Chapter 3322
How to judge this first case and how to establish prestige for the police station while determining the scale? Shi Chengwu actually had already had an affair with his father Shi Diwen and had already made an idea in his mind.
Even if this group of thieves did not commit a murder, Shi Chengwu had decided to impose severe punishment on them to show Haihan's determination to rectify public security in Nanjing. As the saying goes, heavy rules should be used in troubled times, Shi Diwen also agreed that this case should be handled seriously and quickly.
However, before pronouncing the verdict, ask people from all walks of life present for their opinions. This will also make the final verdict appear to be in line with public opinion.
As expected, everyone present had the same attitude, that is, this group of thieves must be severely sentenced to serve as a warning to others.
Seeing that the situation had been decided, Shi Chengwu picked up the gavel and patted it, and everything inside and outside the courtroom suddenly became quiet.
Shi Chengwu said solemnly: "Judging cases and sentencing is not the function of the police station. However, Nanjing has not yet established a court, so this case will be judged by this bureau."
After saying that, Shi Chengwu stood up and prepared to pronounce the verdict. Qu Deren and Song Chen also stood up quickly. Seeing this, the jury outside the courtroom also quickly stood up to show respect.
There were still thousands of people waiting for news outside the police station gate. They heard bursts of cheers from inside and were even more itchy to know that the verdict had been announced.
Although most people expected that the case would be severely punished, since they are here, they naturally have to wait until the exact news comes out before they can leave with peace of mind.
Soon someone came out and posted a notice on the bulletin board outside the gate. This notice, with the ink still wet, contains the verdict of this case.
Song Chen immediately appeared outside the gate and read the contents of the notice loudly to the onlookers.
The crimes of all the criminals in this case were conclusive and the evidence was sufficient. Robbery, theft, and murder were all punishable together. The police station sentenced all the criminals to death in accordance with the Haihan Law. All seized stolen goods will be returned to their original owners as soon as possible.
As for the execution time, it was scheduled for the next morning, and the execution would be carried out publicly at Zhengyangmen, not far from here.
Notices of the verdict were quickly posted on the streets of Nanjing, and more than a dozen death sentences were imposed in one case. This was rare even in Nanjing during the Ming Dynasty, and it immediately became the focus of public opinion.
The victims and relatives related to the case naturally found no fault with such a verdict, and some people immediately gave Shi Chengwu the name "Shi Qingtian".
In addition to the ordinary people who applauded and cheered, of course there must also be many people hiding in the dark and shivering. Qu Deren's men have not been idle these days and continue to arrest lawbreakers everywhere in the city.
The establishment of the police station means that the chaos in Nanjing is about to end, and normal order will soon be restored. And those gangsters who took advantage of the troubled waters will no longer be able to commit crimes as brazenly as they did some time ago.
However, the number of people who went to watch the execution the next day was not as large as those who waited outside the police station during the previous trial.
This is probably because too many people died in the war in Nanjing some time ago, and the local people have lost the novelty of death. It happened that the thieves who committed the crime were defeated by the Ming army. The so-called shooting was just a reenactment of the situation on the battlefield in Nanjing.
At the same time, the armistice negotiations between the two countries gradually reached more agreements after lengthy confrontations.
There is not much dispute between the two sides about Haihan's claims to Shandong and the coastal areas of East China. After all, Haihan has entered a state of actual control in most of these areas. If Ming wants to regain control, it can only do so through war, and this is obviously not a feasible solution. The most controversial point was the demand for Yongping Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture in North China. The Ming Dynasty originally wanted to use southern land to replace it, but Chen Yixin, who presided over the negotiations, was the governor of the northern region and had little interest in southern land. .
No matter how much Wang Chengen pleaded, the plan was ultimately not approved.
However, after repeated trials, Chen Yixin also knew that it was almost impossible for the Ming Dynasty to cede all the two areas adjacent to the capital, so he also made a "concession" to a certain extent. Both sides took half of the areas under the jurisdiction of the two prefectures, and all the coastal areas were assigned to Haihan, the remaining part continued to be governed by the Ming Dynasty.
Since Haihan demanded control of all coastal areas, the Shanhaiguan defense line, which Ming Dynasty spent more than two hundred years and invested countless resources in, was inevitably broken.
Hejian Prefecture on the west side of the Bohai Bay is bounded by the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. The area east of the canal to the Bohai Bay, including Jinghai, Xingji, Cangzhou, Nanpi, Dongguang, Wuqiao and other large and small cities along the coast, are all assigned to Haihan.
Ming merchant ships and civilian ships can still pass within the section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal controlled by Haihan, but the ships must be under Haihan's control and pay tolls.
Although Ming Ting was unwilling to give up, he also understood that this was probably the limit of what he could achieve, and in the end he could only accept Chen Yixin's conditions.
As for Haihan's request for navigation rights on the Yangtze River waterway, Ming Dynasty was unable to fight and could only accept it silently.
The naval forces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were almost wiped out by Haihan in this war, and it will be difficult for them to recover for at least three to five years.
However, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are limited by navigation conditions and military budgets. There is no organized naval fleet at all, and it cannot deter the Haihan-ruled area in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
However, the Haihan ships currently only operate as far as Jiujiang and Poyang Lake on the Yangtze River, and they have not yet threatened the Central China Plain. This is a rare respite for the Ming Dynasty.
The huge amount of war reparations was the most time-consuming and controversial condition for both parties to negotiate.
It is impossible for Ming Dynasty to agree to Haihan's request of 80 million taels of silver and 200,000 taels of additional military spending per day during the negotiations.
Because even if the national treasury was emptied and all the annual fiscal revenue was used to repay the compensation, it would take Ming Dynasty at least twenty years to pay off the money, which was simply impossible to achieve.
Chen Yixin also proposed using a large area of North China to offset war reparations, but the area he requested was all the areas east of the Taihang Mountains except the capital, which naturally could not be agreed by the Ming Dynasty.
If we follow Chen Yixin's plan, the capital is bounded by the Yanshan Mountains to the north, the Taihang Mountains to the west, and Haihan territory in both directions to the southeast. Wouldn't the capital become an isolated city isolated from the outside world?
Of course, the amount of compensation proposed by Haihan was not without room for bargaining. The purpose of the lion's opening was to force Daming to compromise on other conditions, rather than causing Daming to immediately fall into civil strife caused by bankruptcy.
After blocking the other party's retreat, Chen Yixin proposed a plan to use Daming's population and mineral resources as discounted compensation.
(End of chapter)