Although Dai Yan established an extremely strict military, political and bureaucratic system similar to that of Qin throughout the Song State, Dai Yan did not want the Song State to become another Qin State!

According to Dai Yan's understanding, the Song State and the Qin State are only similar in hardware, and from the perspective of future generations, they can be regarded as evil and backward "absolute monarchy and militarist states". And the software of the two countries, that is, the specific laws, the Song State and the Qin State are extremely different!

Later generations often said that the Qin State was a country with a legal system. However, judging from the experience of Dai Yan and his two lifetimes, the "legal system" of the Qin State is a huge question mark! The law of the Qin State is a typical ruling strategy under the leadership of Legalist thought, and the law is the constitutional decree that the subordinates should abide by! The only reason for the existence of the laws of the Qin State is to make all the subjects of the entire Qin State unconditionally obey the King of Qin!

This is the law of absolute royal power, and no subject can compete with the king of Qin in the Qin State! And the king of Qin gives an order, no matter whether the matter is absurd or reasonable, the courtiers must carry it out unconditionally! Therefore, in a country like Qin, the requirements for the king himself are very high!

In Dai Yan's view, the "legal state" of the Qin State is really lucky, and it has encountered the British lord for several generations, so that it did not cause huge turmoil to the country, and accumulated enough strength to dominate the world. And with just such a "second ancestor" as Hu Hai, the Great Qin Empire immediately fell apart and ceased to exist!

Moreover, the laws of the Qin State are all set around "farming" and "war". Such an approach will undoubtedly suppress the development of other walks of life in the entire country! During the gradual rise of the Qin state, there was no single thinker in the country. It can be said that the Qin State only has hard power, not soft power at all! This lack of soft power is also the biggest reason why it finally loses the legitimacy of its governance!

Dai Yan had already installed the hardware for the country of Song, and the software it had chosen soon came out. The laws of the Song Kingdom should have a core goal: what it was designed for.

The laws of the Qin State were all designed to make the subordinates obey the constitutional decrees made by the monarch, and they only represented the will of the monarch. And the core set by Dai Yan for the laws of the Song Kingdom is only one: to maintain the fair and reasonable order of the entire country! It's more like a contract than a command!

As a result, Dai Yan was groundbreaking and promulgated the world's first written constitution!

In this law, which came to be known as the Constitution of the Song Kingdom, five important principles were established: popular sovereignty, constitutional monarchy, checks and balances, limited government, and the rights of the people.

People's sovereignty means that the ultimate ruling power of the entire Song State belongs to the people. Of course, the people here are not ordinary P people, but those "people" who can pay sufficient taxes and have the right to vote.

The constitutional monarchy, that is, the entire Song state, the ultimate power is vested in the parliament, that is, the left and right courts. This is complementary to the principle of people's sovereignty, which is Dai Yan's hope for the future of the entire Song State, and he does not want the Song State to completely become a DC country similar to the Qin State!

Restraint and equilibrium, meaning that laws need to be passed by parliament, but the monarch has the right of veto! After the monarch and parliament, there is also the Supreme Court that can make the final decision on the law! Such a tripartite check and balance can ensure that the order of the country will not get out of control because one person goes crazy. Of course, Dai Yan's ultimate goal in determining this principle is not to want his children and grandchildren to go too far. Wouldn't it be better for the ministers to use Confucian morality to restrict the monarch and take the initiative to restrict the monarch by law, as later generations did?

The limited government determined that in the entire Song Kingdom, whether you were a nobleman, a commoner, or an official, you had to obey the law! This principle is mainly aimed at limiting the power of officials.

And the people's rights are the most important thing for Dai Yan, and it is also the most commendable one for future generations. In this decree, Dai Yan affirmed that the people have rights protected by law, including the most important rights such as property protection, personal freedom, and freedom of speech.

The constitution is only the general outline of the laws of the entire Song Kingdom, and the remaining subdivided laws cannot be formulated in a short period of time. And even after the promulgation of the Constitution, the officials who had just been appointed by Dai Yan in the entire Song State began to fall into a busy situation!

The Song State was a country where merchants had an advantage, so the protection of private property was one of the most important founding principles of the entire Song State! After the promulgation of the Constitution, in order to implement this principle, it was necessary for officials throughout the country to determine the lands of all the nobles.

After the constitution, Dai Yan soon promulgated the "Land Management Law", and the entire Song State implemented private ownership of land, which was originally regarded as the ancestral fiefdom of the nobles, but now it has all become pieces of private land, that is, the private property of the nobles. Of course, in order to prevent confusion in the management of land in the future, the nobles had to register the land with the local government and the officials issued the title deeds; And only land with title deeds will be protected by law.

With such a request, the nobles everywhere are quite active in registering their land. Some greedy aristocrats, even relying on their local advantages, count large areas of borderless land as their own land!

Dai Yan did not stop this initial situation, but only ordered the officials to register the land as quickly as possible.

And when all the land was registered, and the title deeds were issued to the nobles themselves, and the county governments also had the records, Dai Yan dug out the original agricultural tax of the Song State - 10% from the pile of old papers.

The taxation of the output of land is a common practice in all countries except the Qin state. Such a tax is not high, and such a principle does not seem to be a problem. However, for the aristocracy, the problem is far from being so simple!

When Zixi was in charge of the Song Kingdom before, he could only collect a tax burden of 100,000 gold per year, which is already very revealing: the nobles did not buy the taxes that should be paid at all!

After the end of the autumn harvest of this year, it is time to pay taxes. After a rapid change in the law, and even the determination of the taxes that the nobles should pay, the officials appointed by Dai Yan to the local area began to collect taxes according to the title deed.

According to the past practice of the nobles, taxes have always been collected from the mud legs, and if the monarch wants to collect taxes, he will not be able to collect them from his own head at all! Of course, such a process was not always like this, and the monarchs who were short of money in the past did not fail to hit them with their ideas, but the local nobles did not care about the opinions of the tax collectors at all when they had force in their hands!

When the aristocracy still had this idea, and was ready to face the tax collectors in the same way. And when the tax officials really came to collect taxes, any nobles who dared to fight such an idea directly threw their original ideas to Java, because the tax officials who came to collect taxes were too strong!

These tax officials are all dressed in steel heavy armor and carry the standard weapons produced by the Taoqiu Arsenal, and the Xuanniao Army, which is the best equipped in the Song Army, is only at this level! And even if there are only a dozen tax collectors, the feeling to these nobles is that these ten people can defeat hundreds of people!

In Dai Yan's view, if a country can't even collect taxes, the country's ability to govern will be very problematic. The fact that the tax burden in one place cannot be collected at least shows that the government's control over this place has been surprisingly low! And the collapse of tax revenues can easily cause financial difficulties, and then the collapse of the regime!

For example, in the later generations, I was the Ming Dynasty, on the eve of its demise, because it was occupied by the mouth cannon party, and it was unable to collect taxes from the richest Jiangnan, which directly led to problems with its central finances, which collapsed financially, and then directly collapsed in governance!

And the American imperialism, the world policeman who ran rampant everywhere every day in later generations, did not look at the daily noise in its country, the proliferation of guns, the prevalence of crime, and the procrastination of government decision-making, but it has one thing that is absolutely first-class: that is, its tax collection is absolutely unambiguous!

The gangster boss that the FBI can't pretend to be, the international drug lord that the CIA can't handle, and even the national disaster money that the military makes on the territory of other countries can't escape such a ghost gate as the US Imperial Tax Bureau!

Dai Yan has always admired such an executive institution, so when he ruled the Song Kingdom, he was determined to establish an invincible tax collection agency! With the most capable talents, the best equipment, and the greatest support, the Household Taxation Department of the Song State has long had the strongest executive power! With Dai Yan's support, no one can stop them anywhere!

If you dare not pay taxes, first warn, and if the warning is invalid, then you will directly come to the door to force the collection of taxes, and collect fines! If you dare to fight by force, then you will be arrested directly, or even killed on the spot!

Anyone who dares to evade taxes and evade taxes will not be able to escape the sanctions of the Tax Department! Under such an explosive execution, the nobles of the Song Kingdom, who have always felt good, began to choose to fight with various methods!

First of all, those nobles who have declared more land immediately find the official in charge of registering the land and declare that the declaration of land is wrong and needs to be re-declared! Fortunately for the nobles, these officials in charge of registering the land did not stop them, but only stated that once the title deed was invalidated, they would lose the right to protect their property!

The nobles did not pay any attention to the warnings of the officials, and in their minds, didn't the law say that private property should be protected, and the king could not have directly robbed them of their land, right?

In addition, because most of them have the status of members of the left house, they directly initiated a tax reduction bill in the left house, hoping to reduce the tax burden!

Dai Yan did not stop the actions of the nobles, and when they were almost done, Dai Yan finally began to deal with it!

Those nobles who sold their land were soon confirmed by Dai Yan to not have enough local strength because they did not pay enough taxes, and then lost their status as the left house! Dai Yan even immediately set a standard specifically for the councilors: only nobles who own more than 5,000 acres of heaven and earth are eligible to become the left house!

And those lands that were abandoned by them, Dai Yan directly ordered the local officials to take them all!

Such a move suddenly made the nobles dumbfounded: what about the protection of private property? Nima, this is a backsprint!

They even gathered together and protested to Dai Yan before arriving at the Song Palace in Pengcheng. However, Dai Yan simply replied to them: all the officials are working within the legal framework, and there is no harm to private property!

The nobles were directly speechless, and they realized that the law was not just talking, but an extremely serious norm! Having lost their land in vain, they have learned an ironclad lesson: don't go against the law!

Subsequently, the tax reduction bill they initiated in the left house was easily rejected by the members of the right house! At this time, they finally realized that there was another group of people active in the entire political arena of the Song Kingdom, and the Song Kingdom was no longer completely up to them!