Chapter 24 Costs
After knowing that the county was arranged in this way, Zhu Yin no longer had the intention of being timid. In a happy mood, his eyes looked at Xiong Jing began to be a little grateful and pleasing. But there were also a few people with different expressions. They found Cheng Jie, Cai Wen and others whispered a few words, and Cai Wen and others bowed again: "Report to the king, I have a reluctance to ask the king to be kind."
"Say." Xiong Jing was sitting in the king's seat, and every move of the Yin below was in his eyes.
"I'm asking the king to forgive Yang Wenjun for his death." Cai Wen's pronunciation was very clear at this time. When he heard the three words "Yang Wenjun", the court immediately calmed down. For the Yin Gong, Yang Wenjun was not guilty. From the result today, Yang Wenjun was kind to everyone. If he hadn't encouraged the county officials to make an illness and let him not send troops to his death and not lose food, the king might have killed himself just now.
"At that time, the king was trapped in Chen Ying, and the Qin people showed the people a false head and told the world that the king had passed away. Yang Wenjun, Shouling Jun heard this news and wanted to make the fierce prince the king. This..." Cai Wen said as he looked at the others, and when others nodded one by one, he turned around and said, "Although this has been a mistake of usurping, it is common. I have also heard that this matter is done by Shouling Jun, not by Yang Wenjun. For ten months, Zuo Yin's mansion has not searched for evidence of Yang Wenjun's crime of Qin, and I think..."
"Cai Qing, don't think so." Xiong Jing interrupted his words, "If the evidence is useful, why do ordinary people have to have a head? If Zuo Yin is useful, why do Zuo Yin take the order to be a king? It's like sweeping the house. The law is just a broom. If you want to clean it, it's not enough. You can't say that the broom will be swept over and the house will be clean."
"The king thinks that the law is useless?" There is no disaster of killing and the contracting system, so the yin and the ministers are very confident in speaking.
"The great punishment is made of armored soldiers, followed by axes and halberds." Xiong Jing smiled, "I have axes and halberds, and more armored soldiers, why should I take into account the law? When the Qin people fought over, what laws could there be to speak of? Besides, he said before the other party refuted, "The Chu State will implement the contracting system in the future, and only the agreement between you and me, the agreement between you and me, the agreement between the honorary soldiers, the armored soldiers, and the common people. Those who violate the violation will not believe, and those who follow it will believe, what does it have to do with the law? In the county, you are the law. In the Chu State, as long as you do not violate the contract, it is the law. What is the law you set when the official system is not to be honest, and who is right or wrong?"
"This..." The group of people were stunned. While they were still thinking, it was even more shocking. The man in charge of cutting the flesh caught the copper cauldron in the middle under the instructions of Xiong Jing. With a 'smash' sound in the soup inside the cauldron, a boiled white skull was fished out, and everyone in the Yin was shocked.
"It's too late." Xiong Jing looked at the head, and his tone was a little melancholy. "Yang Qing kept shouting before entering the cauldron: 'You must not kill me, you must not kill me...', and he also said that the Empress Dowager Huayangzu of Qin was like this. He actually crawled out by himself after throwing it into the cauldron. Buying had to order people to throw him back and then cover it. After a quarter of an hour, there was no sound in the cauldron."
"King..." Xiong Jing's description was creepy, especially, especially everyone may have drunk the soup of the cauldron in the middle and ate Yang Wenjun's meat. 'Wow--!' Some people couldn't help but vomit.
"Buying has always trusted Yang Qing for a long time, but Yang Qing has always wanted to be the chief minister. For this reason, he did not hesitate to conspire with the Qin people, trying to defeat our Chu army in Chen Ying. You were bewitched by him, but you did not send the county soldiers and did not lose food and fodder. You should have all been executed! However, Buying thought of the same surname and knew that you did not understand the reality of the conspiracy, so he pardoned him. Yang Qing was an ungrateful person, and his meat was only cooked and fed to the dog. You were spitting venison." He talked about the killing with a naive child voice. The central court seemed to sink into the underworld instantly. Everyone was worried and their whole body was chilled. Xiong Jing said again: "Four days will be auspicious day. Buying will report to you and others to the ancestors of the temple to fulfill the promise they had just said. All of them will retreat."
Yang Wenjun had already cooked it up, but he had a good result. The Yin Gongs sighed or remained silent, and walked to the central court together, bowed together, and finally walked out of the lower ranks of the court together. Outside the bed, the sun shone brightly, and they couldn't help but shivered until they left the gate, with their eyes full of luck.
"You can write to the general." After Zhu Yin left, Xiong Jing immediately ordered Yi Tu.
"The king is wise." Yi Tu bowed a lot, and after bowing heavily, he also walked away. Only Zhaoshu, Qu Sui and Song Yu were left in the central court.
At this point, Zhaoshu understood very well why the king had to deal with his husband's clan in this way. He must first respect the king when he expelled the barbarians. If the king is not respected internally, there will be no way to expel the barbarians outside. No one can tell the matter on the battlefield that the Chu army had only 200,000 real elite soldiers. Once the elite troops of the king are lost, and then punishing the husband's clan, it would be another situation.
Another feasible option is to truce with Qin, not attack Ao Cang or Hangu Pass, and spend a year cleaning up the husband's clan with force, and then attack Qin again next summer. However, whether or not to fight is not unilaterally determined by Chu. Qin has no trust in the world. What if the Qin people attack Chu in large numbers when cleaning up their husband's clan?
Zhao Shu would explain this because he did not understand what an organization was. The reason why Xiong Jing dealt with it in this way was because he believed that cost first was the essence of the feudal organization. Suppose that a bandit led a group of people to drive Chen Jian out of Chen County from Chen County, and the bandit also sent someone to tell Yingdu: He could bear the obligations that Chen Jian had shouldered. Why did he, who was in Yingdu, send a large army to help Chen Jian retake Chen County? What is the benefit of recapturing Chen County? Instead of mobilizing the troops and destroying the people and causing money, it is better to directly appoint the bandits as the new Chen County Magistrate, so that he could fulfill the previous agreements between Chen Jian and Yingdu and save costs.
Of course, the feudalism of the Zhou people was a feudal system that incorporated blood and clan law, and did not clarify their rights and obligations based on property. It is better to say that it is a feudal system than to say that it is a patriarchal system. But even if it is a patriarchal system, the blood relationship is very indifferent after hundreds of years. Instead of revitalizing the patriarchal law, it is better to implement the county system. The county system cannot be implemented based on national conditions, so we should settle for the second best feudal system, clarify the property rights of each county and divide each other's rights and obligations.
As long as someone fulfills the previous agreement, it doesn’t matter whether it is Chen Jian or the thief. Since it doesn’t matter whether it is Chen Jian or the thief, it’s better to pardon the husband’s clan once and clearly determine their rights and obligations, so as to do the most cost-effectively.
The Central Court discussed the fiefdom of Jiangdong with Zhaoshu, Qu Sui, and Song Yu. Xiong Jing left the city and went to the Shaopi military camp. There were many military tents above the water. Most of these tents were empty. The Chu army, including the Jiangdong army who arrived later, and the stone troops sent by the southern tribes to the king, had been sent to the Honggou line of Chenying. Now only the selected Yushi live here.
"List—————————” Zhuang Quji shouted to the more than 500 honorary scholars in the square array. The entire queue vibrated for a while, and then replied to the teaching position in his command of "rest".
"I have seen the king." More than 500 people bowed to Xiong Jing, and their movements were neat and uniform.
"No gifts." Xiong Jing shouted. The water ripples, the sun is a little dazzling, but the wind blowing from the water makes people feel extremely comfortable. "The unspoken people have pardoned the princes who are not serving the king, and have also contracted them with their hereditary counties and towns, as long as they can keep their promises, they dare not have any objections to you and your neighbors. In the future, compared with them, you will only have different sizes of the land under your jurisdiction, a little bit of etiquette, and there is no other substantial difference.
The land is still unscrupulous, but because of your courage and loyalty, unscrupulous will be willing to tell my ancestors of Chu to allocate the land of the neighborhood to you. This land of the neighborhood can be passed on to your sons after you die, and your sons can be passed on to your grandson after you die, and this land of the neighborhood belongs to you, as long as you abide by the promise of unscrupulousness."
Whether the public clan pardon or not has much to do with the honorary people. If they do not forgive, they are conquering the war. The enthusiastic and warlike people are not afraid of war. But the king wants to give him a place to his neighborhood, which can also be passed down to his children and grandchildren, which immediately suppressed everyone. Under the red sunshine in May, they felt their bodies suddenly burned.
"In addition to the agreement, the traitor must be cleared." Xiong Jing's eyes became cold, "If an official is not protected by a large clan, then he is a traitor and must be cleared! Those who once sued the traitor in the county and Zuo Yin's palace, if there is no blood feud between them, they are also traitors, and they must be cleared. What the plaintiff wants is that there is only one voice in a neighborhood, that is your voice. Then you will select your new leader according to the new selection method, and he will represent you to enter Yingdu and be listed in the outer court to discuss major events in the State of Chu.
Tomorrow, you will take the soldiers, scholars and entourage to various counties and towns, detain officials, take over government affairs, and ensure that the food and fodder are delivered to Chenying military camp. After the war, you will go back to Yingdu and tell the temple to establish the agreement between Buying and you."
Only more than 500 honorary scholars with more literacy were selected from the more than 17,000 honorary scholars. In the past twenty days, they have conducted simple county government affairs training, learned the responsibilities of each county and county government, understood how the county government operates and how the agricultural tax is collected. In addition, there are targeted training, that is, the basic situation of the county and town they go to.
Although they made these preparations, Yingdu’s support for them was still very limited. They only had Feixun, the local scholars selected by the division school, several county party members selected, and six armored soldiers, and finally the spears in their hands, the swords in their hands, and the armored soldiers on their bodies. Xiong Jing looked at each of them when he spoke, and there would definitely be some people dying in the counties below.
Chapter completed!