Section 251 Petty Priest in charge of civil litigation

The Great Priest will use Jiashi to make the bad people change their ways, Jiashi is the stone of literature and science, and the tree is on the left side of the outer court, hoping to make the people who do not follow the education and do not work to think about the literature and science of Jiashi, and repent and reform. If the people are guilty, but have not yet broken the law, but they endanger the village, the chief priest will shackle them and punish them to sit on the Jiashi, and then hand them over to the priest for hard labor. the penalty for serious crimes is 13 days in Jiashi and 1 year of service; secondly, he was punished for 9 days and served for 9 months; secondly, he was punished for 7 days and served for 7 months; secondly, he was punished for 5 days and served for 5 months; and a lesser punishment of three days and three months' service. After the punishment is completed, the people in the same state guarantee that he will not do it again, and the Grand Priest will forgive him and release him.

The Grand Priest would use a lungstone to make it impossible for the poor to complain to the people. The lung stone is a red stone set outside the gate of the imperial court, and the people can hit the stone to complain when they have injustice, because the shape of the stone is like a lung, so it is called a lung stone. Anyone who is lonely near or far, or who is old or weak, wants to appeal to the court, but their governor refuses to convey it, they can come to the lungs and stand on the lung stone for three days, and then the courtiers will listen to him tell him about his grievances, report them to the court, and then punish their superiors.

On the first day of the first month of the Zhou calendar, the Great Sikou began to announce the criminal law to the vassal states and the mining provinces in Wangji, and hung the written criminal law on a pair of tall buildings outside the palace gate, so that the people could see the criminal law, and after 10 days, they would collect it. Whenever the king and the princes made a covenant as a result of their meeting, the Grand Priest would personally monitor the writing of the covenant and hand it over to the heavenly palace to hide it in the ancestral temple. The Taishi, the Inner History, the Sihui, and the Liuqing all accepted copies of the Covenant for collection. All lawsuits between princes will be judged by the six canons of the kingdom. In any lawsuit between the kings and doctors, the chief priest will judge by the eight laws of the kingdom. In all lawsuits between the common people, the Grand Priest will judge by eighty percent of the kingdom.

At the time of the great sacrifice, the high priest was responsible for the sacrifice of dogs. When the Five Emperors were sacrificed with the 裎 (chěng) ritual, the Great Sikou would announce the date of the sacrifice and visit the province to see the Dazai's admonition to the hundred officials, as well as to the Fu Shi Xu disciples who served in the government. At dawn on the day of the sacrifice, the high priest would precursor the king. When the sacrifice was officially performed after dawn, the Great Priest did the same.

At the same time, the chief priest is responsible for offering open water and open fire, which is the clear and clean water in the big mussel, and the open fire is the fire lit by the bronze mirror reflecting the sun. Whenever the Hajj and the meeting are held, the Grand Priest will precursor the king. In times of great mourning, the Grand Priest also needs to do the same. When there is a major military operation, the chief priest will personally come to monitor and execute soldiers who violate military orders in front of the military headquarters. When there was a major event in the kingdom, the chief priest sent his subordinates to forbid the passage of idlers.

(3) Little Sikou

Xiao Sikou's duty is to be responsible for the affairs related to the outer court, which is the place where the emperor and the princes of the Zhou Dynasty handle the affairs of the court, and the inner court is the place where the son of heaven and the princes handle political affairs and rest. The Junior Counsellor is responsible for gathering the people and thus soliciting their opinions: first, when the country is in danger; The second is to consult them when the country wants to move the capital, and the third is to consult them when the country needs to elect a successor monarch.

The throne of the outer courts: the king faces south, the three dukes, the governor, and the people face north, the ministers face west, and the officials face east. The little priest would invite them to go forward in turn to accept the king's consultation, and use the wisdom of the mound people to assist the king's thoughts, so as to make judgments.

The small priest will use five kinds of punishment to judge the people's lawsuits, and for those cases that violate the criminal law, the small priest will judge according to reason, and the judgment will not be made until 10 days later. At the time of execution, after the indictment is read, the punishment will be applied. Men who have been ordained by the Viscount of Heaven and women who have been given titles do not need to be present in person to sit down at the time of trial. And whosoever shall be guilty of the king's kindred, shall not be executed in the place where the people are gathered.

Xiao Sikou will listen to the lawsuit based on five aspects in order to find out the truth of the litigant: one is to judge according to words, the second is to judge according to looks, the third is to judge according to breath, the fourth is to hear according to hearing, and the fifth is to judge according to eyes.

The Junior Priest would use eight kinds of deliberative laws attached to the kingdom's eight laws to discuss whether the crime could be mitigated, and then impose punishments: one was the deliberative law for the king's relatives, the second was the old deliberative law for the king, the third was the deliberative law for honest and upright officials, the fourth was the deliberative law for those who had great merits, the fifth was for those who had great merits, the sixth was for those with honorable status, the seventh was deliberative for those who worked hard for state affairs, and the eighth was deliberative for guests.

The Minor Priest would correct the judgment of the civilians through three severe interrogations: one was to harshly interrogate the ministers, the second was to harshly interrogate the officials, and the third was to harshly interrogate the people. The Junior Priest would listen to their advice and decide whether to kill or lenien, and decide to impose a heavy or light punishment. When it came time for the Grand Calibrator to be compared, the little priest would register the number of people and property, and all babies with teeth and above would be registered, and then reported to the Heavenly Palace. The Interior History, the Priesthood, and the Tsukasa Jae were responsible for collecting copies and formulating the country's financial plan based on the data.