I will not be king in the Spring and Autumn Period

Chapter 350 Chapter 411 Chapter 412 How about ruling the people by law?
Li Ran opened his mouth with astonishment on his face, and was speechless for a moment.

He didn't expect that he, who has always been a leader in eloquence, would be criticized by the kid and be rendered speechless.

At this moment of stalemate, I only heard Ji Le uttered a voice from inside the car, and asked softly:
"Husband, what's the matter?"

Although Ji Le lost her memory, after Li Ran's careful care during this time, she was convinced that the man in front of her was the one she had entrusted to her for life.

This is absolutely untrue, just like her infant child, there is no doubt about it.

Li Ran returned to the carriage, opened the curtain, saw Ji Le hugging her daughter, and only smiled calmly:
"Don't worry, Le'er, it's fine..."

Although Ji Le lost her memory, she just couldn't remember many things that happened before, she wasn't really stupid.In the car, she had already listened to every word and deed outside.She also vaguely guessed something, and after listening to Sun Wu's description before, she also had some understanding of the situation outside.

"Husband, please sit down, Le'er has something to say."

Hearing what she said, Li Ran sat down obediently and listened.

"Presumably these people are attracted to my husband, but my husband wants to abandon them and take my mother and daughter back to the mountains and forests, right?"

Li Ran nodded slightly, expressing his acquiescence.Afterwards, Ji Le looked through the window of the car again and saw the people kneeling on the ground pleading for orders in the darkness outside.

At this time, Ji Le personally lifted the curtain in front of Che Yu, looked at Sun Wu, Ye Xu and others who were waiting in front of Che Yu, and asked:
"Sun Wu, who are they? Why do you rely on your husband so much?"

"Returning to Madam, these are refugees who escaped from the state of Zheng, because their fields and houses were occupied by the Qing clan, and they could not bear the harsh land taxes and corvee. Therefore, they could not survive, so they came to seek refuge. Ye Yi's!"

After listening to the festival music, he couldn't help but sighed, and continued to ask:
"Then why did they come to Ye Yi alone? Is there no other place to go?"

When Sun Wu heard the words, he cupped his fists and bowed, and continued to speak:
"When I went back to Madam, it was because they heard that Mr. was in Ye Yi, so they came here. And in this world, if there is anyone who can help them, there is probably only Mr. alone in the world!"

After hearing the music, he turned around and looked at Li Ran:

"Husband, Leer heard what Husband said just now, and Leer was also deeply moved. However, the ambition of a man should be like the Yangtze River, running eastward to the sea, so why bother to cherish the land of gentleness? If you are for Leer , but ignoring these people, even if Le'er follows her husband, she won't feel at ease after all!"

"Le'er, over the years we have been together less often, and as a husband, we have indeed taken care of you very little. We have not fulfilled our responsibilities as a husband. As a result, Le'er has suffered so much today. As a husband, I really can't bear it... ...let Le'er suffer another slight injury..."

"But...if my husband insists on leaving now, and if Le'er gets a bad reputation, then what is the difference between him and Zai Le'er?!"

Ji Le is still benevolent and righteous as always.

"Since my husband is capable of settling down the common people here, he should do his best. Only in this way can Le'er retire with her husband with peace of mind!"

As the saying goes, "Gentlemen and nobles despise themselves, first others before themselves".

Facing Ji Le's heartfelt words, Li Ran felt a little ashamed instead.

His determination to retire was originally to protect Ji Le.But now Ji Le is persuading him to give up such thoughts, Li Ran naturally did not think about it, just nodded to Ji Le, then stood on the carriage, bowed to everyone and said:

"Li Ran is not talented. He is so loved by everyone, but he doesn't want to make progress, but he wants to retreat. It is really shameful and shameful... Now that I have received good words from my wife, I am very regretful, so I, Li Ran, swear here, I will spare no effort to go through the difficult times with you all, and I will live up to my kindness!"

As soon as Li Ran's words came out, the crowd suddenly became full of voices, some thanked again and again, some burst into tears, and what's more, some were crying and laughing like crazy. Seeing such a situation, Li Ran was also touched a lot. Immediately He ordered people to return and returned to Ye Yi's mansion.

Li Ran first arranged the sacrificial music, and then found Sun Wu and Ye Xu, and Ye Xu knelt down on the ground, repenting repeatedly:
"When Xu was in a hurry, he spoke rudely, and I hope the lord is not to blame!"

Li Ran stepped forward, helped Ye Xu up, and comforted him:

"Listening to your words, it's like enlightenment! It's all happened before, no wonder others."

Ye Xu took advantage of the situation and stood up, cupped his hands in a bow, and stood aside to obey orders.

Li Ran sat down in the middle, and started to discuss with everyone:
"Nowadays, so many refugees have flooded into Ye Yi, and the number has increased dramatically. What do you guys think?"

When Sun Wu heard the words, he immediately came out and clasped his fists and replied:

"Sir, there are a lot of people coming from Zhengyi, and there are also some people who fled here from Chu. The most urgent thing to do is to consider how to settle them. These people are mixed, and they are easy to cause trouble. I'm afraid it's not easy to manage. what!"

Ye Xu followed suit and said:

"Yeyi has enough land and abundant crops. Even the wasteland farther outside the city is actually very convenient to cultivate. These are all easy to say, but..."

Li Ran smiled slightly and encouraged Ye Xu to continue talking.

"Just what?"

"It's just that there are a large number of these refugees and there is no restraint, so conflicts will inevitably arise between them, and most of them are trivial matters. Xu is disturbed by these trivial matters every day, and it is not peaceful."

"They are all refugees. If we are careless in handling things occasionally, we will say that we treat each other more favorably than others. Not to mention the conflicts between local people and refugees, it is even more difficult to deal with. Even if we all think it is a bowl of water Those who are flat will be considered by those refugees as being treated differently!"

Sun Wu nodded, indicating that what Ye Xu said was indeed true, and added:
"However, you still have a lot of prestige among these refugees. So, if you can come forward in person, or can you suppress one or two?"

Li Ran pondered for a while.

"Suppression based on popularity is a way, but it can only be suppressed for a while. If it takes a long time, once the accumulation of public grievances explodes, it will be far worse than it is now. I'm afraid it will be out of control by then! In my opinion , the only way to deal with this situation is with the rule of law!"

Sun Wu frowned when he heard these words.

"Rule the people by law?"

Li Ran thought about it for a while, and felt that there should be no problem, so he just said "um" to show his affirmation.

Suddenly, a trace of disappointment appeared on Sun Wu's face.

"Sir, at the beginning, Wu had high hopes for him, thinking that he should have a solution for both. But to rule the people by law, I'm afraid that not only the reality of punishment, but also the suspicion of abuse!"

Li Ran also knew that this method was not appropriate in this era.

What's more, for these refugees, they have had enough of the government's "rules" to squeeze them.Therefore, if today, they are still restrained by one or another set of criminal names, it will inevitably make these refugees feel that it does not make any difference whether they flee or not.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Li Ran followed his thinking as a future man to formulate a set of the most fair laws, which is obviously the most effective method he can think of at the moment.

Li Ran said these thoughts, but Sun Wu didn't care at all:

"Sir, I'm afraid this is absurd. Wu heard that the previous holy masters judged crimes by weighing the importance of the matter. They never enacted criminal laws, because they were worried that the people would start fighting after a long time."

"As the saying goes, 'use righteousness in idleness, correct politics in rectification, propriety in action, trustworthiness in keeping it, benevolence in enshrining it, persuasion in making it obedient, strict punishments in order to intimidate its obscenity.' Even so, I'm afraid they can't have The results are effective, so the sages also teach them to be loyal, to act on them, to teach them to do things, to make them peaceful, to treat them with respect, to visit them to be strong, and to break them with strength!"

Hearing these words, Li Ran looked at Sun Wu approvingly.

"These words of Changqing are really deafening and thought-provoking!"

Sun Wu was also encouraged when he heard the words, so he continued:
"After the criminal law is enacted, the people will only consider the key points, and try to find ways to escape the criminal law and develop the habit of not being taboo! If this is the case, even if it can achieve results in the early stage, it will definitely be the same in the later stage. It collapsed for thousands of miles and fell apart!"

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Chapter 412_ The country is about to perish, and there must be many

Hearing this, Li Ran couldn't help sighing.

"It is inappropriate to rule the people by law, but if the legal system is complete enough, maybe it is also a solution, isn't it?"

Sun Wu shook his head and said decisively:

"Sun Wu once heard that all dynasties and dynasties have extremely complete criminal laws. For example, Xia had chaotic politics and wrote "Yu Xing", Shang had chaotic politics and wrote "Tang Xing", and Zhou had chaotic politics and wrote "Tang Xing". Writing "Nine Punishments", the rise of these three kinds of criminal laws is in the last days of their respective dynasties. Therefore, if you are going to use this method to stabilize the refugees, I am afraid it is not a good way!"

"Just like what Mr. Wu taught Wu before, in the "Poetry" it was said: 'Ritual punishment of the king of Wen's virtue, and the daily peace of the Quartet. What about the law? When the common people know which direction to fight, they will abandon the etiquette, and instead have to fight every word in the criminal book. If so, there will be more and more cases of violating the law. Get up, and bribery will become even more rampant!"

What Sun Wu quoted were two sentences from the "Book of Songs", which respectively mean "follow King Wen's morality, and seek peace and security every day." and "follow King Wen's good example, and all nations in the world will be convinced forever."

King Wen of Zhou made rites and music as the patriarchal system, which is Zhou rites!
Now that the rituals are broken and the music is broken, Sun Wu sticks to this way, and Li Ran is quite dumbfounded when he speaks with certainty.As the saying goes, "Scholars should look at each other with admiration for three days", Sun Wu's words made Li Ran, who has always abided by Zhou etiquette, feel ashamed.

Sun Wu is also worthy of being a soldier saint of a generation. With his excellent learning ability, the quality of Yue Zhenyuan Ting can be said to be at a glance, and the astonishing speed of absorption has also amazed Li Ran.

Just listen to Sun Tzu's conclusion at the end:
"Wu Zeng heard that 'a country is about to perish, and there must be more control'. I'm afraid this is what he said?"

Li Ran sighed secretly in his heart, and then said:

"Changqing, what you said is very reasonable. But if it is not the case now, brother Yu really can't think of other ways. As for the matter of the future generations, it is true that it is not well thought out, but after all, the "National General" If the death of a country requires more control' or 'more control leads to the collapse of the country', who can tell clearly the cause and effect of this?"

"Bang Duo's punishment is not good. But if it can meet the situation in front of it, it's not a bad idea... If it's really like Changqing said, it's really impossible for my brother to fulfill the destiny... Then I'm afraid it's not good There will be good results."

Sun Wu said:

"Sir, no matter how difficult it is...but if you want to rule the people by law, you have to think twice after all!"

While Li Ran was hesitating, Ye Xu who was on the side spoke:
"The two lords said so, and Xu thought of a strange person! This person is Deng's name analysis, and he is also a member of Zheng Guoren. When he was in Zheng Guo, the doctor Zichan cast a punishment tripod, and Deng Xi followed his own criminal law. Because of his understanding, he privately formulated a new and more specific set of punishment books. At that time, many nobles in the state of Zheng hung this new set of punishment books for the convenience of reading. After the doctor Zichan knew about it, he ordered people to Do not hang the punishment book! But two lords, guess what?"

Sun Wu couldn't help but smile wryly.

"What time is this, don't keep it up!"

Ye Xu also smiled:
"Yes! Xu just saw that the atmosphere of the two lords' arguments was a little tense, so I tried to reconcile a few words."

"It is said that after Deng Xi heard about it, since everyone was not allowed to hang it, Deng Xi encouraged people to erect the punishment book. Then, Doctor Zichan ordered that the punishment book was not allowed to be erected, so he changed the sentence to oblique Let it go. In short, Deng Xi’s responses are endless, and he can always find loopholes in Dr. Zichan’s decree.”

Li Ran thought about the scene when Dr. Zichan faced this kind of person, and he might have stretched out his hand to put his forehead on his head, so he couldn't help shaking his head with a wry smile.

Afterwards, Ye Xu continued:

"Deng Xi always tried his best to take advantage of Doctor Zichan's punishment, and targeted it everywhere. Moreover, he also agreed with the people at that time that he would send a set of long clothes for the big prison lawsuits, and a set of long clothes for the small prison lawsuits. Litigation requires a set of shorts. Therefore, there are countless people who donate clothes and trousers to study prison litigation."

"Under Deng Xi's guidance, these people also specially exploited the loopholes in the punishment system of doctors, confounding black and white, saying what is right is wrong, and what is wrong is right, so that there is no standard for right and wrong. The standards of right and wrong are constantly changing every day. If you want to get someone out of prison, you can use the punishment book to deal with it, and vice versa, if you want to put this person in jail, you can also find the basis in the punishment book!"

Li Ran also felt that this matter was quite ironic, and that this move really made Dr. Zichan a little embarrassed.

"and after?"

"Later, because of the existence of this criminal book and Deng Xi's instigation, Zheng Guo's people became more and more impetuous. After he was driven away by the analysis and destroyed his criminal record, Zheng Guo brought order out of the chaos, the people's hearts obeyed again, and the concept of right and wrong was considered to be on the right track again."

"And this person lived in seclusion in Yeyi after he was driven out of Zheng by the doctor Zichan. Xu knew his experience and wanted to communicate with him face to face, but he never saw him. He also said that Xu was just a magistrate, not a Ye Gong, you are not qualified to meet him!"

After hearing this, Sun Wu couldn't help saying:
"Hey, this person is also arrogant!"

"Exactly! And after this person came to Ye Yi, he lived in secluded places, Xu almost forgot about this person. Hearing the two of you arguing here today, I suddenly remembered. What the Lord said is actually reasonable, after all, The doctor’s tripod punishment has been effective after Deng Xi’s departure, and Ye Yi’s situation is actually similar to Zheng Yi’s original situation, so it’s not impossible to rule the people with the law.”

"But Ye Gong's words are also reasonable. A single Deng Xi gave Dr. Zichan such a headache, made the people so impetuous, aroused the spirit of fighting, and even messed up the people's minds."

Hearing this, Li Ran couldn't help being silent for a long time, and then said:

"Deng Xi, since he has such means, we can talk to him, and then make a decision!"

But Ye Xu was also a little embarrassed at this time.

"I'm afraid that this person is not very talkative, and he may not be willing to help us. Maybe we have enacted a criminal law, but this person will follow the same pattern, and he will not even be able to see each other..."

"It's okay, let's talk to him first, this person is so interesting, how can you miss it? Moreover, what he said to you before meant that he wanted to see Ye Gong. There is no reason to see it!"

Li Ran still decided to meet this Deng Xi first, no matter whether this person will come out to help or not, there will be no harm in thinking about it.

Sun Wu almost meant the same thing, so the three of them immediately went to Deng Xi's hermitage.

It turned out that the place where Deng Xi lived now was directly mixed among farmers and wild men.And the thatched cottage where he lives is also extremely elegant.

Ye Xu stepped forward to knock on the door, but there was no response, Sun Wu frowned:
"Is this person not at home?"

Ye Xu shook his head, smiled wryly and said:
"This person is very weird. Even at home, he has always turned a deaf ear to the knock on the door. Xu feels that this person should be inside."

"Then what should we do? You can't break into the door, can you?"

Of course Sun Wu knew he couldn't break into the door, but he couldn't think of any other good way to do so.

(End of this chapter)