Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 237 Civil Code ([-])

A few months later
The Merlin family finished this year's autumn harvest, and then stored the grain in the warehouse.

This kind of warehouse is a high-footed warehouse, that is, the floor of the warehouse does not directly touch the ground. The advantage of this is to prevent the moisture and insects on the ground from corroding the bottom layer of the warehouse, thereby corroding the grain in the warehouse.

Not far from the farm, there is also a water wheel, which is shared by dozens of small farms around. In the farmland of the farm.

Whenever the waterwheel broke down, all the farms that used the waterwheel to irrigate the farmland would pay to the city to hire craftsmen to repair it.

But things are not always so simple. Sometimes, there are always a few families who are very cautious. They obviously use the water truck, but they find various excuses and refuse to pay. If you persuade him, he will be anxious with you.

Like now...

"I'm close to the stream, and I usually fetch water from the stream by myself, and there's no water truck, so why do you ask me to pay for it?" A shrew in her 40s justified herself and rants at other farm residents. spray.

"Nonsense, you obviously use it. Don't you also use irrigation canals for your family's fields?" Another farmer retorted to the shrew.

"You son of a bitch! The irrigation canal passes through my field, what can I do? If you block the irrigation canal, won't you have no water?" The shrew was furious. She felt that even without the irrigation canal, her field would not lack of water.

Everyone quarreled and quarreled, but there was no result.

It's impossible to really block the irrigation canal, then except for the shrew's house, other people's homes will have no water. If it is not blocked, the shrew can use the water from the irrigation canal while refusing to pay for the maintenance of the irrigation canal.

This kind of trivial matter may seem like no big deal, but in fact it is the key to governing the world.

Governing the world is not about chanting slogans, nor is it about the emperor issuing an edict saying that it is enough to rest and recuperate. It is about taking care of the daily life of the people.

Everyone pointed at the shrew, and Mei Lin also persuaded him: "Ms. He, we are all in the same area. There is no need to look up and see down."

"You also know that you can't look up and look down? Then why surround me and force me to pay for the maintenance of the water truck? If you don't want to use it, don't use it. My mother, I will block the irrigation canal and see how you will irrigate the farmland in the future?! "The shrew was cursing, always feeling that she had suffered a lot.

Everyone was arguing, and finally decided to go to Busan City to find [Tingwei], who was in charge of legal disputes, to deal with the matter.

[Tingwei] is a term borrowed by the Wang family from the Central Plains. It is roughly the same in nature as the Tingwei of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains. It is a judicial institution.

But whoever goes to the city to report this matter to Ting Wei will make everyone in trouble. They all have their own affairs to be busy, and it is impossible to spend most of the day going to the city.

Just when everyone looked at me and I looked at you, feeling overwhelmed, Merlin stood up and said, "I just happened to send my daughter to the city, and I planned to let her go to the Japanese Islands to open up wasteland. Let Ting Wei know."

Every year at a fixed time, every household has to send their surplus adult population to the [Reclamation and Immigrant Court] in the city, where they will live for a few days, waiting for the royal fleet to be transported away.

If you fail to catch up with time or do not go on purpose, the neighbors around you can report to the [Ting Wei] in the city. After the report is successful, the person who has been reported will be fined [-] yuan, and [-] yuan will be rewarded to the whistleblower.

"Then it's hard work for you."

"It's okay, let's go."

After making a promise to everyone, Merlin first called several of his daughters to help shear the sheep and check whether the hens and ducks had laid eggs by the way.

"Ah Qiao, go and see if the hens in the coop have laid eggs."

"Father, come here and shear the wool of those two sheep."

"A Ling, go and bring our ox over, tie it to the ox cart, and prepare to go to the city."

Merlin was very busy. She picked up the scissors and started shearing one of the sheep.

"Isn't there a buyer who will come to purchase? Why are you transporting the wool all the way to the city?" Merlin's husband was very puzzled.

"After all, the buyer's purchase price is lower than that in the city. We take the initiative to transport it to the city and sell it, so we can sell it for more money." Merlin explained.

"That's so troublesome. Just for the dozens of extra money, I have to go all the way to the city, and it will be night when I come back." Merlin's husband shook his head.

"Isn't this going to send Ah Ling to the city, so I'll take the wool with me along the way." Merlin smiled brightly, and cut off rolls of wool cleanly amidst the sheep's "bleat".

It is not the first time the sheep have been sheared, so they are very obedient.

Goo goo goo!

The little girls were digging eggs in the coop, and many hens were scurrying about.

At the same time, Merlin and her husband stuffed the wool into cloth bags, then loaded them into the ox cart, put the eggs in softer wool bags, and held them carefully to prevent the eggs from breaking.

After several hours of traveling in ox carts, the Meilin family finally arrived in the city.

The city is much dirtier than the countryside. Although there are dedicated cleaning ladies, the number is too small to keep busy.

Although it was dirty, there was not even a single beggar. This was naturally because all the beggars were captured by the Wang family and sent overseas to open up wasteland.

How decent is it to sit on the street begging instead of opening up wasteland with hands and feet!
The Meilin family first came to the [Taoyuan Guild], sold their agricultural products to the [Taoyuan Guild], and then sent their third daughter, Aling, to the [Wilderland Immigrant Garden].

"Mother..."

"Aling, when you get there, you have to work hard to open up wasteland. In the future, when you have saved enough money, you will come back by boat to visit your mother and me."

"Remember, when looking for a man, you must look for the hardworking and honest one, not the glib one. That's how your mother and I were abducted by your father."

"What nonsense are you talking about, mother-in-law? Obviously you thought I was young, handsome, and handsome, so you took the initiative to ask me to marry you, please, don't talk nonsense in front of Ah Ling."

"Ah……"

The family is happy and harmonious, although they are about to be separated, they are not sad, but have endless reluctance.

After seeing off the third daughter, A Ling, Mei Lin came to [Ting Wei].

[Tingwei]'s highest officer is also called Tingwei. She is a concubine daughter of the royal family who likes to study the law. Ting Wei, responsible for handling judicial affairs.

"Oh? It's another dispute over water tank maintenance and aqueduct?"

After listening to Mei Lin's narration, Wang Xiao frowned tightly. This is not the first time she has received civil disputes about water truck maintenance and diversion canal irrigation.

In the face of such trivial matters of civil disputes, the Central Plains government generally ignores or makes peace with each other. When encountering bad-tempered officials, both sides will fight [-] big boards each. Why or why, next time this kind of thing should happen, it still has to happen.

But Wang Xiao, who is proficient in the law, feels that it cannot be dealt with like the Central Plains. The accumulation of trivial matters becomes a major event.

"Can a law be enacted to deal with disputes over maintenance of water tankers and irrigation of diversion canals?"

Wang Xiao thought so, and then wrote his thoughts into [Family Proposal].

Every child of the family, regardless of men, women, old or young, can submit a [Family Proposal] to the family, and it can be implemented after the family holds a meeting to discuss and approve it.
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When we in the Central Plains were formulating the "Women's Commandments", the prototype of the "Civil Code" had already appeared in Busan. From this moment on, the gap between the Central Plains and the Empire on which the sun never sets has begun to widen. —— "General History of the World Song Dynasty Qin Hui"

(End of this chapter)