September 6, Xinye County, Nanyang, Shen Academy.

It's a big house.

The front and middle courtyards, as well as the left and right gardens, attics, and pavilions, are all classes for lectures.

Only the backyard is where the lecturers rest, and there are some pond rockeries.

From the atrium through the shadow wall to the backyard, there is a garden on the right side of the backyard, there is a green in the garden, bamboo and wood.

There is a small building erected by the pond near the bamboo forest, the door of the small building is open, and the two people at the door, Shan Yi and Wu Dang, are like two door gods, guarding the side.

Shen Chen currently has two residences, one is the Deng Shen Manor of Xinye Huangmen Pavilion, and the other is the former Zhenjun General and Nanyang Taishou Mansion in Wancheng, and the current General Zuo's mansion.

And the Shen Academy is the place where you stay the most except for General Zuo's Mansion and Huangmen Pavilion Deng Shen Er's Manor.

From the twentieth year of Jian'an, that is, four years ago in 215 AD, Cao Cao Kou slightly passed the Xiliang Pass, and sent Xu Huang to garrison Wuguan to defend the Shen Chen army in Nanyang into Guanzhong.

At that time, Shen Chen stayed in Wuguan for a while, but he and Xu Huang had no intention of fighting, and in the second year, he left his subordinate Zhang Quan to continue to garrison Wuguan and returned to Xinye.

He accompanies his wife every day, teases his children, and often comes to Shen Academy to continue teaching and nurture the next generation.

In terms of family, his wife Liu Ning currently lives in Huangmenting Shen Manor, with a son and two daughters, the eldest daughter was born in the beginning of the seventeenth year of Jian'an, and she is already six years old this year.

Time flies, the years change, and unconsciously, Shen Chen has been sitting in Nanyang for more than seven years, and he is already thirty-one years old, and he is about to go to the year of confusion.

On the issue of education, he has successfully cultivated a generation of disciples, more than 100 outstanding people, known as the Shenmen Hundred Sages, and now most of them are officials in Jingzhou and Yizhou, helping Zhuge Liang Fazheng them to implement new policies and govern the locality.

Among them, there are Huo Yang, Wu Dang, Wu Tao, Shan Yi, Zhou Tai and others, like Shan Yi who was brave in battle, and now he is a captain, Wu Tao, Wu Dang, Huo Yang, and Zhou Tai are familiar with the military book, and they all have their own promotions.

Therefore, in terms of talent training, at least Shen Chen has cultivated a large number of middle- and lower-level backbones for the local government and the army. Now the 80,000 troops stationed in Nanyang, except for some county soldiers, are basically front-line soldiers who can fight tough battles.

At this moment, Shen Chen was in the house, looking at the secret letter in his hand.

The letter said that Cao Cao's Diannong Zhonglang General Yan Kuang would send a large amount of grain and grass to the front lines of Cao's army in Kunyang, Wuyang, Dingling, and Xiping in early September.

Yoshimoto said that he intended to launch a rebellion between September 10 and 20, hoping that before then, Shen Chen would be able to send troops to delay the main force of Cao Hong's army on the Nanyang front so that they could control the rear.

The other party did not say what the specific time was, but gave an approximate range, which Shen Chen felt was a little more reliable.

Because the plan often can't catch up with the change, the action of thousands of people gives a specific time, in case there is a sudden change, such as Cao Jun temporarily sent additional manpower to Chen Liu, or Wan Qian transferred an army to defend the city, what should I do?

Communication is not smooth, thousands of people cannot be commanded in a unified manner, and some people will cower because of sudden changes, and some people will not know what to do because of changes in temporary plans, and it will not be good to be a mess when the time comes.

Therefore, the best way is to determine a range first, arrange for each person to lead the team, first inquire about the news during the day, and after making sure that there will be no accidents, then raise the fire at night and carry out unified action.

This point was planned with the help of the spies sent by Shen Chen to Chen Du.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, it has been not uncommon for internal responses and spies to each other's countries and enemies.

As underground workers, they had been professionally trained before, and Shen Chen was very pleased that they could have such vigilance.

After receiving this secret letter, Shen Chen burned the letter and tapped it lightly on the table.

On the side, Zhou Budo was reading a book.

He saw that Shen Chen had finished reading the letter, so he put down the book and said, "Senior brother, this book of "Treatise on Man" ......."

"Is it badly written?"

Shen Chen asked.

Zhou Budo smiled bitterly: "It's very well written, but it's a little ......"

"Is it scary?"

Shen Chen asked with a smile.

Zhou Budo nodded: "I'm a little scared, I'm afraid that the northern family and Cao Cao, Sun Quan and others will be angry, and even the king is ......."

"I'm not done yet."

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "Mencius said: "The people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light." Gaozu also once said: "The king takes the people as the sky", the people are the cornerstone, and the people in power inhabit the people, some are bloodsuckers, some are fur and skin, whether they are bloodsuckers or fur and skin, there is a public opinion, and the power of the superior should be limited, and cannot be abused. ”

"Hmm."

Zhou Budo responded.

Shen Chen turned his head to look at him again and smiled: "Don't worry, after I finish writing, I will send it to Kong Ming and the lord to see." ”

Zhou Budo was relieved at this time, nodded and did not speak.

The main idea of this book is actually people-oriented, exploring the power and meaning of people's existence in this world.

In fact, this kind of thinking existed in ancient times, and Mencius was one of its admirers.

But Mencius mentioned it more obscurely, and all dynasties and dynasties all said that they were people-oriented, but in fact it was still a dark feudal society that ate people and did not spit out bones.

For example, local officials, a county order to break down and kill people at will, and a local government can move to destroy the family and raid the house when he is angry.

Therefore, the ancients' definition of the existence of "human" was not completely accurate, and the people in power had not fully understood the question of whether the Han people were human beings.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty is the Ming monarch, because someone stole a pair of jade rings in front of the Gaozu Temple to destroy the three clans. Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was also a Ming monarch, but he was the precedent of the literary prison.

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Many emperors in all dynasties killed the three tribes and killed the nine tribes, the Ming and Qing dynasties were particularly prosperous, as soon as the emperor spoke, the number of people who died was tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

Although it was impossible to talk about human rights in the feudal era, Shen Chen did not say that he had to talk about human rights, but expressed his attitude in the "Treatise on Man", believing that the ruler should be reasonable.

Yes.

The argument of the whole book is simple, that is, the superior must be reasonable.

The book is full of examples of the dangers of the ruling class's excessive power, with the point that they can fabricate charges at will, or even kill people without having to be charged.

The negative textbooks in it even have some of Liu Bei's ancestors, and a large number of emperors and ministers of the Han Dynasty, Shen Chen, also criticized them one by one.

For example, Emperor Huan Lingdi, because of his opposition to the eunuchs' interference in politics, offended the eunuchs and exterminated countless ministers and students, the disaster of the party did not know how many innocent people died, that is, Emperor Huan Lingdi trusted the eunuchs too much and brutally suppressed the party.

So Zhou Budo felt scary when he looked at it.

After all, he was scolding the emperor, and he was still some of Liu Bei's ancestors, which inevitably angered Liu Bei.

But Shen Chen knew that this kind of change and progress must be indispensable, so even if he risked angering Liu Bei, he had to write it out, prevent it in advance, and prepare for it to be implemented in the future.

And Shen Chen knew that in the current situation, it was impossible to say that human life was greater than the sky, and that everyone was equal.

This kind of thing is impossible to do, and second, he doesn't have such thoughts himself.

So he only criticized the power to kill people at will.

Shen Chen believes that the power to kill people must only be handed over to justice, and even if there is a murderer in a certain county and the criminal is caught, it cannot be dealt with by the county official, but should be handed over to the court lieutenant to deal with.

Even the emperor can't directly order killing, even if someone angers the emperor, he should be tried and convicted by the court captain, if the trial results in the person is not guilty, the emperor can't forcibly change the law, this is the key content that Shen Chen wants to say in the book.

It's just that the ancient sages have always been mainly persuasive, such as persuading the king to punish lightly and value human life.

But in real life, not only the emperor kills people based on his mood, but even ministers, local governors and county magistrates, county commanders, and generals of military towns also kill people based on their mood.

Therefore, Shen Chen criticized this phenomenon and believed that such power should be restricted, and at the same time deeply analyzed the psychology of these random killings, and defined their guilt as "crimes against humanity".

The book focuses on criticizing Cao Cao and Sun Quan's massacre of the city, and puts their positioning at the level of breaking through the bottom line of mankind.

This is also why Zhou Budo thinks that Cao Cao and Sun Quan will be very angry when they see it.

Because the book emphasizes the right of human beings to live, and the original purpose of law is to regulate all people. It is not that a few people with power change the law at will or even ignore the law and do things to their liking.

Therefore, this book is essentially an attack on the abuse of power by the higher-ups, and a kind of protection for the people at the bottom.

And he also put forward some of his own views, and the analysis is extremely profound.

If the people in the north accepted the concept inside, it would greatly shake Cao Cao's rule, so he would be disgusted by all families, including Cao Cao.

The main thing is that the northern families, unlike the south, are already carrying out population clean-up and abolishing slavery.

Now that the northern family has serious slaves, Ji Ben, Geng Ji, Wei Huang, and Jin Yi can gather thousands of slaves by a few imperial doctors, Shaofu, and Si Zhi who have little power, which shows how many slaves there are in the family.

To put it simply, Shen Chen wrote this book, and proposed in the book that the law should be used to limit the power of the emperor, ministers, and families, and strictly formulate a system where human life is greater than heaven and law is greater than heaven, and vigorously maintain it on the basis of the supreme law that cannot be changed.

If the concept set forth in his book is carried out, then in the future, the judicial power of each county and state will be nationalized from the hands of the county ordinance and the county warden, and the central court will be the supreme court, and branch courts will be set up in various places.

In addition, the state will set up two more regulatory departments, one to investigate the problems of officials, and the other to verify the omissions of local authorities.

Sounds familiar.

It's the public procuratorate.

But in fact, in ancient times it was called Sanji.

Yes.

Shen Chen was not copying the homework of later generations, but copying the homework of the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Song Dynasty.

Beginning with Emperor Wen of Sui, the power of the death penalty was transferred to the central government, and three divisions were established, and all local death sentences must be reviewed and approved by the three divisions and the emperor, otherwise they will never be executed.

In other words, the existence of the public procuratorate has existed since the Sui and Tang dynasties, but the emperor's power is still unlimited.

After the Sui and Tang dynasties, in addition to the emperor who could kill people indiscriminately, it was rare for a county commander to destroy the entire clan in the local area like the Han Dynasty.

In fact, the decline of the family began after that.

It is said that the imperial examination ended the family.

But after the Sui and Tang dynasties, the big family could no longer rely on one person to become a high-ranking official in the court like the Han Dynasty, and the family acted in the local area, wantonly collecting slaves and killing people.

When the middle power was taken away by the imperial court, they became just tigers without minions, although they were still behemoths, and the people at the bottom still couldn't afford to provoke them, but after all, they were no longer as unscrupulous as they are today.

Therefore, Shen Chen is not engaging in equality for all, nor is he engaging in the supremacy of human rights, but is just learning from a great emperor like Emperor Wen of Sui, and protecting the people at the bottom on a large scale, even if it cannot be eliminated, at least it can greatly improve this situation.

And the only difference with Emperor Wen of Sui is that Shen Chen went further, hoping to limit the emperor's power to kill people indiscriminately, and at the same time hoped that the sentence "the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people" is no longer an empty talk, that's all.

Therefore, Shen Chen's ultimate goal is actually to bring out the public procuratorate law after the Sui and Tang dynasties, so that the big families and powerful families who originally regarded the Han people as mustard will become equal before the law, and they will no longer dare to wantonly harm the people at the bottom.

It's just that in Zhou Budo's opinion, the concepts and ideas he put forward are still too advanced, which makes him a little frightened.

The people at the bottom are afraid of the powerful because they are powerful and can kill them at will.

Huang Fu is the prime minister of the East China Sea, and the people who anger him "are all examined". Xun Yu Xun Tan brother was a magistrate "must be punished for a crime", Shi Bi was a plain minister, and a student angered him, "Bi is to kill the bookkeeper".

Too much power is too much, and these powers will shield their families, so that their families will do evil in the local area, and oppress the people at will without being dealt with.

And Shen Chen's "Theory of Man" is just the beginning, if it continues, it will make the family no longer have majesty in front of the people at the bottom, and when the people at the bottom are not afraid of the family, then the family will feel fear.

This is also digging into the roots of the family.

Shen Chen's argument is inevitably the enemy of those in power in the world.

When a big family can no longer casually kill its own slaves and oppress the people in its own jurisdiction, what is the meaning of its existence?

If Cao Cao can't slaughter the city at will like before, then what else will he do with the power in his hands?

Therefore, Shen Chen's arguments must be like waste paper in their eyes.

But Shen Chen felt that the Han Dynasty was a barbaric era.

Compared with this, the system of the Sui and Tang dynasties has improved too much.

As the saying goes, one step ahead is a genius, and ten steps ahead is a madman.

But Shen Chen believes that the Han Dynasty and the Sui and Tang dynasties are both feudal dynasties, and there is no essential difference between them.

Therefore, even if the system progressed from the end of the Han Dynasty in 200 AD to 581 AD, the system was nearly 400 years ahead, and it was unlikely that the state would collapse immediately.

And he didn't lose his mind and go crazy and publish it now, but planned to study and study it first, discuss it with Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, and them before making plans.

After all, in comparison, Liu Bei has never killed innocent people, and has killed a total of three ministers, one Peng Yang instigated Ma Chao to rebel, one Liu Feng did not save Guan Yu when he saw death, and one Zhang Yu spread rumors.

Except for the last Changyu, who may not be guilty of death, the other two are basically innocent.

Therefore, even if Shen Chen accuses Liu Bei's ancestor in the book, he probably won't be too angry, and when the time comes, everyone will have a good discussion and promote the laws and regulations in Shen Chen's book.

In addition to this, there is one more point.

In addition to restricting the right of local officials, ministers of the DPRK and China, and big families to wantonly kill the people at the bottom, it is bound to create a society with a relatively relaxed legal system.

In a sense, this may not be good for rule, but it will certainly be good for attracting the hearts and minds of the people.

Shen Chen is still studying "The Theory of Man", and he feels that by the time he finishes writing and promoting, Jiangdong should have been destroyed, and then it will be the era of the Han and Wei dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

At this time, if the legal system of the Southern Dynasties is more relaxed, and the law is more protective of the people at the bottom, then there is no harm if there is no comparison.

Historically, the legal system of the Wei State was relatively strict, and the oppression of the people at the bottom was extremely serious, especially the Tuntian system, which was good in the early days, and the government and the people of Tuntian were divided between the government and the people of Tuntian.

In the late period, it was more outrageous, eighty-two or even ninety-one, and the government took eight to ninety percent, leaving only one to two percent of the harvest for the people, causing countless rebellions among the people of Tuntian.

There is also a needless to say that there are women, they are more tolerant of the family, and the protection of the people at the bottom is not enough, and the people's hearts are not attached to Cao Wei, otherwise it would not be easy for the Sima family to take over the Cao family.

Therefore, Shen Chen believed that the laws of the Southern Dynasty should mainly crack down on the encroachment of the bureaucratic class and the big families on the people and protect the interests of the people.

But at the same time, we can't be too relaxed, the guilty should be punished, and the innocent should be released, which is such a simple truth.

Those in power should not let their own preferences do things according to their own preferences, and try to ensure the interests of the people. For example, the Tuntian system is really 82 or even 91, which is completely exploiting the people, and it is obviously not possible.

In all this, Shen Chen intends to establish a country with a relatively sound system, a high degree of centralization, clear politics, strict laws, and protection at the bottom.

In this way, the people of the north saw that the southern court was actually such a normal court.

It is not allowed to kill people at will, nor is it allowed to encroach on the people's fields and population, and they have always defended the rights and interests of the people.

Look at Cao Wei again.

I just can't look any further.

When the time comes, you will not be able to help the old and the young, and they will go to the south one after another?

So in a way, it's also a way of cultural invasion.

What Shen Chen wants to tell the people in the north is that Cao Wei doesn't care about your life or death, I care. Cao Wei oppresses and exploits you, I won't. Cao Wei can wipe out your three clans at will, and Ji Han will never have such a thing happen.

Just three simple reasons, it is probably enough for the people of the world to follow.

Zhou Budo was silent for a moment, still reminiscing about the contents of the book, and after a while, he said to Shen Chen: "Senior brother burned the secret letter just now, has there been any change in the north?" ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen stood up slowly, he was wearing Confucian clothes at this time, and the table was full of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and he usually wrote books to study the system and social situation, and would prepare texts for lectures to students, dressed like a humble Confucian.

But when he got up, the whole person changed, touched the tiger guts knife hanging on the wall next to him, and said in a deep voice: "The four corners of the world, Han Sui Ma Chao's power has been destroyed, and now it has become three points in the world." Last year's epidemic, the three parties did not use swords, Chen Ping has been for a long time, and it is time to do it. ”

Zhou Budo said: "If you move your whole body, you are afraid of causing another battle between the three parties." ”

"I'm afraid of not fighting."

Shen Chen seemed to have changed from a Confucian to a general, with an awe-inspiring momentum, and said proudly: "If you want to clear this troubled world, you have to fight on the battlefield." The world should not be divided into three, nor should it be divided into two, the royal industry is not partial, and the Han thief is not separated. The forces of Cao Cao and Sun Quan are not a benevolent and righteous force. The people of the world have suffered too much and for too long, and they want me to seek justice after all. ”

After saying that, he grabbed the Tiger Courage Knife, strode out of the door with his head held high, and said to the two disciples outside the door, "Shan Yi Wudang." ”

"The end will be."

"Order, the army will march and go to Wancheng."

"Yui."

The two of them went to give the order.

Wancheng currently has 50,000 men and horses on the front line and 10,000 Wuguan.

But Shen Chen plans to send 50,000 troops this time, and it is impossible to take all the people in Wancheng away.

Therefore, some soldiers from Zhangling and Nanjun were transferred, so that with the remaining 20,000 people, it should not be a big problem for Nanjun to have 30,000 people stationed.

It's just that in this way, Nanjun Zhangling is even more empty, the county soldiers are almost none, and the city defense is completely empty, only Gangneung is left with only a few thousand, and the entire Nanjun has become an unfortified area.