Chapter 234: The Code of Mekpis (Part II)

The Code of Hammurabi, .

The Code defended the interests of the slave aristocracy, and was divided into three parts: the preamble, the main body, and the conclusion. There are 282 articles in the text, including litigation procedures, protection of private property, tenancy, debts, usury, marriage and family, etc.

The Code of Hammurabi is engraved on a black basalt pillar 2.25 meters high, 1.65 meters long at the perimeter and 1.90 meters at the base, making it the oldest and most complete code in the world.

This code is an epoch-making symbol, representing an era, and its role at that time strengthened the royal power, social order, and economic development, and contributed to the prosperity of the country.

More importantly, it eliminated the private laws of the lords of the city-states and unified the laws of the whole country. It marks the transition of humane society from the age of fully theocratic prophets to the stage of human autonomy.

The preamble to the Code of Hammurabi states in almost the same form: "For the sake of the welfare of mankind, Anu and Enlil command me, Hammurabi, the glorious and God-fearing Lord, to uphold justice in the world, to destroy the wicked and wicked, so that the strong will not be oppressed, and I may be like Shamash, shining on the head of the king, and glorifying the earth."

And the present era is also a similar era - from a slave society to a feudal society, from a city-state society to a unified kingdom society

Of course, it is impossible for Wu to copy the Code of Hammurabi and create the Code of Mekpis

She went back and gathered some priests, and went to the workshop to check it out, and got some advice, and after three days she handed over a small scroll of bamboo slips, on which there were only eight articles—the code of law was not made in one step, but by the people of this world themselves, and she understood

(1) Any merchant must be a freeman or a freeman or above

(2) Any merchant in a weapons workshop must go to the church and the royal palace to declare and obtain an emblem that can be used for generations, and the theft of the emblem is tantamount to the theft of property, and a penalty of 1,000 silver coins is given, and if there is nothing to pay, the thief is punishable by death

(3) Any weapon given to the royal palace and the church must have an insignia, which is inspected by the Temple, and those who fail to pass it are subject to scourging and fines

(4) Any dealer in arms who sells weapons to the king or to an enemy declared by the Church shall be punished by death

(5) Any merchant would pay according to the taxes established by God and the royal family, and if he had no money to pay, he had to pay his land and house

(6) If a thief or robber is encountered within the confines of the weapons workshop, he shall be executed immediately without trial

(7) Slaves in the arms workshop who fled or disobeyed their masters were to be put to immediate death without trial

(8) In order to acquire copper and iron, arms merchants were allowed to go to enemy areas and battlefields

The law is simple and barbaric, but this is not carried out according to Wu Yan's will, but is actually needed at the time, reflecting the cruelty of the criminal law and the inequality between people

When the crown prince Mekpis read it, he was quite satisfied, and approved these articles and carried them out

Soon, the people and the nobility, thirteen families applied for the emblem, they rushed to the battlefield, collected the broken weapons, brought them back to melt down and rebuild, and sold them to the royal family and the temple, and the quality was checked by the priests of the god of war

It didn't take long for this method to become popular, and the damage and replenishment of weapons were resolved

For this reason, King Vessy, who commanded the army at the front, also wrote a letter praising his son: "Your method is good, and you have the wisdom of a ruler. ”

Of course, he also rewarded the specific host Wu Yanxi with a bag of gold and ten slaves.

The crown prince Mekpis reduced one task and got things done, and he liked it so much that he instructed Wu Yan'an: "Priest Melfi, although you do not have your uncle's foreknowledge, you have his wisdom, and in the future, such things will be dealt with in the same way." ”

This is tantamount to giving her the right to make laws, which is given by the true king, and from now on it is not her own use of the civilization of other worlds to promote.

Wu still has a cautious attitude, basically, only formulating specific laws that produce quick results and have actual needs, and does not attempt to formulate a relatively perfect legal code that is inclusive of all aspects, and does not create it out of thin air, but mostly extracts excellent ones from the original local customs and regulations, and fixes them in the form of law

Even so, with the advent of one decree after another, the successful experience in the kingdom was fixed, the internal order of the kingdom was gradually improved, and in the case of the long-term use of foreign troops, it had a major role in promoting and building a relatively stable rear, all of which can be understood by people of insight

Somewhere deep in the rainforest

A group of temple fighters was moving, and suddenly, Moore raised his hand

Suddenly, everyone stopped, and everyone behind immediately entered a vantage point and fell low on the ground

These people are all first-class talents in each temple, and the average level is above level ten, and the number is about hundreds

After a few moments, they all felt the black form, moving slowly across a swamp

"It's sad that Kitley, a god of antiquity, has fallen into an evil beast and had to obey the orders of the dark god, and has lost all of his godhead and most of his divine powers, and even lost his full ability to think!" Moore thought so, he didn't tell the identity of these monsters as gods before, after all, it would damage the majesty and glory of the gods

It was not the first time that the priesthood, who had the advantage in numbers, had adopted a posture of encirclement.

Luckily, the moon broke through the clouds and sprinkled moonlight on everyone.

"Altar!" Moore issued orders

The first is the altar of the Lord of Radiance, which was erected to the ground, and the priesthood knelt on the ground and began to pray in a low voice, ignoring the filth and poisonous insects on the ground, and after a while, the altar flashed a little holy light, which coincided with the moonlight, and the surrounding poisonous insects fled frantically, and there was no time to freeze to death, forming an area of hundreds of meters.

Secondly, the priests of the other seven gods, each praying, the overlapping light began to form a cohesive force, describing mysterious symbols in the air.

"My lord, it's moving!"

Although it had lost most of its mind and power, Kitley had been a god after all, and it instinctively sensed the crisis, raised its head, and roared around

In the moonlight, the monster had a boar-like head and long fangs on its jaws, and when it sniffed, it suddenly roared again and rushed towards the group

"Sadly, it doesn't even need us to provoke, it automatically goes into the ambush circle." Moore sneered.

When it rushed into the altar, he said, "God says that the wicked thing will be imprisoned." ”

Suddenly, countless patterns appeared out of thin air, forming shackles of various colors and locking its movements.

Due to the fact that they had been tempered and cooperated tacitly, almost all the holy warriors drew their swords and spears and attacked it at the same moment

The spark sprang around, and it let out a painful roar

The weapons that had been blessed by the gods only tore a little of their fur, and black blood flowed out, and if you looked closely, you could see a hint of gold inside—a remnant of the gods

From the precognition, it can be known that it is invulnerable, and it has a very strong recovery, and the wounds cut on their bodies will heal quickly

But now, all weapons have a special blessing that cuts open its skin and makes it difficult for wounds to heal

Almost at the same time, all kinds of divine arts, like artillery, concentrated their attacks.

These all-in-one lethal magic techniques as high as level six bombarded its body as if they didn't want money

"Ahh It screamed, and streams of flames erupted from him, seeping through the wound, burning its nerves and skin

The monster roared and suddenly, and a little symbol appeared on its body

Moore didn't have the slightest surprise, he just looked at it carefully: "This is the condensation of the destructive power, well, I can't imagine that it still retains a little destructive divine power." ”

At that moment, all the priests stepped back and knelt on the ground to pray.

The flames of the eight altars rose at the same time, forming symbols one after another, and continued to entangle like shackles, and the monster struggled desperately, breaking several with each struggle, but there were more entanglements

And the holy warriors, constantly taking out blessed spears and bows and arrows, carrying weapons of divine power, poured down

As the wounds became more and more, black blood continued to gush out, and the monster suddenly let out an earth-shattering roar, and the black symbol exploded all the time, breaking all the shackles of the surrounding symbols

And the temporary altar didn't seem to be able to stand this kind of power, and with a "snap", it shattered into countless small pieces.

But at the same time as it cracked, a little light suddenly lit up, and these eight rays of light tore through the space in a blink of an eye, hitting the monster in the middle, and immediately pierced it.

The monster's roar stopped, and black blood gushed out from the sixteen front and back holes

"Kill it!" Moore gave the order

Suddenly, hundreds of holy warriors pounced, and divine power erupted in the sword light

"Yikes!" The badly wounded monster, with its fanged mouth wide open, made a final resistance, killing more than a dozen holy warriors one after another, but, after a while, it finally "boomed" and fell, its eyes that were originally full of evil and blood-eating light were now full of pain and despair.

Moore took out the smallest altar he had brought with him, the size of a foot, but as soon as it appeared, the divine light illuminated the entire ground

The monster received this light, and suddenly, its eyes gradually cleared, and it whispered, "Where am I?" ”

But he woke up before he died

"Kitley, I have been ordered by the Lord of Radiance to let you go back, and there you will be reborn!" Moore said loudly.

The familiar and unfamiliar light reminded it of something, and it murmured in a low voice, "Light, sun!" ”

The light in his eyes dissipated, and a bit of golden light with a huge black aura rushed out and pounced on the altar.

The altar slammed

Moore's foresight had seen that on the palace of God, on the exquisite, majestic pillars, a statue began to emerge from nothing.

Almost at the same time, a huge divine power emerged from the altar, and all the injured were immediately treated, and the black qi on the bodies of the dead also dissipated, revealing a peaceful face.

The clergy immediately knelt down and felt God's grace

Only Moore himself knew that only one-tenth of the power that leaked out, and nine-tenths of it poured into the body, a little golden in the body, and a little more enlarged—this is the supreme grace of God!