In order to cooperate with this process, Xiao Ruxun also made other reforms.
The first thing every soldier learned after joining the army was rules and regulations and loyalty to the Emperor. The first thing military school students learned before joining the army was the rules and regulations of the Daqin army and loyalty to the Emperor.
Soldiers were memorized from enlistment to being assigned to specific units. After entering the army, there were also military secretaries who personally taught them how to read. There were also platoon leaders who came from military school to teach them how to read.
Military school students were memorized from enlistment to graduation. Everyone could recite all kinds of military rules and regulations and standard procedures very fluently.
They were like parts in a precision instrument, living and training according to the rules and regulations meticulously.
Then, the development of the army's legal system was the top priority of Xiao Ruxun. In this step, Xiao Ruxun tried his best to expand the authority of the military law office and basically deprived the officers of this power.
In the Daqin army, any violation of procedures and crimes would be reported to the military law office and dealt with by the military law office, not by the chief military officer of the army.
The military law office was responsible for law enforcement in the army. From a large regiment to a small company, everyone had their own military law office. The military law office was everywhere in the army. Officers had no law enforcement power, only the military law office could enforce the law.
Not to mention the officers below, even the regiment commander had no power to deal with people who broke the law in the army. He could only listen when the military law office was in charge of trial and punishment, and had no right to give opinions.
The person in charge of the military law office was directly responsible to the military law office of the central organization, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Emperor. Even the cabinet could not control it.
In the process of reorganizing the Qin army, Xiao Ruxun had straightaway standardized all the military rules that were once ambiguous and ambiguous.
Under the circumstances that his power was unshakable, the legal construction in the army was formally established.
The officers' power was limited. They no longer had the power of life and death over the soldiers and subordinates. This was the most important step in the nationalization of the army.
Opponents — — no.
Or dare not have.
At this point, the Qin Army basically completed the modernization reform and began to become a real modern national army.
So all the worries about the senior officers' self-respect became rootless duckweed. The senior officers of the regiment could only smile helplessly at all kinds of speculations from the outside world.
What were they worried about?
What we were worried about in the past is no longer a worry now, because we really don't have the ability to rebel.
In addition, Xiao Ruxun had made a lot of arrangements to ensure the establishment of the rules and regulations for the troops stationed in the remote areas and to avoid the phenomenon of the Emperor being far away from the mountains.
Not only did he arrange for Black Water and Black Poison, two spies, to secretly monitor the officers in the army, he also set up a variety of information dissemination methods to ensure that if any officer in the army tried to usurp the authority of the Office of Military Justice, the Emperor would know as quickly as possible.
At the beginning of the fifth year of Longwu, there was a case of a famous general in the Northwest Military Division shielding his nephew who had committed a crime. After he was exposed by the Military Law Office, he even tried to stop the Military Law Office from enforcing the law, causing a huge uproar.
This famous general had made great contributions in the war against the invasion of the Northern Barbarians in the third and fourth year of Longwu. He had been promoted from a regiment commander to a division commander and was highly valued by Zhao Hu. Zhao Hu had written many times to Xiao Ruxun about this person's bravery and fearlessness.
In the end, he committed such a crime. He protected his nephew in his own tent and personally guarded outside with a knife, confronting the people of the Office of Military Justice. He refused to give way no matter what, and even beat up a few military judges.
After Zhao Hu learned of this, he immediately wrote to Xiao Ruxun to plead for leniency, asking Xiao Ruxun to give him a lighter sentence on account of his great contributions.
Then the news from the capital was that Xiao Ruxun was furious and smashed three tea bowls. He was angry for a whole hour, and then personally announced that the general and his nephew were to be beheaded in public.
The people in charge of delivering the news were the military law enforcement team from the capital. They were the close officials of the Emperor. They came with the Emperor's Sword and the Emperor's imperial edict to capture the two people protected by Zhao Hu. The imperial edict was read on the spot and they were beheaded.
They were beheaded in front of Zhao Hu without any consideration for his feelings. Two heads rolled on the ground and blood splattered all over.
At that moment, Zhao Hu suddenly thought of Li Wenyuan, who had been stripped of his position by Xiao Ruxun and sent to Myanmar to become a policeman because of his interference in the land reform before the founding of the country.
Xiao Ruxun seemed to have never changed his will and style of doing things. Clearly, this was just a second Li Wenyuan.
Back then, Xiao Ruxun could already take down a battalion commander, let alone now.
After the beheading, the two heads were hung at the entrance of the main camp of the Northwest Army for three days and three nights. Then, the heads were passed to the eight major armies and circled around Daqin, warning all the officers that breaking the military law would result in beheading in public.
Zhao Hu's salary was taken away by Xiao Ruxun for three years because of his letter to plead for leniency. His title of marquis was demoted to a first-class count and his title of Pillar of the Nation was taken away. He had to face the wall and reflect for ten days before he was allowed to continue working.
Because of this, the Northwest Army launched a rectification campaign. They investigated all the people who were involved in the beheaded division commander's crime. Another five people were killed, 15 were kicked out of the army, 32 were demoted, and 67 were given severe warnings.
The officers of the Northwest Army, who had been so proud of themselves for the past two years, were given a harsh beating and immediately became obedient.
Using this opportunity, Xiao Ruxun promoted a batch of basic cadets to take over some of the important positions in the Northwest Army, pushing the process of the rule of law a big step forward.
This incident was a wake-up call to the entire army. All the divisions once again strictly emphasized the importance of the military law office and the importance of law enforcement. All the officers were asked to reflect on their own mistakes and not make the same mistake again.
Xiao Ruxun clearly told all the officers in the country not to think that a lot of meritorious service was a protective talisman for breaking the law. It did not exist. No matter who you were, as long as you broke the military law, you would be severely punished.
Therefore, in the entire fifth year of Longwu, the reports of the two spies that Xiao Ruxun had set up in the army did not mention the officers violating the military law office's law enforcement power again. It seemed that they had been severely shocked by this head.
General Zhao Hu, who had followed the Emperor for the longest time and had the most seniority, was punished and even lost his title of Pillar of the Nation. The eight pillar states of Daqin immediately became seven pillar states …
The military law was merciless!
This idea was deeply implanted in everyone's mind.
After the complete reorganization of the Qin Army, some forces within the Qin Army who had some complaints about the rule of law and the military law office no longer existed. Any little ideas were completely suppressed.
And with this as a symbol, it symbolized that the Qin Army's rule of law had deepened.
Xiao Ruxun wanted everyone to know that they had violated the military law and openly challenged it.
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