Sima Yi never expected that he would just propose to set up a secret organization to secretly investigate those surrendered magistrates, and in the future, when the situation is stable, he will take out this evidence, and then implement "settling accounts after the autumn" on them, but this little emperor actually set up a judicial independence system based on this.

This is no longer something that can be described by the word "genius", it is simply a "celestial", not only Sima Yi feels that the little emperor has the posture of a celestial man, but even Guo Youzhi and Bu Qi also have this feeling. After listening to Liu Hou's exposition of this judicial system, they were keenly aware that this system would bring revolutionary changes to the rule of officials.

An independent judiciary is nothing short of a sword of Damoris hanging over the heads of these magistrates. Under the supervision of the procuratorate, they can only be people with their tails between their legs, and it is impossible to wantonly oppress the people in the countryside like in the past, as long as the procuratorate collects evidence of their bad deeds, they will die.

In the past, the judicial system was under their control, and they had absolute power over these men, and these men did not dare and could not disobey their will. Therefore, the people in the judicial system will either go along with them, or they will be removed and replaced by their own people.

At that time, they were the local soil emperors, and they could do whatever they wanted, covering the sky with one hand. And now they can only be "strict with themselves" and "abide by the law", and if they want to do any bad things, they can only do it secretly~ secretly.

Even if it is sneaky~ it is not completely safe, those supervising the imperial history will inevitably try their best to detect their illegal deeds all the time for their own merits. It felt like they were being roasted on a fire.

The little emperor's reform of the local administrative structure not only completely independent of the judicial system, but also independent of the military power. The magistrates had no access to military power at all, and they had no soldiers if they wanted to rebel. However, the generals of the armed forces who led the troops lacked the most important material basis for launching a rebellion -- money and food.

If they want to rebel, they must first collude with the magistrates and get them to provide money and food. Although this could not completely prevent the magistrates from rebelling and becoming warlords, it undoubtedly added a lot of difficulty to the rebellion of the magistrates.

Liu Hou is also proud of this system, especially the independent judicial system, which is even more advanced than later generations, and he has a feeling that it is in place in one step. If there is another legislative system, then the system of separation of powers will be complete. However, the meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, and it is not advisable to change too much at once now, so let's leave it for later.

However, not everyone agreed with Liu Hou doing this, Deng Zhi jumped out against it as always, he thought that Liu Hou wanted to restore the Legalist family, which violated the ancestral system. He believes that the Legalist ideology is unacceptable, and if he blindly imposes severe punishment on the people, he is likely to repeat the mistake of tyrannical Qin officials ~ forcing ~ people ~ to rebel.

Deng Zhi believes that at this stage, we should learn from Emperor Gaozu when he first conquered the world, abolish all kinds of harsh punishment laws, and "make three chapters of the law" with the people, so as to give the people a relaxed environment, instead of blindly strictly enforcing the law.

What Deng Zhi didn't know was that Liu Hou actually really wanted to establish a society ruled by law, and really wanted to implement the Legalist system. Although Legalism has its historical limitations, there are also many flashes of thought in it. Liu Hou intends to use Legalist thought as the basis and combine it with the rule of law thought of later generations to establish a more perfect society under the rule of law.

However, he also knew that the reality was still in the world of Confucianism, so he did not dare to take too big a step at once, so he could only reform the administrative system step by step, and slowly realize his political ambitions by boiling frogs in warm water. In fact, the intensity of this institutional reform is not very large, and many things are the same or similar to the original system of the Han Dynasty.

The reason why there was only such a small reform was precisely because it was because it would encounter opposition from Confucian loyalists like Deng Zhi. After listening to Deng Zhi's objections, Liu Hou explained: "Deng Aiqing has been thinking too much, and this reform plan is actually only slightly changed from the original system.

Originally, the judges who tried cases at the local level were appointed directly by the imperial court, and it is clear that the previous emperors were also worried that the magistrates would interfere with the judiciary. This time, it is just a matter of clarifying this point and writing it into the system. As a result of this reform of the judicial system, they are still handling cases involving the common people in the same way as before.

The difference is that they have more supervisory functions, or abilities, over magistrates. They used to listen to the magistrates in everything, but now they don't have to listen to them anymore, and they can rest assured that they will supervise the magistrates. Deng Aiqing just said that the official ~ forced ~ people ~ anti-I don't agree very much.

After this reform, there will only be a good impact on the people, and there will be no bad impact. On the contrary, the power of the magistrates has been restricted, they can no longer do whatever they want unscrupulously, the people are less oppressed, and they have lived a good life since then, and there may never be any more things about the officials ~ forcing ~ the people ~ against them in the future.

Of course, it does have a great impact on the officials, and they are indeed under a lot of pressure, so the officials ~ forcing ~ the people ~ to rebel have decreased, but the possibility of forcing the officials to rebel will be a little greater.

If you are a magistrate and rebel because you don't obey the law, then what's the use of such an official? It's better to cut off these tumors as soon as possible. ”

Deng Zhi was speechless about Liu Hou's remarks, he felt that the little emperor's words were really reasonable. As a result, this set of political reform plans was successfully passed, and the site acceptance work was also carried out smoothly. until

It wasn't until four months later that the vast territory east of the Tiger Pass of Wei had been taken over by the Shu army, and at a time when Liu Hou's tense war nerves had already relaxed, he suddenly received an emergency battle report of 800 miles.

The first battle report was sent by the 1513 unit (that is, the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the 5th Division), which said that when the troops advanced to Zhuo County, Youzhou, they encountered the Karasuma cavalry brigade that invaded the Han land to "fight the grass valley"1, and a major battle broke out between the two sides. As a result, more than 1,500 Karasuma cavalry were killed, and our army suffered more than 500 casualties, of which 121 were killed and 390 were wounded.

Liu Hou was taken aback, and a new enemy appeared! The Karasuma (also known as Wuhuan) tribe was originally a member of the Donghu tribal alliance. In 119 B.C. (the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty), the Han army broke the Xiongnu and expelled the Xiongnu from Monan, Wuhuan was subordinate to the Han Dynasty, and moved south to Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong five counties stationed outside the herd, on behalf of the Han Northern Imperial Xiongnu.

In 49 A.D. (the twenty-fifth year of the establishment of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty), Wuhuan moved south from the five counties outside the Saiwai to the ten counties on the edge of Liaodong, Yuyang and Shuofang. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and Karasuma also took the opportunity to come out to make trouble, and from time to time he robbed the Han people in the border areas, making the border areas unstable.

Later, Cao Cao was in power, in order to unify the north, launched the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao died of illness after the defeat, and his son Yuan Shang was also defeated by Cao Cao, and fled to Karasuma to seek "political asylum". Cao Cao is eloquent and strategic, of course, he is also ruthless, he does not listen to the advice of his ministers, and insists on going his own way to the Northern Expedition Karasuma, to cut Yuan Shang to the roots.

Karasuma was defeated by Cao Cao in that battle and gradually declined. In order to prevent the northern nomads such as Karasuma and Xianbei from brutalizing the Han people, Cao Cao has been stationed on the northern border. With the evacuation of Cao Pi, these border troops of Wei also withdrew to Guanzhong, and the gate of the northern border was opened~, and the nomads came and went freely.

Note 1: The term "Grass Valley" seems to have appeared in the Liao Dynasty, but I don't know if it was called that before.