Although the Han Dynasty inherited the Yong's system, especially the law, it was inherited almost as it was. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But perhaps because the royal family of Han came from a humble background, so they knew very well how to buy the hearts of the people, although the law also stipulated that meritorious service was rewarded and guilt was punished, but Han opened up the garden forest that King Zhaoxiang would rather starve to death than open the people, and let the farmers reclaim the land and cultivate crops, which won the praise of the people of the capital, and the Han royal family accumulated the hearts of the people among the people, which began. ”

Not only that, but Liu Heng, the third monarch of the Han Dynasty, also removed slander, removed corporal punishment, rewarded elders, compassionate loneliness, reduced lust, was not sacrificed, and was not punished for sin. Once, he encountered a revenge case, through this kind of means, continue to buy people's hearts, so that in just a few decades, the prestige of the Han family in the people has been unbreakable, even if the descendants of later generations are defeated, they have maintained for more than 400 years, and can even rise again after being usurped by the ministers. ”

Zhao Wuxian uses Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty as an example to tell how the monarch bought people's hearts by making himself look humane through Shide.

"As a monarch, it is important to uphold the law, but we must not completely stand on the side of the law, equate ourselves with the law, and abandon all human feelings, thus losing the hearts of the people."

Qin's demise was, to a certain extent, a result of the fact that the monarchs of all dynasties were dead-headed, paying too much attention to the law, but forgetting the techniques and power that must be combined with the law. King Zhaoxiang and his descendants were fortunate enough to push themselves to the opposite side of the people, and by the time of Qin Shi Huang, they had reached their peak. With the unification of the world, the channels for promoting the advancement of the military nobles are gone, and the pure hegemony cannot be long-term after all. Gradually, it was no longer one or two local cool officials that the people hated, but the law itself, and even the emperor who became the embodiment of the law.

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty's "pure law" politics was changed, on the one hand, it emphasized the role of law in stabilizing social order and consolidating dynastic rule, and on the other hand, it also emphasized the Confucian concept of ethics and morality, and tried to take the blood relationship of "father and son, husband and wife, respect and inferiority" as the realistic basis of the emperor's "family and world", which was very useful in calming down civil contradictions and maintaining hierarchical order.

Zhao Heng had an epiphany and asked, "What does my father mean that when there is a conflict between the law and public opinion, you should stand on the side of the people?" ”

"Not really."

Zhao Wuxian continued: "Although the rule of the Han is considered to be long-term compared to the Qin, at the same time, the government is also plagued by civil revenge. Originally, in Yongshi, the law was implemented, and the private fighting among the people was eliminated, but with the demise of Yong, the law and discipline were relaxed, and the wind of revenge rose again. In the era of chaos before the establishment of the Han Dynasty, there was a northerner named Luan Bu who avenged his father and killed his enemy, and was regarded as a hero by the locals and recommended him as a captain. ”

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, he ruled the world with filial piety, and in the face of a large number of private revenge that occurred every year, he always conformed to the people's feelings, and forgave the avengers who should have been executed, or even acquitted, and the local authorities commended and praised the avengers. In the long run, the law restricting revenge became a dead letter, and the officials gradually forgot the solemnity of the law, and turned to reading ancient books and relying on the chapters and articles above to judge the case, which took into account the people's feelings, but it made the national law corrupt, the discipline was relaxed, the people were rampant, and the powerful and powerful were born, and even began to confront the government, and the orders of the dynasty gradually became difficult to issue to the counties......"

Contrary to Qin, after Emperor Wu, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, this kind of "Spring and Autumn Prison Break" after Confucianism overrode the national law, caused great damage to Han law and contributed to the rise of local powerful forces.

Zhao Heng was no longer self-conscious, and said: "It seems that this is another disadvantage of forgetting the law to the extreme. ”

"Yes."

After telling the lessons of the Qin and Han dynasties in dealing with legal principles and human feelings in disguise, Zhao Wuxian walked to the rocker, stepped on the balance point in the middle, and said to Zhao Heng: "Therefore, if you want to have long-term peace and stability, and will not lose the authority of the central government, the position of the monarch should always be here." At both ends of the legal principle and the people's feelings, the monarch cannot openly stand at either end, but should be the arbiter of the law and the people's feelings, and maintain a balance! ”

"On the one hand, it is necessary to resolutely uphold the law, and one of the most important principles among people is to value self-interest, and on the other hand, to love one's relatives, and the intimacy of relations and the competition for self-interest will inevitably lead to contradictions, and thus there will be strife and chaos. Today's Zhao State has a large population, and it is impossible to maintain stability only by relying on ancient etiquette and morality, so it is necessary to determine the ownership of property and land through the formulation of laws, which is the determination of points; In addition, if the people commit adultery and vendetta in order to compete for profit, they also need to be punished by the law, which is a prohibition. Only by dividing and prohibiting can the entire state and dozens of counties with different folk customs be tied together, everything has a standard, a hole can be made, and action can be taken with the will of the king, so that the country can be rich and prosperous, and the world can be annexed. ”

On the other hand, although the law is meant to preserve the monarch's rule, the monarch does not have to enforce it himself. Serious law, playing an unsympathetic role in front of the people, is the work of the magistrates and judges, and the ruler should withdraw himself from the law, support the law, and look higher than the law. Let the people feel that the algorithm is a bad law and the officials are cool officials, but they can believe that the king is a man who values human feelings and will uphold justice for them, which is what Lao Tzu said, the saint is impermanent, and the heart of the people is the heart......"

Zhao Heng suddenly realized, what his father said today is not only how this case should be judged, for the monarch, whether the judgment of a case is fair or not, the life and death of several people, are all trivial matters, and the most important thing is to deal with similar incidents, maintain order, and at the same time buy people's hearts, so that the prestige of the Zhao family is stacked little by little, and finally becomes a high-rise building.

"With the law as the bone, the ritual as the skin, plus a little Taoist Lao Tzu's king south technique and metaphysical inscrutable, he is a qualified monarch of Zhao State......"

After teaching his son the balance of governing the country, Zhao Wuxian finally expressed his opinion on the case:

"The day after tomorrow, a public trial of Wu Feng's revenge case will be held in Dali Temple, and all walks of life in Yecheng will be able to attend the visit, and let people tell Deng Xi that the widow supports him and maintains the original verdict in accordance with the provisions of the law, the fairer the procedure, the better, and the heavier the sentence, the better!"

He showed a helpless smile: "In Zhao State, it must be clear that there is such a thing, the monarch is not wrong, and the national law will not be wrong, even if there is a mistake, it will only be the fault of the 'cool official'!" The wicked in the eyes of the people, let the 'cool officials' be the ones, and the holy monarchs in the eyes of the people will be done by the widows! ”

PS: There is one more chapter in the evening