People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 24: Jurisprudence
It has to be said that the local aristocratic families in the Han Dynasty were indeed capable and powerful. Although the Yellow Turbans entered the county town easily, it took a lot of effort to break into the doors of these aristocratic families.

These large manors located in the county town often have hundreds of private servants, all of whom are young and strong warriors, so it is not easy to fight them.

It took the Yellow Turbans nearly two hours to pacify all these large families one by one.

Xu Chen was somewhat thankful that he had attacked the city by surprise. Otherwise, if he had given them more time to prepare and organize all these forces to defend the city, he would have been in big trouble.

Xu Chen could only sigh at this. The wealthy and powerful families in these places were really powerful and he really should not underestimate them.

Even if they were in a fortress like the one they had captured when they first entered Youzhou, they controlled the land and population of a piece of land and had their own retainers and armed forces, but such an existence could only be regarded as that of a powerful tyrant.

The real aristocratic families are much more terrifying. In addition to controlling more land and population, they also monopolize knowledge and upward channels, thereby spreading their influence from the local level to the center.

And now he is actually with a prominent family in Zhuo County. It's just that this family is relatively weak, but still much more difficult to deal with than the powerful ones he encountered before.

Moreover, what we see before us is only part of their strength in the county. Outside the county, the land they control is even more vast, far beyond the reach of ordinary powerful people.

However, although this family is extremely powerful, if we look at the world as a whole, it cannot be ranked.

A family like the Yuan family, with three dukes in four generations, is a truly prominent family.

The clearer he saw, the more frightened Xu Chen became. These people were destined to be his enemies in the future. Just thinking about the road ahead made it seem extremely difficult.

Putting these thoughts aside, Xu Chen turned his attention back to the large group of people kneeling in front of him.

These people are from aristocratic families, including men, women, old people and children, and now Xu Chen is about to begin judging them.

Just as he said when entering the city, princes and nobles are born with original sin. It has nothing to do with whether they have done evil or not. Rather, everything they enjoy in their lives was obtained by exploiting the lower-class people. In this respect, none of them is wronged.

Of course, Xu Chen was not so cruel as to massacre them all. He already had a rough procedure on how to deal with these people.

“Emperors, princes, nobles, and powerful people are all born with original sin, and are therefore unclean.

Our Taoism follows the Way of Heaven and obeys the will of God, and now we treat it as a teaching method.

The children are ignorant and naive, so although they can be exempted from punishment, they will not be allowed to join the religion for the rest of their lives.

All old women and men who often perform good deeds and have never directly harmed others will be exempted from punishment and will not be allowed to join the religion for life.

Anyone who directly harms others but does not destroy their lives should be punished with severe punishment and will not be allowed to join the religion for life.

Anyone who harms another person and causes loss of life shall be punished with severe punishment and his head shall be beheaded and his body exposed.

In addition, all the wealth of this noble and powerful family was obtained through ill-gotten gains, and my religion should confiscate it!"

Xu Chen calmly and indifferently preached the teachings he had formulated. Next, the Yellow Turbans had to deal with everyone present according to these teachings.

Although these teachings were actually formulated by Xu Chen, they were nominally derived from the revelations of natural gods and were based on the will of heaven. They naturally possessed supreme legal principles in the religion of God.

As a Heavenly Master, Xu Chen controls all the interpretation rights of the Divine Religion, which is the true meaning of speaking the law of heaven. These teachings are still very rough and cannot be regarded as truly usable laws, but this matter can only be gradually improved after things settle down in the future. For now, it can only be solved in a simple and rough way.

If we really want to come up with a set of strict and complete laws, it would be strange if these peasant-legged Yellow Turbans were not confused.

Now that we have something to rely on, we can naturally deal with these people as we see fit.

Although the time for specific execution has not yet come, Xu Chen also knows that in the end, except for the children, few people will survive.

The Yellow Turbans worked efficiently and soon sorted out all these people. Nearly a hundred people were tied up and separated in three places.

"We have already interrogated them clearly about their crimes. Look, those on the left are the ones who don't need to be punished, those in the middle are the ones who need to be punished, and those on the right... hehe, those are the ones who need to be punished and beheaded!"

A Yellow Turban excitedly ran to Xu Chen to report, and looked as if he couldn't wait to take action.

Xu Chen took a look and found that it was just as he expected. There were a dozen children and two women on the left who did not need to be punished, and there were only a few people in the middle who only needed to be punished. The remaining dozens of people on the right were all to be executed.

From this perspective, except for the children and a few others, most people will not escape death.

But you can't blame me, Xu Chen, for this. You can only blame yourselves for your evil deeds and you deserve the punishment.

Xu Chen shook his head, feeling no sympathy for the people in front of him.

The aristocratic families of this era, as well as the gentry and landlords of the future, their existence is a cancer in human society. If you beat ten people to death with your eyes closed, eight of them will deserve it.

"Then we will all be taken to the market tomorrow for execution. Remember to gather the people in the city to watch the execution."

After Xu Chen finished speaking, he was no longer interested in watching these bloody things. He walked across the blood-spattered courtyard, entered one of the inner rooms, found a room and began to rest.

The moonlight that night was as bright as mercury, illuminating the earth, but even with the bright moonlight, people of that era still had difficulty seeing at night.

Night is a special time of year. When night falls, most people are completely blind, no matter how bright the moon is. They cannot see clearly even if a palm is placed in front of their eyes.

Therefore, in this era, there were few night operations in wars. It was pitch black, let alone wielding a knife to kill people, it was good enough to be able to see the road.

At this time, Gongsun Zan, who was far away from Zhuo County, had to give up pursuing the Yellow Turbans as it was getting dark, and instead set up camp on the spot.

Gongsun Zan was a little annoyed. He thought he could end the battle easily, but this group of Yellow Turbans were more vigilant than he thought.

Before he could get to the powerful family's house, he was discovered by the Yellow Turbans in advance, and then the two sides started a game of chase.

It's just that the Yellow Turban bandits were well-rested and had much better physical strength than the officers and soldiers who had been marching for a long time, so they always ran faster than the officers and soldiers, and the two sides always kept a close distance.

They kept chasing until nightfall, when they were forced to give up, but Gongsun Zan thought this was good news.

At least we have time to rest for a night, and after replenishing our strength, we can catch up with the thieves in one fell swoop and kill them to claim credit!

(End of this chapter)