Chapter 679: Prince's New Deal
Chapter 679 Prince's New Deal
Beijing is extremely large, and there are many signs. Jingzhao shows the grandeur and scale of the capital of a big country.
Jingzhao was described as a chariot hub in the Han Dynasty, meaning under the wheel of the emperor. If you are too close to the sky, all kinds of contradictions will be complicated, and the interpersonal relationship will be intertwined.
At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Yongzhou was established in Gyeonggi, and Yongzhou was ruled by the prince from afar, but in fact it was presided over by Biejia and Zhizhong.
During the Han Dynasty, it was very difficult to be Jing Zhaoyin. There was even a saying that Jing Zhaoyin was five days old.
Since the Tang Dynasty, Yang Gongren, Gao Shilian, Changsun Wuji and others have actually presided over the affairs of Yongzhou.
But this official claims to be the most difficult official in the Tang Dynasty to be an official.
In the Tang Dynasty, the chiefs of counties with more than 10,000 households were called county magistrates, and the chiefs of counties with less than 10,000 households were called county magistrates. The prefectures were also divided into upper, middle and lower prefectures, with different grades. It is Henan Prefecture, and its chief is called Mu, and its adjutants are called Yin and Shaoyin, with higher ranks.
Jing Zhaoyin in the Han Dynasty was the official position that officials feared the most. If they did not do well, they would be demoted.
After the mid-Tang Dynasty, it was even more difficult to be a Jing Zhaoyin in the Tang Dynasty. During Tang Suzong's reign alone, fifteen Jing Zhaoyins were changed in ten years, and each person only served for eight months on average.
Li Shimin let Chengqian of Gang Yuan Fu serve as Jingzhaomu, not a remote leader but a pro-government commander-in-chief. It can be seen that Li Shimin intends to train and test the prince and the officials of the Eastern Palace.
Faced with the responsibility when he was suddenly handed over, the young Chengqian was a little confused and didn't know how to start.
Chang'an is huge, with one hundred and eight squares, and millions of soldiers and civilians. For the prince who just served in the Yuan Dynasty, he really didn't know where to start. And Qin Lang, who was conferred the title of Jingzhao Yin this time, had served as Jingzhao Shaoyin just before. He first started out as the Facao of Chang'an County, and later acted as the magistrate of Chang'an County for a short time. He is the one who knows Chang'an City best among the people in the East Palace.
"Your Highness, the most important job of the Jingzhao Mansion is to maintain the peace and stability of the capital, so I think that the first thing is to improve the law and order."
There are several yamen responsible for law and order in Chang'an City, such as the left and right Jinwu Guards, who are in charge of Jiumen and Sixth Street. The Jingwu Guards are the main ones in the street. In addition, the left and right patrols of Yushitai are also responsible for patrolling. The supervisory censor of Yushitai even regularly inspected various prisons in the capital.
The Jingzhao Mansion is also mainly responsible for public security, especially the counties in the square and the suburbs of Beijing, which are under their supervision.
"Where do I start?"
Qin Lang told Cheng Qian with a smile that in order to improve public security in the capital, it is enough to focus on cleaning up three types of people. Xia, outsiders generally call them Xia Shao or Ranger.
The second type is the children of dilapidated families. Due to the change of dynasty or other reasons, many famous families in Chang'an will also fall into ruin, and their children are entrenched in the capital, and they often gather some lower-level social idlers to breed in the capital and make money. door to survive. And these people are often attached to those Chang'an chivalrous men who were born as descendants of Xunqi.
For example, in the Sui Dynasty, Shen Guang, who shined brilliantly during his expedition to the Liao Dynasty, was appreciated by Yang Guang, and was promoted to a general. Later, he died in the Jiangdu mutiny. The Sui Dynasty destroyed Nanchen and was moved to Chang'an. The family failed to continue to be reused in the new dynasty and fell into ruin. Shen Guang has been in the market since he was a child, and became the leader of a group of evil and idlers in the market. few.
For example, Shi Wansui, a general of the Sui Dynasty, was named a famous general of the Sui Dynasty. After his death, his family fortune fell, and his younger brother Shi Wanbao also went out in the market, gathering evil young idlers, and was called Chang'an hero. Later, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he led the people Going to Princess Pingyang, and welcoming Li Yuan who entered the customs together, he also had to be named a general. Afterwards, he killed Li Mi, fought against Wang Shichong, attacked Liu Heita, and made him the Duke of Yuan with his meritorious service.
For another example, after Liu Wenjing was unjustly killed, his son Liu Shuyi and Liu Shuyi also went out in the market, and after being rehabilitated, they became a new generation of Chang'an heroes.
These chivalrous young men from famous families and villainous young men from declining families are better. Although they are more showy and public in the capital, these people still have relatively high ideals.
Those who really have a serious impact on law and order are the idlers and rascals. These people are born from the urban poor and the children of citizens. These rascals are marked by tattoos, which they think are fashionable. In the winter, you can often expose your tattooed arms outside.
What these people usually like to do most is naturally sneaking, fighting, eating bully meals, and even doing some tricks such as cheating and abducting immortals.
After all, they don't have the economic strength of those young men, and the main purpose of the mixed society is to make a living.
Of course, there are still some forces that should not be underestimated in Chang'an City, mainly outsiders. In the early years, they were mainly Hu merchants from the Western Regions. After the Eastern Turks were destroyed, more than one million people were resettled inside and outside the Great Wall, and more than ten thousand people moved into Chang'an. Countless Turkic nobles were called into Chang'an to serve as officials. They also came to Chang'an with their families and subordinate guards.
Another example is Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, etc. The same is true.
Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of Hu merchants and Neifu Hu people in Chang'an City. Among the large number of barbarians, there are also many lawbreakers.
Of course, among the people who affect the public security of Chang'an, there is another category of people, that is, the low-level subordinate officials and dismissed personnel who have been entrenched and stranded in the capital for a long time.
It is said that in Chang'an City, there are 17,686 officials from the third division and below, and 57,416 officials from Zuoshi and above.
Although Li Shimin once streamlined his officials, in fact Chang'an gathered the largest number of officials in the world. The palace, the Imperial City Department, the Northern and Southern Forbidden Army, and the Jingzhao Mansion, as well as the princes, princesses, and princes, also have state officials and small officials.
As for many officials, the imperial court also selected them according to their ranks to serve them.
And there is another key to Chang'an's public security, which is Chang'an's floating population. Not counting the influx of people from around Chang'an and from other places to the capital, the number of businessmen from all directions, officials from prefectures and counties, foreign missions, students studying abroad, and artisans who came to Beijing on duty in turn exceeded 50,000 all year round.
If it is the year of the imperial examination, tens of thousands of candidates will have to enter Beijing.
Qin Lang believes that in order to manage Jingzhao Mansion well, we must first rectify the law and order.
To rectify law and order, we must first attack these rogues who are less chivalrous, less evil, and less idle. These talents are the root of all evil. Different strategies are needed to deal with different people. For example, those high-status chivalrous men are all the sons of nobles and high-ranking officials. , These people sometimes hide weapons privately, molesting women, etc. They have always been the most troublesome type of people in the government, and they are also the most difficult to rectify, with a strong background.
Even the clan's children often hang out among them, offending the boss if they are not careful.
The children of the poor family like to make friends and like to gather together. However, these people have high ambitions and want to make contributions. If they can be guided, they are the best group of people to deal with. They can also be used, such as recruiting as bad people or It is recorded as an official and so on.
The ones who really have no bottom line are those rogue idlers from grassroots. They are trying to survive at the bottom. They have no backing, knowledge, and ability. Wealth, so vicious security incidents mostly come from these people, such as theft, robbery, blackmail, kidnapping, etc., they do everything.
The Green Snake Hall that Qin Lang once encountered was just such a group of people who formed an association to do bad things. As for Liu Jiulin and the others, they are a gang of heroes and youths formed by a group of powerful children from the frontier fortress, and their behavior style is very similar to that of the descendants.
"Get rid of those snakes, insects, rats and ants first!"
The new official took office three times, and the prince presided over Jingzhao. This first shot must not be dumb.
"I will send someone to know the princes, nobles, officials and powerful officials of Chang'an, and let them restrain their children in the family during this time, and don't mess around in the streets. Otherwise, if they are caught by the Jingzhao Mansion for doing something wrong, they can rest at that time Blame us for being rude."
As for those gangsters, they must be the focus of this clean-up. The East Palace will call together bad people and government servants from Chang'an and Wannian counties, and notify the Jinwu Guard and Yushitai to jointly fight against evil.
"There are many Hu merchants in the capital, vassal envoys, and barbarians attached to them. Many Hu people are rampant and lawless, and they also need to be rectified."
For example, there are many Hu merchants in the West Market, and these Hu merchants sometimes engage in bullying and bullying the market or even buying and selling by force. Often lawless.
A few years ago, Qin Lang and Changsun Wuji teamed up to raid the Changle Cave in the underground ditch of the capital, and captured countless criminals and exiled them to the border areas. Tibetan snake rat.
Yu Zhining and others had no objection to Qin Lang's fire. Naturally, they, scholars, hated those so-called chivalrous and evil people even more, and hated those idlers and rascals who were like scum, and wished to sweep them away.
Qin Lang was still very quick in his work. First, he drew up the action plan at the meeting of Zhan Shifu in the Eastern Palace, and then in the name of the Eastern Palace, called the left and right Jinwuwei, Yushitai and other yamen officials to meet together, and after reaching the intention of joint action, They went back to prepare secretly.
On the other side, Qin Lang also sent someone to notify the famous families in Chang'an to restrain their children.
Three days later, most of the heroes were banned from their homes and warned not to go out. Some people heard the news, but they had no chance to go out of the city.
Jinwuwei strengthened the nine-door interrogation, and at this time there is no way to escape if you want to escape.
Multi-departments launched a joint operation. Qin Lang even asked the emperor for an order to gather the three thousand princes' brigades from Ben to cooperate with the Jinwu Guards to block the city gates, streets, and square gates, and then use the bad people of local snakes and the Zhenfu Division as Guide, search and arrest one by one.
The arrest took three days, and the city gate was also blocked for three days.
Thousands of people were arrested, and Qin Lang issued a kill order for those desperate people who resisted the arrest, or some wanted fugitives who counterattacked, and they were killed on the spot.
In three days, more than 300 people were killed, and all the corpses were hung on Chang'an Sixth Street for public display.
(end of this chapter)