The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 528 "The Law of Taiping"

The Eagle Wolf Guard quickly left the eldest son city with Li Heng's copy of the new law, and went to the printing workshop in Shangdang County.

In just four or five days, a large number of printed and good new French documents have been sent back to the eldest son city.

Li Heng reviewed the documents in his hand, and after confirming that they were correct, he put them back into the pile of books.

"Take these and follow me in."

Li Heng pointed to the pile of books and said in a low voice.

A clerk standing beside him was ordered to hold up the booklet, and followed Li Heng slowly into the government office of the eldest son city.

In the past, the eldest son city was quite noisy, and there would naturally be sounds from people coming and going, but the atmosphere in the eldest son city's government office these days is dreary and terrifying.

Xu An is currently living in the backyard of the eldest son's government office. It was originally a place for storing books and files. Xu An had someone clean it up to free up some space, so he lived in a side room.

Li Heng walked into the mansion with the clerk who moved the books, and now the defense of the eldest son's mansion has been taken over by the yellow angels under Xu An's command.

The soldiers standing along the road are all helmeted and armored yellow angels, looking at them in awe.

Li Heng is also considered to be a veteran of the battlefield. Although he was transferred by Xu An to become the prefect of Shangdang County because of his lack of vigor, he has also been a commander in the army after all. fear.

Because of this, Li Heng also felt the changes taking place in these yellow angels.

These yellow angels gave him the feeling that they were much stronger than before, no matter in terms of aura or training speed.

In fact, what Li Heng felt was right, the content of the daily rehearsals of the current Yellow Angels was quite different from the normal routines of the Yellow Turban Army.

Xu An selected some suitable methods from Gao Shun's military training methods, and joined the training of the Yellow Angels.

In the beginning, the "Infantry Exercise Code" compiled by Xu An used many of the training methods of the army to follow the gourd and apply some training methods of later generations.

However, with the gradual enrichment of battle experience, Xu An began to change the content of the "Infantry Manual" according to the actual situation.

The yellow angel who was guarding the door briefly checked Li Heng and the official, and then stepped aside.

Li Heng also withdrew his gaze from them, choosing to follow Xu An was the right choice he had made in his life.

The strength of the Yellow Turban Army is only good for him and for their Lutai Li family, but not bad.

The door opened, Li Heng saluted, and walked slowly into the house.

There are already three people sitting in the house.

The person on the right side, wearing a Qingjuan Daoist robe, a Yuqing wishful crown, and gray hair, is Yan Zhong.

The person on the left, wearing a crimson deep coat and a crown of honor, looks majestic and dignified, with a long beard and white face. When Li Heng came in, he didn't turn his body away, but just glanced sideways towards the door.

But just looking at it made Li Heng feel a little tight in his heart. It was like cutting down trees in the mountains to collect herbs, and suddenly found a poisonous snake hidden in the bushes, and at that time the poisonous snake was holding its head up. , spit out the letter, stared at him, ready to go.

When the man looked away, the discomfort lingering in Li Heng's heart dissipated.

Li Heng also recognized that man. He turned out to be a captain under Dong Zhuo's command. He heard that he had a good relationship with Yan Zhong. He seemed to be a student of Yan Zhong. His name was Jia Xu, and now he was awarded the title of Captain Zhaoxin.

In the Yellow Turban Army, there are very few captains who have the title of captain. Except for the three captains of Han Xian, Hu Cai, and Li Le, Baibo, the other captains without exception were promoted to generals later.

Back then when Lin Lugu paid homage to the generals, Zhou Cang was named Captain Huyi, and Pei Yuanshao was named Captain Yingyang.

Now both of them have become the titled generals of the fifth rank. Zhou Cang accumulated military exploits and was finally promoted to General Tiger Wings during the Battle of Hedong County. Pei Yuanshao was led by Xu You to attack Zhongshan with Yan Liang and Wen Chou. , was promoted to General Yingyang.

Now in the Yellow Turban Army, there are fifteen generals with the title of the fifth rank, and two generals with the title of the fourth rank.

There are two heavy generals: General Pingnan Gong Du and Pingxi General Lu Bu.

The fifteen titled generals are:

General Liu Pi of the Dian Army, General He Man of the Jianjie Army, and General Huang Long of the Guard Army;
Zhaode General Zhang Yan, Xuanwei General Yu Du, Protector General Xu Huang;

General Baibo Guo Tai, General Du Liao Li De, General Liu Shi of Rebellion;
General Zhang Liao, General Yangwei, General Ji Ang, General Yangwei, General Guanhai Wuwei;
Tiger Wing General Zhou Cang, Eagle Yang General Pei Yuanshao, and Xingyi General Zhang Yang.

Ji Ang is the commander of the Taiping Road in Yuzhou, and Guan Hai is the commander of the Taiping Road in Qingzhou. Because of their achievements in leading the people of the four states to transfer, they were named generals.

As for the school lieutenant, there are quite a lot of school lieutenants in the Yellow Turban Army now.

Qingzhou Pingyuan Commander Bian Xi, Qingzhou Beihai National Canal Commander Guan Cheng, Qingzhou Qiguo Canal Commander Zhang Rao, Qingzhou Jinan Guoqu Commander Xu He, Qingzhou Le'an Guoqu Commander Sima Ju, and some major generals from the other three prefectures for meritorious service Later, he was named a school lieutenant.

However, not all school lieutenants have the right to lead troops. Many school lieutenants say they are school lieutenants, but they do the work of military commanders or military marquises, or they go to take charge of farming affairs and push them to the second line to manage the farming soldiers. .

Li Heng and the clerks behind him handed the books in their hands to Yan Zhong and Jia Xu respectively, and then stepped forward to put the other book on the desk of Xu An who was sitting in the first seat, and then exited the room.

Yan Zhong first picked up the book on the desk and began to read it. Jia Xu straightened his body and picked up the book on the desk.

He has never seen this kind of book bound with paper before. Han Ting can indeed make paper that can be written on, but those papers are not insect-proof, and they are not easy to store. This kind of paper from the military avoids this problem.

Jia Xu stopped his divergent thinking and picked up the book.

The cover of the book is light blue, and the name of the book is in a white frame on the upper left. The paper on the cover should be dyed with blue dye, and he didn't know the long white block for a while. How it is made.

On the booklet, there are three big characters from top to bottom written in black pen and ink in the long white block - "Taiping Law".

"Most places now use the Han law, but there are many loopholes and deficiencies in the Han law. This book is called "Taiping Law". Some of the laws are made by me, and some are internal affairs. It was edited by the Secretary, and the rest is the content of the Han law. I originally planned to release it in a few days, but as the people of the four prefectures entered the Bingzhou, there are still some remaining problems, so I plan to finalize it now."

Xu An glanced at Yan Zhong and Jia Xu, and said.

"Taiping Law" contains not only the few articles he asked Li Heng to transcribe a few days ago, but also some other laws. Some laws in the Han Law have indeed not kept up with the changes, and they are not in the interests of ordinary people. .

After the paper and printing problems were solved, Xu An also thought of re-enacting the law.

During the Warring States period, Li Kui, a Wei man, formulated six chapters of the "Fa Jing": the Law of Stealing, the Law of Thieves, the Law of Imprisonment, the Law of Arrest, the Law of Miscellaneous, and the Law of Judgment.

When Liu Bang first entered Guanzhong, he agreed with his father and fellow villagers that "the murderer will die, and the wounding and theft will be punished", abandoning the strict laws of the Qin Dynasty.

Later, Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty, and the world was initially settled. Xiao He was ordered to reform the Qin government and formulate the Han law.

"Han Shu Criminal Law Records": "The law of three chapters is not enough to prevent traitors, so Xiangguo Xiao He took the law of Qin, whichever is more suitable for the time, and made nine chapters of laws."

On the basis of the Six Laws of the Qin Law, Xiao He supplemented the Household Law (household registration management, marriage system and tax collection), Xing Law (mainly stipulating corvee collection, city defense) and Stable Law (mainly stipulating cattle and horse husbandry and post transmission). , combined into nine chapters, into "Nine Chapters Law", "Nine Chapters Law" is the original Han law.

As for the sixty articles of Han law mentioned by later generations,
The twenty-seven chapters of "Yue Gong Lu" regulate the security and palace ban.

The six chapters of "Chaolu", also known as "Chaohe Law", are mainly special laws on the court system.

Eighteen chapters of "Pongzhanglu" are supplementary to the system of official ranks and ceremonies not covered in "Nine Chapters of Law". Aspects of etiquette system.

"Nine Chapter Law", "Pong Chapter", "Yue Gong Law", "Chao Law", the four laws are collectively referred to as the "Sixty Laws of the Han Dynasty".

But in fact, only the "Nine Chapters Law" is closely related to ordinary people.

Most of the content of the "Taiping Law" printed by Xu An's order is taken from the "Nine Chapters Law" stored in the original Jinyang City Government Office.

The words and sentences in "Nine Chapters Law" are all the same as the writing habits of this era, which is the so-called classical Chinese in later generations.

Xiao He is worthy of being one of the three masters in the early Han Dynasty. The "Nine Chapters Law" he formulated is precise and easy to understand, but after all, the written language is inevitably difficult to understand in some places.

Without laws, society would naturally have no stability at all, so Xu An has been preparing for the law.

Now the words used in "Tai Ping Law" are basically colloquial, and the words and sentences are all easy to understand words, so we must strive to be precise and easy to understand.

The officials of the Han court are familiar with the scriptures and can read the "Nine Chapters Law" without hindrance, but many of the current officials in the Taiping Dao are Fu Zhu who were suddenly cultivated from the Taoist hall. Their knowledge level is not high. The characters are also relatively limited, so it is undoubtedly more difficult for them to understand the more complicated Chinese law.

For so long, Taiping Dao has said that it has followed the laws of the Han Dynasty, but most of the time it only implements three laws.

"The murderer dies, and the wounding and theft are punishable." Basically, it followed the three chapters of the law when Liu Bang entered Xianyang to govern the place.

To a large extent, the reason is that the officials who enforce the law cannot even understand the law well.

Some slightly more complicated cases were basically handled by the officials of the original Han court. Fu Zhu, who was born in Taipingdao, was handled in accordance with the "Han Law", because only those officials were more familiar with the Han Law.

Therefore, it is imperative to implement the "Taiping Law" that is more colloquial, easier to understand, and more standardized, and suitable for the current situation.

"The second semester of this year's college will be opened in a while, and now most of the students are still at home, which means that there are not too few people who are literate in the local area. Although their literacy is limited, they are not completely ignorant. "

"The Fu Zhu who graduated from the Daotang are now scattered all over the country to serve as officials, and the literacy classes in the army are also quite effective, so I plan to print the "Taiping Law" and distribute it to cities, towns and villages in various places to replace the Han Dynasty. law."

Xu An pointed to the book and said to Yan Zhong.

"In the past, the aristocratic families controlled the mouthpiece and controlled public opinion. They could distort the law at will, make their own profits, and then control the place. This situation has been alleviated to a certain extent after our army entered, but it has not changed completely. This time I The promulgation of the "Taiping Law" is when we take the first step to make the people understand the law."

Yan Zhong looked at the "Law of Peace" in his hand, frowning slightly.

As a law, "Nine Chapters Law" naturally has a lot of content. Even if it is simplified, it is not a task that Xu An can complete in one or two years alone. After all, Xu An is not just compiling "Taiping Law" Things to do, many of the contents here were compiled by Yan Zhong.

"It is indeed feasible to replace the new law now, but what Duke Ming said about 'making the people understand the law' is probably extremely difficult. But what Duke Ming said, there should be a specific method."

Yan Zhong frowned, continued to flip through the documents in his hand and said in a deep voice, he didn't look at Xu An when he spoke.

He has spent a long time with Xu An, and he is both a teacher and a friend, and the general etiquette will be omitted except for public occasions.

"I do have some ideas. The "Taiping Law" has passed the review of the Department of Internal Affairs, but I hope that the final draft will be checked by Mr. Yan and Mr. Wen He."

Xu An nodded. "Although "Taiping Law" has been simplified and compiled, it is still too complicated for ordinary people. It is naturally impossible for ordinary people to master all of them."

"My idea is to write some important regulations and new laws on the bulletin board, and send special personnel to explain them, and let wandering Fuzhu who preached everywhere explain the "Taiping Law" in addition to preaching. "Law", and some new laws, led by the Eagle Wolf Guard, assisted by the police, and publicized from door to door."

Yan Zhongwei thought for a while, then nodded secretly, this arrangement is feasible, and it would be a good idea to make an announcement to the public and let Fu Zhu preach.

As for the door-to-door propaganda, it is also feasible in theory. There are actually not many self-cultivating farmers in Taiping Road, and the people in most areas have been concentrated. It does not cost much to implement military settlements and civilian settlements. Too much manpower and material resources.

"I believe that Minggong's strategy is indeed feasible."

Yan Zhong nodded slightly, but his brows still did not relax.

"It is feasible to know the law, but if the people know the law, those who enforce the law should also..."

Yan Zhong turned his head to look at Xu An, but when he saw Xu An's eyes, he knew that he was worrying too much, so he stopped talking.

"It seems that Duke Ming already has a plan in mind."

Every time Xu An has a full chest, he has such an expression.

"Sure enough, I can't hide it from Mr. Yan. I plan to set up a 'law' department in the county college, the national college, and the Taoist hall to teach the "Taiping Law" and related knowledge."

"Then, under the Department of Internal Affairs, the Department of Justice will be added, with Wei Lv, the former envoy of Eagle Wolf Guard and Wolf Guard Township, as the first court lieutenant."

"Wei Lu?"

Yan Zhong repeated the name of 'Wei Lv', and immediately thought of that unsmiling emissary who wore a purple eagle wolf suit, had a short beard, and looked sullen[zhì].

Now in the Taiping Road, Wei Lu is indeed the best candidate for the post of Fa Si Tingwei.

"There will be chaos with the increase of the number of people, and strict laws must be enforced now."

Yan Zhong gently unfolded his folding fan, his frowning brows finally relaxed.

"To make the people of the world understand the law, to make the officials of the prefectures and counties understand the law, and to make the students of the academy study the law, it is a great good."

(End of this chapter)