Chapter 8 Separation of Powers

The reward soldiers were rewarded with the treasury silver of the county government, and after removing the ones that had just been distributed, there were only more than 50,000 taels left, and the equipment in the armory was not very much, only some worn cotton armor knives and spears. It is estimated that some of the weapons are piled up outside--they were still worn by the Yuan army before, but they can be picked up later. When the weapons statistics came out, Zhang Guanghua decided to distribute them all tomorrow.

These were the most ordinary materials found in ancient times, and what surprised Zhang Guanghua the most was that he found several large barrels of black fire medicine and hundreds of fire guns in the corner of the warehouse, it seems that the main reason is that today's battle time is too short, and these things have not had time to be consumed. After coming to the Yuan Dynasty for so long, he finally saw something that could be linked to modernity, and he burst into tears with excitement.

After counting the materials and returning to the county office, another thing stimulated Zhang Guanghua. About 3 million taels of property were copied from the home of a county government official! This made everyone who felt that they had become rich and handsome with 50,000 taels of silver before fell into madness in an instant. How many officials are there, just one Daru Huachi, one Yin member, one Cheng member, one bookkeeper, one lieutenant, two canons and a few hundred households, so many people have copied so many family properties, which really surprised everyone. This Yuan Dynasty can be like this!

After taking over the list, Zhang Guanghua found that only one Yin member had a normal family, and only one hundred taels of silver was found, while the rest were all entangled in everything.

"Why does this person have so little property?" Zhang Guanghua asked the soldiers who went to raid their homes.

"This Yin member's name is Huang Kaizheng, and he is mainly in charge of the prison of the county government, I learned about it, it seems that it is because he is too upright and is quite squeezed out by Daru Huachi."

Hearing this, Zhang Guanghua's mind moved, and he immediately ordered Huang Kaizheng to be released, only to put him under house arrest at home, and to return all the materials that had been raided from his home, he was of great use!

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The morning sun is warm and soft, quietly spreading throughout the county.

When all the important things are done, the rest is all small and trivial. Li Da and Lu Guangfu didn't want to be burdened by these mundane things, so they delegated all their rights to Zhang Guanghua, and returned to the camp to hurry up and train the army.

Zhang Guanghua was also happy to do so, and he dispatched military police to post notices throughout the city to restore public order. Then the prisoners were screened, and those who were not qualified for detention were released and released, and the rest was absorbed by the army. And those prisoners Zhang Guanghua who have been confirmed to be detained also have other arrangements, and he will definitely carry out industrialization in the future, and soon the production line can be put into an assembly line, they are just a group of the best workers, or the kind that does not need wages. Let them work as workers for a few years to atone for their sins, and then promise to give them the rights of citizens when the time limit is over, so as to not only increase their enthusiasm for work, but also completely transform the burden of conquering the city. It can be seen that the dividends brought by war are always enormous.

When everything is settled, Zhang Guanghua began Taizu's set, a public trial! In the past few days, he has also become familiar with the deeds of the Yin member who was released, which is really the contemporary Bao Qingtian. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the law was very important, and the biggest feature of the criminal law of the Yuan Dynasty was that the punishment of the crime was only five kinds: flogging, rod, imprisonment, exile, and death, and the Criminal Department of the Yuan Dian Chapter had a clear definition of various legal systems. This local Yin member named Huang Kaizheng in Quanzhou, it was precisely because he insisted on being the master of the people of the county, did not regard the Han people as the fourth class, and insisted on trying their cases according to the "Yuan Dian Zhang", which attracted the dissatisfaction of the only Mongolian official in the county, Daru Huachi, and later Daru Huachi found a reason for him to be an idle clerk.

The "legal group" for this public trial was formed under the leadership of Huang Kaizheng. Zhang Guanghua gave Huang Kaizheng only one order, that is, all Han Chinese, Semu people (foreigners), and Mongols, even if they were prisoners, were equal before the law, and the legal basis was the original "Yuan Dian Zhang".

The public trial was for all the people in the county, but the focus was on the officials, squires and merchants. Zhang Guanghua also sent people everywhere to publicize that anyone could sue or sue anyone, and as long as the evidence was true, the newly formed county government would certainly make decisions for the people, and would not be soft on those powerful people even if they cut off their heads and raided their homes -- in fact, since Zhang Guanghua tasted the benefits of raiding his house, he always thought about how to raid all the big families in the city. Judging from yesterday's house raid, it is really the coolest way to make money from "copying big households"!

Huang Kaizheng also had his set, and first found a few excuses to sue Daru Huachi, and gave them all a piece of Qingming. With the propaganda of the first few citizens who were wronged, the people of the entire county fell into a collective frenzy, which really pushed the public trial to the first place.

"Looks like this is a talent!" After seeing Huang Kaizheng's ability, Zhang Guanghua finally agreed with this person.

After the public trial was completed, Zhang Guanghua then reorganized the county government, and he decided to speed up the horse and rush to one step in place, and directly separate the administration and the judiciary. Under absolute force, change is not as difficult as imagined.

Zhang Guanghua first formed a leadership group, he asked Huang Kaizheng to provide a group of people with excellent administrative ability as candidates, and then asked the district officials (street chiefs) and Li Zheng (neighborhood committee directors) to organize the county's prestige people to vote by secret ballot. Before the vote, each candidate was given a period of speech and publicity, but most of the candidates were forced to come to the stage and say a few casual words. However, there is one exception, a talented official of the former county government, who went so far as to put out a "big-character poster" and post his "concept of governing the county" everywhere, and took the trouble to explain one by one in his speech, which is estimated to have won the support of many people.

The next step was to start a "referendum on people's representatives" under the compulsion of the army. However, there were no soldiers among the electors this time, and this was also decided by Zhang Guanghua in line with the principle of "the army does not interfere in politics", but fortunately, Li Da had no opinion, and the entire Anxi County was now his, and if he was not satisfied with anyone, he would directly overthrow the regime and elect again.

Voting on the spot, counting votes on the spot, Zhang Guanghua elected new officials according to three times the original number of officials. Except for the name of the number one leader changed from Daru Huachi to Zhixian, the other official systems have not changed. He felt very unbelievable that the original county government had only seven people, and in the end, he resisted pressure from many quarters and increased the number of county officials from seven to 21.

In the end, the results of the vote came out, and sure enough, the forty-year-old official named Zhao Shan became the magistrate.

Of course, Huang Kaizheng's position has not changed, and he continues to be his Yin member, but he and his criminal department were independent by Zhang Guanghua, and his status is the same as that of the county government. And he has decided to separate the judiciary from the beginning, and the executive, judicial, legislative, and military are independent of each other, so that there can be checks and balances on each other.

In fact, the change of regime has no effect on ordinary people at all, and after the initial novelty has passed, they will still do what they should do.

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When the situation stabilized, Zhang Guanghua discussed with Li Dalu Guangfu and felt that it was better to attack other county towns sooner rather than later. Although the Yuan army has made some preparations, the other county towns have definitely not received reinforcements -- according to the situation of the Yuan Dynasty, it is really difficult to say whether they have reinforcements or not.

In the two days when Li Da was preparing for the expedition, Zhang Guanghua also did one thing, that is, to recruit people, merchants, carpenters, blacksmiths or soldiers did not refuse, and he was going to start preparing for his "business empire".

When the recruitment announcement was posted, the first person to come for an interview was a slightly chubby middle-aged man with small eyes, and when he smiled, he could only see two curved eyebrows. Although he was smiling as soon as he came in, after learning that the young man in front of him was actually the military advisor of the righteous army, he immediately knelt on the ground with a "poof" and shouted for his grace.

Zhang Guanghua was baffled, and it took a long time to understand that he had asked Huang Kaizheng to retry the people in prison before, and all those who were unjustly imprisoned were released. And this fat man is just one of them, his name is Shen Li, he was originally a businessman, his family had a lot of property, and there were more than a dozen properties in Anxi and neighboring counties, but two years ago, he was forcibly seized by Dalu Huachi in Anxi County, and he was wrongfully imprisoned, and his family was forced to flee to other places, and it is still difficult to know whether he lives or dies.

After being rehabilitated, he was penniless and could only sleep on the street, and immediately came to apply after seeing Zhang Guanghua's recruitment notice, but he didn't expect to meet a life-saving benefactor.

Then, with Shen Li's cooperation, Zhang Guanghua recruited several carpenters and blacksmiths, all of whom were toiling people who couldn't survive in troubled times. However, there are personnel, but the other one has stumped Zhang Guanghua, how can he get the first pot of gold without risk?

That's right, arms! Since ancient times, the arms and drugs business has tended to be the most profitable, and the business with the government has also been the most stable. If you want to do it, after calling a few people under his hand together, Zhang Guanghua began to teach them a lesson, he found a blackened wooden board and some lime, first teach mechanical drawing, from the coordinate system, front view, side view, top view and then axonometric drawing, fortunately, these do not need too much algebra knowledge, although a few craftsmen can hear the clouds, but they can also understand a little, but the fat businessman Shen Li, in the end, is a person with a mathematical foundation, a learning will be, a little through.

After teaching the theory, Zhang Guanghua turned out his computer again, and directly copied a historical German standard arquebus drawing, he took out a self-made charcoal pen and compass ruler, and explained the arquebus parts drawing, section drawing, material drawing and assembly drawing on the 1:1 drawing. Because there were only two days of teaching, several craftsmen seemed to understand whether they understood or not, but Shen Li seemed to have mastered it almost, so Zhang Guanghua gave him all the 40 taels of bounty for breaking the city, and urged him to organize personnel to develop the arquebus as soon as possible.

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1. Daru Huachi, the officials and people of the Yuan Dynasty, similar to the current "party secretary", the top leaders of counties, prefectures, roads and provinces are called Daru Huachi.