Chapter 2010: Judgment of the Case
The three finally gave only 10,000 taels to Governor Fanyi’s Yamen to buy peace.
"If we are not someone from the palace, if we are not from the Jia family, then we have to give 300,000 taels." Jia Baoyu said angrily.
"No, without these two things, we would not be able to achieve the scale of their request for 300,000 taels of filial piety." Jia Lian said coldly.
"In that case, wouldn't it be better for us to build an army with a budget of 300,000 taels from the beginning?" Jia Rong suggested.
This is a matter of course.
It’s just that none of the three expected it to come so quickly.
They thought it would take a few more years until the scale was bigger, at least with an annual income of tens of millions of taels.
“According to Ji Xiao’s new book, a new army with combat effectiveness that can sweep away other feudal armies needs to spend 12 taels of food silver plus 3 taels of clothing and clothing allowance...Beheading a person will give 10 taels. "Beheading 10 people will give you 300 taels, and the more you kill, the more you will get... The fixed expenditure is 24 taels per year, which is roughly equivalent to the income of an oil seller in the capital in a normal year," Jia Lian said.
It seems that he has already started researching it.
"Sure enough, the truth is the same all over the world. The army also needs KPI for beheading."
"300,000 taels, let me calculate, is only enough for the fixed expenditure of 10,000 people for a year. Once there is a battle, the budget will be doubled immediately." 5 times, that is, 1.5 million taels. This battle is indeed difficult to fight. No wonder the court in the middle and later periods was unwilling to fight." Jia Baoyu sighed.
"Ten thousand people are enough for us to become hedgehogs. At least we need a few more heads to collect our protection fees." Jia Rong gritted his teeth and paid.
Rebellion must be prepared as early as possible... prepare early and start later.
Generally if you are forced to take action in advance, failure is basically not far away.
"Then, should we start hiring troops and buying muskets now?" Jia Baoyu asked.
"Of course not, but to buy blacksmith shops, garment shops, and establish military industries related to the army." Jia Lian said.
"It always feels like it's a bit troublesome. The three of us alone are not enough." Jia Rong felt a headache when she thought about the details.
"Yes, so we need to recruit some potential rebels."
"Wait, before that, I want to ask, what is the chance of success for this rebellion?" Jia Baoyu asked road.
If it was not high, he would still marry Sister Lin and live happily ever after, and then let Xue Baochai renew his relationship after Sister Lin died.
This is more realistic.
At least meet the minimum clearance requirements.
"To analyze this probability, we need to understand why the Westerners failed to defeat this big Eastern dynasty in the end and could only rule it by proxy?" Jia Lian asked.
"It's very simple, four words, too far away." Jia Rong said directly.
Jia Baoyu nodded slightly.
Yes, it’s not too complicated, it’s just that it’s too far away, and technology doesn’t support such large-scale delivery.
The barbarians are far worse and more barbaric than the Westerners, but they can rule the Eastern dynasties time and time again, but they are too close.
And they are willing to directly absorb the foundation of the Eastern dynasty, the landlords and scholar-bureaucrats, into the ruling class... This is the most important thing.
Whoever cannot accomplish this cannot rule it safely.
"Okay, our next step is to select rebels. Since ancient times, there have been basically two types of rebels. One is those who don't have enough to eat, and the second is those who are full and can hold on."
< br>"There are too few people who have enough to eat, and the most people are those who don't have enough to eat."
After the three people discussed it, they took action.
Of course you cannot tell them directly that you want to rebel. This would go too far beyond people's psychological limits.
Jia Lian only said to the workers in the factory: "We must protect our factory. The factory is my home and everyone loves it. The factory is the job of the big guys, our money, our residence, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the whole family. It all comes from the factory.”
The first plant protection team was initially set to consist of 300 people.
The workers accepted this easily.
After all, I come to work every day, get paid every month, get gifts during the four festivals, and visit the elderly at the end of the year.
These common tricks in later generations of factories are great weapons in this era.
Why everyone yearns for the Jia Mansion? Isn’t it because the servants are doing well in it?
The slaves became masters.
If it was really a sweatshop, the people from the Jia family would have run away long ago.
“There have been bandits outside recently, and people often peek into our factory. We need to organize a factory protection team. The people in the factory protection team only work for half a day, and get double pay. They work in the morning, train in the afternoon, and rest for ten days. Two days.”
The workers accepted this statement easily.
After all, every big family has guards and a team to protect the village.
This is a common thing.
How do they know that as long as they insist on the idea of "protecting the factory", as the factory gets bigger and bigger, they will overthrow the entire court sooner or later.
Because only in that way can the factory be protected.
The feudal court could not accommodate large-scale factories.
Only one thing is that there are too many workers and they gather together, and they go to work uniformly every day. They are a natural rebel group and cannot be tolerated by the court.
Miners in the past were mostly feared by the imperial court for this reason. This is why private mining is always strictly prohibited.
Jia Lian didn't say much. He just asked the shopkeeper, foreman, and line leader... to say it day by day and month by month: "Protect the factory. Only when you have a factory can you have a job. Otherwise, you will live on the streets and become a Refugees. ”
There are no messy theoretical ideas, and workers who are refugees and urban bankrupts don’t understand much.
As long as they know that if they protect the factory, they will have jobs and wages.
Jia Lian and the other three knew that rebellion would be a natural thing when the time came.
Because feudal lords will take the initiative to force workers into corners.
And they, who came from later generations, fully knew how intensely militant the workers could be in order to protect the factory.
The fighting power is much stronger than that of farmers.
Workers work together every day, and assembly line work itself is highly organized.
They are natural troops.
They line up to work together every day, cooperate with each other and obey the foreman's orders year after year.
A factory can become an army by transforming it a little bit.
For example, it would be enough to replace the foreman with the platoon leader, the workshop director with the company commander, and then the factory director with the battalion commander.
This is an organized army.
The small-scale peasant economy will no longer work.
Farmers are scattered and work from household to household.
There is a natural lack of organization, so tragedies often occur where a few government officials force a large number of villagers to death.
The mobilization power of industrialization is even more terrifying.
An industrial country with a population of 80 million can mobilize an army of 10 million.
The pharmaceutical factory built by Jia Lian and others can be directly used in wartime.
Providing medicines and food, the process of pharmaceutical manufacturing is much more rigorous than that of manufacturing food.
As long as the assembly line is slightly modified and the input is replaced by grain, wartime dry food can be output there.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the best medicine in this era is...high protein, high fat and high salt.
80% of patients die of malnutrition.
This way they solved the logistical problem.
Then there is the weapons industry.
Muskets, cannons.
The weapons factory chain in this era was not too complicated, and the work could be completed in the manual workshop.
If we push it further, modern military industry is no longer a system completed by a single country.
If you want a musket, you must first have good iron. The second is to have a lathe.
Guns can be processed by hand.
In the West at this time, many muskets were made by hand.
But they did not acquire the blacksmith shop because the target was too obvious and scattered, making it difficult to protect during wartime.
They need to build a coal and iron center.
Choose an island with coal and iron, and spend money to buy land.
The names of the Four Families were not easy to use and they could not be used here. In the end, they paid 20,000 taels to the nearby big pirate leader and the island was taken.
As for why the pirate leader was willing to accept the 20,000 taels, it was because the Xue family had found someone who promised to stock them with extra supplies.
The pirate leader needs goods on land to have a foundation...
Circular collusion.
After taking the island, we began to transport people upwards and transport refugees.
Feudal society lacked everything and there was no shortage of refugees. It just depended on which year you were a refugee.
When people got there, they began to reclaim some land, grow vegetables, and grow rice... mainly to burn the soil to eliminate dysentery and other tropical diseases.
Burn the grass, shrubs, and woodlands, leaving only windbreaks. Then there was coal mining, iron ore mining, and blast furnace building...
Then came gunpowder.
They are pharmaceuticals, and there is no shortage of sulfur.
Because sulfur is originally a traditional Chinese medicine.
And to make medicine, you need to make elixirs.
I am an alchemist, so it is normal to make gunpowder.
Normally, the imperial court was very strict in its management of these things.
The problem is that no matter how strict you are, you can't withstand the power of this money.
In short, money opens the way and everything is available.
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The three-year period has come, and Jia Baoyu came out of the mountain... no, to become an official.
In the general environment, Jia Rong and Jia Lian are engaged in the army and muskets. Judging from the scale of industrial development, it will take at least ten years before they can be promoted.
An industry is always weak at the beginning, but in just ten years, once it takes shape, it will quickly copy itself and then seek a market.
As long as the market is hungry for industrial goods, industry will expand rapidly.
A growth rate of 500% or even several thousand percent a year seems completely impossible in an agricultural society, but it is common in an industrial society.
Jia Rong and the others had a musketry team of 5,000 people and 20 bronze cannons.
Of course, more than half of these weapons were purchased from Western maritime merchants.
There are still very few muskets and cannons that can be made by oneself.
But it was enough to protect the industry on the island, and even the big pirate leader wisely lowered the protection fee by 5,000 taels a year.
Of course a conflict is brewing between the two sides, and the big pirate leader will not allow anyone to challenge his maritime status.
It’s just that there are people in the Jia family court.
This allows the pirate leader to be patient for a while.
When they are no longer willing to be manufacturers and want to be channels, it will be time for both parties to break up.
At this time, in the internal environment, Jia Baoyu had passed the three-year inspection period and was officially appointed as the head of the Criminal Department and a sixth-grade official.
This happens to be Zhao Han’s specialty.
After arriving at the Ministry of Justice, she looked through the mountains of files, which opened her eyes. In short, there were only three words:
Black, black, black.
It's so easy for them to solve the case here.
Bao Gong, Song Ci, Di Renjie... do not exist.
What exists are boards, wooden shackles, whips, soldering irons, and clamping sticks.
Under three trees, there is nothing you can do.
Then there is silver.
For example, if someone died on a certain street today, it was a homicide.
The government officials immediately pounced on him like wolves and tigers.
The first thing they focused on was not who the murderer was, but which family nearby had money.
This requires the scribes in the government office to inform them which family nearby has money.
Then I will try my best to pin the suspicion on this family.
If this family is powerful, such as someone in the court or a local tyrant, I'm sorry and I need to apologize.
Change to the next one.
As for how to argue, the first is the person who reported the crime. If he has no background and is not upright, then just give him a beating and make him admit that he saw the person who killed him.
Arrest people based on their confessions. After arresting them, see how much money was used. If the money is enough, let them go and replace them with others...
After half a year, when you have eaten and drank enough, the above There are important people to pay errands to.
Just look at any passers-by and catch them and give them a beating. If that doesn't work, just catch some beggars on the street to make up the difference.
After the three sticks were given, they were asked to admit that they were the murderers.
In short, Zhao Han, just looking at the files, does not require in-depth analysis skills. He can basically confirm that more than 80% of the murder criminals were all unjustly convicted and were arrested and replaced.
For example, a beggar can actually enter a deep house compound in the middle of the night to kill people, and then sleep peacefully in the temple the next day.
It is written in the file that there is a dog hole in the compound, and beggars get into it and kill people.
Seems quite reasonable.
However, the murder weapon was not found. It was said that the beggar had thrown it into the river, but the nearest river was a hundred miles away.
As for the motive, the beggar wants to steal the money.
Witnesses, none.
As for why it was said that he was killed by a beggar, the reason is that early the next morning, someone heard him say that he wanted to kill a certain master because the other party did not give him a reward.
As for the evidence, oral confession is the biggest evidence...
After seeing these cases, Zhao Han had only one feeling: counter, must counter.
Rebellion is necessary if conditions exist, and rebellion is necessary even if conditions are not created.
Don’t rebel when you travel through time, use a chrysanthemum to set an electric drill.
Kneel down to the emperor, I can’t kneel down!
On this day, she went on duty again.
After a group of friendly friends nodded and greeted each other, they started drinking tea.
After drinking until the afternoon and taking a nap, everyone started to work.
What, working early in the morning?
Don’t die...
That's the kind of treatment only ministers who can go to court get. They who work in the yamen can be lazy if they can.
Anyway, the more you do, the more work you will have.
Zhao Han and Guang are in the same dust and do nothing special.
In the afternoon, she received a case handed over by the external book office.
Because the crime occurred in a county near the capital, it received more attention and needed to be dealt with.
The case was an adultery case.
It is about an adulterer committing adultery with an adulterous woman and killing her husband.
Zhao Han took a closer look and found that there were too many loopholes.
The husband died. The murder weapon was said to be a kitchen knife, but the head of the deceased was chopped off.
Can a combination of a kitchen knife and a woman complete the job?
And the biggest question is, where is the adulterer?
The case file says the adulterer fled.
The adulterer fled, but in the end only a woman was caught as the murderer?
What chain of evidence, what ironclad evidence, does not exist.
However, Zhao Han still found a clue from the only information.
The complainant was the husband's brother.
And this husband has 200 acres of irrigated land, two shops in the county...
And a 9-year-old son.
The male is 14 years old.
If a woman survives for another five years, she can live a good life by relying on her son to support the family business and collect rent.
Zhao Han immediately understood the whole story.
There is a high probability that the husband died of a sudden illness in his middle age, and the brothers decided to make the matter bigger and create an unfounded adulterer.
If she didn't take care of it, the government officials would definitely follow the brothers' lead, seize ten acres of good land, force a woman to death, and leave her son under the care of the devil.
Three years later, his son died of illness, and the devil took over the land and shops.
A story that couldn’t be simpler.
Is it more likely to be a homicide, or is it more likely to be exterminated?
Why is man the god in feudal society?
Because the value of force in feudal society depends on men.
As a woman, you cannot just enter the Yamen. Once you enter the Yamen, you will not be able to explain clearly.
(End of this chapter)