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Then, the current indiscriminate use of punishment by the magistrates is naturally also a violation of fairness and the ruling order.

Therefore, Liu Che relaxed his tone a little and said, "Now, what is being discussed is the issue of the limitation of the punishment of the magistrate...... Please be honest with you! ”

This can be regarded as giving Dong Zhongshu a step down, otherwise, it will be too embarrassing.

With the personality and social customs of the Han people, if there is no such step, I am afraid that Dong Zhongshu will either commit suicide or be committed after returning home.

"Your Majesty is sage, the ministers are dull and do not dim the holy will, please punish the ......" got the steps, Dong Zhongshu hurriedly bowed again.

He's still young, but he doesn't want to die yet!

And the Legalists breathed a long sigh of relief, what the Legalists were most afraid of was that in today's Shiqu Pavilion, they finally came to a conclusion that the punishment should be used sparingly and the death penalty should be prudent.

That would be too bad!

In particular, the bureaucrats were even more relieved.

Tingwei up and down, but he hasn't forgotten the disaster that Zhang Ou brought to Tingwei back then!

During the period when Zhang Ou was in charge of the court, the entire Tingwei yamen was almost suspended.

In prisons, there are a large number of criminals awaiting execution.

But for the sake of his reputation, Zhang Ou just didn't approve it or didn't approve it.

As a result, hundreds of heinous death row prisoners have escaped justice!

This is not the most terrible thing, the most terrible thing is that half of these death row prisoners re-offend half a year after they are released from prison, and they have become even worse!

Someone even blatantly wiped out seven members of a family!

At that time, many Legalist officials in the Tingwei Yamen were deeply angry.

Many people hung up their crowns and left, and even more fierce people committed suicide in anger to show their ambitions!

For Confucianism, justice is the government of virtue and benevolence.

But for Legalists, justice means that the law is respected and implemented!

And Zhang Ou, for his own private name, put the entire Han law out of the way. He himself was praised by the government and the opposition, but within the court lieutenant, he fell into unprecedented isolation.

Back then, when Zhang Ou was dismissed from his post in Jinshang, the entire court lieutenant celebrated this terrible disaster and finally left the Han political arena.

Since Zhao Yu became the court lieutenant, it has been six years, and the court captain has worked hard so far, but he can only remove Zhang Ou's bad influence.

At this time, there is another unfavorable conclusion that is even more terrible than Zhang Ou.

Many court officials are afraid that they will be discouraged and completely lose their fighting spirit.

As a result, many people turned their eyes of worship and reverence to their Son of Heaven and touched the crown on their heads.

The beast is a beast of fair and just law.

Basically, all Legalist officials, before putting on the crown, will take an oath. This is a Legalist tradition, and it has been popular since the Shang Dynasty.

In recent years, under the leadership of the legalist magnate Zhang Hui, the entire oath process has been perfected and completed.

Every Legalist official, before he wears his own crown and becomes a law enforcement officer, will take an oath under the supervision of his master and father.

Its oath said: Taiyi is above, the eight masters are in the list, and I sincerely swear: I will rule by law! Swear to take the law as a rope! I will do what I do! If not! Please punish him heavily!

This oath was actually stolen from the Mo family by the Legalists.

When the children of the Mo family got started, their oaths and procedures were stricter. Moreover, there are rules within the Mo family to punish those who break their oaths.

Although the Legalists have only learned to make oaths, the effect is still amazing.

So that today's Legalists are closely united, unanimous, and have common ambitions and pursuits!

Naturally, Legalists are particularly sensitive and proud on some issues.

As a result, Dong Zhongshu naturally became a thorn in their side.

"Okay, you Dong Zhongshu, you actually want to corrupt the Han family system!" Many Legalist officials were resentful in their hearts and wanted to find someone who would almost give Dong Zhongshu and his students a good look.

And the people who are targeted by the Legalists are undoubtedly very miserable.

Because, the current Legalists have full control over the judicial system of the Han family.

Except for the absence of legislative power, they almost usurped all the remaining powers.

It's easy for them to deal with a particular group of people.

Don't think that if a legalist has a legal character, he will not gain power, distort the law, or fabricate charges.

In history, Zhang Tang once invented the crime of slander and killed his political opponent Yan Yi.

As for the sages of the Legalists before, what did they not do in order to promote the change of the Fa?

In fact, among the hundreds of schools, in the system of law.

If the old Huang faction is the force of order, then the Legalists are the force of chaos.

In order to achieve their goals, they don't care what means they use!

Of course, Legalism also has its own bottom line and principles.

It's not just any time or anything that abuses the law and refers to a deer as a horse.

In general, Legalism is a very contradictory group in many cases.

In order to do their best to teach the land and enrich the country and strengthen the army, many times, they will trample on the law.

At other times, however, they will desperately uphold the law and become the dominant forces of order.

Legalists are not like the old Huang school, who will be old-fashioned and stubborn in abiding by the law.

In the eyes of legalists, the law is a tool, if the tool is not suitable, then change it, this is to change the law!

If the tool can still be used, but the situation at that time needs to be changed, then the Legalist will not hesitate to misinterpret the law in order to achieve the goal.

Therefore, generally speaking, a successful Legalist minister will eventually become a cool official in the eyes of others.

They were ruthless and unscrupulous, and their hands were stained with the blood of noble landlords and common people.

Anyone who is targeted by them will be in great trouble!

And now, they are eyeing Dong Zhongshu and his disciples, and they can only say that Dong Zhongshu can only ask for more blessings for himself.

But it's not just the Legalists who are eyeing Dong Zhongshu.

The ministers and nobles of the old Huang faction also looked at Dong Zhongshu and other Confucian scholars with strange eyes.

For the old Huang school, there is no doubt that the law is the most sacred.

In upholding the law, they are more determined than the legalists, because they are too dogmatic and rigid, so many times, Huang Lao scholars are often synonymous with stubbornness and conservatism.

However, you can't judge from this that they are a corrupt and degenerate faction of society.

In fact, old-fashioned schools exist in any society.

And, in many cases, the old school is not on the corrupt side.

On the contrary, the so-called progressive literati may be the corrupt and degenerate party.

Because the world and society are complex.

Let's take the present as an example, the virtuous and benevolent government advocated by Confucianism is naturally relatively progressive from the perspective of the long history. Because sooner or later humanity will come to this stage!

However, from a practical point of view, these Confucian claims will only lead to disaster!

and even destroy the now powerful yeoman and plebeian classes!

Let them go bankrupt in large numbers, be displaced, their wives separated, their families ruined, and in the end, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up, and the princes and princes had a kind of Xiangning, and history fell into a cycle again.

As an emperor, as a traveler and a reborn, Liu Che has recognized a truth a long time ago - the world is complex, history is spiraling, and the most important point is that everything has both positive and negative sides.

Where there is a positive, there must be a negative.

There is no perfect thing in the world, and there is no perfect solution to all problems!

Just like the Huang Lao school advocates small government, the government should not interfere with the people's autonomous actions.

This is good for people's livelihood and social development, but it can lead to local mountains becoming larger.

Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, after removing the turmoil in the period of Liu Bang and Empress Lü, there have been three large-scale rebellions of princes and kings since Taizong.

This is the inevitable result of the small government advocated by the old Huang faction.

Back then, the minting of the king of Wu, Liu Bi, and even the minting of the central government, carved up the finance of the entire Han family!

How could this not be a problem?

Therefore, Taizong began, and Legalism rose and raised.

However, the harsh laws advocated and promoted by the Legalists and the strict social order will inevitably make it difficult for all classes to breathe.

This provides the best soil for the development and growth of Confucianism.

Because Confucianism advocated moral and benevolent governance, they demanded that the central government reduce its intervention in the local grassroots and let the village sages take over the township pavilions, so that the common people could become the main body of society.

They also demanded reforms at the national level to serve the interests of local hilltops and reduce friction.

This is advantageous in the short term, because it can buy people's hearts - the local big landowners and big nobles will certainly raise their limbs in support.

But in the long run, it is catastrophic.

Of course, it's not that Confucianism doesn't have a good side.

In fact, according to the Confucian practice, we can ensure stability for at least a hundred years, and in the short term, we can unite people's hearts and strengthen our national strength.

It is equivalent to a stimulant injection into the country.

If Liu Che was not a traverser, I am afraid that he would have been on the thief ship of Confucianism.

As for now?

In the short term, the Han dynasty's Huang Lao faction and the Legalists are likely to rule together for a long time—at least for a decade, and this pattern will not change.

But in the long run, Liu Che knows that in a maximum of twenty years, the world will be turned upside down.

It's not just the classes of society that will be divided, and new classes will be born.

Even the country itself will undergo a drastic change.

Not to mention, once the Han army completely defeated the Xiongnu, it took all the Western Regions and marched into Central Asia and South Asia.

Then, Liu Che will definitely fulfill his promise - to divide the nobles.

These vassal states and princely states, which are tens of thousands of miles away from Chang'an, will inevitably bring countless problems.

And now, whether it is Confucianism or Huang Lao, the Mo family, or the miscellaneous family, there are no countermeasures and methods to solve these problems.

All schools of thought are still stuck in the inherent order and social structure formed since the Warring States period.

The peasants and landlords, as the backbone of society and the ruling class and the ruled class of the state.

However, things are about to change dramatically.

Even now, this upheaval is already on the horizon.

A large number of cheap laborers from the Southwest Yi and Nanyue kingdoms poured into the southeast, and both the government and the landlords were keen to use these cheap laborers.

In Andong, the whaling industry of the Japanese slaves and Chen Huan flourished day by day, bringing countless valuable resources and wealth from the sea.

As of this year, Nanyang's heavy industry base has involved more than 40,000 young people in industrial production.

At the same time, more than 30,000 cheap slave laborers were active in it.

Decade! Just ten years!

Liu Che believed that the Han dynasty would usher in a new class—the workers, the capitalist workshop owners and the industrial aristocracy that ruled and exploited them. It may even include a class group of colonial hacienda owners and their serfs.

Hundreds of schools, are you ready to usher in this new era?

In Liu Che's opinion, not at all!

Even, few people notice this change.

The wind rises at the end of the autumn season.

Except for the miscellaneous family in Anton, who seems to have foreseen the new era.

The mainstream Confucianism and Huang Lao can't see this change at all.

How does this work?

How can this be?

Liu Che urgently needed the wisdom and celebrities of the hundred schools of thought to establish and improve a set of order and moral system for him.

Therefore, this is the meeting of Shiqu Pavilion.

This meeting is not just a simple party.

It is also a foreshadowing for the future.

It is the key reason why he chose the current topic.

Because, once the new era comes, the first thing to respond to must be the law.

After all, you can't use a set of laws for landlords and peasants to adjudicate disputes and problems between workers and workshop owners, manor owners and serfs.

Thinking of this, Liu Che had to give them a little reminder.

He carried the ribbon, walked two steps, and after a little thought, said: "When I heard it, Han Feizi said: The law is not noble, the rope is not bent, and I heard Shang Jun said: The punishment does not avoid the doctor, and the reward is not spared!" Therefore, during the time of Taizong, Zhang Shizhi, the court minister, said: The law is enough! If the law is sufficient, then there must be a division! ”

"Today's magistrates do not know the division of the law, so the punishment is often excessive, and the people have suffered from it, and I can't bear it.

If everything is said about this, if there are still people who don't understand, then Liu Che can only say mdzz!

After listening to Liu Che's words, countless people suddenly realized - I see!

Dong Zhongshu even lamented in his heart: Your Majesty, you said it earlier......

So, he immediately wanted to get out of the queue and make up for his mistakes.

But alas, someone moves much faster than him!

This person is his senior brother Hu Wusheng.

Hu Wusheng was almost a brisk walker, and he came out of his seat and bowed: "Your Majesty said: Today's magistrates don't know the division of the law, so they often use punishment in a way that is excessive, and the people suffer from it, and I can't bear it!" Your Majesty has a benevolent heart, rain and dew and grass, trees, birds and beasts, and the ministers congratulate the world! ”

"The minister thinks that His Majesty should not edict the world: it is divided into sixty whips and fifty lashes, and if it is excessive, it will be illegal, and the imperial history will be corrected! If you are in it, then you can say yes! ”

"The minister Hu doesn't have to say goodbye to death, and he will resign!"

Sixty lashes, fifty lashes?

It's still too heavy!

Fifty lashes, with a little force, you can beat someone to death!

As for the whip sixty, it will almost wipe a person's body to the fullest!

However, it is also a normal thing.

If the courtiers finish everything, what else does the emperor want to do?

The courtiers have taken all the benefits, what does the emperor use to show his benevolence?

Therefore, Liu Che glanced at Hu Wusheng with great relief, and said, "Qing thinks that sixty whips and fifty lashes are the divisions?" I don't think it's appropriate, so let's take thirty lashes and twenty lashes......"

In this way, basically, it can not only prevent the magistrates from being without authority at all, but also prevent these guys from casually beating the people to death!

It can also tell the world: how the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty cares about the grassroots and cares for Li Shu, he is definitely a good son of heaven for the people and a good emperor for the world!

The emperor has said so, in the entire Shiqu Pavilion, except for the three shouts, is there anyone who dares to criticize?

Therefore, almost immediately, everyone bowed respectfully and said: "Your Majesty can be a blessing, Your Majesty is virtuous in the world, and the ministers congratulate the world!" ”

Only Dong Zhongshu felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

Because he found that his senior brother, the ally who had promised to unite, ended up stabbing him in the back when he needed help the most!

However, he can't point it out, let alone criticize the other party's behavior.

It's disgusting!

Dong Zhongshu could only knock out his teeth and swallow blood.

However, the foundation of the alliance is also crumbling because of this.

However, Hu Wusheng had no choice.

In Hu Wusheng's opinion, he had to do this completely for the Ram School to avoid the doom of Lu Ru and Gu Liang!

When today's temper, who doesn't know?

At that time, if he didn't come out in time to betray himself, he would have been preempted by others, especially Han Ying.

The Ram School's good situation today is about to be buried.

Therefore, I can only grieve my junior brother!

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