I want to be emperor

Chapter 259 Tax Law
After a big wedding ceremony, Luo Zhixue was also very tired. The main reason was that there were too many procedures, and many procedures required him to preside over them in person.

But these programs are indispensable.

Because these are all necessary rituals in a traditional dynasty.

How the imperial power was established, except for the most core force, the rest is to rely on various rules.

Ceremony is an important embodiment of rules.

The Great Chu Empire was newly established. In order to demonstrate its legitimacy and legitimacy, to gain the recognition of the people, and to gain the support of more people, it is called to establish a tall and powerful image for them.

After all, for many ordinary people, they don't know the specific situation of your Great Chu Empire, and there are not enough ways to find out.

What they see and hear are often the most superficial things, and it is often difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Under such circumstances, the sense of ritual becomes very important.

And through a series of traditional formal procedures to enroll the queen, this kind of thing is an important matter for further formalization and legalization for the nascent Great Chu Empire.

Its function is somewhat similar to holding imperial examinations, all to show their orthodox legitimacy.

As for the marriage itself, it doesn't really matter.

The purpose of holding imperial examinations in the Great Chu Empire is similar. Is it really for talents?
Yes and no.

The dozens of so-called Jinshi selected by Dengji Enke alone could not fill the demand for numerous civil servants in the Great Chu Empire.

But this is not important, what is important is to send an obvious signal to the people of the world: our Great Chu Empire is an orthodox legal dynasty, you can come and vote.

Otherwise, the upper echelons of the Great Chu Empire wouldn't be so keen on hosting Enke and holding a big wedding ceremony.

The day after Wang Xiaoliu was canonized as empress, Luo Zhixue decreed to canonize Hou Yunmeng as concubine Shu, Wang Qiaoer as concubine Li, and four other daughters as concubines.

And other low-level concubines also received different promotions, ranging from Zhaoyi to talents.

In this way, the harem of the Great Chu Empire can be regarded as normal. There are queens at the top, concubines in the middle, and Zhaoyi and talented people at the bottom. There are more than one hundred people in total.

What's interesting is that in fact, quite a few of the women who entered the palace have not been able to have physical contact with Luo Zhixue so far...

This is something that can't be helped, Luo Zhixue is only one person, and he is very busy every day, it is impossible to just play with a group of women without doing shit all day long.

In the limited private entertainment time, Luo Zhixue was mostly with Hou Yunmeng, Wang Qiaoer, Wang Xiaoliu and a few harem women, leaving not much time for ordinary concubines.

In addition, it was only a few months before and after this group of women entered the palace, so it is normal for some people to not have their turn.

For the emperor's concubines, there are more wolves and less meat. This situation is very common.

Even in the future, this situation will become more serious.

Because within two days, Queen Wang took the initiative to say to Luo Zhixue: "Husband, the concubines are going to select a new batch of beautiful women to enrich the harem."

When Luo Zhixue heard this, he actually felt a little strange at first. After all, whoever just married a wife, who has only been married for two days, would find it strange that the newlywed wife said that she would find a lot of women to serve her husband as concubines ...

But this strangeness only lasted for a few seconds, and Luo Zhixue knew why.

Because this is the palace!
Wang Xiaoliu became a queen at the beginning, this is to learn from Luo Zhi, and it is to show her image of a "virtuous queen" to the world.

It's nonsense to say, but for a queen, what is Xian?
Leaving other things aside, the first choice cannot be 'jealous'.

And this is the most important requirement.

Because if an empire is to be passed on, it needs successors. The more princes the better, even if half of them die, it is best to have more than a dozen princes as candidates...

Therefore, in all dynasties, one of the basic requirements for queens is that they should not be jealous women.

It doesn't matter what Queen Wang really thinks in her heart, but she chose to learn from Luo Zhi at this time, to show her magnanimity to the civil and military officials in the court, and to the people of the world.

Luo Zhixue looked at the 16-year-old Empress Wang, whose face was actually still a little immature, and immediately nodded slightly and said: "The empress can deal with all matters in the harem."

It's Wang Huang's job to pick girls, so Luo Zhixue naturally won't intervene.

After all, as a queen, Wang Xiaoliu is not only Luo Zhixue's wife, but also the mother of a country. At the same time, the Great Chu Empire does not have the role of queen mother, so now the entire harem is under her control.

The empress dowager or empress in the harem has always been responsible for choosing women for the emperor to enrich the harem and consolidate the foundation of the country.

There is no queen mother in the Great Chu Empire, so naturally the king and queen can only be in charge.

When Queen Wang heard Luo Zhixue's words, she immediately said: "Then the concubine will give orders when I turn around."

Luo Zhixue nodded and didn't speak, then bowed his head and started to eat, and after he was full, he got up and went to the outer hall to deal with government affairs.

After sending Luo Zhixue away respectfully, Queen Wang thought about it, and then ordered the court lady: "We will start a game of cards later, go and invite Concubine Shu, Concubine Li, and Concubine De to play cards together!"

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Not to mention how the queen was tossing about in the harem, but Luo Zhi started a day of government affairs after learning the front.

After the big marriage, the Great Chu Empire has no urgent affairs, but there are still many civil and military affairs.

There are always a lot of things in a new empire, especially the current Great Chu Empire, in fact, the various systems are not perfect, even the laws are not perfect.

At present, the laws enforced by the Great Chu Empire are still implemented based on the Great Ming Law for the time being, and only some of the laws have been changed.

After all, revising and enacting laws is a very complicated and huge task. Although the Great Chu Empire had established the Ministry of Legal Affairs before, and later upgraded the Ministry of Legal Affairs to a special legislative institution, the Judicial Council, the rise of the Great Chu Empire was too short. , Not many people were assigned to the early work of the legal department before.

For a long time, there were only a few dozen people in the Ministry of Justice who were responsible for formulating and amending laws, and the focus of their work was also on formulating tax-related laws.

As for other laws, in fact, no changes have been made for the time being, and the Great Ming Law is mostly used.

But it is obviously impossible for this situation to continue forever. After all, many legal provisions in the Great Ming Law do not conform to the current situation and future development of the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, the Court of Justice will formulate the Great Chu Empire's own legal system based on the Great Chu Empire's own situation and at the same time refer to the Great Ming Law.

But the first written law was neither civil law nor commercial law, nor criminal law, but tax law!

This may be a very strange thing in other dynasties, but it is a very reasonable thing for the Great Chu Empire.

What is the most important thing for the Great Chu Empire now?Fight for hegemony.

The struggle for world hegemony requires money and food support, because tax collection has become the most important administrative matter under the rule of the Great Chu Empire.

This can be seen from the huge funds and the number of staff of the tax department in the Great Chu Empire.

In the past, the taxation work of the Great Chu Empire was mostly carried out according to some administrative agencies, mainly the Ministry of Taxation issued some administrative regulations, but after the official founding of the country, it could not always be done like this. There is generally a clear legal provision that is not.

Therefore, the first major task of the early Ministry of Justice, and now the Court of Justice, was to formulate the first law of the Great Chu Empire based on some of the original tax regulations.

"Tax Law"

After several months of deliberation and several revisions and adjustments, the Court of Justice finally formulated the final version of the tax law and submitted it to Luo Zhixue for approval.

Although the Court of Justice is an institution that formulates various laws, it actually does not have the authority to issue laws. For a law to take effect, it needs to be personally approved by the emperor and announced to the world.

Facing a tax law with more than 20 major classifications and more than 500 detailed rules and regulations, and a lot of technical terms in it, Luo Zhixue's eyes are dazzled...

But he couldn't just fool around and approve the law, so even if he was dizzy from reading it, he still insisted on watching it.

When encountering articles and phrases that you don’t understand, you will ask people from the Legal Court to answer them at any time.

It took a full three days before Luo Zhixue briefly looked it up, and finally officially approved the promulgation and implementation of the first law of the Great Chu Empire.

Subsequent taxation of the Great Chu Empire and the fight against tax evasion.Tax resistance and other tax-related matters will be fully implemented in accordance with the tax law.

It will not be implemented according to a series of vague and even contradictory tax regulations formulated by the tax department as in the past.

The successful formulation and promulgation of the tax law also encouraged the Court of Justice, and immediately stepped up efforts to compile other legal provisions.

In particular, the two major categories of criminal law and civil law.

It must be introduced and implemented as soon as possible, even if it is not perfect for the time being, and there are defects, it must be worked out first and used first.

The various civil laws and criminal laws of the current Great Ming Law are not suitable for the Great Chu Empire. The handling of some illegal incidents now largely depends on the subjective wishes of local patrols, supervisors, and judges.

Because there is no ready-made legal provisions as a basis.

This point, in fact, was similar in the Ming Dynasty. Whether some criminals were arrested, sentenced or not, and the severity of the sentence were all at the discretion of the county magistrate.

Even if it is a human life lawsuit, it is the same!
But the Great Chu Empire couldn't go on like this for a long time. Luo Zhixue couldn't imagine that the empire he built didn't even have basic legal provisions.

Therefore, he still attaches great importance to the work of the Court of Justice, and continues to assign people to the Court of Justice, and quite a few of these people still have judicial experience.

For example, some litigants, pawns, officials, etc. in the Pseudo-Ming period, these people are very familiar with the law of the Ming Dynasty, and they are also very clear about various criminal acts. The new criminal law, civil law is very helpful.

Under the leadership of Luo Zhixue, the Court of Justice now has more than 150 staff, divided into several divisions and divisions responsible for revising various laws.

They will first sort out according to the Great Ming Law, delete some inappropriate provisions, and add some legal provisions that the Great Chu Empire needs to implement first, so that grassroots judicial officials everywhere have a legal basis to do things.

In the future, it will continue to improve slowly, and formulate various legal provisions that truly belong to and are more suitable for the Great Chu Empire, just like the tax law.

(End of this chapter)