The laws of the Ming Dynasty mainly include Daming Law, Daming Law and Daming Law. Among them, the legal provisions of the Ming Dynasty to severely punish officials for stealing property mainly focused on the Daming Law and mobile phones. First of all, the Daming Law lists six counts of illegal possession of public or private property as six stolen goods, and draws a map to put it at the top of the law as the second felony punishment. Among them, there are four kinds of crimes, namely, anti-theft, the crime of bending the law by accepting money, the crime of bending the law by not accepting money and the crime of accepting bribes, all of which involve the corrupt behavior of officials.
Second, the provisions on official corruption, bribery, theft and other crimes. Ming law is much more than Tang law, and the regulations are more detailed and comprehensive. There is a special volume on bribery in the Ming Law, which stipulates that officials accept money and treat it as bribery. Sentencing is obviously heavier than the laws of Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. For example, to prevent theft, no matter whether it is a crime of stolen goods at first, it is infiltrating after 80 s and 40 s. The law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that 30 horses must be twisted, and the Yuan Dynasty stipulates that 300 horses must be executed. For another example, officials are squandered by money and always screw employees seventy or eighty times; The Tang law stipulated that fifteen horses should be twisted, and the Yuan dynasty stipulated that more than one hundred and seven horses should be twisted. Especially those who use their powers to accept bribes and seek money, the second-class punishment is heavier than other officials. Once an official commits the crime of stolen goods, he is immediately removed from the list and can no longer be used.
The rules for punishing corrupt officials are stricter. Four chapters ***236 articles, more than half. The law stipulates that some people are exempt from death, but Ming Taizu stipulates that it is too late for one year, and there is no official wealth at home, so the whole family emigrates. For example, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, if an official commits a crime, he shall be punished for several crimes, and those who do not bend the law shall not be sentenced to death; However, many officials were killed or died because they did not obey the law and stole stolen goods. Zhu Yuanzhang also asked officials at all levels to track down cases of theft of property. For example, in the first edition in the 18th year of Hongwu, Guo Huan, assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance, Zhongmin and others embezzled a large amount of official grain, involving a wide range of criminals. Hundreds of officials below the assistant minister of the Sixth Central Committee were executed, and thousands of other officials, landlords and gentlemen were imprisoned and punished.
The severe punishment of corrupt officials by Zhu Yuanzhang and China is often not limited to the criminals themselves, but an example. He used the punishment of depriving real turf. He will distribute the spoils to 62 officials, peel straw in the Pichang temple set up next to the local government, and then stand in the government court to warn the succeeding officials. He also used the people to punish corrupt officials and let the people all over the world supervise, report and hand over corrupt officials. He can go beyond prosecution until he enters Beijing.
According to the provisions of the "Big Patent", if an official collects taxes and grain and assigns servants to cheat and distort the law, the victim can arrest the official and report from the bottom up; If the boss refuses to accept, he will be punished according to law. It also stipulates that the people can arrest corrupt officials who go to the countryside against their will and disturb the people in Beijing. It can be said that the punishment of officials' stolen goods in Ming Dynasty is the main part of severely punishing officials, and it is also the representative of extorting confessions by torture. It can also be said that the laws of the Ming Dynasty are positive and effective in strictly controlling the crime of duty theft, but its negative influence and negative role can not be ignored.