Chapter 239 I beat Su Ze!
[The penman who pursues the truth]
Grade: Purple;
Effect: Pursue the truth. This follower will pursue the truth as the first principle of judicial practice, and the host cannot stop his determination to pursue the truth.
Comment: "There is only one truth."
Price: 800 Wen Tai and 100 Zhu coins, and a monthly maintenance fee of Wen Tai and Zhu coins is required. Concealing the truth will reduce the quality of this follower.
[A clerk who sticks to his principles]
Grade: Purple;
Effect: Adhere to principles. The follower will strictly carry out trials in accordance with relevant laws and will not be disturbed by pressure from superiors or the surroundings, including the host.
Comment: "Enforce the law impartially."
Selling price: 800 Wen Tai and Wu Zhu coins, and a monthly maintenance fee of 100 Wen Tai and Wu Zhu coins is required. The execution of various judicial-related commissions requires the consumption of paper or bamboo slips.
[Ordinary clerk]
Grade: blue;
Effect: Using the pen as a sword, this follower can execute the "Trial" commission in the [Court].
Comment: "Rule the country by law."
Selling price: 500 Wen Tai and Wu Zhu coins, and a monthly maintenance fee of 50 Wen Tai and Wu Zhu coins is required. The execution of various judicial-related commissions requires the consumption of paper or bamboo slips.
[Bloodthirsty Penman]
Grade: Green;
Effect: Bloodthirsty, staunch death penalty addict.
Comment: "In troubled times, heavy punishments are used."
Price: 200 Wen Tai and Wu Zhu coins, and a monthly maintenance fee of 10 Wen Tai and Wu Zhu coins is required. Excessive suppression of the death sentence will reduce the quality of the follower.
[Corrupted Penman]
Grade: Green;
Effect: Corruption.
Comment: "Everything is tradeable."
Price: 200 wen tai and 10 baht coins, and a maintenance fee of wen tai and baht coins is required every month.
Su Ze couldn't help but feel happy when he saw the five customarily summoned followers of the Pen and Sword series.
It seems that the basic quality of the follower Penman is blue.
However, "pursuing the truth" and "sticking to principles" are both positive terms for clerks.
However, Su Ze did not expect that the term "bloodthirsty" could also be used for clerks.
These five should be enough for the summary, right?
Su Ze looked at the remaining seven random summoning grids again, and this time he also reaped a lot of rewards.
[The brave and fierce Di people mountain soldiers] *2
Grade: Purple;
Effect 1: Being brave and aggressive, and being fierce on the battlefield can slightly increase the combat effectiveness of the team, but he will also be a troublemaker in daily life, which will reduce the discipline of the team.
Effect 2: Mountain people, good at mountain warfare.
Comment: "The Di tribe soldiers brought out from the mountains of Guanxi by Lü Guang, the ruler of Houliang."
Price: 500 Wen Tai and 100 Baht coins, and a monthly maintenance fee of Wen Tai and Baht coins is required. This unit must be provided with meat for three meals, and their desire to cause trouble and fight cannot be satisfied, which will reduce the quality of the followers.
The remaining few are of no use at all, [the sneaky and cunning treasury clerk], [the cheating cook of the Imperial Guards], [the gossipy maid], [the gossipy petty clerk], [the gossipy teahouse waiter].
Su Ze was busy looking at the followers he summoned and ignored Lu Xiuning.
Lu Xiuning only felt a sense of grievance rising in her heart.
I have endured humiliation and served him, but he doesn't even look at me.
All along, Lu Xiuning has used her idol Queen Mao to demand herself. She has been practicing martial arts and shooting since she was young, and always wanted to surpass the men around her.
But today she felt a strong sense of frustration.
Su Ze didn't think highly of her martial arts skills, and she was also clumsy in handling girl's affairs. Su Ze hardly even looked at her these days.
After Lü Bodu opened Yangping Pass and surrendered, Su Ze also forgave Lü Bodu's crimes as he had promised before.
However, he and his people were disarmed and relocated to an area near the Huangshui River in Hezhou.
Lu Bodu did not resist this arrangement at all.
After going through so much trouble, I am lucky enough to be able to save my own life and the lives of my people.
Before leaving, Lu Bodu asked Su Ze to see his daughter.
When they met, Lu Bodu saw that his daughter did not seem to be abused. He just told her to serve Su Ze well, and immediately took his people to Hezhou.
From that time on, Lu Xiuning knew that she had been sold to Su Ze by her grandfather and family.
Even from her grandfather's obscure conversation, Lu Xiuning even felt that her grandfather still expected her to "serve" Su Ze well, hoping that this daughter could help the family turn things around.
Being captured, sold out by her family, and ignored by Su Ze, all kinds of humiliation surged into her heart, and Lu Xiuning actually burst into tears.
Su Ze had already finished looking at the followers. He looked up and saw Lu Xiuning with tears in her eyes. He asked in confusion:
"But someone else has wronged you?"
Lu Xiuning wiped her tears and shook her head. Su Ze was very strict in managing his troops, and only a few servants were responsible for some cleaning work.
Although these people are gossipy, they are still nice to me.
Su Ze didn't understand what this woman was thinking, so he asked again:
"Do you miss your grandfather?"
Lu Xiuning bit her lip and shook her head. Su Ze was also a little impatient. He said:
"If you feel unwell, please leave. I will wash myself."
Lu Xiuning's sadness had passed. She raised her tearful eyes and looked at Su Ze. This bastard was calling her to leave again.
Thinking about how Su Ze had seen her vulnerable state just now, Lu Xiuning felt ashamed and embarrassed.
Thinking of this, Lu Xiuning became angry and once again mustered up the courage of a heroine.
Who says men have to take the initiative in this matter?
She threw away the basin in her hand and rushed to Su Ze.
Su Ze was so frightened that he wanted to retreat. Just as he was about to call Su Bei outside the tent, Lu Xiuning kissed him on the lips.
After a long kiss, Lu Xiuning picked up the basin on the ground and left Su Ze's tent directly.
This is, I was attacked?
The first thing Su Ze thought of was to reflect on whether he had been too lax. If Lu Xiuning was an assassin, wouldn’t he be the time traveler who died the most pathetic death?
The way of being a coward is not yet fully developed, and it may die at any time.
Su Ze decided that no matter who he met in the future, he would always bring Su Bei with him.
In the future, a few eunuchs and female officials will be summoned to serve as guards.
Wait, female guard, isn’t there a ready-made candidate?
It was still better in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, without the constraints of the Song and Ming Dynasties, and there were such rouge horses. Su Ze had a hunch that he could tame this "rouge horse" with just a layer of membrane.
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The next day, Feng Shu took his new subordinates away from Su Ze.
These days Feng Shu has been perfecting his "Ten Articles".
Following Su Ze's suggestion, Feng Shu sorted out the charges and divided them into "unpardonable felonies, serious crimes, and minor offenses."
As the name suggests, unpardonable serious crimes are crimes that cannot be pardoned even in the event of amnesty. This is to serve as a warning to the world.
A felony is a more serious crime, but it can be mitigated at the discretion of the court.
The last part is about misdemeanors. All misdemeanors cannot be sentenced severely. The maximum sentencing standard for misdemeanors must be determined. This is what Feng Shu has been doing recently.
In addition, lynching will be eliminated and various cruel and deformed punishments accumulated from the end of the Qin Dynasty to the present will be unified.
Su Ze believes that only by letting people know what is illegal can we serve as a warning to the world.
People will not commit crimes unless the standard is established that defines the punishment for a crime.
Feng Shu felt even more that he had met a soulmate.
Jurisprudence was a prominent subject in the Qin Dynasty, and there were also many jurisprudence families in the early Han Dynasty who specialized in studying law.
However, since Dong Zhongshu, Confucianism has transformed legal studies into a tool to maintain its rule.
Confucian scholars believed that studying law would lead to litigation among the people, thus corrupting public morals.
Confucianism also emphasizes the unpredictability of the law, using this unpredictability to intimidate and manage the people.
As the saying goes, "When punishment is unknown and authority is unfathomable, the people will fear their superiors."
For example, during the Warring States Period, Zichan of Zheng State cast a criminal code to announce the legal provisions to the people. Shuxiang of Jin State wrote a letter to condemn it, saying: "If the people know that there is a ban, they will not be afraid of the superiors."
In other words, once the people know the law, they will know that officials can only punish them according to the law, and they will lose their fear of their superiors, thus creating unruly people who specifically use the law to cause trouble.
This spirit runs through the entire legal spirit after the Tang Dynasty. In Su Ze's view, it is the dregs of classical law.
Feng Shu's idea is closer to "Zichan's Criminal Code", which is to educate the people not to break the law by letting them know what is prohibited in the law.
Feng Shu had to help Su Ze compile the laws and regulations, and also help Su Ze handle cases in Liangzhou. It can be said that he was very busy every day.
Looking at Feng Shu's achievements, Su Ze felt fortunate that it was still the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
This is not yet an era when Confucianism is dominant, but rather an era when Confucianism is declining.
The Confucian scholars who survived hundreds of years of chaos were basically pragmatists like Wang Meng and Cui Hao.
Confucianism even had to compete with Buddhism for the ideological high ground, and no one realized that there was anything wrong with Su Ze secretly revising the law.
Feng Shu was busy revising the scientific regulations, and this kind of fulfilling life was exactly what he wanted.
However, Feng Shu was a little overwhelmed with the task of dealing with the Yang family of Hanzhong, so he asked Su Ze for subordinates who were well versed in the law.
Originally Feng Shu did not have high hopes, but after careful consideration, he found that the five people recommended by Su Ze were all familiar with the laws of his dynasty.
This surprised Feng Shu a little. Where did General Su recruit these talents from?
In Feng Shu's opinion, among the people recommended by Su Ze, Su Yuan (a clerk who sticks to principles) is the most capable.
Feng Shu is also a disciple of a noble family, so he certainly knows what Su Ze uses him for.
In the eyes of legal scholars like Feng Shu, the Yang family of Hanzhong had so many flaws that there was no need to frame them with charges; their own illegal acts were enough to implicate them.
At times like this, we must ensure procedural justice so that other families have nothing to say.
Moreover, as a legal scholar who was determined to revise the laws of the world, Feng Shu naturally hated the clerks who manipulated the laws to attack others.
Led by a professional (Feng Shu) and assisted by skilled clerks, after inspecting the farms near Nanzheng, the Liangzhou Governor's Office issued a decree requiring the legal officials and clerks who tried and judged cases in various places to gather in Nanzheng, the provincial capital, to take part in a legal examination. Those who failed the examination were not allowed to continue trying cases.
With the questions set by Feng Shu, a professional, the legal officials and clerks in several counties controlled by the Yang family in Hanzhong all failed the assessment and were asked by Su Ze to stay in Nanzheng to continue studying law.
In order not to affect the judicial work in these areas, Su Ze sent patrol courts from the state capital to go to various counties in turn to handle the crowded cases.
The powerful people in Liangzhou, led by the Yang family of Hanzhong, expressed their dissatisfaction, but they only regarded it as one of the three things Su Ze would do after taking office. No one wanted to provoke Su Ze's greater anger at this time.
Not everyone failed the law examination held by Su Ze. Some legal officials and clerks from some states and counties passed the examination.
It can only be said that the Hanzhong Yang family has controlled the area for too long and is too lawless. Even these positions are assigned to the family's playboys, some of whom cannot even write basic official documents.
Feng Shu also posted all the papers he had graded. Although those who did not pass were dissatisfied, they had no choice but to study law in Nanzheng.
Seeing the reactions of these Liangzhou powerful people, Su Ze also laughed secretly.
Although the powerful families are great, they are not a whole.
Su Ze was still bound by the concept of "group" refined by later historians.
Including the "Guanlong Group", these are just interest groups with the same goals.
However, interest groups do not necessarily mean political alliances. There is also hatred among the powerful families in Liangzhou over competing for land and population, and they are not of the same mind.
Some families even approached Su Ze, wanting to place their own people in the counties belonging to the Yang family as legal officials.
Su Ze laughed secretly, but still rejected the demands of those powerful families. His target was not just the Yang family in Hanzhong, but all the illegal powerful families in Liangzhou.
At this time, the wealthy families in Liangzhou had not yet realized Su Ze's true intentions.
However, Su Ze did not urge Feng Shu. He believed that one should not rush into dealing with a behemoth like the Hanzhong Yang family. He should wait for the day when this corrupt giant would reveal its own flaws.
First, take control of the grassroots judicial power. Considering how domineering the Yang family in Hanzhong is, Su Ze believes that this day is not far away.
However, while dealing with the Yang family of Hanzhong, another Yang family of Liangzhou also got into trouble.
North of Wuxing County, at the foot of Qiuchi Mountain, Yang Shaoxing, leader of the Baima Di people, was meeting with leaders of various clans.
The Baima Di people had lived near Qiuchi for generations. After the fall of Qiuchi State established by the Former Qin Dynasty, the Yang family repeatedly rebelled and established themselves as emperors.
The most recent one was seventeen years ago, when Xiao Yan replaced Qi with Liang. In order to capture Hanzhong, Southern Liang named Yang Shaoxing the King of Wudu and supported him in restoring his country in Qiuchi.
However, Yang Kan's father Yang Zhi led his troops to pacify Liangzhou, and Yang Shaoxing was captured and sent to Luoyang.
At that time, the Northern Wei court took into account the influence of the Yang family among the Baima Di people and did not kill Yang Shaoxing, but imprisoned him in Luoyang.
After the Xuanguang coup, Yang Shaoxing found a way to bribe Jiangyang King Yuan Yi and finally released him and sneaked back to Qiuchi Mountain.
Yang Shaoxing hated the Northern Wei Dynasty deeply, and after returning to Qiuchi Mountain, he was ready to raise an army to restore his country.
However, after returning to the tribe, Yang Shaoxing discovered that the tribesmen who had followed him to start a rebellion and establish a country twenty years ago did not support him at all. Even his two sons, Yang Zhihui and Yang Bixie, who stayed in the tribe, opposed him to rebel against Wei at this time.
"What? Su Ze? A mere General Anxi from Suoluo (a derogatory term for Northern Wei) scares you like this? Let me show you how I'm going to deal with him!"
(End of this chapter)