The Huangzhuang was dealt with quickly, ensuring the normal development of things to the greatest extent...

Especially they even control those slaves.

The latter did not have time to return to the Fang family to report in the shortest time. When the Fang family got the news and gathered the Qi tribesmen to intercept on the road, Yang Jiyun had been sent to the Xin'an Brigade Command and imprisoned in the prison of the Military Law Department. His woman was also sent to the Huangzhuang to protect. Then nearly a thousand tribesmen of the Fang family blocked the Xin'an Brigade Command and Huangzhuang. At the same time, the magistrate of She County and the Huizhou Prefecture sent people to ask for the handover. Even the Fang family members from other counties in Huizhou were gathering.

This is the strength of the clan.

Especially in places like Huizhou, in fact, this place was almost the least affected in the wars of previous dynasties. Several major surnames have reproduced for dozens of generations and gathered thousands of clans. The Fang family is originally a very representative one.

Huizhou is just a small piece of flat land.

The vast majority of the population is crowded in this small basin in the mountains. Several counties are very close to each other and can be convened in less than half a day. Compared with the thousands of militias in the imperial villages originally adapted by Xin'anwei, the strength of any large clan is enough to compete with. There is not around Nanjing, because there are the land of nobles confiscated, and the imperial villages are quite dense. With one order, more than 100,000 young and strong people can be mobilized. In local clans like Huizhou, they are the bosses.

Faced with this situation, the commander of the Xin'an Brigade could only try his best to appease him and ask for help from his superiors.

Fortunately, they are still restrained.

After all, with the previous examples of Xuanzhou Guard, the members of the Fang family did not say that they had the courage to attack the militia's command center, but the stalemate between the two sides was still continuing.

"This is indeed a bit embarrassing!"

Yang Qing, who received the report the next day, said helplessly.

He serves as the chief of the military commander of the Grand Governor's Office.

To be precise, he was actually the deputy, and the chief was his fiancée, so he had the final say in the internal military law of the Ming army, but he was also very troubled about this matter.

Yang Jiyun's identity is too embarrassing.

Escape slave.

The contract of selling his body is still in the hands of the Fang family. He just absconded and then joined the Ming army with his identity. However, he is still from the Fang family legally. The Fang family did know that he had returned, but there was no need to cause too much trouble for a fugitive slave. But the Fang family could not be really willing. They just endured this tone for the time being, and the fugitive slave actually killed the young master of the Fang family, which was equivalent to detonating the powder keg.

"How should we judge according to the law?"

Yang Qing asked Shi Dewei.

"It depends on whether it is military law or civil law. If he is not guilty of military law, he is also a militia and a reserve sergeant. He is still a military position. When attacked and attacked, he is self-defense. Our military law has special provisions. According to civil law, it can only be a beheading. This is a fight and killing people. According to the Ming Dynasty law, it is to behead, but he is a slave and killing a good man, so he needs to be added to a beheading. In fact, his problem is not the most critical. We judge with military law on the grounds that he belongs to the army.

, This is also fine in theory. The identity of the militia is originally a vague civilian and military force. The Ministry of Justice cannot find any reason and is dissatisfied with it at most. The most troublesome thing is his woman. No matter what the principle is, she must be from the Fang family. Even if Yang Jiyun is in the army, his identity as a slave of the Fang family has not changed. The slave is not unable to join the army. Moreover, according to the diagnosis of the doctor in the health center in the imperial village, his woman is still pregnant, so this child is also from the Fang family."

Sdewey said.

"That is to say, in accordance with the law, we can protect him at most, but we cannot protect his woman and this unborn child."

Yang Qing said.

"Yes, unless the regent has amnesty."

Sdewey said.

The state can indeed be pardoned, and admits the crime of fighting Yang Jiyunnu to kill a good man, and then pardoned with military merits. Then his women and children will still be his women and children. Even if he is a member of the Fang family, the women and children will first belong to him and then belong to the Fang family because of him. However, if he dies or is unable to take care of him in prison for his crime, the Fang family has the right to bypass him and ask for the woman directly.

Because others have no right to take care of this woman.

Yang Qing continued to look at the report.

The core of this matter is the slave issue.

He has not touched this matter so far because the slave problem is too much involved, second only to him playing the public field method. Speaking of which, the slave problem in Jiangnan was not even dared to touch Zhu Yuanzhang back then.

This is actually the pot left by the Mongolians.

The ancient Chinese slave system was close to the point of being in name only at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was indeed impossible to be cowardly, but this is indeed worthy of recognition. The slave problem was still serious in the early Northern Song Dynasty, but in the past 100 years, the slaves who were dependent on themselves gradually turned into de facto employees. Slaves were just names, and even the names gradually disappeared. For example, maids became female envoys, and family slaves became companions. Don’t underestimate these two names that often appear in Water Margin. This represents the Song Dynasty’s entire world in ancient times and can be said to be the most civilized symbol. In the late Song Dynasty,

In law, the master and slave are the same. If the master kills the slave, it will be a life-saving. The master will force the maid to exile. Therefore, Zheng Tu cheated Jin Cuilian for marriage letters for marrying a concubine, rather than buying a concubine with personal ownership directly. Jin Cuilian was not caught as a fugitive slave even after running away. She still wandered outside with her father, and even dared to marry someone else as a concubine. As for Zhao Jiumei's maids, it was not essentially the blame for the law, and even the bald royal relatives dared to do this, but in law he still had to pay for the little girls' lives, but no one dared to take care of them.

But the Southern Song Dynasty began to retreat.

Although there has not been any change in law, in fact, agricultural nu is already very common.

The ashes are the symbol.

In his theory, it was already against the rules of the tenant's lawsuit against the owner. This was actually a gentry group trying to counterattack. However, he was just a politician with many political enemies after all. The laws of the Southern Song Dynasty still did not change. The farmers were just because the tenant had to rely on the landlord's land and had to accept the treatment of the latter equivalent to the farmers.

But it is not a slave in law.

Then the Mongolians solved the legal problems for the gentry in Jiangnan. It has to be said that this kind of alien race was really the favorite of the gentry. They made the tenants completely turn into farmers. But unfortunately, the gentry cheered less than a hundred years and welcomed Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang opposed this agricultural system, but his basic position was still Jiangnan gentry, and he could not change too much, so he could only restrict it in various ways. Including the law of killing good men and reducing slaves to one level for later generations, rather than the same as in the Song Dynasty. After his death, the gentry could cheer again and then recover step by step. Finally, by the late Ming Dynasty, farmers everywhere in Jiangnan. Especially after the gentry was greatly exempted from taxes, there were even self-cultivated farmers who brought land to be slaves, and others who could not afford to marry wives, had to marry gentry maids and bury their relatives to sell themselves. There are still many such contracts that can be found in modern times.

It is not rare to see thousands of slaves from the landlord family.

The increasing number of slaves eventually evolved into a large-scale slavery that swept across Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty.

It happened in Zhejiang the year Chongzhen passed through the south.

It was just that when Chongzhen arrived in Nanjing, Zhang Xianzhong's momentum in Huguang was unstoppable, and to a large extent he was welcomed by slaves. For example, in Macheng, he was the slave transformer who first captured the city and then invited him. In history, with the collapse of the Hongguang regime, Jiangnan entered a chaotic world, and the slave transformer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had become a sweeping trend. The richer the place, the more it was. It can be said that slave transformers in various places were rising. Huizhou was originally a severely affected area for slave transformers. The slaves who made their masters rebellion slapped their masters in the face and questioned:

"It's all the people, why do you call me?"

Fortunately, the gentry waited for their favorite alien race again, and it was our Qing Dynasty who finally solved the crisis for them.

But it is the fourth prince who has completely resolved.

The Fourth Prince canceled his slavery.

Now Yang Qing also has to face this problem. Yang Jiyun’s affairs don’t matter. The key is that he has triggered the focus that has been selectively ignored by all parties, including Yang Qing.

Yang Jiyun can protect him.

He can find a basis within the scope of the law.

After all, Yang Jiyun was a militia and a reserve officer. The militia said it was a military or a military, and it was a civilian. Even civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, whose military household system lasted for hundreds of years, agreed that they were a military.

But Yang Jiyun's wife and unborn children are people. If they are people, they have to follow the Civil Law. According to the Civil Law, she is a woman who is a slave of the Fang family. Her children are all from the Fang family. The Fang family will definitely understand this point. They will ask this woman to go back and torture. This is his family, and the imperial village cannot detain his family's people, so they must give it to them. Then they will force Yang Jiyun with this woman and the child. As long as the latter admits that he deliberately killed the young master of the Fang family, even Yang Qing cannot protect him.

But if Yang Jiyun can't be protected...

"Are there so many in the army?"

Yang Qing asked.

"Many, fugitive slaves are actually very common in Jiangnan. Just like the military households fled in the past. When we trained the mountain army, there were a lot of fugitive slaves among the shanty towns recruited from the mountains."

Sdewey said.

It's not just these people, either.

This also involves slaves all over the south of the Yangtze River. It can be said that all the gentry and officials have slaves at home. The registered population of the Ming Dynasty is more than 50 million, and the actual population is no less than 200 million. If the few women and children are deducted, the vast majority of the remaining slaves are slaves. It is common for the gentry in Jiangnan to cultivate land with slaves. And these people are not benefited by Yang Qing's series of reforms, because of the propaganda of civil rights, these people are also changing their minds. They also long to get rid of their identity as slaves. If this matter is not handled well, these people will be desperate.

It is hard to say what a desperate person will do.

It is not impossible to really break out in a large-scale slavery.

"Mr. Marquis, Huizhou Communication Station sent a report that nearly two thousand tribes of the Fang family surrounded the imperial village and demanded that Yang Jiyun's woman be handed over, and the situation was out of control."
Chapter completed!