Section 252 The Law of the Five Prohibitions
When a small sacrifice is held, the little priest is responsible for sacrificing the dogs. When worshipping the Five Emperors with 裎 (chěng), Xiao Sikou was responsible for adding water to the pot. On the day of the sacrifice, when the King of Dawn led the sacrifice to perform the Naheng ceremony, the little priest was also responsible for adding water to the pot. When receiving the princes who came to the court, Xiao Sikou was the leader of the king and was responsible for cleaning up the pedestrians. When holding a funeral for the queen or the crown prince, Xiao Sikou did the same. During small-scale military operations, the Junior Commander would personally monitor the execution of soldiers who violated military orders in front of the military station.
Whenever there is a major event in the kingdom, the little priest will send subordinate officials to prohibit idlers from passing. In the winter and October, when the people were sacrificed, the little priest would present the number of the people to the king. The king accepted the prayer and planned the increase or decrease of the state expenditure based on these data. At the end of the summer year, the junior priests would order the judges to count the number of cases that had been concluded, and submit the statistics to Tianfu.
On the first day of the first month of the summer calendar, Xiao Sikou will lead his subordinates to watch the criminal law, and he will shake the Mu Duo order and say: If you do not obey the criminal law, the state has its own permanent punishment! The little priest will use this to order the Suishi, the county judge, the Fangshi, the Sushi, and so on. Then the criminal law was announced to the Quartet, and the provisions of the five prohibitions were hung and promulgated. At the same time, the Junior Commander would order his subordinates to submit a book of records of the cases they had heard, and at the same time report it to the king.
(4) Judges/courtiers
The duty of the judges was to administer the law of the five prohibitions, to assist in the punishment, and to prohibit the people from doing evil: first, the prohibitions concerning the royal palace, second, the prohibitions concerning the government, the third, the prohibitions concerning the capital, the prohibitions concerning the fields outside the capital, and the fifth, the prohibitions concerning the army. The judges would shake the wooden duo to make a proclamation outside, and at the same time write it out and hang it in front of the doors of the alleys everywhere. The judges used the five precepts to assist the punishment, so as to warn the people in advance not to let the people sin because they did not know: first, they used the situation of the oath to admonish and use it for the army; the second is to use the form of an admonition for the meeting; the third is to use the form of a ban to admonish, which is used for the princes' field hunting; the fourth is to use the form of correction to admonish, which is used in the capital; Fifth, it is admonished in the form of a constitution and used for mining.
The judges were responsible for the union of the prefectures, the party, the clans, the Lu, and the Bi in the six townships, as well as the union of the people in the army to form the Shiwu, so that they could be friendly with each other and entrust each other to cooperate in the pursuit of foreign criminals and the arrest of thieves, so as to share the punishment and the reward. The judges were in charge of the decrees of the high priests, studied the eulogies of difficult cases, provided advice to the magistrates on the judgment of the cases, and provided the relevant laws of the kingdom on which they were based.
The formation of the eight aspects of the judges' administration of the cases decided by the judges: first, the formation of cases of stealing state secrets, second, the formation of cases of treason, third, the formation of cases of spying for foreign countries, fourth, the formation of cases of violating the king's fatwa, fifth, the formation of cases of fraudulent claims of king's orders, sixth, the formation of cases of stealing state treasures, seventh, the formation of cases of forming parties for personal gain, and eighth, the formation of cases of slandering the king or ministers.
In the event of a great famine in the country, the judges dealt with the matter in a way that reduced the loss of the famine: the judges would order the emigration from the affected area, transport goods and relief efforts, strengthen the picket garrison to prevent thieves, and reduce the punishment. In the case of a lawsuit arising out of property, the judges will adjudicate according to the contract or contract. If the sacrifice was made to the shrine of the fallen country, the judges would act as a corpse to be sacrificed in place of the gods. When the king entered and exited the palace gate or the capital at his leisure, the judges would lead the king and clear the pedestrians. During the sacrifice to the Five Emperors, the judges would water the corpses and the king's hands, and at the same time be responsible for filling the pots.
During the provocation ceremony, the judges would sacrifice dogs to facilitate the collection of blood. When the princes, as guests of the king, received the king's hospitality, the judges would lead their subordinates to prohibit idlers from passing through the palace. Do the same in times of great mourning. In the event of a large-scale military operation, the judges would lead their subordinates to strictly violate military orders, as well as those who interfered with the army's formation, and then execute such people. At the end of the summer year, the judges would order their subordinates to count and sort out the thin books of the cases they had tried to wait for the evaluation. In the first month of the summer calendar, the judges would lead their subordinates to hang prohibitions in the national capital and in the suburbs.
The local people are responsible for the litigation in the six townships and the national capital, and each is responsible for the number of people in the township to which they belong, and pickets and prohibits the villagers, accepts their lawsuits, examines their lawsuits, distinguishes the severity of the crimes, distinguishes between capital crimes and crimes committed, and then writes a verdict, and then judges the case in the foreign court after 10 days. The chief priest presided over the trial and made judgments on serious and minor cases in foreign courts. The officials in charge of the litigation and the criminal law were present, each present, and each presented a legal basis to participate in the decision. After the verdict of the case, the judge needs to accept the verdict and keep it. The local people choose a suitable date to be tortured or killed, and the person after the execution needs to be displayed for three days.
If the king wanted to pardon a criminal, the king went to participate in the deliberations on the date when the great priest presided over the trial of the foreign court. If there are major sacrifices, funerals, military operations, and the greeting of the princes who come to the court, the local council will take charge of the prohibition of their respective townships, and lead their subordinates to stand on both sides of the road to prohibit idlers from passing. If the Three Princes go out on state affairs, the countryside will lead them and clear pedestrians. The third prince did the same when there was a funeral. Whenever there was a great event in the kingdom, the land would be responsible for killing those who violated the prohibition.