Chapter 11: The Law and the Academy
The direct cause of the demise of Yin Shang was the defeat of King Wu, and the main reason was the serious internal friction between the Yin Shang royal family and the nobles. Zijue established the Huai State, and the number of nobles in the Huai State was not large, basically they were all sealed by him, and his strength was limited.
After the environment stabilized, Huaiguo developed and grew, and after the population increased, a series of problems began to appear. The health of the city, the disputes between the people, and the problem of disease.
Because Huaiguo was built from scratch, there was a lack of a large number of talents, and Zijue could still deal with it by himself when there were few people at the beginning, but after the two more cities were built, the problem became serious.
For this reason, Zijue can only select some Chinese people with flexible brains, and then train them, teach them some knowledge, and let them become middle and lower-level officials in the city. Of course, because of the lack of time, the level of management of these officials is not high.
On the other hand, Zijue selected people who knew the law among the people of the country and began to compile a law suitable for Huaiguo.
This law combines the laws that circulated in this era, such as "Commercial Punishment", "Yu Punishment", and "Nine Punishments", and then combines some laws of Zijue's previous life, removes the outdated clauses, and compiles a relatively fair law called "Huai Law".
In addition, Zijue has also made forward-looking adjustments to the future social development and changes, and the entire law has detailed provisions on criminal, civil, commerce, marriage, inheritance, criminal punishment and other systems.
At the same time, Zijue also compiled laws such as "Tian Law", "Work Law", "Money Law", "Commercial Law", and "Service Law" to maximize the law. This is also because those officials in Huaiguo have little management experience, Zijue sets the law in detail, and then lets them act according to the law.
In addition, Zijue abolished corporal punishment, such as beheading, cutting off hands, cutting off noses and other excessively cruel corporal punishments, but changed them to imprisonment, flogging, and punishment, and the death penalty was beheading, hanging, and killing, etc., and abolished cruel punishments such as cannon branding, waist beheading, and car splitting.
Zijue also restrained the behavior of the nobles, and also imposed severe punishments on the nobles' crimes. At the same time, it also gives a way to atone for sins with a knighthood. Private property was also protected in the Law. The provisions of the law as a whole are very detailed and thorough. Not to mention this period, even in a few hundred years, this law will still apply.
Zijue spent a lot of effort compiling a set of laws. At the same time, it is also necessary to let the people know the law and abide by the law, Zijue deliberately made a public announcement.
And because the text is complex and obscure at this time, Zijue has also made some optimizations to the text to make it more convenient to write and read. Then the entire law was written on wooden tablets and placed in the city squares, at the city gates, and outside the government offices.
Because almost ninety percent of the Chinese people are illiterate, Zijue specially sent several officials to read out these laws and inform the people.
After compiling the laws, Zijue gathered craftsmen to cast bronze tripods, and cast these laws on top of the bronze tripods.
Because of the large number of laws written, it took nine bronze tripods to cast all the laws. Therefore, this law is also known as the "Ding Law" or "Nine Ding Law" or "Golden Ding Law".
After the compilation of "Huai Law" was completed, Zi Jue also received a reward for luck value.
[You have compiled a relatively complete law, which has played an important role in promoting the development of the entire civilization, "Huai Law" has become a bright pearl in the long river of history, you have obtained a ground level prop - the stargazing platform, and your luck points have increased. γ
[Ground Steps, Stargazing Platform: It can suppress the luck of a place, the user can build according to the drawings, and after completion, it can predict the celestial phenomena within a radius of 500 miles, which can reduce and reduce the natural disasters here, and bless the wind and rain here. γ
Hearing that the system gave a reward, Zi Jue smiled slightly, not surprised.
After having the law and Zijue's personal training, these Chinese people can finally handle all kinds of affairs, and Zijue is finally relaxed.
After having a manager, Zijue began to solve other problems. The city's sanitation problem is not difficult, because with enough managers, as long as Zijue gives orders, these people will carry them out.
For the sanitation of the city, Zijue carried out strict requirements, and dug sewers in the city, and at the same time promulgated some regulations for the people to abide by, if there is a violation, he will be punished with labor, responsible for cleaning the city's sanitation. In case of repeated mistakes, the penalty is doubled and the penalty is imposed.
The medical skills of this era are very poor, but there are already some medical books, Zijue selected various doctors and witch doctors in Huaiguo, combined with some simple medical knowledge that Zijue knew in his previous life, corrected and deleted some erroneous knowledge, summarized and sorted out the medical skills of these people, compiled a medical book, awarded official positions to these doctors, and established the Taiyi Department.
At the same time, some children were recruited from the Chinese people to study with these medical officers, train doctors, and study medical skills.
In this era, the medical skills were very backward, and Zi Jue gave Zi Geng an order to let him hire people with excellent medical skills in other countries to come to Huaiguo, and after passing the assessment, he was awarded an official position and let them study and teach medicine together.
After coming to this era, Zijue realized how difficult it is to learn. Knowledge is almost always in the hands of the aristocracy, and its inheritance is also very limited, basically from father to son, and from son to grandson. Whatever position the father holds, the son holds.
This leads to difficulties in the dissemination of knowledge and a shortage of talent. This is especially true in Huaiguo. At the beginning, the vast majority of the Huai Kingdom were fleeing Chinese, and there were not many nobles, and even fewer of them were talented.
The rapid development of Huaiguo led to a lack of a large number of talents, and finally Zijue decided to establish a academy in Huaiguo, which was responsible for teaching literary knowledge. This academy is open to the public. However, if you want to learn, you need to pay a lot of money or make a contribution.
All nobles had to go to the academy to study, and only through the academy could they hold official positions.
With this academy, after a period of study, it will be able to provide a lot of talents for Huaiguo, as long as the academy continues to operate, there will be more and more talents in Huaiguo, and the speed of development will be faster.
This also had the advantage that many positions would not be hereditary, which constrained the power of the nobility. At the same time, it also provides an upward channel for the Chinese people.
Of course, Zijue values the army and agriculture the most, and the army of Huai is in the hands of Zijue. Zijue selected 2,000 people as a standing army, and the rest were half peasants and half soldiers.
The vast majority of soldiers in this era were half-peasants and half-soldiers, training when farming was slack and farming when farming was busy. Lack of productivity can only be done in this way.
The "Nine Ding Laws" is the first very complete law compiled in the ancient Orient, which determines the ruling order of the ruler and effectively adjusts the social relations of the ancient Oriental countries.
The book has a total of 18,352 words, 306 laws, the whole law for criminal, civil, trade, marriage, inheritance, criminal punishment and other systems have been detailed provisions, its laws are detailed, rigorous, perfect, for future generations have an indelible impact, until today, our laws are deeply affected by it. ββThe Cambridge History of China: Ancient Law