Huangzhuang's disposal was swift and ensured the normal development of things to the greatest extent......

Especially since they even controlled the house slaves.

The latter didn't have time to return to the Fang family to report in the shortest possible time, and when the Fang family got the news and gathered all the people to prepare to intercept on the road, Yang Jiyun had already been sent to the Xin'an Brigade Headquarters and imprisoned in the prison of the Military Justice Department, and his woman was also sent to Huangzhuang for protection. Then immediately after that, nearly 1,000 people from the Fang family blocked the headquarters of the Xin'an Brigade and Huangzhuang, and at the same time, the two yamen of She County and Huizhou Governor sent people to ask for the handover, and even the Fang family people from other counties in Huizhou were also gathering.

This is the strength of the clan.

Especially in a place like Huizhou, in fact, in the wars of the previous dynasties, this place was almost the least affected, several major surnames were multiplied for dozens of generations, and it was easy to gather thousands of clans, and the Fang family was originally very representative of them.

Huizhou is just a small piece of flat land.

The vast majority of the population is crowded into this small basin in the mountains, several counties are very close to each other, and the convening can be completed in less than half a day, compared with the thousands of militia in Huangzhuang, which was originally adapted from Xin'anwei, the strength of any big clan is enough to compete. It is not around Nanjing, because there are those confiscated Xungui land, the Huangzhuang is quite dense, and more than 100,000 young people can be mobilized with an order, and the clan is the boss in a place like Huizhou.

Faced with this situation, the commander of the Xin'an Brigade could only try his best to appease and ask his superiors for help.

Fortunately, they all remained restrained.

After all, there is the example of Xuanzhou Wei before, and the Fang family's clansmen do not say that they have the courage to dare to attack the militia headquarters, but the stalemate between the two sides is still continuing.

"It's a bit embarrassing!"

Yang Qing, who got the report the next day, said helplessly.

He also served as the Judge General of the Metropolitan Governor's Office.

To be precise, it is actually a deputy, and it is his fiancée who is positive, so he also has the final say in the internal military law of the Ming army, but he also has a headache in this matter.

Yang Jiyun's identity is too embarrassing.

Fugitive slaves.

The deed of sale is still in the hands of the Fang family, he just absconded, and then concealed his identity to join the Ming army, but he is still legally the Fang family, and the Fang family did know that he returned before, but there is no need to make too much trouble for a fugitive slave. But the Fang family couldn't be really willing, they just endured this breath for the time being, and this fugitive slave actually killed the young master of the Fang family, this was equivalent to detonating a powder keg.

"How should the law be judged?"

Yang Qing asked Stilwell.

"It depends on whether it is according to military law or civil law, he is not guilty according to military law, he is also a militia after retiring, and he is also a reserve sergeant, he is still a military position, and it is self-defense to fight back and die in an attack, our military law has special provisions. According to the civil law, it can only be beheaded, which belongs to fighting and killing, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty itself, it is to be hanged, but he belongs to the slave killing of a good person, and it is necessary to add a class to be changed to beheading. In fact, his problem is not the most critical, we just try him by military law on the grounds that he belongs to the army, this is also no problem in theory, the identity of the militia is originally very vague as a civilian soldier, and the criminal department can't find any reason to be dissatisfied at most. The most troublesome thing is his woman, no matter what kind of reasoning her woman is, she must be a member of the Fang family, even if Yang Jiyun is in the army, his identity as a house slave of the Fang family has not changed, and the house slave is not unable to be a soldier, and according to the diagnosis of Lang Zhong in the health center of Huangzhuang, his woman is still pregnant, so this child is also a member of the Fang family. ”

Stilwell said.

"In other words, under the circumstances of the law, we can protect him at most, but we can't protect his woman and this unborn child."

Yang Qing said.

"Yes, unless there is an amnesty from the prison state."

Stilwell said.

The prison country can indeed be pardoned, admit to the crime of killing a beloved person by fighting Yang Jiyun, and then pardon it with military merits, then his women and children are still his women and children. Even if he is a member of the Fang family, the woman and the child belong to him first, and then belong to the Fang family because of him, but if he dies or cannot be taken care of in prison due to sin, the Fang family has the right to bypass him and ask for the woman directly.

Because no one else has the right to take care of this woman.

Yang Qing continued to look at the report.

At the heart of this matter is the issue of slaves.

And he hasn't touched this matter so far, because the slave issue is too involved, second only to him playing the Gongtian Law, and the slave issue in Jiangnan didn't even dare to move Zhu Yuanzhang back then.

This is actually a pot left by the Mongols.

In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the ancient Chinese slave and maid system was close to existing in name only, and it is true that it is not possible to coward, but this point is indeed worthy of affirmation. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the problem of slaves was still serious, but in the more than 100 years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the slaves and maids who were physically attached to them gradually became de facto hired laborers, and the slaves and maids were just a name, and even the name gradually disappeared. For example, the maid has become a female envoy, and the house slave has become a companion, don't underestimate the two titles that often appear in the Water Margin, which represents the Song Dynasty in the entire world in ancient times, can be said to be the most civilized symbol. In the late Song Dynasty, the law was the same for the master and slave, the master killed the slave to pay for his life, and the master forced the maid to be exiled, so Zheng Tu deceived Jin Cuilian into marrying a concubine, rather than directly buying a concubine with personal ownership, Jin Cuilian ran away and was not arrested as a fugitive slave, and she still hung around with her father, and even dared to remarry as a concubine. As for Zhao Jiumei's maidservants dying and the like, that is not a legal pot in essence, even the bald guy's royal relatives dare to do the same, but legally he still has to pay for those little girls, but no one dares to care.

But the Southern Song Dynasty began to regress.

Although the law has not changed, in fact nongnu has become common.

Picking up the ashes is a sign.

In his theory, the tenant suing the owner is already a violation of the program, which is actually the gentry group trying to counterattack, but after all, he is just a politician with many political enemies, and the laws of the Southern Song Dynasty have not changed, and the peasants have to accept the latter's equivalent treatment because the tenants must be attached to the landlord's land.

But not legally a slave.

Then the Mongols solved the legal problems for the Jiangnan gentry, and it has to be said that this alien race was really the favorite of the gentry, and they completely turned the tenants into peasants. But it's a pity that the gentry cheered for less than a hundred years before Zhu Yuanzhang ushered in, Zhu Yuanzhang is against this kind of peasant system, but his basic plate is still the Jiangnan gentry, and he can't change too much, he can only restrict it in various ways. Including leaving a law for future generations to reduce the number of slaves killed by a beloved, not the same as in the Song Dynasty, and after his death, the gentry could cheer again, and then restore it step by step, and finally by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the south of the Yangtze River was full of farmers. Especially after the gentry were greatly exempted from taxes, there were even yeoman farmers who took the land and begged to be slaves, others like those who could not afford to marry a wife, had to marry the gentry's maidservants, and those who could not afford to bury their relatives and sell themselves, there are still many such contracts that can be found in modern times.

Thousands of slaves from large landlords are not uncommon.

The increasing number of slaves eventually evolved into a large-scale slavery that swept through Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It happened in Zhejiang in the year of Chongzhen's southern crossing.

It's just that Chongzhen has subsided when he arrived in Nanjing, and Zhang Xianzhong's momentum in Huguang was like a bamboo, and to a large extent, it was a slave welcome, for example, in Macheng, it was a slave who first beat the city and then invited him. In the original history, with the collapse of the Hongguang regime, Jiangnan entered a chaotic era, and the slavery in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has become a sweeping trend, and the richer the place, the more so, it can be said that the slave rebellion in various places has swarmed. Huizhou was originally the hardest hit area of slavery, and those slaves who rebelled against their masters slapped the masters they caught and asked:

"Junren, why do you call me a slave?"

Fortunately, the gentry waited for their favorite alien race again, and it was our Qing Dynasty who finally solved this crisis for them.

However, it is the fourth elder brother who completely solves it.

The fourth elder brother canceled his slavery.

Now Yang Qing also has to face this problem, Yang Jiyun's matter itself doesn't matter, the key is that he detonated this focus that has been selectively ignored by all parties, including Yang Qing.

Yang Jiyun can be guaranteed.

He was able to find a basis within the law.

After all, Yang Jiyun is a militia and a reserve non-commissioned officer, and the militia is the army when it is said to be the army, and the people are the people, and even the civilian officials in the Ming Dynasty, where the military household system lasted for hundreds of years, tacitly acquiesced to them as the army.

But Yang Jiyun's wife and unborn child are the people, and if they are the people, then they have to follow the civil law, according to the civil law, she is the woman who is the slave of the Fang family, and her children are the children of the slaves of the Fang family, all of them belong to the Fang family. The Fang family will definitely understand this, they will want this woman to go back and torture, this is his family's people, Huangzhuang can't detain his family's people, they must be given to them. Then they will use this woman and child to persecute Yang Jiyun, as long as the latter admits that he deliberately killed the young master of the Fang family, then even Yang Qing will not be able to protect it.

But if you can't keep Yang Jiyun......

"Is there a lot of this in the army?"

Yang Qing asked.

"Many, fugitive slaves are actually very common in Jiangnan, just like the military families fled in the past, when we were training the mountain army before, there were a large number of fugitive slaves among the shanty people recruited from the mountains."

Stilwell said.

And it's not just these people.

This also involves all parts of the Jiangnan, it can be said that all the gentry officials have slaves and maids in their homes, the registered population of the Ming Dynasty is more than 50 million, and the actual population is not less than 200 million. And these people have not benefited from Yang Qing's series of reforms, because of the civil rights propaganda, these people are also changing their thinking, they are also eager to get rid of the status of slaves, if this matter is not handled well, it will make these people desperate.

And desperate people have a hard time saying what they will do.

It is not impossible for a large-scale slavery to break out.

"Master Hou, the Huizhou Communication Station sent a report that nearly two thousand people from the Fang family surrounded Huangzhuang and demanded to hand over Yang Jiyun's woman, and the situation is out of control."

A staff officer suddenly walked in and spoke.