Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 882
In the third year of Yanxi's reign, the crown prince was in Yangzhou, and Jiang Wei led the army to go to Goguryeo. The court was also busy and had no time to rest.

It's almost the end of the year, the season of autumn and winter.Lv Yishangshu, the imperial historian, believed that the old laws of the former Han Dynasty were onerous and the punishments were severe.The laws of the Eastern Han Dynasty since Guangwu Zhongxing still centered on the old laws of the Han Dynasty, from which new laws were continuously added, resulting in infinite disciplines, complex and onerous.

Moreover, the world has been divided into three parts for a long time, and the old laws are still retained in various places, which is inconvenient for the central government to manage.Therefore, he requested a structural reorganization of the legal system left over from the Han Dynasty, and abolished the old laws of the Han Dynasty based on the "Nine Chapter Laws" based on the Spring and Autumn Judgment of Prisons.

Under the unanimous vote of the central ministers, Liu Chan adopted Lu Yi's memorial, reconstructed the old laws of the Han Dynasty, and compiled a legal system suitable for the current Han Dynasty.

There are not many proposals that can unify the opinions of the Han officials, and law revision is one of them.There are too many disadvantages of the laws of the Han Dynasty, and the primary reason is that there are too many interpretations other than the laws and regulations of the Han Dynasty.

If the old laws of the Han Dynasty could not keep up with the progress of the times, the imperial court would make edicts or case judgments to supplement the current old laws. With case judgments and too many edicts issued by the imperial court, contradictions would arise, or Hard to remember.

In this case, the interpretation of jurists will appear as chapters and sentences. During the reigns of Emperor Xuan and Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty, chapters and syntaxists became the protagonists of the legal stage of the Han Dynasty, perfecting the laws of the Western Han Dynasty and deleting the old laws.

But in terms of justice, these chapter jurists participated in the revision of the laws of the Han Dynasty, and the chapters and sentences that they explained to the law also had legal effect in the judiciary.

Hundreds of years later, in the Han Dynasty, eighteen scholars of chapters and sentences appeared, including Shu Quanxuan, Guo Lingqing, Ma Rong, and Zheng Xuan. Annotations of more than two hundred sentences.

During this period, masters of the law appeared, and a number of legal families were born immediately, such as the Guo family in Yingchuan, the Xu family in Runan, the Ma family in Fufeng, the Zhong family in Yingchuan, and the Wu family in Henan.After Zheng Xuan appeared, and Cao Wei Jianguo, he adopted Zheng Xuan's chapters and sentences, but he also had hundreds of thousands of legal commentaries, which was also a headache.

Before Cao Wei, almost no one could master such a huge legal text, which also brought great conflicts to the governance of the Eastern Han Dynasty.For example, in some cases, the county magistrate uses Guo Lingqing's chapters and sentences, and the county magistrate uses Shu Quanxuan's chapters and sentences. How can the judgments drawn by them be the same? If the judgment cases conflict, their governance will also conflict.

At the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, everything was kept simple, with "Shu Ke" as the general law, supplemented by Liu Chan's imperial edict, and the central government's case to govern the country.However, as the Han Dynasty gradually ruled the world, the problem of its non-universality was highlighted again. It was undoubtedly revealed in the movement to release slaves, and the legal provisions of the Han Dynasty urgently needed to be changed.

After unifying everyone's opinions, Liu Chan, in order to show the inclusiveness of the Han law, not only appointed Lu Yi, Dong Hui (Dali Siqing), Du Shu, Xia Houxuan, Guan Xing and other Han officials, but also appointed a group of officials such as Sima Fu, Gao Rou, etc. The old officials of Cao Wei such as Zhuge Ke, Zhong Hui, etc., and the old officials of Wu and Yue such as Zhuge Ke and Zhu Ju, the old people of the Three Kingdoms jointly formulated the laws of the Han Dynasty.

To be honest, there are no famous masters of jurisprudence in Soochow, but in order to ensure the universality of the newly compiled laws of the Han Dynasty, Liu Chan also valued Zhuge Ke, Zhu Ju and other old Wuyue people's understanding of Yangzhou, so he transferred them to the law compilation Among the officials.

In November, after the personnel from the three countries were fully staffed, the central government began a massive campaign to compile the new laws of the Han Dynasty.Liu Chan sometimes intervened to discuss with everyone the content of the Han law compilation.Among them, Liu Chan's insight into the provisions of the law and his foresight to the law have won everyone's admiration.

In fact, Liu Chan's study of the law was seriously underestimated by everyone, and he should be second to none in the Han Dynasty.Liu Chan not only learned from Zhuge Liang's legal thought, but also possessed the legal knowledge of later generations, coupled with his years of experience in governing the Han Dynasty, he was enough to stand out from everyone in the macro aspects of the legal system and judicial interpretation.

For example, Liu Chan directly rejected the abuse of chapters (judicial interpretations) used in the law since the Han Dynasty, but he also knew the importance of chapters and sentences, which could ensure the iteration of the law in the Han Dynasty.Therefore, Liu Chan attributed the rights of chapters and sentences to Dali Temple, asked the official to produce judicial interpretations, and canceled private interpretations.

At the same time, taking into account the different local conditions in the Han Dynasty, Liu Chan also suggested that different places can have different judicial interpretations or case judgments, but in general they must not violate the judicial spirit of the new laws of the Han Dynasty.

Under the busy government affairs, Yanxi's three years passed quickly.The time has come to the fourth year of Yanxi. In the past year, except for Jiang Wei's victory over Goguryeo and the crown prince's success in Yangzhou.However, the weather in the world is good. Whether it is Bashu, Longyou, Central Plains, or Jingyang, they all ushered in a bumper harvest.

I have to say that Liu Chan was very lucky.In the years since the Han Dynasty unified the world, there have been no natural or man-made disasters.There are no natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the agriculture has a bumper harvest. Liu Chan also began to focus on other aspects.

At the moment, he is talking with several Hu monks who came from Yangzhou, learning about the world other than the Han Dynasty, or talking about Buddhism, and Huo Yi, who knows Buddhist rituals, is sitting with him.

After Liu Chan exchanged a few words with Hu Seng, he looked at Kang Senghui and asked, "Qing said that he came across the sea from a poisoned body. I don't know what is going on in Guishuang Kingdom?"

Kang Senghui, Kangju people, moved to Tianzhu (India) with his father since he was a child.After the death of both parents, he became a monk to learn Taoism and strictly abide by the precepts.In order to spread Buddhist thoughts, he crossed the sea from Tianzhu to Jiaozhi, and then from Jiaozhi to Jianye.It coincided with the war between Wu and Yue, and he stayed away from the world, specializing in the study of Han family theory.

Until the crown prince Liu Sui went to Yangzhou to spend time in the fields, Kang Senghui, together with Wei Zhinan, Zhi Qian and others, begged to see Liu Sui, hoping to persuade Liu Sui to help them preach.Prince Liu Sui didn't dare to make decisions on religious matters, so he sent them to Chang'an and asked them to meet Liu Chan.

Kang Senghui shook his head and said: "I would like to inform you, Your Majesty, since the death of Posu Dipo, Guishuang's national strength has been declining day by day. Although Guishuang still exists today, it has been divided into several small countries. And the southern part of Shendu is no longer in Guishuang. Under the rule, it is ruled by the Gupta country."

"What is the origin of the Gupta Kingdom?"

Kang Senghui pondered for a while, and said simply: "The Gupta country is a small country with a poisonous body. When Guishuang was weak, King Gupta rebelled and surrendered to other states. After the death of King Gupta, his son Samadhara Gupta took over Conquer the Poisonous South."

After a pause, Kang Senghui praised and said: "Although Samadhara and His Majesty started as the second generation, compared with Your Majesty, he is inferior to His Majesty in talent. Your Majesty's majesty is unheard of in Your Majesty."

Wei Zhinan interjected appropriately, and added: "To the west of Guishuang is the Sassanid Kingdom, and it fought eastward with Guishuang many times. Guishuang was defeated by it, and all the land in the west was swallowed up by it."

During this Little Ice Age, although the four ancient kingdoms were weakened, new dynasties were actually born.For example, the Gupta Dynasty in India and the Sasanian Dynasty in West Asia may be able to add a brand new Han Dynasty now.

Liu Chan stroked his beard and said, "I already know what Qing and other monks want to teach. It is not impossible to allow you to teach, but I have something to ask, and I am afraid I will trouble you."

"Don't dare!" Kang Senghui replied with joy on his face, "Your Majesty, please just say it."

"I want to send envoys to go to Shendu, and visit Gupta, Guishuang, Sasan and other countries. If there is an opportunity, I can also visit Daqin. But most of my envoys don't know the geography of distant places, and I don't know who you can be guides and accompany the envoys. Group visit."

Liu Chan set his sights on Kang Senghui and Wei Zhinan, but Zhi Qian was not in his consideration.Although Zhi Qian was also a Hu monk and a native of Guishuang, he entered the Han Dynasty with his grandfather during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.Living in Han for many years, there is actually not much difference from Han people.

Kang Senghui and Wei only looked at each other, Kang Senghui saluted and said, "I would like to accompany the mission abroad as a guide."

After a pause, Kang Senghui replied: "But the minister took the sea route to Dahan, I don't know about the land route."

Liu Chan laughed a few times and said, "The road is far away by land, so let's go by sea."

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"What about preaching?" Wei Zhinan asked.

Liu Chan smiled and said: "The territory of the Han Dynasty is vast, and most of the northern and southern lands are barbarians and barbarians. They are tough by nature and do not accept education. I have always heard that Shamen puts abstinence from killing as the top priority. I want you to enter During the period of preaching, I thought that I would persuade the people, and see how the effect is, and then build a temple in the Central Plains.”

Liu Chan has wanted to use religion to educate the barbarians for a long time!Before that, he supported the Five Dou Rice Religion to join the Northwest Qiang people and Xianbei, and it was well accepted by both the high-level and the public.

However, Liu Chan is still not at ease with the teaching of five buckets of rice, and its effect is different from that of Buddhism.Buddhism focuses on abstinence and prohibition of killing, which is very effective in weakening and educating barbarians.After all, compared with the sinicization of Confucianism, the enlightenment of religion will come faster.

(End of this chapter)