Of course, during the gathering time before preparing to send troops, Jiang Tian also reorganized the security departments of the provinces of Provence, Maritimes, and Bas-Alpes. Use dispatched police established at the city and town level to replace the original establishment of peace officers, circuit judges and attachés recruited from various places.
The police forces in these cities and towns are uniformly deployed according to the proportion of the population in the census; they are currently divided into three levels: provincial capital - county/city - municipality; and some of the main members come from the Free Army who have been resettled on the spot. Soldiers, some of them were eliminated knights' retinue.
Therefore, in a sense, rather than relying on their professional investigation and criminal investigation capabilities in their positions, it is better to rely on their own advantages of a certain degree of force and familiarity with the local area to prevent various vicious local security incidents and potential illegal activities. The power of groups to shock and intimidate.
Even so, it was infinitely better than the nepotistic and uneven system of retinues of magistrates and circuit judges. It also gave many local knight families who had just surrendered, and those children who were unable to awaken their bloodline and obtain inheritance, a new way out and source of income.
You must know that the main reason for the decline and bankruptcy of these knight families with blood inheritance is that they are unsustainable due to the skyrocketing prices of goods in the kingdom and the severe reduction in output income. Therefore, each generation can only support one or two bloodline awakenings.
In addition to becoming each other's retinues, followers, and servants, the others had to find other ways to find a way out. Therefore, after these thousands of establishments are taken out, it is equivalent to further binding the next generation of these knight families to the Free Army system and becoming a vested interest group.
As time went by, he gradually became a staunch defender of the existing system; and then became more completely separated from the old aristocratic class that was suppressed and liquidated in the past. Along with this, there is also a restructured judicial system, which is the Kingdom's original circuit judge system.
According to the tradition of the Kingdom, every local city has a peace officer hired by the town hall, and there are also public security agents in the towns. They are responsible for handling and deciding disputes and disputes of less than 100 Ecu and 50 Ecu, as well as theft, cheating and abduction respectively. Such misdemeanors and first-time offenses.
Circuit judges dispatched from the capital, provincial capitals and counties specialize in handling larger property disputes and economic disputes, and they also regularly hear various criminal cases reported locally; only low-level circuit judges in counties can only handle property disputes and economic disputes. Litigation by the common people, common people and petty trader class.
The intermediate and senior circuit judges in the provincial capital are further responsible for accepting cases of feudal knights/lineage knights and honorary (lifetime) lords. Only the royal justices from the highest court in the capital can justifiably hear disputes, lawsuits and even crimes between nobles.
It seems to be hierarchical and reasonable, but after a long period of operation, it has become a place for corruption and corruption. Because with the financial collapse and shortage of the kingdom, the positions of local judges at all levels have been reduced. It turns out that nobles can buy it with money.
In order to recoup their losses and make profits as quickly as possible during their term of office, those who bought the position of judge will only intensify their efforts to make money, and engage in corruption and perversion of the law under clever pretexts; and the entourage they rely on as their minions and accomplices, except for a few Pei Shu records and accountants, etc. Besides civil servants, most of them are extremely vicious people.
This directly or indirectly caused great suffering for the middle and lower classes of the kingdom, and even together with special beings such as tax collectors and mercenary groups, it was called several major cancers of the kingdom. In this regard, Jiang Tian could only copy another example of time and space, which was the template of the French Revolution.
Three types of arbitrators, magistrates and trial judges are initially established. The arbitrator has no term of office and is not permanent. He or she is elected and nominated by the local municipality. The arbitrator is a household head with a certain reputation and wealth in the local area and must be recognized by both parties. Then the magistrate is set up at the city level.
The term of office is three years, and can be part-time or full-time, and receive corresponding salaries and subsidies; some civilian personnel with professional experience will be selected from among the civilian personnel recruited by the Free Army. There is no need for too much knowledge, as long as you can recite and pronounce the laws fluently.
Finally, there are the more professional trial judges; they are familiar with the Kingdom’s legal classics and are proficient in various cases. They can also comply with the policies established by the Free Army, and have more generous salaries and subsidies. They need at least several years of professional qualifications; Has most criminal sentencing powers.
However, this is somewhat difficult for the Free Army, which is currently in opposition to the traditional old aristocracy. Therefore, for the time being, magistrates and arbitrators are still maintaining daily routines; when major cases and criminal crimes are encountered, they are still reported to the local garrison commander for handling.
The ordinary judicial process refers to the mature experience of later generations and is divided into four stages: mediation, arbitration, judgment, and appeal/review; in order to filter out most trivial and cumbersome disputes among the people step by step, reducing the complexity of the judicial system Maintain stress and focused use of resources.
However, this involves another issue, which is the need for supporting laws and regulations; simply relying on the patching method of deleting the old kingdom laws/royal edicts of the past dynasties can no longer meet the needs; however, fortunately, Jiang Tian can also come up with A killer from another time and space.
That is, the "Tang Laws and Regulations" and "Tang Liu Dian" which were revised during the heyday of the feudal dynasty and were modified by the predecessors of the time-travelers, were gradually used and evolved; only the contents were restored and then transformed into a common code for the Free Army. It is impossible to achieve a legal code in one fell swoop.
Therefore, there are at least a hundred people in the compilation team currently working on this significant code project; of course, when this unknown magic modified version/stitched strange "Free Army Code" is finally formed, these experiences will be involved Naturally, it has become the judge’s first choice.
In rural areas, although through this round of storm-like liquidation and tracing operations, the remnants of the old aristocracy that had been hidden in places such as Provence, Maritime, and the Lower Alps were also swept away by those who caught them but did not let them go. Once again, a large area of mansions and estates were searched.
But the follow-up disposal of these properties, which almost occupied the best and most fertile land in all major provinces, gave Jiang Tian some difficulties. At least it is impossible to carry out land reform and divide the fields. At most, it would be enough to let people from nearby areas move away some crude and large objects.
Because he did not have enough qualified cadres, nor did he have enough conscious groups to mobilize; not to mention that there were still a large number of tenants and serfs scattered and living in these lands. Years of hard work have made him extremely insensitive to changes in the outside world.
If the Free Army directly liberates them or deregisters them, I'm afraid they will starve to death and flee to show you the next moment. Not to mention there are a certain number of vassal peasants mixed in, who rely on the corresponding manor industrial system to make a living, and provide labor as a price for accepting asylum.
Therefore, the Free Army could only send people to count and grasp the various production material reserves, labor force allocation, and the current status of output from different plots. Then, while announcing that everything would basically remain the same, it abolished those miscellaneous payments and additional payments. Labor service, put them under direct management.
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Then they severely punished and executed some middle- and lower-level managers such as stewards, village heads, and village chiefs who had obvious crimes and the greatest resentment; as a force and deterrence under the management of the new regime; then they replaced and exiled a group of people, who were in line with the old Low-level management and acting officials with strong aristocratic connections.
Then, from among the remaining farmers and tenants, they were asked to nominate several families with good reputations and reputations. After a brief inspection by the Free Army, they were appointed as successors to these vacant positions. This is enough to allow the retained stewards, village heads, and village chiefs to settle down for a period of time.
Finally, Jiang Tian planned and established dozens of model farms/prosperous farms on the most fertile and easily irrigated land, and the largest land; directly recruited refugees from other provinces and bankrupt landless farmers in the province, and used the military to eliminate them. Disabled soldiers serve as the backbone and conduct guiding operations.
In these farms, a farming system similar to that of another time and space will be implemented, with semi-military management and collective work, and public livestock, tools and seeds will be provided. Although it is only a temporary measure, it is sufficient at the current productivity level. Lasted for a long time.
Only in the future when these model farms/prosperous farms as experimental fields for industrialized agriculture are fully operational and have trained enough agronomic technicians and management personnel will Jiang Tian consider further replicating and expanding this model and promoting it to more on the kingdom land.
As for directly granting land to soldiers, or simply reversing the course of history and enfeoffing fiefs to his subordinates, Jiang Tian is not considering it yet. The reason is also very simple. The current strength of the Free Army is not enough to withstand the chain reaction caused by this series of measures.
When Jiang Tian made preliminary arrangements for the rear area and marched towards the northern province of Dole with the newly formed and replenished 2nd and 4th corps, his troop strength had been reduced by half compared to when he arrived; but the overall combat effectiveness On the contrary, it has increased a lot, mainly as a result of the change of clothes.
Although there is no way to use larger-caliber artillery for the time being; as long as there is a sufficient supply of gunpowder, the Congreve/Hare rocket with a poor hit rate can also be used. In addition, there is actually a transitional solution, which is the so-called Levins ejector/flying thunder cannon.
It is a trench weapon that is rolled into a cylinder with a thin iron sheet and buried in the ground, and uses black powder to eject burning objects or gunpowder packets; it is also the prototype of the "heartless gun" modified from a gasoline barrel in the later Liberation War. Although relatively modern conventional artillery has poor accuracy and short range;
But for most cold weapon armies in this era, it is like a lightweight and portable large-caliber mortar. And because it fires incendiary and loaded gunpowder packets, it is more powerful against enemy fortresses and arrays than ball bombs and shotguns fired by small and medium-sized artillery.
In addition, he also ordered the more than a dozen local garrison units led by Tiago and Portos in frontier provinces such as Gard and Ardèche to be integrated and expanded on the spot into characteristic garrison units of the corresponding provinces.
