Legalism is indeed a sharp sword in the hands of the so-called emperor, but everything has advantages and disadvantages. The thing that hurts the emperor in the Legalist family is that "the prince violates the law, and the common people are guilty of the same crime" ["The prince violates the law, and the common people are guilty of the same crime" is that the prince violates the law and is punished the same as the common people. It means that the royal law is the same for princes and commoners. Source 1: The sixth and seventh chapters of "Yesu Exposed": "Everyone said that the prince broke the law, and the common people were guilty of the same crime, this is a matter of rape and murder, and if you commit an official, will you still be alive?" Source 2: "Historical Records: The Biography of Shang Jun": The public uses the martingale, and the martingale wants to change the law, and the world is afraid of discussing himself. Wei Ying said: "Doubts are nameless, doubts are fruitless. And those who have the deeds of a superior man will see that they are not in the world, and those who have exclusive knowledge will see the people. The fool is dark in success, and the knower is in the unbudding. The people should not start with worries, but they can be happy. Those who are virtuous are not in harmony with the vulgar, and those who have achieved great achievements are not sought by the public. It is because the saint can strengthen the country and do not follow the law, and he can benefit the people without following his etiquette. Filial piety said, "Good." Gan Long said, "No. It is not easy for the saint to be taught by the people, and those who know will not be governed by the law. Those who are taught by the people will succeed without hard work; those who rule by the law will be at peace with the people. Wei Ying said, "What the dragon says, the words of the world." Ordinary people are content with old customs, and scholars are indulged in what they hear. In this way, the two are law-abiding officials, and they are not outside the law. Three generations are kings with different rites, and five uncles are hegemonic with different laws. The wise man acts, the fool restricts, the sage is more polite, and the unscrupulous are restrained. Du Zhi said: "If the benefits are not hundred, the law will not change, and if the merits are not ten, it will not be easy." There is no fault in the ancient law, and there is no evil in etiquette. Wei Ying said: "If you don't rule the world together, the country will be lawless." Therefore, Tang Wu did not follow the ancient times and became kings, and Xia Yin died with no courtesy. Anti-ancients are not to be blamed. And there are not many followers. Filial piety said, "Good." With Wei Ying as the left chief, he made an order to change the law. Let the people be Shiwu, and the ministers will sit together. Those who do not accuse the adulterer will be beheaded, the one who accuses the adulterer will be rewarded with the head of the enemy, and the one who conceals the adulterer will be punished with the enemy. If there are two or more men in the people, they will be given double their endowment. Those who have military merits will be given the rank of knight, and those who are private fighters will be punished according to the severity of their punishment. Only the strength of the industry, farming and weaving to the corn and silk more people to regain their bodies. Those who are poor and slack at the end of things are regarded as retribution. The clan does not have a theory of military merit. Must not be registered. Mingzun and humble ranks. Each is named after the difference in the field house, and the concubine's clothes are in the order of the family. Those who have merit are glorious, and those who have no merit are rich and have nothing to do. The order is both furnished and not distributed. Fear of the people's unbelief. It has been a three-zhang tree at the south gate of the national capital. Those who recruit people who can relocate to the north gate will be given ten gold. The people are strange, don't dare to migrate. He replied, "Those who are able to migrate will be given fifty gold." One of them migrated and was given fifty gold. Don't deceive. The pawn ordered. The order was carried out in the year of the people, and the country of the Qin people said that the inconvenience of the initial order was thousands. So the prince broke the law. Wei Ying said: "If the law does not work, it will be violated from above. The prince of the law. The crown prince, the heir of the monarch, shall not be punished, and the punishment of his Fu Gongzi is pious, and his master Sun Jia is punished. Tomorrow, the Qin people will all follow the order. After ten years of practice, Qin Minda said that the road is not forgotten, there are no thieves in the mountains, and the family is sufficient. The people are brave in public war, cowardly in private fighting, and the countryside is governed. At the beginning of the Qin people's words, those who were inconvenient had those who came to speak and make it convenient, and Wei Ying said, "These are all chaotic people", and they all moved to the border city. After that, the people did not dare to make an order. 】。

The practice of "the prince breaks the law, and the common people are guilty of the same crime" does have a positive significance in today's society [the principle of "everyone is equal before the law" was introduced to China from the West by progressive thinkers in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. This principle was first enshrined in the Chinese Constitution in the Provisional Constitution promulgated on March 11, 1912. The regimes in the revolutionary base areas under the leadership of the CCP have always affirmed this principle. The Outline of the Constitution of the Chinese Soviet Republic, adopted in November 1931, laid down this principle for the first time: "In the sphere of Soviet power, the workers, peasants, the Red soldiers, and all the toiling people and their families...... equality before the laws of the Soviets". In today's society under the rule of law, more emphasis is placed on equality before the law, and the principle is followed, so that the legitimate rights and interests of the people are protected by the law, so that the society can be more fair, just, and open, and the people can live a healthy, happy, and happy life. 】。

However, "the prince violates the law, and the common people are guilty of the same crime" is a very painful thing for the emperors in ancient times.

For what?

Almost the vast majority of emperors have offspring, and almost the vast majority of emperors have a few mischievous guys.

As for the naughty and mischievous guys among the descendants of these emperors, the so-called country is the whole country as their own home.

How many scruples do you have about what to do in your own home? Not to mention the naughty and mischievous guys among the descendants of the emperors, even we, the common people, are sometimes unscrupulous in our own homes. After all, it's in your own home, even if you pick up the house in your own house, as long as it doesn't affect others, the people in your family don't talk about you, and no one cares about you.

And with that, things came out.

After all, a country is not like a small family. Naturally, there are many people in a country.

Therefore, the naughty and mischievous guys in the descendants of the emperors are as unscrupulous as us ordinary people in our own homes, and they will naturally make chickens and dogs jump... Chickens and dogs are restless.

Let your country chicken fly dog jump...... Restless?

This is not what many emperors expect.

And the emperor is also a little busy.

After all, the wife in the emperor's three palaces and six courtyards also needs to be accompanied.

In this way, the emperor entrusted some officials to run his country.

These officials, who were entrusted by the emperor to manage the country, naturally hoped to obtain good work performance.

After all, just as we now have bonuses for good work performance, those officials who are entrusted by the emperor to manage the country will naturally be promoted and make fortunes if their work performance is good.

In this way, the officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country also want the country to be in order, so that the emperor can come to inspect the work at any time, and the officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country will naturally be easy to be promoted and make a fortune.

However, the mischievous mischievous guys among the descendants of the emperor are a thorn in the heart of the officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country.

Because the naughty and mischievous guys in the descendants of those emperors are as unscrupulous as we ordinary people in our own homes, and often make the country chickens and dogs jump... Chickens and dogs are restless.

Therefore, if the officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country tolerate the actions of the naughty and mischievous guys in the descendants of the emperor. Officials who were entrusted with the administration of the country by the emperor were obviously unable to achieve good results.

Without good performance, the officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country want to be promoted and make a fortune, one word...... Difficult.

Volume 4: Dong Zhongshu and his son (I) Chapter 255 Killing Chickens and Monkeys (Seeking Points to Push and Receive Rewards)

It is precisely because of this that the officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country are the saboteurs who affect their performance in obtaining promotions and making fortunes...... The mischievous ones among the descendants of the emperors, that was very, very annoyed.

But just being annoyed is useless.

Because, regardless of the officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country, they are saboteurs who affect their performance in obtaining promotions and making fortunes...... How annoyed are the mischievous ones in the descendants of the emperors, and the naughty ones in the descendants of the emperors will not become honest because they are annoyed by the officials entrusted by the emperor to run the country.

What to do?

The officials entrusted by the emperor to manage the country thought of a way to "kill chickens and make an example of monkeys".

Killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys is a common idiom, which originally meant to kill chickens for monkeys to see. The metaphor uses the punishment of one individual to warn others.

brought to justice, and ordered Han Xin to behead him. Killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, Zhenjunxin shot Han Fuyu. Legend has it that monkeys are the most afraid of seeing blood. The monkey tamer first killed the chicken in front of it. Tell it to see how good the blood is. Only then can the edification be carried out gradually. The monkey catcher uses this chicken-killing tactic, no matter how stubbornly it resists, as long as the rooster crows and blood gushes. Monkey at first sight. The whole body softens. Let it be caught.

"Killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys" refers to killing chickens to scare monkeys, and metaphorically punishing one to warn the rest. In the eyes of the monkey tricksters, the cost of killing a chicken is much lower than the cost of killing a monkey, and chickens are much more useless than monkeys. And the chickens have always been masters of "show". What "chickens fly and dogs jump", "eggs beat chickens fly", in short, they can be on the stage, so the killed chickens always have to interpret "killed" into a blockbuster with great fanfare and extravagance. The struggle of chicken feathers all over the ground, the miserable situation of blood flowing everywhere, and the cry of grievances for heaven and earth. It is more than enough to scare the monkeys with this effect, and the monkeys naturally don't want to be in a different place, so they have to bow their heads and dare not make a mistake.

According to the saying, the ancients said: Those who fail to accept the rate to face the enemy, if the strategy does not work, and the temptation of them, and the suspicion is revealed, so it is a self-mistake, blame others for their mistakes, and secretly warn them. The one who is vigilant, the one who is anti-temptation: this cover is also driven away by danger. Or say: The law of this dispatch is also. If you can't mobilize your own troops, you want to lure them with money, but it will arouse their suspicions. The right way to do this is to deliberately make mistakes and then blame others for their faults, so as to secretly warn those who disobey your command. This kind of vigilance is to induce them from the opposite side: it is to use strong and sinister methods to force the soldiers to obey. Or rather, this is the method of dispatching the generals. To treat subordinates and soldiers, we must pay equal attention to grace and power, and combine rigidity and softness. If military discipline is not strict, how can a rabble win? If they are just blindly strict, even close to cruelty, it will be difficult to convince the officers and men. Therefore, caring for the soldiers, being considerate of the soldiers, and making the soldiers grateful and admired in their hearts, this can be regarded as a competent commander. There is a famous admonition in "The Art of War": "The restraint is unclear, the order is not familiar, and the crime is also punished." This is to emphasize the need to be strict in administering the army. "Regarded as a beloved son, so he can die with him. This is to emphasize the need to care for the soldiers, so that they are willing to die with the generals.

"Govern troubled times. Use heavy punishments, control the rebellious army, and use severe punishment. Confucius punished the young and righteous, although it is unreasonable, but the power is treacherous, but because of this knife makes the powerful ministers fearful, the market is safe; Kong Ming said when he slashed the horse with tears: "In the past, Sun Wu was able to win the world, and the use of the law was clear. If the law is abolished, how can it please the thief, and how can the righteous military law be used to convince the public?" This is the power technique of quelling chaos and controlling chaos, and it is a wonderful use of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys. People are mysterious, the more complex the society, the more clever and treacherous, each has its own opinions, each does its own thing, if it is not limited to a range, it will be impossible to distinguish between good and evil, and people's desires will run rampant. Therefore, there are many heroes in troubled times and few heroes in prosperous times, because the scope is not tightly limited. In ancient times, the more so-called "heroes", the more unfavorable it was to the country and society, as the saying goes, "filial sons do not give birth to a loving father's house, loyal ministers do not give birth to saints", and "heroes" are equal to moths in dead wood. In short, he is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and the people will not be able to make a living, and the people will not be able to make a living, and the people will not be able to realize their intentions. In order to consolidate social order and stabilize the people's lives, we should severely punish these people who have caused rebellion, and borrow a few heads to teach them to take a look. This is the heart-attacking tactic of "don't cry when you don't see the coffin, and tears ripple when you see the coffin". The significance of "killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys" is not trivial.

In history, there have been countless farces of "killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys".

Like what. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Jinggong appointed Tian Sui Tho as a general, led troops to attack the Jin and Yan coalition armies, and sent his favorite minister Zhuang Jia as a supervisor. Sui Tho agreed with Zhuang Jia to meet at Yingmen at noon the next day. The next day, Sui Tho arrived at the camp early and ordered the installation of the pole and the drip tray to be used as a timer. As soon as the appointed time came, he went to the barracks to announce the military order and reorganize the troops. However, Zhuang Jia was delayed, and Sui Tho sent people to urge him several times, and it was not until dusk that Zhuang Jia arrived at the camp gate with a drunken face. When he asked him why he didn't come to the barracks on time, Zhuang Jia didn't care, he just said that all his relatives and friends would come to set up a banquet for me, so I had to entertain, right? Sui Tho was very angry and reprimanded him for being a minister of state and having the important task of supervising the army, but he only loved his own small family and did not pay attention to national affairs. Zhuang Jia thought that this was a trivial matter, relying on the fact that he was the king's favorite retainer, and took Sui Tho's words for granted. In front of all the officers and men of the army, Sui Tho ordered the military judge to be summoned and asked: "What should be done according to the military law if I miss the time for no reason?" The military judge replied: "It should be beheaded!" Sui Tho immediately ordered Zhuang Jia to be taken. Zhuang Jia trembled with fright, and his entourage hurriedly flew into the palace, reported the situation to Qi Jinggong, and asked Jinggong to send someone to save his life. Before the envoys sent by Jing Gong arrived, Sui Tho immediately ordered Zhuang Jia to be beheaded for public display. The officers and men of the whole army trembled with fright when they saw the main general kill the minister who violated the military order, who would dare to disobey the general's order again. At this time, the envoy Pegasus sent by Jing Gong broke into the military camp and took Jing Gong's order to ask Sui Tho to release Zhuang Jia. Sui Tho replied calmly: "The general will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected." When he saw that the people were arrogant, he called the military judge again and asked, "What should be done according to military law if the horses are running in the barracks?" 'Come and make your face turn pale with fright. Sui Tho said unhurriedly: "The messenger sent by the king can not be killed. So he ordered his attendant and the left horse of the three chariots to be killed, and the wooden post on the left side of the carriage was cut off. Then let the messenger go back and report. The army was strictly disciplined, the army was vigorous, and it won many battles.

Like what. Jiang Taigong destroyed the Shang Dynasty, and after the Zhou Dynasty established its foundation, it was necessary to recruit a group of talents to serve the country. There is a sage in Qi State, Crazy Orange, who is very important to local people. Mrs. Jiang admired him and wanted to invite him out to do things, and he visited him three times, but he was closed. Jiang Taigong suddenly killed him, but Zhou Gong was too late to save him, and asked Jiang Taigong: "Crazy orange is a sage, he does not seek wealth and wealth, he drinks from his own clumsy well, ploughs the field and eats, as the so-called hermit is not tired of the world, why did he kill him?" Jiang Taigong said: "Within the four seas, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, and the king's minister." When the world is decided, everyone should contribute to the country. There are only two positions, either for support or against, and there must be no hesitation or neutrality, and with this non-cooperative attitude, if everyone follows his example, then what people are available. So he was killed for the purpose of setting an example!" Sure enough, after this killing, the people who wanted to cup the Zhou Dynasty did not dare to be self-defeating and went into seclusion. (To be continued......)