"What's the news?" The veteran asked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Goguryeo, they are coming towards our border, we are afraid that we will not be able to guard against them, I advise you to flee." The deserter suggested.

"Can you confirm the news?" The veteran asked.

"Yes." The deserter nodded.

"Ladies and gentlemen, really, I vouch for my life." The deserter said excitedly.

"Hmm. We got it. When you're done eating, let's go. The veteran said to the deserter.

"This." The deserter also wanted to let the veteran run away together.

"Let's go." The veteran said, waving.

"I'll take care of this." With that, the veteran waved his hand and asked the deserter to leave here. In desperation. The deserter could only hold the food, and the kettle turned around and left, walking in the direction of the Qin State.

"Dude. What are we going to do? At this time, a soldier asked.

"Go back, report to the sir, if we could, we would never let the Goguryeo people succeed like this, damn it. I'm going to kill a few of him. The veteran said with some annoyance.

"Hmm." The soldier nodded. In the eyes of the Yan people, they can defeat on the Korean battlefield, but they will never let the Goguryeo people chase them to their own territory. This will not be tolerated. Even for the dignity of Yan Kingdom, the other party must be repelled on the border line.

The poplar trees on both sides of the Hexi Corridor kept retreating, and Shang Wen looked at the poplar trees outside the boat and said to Mo Li beside him.

"Do you know the spirit of the law?" Shangwen asked.

"I don't know." Mo Li shook her head and said. Handing Shang Wen a cup of tea, Shang Wen looked at the tea leaves with some distress.

"Sweetened." Mo Li said to Shang Wen. Mo Li knew that Shang Wen was reluctant to drink tea. So I added sugar to the tea. Ordinary people drink tea, and if they add sugar, they can only add brown sugar, that is, ordinary sugar imported from the state of Chu, because they cannot further process brown sugar into white sugar. The Qin State has the technology and equipment for deep processing, which can further process brown sugar into white sugar. Then the sugar was further sold back to the state of Chu. Or somewhere else. This was Qin's way of maintaining high bargaining.

Shang Wen nodded. Expressing gratitude to Mo Li.

"Law is not intentionally invented, but a demand, and the development of commercial trade can only be built on an orderly, stable and peaceful environment, and order cannot be defined by vague morality, because morality is such a thing, very vague, without a very clear concept. Just like you Mohists, for the sake of morality, you can oppose war, but all wars are very prejudiced, and in this case, society will not be able to progress. Shang Wen said.

"You're talking about the law. I don't want to spend a day dwelling with you on this moral issue. Mo Li said to Shang Wen.

"Hmm." Shang Wen nodded.

"Commercial trade activities rely on credit, and where credit is embodied is the contract. They will get what they give, and we are the same, and then this spirit of contract gradually expands, and it becomes a social atmosphere, and it becomes a system. This is the spirit of the law, the contract. You will abide by the content, validity, rights and obligations of the contract. These are all things that you have to know clearly and unequivocally. Shang Wen continued.

Again, this spirit of contract was embodied in the state of Qin. It's just that the legal spirit of the Qin State is not a contract, but a constraint, or it is extremely utilitarian for the purpose of strengthening the country, which makes the Qin State appear a disadvantage. Shang Wen said.

"Now, the commercial and trade activities of the Qin State are becoming more and more frequent, and many economic activities rely on the original legal basis and are further transformed into the spirit of contract." Shang Wen said.

"Yes, the spirit of the law of the Qin State has changed. In other words, he was successfully transformed into a spirit of contract, because his economic base has changed greatly. Agriculture is no longer the basis of the country's economy, and business activities have become the country's biggest financial supporters. Shang Wen said.

"The spirit of the law has changed a lot as a result." Shang Wen continued.

"And then?" Mo Li then asked.

"And then it is, commercial and trade activities are carried out in accordance with the contract, and then, the legal spirit of the Qin State began to change, because the economic base determines the superstructure, since the economy needs a contract spirit, then, the rights and obligations are naturally, for example, the election of the prime minister of the Qin State, the election of the Qin people to you, is his right, and after you are elected, you must fulfill the contract reached between you and the voters, what is this contract, is what you have to do, otherwise, it is a violation of the rights of these voters, And you yourself have not fulfilled your contractual obligations. This is a breach of contract, and in the spirit of a breach of contract, you have to step down. Shang Wen said with a smile.

"This is the case in the Qin State now, and I think that the Six Kingdoms should be like this as well. However, the situation of the six countries may be a little more special. Shang Wen said.

"Special?" Mo Li asked.

"Yes, special." Shang Wen said.

"The peculiarity is that their legal system, their legal system is very imperfect, and the law is directed at the commoners, not the nobility, and the nobility has too many privileges. What countries lack is the spirit of civilians, and the rights of civilians are violated too much. Shang Wen said to Mo Li.

"Hmm. This assertion of yours is consistent with the assertion of our Mohists. Mo Li nodded in agreement with Shang Wen.

"So, I think about whether we can influence the laws of various countries in some other way, for example, there are laws such as special trade regulations to influence the laws of the whole of Egypt, or to create a sense of self-protection of the rights of the common people, and only then can I think the ordinary rights of the people can be protected." Shang Wen said.

"What are you going to do?" Mo Li asked.

"My idea is whether it is possible to stipulate the spirit of the laws of each country in an international treaty." Shang Wen said.

"For example, trade, tariffs, and related regimes, etc., after all, this is directly related to the trade relations of countries, and with this connection, and it is directly related to the interests of countries, I think they may make greater concessions, or they may change more. In order to protect the rights of their business organizations or business individuals. Only then can they have more taxes. Shang Wen further said. For such an idea, Shangwen is only a prototype, because Shangwen's current trade lacks a kind of protection, a kind of protection in the legal sense.