"Since they are all willing, then I will talk about the requirements of this new law, now the border is constantly fighting, the domestic bandits are rampant, and it is in troubled times, so I plan to use heavy codes in troubled times, for, rape, robbery, murder, abduction, counterfeit medicine, poisoning, kidnapping, arson, fake money and a series of vicious cases that affect social stability to aggravate the criminal law, and the offenders will be beheaded" For the current criminal situation in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, the cases in various places are not handled by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, but by the personal will of the local county or prefect to judge right and wrong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This made Daming's punishment very confusing.

It's not that the original Da Ming Law can't be used, but that no one dares to use it. During this period, there were a few officials with clean buttocks, and those in the Da Ming Law peeled the skin and washed the grass at every turn, lit the sky lantern, and the official dared to move the Da Ming Law out in the court. What is even more speechless is that China has been a humane society since ancient times, and all kinds of punishments are extremely vulnerable to interference by officials at all levels. Expecting the law to be just at this time is a complete joke.

"For theft, all in the hospital, the post station theft and theft of property amounting to ten taels of silver, cut off their arms, for those who steal food due to hunger can be punished lightly," for the thief to steal food Chongzhen is not disgusted, this kind of person is often forced by life, can be punished lightly, but for those who steal money in the hospital, this kind of person is not a pity, all those who carry a lot of money in the hospital are often hard to raise to save their lives, the hospital thief is not stealing money, that is stealing life.

"Your Majesty, is this law too strict, often cut off limbs, take people's lives, many first-time offenders, just lose the opportunity to correct, not in line with humanity, I'm afraid it is an ominous law, and I hope the emperor will think twice" Sure enough, this world is the most lacking in the Virgin, Chongzhen just stopped, and someone immediately spoke up to oppose it.

"First offenders, for those who have raped, robbed, murdered, counterfeit medicine, poisoned, kidnapped, arson, abducted and trafficked these vicious thoughts, I don't think there is a need to show mercy to them, some petty theft to get some food, now the people are living a hard life, the people do not raise officials and do not hold them accountable, but for these heinous crimes, they must be severely punished, the best law is to prevent it from happening, only thunderous means, can deter Xiaoxiao, so that they dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool, in order to make the people live and work in peace and contentment" Chongzhen doesn't think that it is necessary to pay attention to humanity and mercy for those who commit vicious crimes, and for those who are humane and merciful, what should he leave to those good people who abide by the law, and he needs to do everything to eliminate evil, otherwise he is harming people's lives.

"May I ask the emperor, how to deal with the corruption and crime of imperial officials" Seeing that the scholar who just opened his mouth to make Chongzhen not very happy still wanted to say something, the students around him immediately stepped forward, blocked him behind him, interrupted his words, and the scholar in the rear also tacitly squeezed the troublemaker to the rear, what are you kidding, you want to be famous, don't pit us, for a group of heinous people who have embarked on the road of crime to make the emperor unhappy, if the emperor throws his sleeves away in anger, Have we not come in vain?

"Regardless of grade, as long as the embezzlement exceeds 10,000 taels, all officials will be dismissed and will never be hired, and those who exceed 100,000 will be sentenced to death, and their families will be held jointly and severally responsible. At the same time as the punishment was increased, I planned to adjust the official salary, and the seven-grade officials were initially paid 100 taels per year, and the annual salary of the seven-grade officials was increased in order of "the original seven-grade county official's annual salary was 45 taels of silver, one tael was almost 500 yuan, so that the salary was less than 2,000 yuan a month, which naturally did not matter to the officials with black income, but those fair and strict Qing officials had a more miserable life, ten years of cold windows, once a career, all this hard work is not for fame and fortune, If you are still a bitter person when you are an official, then who can endure it in the face of the huge interests in your hands, the difference is only the grasp of your heart. Greedy for more and greed for less, of course, there is no shortage of clean officials who are honest and honest and ask for the lives of the people, but if they get a little more money above board, enough for themselves to live comfortably, there will naturally be fewer people who are naturally corrupt, and high salaries and honesty cannot eliminate corrupt officials, but they can definitely make clean officials more, fame and fortune, if you have a choice, the clear stream of reputation is not less than the heavy profit.

"The emperor's mercy" heard that Chongzhen intended to increase the number of officials, and a large number of students began to pat themselves on the back, after all, they and others can be regarded as the reserve of officials.

"Okay, don't shoot the horses, revise the Da Ming law, it should be an experience for you before going to the officialdom, and after you take out the new Da Ming law, the specific details, when the time comes, you will be discussing" The purpose of this gathering, Chongzhen is just to select a group of scholars to prepare for the future plan, and he does not really plan to completely revise the Da Ming law, this is not yet time, the most suitable Da Ming should be the dual monarchy constitutional system in the future, and when the time comes, it is completely possible to modify the parliament into a cabinet and simply localize it and use it, It's just that what the current Ming Dynasty needs is centralization, and at the end of this dynasty, when the monarchy is falling, any decentralization is accelerating the speed at which this ancient empire slides into the abyss.

"Since it is a literati gathering, how can there be no plot of drinking and fighting poetry with friends, and people will serve wine" Hearing Chongzhen's order, a small eunuch behind Wang Chengen immediately went down to pass the order, and the little eunuchs who had already prepared the Shangshan Prison carried boxes of exquisite pastries and a jar of fine wine in front of the desks of the scholars.

"Emperor Xie Banquet" Under Chongzhen's signal, all the scholars sat down one after another according to the top three rankings.

"It is rumored that Li Bai has a hundred drinking poems, let me see today how talented the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are" As soon as Chongzhen's words were finished, the eyes of all the scholars below lit up, and the people who could enter here were all the top three, the people who took the examination and entered the scholars, that is not the existence of two brushes, Wu Wu is the first, Wen Wu is the second, the martial arts are heavy, the literati are light, and the ranking in the imperial examination does not mean that these people will think that they are inferior to those scholars who are ranked above themselves.

A timid young scholar, after losing a salute to Chongzhen, took the lead in standing up, and first came a seven-word poem, at this moment, other scholars scolded secretly, how to let this kid lead, you must know that the first one to stand up will definitely leave a good impression on the emperor, why didn't he react.

Looking at the increasingly enthusiastic atmosphere below, Chongzhen sat on the chairman and Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting beside him from time to time to the scholars below, and applauded lightly when they encountered particularly excellent poems.

"Big companion, you let people go to these scholars to screen out those scholars who have nothing to do with the rich and powerful, let them stay secretly, I want to summon them in the imperial village outside the city" The purpose of this poetry meeting has been achieved, and the rest of the time began to concentrate on watching the competition between this group of proud sons of heaven, as for Chongzhen's own play, forget it, he was a science student in his previous life, and Chongzhen who fused is not a literary master, how can he have played this group of guys who have studied hard for decades in the fighting poetry, As for plagiarizing the poems of later generations, Chongzhen asked himself, he couldn't do such a shameless thing.