After winning the first battle, Luo Cheng immediately sent someone to fly back on horseback.

On the one hand, it is to report success, on the other hand, it is to ask for merit, and on the other hand, there is also a request to the county order for the disposal of those bandits and fugitives in the village.

In the Yali of Zhangqiu County, Zhang Yichen, who received the good news, breathed a sigh of relief and showed joy on his face.

"This Luo madman, he really has a hand in fighting and suppressing bandits. As soon as the troops were dispatched, they had already broken through a thief's lair on the first day. ”

Zhang Yichen's staff were also amazed after reading the detailed good news.

"He has a hand in fighting, but he can't be an official. He is now the acting county lieutenant, and he is responsible for the art of war, catching thieves and suppressing bandits, and the criminal and prison proceedings are all under his control. It's good that he broke through the thief's village, but he is going to ask the envoy how to deal with it. ”

As a county lieutenant, he has to be in charge of the county affairs with the county lieutenant, and the county lieutenant happens to be in charge of this judicial part. It stands to reason that how to deal with the bandit fugitives is up to Luo Cheng to decide, and then report the results to the county order.

Zhang Yichen said, "Luo Cheng is young after all, and he is the acting county lieutenant who has just taken office, so he can't make up his mind to ask me, but it's safe." ”

The staff member said, "Looking at his initial disposition, it's not bad, but it's still a little too light, which is not in accordance with the law." ”

Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the revision of the law, although it has reduced many corporal punishment laws, and at the same time, it has also simplified the complexity and made the law much simpler, but in general, the law is not merciful, and those who dare to touch the law will be punished heavily.

After the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, two laws were revised, namely the Kaihuang Law of Emperor Wen of Sui and the Great Cause Law of the Son of Heaven today.

In the first year of the founding of the emperor, at the beginning of the founding of the country, Yang Jian ordered Gao Gong, Zheng Yi and other important ministers to adopt the Wei and Jin criminal codes, down to Qi Liang, and take their compromises to formulate new laws.

In the third year of the emperor's reign, the law was still strict, so many people were convicted, and Su Wei and Niu Hong were ordered to change the new law, delete the complicated and simplified, delete the eighty-one capital crimes, one hundred and fifty-four articles of miscarriage, and more than 1,000 crimes such as flails, leaving only 500 articles, counting names, guarding and prohibiting, the job system, household marriage, stables, unauthorized prosperity, thieves, lawsuits, fraud, miscellaneous laws, arrest and imprisonment, a total of 12 articles.

The Kaihuang Law also set the names of the five kinds of punishments: flogging, cane, imprisonment, exile, and death, abolished the previous generation's whipping, beheading, splitting and other torture and killing laws, and stipulated that the interrogation of prisoners with canes is no more than 200, and the execution of cane punishment must not be changed in the middle of the process, and also stipulated the system of eight discussions, in order to maintain the privileges of nobles, bureaucrats and landlords, and also developed the ten felonies of the Northern Qi Dynasty into ten heinous crimes, and strengthened the suppression of acts that undermined the order of civil construction.

In the third year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang launched a revised version on the basis of the Kaihuang Law, called the Great Cause Law, with 18 articles and a total of 500 articles.

The law of great cause has a lighter punishment than the law of the emperor, and it also expresses leniency for some provisions of the title of the ten heinous crimes.

Compared with the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties eras, the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty were more lenient with the law, but no matter how lenient they were, they would not be lenient with the bandits and thieves.

Traditionally, if a thief is arrested, he will be executed or exiled to the army. Either they are directly not slaves, but are beaten as untouchables.

The bandits who were captured this time can basically be dealt with according to this example, and even those fugitives who are attached to them can also be dealt with in the same way, especially this case, which involves rebellion and chaos, and cannot be spared.

You must know that rebellion is a heinous crime, much more serious than thieves.

"Those people are also good people, but they voluntarily give up their household registration, flee to the mountains, and become thieves, which is intolerable." The staff were well acquainted with the law, and "I propose that all the thieves who are captured should be beheaded, and that those who fled from the thieves should all be reduced to slavery and reduced to lowly status, and it is better to be directly listed as private slaves and maids and sold publicly." ”

The staff suggested that those people should be reduced to slavery and then sold, and the money obtained could be used not only to suppress bandits, but also to use it to discourage their superiors.

There were many slaves in the Sui Dynasty, most of which came from prisoners of war and bandits.

It is said that in the capital city of Daxing, forty percent of the population is slaves, the nobles and bureaucrats of Daxing City, their lives are inseparable from slaves and maids, and even in the many temples and Taoist temples in Daxing City, there are many slaves.

There were many slaves and maids, and there was a lot of slave trade.

The market for slaves and maids is large and in demand.

Both the Kaihuang Law and the Great Industry Law clearly stipulate the status of slaves, and slaves are the private property of slave owners, and like cattle and horses, they belong to the untouchables outside the way of Shinong, industry and commerce.

The slave class of the Sui Dynasty was a huge group, in addition to the lowest slaves and maids, it also included official households, miscellaneous households, and tribes.

Miscellaneous households are official slaves who have no officials due to the crimes of the previous generation, and are driven by scattered officials.

The official household is the general name of the Fan household, that is, the household of the previous generation or the minority of the tribal prisoner of war household that was assigned to the current dynasty.

The trilogy is the slave who is released by the master and remains in the master's house to serve as a servant.

There are subtle differences in the identities of these people, but they are all sluts.

Slaves don't even have surnames, and the tribes have names and surnames, but they all belong to the untouchables.

Slaves also have official slaves and private slaves and maids, official slaves and maids are naturally subordinate to the government, and private slaves and maids are privately owned.

The intention of the staff was to beat all the fugitives in the village into official slaves and maids, and then sell them to private individuals, so that they would become private slaves and maids, and the Zhangqiu County Ya would get a sum of money for selling slaves.

As for doing this, no one cares about the feelings of those fugitives, anyway, they themselves have given up the household registration of the Great Sui, so they do not belong to the people of the Great Sui.

Zhang Yichen thought for a while and said, "Since Luo Cheng has killed seven thieves when he broke the village, the remaining twenty-nine thieves don't have to be killed, they are not slaves, as for those who have fled from the thieves, they are not official slaves." Didn't Luo Cheng say let them build a military station, then let them build a military station there. The rest of the property, fields, etc., were confiscated to the officials. ”

The staff reminded Zhang Yichen.

"Luo Cheng's vanguard has 2,000 people, 500 soldiers, and more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers. These people are not government soldiers, they have no food, and now they are going out to fight and suppress bandits, and they have to give them some sweetness. The harvest of the bandits can make Luo Cheng leave half of it and send it to the county soldiers and villagers, and the remaining half will be handed over to the county government, and then the jun will take out 20% of it and give it to Luo Cheng and other county soldiers and township brave officers. ”

The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.

The county soldiers and villagers brought their own dry food to fight, and it was always beneficial to suppress bandits.

If Luo Cheng is asked to hand over all the seized proceeds, it will be a bit unkind.

"When those county soldiers and townships bravely suppress bandits, they will definitely take the opportunity to steal the spoils of war privately."

"Definitely, but even if they rob privately, there will definitely be some left to hand in, let's not care about the private robbery, on the surface, the prince will have to leave half of it to Luo Cheng and them, and then the remaining half will be rewarded to Luo Cheng and other officers, and finally three percent will enter the county treasury."

"When the water is clear, there are no fish!" Staff reminds.

It's no good, who is fighting with you to suppress the bandits?

Zhang Yichen nodded, "Okay, you come and write a letter back to Luo Cheng!" ”