Chapter 159: A Thankless Errand

Jia Rui and Chen Yejun were walking, and a team of fire armor came over in front of them, escorting a monk and a layman.

Seeing Jia Rui and Chen Yejun, the fire armor stopped. 、

"I've seen Chen Yimu."

"Mr. Zhou Jia, this is the new commander, Master Jia, the new science and technology master."

"The little one has seen Commander Jia."

Mr. Zhou Jia gave a salute.

"What's going on with these two?"

Jarry asked.

"Back to the commander, this is a monk who has been hiding in Beijing from other places. This is the one who is from the palace. How to deal with it, please also ask the commander to give instructions. ”

Jia Rui didn't understand how to deal with it, so he looked at Chen Yejun.

"Send it to the Criminal Department."

"Yes, Chen Zhimu."

After Zhou Jia finished speaking, he didn't leave.

Chen Yejun sighed.

"Mr. Zhou Jia, now the original commander and the two deputy commanders are gone. Commander Jia had just taken office and was understaffed. Just keep it up for a little longer. ”

"Chen Yanmu, it's not that I don't want to do it. I really don't have any money at home. My mother was sick, and she didn't have any money for medicine, so she had to provide for the supper on the Jinyi Army's side. ”

"Next month's paper, pen, lamp and candle money, seeing that it is about to expire again, they have no money."

"Okay, I know, I didn't force you to ask for it."

"You didn't force it, but the Jinyi Army is not happy if you don't eat well."

"Stay out of them."

"I can't hide from it. By the way, Shang Baosi from the palace came to the message and asked us to send ten people to help them carry water. ”

"Well, then you can take someone with you."

"But ......."

"Go, and I will spare you from the errand of the night patrol tonight. Let's go, let's go, I'm busy here. ”

"Okay, Chen Yanmu, I have this errand, you can hurry up and find someone, the small one really can't afford it."

"Don't be verbose, got it."

Chen Yejun looked at Jia Rui and sighed.

"The hearts of the people are scattered, the team is not easy to lead, and you are laughing."

"Brother Chen doesn't have to blame himself, it's not your responsibility. By the way, why did you arrest that monk? ”

"Infiltrating the Jingshi, the purpose is unknown. Or there is no degree, and illegal apprentices. Either preaching privately, or abducting displaced people to cultivate in monasteries, engaging in miscellaneous labor, and evading the ...... of forced labor and taxes. ”

The so-called infiltrated Beijing division refers to the foreign population who stay and live in the capital without a legitimate reason and without the approval of the government.

These populations include monks, Taoist priests, sidewalkers, homeless people, thieves, and even spies.

These people, because they are not in the control of the government, belong to the destabilizing factor.

Naturally, such an unstable factor cannot be allowed to exist, and it must be eliminated as soon as possible.

"What should be the crime of the person who was sent to the criminal department by the palace?"

"The sin of unfilial piety."

"This ......."

"There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great. are all like him in the palace, who else will farm the land and become a soldier, serve in conscription, and pay taxes? ”

Can even this be convicted?

People just don't want to have children, or they can't afford to marry a wife, and they can't have children themselves?

Do you have to reproduce offspring to be leeks, so that these old men can harvest one stubble at a time?

According to this, Yue Buqun and Lin Pingzhi are also guilty of practicing the sword technique of warding off evil spirits.

In the previous life, those Dink families crossed over here, and they also had to be punished?

"How can you find our people when you carry water in the palace? Isn't that the eunuchs' errand? ”

"Alas, when we were on night patrol, we got the token from Shang Bao Si in the palace every day, and it must be the eunuch of the Fire Candle Division in the palace, and the eunuch of Shang Bao Si was looking for us."

Shang Bao Si and Huo Candle Si are both eunuch institutions in the Forbidden City.

Shang Bao Si is in charge of power certificates such as seals, tokens, kamps, and military talismans, and can control the Soldiers and Horses.

The fire candle division is in charge of the fire candles and fire protection in the palace, and in order to prevent fire, some large vats are placed in the palace, and water is stored in the vats all year round.

The big vat is very large, each tank can hold 2,000 catties of water, carrying water is a tiring job, the eunuchs are unwilling to do it, so they catch the errand from the outside.

In winter, the Jinshui River, the moat outside the palace, froze, and in order to ensure that water could be drawn at any time, the people of the Terracotta Division had to help dig the ice every day.

"In short, a yamen can restrain us, and all we do is a breath-holding errand. Thankfully, you're here, and I'm finally able to relax. ”

Jia Rui was also a little deflated when he heard this.

Yesterday, when he heard that he had gone to the Terracotta Division, he still felt that after doing this, he didn't need to go to the northwest. I didn't expect that I just got in touch today, and there was so much trouble.

In the future, there may be a lot of troubles waiting for you.

If I knew this, it would be better to go to the northwest, at least there are not so many mothers-in-law to take care of themselves.

Those who can support the soldiers and horses are not small. It's not easy to offend, and there will be a lot of trouble in the future.

When I arrived at an intersection, I saw people from the inspection department, who were setting up cards to check the road guidance for pedestrians.

Road guides, according to the identity and travel certificates issued by the local government to people who go out, if there is no road guide, they will be arrested and screened.

If they run away, they will be repatriated to their hometown, or sent to the imperial village to be used as a hard laborer, or sent to a prison to be used as a coolie.

If it is a fugitive, it is arrested and sent to the penal department.

"The Inspection Division belongs to the patrol battalion and is under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. There are also four patrol halls in the capital, namely the northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest patrol halls. Specializes in patrolling and catching thieves. ”

Jarry understood.

Those who can manage the security of the capital, in addition to the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, there are also the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Nine Gate Admiral, the Patrol Battalion, the Jinyi Army, the Beijing Camp, Shuntianfu, Wanping County, and Daxing County.

The Five Cities Terracotta Division only has the right to investigate and arrest, but has no right to judge. If a person who is caught violating the law cannot be dealt with by himself, he must hand it over to other yamen such as the Criminal Department.

The Soldiers and Horses Division does more thankless tasks such as fire fighting, urban management, patrol police, traffic police, business administration, civil affairs, and municipal administration.

When he arrived at Jishuitan, he saw someone grazing cattle on the embankment, Chen Yejun went up to reprimand him and drove the people away.

It turns out that this kind of thing is also under the control of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

When I arrived at the Chongwenmen tax card, a person from the tax collection department came over.

"Chen Yanmu, I haven't seen you catch a few tax evaders recently."

It turned out that the merchants who did not go through the tax card and evaded taxes were also under the management of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

"Hehe, you put people in, how do we know who evaded taxes and who didn't? Besides, we have that little manpower, where is there anyone to check the tax stamps? ”

"The traffickers of moonshine have been very active lately, so shouldn't you go to the city wall at night to check on them, and squat in the pit to catch a few of them, so as to set an example."

There was a rule in the Dade Empire that no liquor was allowed to be made in the capital.

However, there is a huge demand for wine in the capital, so there are many wineries around the capital.

The liquor tax collector is an important source of tax revenue for the Chongwenmen tax card, and all wine cars entering the capital must take the Chongwenmen tax card to facilitate tax collection.

Inside the Chongwen Gate, there are 18 hotels designated by the government to purchase liquor from outside the city and then distribute it to all parts of the city.

In fact, this is a kind of liquor monopoly system, and the government has a monopoly on it.

Because the liquor tax is very high, in order to evade taxes, some people smuggle all kinds of liquor.

The most common method was to put wine in a leather bag, hang it on the body, and secretly climb the city wall at night to carry the wine to the city.

This tax collector is referring to this kind of person when he goes to the city wall to catch illicit wine.

"We can't control the city wall, you have to find the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies for this matter, or go to the Governor's Yamen of the Nine Gates."

Chen Yejun stopped paying attention to him, turned back, and scolded in a low voice.

"Bing Jing and Tan Jing don't have our share, but they think of us when they work. Phew! ”