Chapter 159: Strict Law Enforcement
"Why should King Changshan do this?" When he passed by Changshan Kingdom, Sima Ji was unable to enter, and Sima Yi avoided him, and in the end he had to leave in disappointment.
"Your Highness, the King of Yan has left." The inner servant lowered his head and reported to King Changshan Sima Yihui. "I can see that the King of Yan is actually a little regretful. At this time, most of the royal kings avoid His Highness, and only the King of Yan will be together as usual. Why does Your Highness avoid it?"
"It is precisely because of this that I cannot meet King Yan. I still have to think about my mistakes behind closed doors!" Sima Yi, who was facing the inner officials, closed his eyes. Until now, he still remembers the scene of his brother Sima Wei being poisoned to death. He was inadvertent and lost everything. This is the lesson given to him by the death of King Chu.
The meeting place between the King of Yan and King Qi was not in Luoyang. Sima Ji came back too quickly. Sima Ji had not set off for Luoyang yet. Finally, he stopped in Zhao State and met King of Qi Sima Ji in someone else's fiefdom.
After a long talk, Sima Ji watched King Qi go to Luoyang and then slowly set off. Luoyang became a standard siege effect. Some people want to come out, and more people want to go in.
Anyway, with five hundred imperial guards protecting them, the easy thieves would definitely not dare to appear. Since no one would come out to rob without any eyes, Sima Ji directly formulated a very strange route of traveling through various counties and countries. In the future, the battlefields must be observed with their own eyes. After all, the mapping of this era was very poor. The maps he drew in Jiaozhou according to the memories of later generations were better than the current map standards, at least in the macroscopic manner.
Another point is to buy grain in person to calculate the price of the Jin Dynasty. Just now, he was having a lot of chatter and laughing with the rich people in Luoyang. The King of Yan had some doubts about the purchasing power of the Jin Dynasty's copper coins. He bought grain along the way to calculate the purchasing power of the Jin Dynasty's currency. Prices in different places are not consistent, but there is no difference between heaven and earth. On average, it is impossible to calculate that a dou of grain is about 30 coins, and this price is definitely not low.
One dou of twelve kilograms, if you calculate it this way, take Yu Chen, who has reached the final stage of the Eight Kings Rebellion as an example. Historical records show that his family's property is more than 20 million yuan, and his copper coins can buy about 10 million kilograms of grain, which Yu Chen and Wang Kai and Shi Chong are simply incomparable. There were too many rich people of his level before the chaos in the world.
As for Wang Kai and Shi Chong, if these two people were consuming Yu Chen's property, it would not take long to go bankrupt.
"The base camp should be managed well!" After a blink of an eye, Sima Ji arrived in Yan State and entered Jicheng two days later. Along the way, the King of Yan had already gained a little understanding of purchasing power, and directly asked the chief clerk to collect the bills of the Hu generals to settle the wages.
"By the way, King Yan, I thought you would stay in Luoyang for a while. Could it be that those prisoners of war were digging canals, and you wouldn't supervise them?" As soon as it was time to settle the wages, Murong Yun remembered the purpose of their capture of prisoners of war. Why did King Yan go back to the fiefdom and not continue to complete the project he had always advocated?
"How to use those native captives, Luoyang's court officials are more experienced than me." Sima Ji looked at Murong Yun and explained in a pun. When it comes to exploiting slaves, these gentry still use him to teach them? But it would be good to educate him on the other hand. As long as the intensity is increased slightly, the mortality rate will explode to a terrifying proportion.
The King of Yan, who had already gained advanced experience in the gentry, is now deeply wronged, so why did he gain a reputation for levying heavy taxes? Why are those gentry who are crueler than themselves all famous scholars? It is obvious that the people of Yan State have much more comfortable life.
After thinking for a long time, Sima Ji couldn't even get the idea. He could only blame the scale of his corvee recruitment for too much, which caused this situation. But it doesn't matter, he will still be recruited next year.
Jicheng is much colder than Luoyang, and this month is the time when fur is in short supply. The next day, the King of Yan changed into a sable fur and draped it on his body. The court officials of the Jin Dynasty were definitely familiar with sable fur. On the official hat, the court officials had a cicada-shaped golden ginger as decoration, and the sable tail was inserted, which was called Diao Chan Crown.
After King Sima Lun of Zhao usurped the throne, he was abusive to the title of officials. As long as he was a relative of the king and his relatives, even if he was a slave, he was granted a title, and the marten tail was insufficient. He used a dog tail instead. This is the origin of the dog tail continuing the marten.
However, Jicheng is not Luoyang, there is no shortage of mink here. After passing north of Liaoxi County, raw materials are everywhere. As long as the King of Yan wants, he can change one set a day, and it will not be the same for a year.
"Is there a total of more than 1.4 million yuan?" Sima Ji looked at the bill and said in front of Murong Yun and his generals, "The remaining more than 500,000 yuan will be divided equally according to the proportion of troops sent to the soldiers to give some of the warriors' families. During the southern expedition, it depends on your best help. I will not be stingy with some money. You know, and I have always regarded you as a family."
"If you have any questions, just give me orders!" Some Hu generals said directly, "With the order of the King of Yan, I will never refuse."
"I will definitely speak when I need help!" Sima Ji was not pretentious, but his encirclement was not what he had done. It was mainly based on his peers. With the Luoyang court officials and gentry, his majestic image in the hearts of the Hu people will never collapse. It was a bit difficult to find a court official in the Jin Dynasty who did not discriminate against the Hu people.
There are very few people like Sima Ji, but there are not many. Later, after the Eight Kings Rebellion, the kings began to win over the Hu people. He must not do this. Marshal Chang Kaishen, who temporarily wooed other warlords, and even occupied the treasure island to block the mainland. He only temporarily wooed over the Hu people when there was something wrong. If you don’t treat the Hu people as human beings, they won’t treat you as human beings.
Leave these Hu generals in Jicheng for a few days and wait for other tribes to send troops to pick them up. This is also for safety. The Jin Dynasty was not peaceful, and even more so outside the Great Wall. Maybe some grassland horse bandits really dared to attack and rob the money.
That certainly won't work. The money belongs to the King of Yan, but it is only temporarily kept in these tribes. Just like Yan State, it belongs to tens of thousands of households in Yan State, but it belongs to Sima Ji after all.
Yan Yan, who was almost frozen, said, "This winter is a bit cold. Your Highness should go home early, and the ministers are waiting."
"Don't tell me how the weather is. Cold winter does not mean that summer will not come." Sima Ji had a cold face. He hated that some people said that the weather is all external reasons. If you are colder than the north, it is not colder.
Sima Ji first had to know what happened in Yan State in the past year. Of course, he had to listen to the collective reports of these subordinates. He would specifically understand the more hidden things in private.
"What's going on in this fight? Have everyone arrested? Last year, many criminals in Yan State should be sentenced to death, and have they been checked whether they have been checked!" Sima Ji asked the Tingwei, holding a piece of paper in his hand and asked, "The above said that it was because of a fool who harassed an unmarried woman, causing three or four deaths in two villages to fight."
"Yes, Your Highness, all those involved in the armed fight should be sentenced to corvee service. This is because many people from Bingzhou moved to Beiping County. When they first moved here, there was a little conflict. The two villages were in the upper reaches of the river, and there was a disagreement. This time it was indeed a fight caused by a fool." Tingwei stood up and spoke, "Now they are all in the Youzhou prison, and there are not many ways for ministers to do this."
Sima Ji nodded helplessly. This fight was really a stubborn disease in ancient times. The most well-known in history should be considered a local fight. He thought that if the big company demolished the baojia system and re-edited it, this would not happen. Reality is always like this, because different villages still have a sense of belonging, and they will ignite the fire when encountering such a thing.
The essence of conflict lies in fighting for survival resources; and its extreme form of armed fighting is an extreme form of rural competition for resources. Once a foe is made, it has nothing to do with survival resources, and hatred once arises.
"How did that fool do it!" Sima Ji looked at the file again and asked.
"Your Highness, that fool is still outside. Although it was caused by him, the other party is not a normal person, and I can't deal with it." The Tingwei shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Can he still be arrested? He doesn't know anything."
"We must not only arrest us but also beheaded. Such people cannot give birth and can only eat them. What should we do if we keep them? Next time we are sick and hurt others, don't care?" Sima Ji said, "When he cut off his head, he left a fool to continue living. Isn't this telling others that as long as you can pretend to be crazy, you can be exempted from liability?"
"All the custodial people, a total of twenty-five people, will be executed after three days, and the governor's office will be sent to issue a document for the people of the city to watch. Before the execution, the crimes must be read out to shock the sluts." Sima Ji looked through all the records and then fell into a case of adultery and killing his husband, and his mother-in-law forcing his daughter-in-law to hang his daughter-in-law, pointing to the two cases, "In order to show the equality of the law, the execution will begin with these two cases."
"Your Highness, the second case is that the old woman is already very old. Will the execution be too much?" Chief Clerk Feng Ji said hesitantly, "I will rule the world with filial piety..."
"I, the Grand Jin Dynasty, did not say that mothers and sons are separated from each other. If they are old, they will be exempted from execution. This is unfair." Sima Ji said unmoved. "The law enforcement can be harsh, but it must be fair. Beheading is OK, but some people cannot be beheaded, and some people can let them go. Just use this method to tell the people of the fence that I have just arrived home."
"By the way, Yang Ying is released. Send someone to notify me when the execution is executed. He must be present." Sima Ji seemed to remember something, "I spared him to take into account the overall situation. Don't think that I can still shout in front of me like before!"
Chapter completed!