When Yang Ji woke up the next morning, he felt refreshed and full of energy. Looking at the three tigresses sleeping soundly on the couch, he felt very proud.
Yang Ji has always defined himself as a soldier and general, and has never fallen behind in martial arts. The battlefield combat skills are different from martial arts and sword dances that pursue gorgeous postures. He pays attention to simplicity and defeats the enemy with one move. In order to pursue "one sword" At the highest level of "drawing out the sheath and killing with one strike", he continued to practice the minimalist sword-drawing technique last night.
Although the sword-drawing technique, which is the simplest form of swordsmanship, only consists of two moves: unsheathing and sheathing, Yang Ji was a genius, and he deduced the cross-sword style, sword-rubbing style, sword-raising style, and back-sword style from it. , side sword stance and other powerful moves; however, the three opponents he faced had the power of seclusion for several months, and they were very sharp. The skills of the three female heroes of the Yang family to lure the emperor into their trap, and the tactics of shrinking the city defense were really intolerable. underestimate.
Such an inextricable and hard-fought battle lasted for most of the night, and in the end, everyone suffered losses and perished together. Although Yang Ji defeated the three female heroes, the three female heroes each gained something. At this moment, You Zi said, "All the heroes in the world are here." "That's it." The proud smile makes you fall into a sweet dream.
Yang Ji did not disturb them and got up to practice martial arts as usual; this time they achieved a glorious victory over the country. Yu Shinan and other civil officials specially gave Yang Ji three days off to celebrate, so they did not have to go to the Prefectural Mufu to handle important military and political affairs. , practiced Tai Chi for a while, which was so feeble and half-dead that even the old lady couldn't beat it, then washed up and had breakfast, and then went to the Xuanwu Hall study room to read and wait for Yang Zhao, who was bound to come.
At this time in the past, Yang Ji usually read military books such as "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Wu Zi's Art of War" to study classic military tactics. But today, the book he read was the recently promulgated "Law of Daye".
"Daye Law" is a code improved on the basis of "Kaihuang Law".
"Kaihuang Law" was promulgated in the first year of Kaihuang. Yang Jian accepted Zen as emperor in February of that year and established the Sui Dynasty. By April, he believed that the Northern Zhou Dynasty was "terrible both internally and externally, and people were uneasy." The criminal laws were extremely complicated and harsh. In addition, with the endless wars in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, various political powers in various places were in trouble. Having its own laws, many officials could not come up with a unified standard when trying the same case, so they ordered Gao Jun, Yang Su, Su Wei, Yang Xiong, Yang Da, Niu Hong, Zheng Yi, Chang Ming, Han Jun, Li E, Liu Xiongliang, Pei Zheng and others revised the law.
These people are the most outstanding wise men in the world. When they get together, a huge "chemical reaction" immediately occurs. After a short discussion, they use the "Laws of the Northern Wei Dynasty" and the "Laws of the Northern Qi Dynasty" as the backbone. The laws and articles were taken as branches and leaves, combined with the current national conditions, and the essentials were eliminated, finally forming a code with the highest achievement and most completeness in history.
In the third year after Emperor Kaihuang's founding, Yang Jian appointed Su Wei and Niu Hong as the persons in charge of revising the law, assisted by Gao Jiong, Yang Su and others. In line with the principles of cutting out the complex and simplifying, eliminating the unnecessary and retaining the essential, changing customs and keeping pace with the times, and with the purpose of "weighing the importance, ensuring fairness, abolition of torture, omission but not loss" as the main purpose, we compiled the "official version of Kaihuang Code" 》》
The first revision of the law only took them more than half a year and was promulgated at the end of the same year; the second revision took three or four months and was also promulgated that year. This group of people is highly intelligent and knowledgeable. The breadth, profound knowledge, and terrifying ability are evident.
Yang Guang was not the kind of emperor who grew up in a deep palace compound. After he became the prince, he served in Bingzhou and Yangzhou successively. During this period, he managed the army when he was out and the people when he entered. He knew the place very well. After he became the prince, he has been assisting Yang Jian. Governing the country. I feel that many of the criminal laws during the late emperor's period were relatively severe and no longer suitable for the needs of governance. Moreover, the sub-laws promulgated by central ministries, temples, supervisors, and local states and counties were derived from the "Kaihuang Code", but many articles are superior to the parent law. There were countless effective laws, so soon after he ascended the throne, he immediately ordered Su Wei, Gao Jiong, Yang Xiong, Niu Hong and others to revise the laws and regulations, requiring them to revise a more complete code.
This revision is no longer the drastic improvement of the past, but more of a test of the meticulousness and careful consideration of the revisers. Therefore, the progress of Su Wei, Gao Jiong, Niu Hong and others this time is not as fast as before. After nearly three years of careful elaboration, they finally produced a more detailed and reasonable "Law of Dayes".
"Daye Lv" has a total of names of "Ling", "Weigong", "Violation", "Request", "Hu",
There are eighteen chapters on marriage, sexual intercourse, impeachment, thief, theft, fight, arrest, warehouse, stable husbandry, market closure, miscellany, fraud, and prison break. Each chapter has many laws, and each law has another Divided into many clauses. If someone commits a crime under a certain clause, officials can punish him with the relative punishments listed on the back.
Within the five punishments of yoke, rod, execution, punishment, and imprisonment, the legal provisions that reduce the severity to the light involve more than 200 articles. In other words, if someone commits any of the more than 200 articles, he will be punished. The punishments will be much lower than those in the "Kaihuang Code". This move is undoubtedly an unimaginable thing for those who do not know the "Law of Daye" but firmly believe that Yang Guang was a tyrant and a coward from beginning to end.
However, Yang Guang is a person with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and a very narcissistic person. He requires everything to be thorough and perfect in everything he does. The "Law of the Great Industry" is one of the top priorities for him to make his name in history, so he naturally does not allow this code. It is full of loopholes and makes people laugh.
Due to the long-term influence and inspiration of Yang Ji, Yang Guang increasingly felt that local officials were flexible, active in thinking, and had more clever ideas. They understood the local area, the people, and the needs and needs of the people far better than central officials. Therefore, "Daye Law" After it was released, Yang Guang did not hastily promulgate it to the world as in history. Instead, he printed countless copies and distributed them to the fourteen supervisory prefectures and counties all over the world for everyone to read carefully and study together.
Yang Ji also knew that Yang Guang was asking people to revise and compile "Daye Law", but just a few days after the copy was delivered to Liangzhou, he saw it for the first time and found that the content of this book was richer, more complete, and better than One of the most significant changes in the "Kaihuang Code" code is that its form, style, and clauses have become easy to understand, and there are no longer the previously abstruse and obscure ancient Chinese allusions and gorgeous rhetoric. .
Regardless of the content, Yang Ji considers the change in form to be a major innovation. Just because "Daye Lv" is not a poem, but a code for governing the country and the people; it not only requires officials to understand it, but also requires the people to understand it. When facing this masterpiece in the future, let alone those knowledgeable policemen and high officials, even ordinary literate people can see it clearly and clearly; people who are illiterate can only listen to it. When others read it, they can also hear it clearly. When law enforcement officials face such straightforward provisions in the future, it will be very difficult for them to maliciously and deliberately misinterpret a certain provision in terms of form and wording.
It is precisely for this reason that Yang Ji believes that this previously unimaginable and seemingly inconspicuous change will reduce the occurrence of many deliberate unjust, false and wrongful convictions. It can be said to be a great initiative that benefits the country and the people.
"Your Majesty, the prince is here!" Just as Yang Ji was studying the items one by one, Zhu Can appeared outside the door. The light in the study dimmed at the same time because there was a huge object blocking the light coming in from the door.
Yang Ji raised his head and glanced up, but it was Prince Yang Zhao who came directly after him. He turned the book upside down on the desk, stood up quickly to greet him, and saluted: "Prince, nephew and brother, I am polite!"
Facing Yang Ji's half-smiling gaze, Yang Zhao understood that the other party had seen through his trick, shrank his neck, and suddenly said with shame: "You should not take it seriously when you make a mistake while drunk!" With that, he returned the favor to Yang Ji. A salute: "I also hope Wang Shu Haihan."
"You are the prince! Who dares not to be humble?" Yang Ji motioned Yang Zhao to sit down and talk, then took the time to stare at the big fat man and said, "Although the soldiers don't know that you have become the "brother" of me and the saint!" But they remembered the 1.5 million shi of grain. What do you think we should do about this? "
Yang Zhao smiled "bitterly" and sighed: "Although I made a gaffe while drunk, I am the prince after all, and all the "soldiers of the army" know it, so naturally I can't break my promise to the "soldiers of the Sui Dynasty" who have returned in triumph. Even if I go bankrupt, I will honor it. "
When talking about "the whole army and the generals of the Sui Dynasty", Yang Zhao not only stared directly at Yang Ji, but also emphasized his tone.
"The prince is generous and generous. I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of "all the soldiers and civilians of Liangzhou". Yang Ji said with a smile.
"It's easy to talk!" Yang Zhao sat down.
The two looked at each other and suddenly laughed!
What do "the whole army's officers and men" and "the officers and men of the Great Sui Dynasty" refer to? Yang Ji knew.
Yang Ji "expressed his gratitude on behalf of all the soldiers and civilians of Liangzhou".
Zhao knew the same. The reason why he made a "drunk gaffe" was, firstly, as Yang Ji had expected last night, to give the Liangzhou soldiers a good impression of being courteous and modest; secondly, Yang Ji's strength and important status in Yang Guang's mind It was hard to imagine, but the relationship between Yang Ji and Yang Jian seemed to be getting better gradually, which made him somewhat uneasy, so he wanted to see Yang Ji's attitude through a "drunk gaffe".
I came here early this morning because I was actually anxious to find out Yang Ji's reaction. If Yang Ji really laughed it off as a "drunk gaffe", then he would be in danger. Fortunately, Yang Ji "represented all the soldiers and civilians of Liangzhou" Thank you." This shows that Yang Ji still supports him as before, instead of supporting the second child Yang Jian, which makes him feel relieved.
But what about reality? The "honest and honest" Yang Ji didn't have so many tricks up his sleeve, so he didn't take this into consideration at all.
But no matter what, after this brief conversation between the uncle and nephew, both of them achieved their goals.
Both of them achieved their goals and knew it, but Zhu Can didn't know. He was dissatisfied. I really didn't know what the two of them were laughing at.
"Uncle Wang!" Yang Zhao looked at Zhu Can and said to Yang Ji uncomfortably: "Well, I have some important matters that I want to discuss with you alone. Can I let General Zhu avoid it?"
The important thing is that Zhu Can has been looking at him and sizing him up with a strange look since he introduced him.
Zhu Can's look made Yang Zhao very uncomfortable.
how to say?
Um! It's like a seasoned butcher looking at a rare big fat pig and thinking about where to cut it.
"Lao Zhu, let someone make another pot of tea." Yang Ji said.
"Here!" Zhu Can responded, closed the door and left.
As soon as Zhu Can left, Yang Zhao felt more natural. He casually looked at the books upside down on the desk and saw the three words "Law of Daye" written on it. He then said to Yang Ji: "This should be the book I came from Daxing." Cheng brought a copy, but I wonder what Uncle Wang thinks of the new edition of "The Law of Daye"?"
Yang Ji talked about his feelings and finally said: "I just read the catalog and briefly read a very small part of the content. In terms of form alone, it gave me a very good feeling, and the content was also very good. , it’s almost impossible to be picky.”
After hearing this, Yang Zhao smiled and said, "Even Uncle Wang said this. It seems that the reward money offered by the imperial court has been saved."
Yang Ji asked curiously: "What do you mean by this?"
"That's it!" Yang Zhao said: "The "Daye Law" was compiled by Su Gong, Gao Gong, Niu Gong and others for three years. Every word in "Daye Law" was compiled by them and Many scholars who are proficient in the law have carefully considered it and found it almost impossible to find fault, and the same is true for Aye. However, he always believes that there is neither an invincible city nor a perfect law in the world, so he issued it to all states and counties, hoping that officials from various places Let’s discuss and find out the omissions together, so that the shortcomings and loopholes can be filled one by one before the imperial court officially promulgates it.”
"In view of the fact that the "Daye Law" is impeccable, but they also hope to stimulate the enthusiasm of officials from all over the country to participate in the great cause of revising the law, Aye, Su Gong and others decided to follow Lu Buwei's example and issued a reward order. Although it is not a word of gold, it is a reward. The imperial court can guarantee that the word will be ten strings. In other words, if someone changes a single character and the court is convinced and speechless, that person will be rewarded with ten strings."
After a pause, Yang Zhao glanced at Yang Ji and then said: "Besides this, there is another reward order: If anyone feels that the "Law of Daye" is not detailed enough or feels that something is missing, they can write their own law. Submit it to the court."
"If a certain law handed over by a local official is approved by the court, that person will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver. As long as the content of the law he writes is good and directly points to the core of the problem, as for whether the words and sentences are beautiful and whether If it is smooth and smooth, it will be polished and perfected by the court; and the one hundred taels of silver reward will be given to the writer without any damage."
"Is this really true?" Yang Ji's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He especially remembered the "Jiu Ancient Arithmetic" written by Wang Xiaotong, which proudly opened with the sentence "Please interview someone who can calculate and analyze the pros and cons. If there is any arrangement, One word of it will be worth a thousand pieces of gold!"
When he defeated an invincible opponent in the Central Plains and thought he was invincible, he organized a group to come
Liangzhou University challenged and provoked, trying to plunge Liangzhou University into the abyss of hell. After being beaten to a pulp by Yang Ji, he showed the twenty questions of "Ancient Arithmetic". Then during the gambling process, his twenty "unsolvable" trigonometric equation problems were completely solved by Yang Ji... Then, the Eastern great Confucians and accompanying scholars, including Wang Xiaotong, lost and lost a fortune. The whole family was wiped out.
Now, has the imperial court come to act as a money-splitting boy again?
"That's true!" Yang Zhao nodded.
Yang Ji thought for a while, picked up the "Law of Daye" on the table, and turned to the title page again. When he read it before, he didn't think much of the names on it. But now after hearing the reward order, these names made Yang Ji's face change. Everything turned dark, and he said to Yang Zhao: "I don't think it's possible for him to be born, and he can't change a word."
Yang Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then he asked curiously: "Uncle Wang hasn't even finished reading it, how can you come up with such a statement?"
"Take a look at the signatures yourself!" Yang Ji pushed the book in front of Yang Zhao, pointed to the names on the title page, and said, "With these people's names, who dares to change them? Who dares to add them? "
Yang Zhao took a look and realized the problem. On the title page, he saw Su Wei, Gao Jiong, Yang Xiong, Pei Ju, Changsun Chi, Li Ziquan, Xiao Jue, Zhang Heng, Yang Da, Niu Hong, Li Yuantong, and Yu Wenkai. , Duan Wenzhen, Yang Wensi, Yang Xuangan and other names,
Good guy!
The Eight Prime Ministers of the Assembly Hall, the Three Provinces and Six Ministries, the Nine Temples, and the Yushitai are all those who participated in the revision of the law. This code has their hard work and their signatures, which is understandable and natural.
As this group of people has a high status and a big structure, they will not take "ant-like" local officials to heart. Even if local officials change, delete, or add to their revised "Daye Law", they will not take it to heart. , not only will you not give the other party small shoes to wear afterwards, you may even prove your mettle by promoting the other party. But as Yang Ji said, when local officials face the masterpiece jointly signed by this group of people, who dares to change a single word? Who the heck dares to delete or add? Who the hell dares to receive that bounty?
Perhaps this will breed a large number of flatterers and sycophants, all of whom will praise this masterpiece as a perfect and impeccable masterpiece.
There may be some local officials who are selfless and fearless, but their changes, deletions, and additions may not be reasonable. As a result, the original intention of the Sui emperors and ministers to pool the wisdom of everyone for the imperial court had no effect at all.
"Everything has been distributed to various places, what should we do now?" Yang Zhao said with a wry smile.
"What else can we do?" Yang Ji glanced at Yang Zhao and said, "I can only imitate Shang Yang and trust him!"
"That's the only way!" Yang Zhao nodded. He changed the topic and asked Yang Ji: "Aye asked Uncle Wang and brother Yichen to lead the army to accompany the northern patrol. It's already very early to leave. It’s close, but I don’t know when Uncle Wang will move eastward?”
Yang Ji thought for a while and said, "The day after tomorrow!"
Although the Prefectural Mufu's Office "gave Yang Ji" and the army a three-day holiday, when it conflicted with Yang Guang's decision, all the Prefectural Mufu's Office's decisions were empty words and farts.
In order to avoid missing the assembly time, Yang Ji had to leave as soon as possible.
