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Chapter II Crime and Punishment

Chen Wen's method is indeed taboo by the scholar class. Although they have always done this, they are full of hostility towards others doing this, especially the Donglin Party.

However, with the occurrence of rebellion and the consequences, some things must be paid more attention to, the most important of which is loyalty.

Today's Jinhua Ming Army comes from the Nantang camp where Chen Wen was under the Ming Army in Dalan Mountain. The army he made with one hand did not have any other loyalty targets. However, the occurrence of the rebellion made Chen Wen realize that he still imagined the attributes of this army too high.

For a long time, officers at all levels of this army were loyal to her founder Chen Wen. In theory, Chen Wen also regarded the regent of the king of Lu as the emperor's orthodox, which gave him the title of righteousness. However, if the loyalty chain of officers who were loyal to him had broken, such as the situation of adversity under Cao Conglong's coercion and temptation this time, relying solely on those military judges responsible for maintaining military discipline is not enough to eliminate the rebellion.

Military judges and the tutors who were responsible for them had the right to supervise some of the military, but this right was not complete. Their daily work was only to maintain the enforcement and implementation of military law. Over time, it aroused the disgust of the officers and soldiers. It is precisely because of this that when the rebellion occurred, once the officers chose to abdicate, the military judges were powerless because they could not obtain more support to eliminate the possibility of abdicate.

The so-called military supervision requires nothing more than supervising the army to prevent it from defecting, boosting morale, and ensuring the provision of military supplies. To fundamentally solve this problem, we must first complete the military supervision rights. In order to prevent being undermined from being underestimated on the day of the founding of the army, Chen Wen had divided the right to establish the army since the day of founding of the army. However, he had too great confidence in his prestige and underestimated the possibility of adversary rebellion.

Since loyalty to individuals can no longer ensure the absolute unity of the army, we should simply establish a belief that can bring people's hearts to one point and make people willing to make their contributions. With the power of faith, the military supervisors can ensure and enhance the influence of faith in the strokes of military officers in accordance with the work of later political commissars, supplemented by military law maintained by military judges and military supplies managed by military officers to ensure that the army is always in his hands.

Of course, the belief that Chen Wen wants to establish is not religion. Faith can be a religion, a political party, an idea, a ideology, or a proposition. The core idea of ​​the belief that he wants to establish is the defense of the barbarians and the Xia!

"The jackals and wolves of Rongdi should not be disgusted, and the intimacy of Xia should not be abandoned", "The Xia inside is the barbarians outside", "The barbarians have a king, which is not as good as the fall of Xia", "Not my race, their hearts must be different", "The descendants do not plan for Xia, and the barbarians will not disrupt China", "The meaning of "The Spring and Autumn Annals" is that the barbarians outside" "The barbarians cannot be governed by China, just like beasts"...

Since Guan Zhong and Confucius, the defense of the barbarians and Xia is one of the most important components of Confucianism. It has been discussed throughout the dynasties, and even ordinary people who don’t know a single word can say a few words. The Ming Dynasty itself emerged by expelling the Yuan Dynasty. Chen Wen is even more familiar with the arguments such as "barbarians and beasts, fearing power but not loving virtue."

Chen Wen, the first group of members, mainly middle and senior officers, has already prepared a list. Chen Wen, on the civil servant, plans to ask Sun Yu about his attitude. This is the starting point for infiltration into the civil servants and the Confucian scholars. Chen Wen believes that Sun Yu will support him. However, before he took time to find Sun Yu, Han Qizheng also sent someone to bring news that the interrogation and judgment of the rebellion organizers and participants and the gentry attached to the rebels had been completely completed, and he planned to let Chen Wen see where there was something else needed to be added.

He had already set the tone before, and there were Chen Wen's suspicion among Han Qizheng's prosecutors. These prosecutors did not tolerate the traitors at all, and the punishment was strict and severe. Since this was the case, Chen Wen did not intend to waste too much time on this. He simply scanned and determined the public execution the next day.

The next morning, the weather was not good, and it started to rain when it was almost auspicious. Chen Wen came to the venue that had been used to enter the treasure as scheduled, but there were very few people on the venue. Not only was he not as interested in dealing with rebellion as he was when he was killed, but he was also afraid of the possibility of heavy rain.

However, since it is to deal with rebellion, the officers, soldiers, civil servants, minor officials, and even craftsmen in various departments have to come and receive a wave of typical educational methods to deter potential opponents by dealing with the opposite side.

The rebellion's main messenger, Cao Conglong, governor of Zhejiang, has the identity of a military supervisor. If Chen Wen committed suicide without permission, he would be regarded as a rebellion by other members of the ruling class. Whether it was Cao Conglong's rebellion or not, Chen Wen had sent Zhang Jun to Fujian to hand over Cao Conglong's life and death to the Lu Jianguo to decide.

In addition to Cao Conglong, the former chief clerk of Jinhua County, Lu Wenlong, connected Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army, Military Equipment Department, and some other civil servants, as well as contacting Dongyang County garrison Liu Cheng in the late rebellion, all of which were confirmed. Unfortunately, he had been silenced because he "discovered Liu Cheng's counter-espionage plan". At this moment, he could only hang his head up and show it to the public.

In contrast, Chen Wen met the messenger sent by Liu Cheng to report the news in the Quzhou camp. The guy missed him because he was afraid of being intercepted by the rebels. So Chen Wen gave up the pursuit of Liu Cheng after confirming that this person was not lying. However, the suspicion of making two bets had already taken root in Chen Wen's heart, so Liu Cheng's general was no longer able to lead troops independently, so it would be better to be a training officer in the old camp to refrigerate.

Under this, the most serious crime was the original officials of the Military Weapons Division. Without them, Cao Conglong would not be able to obtain weapons, armor, or even artillery even with the support of Luo Chengyan's Whitehead Army, and it would be impossible for him to defeat the garrison guarding the city.

If there were many crimes such as concealment, hiding military supplies, hindering technological upgrades, and corruption, the judgment that Han Qizheng finally decided to be executed by the whole family and the female family members who were sent to the Jiaofangsi as slaves would not be so harsh. At least the failure to execute them slapped them has greatly disappointed some people who lost their families in the rebellion, especially the families of the originally garrisoned troops in Jinhuafu City.

However, Chen Wen had no intention of doing this at first. Even if a woman could only serve as a male vassal in her family, it was a bit difficult for a modern person like him. After all, this sentence of indifference to the Jiaofangsi was to destroy the innocence and happiness of those women throughout their lives. However, once he remembered those loyal and brave soldiers who lost their lives in the rebellion, the family of their family, and the consequences of this rebellion, Chen Wen's revenge heart became stronger and stronger, and those inappropriate softness were immediately discarded by him in the corner of his soul.

In addition to these civil servants in the Military Equipment Department, typical civil servants affiliated with the rebels in each county also received this treatment, including Yan Zhiheng, the magistrate of Dongyang County.

This is an old civil servant, but Chen Wen's impression of him is still the pedantic and selfishness on the way to escape south of Siming Mountain. But when his youngest daughter was pushed by the yamen runners to verify her true self, the understanding in Chen Wen's memory also came with it, especially Wang Jiang's mother and Sun Yu's wife once had the idea of ​​persuading Yan Zhiheng to promise Chen Wen to be his wife. If this matter came true, Yan Zhiheng would probably not choose to rebel, but would stand up to protect the rights of his son-in-law.

Everything can no longer be reversed. The happiness of this young woman has been completely ruined by her father's stupid shortsightedness. This is the fate of the traitor. Chen Wen and the civil servants and generals loyal to Chen Wen need to let potential opponents understand the consequences of betrayal.

In the venue, the official of the Execution announced the crime, and the executioner raised his sword to complete the corresponding punishment. The women were also tied up by thick ropes and sent one by one to the newly built Jiaofangsi for training.

Seeing all this happening in front of us, not only those who came to "receive education" were frightened, but even the other criminals behind were reminded of the virtues that had been forgotten before, and begged Chen Wen to give them a chance to reform, and for this, they would not hesitate to knock their heads down and blood flowed.

However, at this moment, it was too late, and the crying like tears could not be rewritten as a judgment as steel was cast, nor could it be changed that heart that was coming step by step, gradually becoming as hard as iron and stone in the exclusion, slaughter and betrayal.

After a long time, the civil servants, minor officials and military judges who participated in the rebellion were executed. The rain in the sky became heavier and heavier. Chen Wen didn't know who God was crying for, whether it was the tragedy of those traitors, or whether it was the traitors who were now sorrowful. But when the heavy rain came and went quickly, the sun shone through the clouds again and shone on the venue in Jinhua City, the last judgment had been issued.

"Ding Shenyan, a student of Yongkang County, formed a group training without authorization, killed disabled soldiers, a woman from a good family, seized pensions for land, set fire to murder, colluded with the Qing army, and resisted the royal army, and other crimes. According to the Ming Dynasty law, Ding Shenyan was sentenced to beheading the whole family, confiscated the property, and the female family members in the family were confiscated into the Jiaofangsi as slaves, and they will never be redeemed."
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