Kai Fu Han

Chapter 280 Xinghan League Administrative Law
The purpose of establishing the 'Standing Council' is to listen to both sides and avoid being blind. After all, I am not a saint.The second is to set a framework for his successor to prevent the successor from being a fatuous master and ruining the Xinghan League.

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"Article 145: The Basic Law has the highest legal force and is the basis for formulating other laws. All laws and regulations must not conflict with the Basic Law."

"Okay! That's it."

The two had been discussing for more than two hours before they finished discussing the "Basic Law of the Xinghan League".

"After this change, there will basically be no major problems. We can choose a day to implement it. Do you know the "Baixin Xundao", right?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"I know, Luo Gao has solicited manuscripts from me."

"It just so happened that the first issue of the "Baixin Xunbao" published promotional articles on these three laws. You can extract some key, main, and most relevant clauses that are most related to the people's vital interests, plus some explanations, and I will Let Luo Gao leave the front page to you."

"Okay, I'll write when I get back."

"Let's go have dinner first, and then we'll discuss Administrative Law and Military Law after dinner."

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Administrative law will be a set of laws in later generations, but currently the Xinghan League does not need such a complicated law, because neither talent nor the environment allow it, so it can only be formulated into a concise and general law.

It includes administrative organization, official management, administrative punishment, administrative coercion, administrative licensing, administrative procedures, administrative disclosure, administrative reconsideration, administrative litigation, government compensation, etc., as well as marriage, inheritance, monopoly, etc.

The Basic Law briefly described the procedures and regulations of the Xinghan League legislation, which were also detailed in the Administrative Law.

The Xinghan League is still very weak and the territory it manages is small, so there are no local administrative regulations. The entire Xinghan League only has this set of administrative laws.There are also no self-government regulations and separate regulations applicable to ethnic minorities and ethnic autonomous areas. Those who enter the Xinghan League have only three identities: citizens, civilians, and criminals, and knights with titles are also citizens.

Administrative law stipulates the rights and obligations of citizens with these three statuses.Citizens enjoy many rights and also have many obligations. The reserve regulations that will be introduced later will be their obligations.

"This article, salt monopoly, does not mean that people can only buy salt from the government and cannot buy and sell it with each other. It should stipulate that people cannot cook or dry salt by themselves, and eliminate illegal salt from the source. After the government makes salt, it will If you put it in a government-run grain store, anyone can buy it. You can buy as much as you want. You can buy it for your own use or sell it again. There are no restrictions on these. We only need to make the first profit. ." Liu Xinqi said.

"Okay." Lu Ren lowered his head to record.

"In this article, spreading rumors requires a penalty. We don't need to explain the degree of penalty here. There will be two major laws, the "Criminal Law" and the "Civil Code" in the future. Now this administrative law only needs to mention it. This article needs to be added. Any newspapers, operas, etc. that are widely disseminated must be approved by the publicity department."

"Does opera also need it?" Lu Ren wondered. Opera has been sung for thousands of years, and now it still needs approval?

"Yes! Anything that can guide public opinion must be approved." Liu Xinqi answered affirmatively.

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"In this article, any buying and selling activities must be taxed in accordance with regulations. Government-owned enterprises must be included here. Even government procurement or sales must be taxed in accordance with regulations."

"Row."

…"This article cannot only restrict the official's immediate family members from engaging in commercial transactions related to the official's official position. It must completely prohibit the official's immediate family members from engaging in commercial transactions. Because there may be an exchange of interests between officials, only restricting those who are related cannot Avoid relatives of officials using power for personal gain."

“Also, the immediate family members must have a clear scope, such as only limiting it to parents, wives and children, or also limiting it to brothers and sisters.”

When Luzhin heard this, he asked, "Does this mean that the children of merchants are no longer allowed to be in politics?"

Liu Xinqi also felt that this was inappropriate. A person's life path should not be limited by one career.

"Hey, actually this rule doesn't have much effect. Forget it, just limit it to me, my wife and my children. That is to say, if an official's wife and children are engaged in business, then the official must either resign and engage in business, or let his wife and children give up. Go into business.”

In an official-based society, the efforts of officials are too great. Even revealing some inside information can make businessmen happy. It is really difficult to completely prohibit it.

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"There is also this article about inheritance rights that cannot be divided into concubines and concubines. Although there are conventions in the world, we cannot legally distinguish between concubines and concubines. All children must be treated equally. Here, wives and concubines cannot be distinguished, as long as the spouse is registered with the government They are all wives and enjoy the same rights. Including property distribution in divorce and husband's property inheritance, everything must be equal."

Liu Xinqi does not support polygamy, but in the current social environment, it is too difficult to directly eliminate polygamy. We can only do it step by step and let men retreat from polygamy.

As for the rich, even if it is stipulated that one man will have one wife, he will not be able to avoid raising two, three, four, five, six...

"Isn't it okay to make a will?" Luzhin asked.

"What I said is that if there is no will, then of course the will will be followed." Liu Xinqi replied.

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"You still don't understand this article thoroughly. What I mean is that there can be no slaves in the future. We abolished debt slaves through the Debt Law before, and you have indentured slaves in this article?" Liu Xinqi pointed to a clause about the employment contract. .

"How should it be changed?" Luzhin asked.

"It cannot be said that if you terminate the contract, you have to compensate the other party for losses. This loss is difficult to define. Our basic principle is that both parties must be free. Employers have the right to fire employees, and employees also have the right to terminate the employment contract. They only need to pay a certain price. That’s fine, the price shouldn’t be too high, one to three months’ monthly salary is enough.”

Liu Xinqi planned to abolish all kinds of slavery through this administrative law. There should no longer be slaves within the jurisdiction of the Xinghan League. This would definitely make the gentry, landowners and mine owners uncomfortable, but in the end the people and the Xinghan League would benefit.

Whatever is beneficial to the revitalization of the Han League must be done. This is the most basic principle.

Regarding the rights and obligations of workers, administrative law cannot provide too detailed provisions. Liu Xinqi plans to formulate a "Labor Law" after the working class develops.

"Okay, I'll change it as soon as possible and let you review it." Lu Ren could only lower his head and record.

The generation gap between the two is so big that it lasts for nearly a thousand years. Sometimes even if Liu Xinqi makes it clear, Lu Ren will still understand the deviation, which is unavoidable.

(End of this chapter)