We must vigorously rectify these evil shrines! ”

Under Shi Min's orders, one notice after another was posted in the streets and alleys of Xuchang, as well as in conspicuous places in various villages and towns. Not only that, but from Xuchang came out of the messenger after team, and they all carried the edict of the king of Wei, and rushed to various places, ordering the officials of each place to act in accordance with this edict.

"The King of Wei has an order! The whole country, in addition to worshiping the three emperors and five emperors, the gods of Buddhism and Taoism, as well as the temples of ancient sages such as Yao Shunyu, Ji Zha, Confucius, Mencius, etc., the rest of the folk temples of the god Mao were all demolished! The people are not allowed to worship and worship! ”

With the edict of Shi Min, the king of Wei, soldiers and horses were sent from all over the country to forcibly demolish the temples of the Mao gods!

Xuchang, Xuantian God Temple.

"What are you doing? Bastard! Damnation will be upon you! Xuantian God is going to be angry! ”

Watching the armor in front of him smash in the temple, even the golden body of the "Xuantian God" was smashed to pieces, and the valuable things nearby were looted, and the people in the temple and the people blocked one after another, but they were all controlled by the armor, and they could only watch the temple being smashed to pieces.

The situation in the rest of the world is more or less the same.

Shi Minfen's edict is aimed at the folk shrines in various places.

According to statistics, in this mighty campaign to demolish evil shrines, which lasted for 100 days, covered all parts of the Great Zhao Kingdom, demolished more than 4,600 evil shrines, looted money, and discounted more than 30 million yuan!

This campaign to demolish the evil shrine can be said to have made the people angry and resentful, and the people are miserable, but it is only temporary, after all, the common people still have to live, and without this faith, they can still change to another faith.

In addition, Shi Min also found representatives of major families and scolded a few words.

Without the support of these local gentry, without their backing, how could these evil shrines take root in the local area? How can you loot people's wealth like this?

After this movement, Shi Min's trip in Xuchang came to an end. Immediately, Shi Min went directly north and returned to Yecheng.

Yecheng.

When Shi Min returned to the capital, Shi Zun, who was still indulging in Gentle Township, immediately led his ministers out to Zhengde Gate to greet him.

At the gate of the city, more than 200 ministers stood there, neatly arranged, all with their heads bowed, their eyes looking at their noses, noses, mouths, and mouths, as if they were old monks in their meditations.

After a while, the flags of the patrol team flew over the official road, and a touch of black appeared on the horizon.

After waiting for a long time, Shi Min's team finally arrived!

As the emperor, Shi Zun obviously corrected his posture, and when Shi Min's six imperial cars drove to the front, he walked up head-on.

Shi Zun was in front of the public, in full view, just like the prince who welcomed the "father" class teacher back to the court, he walked directly to the car, and Shi Min also got off the car with a calm expression at this time.

"Your Majesty."

"King Wei, please." Shi Zun made a gesture of please, asking Shi Min to go first, and he followed.

In this way, Shi Min boarded the carriage that must have supported the canopy, and rode in the same car with Shi Zun, facing the hot eyes of his subjects, Shi Min had a light and breezy face, and waved his hand from time to time. The people along the way all shouted long live!

When he came back, Shi Min had already discussed with Qin Mu, Xun Ji and others how to implement specific reforms, so at the court meeting on the second day, Shi Min proposed several reform measures in a row, and at the same time there were a lot of personnel transfers.

"First of all, it's the matter of the Evil Temple! Some lawbreakers take advantage of Li Shu's ignorance to build temples privately among the people and worship various Mao gods, so that the people's beliefs are disordered, and the lawless people profit from it. Therefore, in order to unify the faith, to crack down on lawlessness, and to prevent Li Shu from continuing to break the bank, the minister asked Da Situ to be responsible for the demolition of the evil shrine. Within 100 days, how many evil shrines across the country will be demolished! ”

"Accurate!"

The article said: "The minister receives the order! ”

"Second, there is serious redundancy of officials in various localities, and most of the local officials neglect their duties, bend the law for bribes, and prey on the common people. Therefore, in order to rectify the rule of officials, the minister asked Cui Hao, the court commander, to be responsible for rectifying the rule of officials and arranging the personnel transfer of local officials. ”

"Accurate!" Shi Zun responded again, like an echoing worm.

Shi Min said on the side of His Majesty's platform: "In order to rectify the matter of purging the officials, please give Cui Hao a holy decree of cutting first and then playing!" All local officials, from the county guard to the three elders, regardless of their background, regardless of their grade, regardless of their past political achievements, if they violate the law, they will be severely punished! ”

"No!"

Shi Min said again: "Third, the matter of electing officials. After the redundant officials in various localities are abolished, they should survive the fittest and perform their own duties. There are three sources of local officials, one is selected from the school palace, the second is selected according to the recruitment order, and the third is recommended by the officials themselves. However, where the officials come out, they must be evaluated, and the examiners or those who recommend them must be responsible for the people who are evaluated or recommended! ”

"The matter of electing officials is the sole responsibility of Ran Liang, the superintendent of the Central Committee."

"Command!"

"Fourth, diplomatic relations and trade. Qin Mu was in charge of this matter, and the school secretary Lang Xunji assisted, and from now on he made a state visit to the Jin State, and Qin Mu sent an envoy to Jiankang, responsible for establishing trade and mutual benefit with the Jin State, and set up a treaty port in the Huainan area, reducing tariffs, and attracting investment. Xun Ji also sent an envoy to Chengdu to establish a mutually beneficial relationship with Chengguo, and if necessary, he could form an alliance with Chengguo to contain the Jin State. ”

"In addition, it is also necessary to send envoys to the Yan State and the Dai State to establish friendly relations with them, and set up trade fairs in the border areas, so that in addition to weapons and equipment, copper and iron, commodities such as salt, cloth, silk, rice, millet and grain can be traded with the Xianbei people. As for the Qiuchi State and Guanlong separatist forces in the west, trade is strictly prohibited, but those who pass by must be carefully checked! ”

"Obey your orders!" The ministers of Honglu Temple, headed by Qin Mu, sang one after another.

"Fifth, it is forbidden to buy and sell human beings. To crack down on human trafficking throughout the country, Tingwei Cui Hao is responsible for revising laws and regulations, severely punishing and punishing human traffickers, punishing them with slashing (cutting off their noses), and fining 500 yuan for trafficking in one person! ”

Shi Min hated human traffickers and the naked human trafficking!

The imposition of a penalty of 500 yuan and a fine of 500 yuan is not a severe punishment for human trafficking!

Cutting off the nose is a kind of punishment in ancient China.

The nose is the organ that breathes air and distinguishes the smell of fragrance, and although the nose is gone, although it is not life-threatening, it affects the appearance of the person on the one hand, and at the same time it is also very destructive to the personality.

In the history of China, the length of time and the scope of the punishment were appalling.

The age of the punishment is very long, in ancient times, the punishment has been carried out, the "Book of Changes" once said: "its people are heavenly and slashing". Executions were widely used in the Xia and Shang periods.

It is said that thousands of people were tortured during the summer season. After the Shang Dynasty Pangeng moved the capital to Yin, he issued an edict saying: "There is an inauspicious and disrespectful, disrespectful, temporary adultery, I am annihilated, there is no relic, no easy to plant in Zixinyi."

This means that those who are unkind, unjust, undisciplined, and do bad things at the first opportunity will have their noses cut off at the worst and be punished with death and cut off their children and grandchildren, so that there will be no more such people in the new capital.

The Zhou Dynasty officially defined the punishment as one of the "five punishments", the five punishments are the black face, the ear cutting, the palace punishment, the foot cutting, and the death penalty. "Zhou Li, Qiu Guan, Si Xing" Zheng Kangcheng Note: "Chop, cut off his nose."

劓 was first seen in the oracle bone inscription, from the knife from the self, "self" is the ancient word for the nose, which symbolizes the use of a knife to cut the nose, that is, the punishment. The punishment is heavier than the ink punishment, and it is lighter than the punishment of the sword. The scope of punishment in the Zhou Dynasty was widespread, and the history called "five hundred crimes" at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, and increased to 1,000 when Ji was full. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the punishment was still used.

"Zuo Chuan: The Thirteenth Year of Zhaogong" records that Chu's "son is more than a king...... And said: 'Return to the place first, and then slash'. The Zhou Dynasty stipulated: "Anyone who touches the order of the king, reforms the public opinion system, and rapes and thieves and injures people, will be punished", that is, those who disobey the orders of the king, break the rules and regulations, prostitute and steal, disrupt public order, fight and fight, and injure people's bodies will be punished with their noses cut.

During the Zhou Dynasty, people who had been tortured were often sent to guard the gates.

Because after their noses were cut off, their faces were ugly, and they were not fit to live in a crowded crowd, and they themselves did not want to stay in a crowded place, so they willingly accepted the arrangement of fate, and went to a remote and quiet place to live this last life. At that time, there were 12 gates in the three gates outside the five days of Jingshi, and they were all guarded by those who had been tortured.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, and even the early Han Dynasty, slashing was a very common punishment, and it was impossible to tell how many people had their noses cut off. Yingqu Liang appointed Gongsun Ying to implement the law, and once Gongzi Qian violated the ban, Gongsun Ying sentenced him to death.

In the Warring States and Qin periods, it was also used as a punishment to punish soldiers, and the "Book of Shang Jun: Territory" contained that in the siege of the city, the soldiers were like "those who cannot die, a thousand people are ringed, and the gambling is under the city". Punishment is sometimes used in combination with other punishments, such as "Qin Jian: Questions and Answers on the Law": "If there are not five people who have stolen 660 yuan, they will be regarded as a city dan."

When he was in power, executions were commonplace. Taibo Zhao Gao taught Ying Huhai to be familiar with prison lawsuits, and randomly arrested people to cut off their noses or behead them as Ying Huhai's internship. At that time, there were countless people who actually committed crimes that should be punished with death. Cui Shi said in the "Political Commentary" that after Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, most of the captured soldiers and civilians of the Six Kingdoms were sentenced to death, which made more people without noses in society than people with noses, and even people thought that it was normal to have no noses, and they felt ugly if they had noses. "Qin cut the kings of the six kingdoms and killed their people, so the ochre clothes blocked the road, and the nose was ugly."

In 167 BC, Liu Heng issued an edict abolishing corporal punishment and replacing the punishment with 300 floggings, and Liu Qishi changed it to 200 flogging. Since then, the official punishment has been abolished.

However, in later generations, there are still people who follow the ancient system and cut off people's noses at every turn.

During the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, Xiao Yan issued an edict to abolish the punishment again. Later, in some dynasties ruled by non-Han Chinese or in areas inhabited by non-Han Chinese, the punishment was still officially used. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Tubo stipulated various corporal punishments, among which was execution.

The Jin dynasty stipulated that those who committed serious crimes but were not yet sentenced to death were to be punished with punishments such as slashing or cutting off their ears, so that they would leave a mark that would distinguish them from ordinary people. The Yuan Dynasty, when the Mongols came into control of the Central Plains, also reinstated the punishment of the Mongols.

In 1333 A.D., the imperial court issued an edict to punish robbers with death, and to punish those who stole cattle and horses in general. Ordinary theft of donkeys and mules is punishable by death for the first offense and by skulling for the second offense.

Those who steal pigs and sheep are punished with ink for the first offense, and the second offender is punished with a black face, and the third offense is punished with a sword, and the second offender is punished with death. In other dynasties, such as the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the official punishment was no longer punished.

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Chapter 0268 - Execution