Section 266 Harnessing the global intellect

In contrast, although on the surface, China's legal system is more similar to the French civil law system, as it is made by professionals. But in fact, it may be more similar to the English system, because the "Qing Statutes" not only contain laws, but also contain a large number of precedents, which belong to the category of case law.

Moreover, Zhou Lang always believes that the judicial process in the United Kingdom is more operable and requires fewer professionals, and in the courts at all levels in the United States, in addition to the federal courts, a large number of judges in local courts are not even from law studies, and their professionalism is very poor.

The reason why unprofessional judges can also preside over the proceedings is that in the English judicial system, the role of the judge is much smaller, and the judge is not the decisive figure in the courtroom, but the jurors are. Jurors are even more excessive, and even try to avoid letting legal professionals serve as jurors, giving preference to ordinary people.

Compared with Roman law (civil law system), it is not professional enough, but it is closer to the people, and the judiciary is viewed from the perspective of the most ordinary people.

Zhou Lang felt that this was very humane, and it was simple and direct enough.

Two people fight a lawsuit, and then draw jurors from the local taxpayers, let these strangers decide right and wrong, this model is to put it bluntly, isn't it that the two people on the street are arguing, and they always hope that the onlookers agree with their views, from trivial things to the big feud of destroying the family and destroying the family, and the rebellion is often more popular with the public.

Some people have also criticized this system for not being very professional, and even the United States is slowly changing this system, from local courts to federal courts, the higher the level, the more professional it is, and even in many professional fields, the jury system is no longer used.

But in this era of extreme shortage of legal professionals, Zhou Lang feels that this is an advantage. The judge is no longer the adjudicator, but merely the presiding officer of the meeting, and the court is the parliament.

Speransky is a highly qualified legal expert, and Zhou Lang has confirmed his professional competence.

After several years of exile after the failure of Speransky's reforms, the Tsar sent him back to compile the All-Russian Code, and then appointed him governor of Siberia. During his tenure as governor-general, he began to reform the Kazakh steppes annexed by Tsarist Russia, and by collecting Kazakh customary law, jurisprudence, and making certain additions according to the needs of Russian rule, he formulated the Regulations on the Kyrgyz of Western Siberia.

This person has the ability to write laws not only in Russia, which he is familiar with, but also in countries that he is unfamiliar with.

These abilities, in addition to his own efforts, are actually related to the Russian education model, Russia is a very unfair country, the aristocratic landlords occupy almost all resources, including educational resources, in fact, his elite education has always been good, the cultural level of the aristocracy is not worse than that of advanced countries such as Britain and France, a nobleman will basically be proficient in English, French and Latin and other languages, and will also dabble in natural science, law and philosophy.

Therefore, although Russia as a whole has been backward, there are always some world-class masters, not to mention literature, Tolstoy and others are enough to support Russia's important position in modern literature, and it is strange that in the field of natural science, there are quite a lot of Russian masters, such as Mendeleev who compiled the periodic table.

Although the grassroots education is half as good as China's, the government does not allocate funds, and the people do not have the spontaneous enthusiasm to run schools, which is not even comparable to the Chinese gentry, but for high-level education, the tsar has established the Royal Academy of Sciences and established Moscow University.

So Speransky, who received a full education from a seminary, was not bad in knowledge and was not stale. He also has rich experience in compiling codes and strong ability.

These are all important to Zhou Lang.

It just so happened that Speransky once again experienced the failure of reform, and he also wanted to accumulate some new experience in the reform of the Chinese, so he agreed to help participate in the construction of a new judicial system.

Find the right people, find the best talents in the world, use the world's intellectual resources, and not rest on your laurels, at this point, Zhou Lang is a very open person.

But to get the effect and complete the reform, he still can't see the date, and he won't set a time limit. In this respect, he was much better than Napoleon's patience. Napoleon didn't understand the principle of governing a big country like cooking small fresh, but Zhou Lang understood it very well.

So Napoleon failed again, at the hands of the anti-French coalition without Russia's participation.

The alliance formed by Britain, Prussia and Austria formed an army of 500,000 troops, and Napoleon tried his best to cobble together only 280,000 men.

Outside the country, he went to the Netherlands (including Belgium at this time) to fight the main British and Prussian forces that landed here, and in the end he won some battles and captured some cities, but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, the French army suffered 25,000 casualties, 8,000 prisoners, and most of the rest fled.

Napoleon retreated to Paris again, when both chambers of the French parliament betrayed him, declaring that the country was in danger and that Napoleon must abdicate in order to guarantee the country's security and peace.

But the people at the bottom supported him, because Napoleon's policies had harmed the whole of Europe, but they had protected French industry.

In the workers' quarters, however, there was a loud cry: resolutely oppose the emperor's abdication and resolutely defend Paris. Constant processions chanted: "Long live the Emperor!" Down with the mutineers! Champion the Emperor or die! There is no need to abdicate! To the emperor and national defense! Down with the council! ”

The angry crowd beat some of the richly dressed people they suspected of being nobles in the streets half to death, because they refused to shout with the crowd: "There is no need to abdicate!" ”

Napoleon's younger brother Lucien built Napoleon to dissolve the two houses as he did in the Fog Moon Incident, and re-recruit the army to prepare for another battle.

But Napoleon gave up, he had already tried once, to reassemble the army, he could control Paris, but he could not defeat the anti-French coalition, he had already recruited too many 14-year-olds, these children were loyal, brave, but they were not professional enough, they could not bring Napoleon to victory, they would only die in vain.

Napoleon again chose to abdicate, this time he was not tolerated by the anti-French coalition, they did not allow Napoleon to retain the title of emperor, and he was exiled even farther away, not on the island of Elba, near Europe, but on an isolated island 1950 km off the west coast of Africa and 3400 km from the east coast of South America, St. Helena.

But Napoleon was in exile here for less than half a year, but miraculously escaped, to be precise, with the help of Chinese laborers on the island came to China, Zhou Lang used global intellectual resources with an open mind, in the military field, Napoleon is the shining pearl standing at the pinnacle, he also wants to use.

However, China's move is tantamount to challenging the whole of Europe, and an anti-China coalition has begun to be formed.