The next step is the judicial organ, the death penalty must be handed over to the central government for review, needless to say, the local prosecutors are subordinate to the Supervision Yuan, but the central government's death penalty review power Zhu Ao gave the criminal Cao a written verdict, and one more person to check the case, there will be less danger of an unjust, false and wrongly decided case. Due to the initial establishment of the country, it could not bear the heavy government expenditure, so Zhu Ao did not set up an institution like Dali Temple.

As for Hongluqing, Guanglu Temple, etc., they are also exempted.

Finally, it is a non-governmental grassroots management organization, and Lao Zhu also made a good template for him, that is, the Lijia system. Lao Zhu stipulated that every 110 households should be one li, and the richest ten of them would take turns to be the lieutenant chief, and the remaining 100 people would be the first leader, and every ten households would be a group, and they would take turns to serve under the leadership of their own lieutenant chief.

Zhu Ao made improvements on this basis, and he used the system of protecting the armor, that is, every ten households were assigned to one Jia, and every ten households were assigned to one Bao, and every ten Jiajia was set up as a Bao, and every five Baobao was set up as a big Bao, and every five Baobao was set up as a large Bao, and a capital Baochang was established.

If it is found that someone in the first class has violated the law and committed a crime, the rest of the people have the obligation to report it, and if they actively report it, they can not only be exempted from the crime but also obtain the family property of the criminal, if they do not report it if they know about it, after the crime, all the people in the first class will be guilty of the same crime.

The first chief, the chief of security, and the chief of the capital are responsible for the management affairs in their own jurisdictions, specifically to help the county order collect taxes, urge the dispatch of conscripts, supervise the production of people in peacetime, supervise the training of the people in the agricultural slack, and be responsible for maintaining law and order.

The head of each A must truthfully compile the yellow book of the first A, which must clearly record the population, land, and property of each family of the first A, and if there is any deception, the first chief will be assigned to a slave camp as a coolie, and at worst he will be killed.

After compiling the Yellow Book, it had to be reported layer by layer, all the way to Zhu Hao, so that Zhu Hao could control every inch of land, every population and every wealth in the kingdom.

Because the Yellow Book is related to how many resources Zhu Ao can control, it is regarded by him as the top priority, and the compilation of the Yellow Book is that the county government must send people to supervise, and the chief of the security department and the chief of the capital also have the obligation to supervise their subordinates.

In addition, Zhu Ao also encouraged the first chiefs to supervise each other, if Zhang Jiachang found out that Li Jiachang had cheated and actively denounced it, not only can he be exonerated from the crime, but he can also obtain Li Jiachang's property, if they do not denounce it, after the verification, the ten first chiefs will be convicted.

Finally, Zhu Ao also encouraged the people to report their superiors, if the people found that their first chief and chief security officer had engaged in favoritism, they could directly report to the county government, inspect the imperial history, and even go to Zhangye to complain to Zhu Ao. The local officials are not allowed to stop it, and they have to provide travel expenses, and after verification, Zhu Ao will reward the people, if it turns out to be a false accusation, then he will not go back, and report directly to the slave camp.

With this strict system of mutual checks, Zhu Hao could be sure that he could control everything in the kingdom, and although his current territory was not large and his population was not large, he could concentrate all his forces against foreign enemies, so he was not weak.

Han Feizi once said: "Survival is in the void and reality, not in the crowd." This is a wise saying, and can be used as a motto for kings throughout the ages.

Translated, the survival of a country depends on whether the monarch has great power, that is, how many resources the monarch can actually control, and no longer depends on the size of the country's population and territory.

The armor protection system was the most effective way to ensure that the monarch had control over all the resources of the state, and it was used from the beginning of the Spring and Autumn period to the Shang Dynasty, and then to the modern era.

For example, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the economy was very prosperous, capitalism sprouted, and the population was several times more than in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, but the Wanli Emperor beat Nurhachi and made great efforts to recruit 85,000 soldiers from all over the country (from the then first assistant Fang Congzhe's recital), relying on Yehla's army and the Korean soldiers to make up the number, barely enough to gather 100,000 troops.

When Zhu Yuanzhang invaded the capital of Yuan in the north, he only occupied the area south of the Yangtze River and dispatched 250,000 troops at once, and the later Northern Expedition to Mongolia would have at least 100,000 people. Zhu Di's five expeditions to Mongolia led hundreds of thousands of people to crush the opponent at every turn, why is this?

It is because in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the Lijia system and the guard system of the Ming Dynasty were effectively operating, and the emperor could control all the strength of his country, although the overall financial resources and manpower of the country were not as good as those in the Wanli period, but the emperor had a lot of resources and could beat everything.

In the late Ming Dynasty, due to the rise of the civil and official groups, they colluded with some big businessmen not to pay taxes, and many large families also relied on gifts to officials to falsely report their land properties, and many people who were originally registered in the household registration were reduced to black households and were no longer controlled by the state.

Therefore, although the emperor looks at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, in fact, the financial, material, and manpower resources in his hands have been greatly reduced, and all of them have put the group of high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen, and big landowners into his own pockets, so they seem to be strong, but in fact they are weak. In the Chongzhen years, it was even more nonsense, because when Chongzhen first came to power, the too young, too simple Tucson was broken, and he fell into the evil role of the Donglin Party, killed Wei Zhongxian, who worked hard for the old Zhu family and worked hard to make money, and also wiped out his henchmen, so that he instantly lost the ability to control the empire, was surrounded by a group of small people, and could not do anything he wanted. During the Apocalypse, the tea tax in Zhejiang Province could collect 200,000 taels, but in the tenth year of Chongzhen, only 10,000 taels were collected, and there was no "10,000" in the middle, and the emperor was completely regarded as asking for food.

Whenever Emperor Chongzhen wanted to collect commercial taxes, customs duties, and mineral taxes to enrich the treasury, the group of officials who were inextricably linked with big businessmen, big smuggling groups, and big coal bosses would refuse on the grounds of violating the ancestral system, and the emperor finally died of poverty.

Chongzhen has two famous sayings, the first is that the ministers are mistaken; The second is that everyone can be killed. Many people think that he is shirking his responsibility, but in the author's opinion, he is venting after being slammed.

Zhu Ao has always believed that the so-called national strength is not directly related to a country's economic development level and population.

In the final analysis, national strength is the control of the king, no matter how developed the economy and how large the population is, what is the use if it is not in the hands of the king?

On the other hand, Nurhachi, although the territory was small at the beginning and the population under his control was not large, but through the Eight Banners system, everyone in the territory was in his hands, and he worked and engaged in production in peacetime, and all of them were pulled out to serve as soldiers in wartime, so he seemed to be weak, but in fact he was strong.

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