Chapter 563: A Legal Society

"What is my emperor going to do?" Li Deyu put down his hand and got a Shuntian Daily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Suncheon Daily, this is a must-read newspaper for all officials, although it is not specified, but all officials have gradually understood that this is the national newspaper.

In order to know more about the movements of the imperial court, all officials must read the newspaper every day. Newspaper students, this is a very peculiar profession. Although in many places, the curfew exists in name only, Chang'an still firmly enforces it. Anyway, this has no impact on Chang'an's nightlife. The curfew has to be outside the fang, and when the door is locked, no one can leave outside. But inside the fang, it didn't affect at all.

As for the newspaper boy, it is the only kind of person who can run out of the door before dawn. At first, only Suncheon Daily had to deliver newsboys to do so. However, later Chang'an and Wannian Daily also imitated it, and only sent the newspaper to the officials before all the officials went to court.

Li Deyu put down the newspaper in his hand, the carriage just stopped slowly, and then the coachman knocked on the door just outside the door, which meant that Han Yao had arrived. The special carriage, with the addition of chassis and spring suspension, and the smooth road in the palace, did not shake the carriage at all the way, and it was very stable. If he hadn't gotten used to this time, he wouldn't have known until the coachman knocked on the door that his destination had arrived.

He got out of the carriage and walked into his office amid the sound of official greetings. The carriage drove to its place on its own. The officials watched the carriage leave with envy. Pulling the cart to get two white horses, stepping on an elegant pace, this is Li Chen's idle stable, this Tang Bi Ma Wen, trained at a special pace. When I walked, it was as if I was dancing.

This is the Horse Trick, also known as the dressage. Li Chen specially let the idle stables train. Originally, he wanted him to train him to take steps, which was the Han Dynasty copper galloping horse, the kind of horse that ran with the same foot.

If you pay attention to the bronze galloping horse of the Han Dynasty, you will find that the horse runs and starts, and the four feet on both sides are all started at once, just like a human walking with the same hands and feet. And the average horse runs and runs, well, Li Chen won't describe it, it's not like this anyway.

Originally, Li Chen thought that it was a mistake made by the craftsman, or for the pursuit of beauty. Later, I heard experts explain that it was a special kind of horse step, called Shun Turn, also known as the opposite side step. It is true that there are horses that can run like this, and the advantage of this is that people ride on it and it is very stable.

The idle stable envoy also said that among the six horses of Zhaoling, Emperor Taizong rode one of the horses, there was a horse called Te Le Fat, which was also in this posture.

However, it seemed that it took a special horse to run in that kind of posture, and the idle stables made it powerless. Li Chen could only let the stableman try to get the horse to run out of the kind of dressage he requested.

This made the idle stable, the gray hair scratch shorter, and almost didn't quit. did not resign, after all, he was reluctant, this position is a very authoritative profession, but after Li Chen ascended the throne, he was almost abolished.

Where is the authority? If you know that An Lushan once held this position, you know the authority. This position was established by Wu Zetian. Although he was called Bi Ma Wen by Li Chen, he had a lot of power and could control all the horses in the Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the AMTD Bureau was responsible for the management of horses, and there were six leisure boards. Wu Zetian set up a "stable in the battle", and a few years later, he set up a "stable envoy". In the first year of Xuanzong, he set up a "leisure stable outside the battle".

The "Inside the Battle" manages the royal horses, and the "Outside the Battle" is responsible for the prohibition of military horses.

In addition, there are two huge horse sources in the outer stables, Longyou Zhujian and Eight Horse Fang. Originally, these two units belonged to Taipu Temple. The former provided horses for the stables in the staff, and the latter was responsible for providing horses for the forbidden army, which was considered an external unit of the two.

To make a metaphor, the rest of the war is a car used to manage government leaders, and the rest of the war is a car used to manage the capital garrison. Longyou Zhujian Mu and Bamafang are the two major state-owned car factories.

The reason why the position of "idle stable" is very powerful is that he completely usurped the power and position that should have belonged to two departments, Dianzhong Province and Taipu Temple, and controlled all the cars owned by the state, and even the armored vehicles that could be converted into combat vehicles. You see how many dicks there are.

Originally, with the loss of Longxi in the Tang Dynasty, the rights of this position were greatly reduced, and the towns either did not have many cavalry, or took care of themselves, and he, an idle man, became less and less authoritative.

After recovering Longxi, Li Chen naturally wanted to restore the local horse administration and provide horses for the Tang Dynasty. However, the idle stable makes the functions and powers completely split, and the Taifu Temple has to be returned to the Taifu Temple, and the province in the temple has to be returned to the province in the temple.

The rest of the stables is the royal horse trainer. A large number of horses that originally belonged to the royal family, and at the beginning of Li Chen's establishment of the Shence Army, all of them were supplied to the Shence Army, and they have not recovered much so far, so that the idle stables secretly wiped a lot of tears.

Later, he finally worked hard, relying on training this dressage, his power was not much bigger, but he was able to charge a lot of more money, and he made money to get the frantic Li Chen, and he actually let him take on the outside work, and for those rich people, he trained to walk dressage and succeed.

Being able to walk dressage is a symbol of wealth and power, and only a few people can enjoy this special horse, and it is not possible to get it if you have money. But this is not the reason why those officials look at the horses with envy.

They didn't look at the horse, but the carriage, that is, Li Deyu, who was given the honor of riding in the forbidden middle, Li Chen understood that Li Deyu was old, and especially let his carriage go straight into the forbidden middle. Hanyao Gate has gone deep into the forbidden middle and is on the left side of Hanyuan Palace.

Today, Li Chen did not recruit the prime minister to discuss the matter, if the statue of the prime minister was recruited to discuss in the Ayaqi Palace, Li Deyu could even take a car directly to the gate of the Ayaqi Palace. This is a great honor that makes everyone envious, although Li Deyu himself feels a little too ostentatious and wants to refuse.

But he was forced to accept by Li Chen, saying that he was old and didn't need to spend his energy on unnecessary affairs, so that he could better serve the country and be a cow and a horse for him, the emperor. Well, of course, only the first half of the original story.

Li Deyu can understand very well that the emperor's kindness, although Li Chen did not say it explicitly, but Li Deyu is really a cow and a horse, and during this time, he was busy with Li Chen to get it out and restructure. He didn't have time to think about why Li Chen started to build momentum in the newspaper.

Li Chen put forward a series of ideas related to merit examinations and judicial reform, which made the whole Datang very busy. All the officials were busy, declared their assets, and began to work out plans again.

This plan cannot be arbitrarily decided yet. Set less, it seems that you are not close to the heart, the next year's examination, the ranking is not high, the ninth class examination, maybe you have to take the third class to get the upper class, and the punishment is obedient to the lower top. That's a terrible review.

I don't ask to take each up, middle, up and down. At least take one of them. In the middle of the four examinations, he entered the first class of annual labor. In each exam, you can advance to the upper middle level. In the past, this was a lot of trouble.

There is no one goodness, it is for the middle. It means that the morality, prudence, fairness, and diligence in front of the front are not touched, and only one is loyal to his duties, at least to do his job well, in order to steadily improve. But the standard is not accurate at all, it all depends on the luck of the exam, and the relationship between you and the examiner and the invigilator.

Unlike now, as long as you do your job well, you are skilled in business, and the standards are generally not bad. If you have an opinion on the test, there is a standard for appeal. Most of the officials are busy with pain and happiness. Especially those officials who originally belonged to the officials, and for the first time enjoyed the same merit as the officials, they were even more positive.

Most of the officials are busy with pain and happiness, and the prime minister is the few who are very busy, and as for happiness, I don't know where to throw it away.

Li Chen proposed that the first step in judicial reform was to separate the judicial power from the county order, which was a major innovation. Following the example of the three-tier system of later generations, magistrates were established directly at the state and county levels.

The so-called state and county are not the first level of the county and the second level of the state, but the population and the number of households. At the county level, if the number of households is insufficient, a local court will be set up to judge Cao, and the county will be tried and tried.

If the number of households and the number of people is sufficient in Texas and counties, the local courts will be established at the county level, and the high courts will be established at the state level.

This is because of cost considerations, in fact, many states and counties in Datang are dissatisfied with the staff. For example, a county should basically have six Cao, and even include a lot of people like managing transactions and managing local schools. But these are basically only available in large counties.

Some small counties, usually have a very simple structure, not to mention the people who manage the schools and market transactions. Even the six cao have only two, one is the turbid current and the other is the clear stream. Although the imperial examination system has a history of about two hundred years, it is not so easy to eliminate the legacy of the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Li Chen's judicial reform, first of all, has to deal with this situation, because Datang's tax revenue has increased significantly, but the expenses have also doubled, and he can't say that even if there are only a few hundred households in each county, there is a full-time judge.

In these small counties, magistrates have to work a little harder, parade the counties under their jurisdiction, or receive notices that they will go wherever there is a need for trial.

In this way, the power of adjudication will be stripped from the hands of the county magistrates and assassins, and they will be like the local governors in later generations, focusing on economic development and pacifying the people.

If this is the only way, maybe the prime minister will not be so busy, that is, there are a few more official positions, and the delineation of the jurisdiction of courts at all levels, these are not big things, the real big thing is that Li Chen tried to make the Datang judicial system a step closer to modernization, Li Chen tried to establish a trial separation and jury system.

The so-called separation of trial and prosecution is a characteristic of the civil law system, where the judge in charge of trial and the prosecutor in charge of prosecuting crimes are both judicial systems, but they each exercise their powers. This system originated in France in the 13th century. It gradually developed into the middle of the nineteenth century before it was accepted by many countries.

The jury system originated in the United Kingdom and is a characteristic of the common law system, although they also have prosecutors, but the system and system are different from the civil law system. However, however different they may be, these systems are characteristic of the modern judicial system.

Li Chen is not a Chongyang, first of all, from the standpoint of a small people, how to avoid officials persecuting the people, and reforming the judiciary is a big direction. When officials cannot use the law as a weapon at every turn to represent the country, corrupt officials and corrupt officials will brutalize the common people, and there will be much less harm.

You say, aren't officials the representatives of the state? When officials are violated, doesn't it mean that the country is violated? Li Chen doesn't see it that way, officials are representatives of the country? Where did the emperor and the people go? Is a nation still called a nation without a people? When the officials have violated the people, will the state still exist?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party was the best representative. They used morality as a weapon to turn their own interests into national interests, and the Ming Dynasty was finished. The industrial and commercial tax cannot be collected at all, and I try to transfer my responsibility to those poor people, who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and have a belly full of men and women who steal and prostitute.

Therefore, he wants to establish a real society with a legal system and put the interests of all strata into the law. He told the child before that the Son of Heaven was guilty of the same crime as the common people, not a joke. If one person governs the country, the emperor has the final say, and one day he will be decided. Everyone will envy the authority of the emperor and have the opportunity to replace him.

Only by progressing to a legal society and truly combining the interests of all strata together, the Tang Dynasty, and even his Li family, will be stable, even if the times evolve in the future and the imperial power gradually weakens, it will be another British royal family, which is better than the future descendants of the people.

In his view, the separation of trials and the jury system is the foundation for moving towards a society governed by the rule of law. There are many things behind this, for example, the principle of presumption of innocence, the separation of trial and prosecution, and those who were previously unfaced will officially surface.

They will represent the people, and the prosecutors who represent the court, speak with evidence before the fair judicial system.

There are too many things involved in this, this is where those prime ministers have a headache, after all, there is no precedent to follow beforehand, Li Chen is a hands-off shopkeeper, after he says his thoughts, he will let the prime minister go to work, which can exhaust those prime ministers to death.

This matter is too important, and Zhou Qi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, can't play with the Criminal Department alone, so he can only drag the prime minister of the entire political affairs Tang to work on this matter together.

Fortunately, Li Chen also knew that this matter was in a hurry, and he was not in a hurry to implement this matter in the whole Datang, at present, only the trial power was completely separated from the hands of the county order, and the division of judicial areas was more urgent, and the other two things were only tried in limited places.

The separation of examination and inspection is to select a few large cities and try them out. The jury system was tried on a trial basis in several places in the border region where the heart was restructured from the state of confinement. For this reason, Li Chen specially talked to these prime ministers.