Wei Ying, dressed in white and with a jade crown and white silk hair, was prominent and isolated among the black ministers of the Qin State. He walked out calmly and said: "Wei Ying adheres to the mandate of the Heavenly Will, and the opening of the palace will start today. The first batch of ten decrees, five of which were immediately issued and implemented, and five of which were issued and implemented after the summer was busy. Five decrees were issued immediately: the Law on Rewarding Farmers, the Law on Conferring Knighthoods on Military Merit, the Law on Establishing Citizens and Soldiers, the Law on Inn Inspection, and the Law on the Punishment of Private Fighting. The above-mentioned decrees, in addition to the immediate transmission of horses to all counties, will be hung at the city gate of Liyang and the south of the city, and will be made public and the whole country will go together. Long history ordered. ”

Jing Jian had already prepared, and when he heard this, he replied loudly: "Obey!" With a wave of his hand, the two scribes carried into a long, wide table full of bundled bamboo slips. As soon as the long case was placed in the center, Jing Jian announced again: "The special envoy has an order——! Sixteen emissaries in power suits said yes and walked neatly into the lobby.

"Northland Envoy ——!"

"Yongzhou Special Envoy ——!"

"Longxi Special Envoy ——!"

"Meixian Special Envoy ——!"

"Consultation with the Envoy ——!" ……

One by one, the Jing Jian distributed the bundled bamboo slips to the sixteen envoys. The envoys walked out of the lobby one by one holding bamboo slips in their hands. In the courtyard, there were sixteen groups of ironclad knights lined up in groups of three, each group escorting an envoy to the county of Qin.

Fast horse meteor, in the middle of the day, the twenty-three counties and three counties of the Qin State became active and turbulent.

Like a thunderbolt of lightning, the new decree shook the castle countryside of the Qin Kingdom!

From Dr. Liyangqing to the Han of the countryside, everyone thinks that this is an unbelievable change, which makes the chickens and dogs of the Qin State restless and awkward.

Let's just talk about the "Shiwu Lian Sitting Law" and the "Law on Punishment of Private Fighting", and the countrymen in the castle and the peasants in the countryside are all organized into "Bao" and "Pavilion", with one guarantee for ten families and one pavilion for five guarantees.

If it's just this kind of people's participation system, people just talk about it. The most important thing is to sit on a line and sit down, which makes people panic.

If one family commits a crime, the other nine families must immediately report it together, and if they do not report it and the criminal escapes, the ten families will sit together for the crime and be punished together.

If someone violates the law and commits a crime, the other four guarantees must also be reported quickly, otherwise it will be five guarantees in a row!

In other words, if any one of the 50 families commits a crime, it may lead to the punishment of 49 families. People must always keep their eyes open, pay attention to whether their neighbors are breaking the law, and constantly remind each other of various laws and regulations to avoid falling into a catastrophe. is so worried, how can the old Qin people endure it?

The folk customs of the Qin State are the most troublesome. Mo said that the six countries of Shandong shook their heads, even the old Qin people, and they were also unimpressed by their own scolding. But if you really want to change your style, the old Qin people are even more scolding and angry.

Qin is located in the west, agriculture and animal husbandry are mixed, especially in the grassland area of the Longxi River valley in the upper reaches of Jingshui and Weishui, which is dominated by animal husbandry.

Even the Guanzhong Plain in the heart of the hinterland also has a large agricultural population that has recently been converted from nomadic tribes.

Since ancient times, the folk customs of the west have been wild and aggressive, and they often fight in the fields for a trivial matter, which in turn leads to family fights, village fights, and even tribal vendettas.

It has spread for a long time, and there are very few villages, tribes, and families that do not have blood enemies. The children of these tribes, who hate each other, often seek provocation and private fighting in the military and even on the battlefield, preferring to help the enemy for the sake of righteousness and hatred rather than rescue the brave brother who killed the enemy on the battlefield.

There are also the old Qin people who live together with the Rongdi tribe in the west, who are even more fierce and wild, only recognize blood and righteousness, and never know what the "rules and laws" are?

The vast grasslands and secluded river valleys often fight for water and grass arable land for generations.

Occasionally, if a child of the enemy family is left alone in the grassland, he will immediately be killed by the enemy mercilessly.

The old Qin people and the Rongdi tribe here all believe in the revenge method of "blood for blood, life for life", unless strong and war, almost any decree can hardly be extended to the brave fighting in the grassland valley.

During the Qin Mugong era, in order to prevent the Rong Di rebellion, many Rong Di tribes who were subject to the Qin State were semi-forcibly relocated to the vast and sparsely populated Guanzhong, where they lived together with the old Qin villages that farmed.

The general trend is stable, but the long-standing folk customs cannot be changed. The villages inhabited by Rong Di are just like they compete for water and grass in the grassland, and the villages of the old Qin people compete for water canals and land boundaries.

Year after year, not only do the old Qin people have many vendettas with the Rongdi tribe, but there are also all kinds of private fighting and blood feuds between the Rongdi tribes and the old Qin people. At the first opportunity, the enemy will fight with each other, and the casualties will not be counted.

In the land of China at that time, there was no country with such a strong private fighting custom as the Qin State. Even the three "Southern Barbarian" kingdoms, Chu, Wu, and Yue, which were also contemptuously ridiculed by the Central Plains, were not as common and vicious as the private fighting of the Qin State. The Qin people boasted that "everyone is a warrior", but the eastern countries ridiculed the Qin people for being "cowardly in public war, brave in private fighting, and honest in vice!" ”

The official government of the Qin State has always been "the people do not report, and the officials do not investigate" for this kind of folk customs, turning a blind eye and closing one eye.

One is that it is incurable and helpless, and the other is that the war constantly relies on the people to serve in the army and fights bloodily, and it is powerless to investigate these personal feuds and disputes in detail. There is only one iron rule in the Qin State: but there is a war of arms, everyone must compete for the first place and unite with the outside world, otherwise there will be no forgiveness! In other words, as long as the people do not resist taxes and do not refuse to obey, the government generally does not pay attention to civil vendettas.

Visiting the countryside of Qin, Wei Ying was deeply touched by this style of private fighting. He called this phenomenon "a strong people and a weak country."

The root cause of the strong public and the weak state lies in private strife.

In order to eradicate this evil trend and guide the Qin people to the right path of fighting to the death for the honor of the country, it is necessary to completely prohibit private fighting and cultivate a common spirit of courage in public war.

Wei Ying wrote a special article "Weak People" for this purpose, proposing to Qin Xiaogong that "the people are weak and the country is strong, and the people are strong and weak." A country with a way is a general strategy for the weak people".

The so-called weak people mean that the people are in a weak position before the laws of the state, so that they dare not violate the law. The so-called strong people are the kind of people who defy the law and dare to break the law.

To make the people weak, it is necessary to make the people kind and simple. Honest and simple. The people abide by the law, but the wild dare to break the law. This is the truth of "simplicity is weak, lewdness is strong". This kind of deep and even cold argument conquered Qin Xiaogong, so that this young and sober monarch saw the hope of uniting the Qin people, and was determined to support Wei Ying to fundamentally change the spiritual customs of the Qin people.

To this end, Wei Ying made a careful plan and decided to change the law to start with the control of chaos and authority.

The first batch of five decrees he promulgated on the day of the opening of the government were all centered on the "weak people" to control the chaos. The Law on the Crime of Private Fighting first strictly prohibits all private fights.

In other words, all private vendetta fights are illegal and criminal, and all disputes should be adjudicated by the government in accordance with laws and regulations, and cannot be resolved by private vendettas.

The Shiwu Law ensures that all offenders of private fighting are not hidden or escaped, and that they are severely punished.

The "Inn Inventory Law" is to prevent the vendetta perpetrators and the hiding of Oriental agents.

In other words, it would be difficult for any criminal to hide in the Qin State.

Because these two decrees stipulate that "those who accuse adultery will be rewarded with the beheading of the enemy, and those who conceal adultery will be punished with the same punishment as those who surrender to the enemy."

That is to say, to raise a criminal and to kill an enemy on the battlefield will be rewarded with the same merit; Harboring a criminal is as capital as surrendering to an enemy country.

Obviously, the new state law clearly regards the crime of private fighting as a great enemy and must be thoroughly eradicated. The "Law on Rewarding Farming" and the "Law on Conferring Titles for Military Merit" are to cultivate righteousness and encourage the people to strive for national honor, work hard, bravely kill the enemy, make meritorious contributions, and glorify their ancestors.

The timing of the promulgation of these five decrees is just before the busy month of May, which will not affect agricultural affairs, but will also give a head-on deterrent to the large number of private fights and vendettas caused by the struggle for water and land among the villages and tribes that inevitably occur every summer!

Wei Ying's rule of law proposition is that only by standing up to the wind can the new law gain a firm foothold, and the dignity of the law must be established in the process of controlling chaos.

However, almost all of these five decrees changed the way of life of the Qin people. It is tantamount to asking people to put an end to all past grievances and hatreds and embark on a path where the law is the criterion for action.

Both the people of the castle and the farmers in the countryside felt uncomfortable being tied up by a huge rope. The hatred of the people in the neighborhood can no longer be avenged arbitrarily, the days of happiness and revenge will no longer exist, there is no way to escape if you kill someone, and you can't even live in an inn without the medical portrait of the government; The benefactor should be punished for his crimes, and the enemies should be celebrated for their meritorious service; All disputes must be brought to the officials, the law of the jungle must be turned into fair relations, and the competition for water and land must be subject to the ruling of the government...... All this, for the freewheeling old Qin people, is simply awkward to death.

According to the new law, everything has to be turned upside down, how can you not feel awkward? How can you not complain?

This is true of the farmers in the mountains and fields, and the same is true of the Chinese people in Liyang City. The so-called people of the country refer to the craftsmen, merchants, city people, and farmers who lived in the capital and its territory.

Among these people, the artisans called the "hundred workers" had a higher status, the merchants had a lower status, and the free peasant land was in the middle.

However, during the Warring States period, merchants were far from being called "cheap merchants" as they would later be, but they were not as revered as craftsmen.

Because most of the craftsmen are technicians of the workshops run by the government, they are typical "Chinese people", while the vast majority of the merchants are private owners, and the government naturally treats them differently.

The complaints of the people of the capital city about the law are mainly in the "punishment" of the law.

The so-called punishment of fatigue is to punish the lazy, slack, and idle elements who do not do their jobs properly.

The "Zhou Li" calls such people "tired people", so the decree that punishes such people is called "punishing fatigue". At the same time, the decree promulgated by Wei Ying to reward military merits and agricultural cultivation stipulated that severe punishment should be given to such "tired people": no matter whether it is a farmer or a businessman, anyone who is poor because of laziness and slackness will be punished as official slaves, men as coolies, and women as servants and maids; Anyone who is idle and unemployed will be punished as government slaves and forced labor; Whoever is punished as a slave shall not be allowed to live together as a husband and wife, and no family member shall be a co-owner. A more severe rule is that the parents of the principal offender cannot be reinstated as free civilians for the rest of their lives.

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