Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 209
In Wenyuan Pavilion, Zhu Biao was flipping through the revised "Law of the Ming Dynasty", while Chen Yunfu was in a daze, and the whole hall was silent.

Suddenly, Zhu Biao's hand stopped, and Chen Yunfu came back to his senses.

"Let's just watch."

Zhu Biao spoke, frowning slightly: "In this new "Law of the Ming Dynasty", many felonies in the past have suddenly been changed too lightly, especially for accomplices and theft."

Chen Yunfu stood up and replied.

"Your Highness, I used to have a great Ming law. Regarding the three major crimes of treason, sabotage, and treason, once discovered, regardless of leader or subordinate, the tribes of barbarians and barbarians will be punished.

The other is that officials accept bribes. Originally, in the early days of the Great Ming Law, those with salary (officials) accepted 120 strings of bribes, and those without salary (officials) received [-] strings of bribes and were hanged. However, the family members of these officials who accepted bribes were not punished. But this law quickly became useless.

His Majesty hated corrupt officials so much that he suddenly changed it to 50 taels of peeled grass for bribes, and later changed it to 30 taels of peeled grass.

Later, when the Guo Huan case happened, His Majesty was not satisfied with only killing officials, and began to anger his family members. He also killed them after being exiled for the first time. The crime of corruption has become more serious than treason.

For the revision of this law, the ministers and others also argued when they convened the joint meeting of the three judicial departments. Zou Siqing believed that the family members of corrupt officials enjoyed the illegitimate benefits obtained from corruption by corrupt officials and should be guilty of the same crime.

The minister thought it was inappropriate, so he asked Zou Siqing back.

'What is meant by enjoying illegitimate interests. '

Zou Siqing spoke to each other.

'Eat well and dress well. '

The minister replied.

"If it is according to what Zou Siqing said, since corruption is peeled off according to my Daming Law Office, if I, Chen Yunfu, go to a colleague's banquet or have a happy event at home and a colleague gives a gift, I, Chen Yunfu, will buy clothes for my family with this gift. After eating food, my colleague was investigated and punished for corruption that day. I also ate well and dressed well. I enjoyed illegitimate benefits. Should I commit suicide and apologize?Should my family also commit suicide? '"

Zhu Biao laughed. This sentence was what he said when he and Zhu Yuanzhang were arguing for reason. He didn't expect Chen Yunfu to use it to fight back against Zou Jun.

But the truth is true.

"No corrupt official will show off when he first embezzled, saying that he has embezzled a sum of money. After his family members know about it, it will be after the fact. As a family member, even if they want to blame them for their crimes, it is just a cover-up and harboring criminals. It can’t be considered corruption, is it reasonable to be beheaded according to corruption?”

"What did Zou Jun say?"

"What can he say, don't say anything."

Chen Yunfu shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "On the day when I hold the wedding banquet, many princes, nobles, civil and military officials from the court came. If I am a corrupt criminal, how many heads will be beheaded by the court."

"Cough, presumptuous!" Zhu Biao raised his face and scolded, "We went to eat with my father, too. What's the matter, are you planning to kill both of us?"

"The minister will die."

Chen Yunfu quickly bowed his head to admit his mistake, and continued: "What I mean is that the law can't only allow state officials to set fires, but not allow people to light lamps. If according to Zou Siqing's cognition, everything must be so extreme, then the country will No one above and below can be alone.”

The law is not a game, I can do whatever I want.

Ordinary people can be impulsive, and see corrupt officials wishing to kill all their families to relieve their anger, but Chen Yunfu made the law, so he can't do the same.

If the law is really made according to the impulsive thinking of the common people, then the common people will be the first to rebel.

Why, because ordinary people also have dinners and banquets at home.

Zheng Xiang, who Zhang San was sleeping at home, was dragged out and beheaded. The reason was that last night a friend invited guests to dinner, and the money for the banquet came from theft.
Under such a law, it's no wonder that the common people don't rebel.

As the maker, implementer and implementer of the law, Chen Yunfu must be careful not to touch the absolute red line, but also strive for the interests of the people of the world as much as possible.

Even if the common people don't understand, they accuse him of covering up corrupt officials.

"We don't support this article, which is too harsh and lacks basic thinking."

Zhu Biao nodded, he is the prince, of course he understands Chen Yunfu's intentions.

How can I do what I want to do all by myself.

This kind of thing is only done by Lao Zhu now that he is old.

As I said before, when the crime of corruption was first enacted, it was at the beginning of the founding of Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang knew it very well, so he would not pursue the family members of corrupt officials, and there was no punishment of skinning and real grass, just hanging.

It was only later that Lao Zhu himself got older and his thinking became more and more extreme. The old farmer's thinking in his bones began to occupy a dominant position of rationality, just like ordinary people.

If everyone plays like this, then don't ask for the law at all.

There are many typical cases in the book "Preface and Bylaws of the Great Ming Law Collection". Comparing the early founding of the Ming Dynasty and the late Hongwu period, we can clearly see the changes in Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking.

The objective development of facts and historical documents have fully proved that this change in thinking is wrong.

As a time traveler, Chen Yunfu's greatest advantage is not that he needs any golden fingers, but that he is familiar with the trend of history and politics, and can distinguish the profound impact that correct and incorrect policies or ideas will have on the country of Ming Dynasty.

As long as mistakes are reduced and correctness is strengthened, the country will definitely make progress.

With the experience of the previous life and the messing around in the Ming Dynasty's official career in this life, Chen Yunfu is not much better than the old oily people in the Ming Dynasty's officialdom, but now he is in control of the power, and he doesn't bother to play tricks.

His chessboard is so big that ordinary officials are not even worthy of being chess pieces.

"It's understandable to reduce the penalty for implicated crimes, but why is the crime of theft greatly reduced?"

Zhu Biao frowned and said: "You have to know that the people are poor, and every penny can be a life-saving money. Stealing someone's money is like killing someone's life. Money kills people."

Chen Yunfu nodded and sighed.

"Why don't you understand this truth? From an emotional point of view, I would like to kill this kind of thief, but the law can't be set like this, it will only kill more people.

How does the thief himself distinguish whether the money he stole is life-saving money or ordinary money?How can we know what serious consequences his theft will bring?

He didn't know, he only knew that if he was caught stealing, he would be sentenced to beheaded.

Since theft is death, killing is also death, so many thieves no longer steal money, but instead go into the house and kill directly in twos and twos. They kill the men, rape the women and kill them, and then run away with all the money. These cases, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple are filled with more than two rooms. "

Zhu Biao fell silent for a moment.

"Poor living with poisonous tricks, rich with a conscience, not to mention thieves who are gangsters. When they commit crimes, they have already begun to trample on the law and human ethics. There is no morality. Too harsh torture will only push them into a more terrifying situation. , committing more appalling tragedies.

The law cannot rely on the conscience of criminals, let alone overestimate the goodness in human nature and underestimate the evil in human nature.

What kind of person would be a thief who steals things, eats, is lazy, has no money and nowhere to go, he has lost the most basic correct values ​​of being a human being, can we still hope that he is a righteous thief, only stealing things and not killing people?

The minister lowered the penalty for the crime of theft, only for those thieves to escape after stealing the money, not to kill and maim others. "

The law can be subdivided here. For example, if a thief steals money that is urgently needed for life-saving by others, and causes serious consequences such as causing the death of others, the death penalty will be imposed.

But Chen Yunfu did not say, nor did he subdivide it in this way.

Did he not want to, no.

It is this subdivided law that cannot fit the background of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of one point, the technological environment is restrictive.

In this era, there is no news, no self-media, no convenient communication technology, and ordinary people are illiterate!
Ignorance and backwardness are two hats that cannot be removed in this era.

For example, a thief in a certain county stole money, because the money killed the thief, and the thief was caught and sentenced to death. Then when everyone in the county tried to commit the crime of theft, they only knew that theft was a capital crime.

It is impossible and they will never know that just a few hundred miles away from them, a thief was only sentenced to three years of corvee labor for not causing serious consequences!

The news is not circulating, and the thieves don't have mobile phones, let alone illiterate.

Not to mention that you can see Zhang San's case of popularizing the law every day.

Every word spoken by the government to promote the law is more obscure to their ears than listening to heavenly scriptures.

You just need to tell them which crimes they commit and which ones they don't.

Education needs to come slowly, and law popularization must follow education.

This law will inevitably be refined in the future, but that is in the future.

Chen Yunfu only hoped that if he could see that day before he died, he would have no regrets in his life.

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(End of this chapter)