The incident of the thieves in Fuzhou lasted for two days, and more than 1,000 thieves were arrested.

The next day, Xu Zixian, the king of Qin, sent more than 500 people to Fuzhou City to listen to Xu Xingwei's dispatch, and the government army began to act outside the city of Fu.

For several days in a row, the cavalry traveled back and forth in various villages and towns and along the Min River, and the sound of the hooves of the iron cavalry often shattered people's sweet dreams and woke countless people from their sleep.

On December 25th, the day of the sacrificial stove had passed, and on this day, Xu Xingwei decided to take the more than 2,000 thieves he had captured, except for the young people under the age of 16, and put them in prison after beating the board, and it was estimated that he would be sentenced to about three years of hard labor, and those under the age of 14 would be beaten with the same board, and handed over to the clan to take back for strict guarding, and if they committed any more crimes, they would be dealt with together with the adult thieves.

Hundreds of others were coerced into thieves, climbed over walls into houses, or beat or injured people, and even though they were punished with a cane, they were sentenced to at least five years of hard labor.

There were more than 1,000 of these people, and they were either released or imprisoned, or directly escorted to the Eastern Iron Mine to work.

At the time of the Pingping Bandits, ships from the upstream Jianzhou also came down one after another, and a large number of captured van troops and captives began to be escorted down, with more than 10,000 people.

The endless contingent of captives also aroused the attention and attention of the people in Fucheng, many of the captives had family members, and they rushed over along the way, and they couldn't help but burst into tears, they rushed over to send winter clothes, daily necessities, and food. However, after catching up, many people are much more relieved...... The food given to these captives by the Qin Wangfu is much stronger than what they eat daily, of course, it will not be as good as the food of the army of the palace, but at least it is dry and thin, and they can eat a full stomach every day.

These captives, whether they were the people of Jianzhou or the captured Xiang army, were all convicted of surrendering to the enemy before the battle, and Xu Zixian, the king of Qin, sentenced them to three years of hard labor, plus ten years of exile.

If his family is willing, he can apply to go to the Eastern Domain after two years, and the military secretary will grant him the qualification to open up acres of wasteland, and organize the households and people into the Eastern Domain, and become part of the immigrants of the Eastern Domain.

At this point, the gentry and people of Fuzhou understood in their hearts that although after His Royal Highness King Qin opened the mansion, the whole of Fujian was like a fief, but His Royal Highness the King of Qin obviously could not give up the current development of the Eastern Domain.

Many people don't know that the development of the Eastern Domain has reached a point in time when it is about to be harvested, cotton, tea, sugarcane sugar, iron mines, iron fields, raw silk, leather goods, all kinds of ways to make profits After nearly two years of layout, in the next one or two years, it will burst out with great strength, and the profit will be tens of millions, no less than the income from Fujian Road taxes, how could Xu Zixian give up?

Let's not talk about interests, a big island like the Eastern Domain, guarding the places along the way in Fujian and controlling many important shipping lanes, how can it be taken lightly as Xu Zi's successive arrivals?

For several days in a row, a large number of prisoners were escorted to the Eastern Domain, and Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian, Qin Dongyang and other high-level officials were responsible for overall planning.

On the 25th, Xu Zixian personally rushed to the outside of Fuzhou City, did not enter the city, and presided over the execution of more than 1,000 bandits.

When the news spread, both high-ranking officials and ordinary people in the city were shocked. The Great Wei is quite cautious in using the criminal law, the magistrate needs to report a criminal again, and the state and county level have no right to sentence the sentence, and only the punishment can be sentenced to the felon, but it must be reported to the three law divisions of the Beijing Division, that is, the Yushitai, Dali Temple, and the Criminal Department for review. The Imperial Historical Observatory is to see if there is any collusion between officials and the existence of circumstances such as bending the law, in preparation for impeachment. The Criminal Department is the highest department of the Criminal Envoy Division, and the final conclusion and review of the criminal case is in the departments of the Criminal Department.

After the review of the criminal department, the final review must be carried out by the Dali Temple, and the temples of the Dali Temple will have to make the final trial of the criminal case, and the Zhucheng countersign, and after the unanimous approval, the case will really be completed as an iron case.

In the end, it was not the officials who came to execute the criminals, after the review of the three law divisions, the Son of Heaven personally wrote the execution, a rural leader, but his life was erased from the world by the Son of Heaven himself, this is the respect for human life, the so-called human life is precious, is reflected in such criminal laws and specific means of implementation.

Only military law is used in wartime, including the pacification of robbery cases, and military law is also used against foreign enemies such as thieves, rogues, and foreign enemies such as Beiyu and Donghu, and it is also common to behead tens of thousands of people at once.

More than 1,000 people on the riverside in front of him are Xu Zixian who ordered the execution of the robbery case, which is impeccable in terms of law, and the local military and political chief officer marches the military law with the robbery case, and no matter how many people are killed, the court has nothing to say, at most there will be a royal history, a certain minister is cruel and murderous, and the killing is too hurtful to the heavens and ...... There are also local military and political chiefs who have been impeached and removed from power by the imperial historian on such charges.

Lin Douyao, Yang Shiwei, Zheng Liqi and other dignitaries went out together to meet His Royal Highness King Qin by the Min River.

"Can the marshal persuade His Highness?" Yang Shiwei looked around, from the official road to the field are to see the lively crowd, beheading more than a thousand levels at a time, it is also an unprecedented event on Fujian Road, the people like to see such a lively thing the most, and even many gentry and businessmen, originally not interested in this kind of thing, this time they also took a carriage, or sat in a soft sedan chair, mixed in the bustling crowd, and rushed to the place of execution.

"It's already been said." Lin Douyao said calmly: "The future of the lower officials is on His Royal Highness from now on, and those who should be persuaded still have to be persuaded." I said to His Highness that no matter how many killings there are, they are not as sensational as this execution and beheading, and I am afraid that this matter will only damage His Highness's image. In the imperial court and in the streets, it will be rumored that His Royal Highness is too harsh and is suspected of cruelty to the people. ”

Yang Shiwei said: "Didn't Your Highness listen? ”

"Your Highness actually listened." Lin Douyao said: "But His Highness persuaded the lower officials instead. The reason is that the local taxes are heavy, but the atmosphere of the officials is sluggish, the local control is not strict, and there are many bandits, thieves, scoundrels, rangers, ruffians and other characters like cattle hair, and they can only be painfully rectified, and they can only start at the same time as the new officials and rectify the official style. ”

At this time, two battalions of government troops escorted the prisoners out of the city, and the surrounding fields were full of people, and the people were intimidated by the momentum, and no one dared to talk about each other for a while, although there were many people, they were silent, only the winter wind blew through the fields, through the villages and houses, and whistling over the treetops.

Xu Zi galloped to the riverside first, and the prisoners came over in an endless stream, Xu Zixian just glanced at it, and was not too interested in the things in front of him.

Li Yi just arrived from the Eastern Domain, just happened to encounter this big bustle, after all, he is a civil official, not in charge of killing, Li Yi is quite stressed about the current matter, but he also knows that Xu Zixian has always had rules for the disposal of thieves, in fact, everyone understands the truth, Dawei was at least in Fujian Road before the establishment of industry and commerce, the local business is developed, the morale is inevitably slippery, plus the tax is heavy, going to sea is also a choice, people's awe and sense of identity with the government gradually decreased.

In troubled times, Xu Zixian's territory will be expanded from the Eastern Domain to Fujian Road, Fujian Road, and Fuzhou first.

"Your Highness, Fu Qian will arrive the day after tomorrow." Li Yi glanced at the riverside uneasily, a large number of government soldiers served as swordsmen, and had previously ordered the prisoners who crossed the river to dig more than a dozen large pits deeper than Zhangxu, everything was shocking.

Xu Zixian nodded and said: "The matter of shipbuilding is important, and Fu Muzhi will inevitably have to run back and forth." ”

The cotton fields, bean fields, and rice fields of the Eastern Domain are being cultivated one after another. After the manpower is sufficient, the purchase of cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules has been carried out, and the agricultural tools are sufficient, as long as the plot is demarcated, and the new arrivals are asked to sign the contract or press their handprints, and then everyone is divided into acres, from houses, livestock, to farm tools, acres, and the new immigrants are all loans, and the income must be offset by income in the next few years. After paying off the debt, it is to pay a certain amount of income to the royal government, and if it is a national endowment. Xu Zixian's endowment was not too low, after all, it cost a lot to develop the Eastern Domain, and he needed to see the returns and benefits. But it is by no means high, at least compared to the formal taxes of the imperial court and the miscellaneous taxes that are as numerous as cattle hairs, the people living in the Eastern Domain should feel heaven.

In addition, there are mines and iron fields, as well as the cultivation of sugar cane, and in the winter, there is little work in the fields, and hundreds of households are also organizing people to choose wasteland everywhere to plant trees.

There should be more mulberry trees, and the more the better.

There is also taking care of the tea mountain, the climate of the Eastern Domain is quite suitable for growing tea, and tea will also be the bulk of the income in the future.

In this era, people from all over the world are accustomed to drinking tea, although the way to drink tea is strange and different, but the demand for tea is gradually rising, and in any case, tea is not worried about the hard currency of sales.

Porcelain, tea, raw silk, these are the three major products of the Great Wei's foreign trade.

There are also salt, cotton cloth, and porcelain in the Eastern Domain, which are not going to be done, after all, there are a large number of porcelain kilns in dozens of towns in Jiangxi, and there are ready-made supporting large-scale industrial chains, so it is difficult to grab business.

There are several fist products in the Eastern Domain, and some products can be used as supporting items for trade.

Fu Qian is ready to find a suitable flow of water in the central part of the country, build a large-scale ironware factory, manufacture all kinds of ironware, and sell them in the mainland or export them overseas.

Fu Qian's other work a year ago was to preside over the construction of large warships, and in the late summer and early autumn of this year, four medium and large warships were launched in the port of Dongfan.

All battleships were equipped with angles of attack, equipped with a large number of bed crossbows and trebuchets.

"Our capital ships have reached forty-four," Li Yi didn't look at the situation by the river, he was very attentive, and he said to Xu Zixian quite happily: "There are still four more ships that will be launched in the next year, and the capital ships can reach forty-eight, eight of which are large ships of more than 500 tons, and the bow and stern are equipped with giant bed crossbows with three crossbows and trebuchets. ”

Xu Zixian nodded and said: "So the expansion of the sailor division is also imminent, and the ships cannot be launched one after another, but there are no soldiers to handle it." ”

Li Yi said: "The new warship is ready to be built on a trial basis, 500 tons, according to the orders of His Royal Highness, the new ship is equipped with bed crossbows on the side of the ship, and large guns are installed in the front and rear...... The trial casting of artillery and the manufacture of new ships were the most important achievements of the Ordnance Division's subsequent work. ”

Of course, Xu Zixian knew that this was all his order.

Xu Zixian ordered the cannon to be cast, but he asked to cast a large heavy cannon, and at the same time try to improve the quality of gunpowder, whether Fu Qian can make it or not, is not too anxious.

Replace the bed crossbow with heavy artillery, and the battleship is bigger, just to carry more soldiers, which is more suitable for performing the method of attack warfare.

Li Yi said very happily: "Before next summer, there will be more than forty-five large warships, forty or fifty medium-sized warships, one hundred and ten small warships, and more than two hundred ordinary merchant ships......

The shipyards of the Eastern Domain were extremely large, and they had been recruiting craftsmen and training skilled workers for more than a year, increasing the size of the shipyards and stockpiling materials.

Now that the iron yard has a large amount of fine iron, all kinds of iron tools used for shipbuilding will be quite sufficient, and there will be enough cloth, these are all sufficient materials on the island, plus the previous preparations, the next shipbuilding work will be extremely fast and fast.

In addition, the ships ordered from the Linjia and other private shipyards in Quanzhou will be delivered one after another next year, which makes the strength of the fleet of the Eastern Domain Naval Division suddenly rise to a higher level, most of the previous warships are small ships of more than 100 tons, and the medium and large warships add up to more than 40 real warships, some of which are still receiving the Nanyang Naval Division of the Imperial Court and the captured pirate ships, if not, the strength of the Eastern Domain fleet is even worse.

By the beginning of next summer, the strength of the fleet will skyrocket, the number of warships will be nearly eighty, and the number of naval divisions will exceed 10,000. The cavalry was also expanded as much as possible, and the new soldiers recruited, even if the number of war horses was insufficient, and they were trained with miscellaneous horses and mules, they had to enrich and expand the cavalry ranks first.

Sailors and cavalry are the top priorities for the expansion of the army.

In contrast, the status of the army in Xu Zixian's heart is not declining, but the formation and expansion of the army is easier, as long as the production of weapons and armor is in place, after the opening of the mansion, the men on Fujian Road, and even the men in Jiangxi and Jingnan are as many as Xu Zixian wants. The recruitment, formation, training, armor binding, and awarding of troops in the army are all a complete set of processes, under the joint efforts of the Military Administration Department and the Military Training Department, as long as the materials are in place, the money and food are in hand, it is not difficult to form more than 100,000 or 200,000 people within half a year, and the sailors and cavalry, these are all high-tech troops, and before the Qin King Shogunate has enough financial resources to explode a hundred armies or two hundred army land divisions, the technical arms are allocated in place, which is the most important thing.