They don't need to worry about such small things, just arrange a confidant.

The next day, Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division carried out routine blackmail on the merchants along the street in the name of rectifying the street appearance in Jubaomen Commercial Street...

I say routine because they do it all the time.

After all, they can't control the military households in this city, and the Wutai Mountain gang doesn't dare to control them either. The craftsmen households are also under the Ministry of Industry.

The only people who are really suitable for them to attack are businessmen.

Just now, in the capital city, commerce can be said to be extremely developed, especially Sanshan Street in Jubaomen, which was originally a commercial street. Now it is even more densely populated with merchants. In order to facilitate transportation, a new type of road with stone underneath and concrete on top has even been built. Business prosperity is of course inevitable.

The street appearance is chaotic. Nancheng Bingma Division makes most of its extra money from this street. Street appearance, fire prevention, theft prevention, etc. In short, there are many names, and the merchants have already been fed up with it.

This time a merchant doubled the fine again...

On the birthday of the emperor, his subordinates will naturally prepare birthday gifts, and the money will definitely be extracted from merchants.

It is also common practice for fines to be doubled.

But this time, the merchant didn’t know who gave him the courage. He had the audacity to refuse to pay, and even claimed that he was going to beat the drum. The enraged deputy commander of the Nancheng Army and Horses Division immediately ordered him to be captured and brought back to his senses. This merchant

He resisted with a big gun and beat the commander with a big gun. The latter was so angry that he ordered a siege, but the merchants and their clerks resisted vigorously. Then the surrounding merchants shared the same hatred, and the two sides fought in Sanshan Street. During the battle, the deputy commander was held in a copper bag.

The imperial edict in the box was opened.

Patrol officers from the anti-theft camp immediately rushed to arrest people. In the end, dozens of people were arrested, but then all the merchants on Sanshan Street went on strike.

Then I went to play the Denwen drum.

And soon most of the capital city joined the strike. After all, this kind of thing was also done frequently by the military commanders in the other four cities.

For a time, the people in the capital were in a state of panic, and some people even surrounded the soldiers and horses.

"This kind of thing..."

Yang Feng said with some embarrassment.

Then he looked at the father-in-law, who kept his head down.

"Actually, the key is that the rules have not been established. The capital has developed too fast in recent years, but the rules are still old and cannot keep up. It is inevitable that some corrupt officials will profit from them.

We can't blame them, after all, there are no rules, and there are no restrictions on their clever names.

Similarly, because merchants are not bound by rules, they will naturally not know how to advance or retreat, so the key is to set up rules.

But the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division is an official, and it is a principle that an official cannot harm the people. In the absence of rules, an official cannot accidentally harm the people. We can say that the people are wrong, but the government does not have laws in this regard. If there is no prohibition by law, it can be done.

It is a principle, so the fault still lies with the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division. But after that, the court can issue special regulations, such as no random construction, no littering, etc. Those who violate it can be fined however much, but the fine cannot be confiscated.

City Soldiers and Horses Division.

The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division can issue tickets.

But you have to go to the bank to pay the money, so the fines and confiscations will go to the household department, and the fines and confiscations will go to the household department in the first place. If the merchant fails to pay the money within the time limit, he can be jailed."

Yang Feng said.

The Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division are now loyal to the state leader because apart from being filial to the state leader, the rest of the fines are basically divided among themselves. Such fines are originally set by them themselves and have nothing to do with the Ministry of Household Affairs.

But now we can only issue fines and have no power to collect money.

That’s a hell of a punishment!

Of course, you can still make money privately.

But making money privately is considered corruption and perverting the law.

The censor who patrols the city...

It's finally my turn to appear.

"The person who was arrested?"

The Queen Mother said.

"Except for the one who killed someone, just let them go. The fine imposed by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division has no basis. It's not like there are no penalties for infringing on the interests of merchants in Da Gao. What the merchants did was indeed inappropriate, but it's okay if there is no law.

They were safeguarding their rights. As for the accidental killing of the deputy commander during the resistance, this is at best negligent wounding, and he will be hanged according to the standard of accidental wounding in a fight, but those who hold the imperial edict will be reduced to a hundred sticks and three thousand miles of exile."

Yang Feng said.

Then……

Can be redeemed.

Injuring someone in a fight is punishable by hanging, but holding a high imperial edict is punishable by death.

This system was still implemented until the Jiajing period. During the Jiajing period, there were many examples of people who had committed crimes and had their family titles reduced or reduced because of their family members.

But after the penalty is reduced to one hundred rods and three thousand miles traveled, according to the law, you can pay the money and be exempted from sin.

So in the end, the merchant paid at most some money, and the deputy conductor who was killed also received at most some money. The ransom money was used to compensate the victim.

The deputy commander of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division is not the commander of the guards, the deputy commander is a seventh-rank official.

“So best.”

The Queen Mother said.

How could she know so many things? Besides, Yang Feng's arrangements were completely reasonable and legal. In fact, this kind of matter was left to the little princess to handle, but outsiders were beating the drums, and the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division was her father's subordinate, so

She was the one who asked her to make the decision. She also knew that her father was corrupt and perverted the law. How could someone with this status not be corrupt and pervert the law? It can be said that this time it aroused public outrage, and half of the capital joined the strike. Her situation was already unstable, and she relied entirely on the military and civilians of the capital.

With the support of Yang Feng and the little princess, we must not offend the soldiers and civilians of the capital.

"The case itself is not important. What is important is that relevant laws must be enacted as soon as possible."

Yang Feng said.

"Then there's Auntie Lao."

The Queen Mother quickly said to her aunt.

The father-in-law was still silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Yang Feng and the little princess left immediately.

"Now I'm afraid that Yingtian Mansion will deliberately interfere with it, that is, not to allow redemption, as a way to retaliate against us."

said the little princess.

Foreclosure needs to be determined by local officials during the trial. It does not mean that it only meets the standards. In fact, it is normal practice to award foreclosure if it does not meet the standards, or to deliberately not award foreclosure if it meets the standards.

Naturally, the civil servants of the imperial court would not cooperate with them.

"Wrong, they will cooperate very cooperatively in sentencing and ransoming, and then use this to provoke the father-in-law's hatred towards us. After all, his face will be ruined."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Losing your face? It's good that you didn't make other people's heads fall to the ground."

The little princess sneered.

Of course, the facts are indeed as Yang Feng said. The next day, Yingtian Mansion sentenced him to hanging for accidentally injuring someone in a fight. However, because there was a major reduction in the sentence, and then the redemption was allowed, the family of the merchant gave the money that afternoon.

It was handed over to Yingtian Mansion, so on the same day, he was welcomed by the merchants along the street with gongs, drums and firecrackers, and he returned to his business like a hero.

Immediately afterwards, all the troops and horses in the five cities were withered.

Some commanders even panicked and began to pay fines to those merchants.

But on the same day, the industrial and commercial management regulations formulated as quickly as possible were also announced to the world in the form of an imperial edict.

Not only the capital city, but also the management of industry and commerce in all cities must comply with this regulation.

This is easily solved.

These days, there is no need to consider whether it is convenient for the people or whether it will trigger public opposition. As long as it is formulated, the people must abide by it. At most, if they find something unreasonable later, they will gradually modify it, but at least before it is modified, they must abide by it no matter what, even if

It is inconvenient for the people. This is actually a law specifically aimed at urban industry and commerce. Especially business regulations are very necessary. As Yang Feng said, the capital's economy is developing too fast, and the original laws can no longer keep up.

Up.

There must be new ones.

Of course, in the eyes of the court officials, this was actually depriving him of the biggest piece of money that the emperor could make.

Who told him to talk too much and say something about all the officials running away?

This is the price of talking too much.

but……

This is a happy event!

This means that Guozhang and Yang Feng have become enemies.

Although everyone understands that at least for now, the state leader has no ability to fight against Yang Feng, but as long as he is hostile to Yang Feng, it will be fine.

Ability can be developed slowly, and no one expects to be able to solve Yang Feng now.

So soon the birthday of the abbot was celebrated. Not only the civil and military officials in the capital, but also several retired officials, distinguished generals outside, and even several vassal kings all sent gifts or congratulated them in person.

Just like the Donglin Party treated Empress Zhang and her father during the Apocalypse, they held the head of state in high esteem, as if their daughter was really the lord of the Ming Dynasty.
To be continued...