Chapter 69: Criminalization and Business

Torture is an important means of intimidating people and maintaining their rule, especially in societies under feudal ideology.

The fact that Qin was able to use Legalism to complete the greatest unification in the history of China was absolutely not accidental, but the inevitable process of history.

But the Shang Dynasty's death to torture and tyranny deserves a question mark.

How the Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang Dynasty was not as simple as the popular aspirations of the people as later generations of Confucianism preached, and there is no doubt that the Shang Dynasty played a role as a true pioneer in the process of promoting class change.

Since Shang Tang, the attitude towards slaves has changed, before the Shang Dynasty, slaves were born slaves, and ordinary people were born as commoners.

But civilians can become slaves if they make mistakes or become prisoners of war.

But slaves can never become commoners, let alone nobles, they are just the property of nobles like cows, dogs, cows and sheep.

But Shang Tang did something big and dared to be the first in the world, he enabled a person who was a slave, and gave him the right to supremacy, even higher than the royal power.

This person is Yi Yin.

Yi Yin's real name is Yi Zhi, his father is a cook and butcher, and his mother is a mulberry picker, he was born in a slave family, even if he was smart and shocking since he was a child, he still did not get rid of the status of a slave.

However, Shang Tang was eager for Yi Yin, and in order to be able to get Yi Yin, Shang Tang even hired Yi Yin from the king of Xin at a great price, leaving a relic that was earlier than Sangu Thatched House, Sanpintai.

Since King Youxin did not agree to Shang Tang's appointment of Yi Yin, Shang Tang had no choice but to marry King Youxin's daughter as a concubine. So, Yi Yin came to King Tang as a dowry slave.

"Mencius" said: "Tang is to Yiyin, learn and then obey, so he is the king without work." ”

Yi Yin went from a slave to the first imperial teacher in China.

After the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, Shang Tang named Yi Zhi as Yin. "Historical Records: Yin Benji" Huangfu Mi Zhuyun: "Yin, Zhengye, it is said that the soup makes the world right."

"Positive in the world" is to lead by example, to be a model in the world, and to teach the world.

"Shangshu Junshuang" quoted Zhou Gongyu as saying that "Yi Yin Ge is in the emperor", which is on behalf of the heavens.

Yi Yin's words were equivalent to providence in the Shang Dynasty at that time.

Therefore, it can be seen that Shang Tang had already changed its consciousness of the slave class at that time.

This is not a story of thirst for talent, but also a story of Ming Jun who made a favorable impetus to the change of social class.

However, it may be that Shang Tang is too idealistic, and he wants to use Yi Yin as a spiritual benchmark, just like a moral pacesetter in later generations, as a spiritual idol to regulate the words and deeds of slaves.

But it turns out that Yi Yin is only a minority, and after the change of Yi Yin's slave status, it made the Shang Dynasty have a lot of restless factors, and it was also at that time that the power of Yi Yin's faction was getting bigger and bigger, and it was really higher than the royal power in the sense, and it became higher than the royal power in terms of real power.

And after Yi Yin got rid of the slave status, it was proved by facts that as long as he grasped the power, his desire would rise infinitely, and he had Yi Yin's 'disloyalty' of letting Taijia go.

These upstarts who rely on the Yi Yin faction are commonly known as 'slave owners'.

At the beginning, Yin Shang only had two classes, the royal family and the commoners, but now there is one more slave owner, so naturally there has been a huge change.

As a result, the Yin Shang Dynasty found that the binding force of morality was really not high, but would cause a lot of instability.

The Shang Dynasty until the tenth emperor Zhongding has not progressed, but has regressed, at this time it happened that there was a flood, and the southeast of the Lanyi rebellion, Zhongding moved the capital, but at that time it was strongly opposed by the upstart of the slave faction supported by Yi Yin.

This opposition made the Yin Shang Dynasty see that the slave group could no longer be restrained by moral standards alone, but they still relied on the power of the Yin Shang royal family to forcibly move the capital.

However, this move of the capital caused the 'Ninth Rebellion' that affected the Shang Dynasty's century-old national fortunes, and after the capital was moved, the nouveau riche of the slave faction began to participate in the internal affairs of the Yin Shang royal family.

The succession system of the Shang Dynasty has always been a combination of "father and son" and "brother to brother".

However, in the early days, the Yin Shang royal family was a monolith, but after these slave faction nouveau riche (that is, slave owners) participated in the affairs of the royal family, the Yin Shang royal family began to go their own way, and they instigated all the royal families with the right of inheritance to launch a coup d'état in advance.

The 'Ninth Rebellion', which led to the Yin Shang for a hundred years, directly caused the decline of the Yin Shang's national strength to the top.

Until Pan Geng succeeded to the throne, he quickly integrated the royal disputes by thunderous means, and moved the capital twice to consume the power of the slave faction nobles, and finally established the "Tang Punishment" that influenced the culture of later generations in China, laying a solid foundation for later generations of legalists and laws.

Although there was also "Yu Punishment" before "Tang Punishment", "Yu Punishment" is mainly based on the humanistic culture of ancient times, stipulating some laws and regulations of primitive society.

But "Tang Punishment" does have targeted severe punishments.

An important part of the content of the "Tang Punishment" is actually the official punishment, that is, the "Tang Punishment" is mainly carried out by officials at all levels.

"Zuo Biography" recorded this: "Its constant dance in the palace is called witch wind." This means that if an official indulges in singing and dancing, and his official conduct is not right, he will be punished.

This directly limited the original state of slave owners who did not work and drank human blood.

Therefore, strictly speaking, "Tang Xing" is the first legal book in China, and later generations of legalists and even "Zhou Li" are derived from the framework of "Tang Xing".

Xunzi said that the name of the criminal law is in business, which means that the criminal law of the world is actually inherited from the "Tang Punishment".

The significance of "Tang Xing" is self-evident, and it directly pushed Yin Shang, who had already weakened his national strength, to the peak.

Pangeng's successor, Zu Jia, was the second change after the rise of Wuding, and the method of Zhou sacrifice was the best embodiment of ancestor worship and religious system.

In ancient civilizations, the major ethnic groups had their own sacrificial systems, and the sacrificial methods of Zhou and ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt were different, which was a unique sacrificial system in ancient China.

And in the Zujia Reform, the "Tang Punishment" was revised to once again restrict the plundering and oppression of slaves by slave owners.

However, this change became the main bane of the Zhou Dynasty's overthrow of the Shang Dynasty.

Because when King Wu invaded Shang, those Fang States who responded to the call were all opponents of this change.

Like all changes in history, Yin Shang's reforms, although unsuccessful, at least set a benchmark for later cultures.

Wang Xu had never been an official, let alone governed a country, but he knew the importance of criminal law to a country, so he acquiesced to Mo Kui's request to impose capital punishment on Sang.

In Wang Xu's eyes, drip punishment is really a very inhumane criminal law.

But only such a criminal law can deter the desire to stir in human nature.

The country now has a population of more than 2,300 people, and less than 1,000 of them really recognize this country spiritually.

But if you destroy the Lin Hu tribe and free the six or seven thousand slaves, the hidden disaster will be immeasurable.

Long-term oppression and enslavement have made these savages, who have no concept of humanity, wear out their humanity, and to put it mildly, they are all potential terrorists.

Moreover, the influx of such a large number of people will definitely make the clansmen of the ancestors of the Guzhu Kingdom panic, and the first class confrontation may be formed at that time.

Wang Xu did not want to see such a situation.

So he can only choose to use the dual pressure of theocracy and torture to temporarily control the situation.

Although slaves have been domesticated to be like livestock, they are still instinctively afraid of the gods, so Mokui is the best executor.

And Zhai Qiu, this is the leader he selected to lead this group of potential terrorists.

Tu Tan is already a terrorist with revenge as his mission, if it weren't for the fact that there was no other candidate, Wang Xu really didn't want to hand over Zhai Qiu to him for training.

The shining point that Wang Xu saw from Zhai Qiu was not his strong psychological quality, but the trace of human reason and humanity that he still had left.

There is still a remnant of human nature, which means that there are concerns, and there are concerns, so there are weaknesses.

If there is a weakness, it can be controlled, or there are checks and balances.

Therefore, Wang Xu can only hope that with his last advice, Tu Tan can translate it to Zhai Qiu, even if he can't understand it now, it doesn't matter, there will be a day when he understands.

Wang Li was not interested in this dark Chen Cang's activity, he just wanted to take a hundred cavalry to smash the Yellow Dragon, so when the day was slightly bright, when the 'Lin Hu Bondage' team led by Tu Tan left, he dragged Yu Chun, who had been jumping all night, up from the warm quilt to practice.

Mo Ren, who had gotten up early to feed the moose, shuddered when he heard the miserable howl coming from the training ground.

Touching the very well-behaved little moose that had been tamed, he secretly congratulated himself that his ancestors had mercy and let him tame the animal in advance.

A month ago, one hundred and thirty moose cubs were captured, and except for a few who were very backbone and did not eat the food they came from, and starved to death, the remaining one hundred and twenty-five were all tamed by Mo Ren's grace and power, and became well-behaved, and grew very strong.

Especially after putting on the traction ring, it refers to where to go, and it is smarter than a roe deer.

Now these one hundred and twenty-five moose cubs are his real heart, and not only do he prepare meals carefully every day, but he also has to comb them every day, and no one else can look at them more.

Because he knows that these little guys are the main combat power of the Lone Bamboo Country.

"Pick out fifty horses, and let Yu Chun and them start practicing riding from today." Wang Li's gloomy voice came from behind him.

Mo Ren shuddered and turned his head to retort.

"If you dare to talk nonsense, the seventy-two wild horses will not have your share." Wang Li glared and sneered.

"Fifty horses are not enough, there are already seventy horses that can be ridden." Mo Ren immediately changed his face and said flatteringly.