Almighty System Great Master Qin

Chapter 268
The Ministry of Punishment was established on the basis of Tingwei after the reform of Qin Shihuang's government. However, the current Ministry of Punishment has a relatively single ability, only interrogating prisoners. politics.

However, at present, the public security of Daqin is in the charge of county lieutenants, county lieutenants, and Youqian. They all have different numbers of soldiers under their command, and the implementation of Qin laws in various places also depends on the local chiefs and the Ministry of Punishment.

"Mr. Wu An, look at the reform of the imperial court. Although this minister is called the Ministry of Punishment, his power has not changed. I wonder if Mr. Wu An can change this embarrassing situation." Rong Dang sat in the carriage and faced Xiao Hong said.

In fact, judging from the division of power among the six ministries, the Ministry of Industry should be the department with the weakest power and the lowest status. However, because the Great Qin Dynasty is waiting to be revived, many places need to use the Ministry of Knife Industry, so the Ministry of Punishment has become the one with the weakest power and the lowest status. department.

"The Ministry of Punishment is indeed very weak at present, mainly due to the lack of law enforcement power and soldiers. The soldiers in charge of law and order in various places are not under the management of the Ministry of Punishment. However, there is no good way for me at present. Rong Shangshu will have to wait." For Xiao Hong To put it bluntly, if you want to improve the authority of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the easiest way is to form a law enforcement force for the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

However, under the framework of the Great Qin Dynasty, soldiers from all over the country are under the control of the county lieutenants, county lieutenants, and You Yan. These soldiers are essentially soldiers and brave, and they are under the management of the Ministry of War. The Ministry of Punishment cannot mobilize these soldiers.

However, it would not be appropriate to put all these soldiers under the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of War would not agree.But it would cost too much to set up a new military force dedicated to law and order.

There are 42 counties in the Qin Dynasty. It is immeasurable how many new people will be recruited to meet the security requirements of each county. Qin Shihuang will not agree to this amount of money.

At present, Daqin has nearly a million soldiers available, and the annual military pay of these people is a very huge expense, and now Daqin is still facing a problem, that is, the issue of sergeant discharge.

According to the twentieth rank of military merit established by Shang Jun, almost all the sergeants in Daqin who need to abdicate currently have military merit, and some of them have a lot of military merit.

According to Feng Quji's statistics, once Daqin starts to retire sergeants, there will be thousands of people at the fifteenth level in an instant, and these people will have land and rewards.

Daqin couldn't afford to pay this money at all, let alone the military merits of other sergeants. Only thousands of young men could bring down Daqin, so Qin Shihuang could only continue to maintain an army of one million, spending a lot of money every year for this .

"Rong Shangshu, how many sergeants in the army have reached the time to be disarmed and returned to the fields?" Xiao Hong suddenly thought of a solution to these two problems.

"About 10 people. Great Qin has been recruiting soldiers all the time. He didn't stop recruiting new soldiers until His Majesty destroyed the six kingdoms and ruled the world. Lord Wu An suddenly asked what this is for." Rong Dang thought for a while and wanted to report to Xiao Hong a number.

"It's nothing, it's just curiosity." Although Xiao Hong thought of a method, but this method is not applicable now, unless Xiao Hong gets out the musket.

Because only after entering the age of firearms can the number of troops be reduced. Otherwise, the number of soldiers will suddenly be reduced on a large scale in the age of cold weapons. Wouldn't it be courting death?

After a stick of incense, Xiao Hong and Rong Dang came to the Ministry of Punishment. At this time, the office of the Ministry of Punishment was still the original position of Tingwei, but the plaque on the door lintel was replaced with the words Ministry of Punishment.

Xiao Hong and Rong Dang walked into the Ministry of Criminal Justice and came to the large prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. At this time, the eighteen stewards were all imprisoned here, but in order to prevent them from colluding, they were imprisoned separately, each in a cell.

"Rong Shangshu, how many people here are in collusion with the remnants of the Six Kingdoms?" Xiao Hong smelled an unpleasant smell when he entered the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Dang even released spiritual energy to block the smell.

"A total of seven people colluded with the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, and they were all locked in the deepest part of the prison." Rong Dang was used to the smell in the prison, so he didn't feel any discomfort.

As soon as Xiao Hong heard that they were locked in the deepest part of the prison, he didn't want to go. The prison environment of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was very bad. Many prisoners were thrown into the cell after being injured, and some prisoners' wounds had festered in large areas. And there is no toilet inside, all prisoners can only solve their physical problems in the cell.

"Since it's deep in the prison, I won't go, Rong Shangshu will ask someone to bring them all here." After saying this, Xiao Hong turned around and walked out of the prison of the Ministry of Justice.

"Several of you, go and bring out the seven stewards who were detained in the deep part of the dungeon." Rong Dang asked several soldiers from the Ministry of Punishment to pick them up, while he accompanied Xiao Hong out of the dungeon.

"Your Majesty, maybe you don't like the smell in the dungeon?" Seeing Xiao Hong leaving the dungeon in a hurry, Rong Dang knew that he must not be able to stand the smell in the dungeon.

"Rong Shangshu, the environment in your prison of the Ministry of Punishment is too..."

"Your Majesty, I don't know something. In fact, it's not the Shangshu who made the dungeon environment like this, but the annual funds of our Criminal Department are really limited, and in the past, almost all the people who could enter my Tingwei Prison were criminals. People with capital crimes or remnants of the Six Kingdoms, as long as they enter my Tingwei's prison, they will never get out alive, so the environment of the dungeon is insignificant," Rong Dang explained to Xiao Hong.

"Your Majesty may not know that our Criminal Department currently has only a few subordinate officers and a shortage of soldiers. Except for the daily custody of prisoners, there are not many manpower to deal with these matters, so the environment in the dungeon can only be dragged like this." As far as Rong Dang was concerned, he naturally didn't want to see his dungeon environment so poor that ordinary people couldn't even stay in it for a minute, but there was no way, the condition was this condition.

"I didn't expect Rong Shang's life to be so difficult. I can find time to mention this matter to Your Majesty. At least I will send you some people to clean up the environment of your dungeon. Otherwise, I will watch the prisoner enter the dungeon. I can only live for a month, so if His Majesty suddenly asks you for someone in the future, and you say that the person is dead, wouldn’t it be bad?” Xiao Hong considered that the Ministry of Criminal Justice might detain officials in the future, and these officials will be pampered and pampered for a long time. Judging from the situation in the prison, these officials did not need Rong Dang to do anything to enter the prison, and they could all die in it.

And the most important thing is that this environment is easy to breed various viruses, and there are many rats in the dungeon. Once a plague breaks out in the dungeon, these rats are likely to bring the plague out of the dungeon and into Daqin.

(End of this chapter)