai had seen the most illegal things of the Lan family, so he chose the Lan family. ”
Lan Zhen was quite confused at this time. He usually doesn't care about his family, and he doesn't know that his family's slaves are bullying people in the capital the most, which is quite inexplicable at this time.
However, since Huang Huai admonished like this, it could never be groundless, his own slaves and even his own son Lan Mingxuan did have illegal things. He hurriedly came out and said: "Your Majesty, the servants in the minister's family are lawless, and the minister will be severely punished after careful investigation after he returns, and please forgive the minister's crime of not governing the family strictly." ”
"As for the lawlessness of the minister's eldest son, the minister will also punish him severely, please ask Your Majesty to exempt the minister's eldest son from punishment with the article of eight councils, and the minister is willing to compensate the people tenfold for their losses."
Before Yun Xi could speak, Huang Huai said, "Liang Guogong, do you know what Ling Lang has done?" Because he fell in love with an antique, but the family was unwilling to cut his love, he let the slave take it home. And the popularity of the antique robbery has already committed suicide. ”
"When they committed suicide, it was the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and how tragic it was that they committed suicide on a festive day."
There was an uproar among the people present. It is said that the person who committed suicide committed suicide, although the cause was that he was robbed of something, but after all, he was not killed, and the modern law may be a little heavier, but it will still be within the sentencing range of robbery; However, in ancient times, the punishment was more human, and robbery that caused others to commit suicide would be punished as close to homicide.
Yun Xi also hesitated. The Eight Deliberations Article is a regulation officially included in the criminal law from Cao Wei's onwards, that is, there are eight types of people who can be directly pardoned for minor crimes, and major crimes need to be convicted by the emperor. Yun Xi originally thought that the sins involving Lan Mingxuan himself were not big and could be pardoned directly; But after hearing Huang Huai's words at this time, it was difficult to pardon him directly.
After thinking for a while, Yun Xi said: "In this case, order Ying Tianfu to interrogate the case clearly and report it to me." Lan Mingxuan, as the eldest son of the Duke of Liang, was replaced by the housekeeper of the Duke of Liang to Ying Tianfu. ”
"Order Liang Guogong Lan Zhen to rectify the family style, but not to punish the servants too harshly without authorization, and after Ying Tianfu interrogates the slaves in the palace for violating the law and discipline, the Liang Guogong Mansion will hand over the servants involved to Ying Tianfu for punishment."
"After all the criminals are punished, the Liang State Mansion will not allow slaves and maids to be raised, and all the servants who will be converted into contracts will be returned."
Lan Yu immediately said, "The minister obeys the order." He felt that the situation was not good, and Yun Xi's handling was very fair, so he hurriedly agreed.
Huang Huai naturally didn't have anything else to say, so he bowed down to receive the order.
Yun Xi said again: "Not only the Liang State Mansion, but also the rest of the family, whether they are nobles or high-ranking officials in the court, if their subordinates and children have illegal things, they will also be severely punished." ”
Huang Huai received the order again.
Then Yun Xi immediately announced his retirement from the dynasty. He was afraid that there would be any words on the spot and then admonish, so he retreated directly.
As he expected, the two imperial historians had the desire to admonish on the spot, but they could only look at Yun Xi's back and suddenly sigh a few times and then go back to write the recital.
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Thanks to the vegetables in the vegetable garden, this Nima actually rewarded.