Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 46 "Bow your head" [Second update, please collect and read]

Shang Yang looked confused. Does the law need to be stated so clearly?

Moreover, even if it is to be written very clearly, can't it also be written in the Qin Code?
  With this in mind, he naturally asked like this, while Chen Ye shook his head slightly and looked at Shang Yang with a very calm voice.

"Daliang Zao, the law is indeed intended to restrain the people, but if the people cannot have a clear understanding of the law, how can they be afraid?"

“Is our purpose in enacting laws to punish our citizens?”

"No, we make laws so that people don't violate this and try to avoid this happening."

"Therefore, instead of letting the citizens fumble bit by bit, we should write down everything clearly and tell the citizens what they do to violate the law and what the consequences will be if they violate the law."

Chen Ye thought for a moment and gave a very simple example.

"Similar to the previous slander of the new law."

"Then we can write it more clearly, such as what level of speech is considered slander, what kind of criminal law will be imposed for this level of slander, and what kind of criminal law will be imposed for subsequent levels."

In fact, the reason is very simple, just like the saying that later generations often say: "fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years."

The laws in the Warring States and Pre-Qin era were actually very crude. Sometimes, when enforcing the laws, judgments were made based on the experience of those who judged the laws at that time.

This cannot be said to be bad, but at least it is not a good thing for the strict implementation of the law.

Shang Yang lowered his head and frowned slightly in thought.

This seemed to make sense, but he raised his head and asked: "Then why can't they all be summarized in Qin Lvzhong?"

Chen Ye looked at Shang Yang and said: "In Daliang, different things adapt to different laws. If all laws are attributed to the Qin Law, then to what extent should the Qin Law be expanded?"

He pointed to the huge bamboo slips beside him and said: "Now, there are so many Qin laws."

"My idea is that taking advantage of the gap between Daliang Zao's implementation of reforms, it happened to separate some laws that were obviously small categories, leaving only the most basic part of the backbone of Qin's laws."

"The rest of the laws cannot conflict with the Qin Law. If there are differences, the Qin Law will prevail."

Chen Ye looked at Shang Yang with some hints in his tone: "In this way, even if there are any problems with the new law or other laws in the future, it will not affect Qin's laws. In the future, Qin's laws will be the same. It is the law of Qin that is respected."

"Isn't that a good thing?"

Shang Yang immediately realized the hint in Chen Ye's words. This seemed to be a good choice.
  After all, he did not dare to guarantee whether the new laws would be repealed when the next king took office. Some new laws could be repealed, and some new laws were the work of Shang Yang.

He wanted to establish a centralized feudal state, which for any disciple of Legalism is always a piece of meat that he wants to eat.

"you're right."

Shang Yang immediately expressed support for Chen Ye: "I will consider it carefully and then raise this matter in the court."

He smiled and said, "I've caused a lot of disturbance today, please don't blame Sikou."

Chen Ye quickly said: "Daliang is being polite."

"Now that Daliang has implemented reforms ordered by the monarch, all we can do is cooperate."

He smiled and said: "It's my honor that Daliang Zao doesn't mind me giving random opinions."

Although the conversation between the two was still friendly, the clerks and officials around them could hear the strangeness and alienation hidden in it.

This is not a conversation that a disciple and a teacher should have.

So, not long after Shang Yang left Sikou Yamen, a piece of news about the relationship between Chen Ye and Shang Yang once again reached some people's cases. Gongzi Qian looked at the person in front of him with a look of surprise on his face: "Oh?"

"You mean the relationship between Chen Ye and Shang Yang has changed?"

The boy nodded: "My husband said that to him, the conversation between Sikou and Daliangzao no longer had the intimacy before, but instead resembled the friendliness between strangers."

"There must be something happening between them that ordinary people don't know about."

Young Master Qian nodded slightly, narrowed his eyes slightly, and was thinking about what happened between the two people.

Some alienation cannot be faked. He had also wondered before why there seemed to be no contact between Chen Ye and Shang Yang for a while.

When he learned that Shang Yang was going to Sikou Yamen today, he still felt that he had thought wrong before.

And now it seems that the indifference in going to Sikou Yamen instead of Chen Ye's mansion can be easily seen.

This shows that there is no longer any personal relationship between the two.

Only public-to-public government affairs remain.

Although Gongzi Qian still tried to remain calm, he still laughed out loud in the end.

This is a great good thing for him and the old nobles. It shows that Shang Yang has once again become as isolated and helpless as before.

In the eighth year of Qin Xiaogong's reign, Xia.

Shang Yang seemed to have become even more ruthless when he started the second reform. Many old nobles who had objections to him were imprisoned in the name of slandering the new law. They either bowed their heads after being tortured, or continued to violate the new law and were tortured or executed. .

After the last conversation with Chen Ye, Shang Yang introduced two laws very quickly.

[Private Land Law], [County Law].

The two laws recorded very clearly and in detail what Shang Yang planned to do. They also clearly stated under these two laws the extent to which the new law was violated and would be punished.

This is naturally a good thing for some citizens.

In the last reform, because some of the discussions in the Qin Code were too "academic", that is, too written, not all citizens could understand and understand the meaning. Therefore, many people who punished the new law did not do it intentionally. of.

But in the last Qin Code, there was no division between "intentional" and "unintentional".

If you violate the new law, you have violated it, and you must enforce it and judge the crime in accordance with the new law. Now, if it is unintentional, although you still have to be punished, as long as it can be proven that it was unintentional, then [a fine] can be used to replace the guilt.

Of course, not everyone can afford the fine.

And those old nobles will not violate the new law [unintentionally].

But this move fell in the eyes of those old nobles. It seemed that Shang Yang had launched a compromise with them and wanted to negotiate with them through this.

As a result, some old nobles became disillusioned.

I feel like I can do it again.

Shang Yang's actions shattered the last hope of these people.

To these people, Shang Yang has only one word.

"kill!"

(End of this chapter)