When Zhou Wei was working in Lingnan, the people of Jiaozhi (Vietnam) frequently crossed the border and invaded our territory, robbed my property, and killed my border people. Song Taizong Angry sent troops to conquer in anger in an attempt to regain the hometown of China. Unfortunately, the military discipline of the army in the expedition was dispersed and the war was not effective. The war was won first and then defeated, and the expedition plan was failed. When the Song army retreated, people raped women in the border town, forced their houses and robbed money, and the public was extremely angry.
For a moment, letters of reporting were sent to Zhuanyun Mansion, and Zhou Wei slapped the table and said: You, a great country, conquered a small Jiaozhi army, but was defeated. Not only did you not feel ashamed, but you bullied your own people. What kind of tradition is it? Zhou Wei first summoned the relevant military academy to question him, but the other party evasively said that he didn't know, thinking that he would turn big things into small things, and turning small things into nothing, so he would shirk his responsibilities.
Zhou Wei said: "You said you didn't know about this big thing, and you are already ruling. Now you are instructing you to go back and find out the soldiers' violations of discipline and laws, and deal with them strictly. Report the case within three days, otherwise you will be responsible."
Military Academy was still stubborn: "You have no right to deal with our military affairs."
Zhou Wei immediately displayed the relevant laws and regulations of the court and ordered law enforcement personnel to arrest the military school on the spot.
In order to capture illegal soldiers on the spot and obtain evidence, Zhou Wei led law enforcement personnel to disguise themselves as citizens and patrol the streets and alleys day and night. One night, I heard the noise of beating and scolding in front of a store. I hurriedly walked forward to check and saw several soldiers robbing a jewelry store. The male shop owner stepped forward to stop him, but was kicked down by a soldier, and his head was bleeding. Seeing this, the female shop owner shouted, "Someone robs the shop and beats people, help!" Another soldier slapped him in the face and threatened him with a knife.
Zhou Wei shouted: "Don't commit an offense!" He waved his hand again, and the law enforcement officers rushed up, subdued the three soldiers, tied them up, and took them to the camp, and sent people to summon the robbed shop owner, witnesses from the masses, and officers from the soldiers to try the case in public. The soldiers were in full force of evidence and could not deny the crime. They pleaded guilty on the spot, and the officer was speechless.
htmlThe next day, three criminals were paraded on the streets and the citizens along the road were surprised. When he arrived at a city, he set up a table, used red as a police line, sent a toll guard with weapons, and sentenced the prisoner on the spot, saying, "After investigation, three soldiers from a certain border guard, violated military discipline and national laws, robbed the jewelry and jade shop with knives in the street market, and injured the second shop owner on the spot... Their actions were fierce and his crime was obvious. According to the laws and regulations of the Song Dynasty, he should be severely punished. The current sentence: the three people were imprisoned and served their sentences... The sentence will be effective!"
At that time, there were thousands of people at the scene. Seeing this scene, the crowd was excited and discussed one by one,
Some people said, no wonder they lost to Jiaozhi in the previous battle. It turned out that there were such a bad soldier, how could they not be defeated? .
Some people say that soldiers rob people’s wealth and bully the people for a long time, and no one will control it. Today, the honest officials come to handle the case according to the law. See if they dare to do anything randomly?
Someone said that we jointly wrote a big red thank-you letter and posted it to the government gate... Then, someone set off firecrackers "crackling", and after a while, and suddenly, the streets and alleys were filled with the sound of firecrackers, which was extremely lively.
Zhou Wei punished illegal soldiers, and wrote eight bans to the court to rectify military discipline. The text says:
1. All the troops in the border areas will withdraw from the city, withdraw from private houses, shops and other places, and camp in the wild.
2. Soldiers are not allowed to leave the base without authorization and do not return to the camp at night.
3. Soldiers are not allowed to enter the city for entertainment without authorization.
4. Military personnel are not allowed to participate in border business and trade.
5. Soldiers are not allowed to fall in love with the women in the garrison.
6. Soldiers are not allowed to leave the camp with weapons (knife and gun).
7. Soldiers are not allowed to participate in local industries, business circles, religious gatherings and all activities without authorization.
8. Soldiers are not allowed to intervene in local economic and civil disputes. After the above eight items were approved by the imperial court, Zhou Wei convened a joint parliament of military and local governments, and ordered both military and local governments to take their own responsibilities and strictly implement them.
After that, military discipline has become increasingly strict. The border order is becoming calmer.
If you want to know what to do, listen to the next breakdown.
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Binzewen, from Quanzhou, Guangxi, currently lives in Guilin. He was a military writer in the early stage. He joined the Hunan Writers Association at the age of 26, and later transferred to the Guangxi Writers Association. He has published more than 600 literary works such as poems, essays, novels, and plays in newspapers and magazines at or above the provincial level and won awards more than ten times, and published six collections of literary works.
