Chapter 171: Governing the country according to law

After the basic unification of the south, the internal management and stability of the angel country became more important, "governing the country according to law" is the concept of governance that Xia Xue has been advocating since the beginning of the angel state, "everyone is equal before the law" is the advanced concept put forward by Xia Xue from later generations, although in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the privileges of imperial rule, imperial power, royal power, and "not punishable doctors" continue to destroy the basic principle of the legal system of "everyone is equal before the law", but Xia Xue first put forward in the angel country established by himself: "Any citizen of the angel country, regardless of ethnicity, race, Gender, occupation, family background, religious beliefs, education level, property status, and period of residence are all equally entitled to the rights stipulated by the Constitution and laws of the Angel Country, and all of them are equally able to fulfill the obligations stipulated in the Constitution and laws of the Angel Kingdom. Although some officials and nobles were a little opposed at first, they thought that the nobles should enjoy more privileges than the untouchables, which was justified, but at Xia Xue's insistence, they finally had to compromise, after all, this beautiful girl queen was too powerful.

Of course, in order to manage the Angel Kingdom more conveniently and efficiently for himself, the law of the Angel Kingdom stipulates: "The Founding Queen has the supreme right, and the Founding Queen is not bound by all laws." ”

Since ancient times, the royal power has been supreme, and since ancient times, the royal power has not been constrained by the law, and the people of this era, whether they are officials and nobles, or ordinary people, they have long been accustomed to it, and they still think that this is natural and right, and it is taken for granted. Therefore, the entire people of the Angel Kingdom have no opinion on the special provisions in this law, and they feel that such provisions are normal and in line with tradition. They even felt that the word "founding" should be abolished, and as long as she was the queen, she should have supreme rights.

Xia Xue knew that for a self with wisdom beyond all human beings of his time, his "rule of man" was definitely more efficient than "rule of law", because the legal procedures were too cumbersome and lengthy, and if he was also bound by the law, it would not be conducive to the efficient management of the angel kingdom. Everything is divided into two, and "rule by man" is not without a little benefit, but it depends on who will "rule by man", for himself, the founder of the country with super high wisdom, of course, "rule by man" is the best model for governing the country. However, she stipulated in the law that her successor "queen" did not have the privilege of the founding queen and must be bound by the law.

Also, "Hey, hey! - "Xia Xue snickered in her heart, since ancient times, emperors have not been bound by the law, the royal power has the supreme right, and he came to ancient times to work hard, how can he live the addiction of "incomparably free" and "supreme" royal power, this is a treatment that the president can't enjoy in the future era, how can he be so stupid to put shackles on himself. "Hey, hey! ——, future era human beings are not so selfless, Quack! ——”

Xia Xue saw that many ancient women were lynched and mutilated by various feudal customs, such as some places require women to be wrapped tightly from head to toe with cloth when they go out after marriage, and they cannot show their true faces in front of other men, otherwise they will have their noses cut off and their eyes gouged out; When a woman dies her husband, she must be widowed, never remarried, and if she is found to be having an affair or flirting with another man, she will be executed according to strict clan rules; For the cheating woman, she was either drowned in a "pig cage", or beaten to death with a stick, or stoned to death, or hanged, or burned to death, which was very cruel.

Xia Xue comes from a future era with highly developed science and technology, a high degree of freedom and tolerance of thought, and human beings in the future era of high intelligence and high quality also have an understanding and tolerant attitude towards this instinctive human nature.

As the saying goes: "Marry a man and marry a man, dress and eat", women must depend on men for survival, so they have no freedom of their own and become men's private property, so they will be shackled by various strict rules formulated by men, and if they are violated, they will be disabled. Cruel. Urgent. Harm.

Although women in ancient times were in a vulnerable position for various reasons, Xia Xue still couldn't get used to women being lynched at will, so she issued a decree to abolish all kinds of lynchings against women, and at the same time used the superstitious ideas of the ancients to carry out large-scale propaganda: women are treasures given to mankind by God, and men should cherish and care, and cannot be mutilated. Otherwise, it will anger the heavens and bring disaster. If they continue to abuse lynching and mutilate women, they will be severely punished once discovered.

Under Xia Xue's vigorous propaganda and resolute crackdown, the lynching of women at will in the Angel Kingdom slowly disappeared, and women's social status and freedom were greatly improved. According to the new law of the Angel Nation, a woman can remarry if her husband dies; Women can go out to work just like men; Whether married or not, women are free to make friends with men; If women really have an improper relationship, it is only a moral education, and they will no longer abuse lynching and mutilation such as "dipping pig cages" as before.

Xia Xue inadvertently rescued a woman who hanged herself during an outing, this woman is named Rosie. Rosie is naturally beautiful, beautiful and moving, it turned out to be the wife of a Tang official, but Rosie's marriage was arranged by her parents, and she had no feelings for her husband who was more than a decade older. At a banquet, it was first sight for Rosie to fall in love with Rosie by a handsome young man who was a few years younger than Rosie, a young man named Liao Ke, a minor official, who was also under the jurisdiction of Rosie's husband. However, Liao Kes is very fanatical and persistent in Rosie's love, and he pursues it desperately, which finally impresses Rosie, and the two begin to have a tryst in private. There is no impermeable wall in the world, and it was eventually discovered by Rosie's husband, who was furious and used his power to fire Lioux. Rosie pleaded with her husband for divorce and let him divorce her, but her husband deliberately tortured her, just disagreeing, making it impossible for the two lovers to get along. In the end, Rosie had to find a way to sneak out of her husband's house under strict guard, and eloped with Liao Ke to the Southern Angel Country. After arriving in the angel country, the two spent two years of happy time, but no matter how passionate the love is, there are times when they are tired, and the passion will always pass. Liao Kex needs to travel a lot because of work, and Rosie, who has been a housewife at home, has a lot of opinions, thinking that Liao Kex is spending less and less time with her, suspecting that Liao X is having an affair, and the two often quarrel about this, and the relationship slowly deteriorates. Liao X saw that Rosie had become a "resentful woman" who chattered and was suspicious all day long, and she couldn't feel the warmth of the family, so she rarely went home for some reason, and saw that Liao Xun no longer loved herself as much as before, and became more and more cold to herself, Rosie, who regarded love as her life, was heartbroken and discouraged, and couldn't think about it for a while and hanged herself in a small forest not far from home, but fortunately, she met Xia Xue who happened to pass by and was able to rescue.

Through this incident, Xia Xue also deeply realized: "When love becomes the whole of a woman's life, it is the beginning of her tragedy!" ”

Xia Xue patiently enlightened Rosie, telling her not to regard love as the whole of life, but to have her own hobbies and careers, so that she can live a freer, broader, more secure, and happier life.

Love is unpredictable, but there is a basic law called 'addition'. Neither love nor marriage can allow women to detract from their independence and value, and they cannot detract from their own unique joy of existence.

After experiencing the cycle of life and death, Rosie finally woke up, and she decided to reduce the weight of love in her heart and devote more energy to work and hobbies. Xia Xue saw that Luo Xi was smart and meticulous, loyal and reliable, so she went to Angel Company to participate in financial accounting professional training, and became the accountant of Angel Chemical Company.

Rosie, who was busy with work all day, finally stopped indulging in illusory love fantasies and suspicions, and work brought her a sense of achievement, pride and security, so that her mental state was getting better and better, and people became more and more beautiful, and later attracted the fanatical pursuit of three men, one was the sales manager of a chemical company, tall and handsome, more attractive than Lieux; One is a civil servant of the Angel Country, who is also sunny and handsome; One is a wealthy boss, mature and steady, handsome and chic. Faced with the sudden "Peach Blossom Luck", Rosie felt a little overwhelmed for a while, but she still felt sweet in her heart, after all, it felt good to be pursued. Rosie also felt more confident, and also realized the wise sayings "If you bloom, butterflies will come" and "As long as you are attractive, there will be no shortage of love".

Many things in the world are the same: when you care too much, you don't get it; When you don't care that much, it will come to your door on its own.

Just when Rosie no longer cared about Liao Xun's love as much as she did in the past, seeing Rosie who was becoming more and more beautiful and charming, Liao Xun instead radiated a new passion and love for Rosie, plus with competitors, Liao Xun became better and more loving to Rosie than before, and finally Rosie and Liao Kes lived happily ever after.

This incident made Xia Xue realize that in order to save ancient women, they must be encouraged to come out to work, so Xia Xue then introduced a series of laws and regulations to encourage women in the Angel Kingdom to go out of the house and participate in work, which has played a great role in promoting the social status and self-confidence and self-improvement of women in the Angel Kingdom.

While promoting the "rule of law", Xia Xue also abolished many previous tortures in the Sui Dynasty, such as: Ling Chi, beheading, car splitting, skinning, toe cutting, tongue amputation, palace punishment, "slashing" to cut off the kneecaps of prisoners, "black noodles" to tattoo characters on people's faces, "cooking punishment" to put prisoners into a large wok filled with boiling water and hot oil, "cooking punishment" to boil or fry in a large ding, and "five punishments" to unload people's people.

However, the death penalty was still retained, because Xia Xue felt that many criminals who committed the most heinous crimes in ancient times "not killing is not enough to anger the people", and the ancients generally had the concept of "killing to pay for life", and unrealistically abolishing the death penalty prematurely will only cause dissatisfaction and opposition among the people. However, for the "death penalty", Xia Xue insisted on "killing with caution", and was cautious about the death sentence, not to indulge criminals, but also not to disregard human life.

The death penalty has excludes a small number of criminals who have committed the most heinous crimes through public sentencing and beheading, and most of them are hanged, so as to ensure that the death row prisoner has a whole body, which can be more humane than the bloody "beheading".

"Exile" (also called "exile"), Xia Xue also continued to retain, firstly, to avoid overcrowding in the local prisons, and secondly, to allow these criminals to go to Australia and other remote new continents for labor reform, and to make some contributions to the construction of the Angel Kingdom.

For some criminals whose sentences are not very long, they will be sent to mines, farms, etc. to serve hard labor, do hard labor, and carry out labor reform, in short, to let the prisoners also make some contributions to the construction of the angel country, Xia Xue will definitely not use taxes to feed a group of criminals in vain.

Regarding the legislative guiding ideology of the Angel Country, Xia Xue insisted:

1. Morality and punishment are supplemented, and etiquette and law are used together. "Virtue and punishment are auxiliary", that is, the basic method of governing the country with etiquette and righteousness, and the auxiliary means of governing the country with criminal punishment and sanctions, including: first, both are indispensable; Second, the status of the two is different. It is necessary to have more virtue and less punishment, and first virtue and then punishment.

2. Legislation is lenient and simple. "Wide" means flat and wide, and the law of the Sui Dynasty was harsh, and the punishment should be reduced. "Simple" means simple, in view of the complexity of the laws of the Sui Dynasty, the legislation should be concise.

3. Maintain legal stability. That is, we should be cautious when legislating and not make new laws lightly; Once a law is enacted, it must be resolutely implemented and cannot be easily changed or repealed.

4. Strict law enforcement. "If there is a law, it must be followed, the law must be strictly enforced, and those who violate the law must be prosecuted", advocating strict law enforcement. Xia Xue knows that the vitality of the law lies in the implementation and implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in the implementation. If we want to comprehensively promote the rule of law in the angel country, the key is to ensure that the law is strictly implemented and strictly enforced. Without the "last mile" of the implementation of this law, the comprehensive rule of law in the angel country cannot be realized.

In order to implement her own concept of "governing the country according to law", Xia Xue specially passed strict assessment and selected a group of fair and honest county orders to go to the counties and districts of the Angel Country to carry out the work of governing according to law.

As long as she is free, Xia Xue will always quietly take the Ouyang brothers and sisters, and a team of black-clothed guards, disguised to all parts of the Angel Country to conduct open and secret visits, investigation and research, and at the same time, through field investigations, discover talents, punish corrupt officials, rectify discipline, and establish a good atmosphere of clean and upright governance in the country. Xia Xue is well aware of the importance of fairness and justice to a country's stability and prosperity, and the serious harm that injustice and corruption can do to a country.