When it was determined that the Xia Yu system was going to establish a state, some essential changes were inevitable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

For the head of the clan city-state, the trust and respect of the clan is the basis of governance.

For the head of a country, the instrument of violence is in the hands and is the basis of governance.

Chen Jian understood that from this moment on, he could not and should no longer pursue the respect of all clansmen, but to use this inertia to turn this respect for people into respect for the law, and even fear.

In the state, an ordinary person in charge of hunting down thieves has absolute rights that a pure clan nobleman cannot have. It doesn't need to be respectful, it just needs to be maintained by violent organs.

Jian Chen named the orphans as the Feather Forest Orphans, and made it clear that this force was in the hands of the leader, and that this was a real tool of domination, although it was still very weak, and it would take time for it to be truly useful.

This is only the smallest part of the whole change, and it does not need to be promoted and recognized by the National People's Assembly, and a group of orphans will not care, and few people think about the implications.

But all kinds of other changes need to be prepared in advance, and Chen Jian has been preparing since the Xia Yu split in May, but he is still not fully ready.

At this time, the New Year is approaching, and there is still more than a month to go before the convening of the National People's Congress, and all kinds of preparations cannot be stopped for a moment.

When the new year arrived, the whole summer city did not have the same atmosphere as in previous years. People are still busy, because the wounds that have not been healed before, and there is no joy to welcome the new year.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Jian hosted a banquet for the leaders of the city such as Ewei, who would retire and return to their respective cities in a few days, and there were still many things to discuss with them.

In addition to the lights of this banquet, there was another place that was bright all night, which was the original council hall of Xia City.

Lamps and candles made of various oils illuminated the room, and all the grassroots officials of Chen Jian's family and outstanding young people who could read and write were in the room, writing hard.

Not an exam, just a transcription. Each person only needs to copy one volume, but dozens of copies.

The one who led the copying and inspection was Hongyu, and she had already guessed that within a year or two, Jian Chen would throw her in Xia Cheng and do what he called "county guards" and other positions, so she was inevitably a little irritable.

On her wooden table was a thick pile of wooden tablets, which Chen Jian had been preparing since he promised the people of Yucheng that a new city would be built in May.

What needs the permission of the National People's Assembly is an empty cornerstone, and the details of some laws need to be written out first and then amended.

Conquering all the way, I was writing every night, but fortunately, there were not too many things at this time, but it took half a year.

Now that he has returned from the Eastern Crusade, there is a large amount of bamboo, and the wooden tablets are easier to make, and these wooden tablets can finally be copied out as the legal norms here in Xia City in the future.

It took at least half a year to complete papermaking and printing, and it was impossible to empty the management of the city for more than half a year, so all those who could read and write could only be mobilized to copy on the bulky wooden tablets.

According to the original plan, the whole country was integrated into a tightly controlled whole, and the idea of educating the people and disseminating technology with officials had to be detailed.

It has been determined that Qin is the teacher, so the law has to be detailed and cumbersome.

According to the Qin law unearthed in the previous life, the whole is divided into three types.

One is the law, which is used as a basis to determine whether a person is guilty or not.

One is the technical guiding rules, which strictly regulate the operating rules of farming, conquest, city defense, handicrafts, warehouse management, etc.

The third is the question and answer of the law, which is based on events so that those who enforce the law have a basis to follow.

There are legal explanations for many trivial matters in the original legal Q&A.

Such as:

Stealing cattle. The cow was a calf when it was stolen, and the cow was a big cow when it was caught, so was it according to the big cow or the calf?

The husband stole the money, and the wife did not know about it, and used the money to buy food. Is the wife guilty?

The person in charge of the warehouse stole the money, but immediately turned himself in, is it punished according to the theft of money or turned himself in lightly?

A steals B's clothes and buys them for cloth, and his wife cuts cloth and makes clothes and changes them for other things, so does A compensate B for his clothes or cloth or all the rest of his belongings?

In all aspects, in all directions, through these maddeningly detailed laws, the whole country is united, and all the power is concentrated in the state apparatus.

Not giving any clan or clan the right to a separate interpretation makes it difficult for them to expand their strength.

This is great, but it also requires a complete education system and a strong bureaucracy.

Under the conditions of underdeveloped communications and underdeveloped transportation, the scope of jurisdiction of such a law is limited; Without enough grassroots workers, the law would collapse, leaving the power of interpretation in the hands of aristocratic families who were hostile to the law.

There is also an irreconcilable contradiction. Under the lord system, if you don't expand quickly, you will collapse and disintegrate internally; Rapid expansion and the difficulty of having enough cadres to govern vast territories inevitably led to a backlash from the old forces.

We can only carefully control the pace of expansion, and wait for the education system to produce enough grassroots officials, neither fast nor slow.

Judging from the current situation, Xia Cheng has almost a person who can read the law under the education system over the years, but it will take a long time before he is proficient and integrated.

Because everything has just been freed from ignorance, it is also necessary for the laws and regulations on these wooden tablets to be more refined and clear, without the slightest ambiguity, so that they can be read and understood, and the grassroots can be implemented according to the same gourd.

And after the papermaking technology is made, it is necessary to achieve an average of one copy for 100 households, five people can read it, and one person can be proficient.

It is precisely because of such cumbersomeness that these laws and regulations have exhausted Chen Jian's hard work in the past six months.

The Eastern Crusade is not difficult, and there are basically no dangerous battles, and the difficulty is always the construction after the battle.

From getting out of the cave to reclaim the wasteland to the workshops, Chen Jian has basically participated in all the front-line labor of the Xia Cheng system, so many of the rules will not be divorced from reality, at least until the emergence of new tools, he still maintains a technical advantage.

In addition, it will not be long before the head of the rebel will be borrowed to demonstrate the authority of the law, and there will not be too many violations of the law in a year or two, and some provisions can be gradually improved and amended.

Even if it has been simplified as much as possible, tens of thousands of words of wooden tablets are more than all the words before this era combined.

After reading all the words, Hongyu covered the scroll and sighed, saying in his heart that he couldn't escape the matter of staying in Xia City. There are very few people in Xia City who can write down and understand these words as quickly as possible.

On the one hand, she is reluctant to stay away from Jian Chen; On the other hand, I am also worried that I don't know what a country is, after all, that word sounds a little scary.

I was apprehensive, and I picked up the wooden slip again and read it carefully, and this time I saw some taste, and I was fascinated, and I had some aftertaste.

When he was indulging, several people pushed the door in, and Hongyu looked up and found that it was the number nine and others in Echeng, so he got up and smiled and greeted.

"Why didn't my sister come here instead of having a feast?"

"My family Eyue and your family Ji Xia have something to say, so I went out for a walk, and saw the fire light from the grass curtain, so I came in to have a look."

Shu Jiu looked at the piles of wooden tablets, and asked with a smile: "I heard Huang'er say that there are books in Xia Cheng, and I have seen a few volumes, but I didn't expect there to be so many?" This is all written by Ji Xia? ”

"Yes, I have written every day since the time of the Eastern Expedition, and I have accumulated so much for half a year."

"Can you take a look? Although I don't know many words, I sent a few volumes in Jixia in Yucheng last year, and I benefited a lot after reading it, but unfortunately there are too few. ”

Hongyu handed it over and said with a smile: "Look, it's nothing more than rules." ”

Shu Jiu opened it, looked at it a few times, and found that he didn't recognize all the words inside, but he could roughly read what it meant, and it was obvious that it was about officials.

When he met someone he didn't recognize, he asked the red fish, and the red fish simply unfolded the scroll, and the two read it together by the light of the fire.

At first, I didn't feel anything about counting nine, at first it was just a one, two, three, four, five, quite Xiacheng-style, used to introduce the gains and losses of officials, how good and evil, what should be done, what should not be done, and it is considered some broad moral requirements, which is a little boring.

But when I read it later, I was a little shocked in my heart, no longer those general things, but detailed regulations that were as clear as woven linen.

"There are fifty men and women in one mile, and one peasant in two miles. The peasants did not grant land, but received money from the public property. Farmers need to be familiar with the "Agricultural Regulations", be familiar with arithmetic addition and subtraction, guide agricultural time, preach the cultivation method of the "Agricultural Regulations", inspect farmland to avoid insects, birds, rats and beasts, allocate cattle and horses to cultivate the land, measure the land to report taxes, and rest water conservancy to prevent drought and flood. ”

"Spring ploughing in March, coordinating cattle and horses, encouraging farming. If the countrymen do not plow, the farmer needs to report it, and the priest and the non-ploughing person will be punished; If the countrymen do not plough and the farmer fails to report, the farmer will be fined. One should be punished, and the "Agricultural Law" should be followed. ”

"It's cold in March, so you need to allocate manpower to light a bonfire to prevent spring frost. In April, the sprouts will emerge, and the deer herd likes to eat, so it is necessary to allocate manpower to keep vigil and drive them away. Autumn wheat harvest in May ......"

After reading it for a while, I finished reading it on the number nine, and this volume only wrote about what you should do as a farmer, and what you should do well and what you can't do well, down to what you must do every month, and the rest of the rules are coordinated and constrained by each other.

After reading it, I flipped out the "Agricultural Regulations" and took a few looks, which were all farming methods. How many seeds to use in an acre of land, wheat and bean interplanting, straw composting, manure fermentation, how to irrigate, etc., are all available, although the writing is not very detailed, but Shujiu believes that these selected farmers will definitely go through professional learning.

In addition to agriculture, there are many others, but after reading agriculture alone, Shujiu already admires it in his heart.

"If this continues, those peasants can only rely on the public property of the city, that is, Ji Xia. There will certainly not be a family of people within the division, and when it comes to levying and conscripting, each has the jurisdiction of officials, and it is clearly written that it will be assessed every year, or punished or rewarded. ”

As soon as there are some new farming methods, these farmers will quickly spread them according to the new "Agricultural Regulations" and guide the farmers in farming. The whole Xia City is like a head commanding hands and feet, the head is Ji Xia, and the slightest finger is each peasant, through these officials, you can directly control everyone...... It's something every leader wants to do but can't! ”

Shocked in his heart, Shu Jiu calmed down, looked through the rest of the scrolls again, and asked Redfish very respectfully to make sure he understood.

"Just a few volumes of agricultural guidance, this is already the case, if the rest of the rules are all implemented, how strong will Xia Cheng be?"