Chapter 1127: The Tragic Fate of a Prisoner Exiled for Thousands of Miles
Roads extending in all directions, fast and convenient, trains and railways with large transportation volumes, luxurious short-distance horse-drawn carriages, short-distance horse-drawn trains and buses in the city, towering garden-like buildings, crowded markets, cities with Chinese characteristics, cities with old dynasties, and houses, enterprises, factories, markets, and special hospitals outside the city, of course, are hospitals for traditional Chinese medicine, as well as the developed bicycle market, and all kinds of rich commodities.
People wear a variety of clothes, there are antique Han Dynasty wear, there are Ming Dynasty old clothes, as well as the Qing Dynasty clothes, as well as the kind of Zhongshan suits in later generations, as well as people's own invention of various convenient clothing systems, fabrics are also varied, there are linen clothes, there are cotton, there are silk, there are more rubber raw materials and silk, linen clothes made of clothes, as well as convenient for the change of military uniforms to labor cloth and other similar to hard denim clothing factory workers' clothing style.
Jewelry stores all kinds of jade, jade, necklaces, gold jewelry, silver rings, everything, the treasury of the Chinese Empire has endless gold and silver, jewelry, just take out some every year, create jewelry, can earn hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars, let these circulate in the market, but also to the treasury to earn a lot of Chinese dollars, so that the Chinese Empire will not be because of huge losses, and the country has no money, and so that these buried in the treasury of the currency equivalent will not lose value, Let people always remember that these things are still valuable, especially after industrial processing, the value is even higher.
The Chinese Empire's food, clothing, housing and transportation are all creating a lot of commercial profits for the Chinese Empire, as well as taxes, which is also the reason why the Chinese Empire can repeatedly take out money to fight, purchase materials, and subsidize everywhere.
In terms of heavy industry, shipbuilding, the manufacture of steam engines, the construction of luxurious horse-drawn carriages, and the sturdy and durable marching carriages, the opening of mines, the digging of coal, the establishment of steel mills, ironworks, smelters, armor and weapons and equipment manufacturing plants, musket factories, artillery factories, and various chemical plants, three acids and two alkalis have been obtained with much higher technology than the local method of manufacturing, and many factories and mines have been built.
In terms of light industry, the textile camp uses the Jenny textile machine, which is the patent of the traverser, in terms of salt, drying salt, digging rock salt, and drilling deep well salt, and then there are special factories for refining, and then there are various government departments to conduct output audits, part of it becomes official salt, enters the government yamen for use or sales, and part is distributed to private individuals for private sales, tobacco leaves, and salt industry are specially mined and manufactured, and private individuals can only sell.
The manufacture of sugar, the manufacture of rubber, the cultivation of sugar cane and rubber, are all carried out by private individuals, but the government purchases and sells them all, and these are all strategic materials.
In addition to prohibiting over-exploitation, all kinds of precious timber were not sold or felled, so furniture factories and merchants who provided timber to shipyards were emerging.
The creation of various agricultural tools and agricultural tools products occupy a lot of the market of the Chinese Empire, because to ensure that hundreds of millions of people in the Chinese Empire eat, we must vigorously develop agriculture, agriculture is still one of the pillar economies of the Chinese Empire, but relatively speaking, the people who work in agriculture do not have so many burdens, because there is no tax on farming, only the agricultural tools manufactured, and other products have a certain low tax, and many of them are tax-free or preferential.
However, high-grade processed products are taxed at a high rate, and exports are also taxed at a high rate, and grain exports are prohibited to a certain extent, because it is necessary to ensure that all the people have food.
Various service industries are also vigorously developed, such as horse-drawn carriages and buses in each town, as well as short-distance horse-drawn carriage passenger cars, long-distance trains and horse-drawn carriages, mules and horses hauling, etc., the transportation industry is very prosperous, and the goods from south to north need to be transported by mules and horses, ships, trains, etc.
All kinds of inns, inns, and inns, as well as state-run taverns, and privately opened luxury manor hotels, are all spread in every corner of the land of China.
The Chinese Empire does not prohibit legal solicitation overnight, there are special private halls, and there are halls for people to gamble and enjoy themselves, but the taxes in these places are very heavy, high consumption, high taxes, only important cities, some ports, and islands, but the total number is very small, but about 1,000, but these 1,000 bring profits of more than 10 billion yuan every year.
There are also martial arts halls, militia training grounds, shooting ranges in various places, all people over the age of sixteen in the empire can have the right to carry swords, guns, swords, halberds, and even wear armor and ride war horses, but they cannot own any firearms, if you need to enjoy or train, you need to go to the shooting range and militia training ground to play, and you must not hurt people, and those who hurt people will be imprisoned, exiled for thousands of miles, and finally die, causing serious consequences, or if you have serious motives, they will all be caught in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, sentenced on a certain day, and then executed.
If you encounter bandits on the road, there is a reward for killing bandits or capturing bandits, and you will not be counted as a crime.
Those who assist the government in apprehending important criminals, or assist the army in defending the city, are rewarded, and killing people is not considered homicide.
If a specific person has a firearm, he or she must notify the government, and after review, as long as you do not cause harm to anyone, or have no motive to commit a crime, you will only be given a warning, a fine, or a special certificate for research or self-defense, but if you use it to resist the government, your family and neighbors will be exiled for hundreds or thousands of miles, and at worst you will be imprisoned.
Private individuals are not allowed to own military standard weapons, such as flintlock pistols, such as rifled arquebuses, such as artillery, even simple tiger squat cannons, retired garrison soldiers and above can have weapons and equipment registered by the government, but not more, only one or two or three, not more, beyond the review of you and go to prison for interrogation.
Adult men must spend one month a year training in the local militia or be exiled for thousands of miles for evading military service.
All the exiles served the local public labor in the local area, that is, repairing canals, burning wasteland, cutting down trees, digging up river mud, building fortifications, building barracks, or participating in wartime sentry, monitoring the enemy's movements, and taking up arms as cannon fodder when necessary.
Exiled prisoners are supervised by the local garrison, and they have to pay a certain amount of income to the government every month, report, have no crimes, have meritorious service, reduce the number of years of exile, after 20 times, they can choose to go home, or be placed under residential surveillance by the local garrison and the government, if they commit crimes during this period, then they will be exiled to the border, exiled to the Governor's District, and the Governor's District will treat them as prisoners.
You can throw them to guard the uninhabited wasteland for hundreds of miles, or you can order them to move to more desolate places and reclaim the local wasteland until they die in battle, or die unexpectedly in the local area, before they can be closed in the Chinese Empire, anyway, their treatment is the same as that of the criminals in the previous hard labor camps of the Chinese Empire, and they can only be liberated by death.
Some of them would be thrown into the factories run by the garrison, such as quarries, sand digging factories, ore mines, or burning wasteland farms, or organizing against local fleeing criminals, outlaws, or bandits who had escaped from the enemy, as well as rangers, scouts, scouts, and spies who rounded up the enemy.
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