Volume 1 The End of the Dynasty Chapter 20 Implements the Penal Code

It has been more than half a year since the reform began, and the spring ploughing has ended, and it is a time for the whole country to have a little leisure.

Huan Ji took Pu Xianyu and He Bi to Uncle Yang's house first, only to see that Uncle Yang's Sanjin courtyard was full of bamboo slips from the outside to the inside, the bamboo slips were piled up like a mountain, and Uncle Yang's hair was unkempt in a linen robe, holding a brush in one hand and rubbing his hair with one hand, walking around from the mountains of bamboo slips, stopping from time to time to ponder and finding the next book to open and read carefully, and then putting it on again, and so on and so forth, occasionally writing and painting on the bamboo slips.

When the old housekeeper of Taiwei's Mansion saw that it was the emperor, he hurriedly bowed and saluted, but was stopped by Huan Ji, and told the housekeeper not to disturb Uncle Yang, so he took Pu Xianyu and He Bi to go in first, found a place where he could sit down and sat down, and quietly watched Uncle Yang busy.

It took about an hour or two for Uncle Yang to come out of the stack of books, his eyes bloodshot. Only then did he see that the emperor was sitting next to him, and hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, the minister is so unkempt, don't look at the emperor for nothing." ”

Huan Ji took Uncle Yang's hand and said, "This is in your Taiwei Mansion, you can do whatever you want, there are not so many rules." Is this all a grand ceremony? ”

"Your Majesty, the courtyards in front of you here are all grand ceremonies, and the new laws to be promulgated in the back study are all about this time, I know that this time's "Treatise on Punishment", "Treatise on Lian Sitting", and "Treatise on Law" are all related to the stability of the country, so the minister did not dare to be careless, so he checked it repeatedly, and compared it with the decree left by the first emperor of Zhao Guozhong, and it was finally completed."

Huan Ji looked at Uncle Yang, patted his hand, and said, "Sir, you must take care of your body, the people of the old Zhao Kingdom rely on Mr." ”

Uncle Yang looked at Huan Ji with a sincere face, and nodded fiercely: "The ministers should do their best for the country and the people, and they will definitely live up to the emperor's trust." ”

"Alright. I came to tell you one thing, Pu Xianyu said that the imperial city seems to be not peaceful recently, I am afraid that something will happen to you, so I want the two of them to be subordinate officials of your mansion, Pu Xianyu can protect your safety, and He Bixian can help you deal with many affairs. ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, these two are both official positions above the third grade in the imperial court, how to do it to my subordinate officials. ”

Huan Ji looked at the two of them, and He Bi bowed down first: "He Bi has seen the Taiwei first." ”

Pu Xianyu didn't smile, but just made a military salute with both hands, and then put his left hand on the saber on his waist and walked behind Uncle Yang.

"So...... It's just that I don't have any official positions here for the two of them. Uncle Yang was a little embarrassed, he knew that the emperor was bent on finding him two right-hand men, especially those like Pu Xianyu, after all, those nobles were still waiting.

"These two people can be the guards of the Taiwei Mansion and the Taiwei Changshi."

"This ......" this made Uncle Yang a little overwhelmed, there has never been such a treatment for the Tai Lieutenant, even since the time when the Tai Lieutenant was still called the Prime Minister, Uncle Yang is a precedent.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. This is the latest decree, please take a look at the emperor. Uncle Yang picked out a roll from the pile of bamboo slips next to him, handed it to Xuanzong, and said.

Huan Ji shook his head, did not stretch out his hand, and said: "I have left the matter of the decree to you, I can rest assured that you will deal with it, although you do it boldly, there is me in the court, and I will take care of your worries for you." By the way, I think that the decree you implemented earlier was only aimed at the people, but now what you want to implement is something that everyone in the world must abide by, so I want you to open the government to administer it, so that the people of the world will not know the Taiwei, let alone the new law. ”

"Your Majesty, there is no need to make such a big move, just give me some armor soldiers holding magic staff on both sides of the palace gate, and set up a pair of hedgehogs is enough, and the rest of everything must be judged by the effectiveness of the country's new law, and the rest are all lies."

Huan Ji thought for a while: "It's okay, as long as the new law is effective, it can make the country stable, and the people of the world will know you, the captain, and even more so the law." ”

"What the emperor said is that as long as the people are stable, even if no one knows me, the captain, it is okay."

Huan Ji laughed and left with the two armorers, he had more important things to do.

After a brief conversation today, Uncle Yang felt more and more that the burden on his shoulders was heavy, and how difficult it was to meet someone who appreciated him in his life.

Uncle Yang reopened the decree scrolls that were to be sent to the thirty-six counties and seventy-two counties of the twelve prefectures, and checked them one by one to ensure that there were no mistakes in them due to hand errors.

The old Zhao people since Wuzong, most of the places are still martial, Wuzong when the army salary is very high, is that everyone wants to join the army to fight, and then to the time of the emperor to ease a lot, but the older generation of people who do not agree with the habit of duel has been affecting the younger generations, coupled with the later government negligence control, is to everyone like to have contradictions on the private fight, extremely unfavorable to the government governance, so these new laws stipulate that no private fight, should be handed over to the government, by the government to deal with, but there are private fights, the first to do the first to be exiled, The servant confiscated the property.

This order made those old people dissatisfied for a while, and they all said in private, "I thought that this Taiwei was a tough guy, but I never thought that he was also a girl", but finally this kind of private fight was stopped a lot.

Speaking of the "Theory of Continuous Sitting", Zhao State since the founding of Emperor Taizu, it has followed the system of the previous dynasties, dividing the world according to the states, counties and counties, and below the county is divided into Dao and Li, the officials of the first three are appointed by the imperial court, and the official positions of Dao and Li are held by their own people who are highly respected, so now this "Lian Sitting" is to let them supervise each other, if there are those who do not report the crime, the criminal is the same as the offender, so that the world can be connected.

Uncle Yang ordered the states and counties to re-make the line token, which was engraved with the name of the person who carried it, the place of residence, and the seal of the location, and those who did not carry the line token were reported to the government to wait for processing, and if there was concealment and non-reporting, the land and property should be confiscated and other private property.

This order put everyone in Zhao Guo in danger, but they were afraid that they would be arrested without knowing where they had committed a crime, and they stared closely at the people nearby, afraid that if they committed a crime, they would be punished if they did not report it. For a while, the old Zhao people scolded and scolded constantly.

In addition, the remote areas to the north and west of the Zhao State are even more difficult to enforce the decrees, and the people in these places are fierce, and they often have to resist the invasion of the Hu people, so basically regardless of men, women, and children are the kind that can plow the fields and fight on the horses, so Uncle Yang specially ordered the government offices in these areas to strictly implement the new law, not to engage in favoritism, and not to fail to implement it because of the difficulty in implementation.