Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 877 The Ultimate Matryoshka
"I figured it out. Your emperor is a glutton for employing people, and you have a big appetite. You see, you can't fight on the battlefield, right? It stands to reason that a general should go into seclusion when he is in this position. It’s enough to practice the closed mantra in the court. There is no threat. But now?”

"I'm wondering why you were transferred back to Bianjing from Lizhou. There are promotions and rewards. Even the empress dowager can't touch you. This kindness is so great. Feelings are waiting for you in this matter. " Wanyan Zongqian spat hard on the melon seeds, and blew away the hills of melon seeds he had piled up.

"In the future, things like this will definitely be unavoidable. Tsk tsk, I will do everything I can, and I will lose." Wanyan Zongqian shook his head again and again. The emperor of Song Dynasty definitely didn't want to be so kind on the surface.

Wang Ti looked Wanyan Zongqian up and down, shook his head and said: "It is my duty to be loyal to the official family, I am happy!"

Wanyan Zongqian nodded repeatedly and said: "That's right, it's hard to buy people's happiness with money! How about you, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, who is so clever, you were sold and you gave back the money, even if you knew it, you would be willing, tsk tsk , this level, I am far behind."

"Later, Xiao Chang will stand there with you and say what the official said, and the minister agrees very much. If you sit there, no one will dare to make a mistake, tsk tsk."

"It's that simple?" Wang Ti frowned and looked at Wanyan Zonggan.

"Yes, it's that simple. As long as you are still in Beijing, your officials will have a great advantage. You can do whatever you want." Wanyan Zongqian nodded and said.

This is the reality, the [-] troops are stationed in Chenqiaoyi, and no one in the entire court dares to make mistakes, dare not use any insidious tricks, and the three prerequisites mentioned by the officials will inevitably be carried out.

"I see." Wang Jin nodded, stood up, entered the palace through the Xihua Gate, and walked into the Wende Hall.

"Why does the criminal law emphasize once again that everyone is equal before the criminal law? The premise that everyone is equal before the criminal law is a concrete manifestation of the principle of equality before the law before the criminal law! It is precisely because in the past dynasties, inequality before the criminal law is extremely common! It's not uncommon!" Song Shiqing blushed and said this extremely awkward sentence correctly!
Sitting on the platform, Zhao Huan looked at Song Shiqing's appearance. The speed and intonation of his speech would be the best for a rap singer in later generations. Even Zhao Huan was a little dizzy from this long passage.

Everyone is equal before the law, which is a basic principle of the law that has been passed by the court before, but now we are discussing the criminal law, and Song Shiqing insists that everyone is equal before the criminal law, and write it into the three major premises.

This has become a controversial point, which seems to be a bit repetitive.

Song Shiqing just took a breather and said: "Legislation, judiciary, criminal law and execution should be as equal as possible. When our laws are formulated, we must get rid of the prejudices of the people. Our people are What does it look like? They think that people are not equal, and only those who endure hardships can become superior to others. What is superior to others? This is the distinction between noble and humble!"

"It's been more than 1000 years that we can't be punished by the doctor, and we can't even do it at the legislative level. When we are all in hell, what face will we have to face our ancestors!"

Zhao Huan signaled Song Shiqing to take a rest first, after all, this court is not a place where anyone with a loud voice can be justified.

Punishment is not good for the doctor, nor is it good for the common man.

These two sentences first appeared in the "Book of Rites · Qu Li", which were originally: the emperor caresses the style, the doctor does it;The doctor is not punished, and the criminal is not on the king's side.

And Confucius’ interpretation of Zhou Li has always been extremely authoritative in the Central Plains dynasty. He explained it in "Confucius's Family Talk Five Penalties": , so don't blame it for etiquette.

Probably, the common people are busy and don't understand the etiquette, so they can't demand the norms of etiquette harshly.

Above: Forgiveness, forgiveness.Next: Excessive, repulsive.

Therefore, the punishment does not go to the doctor, which means that the punishment does not tolerate the officials and officials, and the etiquette and law do not exclude the common people.

But with the passage of time, the doctor who can't be punished is gradually misunderstood.

It wasn’t until Zheng Xuan, a great Confucianist in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when he commented on the rituals of Zhou, finally explained that the sentence cannot be punished by a doctor, and that he should not be punished by a doctor, and he should not break the law with a sage.

And these eight proposals, in the Han Dynasty, were criminal laws stipulated by the criminal law to commit crimes against the eight types of people, without imposing the criminal law of mutilation of limbs, and must be handed over to the emperor for adjudication.The emperor of the Han Dynasty had relatively abundant martial arts, and in most cases, he cut himself off with a pan of water and a sword, and ordered him to commit suicide.

However, the Eight Disciplines were still unspoken rules in the Han Dynasty, until at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, his son Cao Rui formally lifted the Eight Disciplines from under the surface of the water to the legal provisions when he formulated a new criminal law. Among them, it became the eight chapters.

Eight Pieces, starting from Emperor Wei Ming, totaled 600 years and have never been cut off.

It is expressly stipulated that the general judicial organs have no right to try the crimes of the following eight types of people, and the emperor must be asked to make a ruling.

These eight types of people are: discussing relatives, referring to the nobles of the emperor's relatives and relatives; discussing the old, referring to the emperor's old friends and classmates; discussing the virtuous, referring to people with high morals and high prestige, such as village sages; discussing ability, referring to people with outstanding ruling ability such as : generals, officials above prefect;
Yigong refers to those who have made great contributions to the country, such as opening up territories and iron books; Yigui refers to the upper-level aristocratic bureaucrats, who have the title of prince, marquis, and baron; Yiqin refers to those who have made great contributions to serving the country. The people of the family, such as technical talents such as Hu Yuan and Wang Chongyang; Yibin, refer to the nobles of the previous dynasty and their descendants, such as the descendants of the Chai family and the elders of the mite Qing Dynasty.

Relatives are virtuous, meritorious and diligent guests.It is for eight proposals.And these eight kinds of people are people who are beyond the law, and the people who discuss the eight opinions are often the source of exploitation.

In the Song Dynasty, in addition to the privileges of the above-mentioned people in the Eight Discussions, another kind of people was added, the scholars.

Song Shiqing took a sip of herbal tea, put down the teacup in his hand, stood up again, and said: "In the second year of Xining, when Emperor Shenzong, Zhang Zhongxuan, the governor of Jinzhou, corrupted the law and committed many crimes. On the grounds of meritorious service, the death penalty was reduced to the punishment of cane and tattoo, and then he was sent to Qiongzhou."

"After hearing about the case, Su Song, the magistrate of the trial court, told Emperor Shenzong that in ancient times, he could not be punished as a doctor, and Zhang Zhongxuan was an official of the fifth rank. Not worthy of pity, but still too heavy a punishment, because the reputation of this scholar-bureaucrat has been insulted."

"Emperor Shenzong thought it was reasonable, so Zhang Zhongxuan was exempted from the spine and tattoo punishment, and the place of exile was changed from Qiongzhou to Hezhou! After that, the stick tattoo method was no longer applicable to officials, and it became an inherent system of our Song Dynasty! what?"

"Who made the scholar-bureaucrat's face insulted? Is it my Criminal Department or your Dali Temple Minister? Or the Criminal Court, the predecessor of the Criminal Department, insulting the reputation of the scholar-bureaucrat?"

"It's Zhang Zhongxuan who took money and broke the law, and did a lot of evil! He insulted the reputation of scholar-bureaucrats! Not only that, he also insulted the solemnity of the laws of the Song Dynasty!"

"In this case, who insulted whom!"

"Punishment does not go up to officials, courtesy does not go down on common people, how can scholar-officials receive preferential treatment in sentencing, and common people are not excluded from etiquette. Today, scholar-bureaucrats are superior, and civil and military officials who commit crimes should be punished with canes. Can all be fined, degraded, dismissed, etc. instead of punishment and directly applied? You tell me! Is this still a law? Is this still a Zhou ritual!"

"I've finished what I want to say." Song Shiqing is a serious person, he has always been jealous of evil, after he finished speaking, he sat on the chair and sulked.

Zhao Huan looked at the silent court and asked, "Is there anyone who wants to object?"

The courtiers looked at each other in blank dismay. When the [-] army was just outside the city and the military power was in the hands of the officials, they could only reason about this kind of court discussion, not play rogue.

The truth must be explained clearly to convince most people.

But obviously, what Song Shiqing said made a lot of sense.

Zhao Huan looked at Chang Chaoshang, and when nearly a hundred officials were sprayed as useless, he just shook his head again and again. The natural inferiority of literati was vividly reflected.

When Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Taishi ordered Liu Ji to discuss the issue of treating monarchs and ministers with courtesy, Liu Ji followed the argument of the Song Dynasty. The scholar Zhan Tong made up his mind that it was because he could not punish the doctor that the scholar-bureaucrat had courtesy, righteousness and shame. There are many stories about the moral constraints of the emperor and his ministers.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang deeply agreed with this, and wrote "Six Qings are precious, it is not appropriate to insult them with details" in the legal documents.Then set the punishment of "Da Xing" Daxing skinning and pulling grass, corrupt officials peeled skins and stuffed grass, and put them at the gate of the yamen and in the earth temple for people to spit on.

And the later emperor of Ming Dynasty made full use of Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral punishment of the court stick, coupled with the factory guard system that was gradually increased later, it can be said to be an extremely humiliating thing for the scholar-bureaucrats.

I also didn't see how the Ming Dynasty was doing, what kind of turmoil in the country, and the alarmist talk that the country will fail the country did not appear at all.

However, Emperor Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian later, and abolished most of the factory guard system, so that later, for 70 taels of cash, he was unable to mobilize Guanning Junqin Wang, and Li Zicheng entered Beijing.

When Chongzhen hanged himself on the crooked neck tree in Meishan, Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing. After a simple search, he got more than [-] million taels of gold and silver, and left with a camel!

Then after Mi Qing entered the customs, in the 11th year of Shunzhi, when there were only 800 provinces in Han Province, an edict was issued that everything should be recorded according to the old calendar. Two, 100 million taels of silver, 500 million shi of grain, and 100 million taels of color silver were finally collected.

Does Daming have no money?It's because Chongzhen couldn't collect it.

Why can't he collect it?He even broke his own knife, and reasoned with the scholar-bureaucrats, how could it be possible to accept it?

"If there is no objection, the principle of this new criminal law will be determined like this." Zhao Huan nodded contentedly. Song Shiqing, a scholar who hates evil like hatred, this knife is very sharp.

At least the arguments and arguments sprayed this group of eloquent civil servants to pieces.

Zhao Huan looked at the eyes of the civil servants looking at each other, and said with a smile: "I know what you are thinking. From the beginning of the enactment of the law with the core of anti-exploitation, eight discussions and eight regulations violated the core of the law. Of course, it must be deposed, and it must be deposed!"

"In order to convince you, I have prepared a story, please listen to it."

(End of this chapter)