Chapter VIII: The New Deal of II
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April 20 of the second year of Great Qin II. On this day, Emperor Hu Hai of the Second Emperor of Great Qin successively issued a series of edicts involving various aspects of Great Qin, including laws, people's livelihood, taxes, and land.
These edicts have been influencing Great Qin for decades and even nearly a hundred years. And this day, in the history of later generations, is also called the "Second New Deal"!
The first edict was to inform the world of the news that Concubine De and Concubine Shu were pregnant with the emperor's heir at the same time.
The young Emperor Daqin has an heir, which is a great joy for all the old Qiaowei people who care about Daqin. Therefore, as soon as the edict came out, the old Qin people scattered all over the world were excited.
From Hu Hai convening important ministers to discuss and then issuing an edict, there was only a short day. So, in this day, it is obviously impossible to get everyone to agree.
Fortunately, there were two unborn sons, whom Hu Hai thought were sons, and the important officials of the court did not compare with Hu Hai, although they had different opinions, but they focused more on how to improve the idea of the young emperor who liked to edict the world.
In terms of law, combined with the "strict punishment law" that was previously abolished by Hu Hai and the practice of punishing the nine tribes, Hu Hai once again abolished the law of sitting together and the three tribes, and put forward the practice of "virtue lord punishment and auxiliary". That is, the people are mainly educated, supplemented by punishment.
Hu Hai put forward the idea of governing the country for the first time, and in the form of legislation, Hu Hai established that the Great Qin was based on the rule of law, supplemented by the ideas of various schools such as Confucianism and Taoism, and encouraged the eclectic practice of various schools of thought in the Great Qin.
At the same time, Hu Hai put forward a request to reformulate the laws of the Great Qin on the basis of the six articles of the "Book of Laws" formulated by Li Kui, a representative figure of the Warring States Legalists.
The six chapters of the "Book of Laws" formulated by Li Kui include the law of theft, the law of thieves, the law of nets, the law of arrest, the law of miscellaneous, and the law of possession. On this basis, Hu Hai proposed criminal law (including conviction and sentencing for theft, thief, arrest, etc.), civil law (stipulating the behavior and property of the people, etc., similar to the civil law of later generations. Naturally, there are no rights of the people), the land law (land protection, land cultivation, land sales, etc.), the household law (household registration management, marriage system, and tax collection), the xing law (mainly providing for the levy and payment of forced labor, and the defense of the city), and the stable law (mainly regulating cattle, horses, animal husbandry, and post transmission).
These six laws are the general laws, and the sentencing and other aspects of each law, including Li You, Feng Quji, and many people from the hundred schools of the Royal Academy, are being perfected day and night.
In addition to these six general laws, there are also six separate laws: national law (conviction and sentencing for separatism, treason, etc.), military law (recruitment, regulations, and sentencing of soldiers in the Great Qin), commercial law (merchant positioning, commercial tax collection, sentencing, and all matters related to commercial activities), jue law (conferring titles, obligations, rights, and sentencing), official law (mainly sentencing for corruption and bribery of officials), and industrial law (protection and sentencing of engineering laborers and craftsmen).
Among them, such as national law, military law, and official law, these three things were not the first to be proposed by Hu Hai. In the countless complex and diverse laws of Daqin, basically all aspects of social activities are included, so what Hu Hai has to do now is to reorganize and classify these various laws with strict punishments, and then distinguish and sentence them. Revised.
In addition to these twelve laws, there are also nine sub-categories of laws scattered such as the law of cangs and the law of water.
Through the passage of the Thirty-three Laws, it constituted the general outline of the laws of the Great Qin after Hu Hai's replanning.
In addition to these 33 laws, Hu Hai used a single edict to restate the decree that unified the rails, writing, weights and measures, and the punishment for private coinage. And the sentencing of private coinage. It can be said that Hu Hai re-established the law of Great Qin, the most stringent, the three clans.
The importance of coins to an empire cannot be overstated. And people who are driven by the desire for profit often take risks because of profits, in this case, they can only use heavy punishment and kill until no one dares to do so.
This writes the total law. When Hu Hai edicted the world, it was just a general outline. Over the next three years, Hu Hai gradually implemented the new Great Qin law on a nationwide trial in the form of a detailed law in January and legal questions and answers (explanations of legal provisions).
Except for the general outline of the thirty-three laws. Hu Hai once again proclaimed that all the people of Daqin would be exempted from paying taxes for three years, and this three-year tax exemption was aimed at all the counties and counties of Daqin, including Xinjian Pingyi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang. It is no longer just for all parts of Guanzhong.
Tax exemptions were accompanied by incentives for land reclamation and fertility. These measures were basically carried out in accordance with the previous edict issued by Hu Hai to the people of Guanzhong. It's just that the target has changed from a few counties in Guanzhong to the people of dozens of counties in Daqin.
In addition to these, papermaking is also in Hu Hai's edict. This edict detailed the various processes and processes of papermaking, apparently encouraging the nobles and common people to build their own papermaking workshops. At the same time, more than 1,000 Shangfang craftsmen began to go to the southeast and northwest of Daqin, and they will go to dozens of counties in Daqin, with the support of the county guards, to build paper workshops to supply the needs of the people all over the world.
These promulgated edicts, in just seven days, were transmitted to every county in Great Qin through the channels of Longwei Mansion and Black Ice Terrace, and Black Ice Terrace and Dragon Guard Mansion have now spread to every county in Great Qin, but most of them are still in the county governance cities, such as some remote cities, and have not yet established strongholds.
The use of carrier pigeons and carrier eagles gave Hu Hai the fastest channel, but after frequent use, carrier eagles and carrier pigeons gradually began to expose their defects. That's an afterword.
Among these edicts, the most important thing is that Shangfang, Shangjifu, Zhisunei Shifu, and Yushi Mansion recruited craftsmen in various counties of Daqin to establish county schools and county schools, and the Imperial History Mansion supervised the world, and selected good talents with both ability and political integrity for the emperor and sent them to the imperial academy to study two things.
Hu Hai built the county school and the county school in Shangfang, Shangjifu and Zhisunei Shifu and Yushi Fu, and chose to be led by the four prefectures of the imperial court from top to bottom instead of directly ordering the counties and counties to do this, precisely because he was worried that the counties and counties would use the relationship between the construction of the county school and the county school to win over the people.
Led by these four prefectures, supplemented by the county guards and county orders of each county, although it will cost some manpower of the four prefectures, it is also a helpless move. What's more, through this incident, the Imperial History Mansion can see that those people in these four mansions can be used, and those people can't.
There is a reason for the future cut, right?
Whether it is the establishment of the county school and the county school, or the selection of school-age young people to study in the imperial academy by the Imperial History Office, in fact, in the final analysis, it is Hu Hai who is preparing for the implementation of the system of selecting officials for the imperial examination.
The formation of the imperial examination and the reform of the official system were no less important to Great Qin than fighting another battle for reunification. The only difference is that this time Hu Hai will no longer face the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, but the noble group of the family that has been formed in Great Qin.
The entire people of Daqin were boiling.
For example, in the absence of detailed rules, the impact on the people can be said to be minimal, and what really makes the people happy is the exemption from taxes and labor, the encouragement of fertility, and the cultivation of wasteland.
Behind the joy of the people was a bloodless battle in the Great Qin Dynasty.
Hu Haiyun weighed it again and again, and still put forward the idea of reforming the official system at the small court meeting, and sure enough, it was opposed by almost all important ministers of the court, including Feng Quji and Li You.
Among them, only Yingteng has not spoken yet.
Indeed, except for Ying Teng, who served as the head of Zongzheng Mansion and the county guard of Neishi County, basically no one in the Ying clan could enter the Great Qin Dynasty, let alone the counties below.
The official system implemented by Daqin, the three dukes and nine secretaries, is the top-level building. Below them are the county guards, county supervisors, county lieutenants, and then the county orders. The county order is also the lowest level in the Great Qin official system.
In the county system of Daqin, the county guard is the magistrate of a county. Most of the border areas are military generals, and most of the inland are appointed by Lang officials, with silver seals and blue ribbons, and a rank of 2,000 stones. In addition to the county magistrate who is directly appointed and dismissed by the imperial court, the supervisor who is responsible for supervising the county governance, and the county lieutenant who is responsible for commanding the garrison and managing public security, other officials in the county are appointed and dismissed by the county guard.
Although it is said that the appointment of the county magistrate is in the imperial court, the election of the county magistrate accounts for the vast majority of it. In other words, the imperial court often chooses who is the county commander according to the election of the county guard.
According to the current official system of Great Qin, that is, all officials from the three dukes and nine secretaries to the county magistrates and county magistrates need to be personally assessed and appointed by the emperor before they can take office.
Originally, this was the first emperor's move to strengthen the imperial power. After all, all the power is under the control of the emperor, so that the first emperor can feel at ease. However, today's Great Qin is no longer the original Guanzhong vassal state, and the territory is only a few counties, and the county governance is no more than dozens or hundreds.
After the unification of the world, there were already 30 counties under the jurisdiction of Daqin, and after a series of changes in the later period of the First Emperor, there were as many as 46 counties, among these counties, there were as few as five or six counties in the big counties, and more than ten counties; Small counties are as few as one county, and as many as two or three counties. Taken together, it is not a small amount.
With so many county governors, how could the First Emperor have the time to pay attention to how to appoint a small county magistrate? Who is the right person to choose?
So, in the final analysis, most of these county orders are actually elected by the county guards.
And how did the county guard come about?
Although the county guard was also appointed by the Emperor of Great Qin, in addition to the people selected by the emperor, the rest of the candidates were naturally divided by the nobles of the Three Princes and Nine Emperors and the Great Qin. For example, Li You, the son of Li Si, was the county guard of Sanchuan County, a large Qinzhong County.