After a wedding ceremony, Luo Zhixue was very tired, mainly because there were too many procedures, and many of them required him to personally preside over.
But these procedures are indispensable.
Because these are necessary rituals in a traditional dynasty.
How is imperial power established? In addition to the core force, the rest relies on various rules.
And rituals are an important manifestation of rules.
When the Chu Empire was newly established, in order to demonstrate its legitimacy and legitimacy, gain the recognition of the people, and gain the support of more people, it was necessary to establish a high-ranking image for them.
After all, for many ordinary people, they don't know the specific situation of your Chu Empire, and they don't have enough ways to understand it.
What they see and hear are often the most superficial things, and it is often difficult to tell whether they are true or false.
In this case, the sense of ritual becomes very important.
The establishment of a queen through a series of traditional formal procedures was an important matter for the new Chu Empire to further formalize and legalize it.
Its function is somewhat similar to holding an imperial examination, both to demonstrate its legitimacy.
As for the marriage itself, it has no real meaning.
Now the Great Chu Empire holds imperial examinations for a similar purpose. Is it really for talents?
Yes and no.
The dozens of so-called Jinshi selected by Dengji Enke alone could not fill the large number of civil servants needed by the Great Chu Empire.
But this is not important. What is important is to send an obvious signal to the people of the world: Our Great Chu Empire is an orthodox and legal dynasty, and you can come and vote.
Otherwise, the senior officials of the Dachu Empire would not be so keen on holding Dengji Enke and holding a wedding ceremony.
The day after Wang Xiaoliu was appointed queen, Luo Zhixue issued an edict to appoint Hou Yunmeng as concubine Shu, Wang Qiaoer as concubine Li, and four other women as concubines.
Some other low-level concubines also received different promotions, ranging from Zhaoyi to Cairen.
In this way, the harem of the Great Chu Empire was normalized, with the queen at the top, concubines in the middle, Zhaoyi, Cairen, etc. at the bottom, with a total number of more than a hundred people.
What’s interesting is that in fact, quite a few of the women who entered the palace have not been able to have physical contact with Luo Zhixue so far...
There is nothing that can be done about it. Luo Zhixue is only one person, and he is very busy every day. It is impossible to just play with a group of women without doing anything all day long.
In the limited private entertainment time, Luo Zhixue mostly stayed with a few harem women such as Hou Yunmeng, Wang Qiaoer and Wang Xiaoliu, leaving not much time for ordinary concubines.
In addition, this group of women only entered the palace for a few months, so it is normal that some people did not take their turn.
It is very common for the emperor's concubines to have more wolves and less meat.
This situation will even become more serious in the future.
Because Queen Wang took the initiative to tell Luo Zhixue within two days: "Husband, I am planning to select a new group of beautiful girls to enrich the harem."
When Luo Zhixue heard this, he actually felt a little strange at first. After all, anyone who has just married a wife, and it has only been two days since their marriage, would find it strange that the newlywed wife said that she wanted to find a lot of women to be her husband's concubines. …
But this strangeness only lasted for a few seconds, and Luo Zhixue knew why.
Because this is the palace!
When Wang Xiaoliu became the queen at the beginning, she learned from Luo Zhi and showed her image as a "virtuous queen" to the world.
It sounds nonsense, but for a queen, what is virtuous?
Putting aside everything else, the first choice cannot be 'jealous'.
And this is still the most important requirement.
Because if an empire wants to be passed down, it needs heirs. The more princes, the better. Even if half of them die young, it is best to have a dozen more princes as alternatives...
Therefore, throughout the dynasties, one of the basic requirements for queens is that they must not be jealous.
No matter what Queen Wang's true inner thoughts were, she chose to learn from Luo Zhi at this time, to show her generosity to the civil and military officials in the court, and to the people of the world.
Luo Zhixue looked at Queen Wang, whose face was still a bit immature and was only sixteen years old. He immediately nodded slightly and said: "The Queen can handle all matters in the harem by herself."
Selecting girls for the talent show was Queen Wang's business, so Luo Zhixue would naturally not interfere.
After all, as the queen, Wang Xiaoliu is not only Luo Zhixue's wife, but also the mother of a country. At the same time, the Chu Empire does not have such a role as a queen mother, so now the entire harem is under her control.
It has always been the responsibility of the queen mother or empress in the harem to select women for the emperor to enrich the harem and consolidate the country.
There was no queen mother in the Chu Empire, so naturally the queen could only be in charge.
When Empress Wang heard Luo Zhixue's words, she immediately said: "Then I will give my orders when I turn around."
Luo Zhixue nodded without saying a word, lowered his head and began to eat. After he was full, he got up and went to the outer hall to handle government affairs.
After sending Luo Zhixue off respectfully, Queen Wang thought for a while and then told the palace maid: "There will be a card game later. Go and invite Concubine Shu, Concubine Li and Concubine De to play cards together!"
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Not to mention how Queen Wang was tossing around in the harem, Luo Zhi learned the front and started the day's government affairs.
After the wedding, there were no pressing matters in the Chu Empire, but there were still a lot of various civil and military affairs.
There are always many things to do in a new empire, especially in the current Dachu Empire. In fact, the systems are not perfect, and even the laws are not perfect.
The laws currently implemented in the Dachu Empire are still implemented based on the Ming Law for the time being, but some of the laws have been changed.
After all, revising and enacting laws is a very complex and huge task. Although the Chu Empire had already established a Ministry of Justice before, and later upgraded the Ministry of Justice to the Legal Affairs Council, a specialized legislative body, the rise of the Chu Empire was too short. , there were not many manpower assigned to the early legal department.
For a long time, there were only a few dozen people in the Ministry of Justice responsible for formulating and revising laws, and their work focused on formulating tax-related laws.
As for other laws, in fact, there have been no changes for the time being, and most of them still use the Ming Law.
But this situation obviously cannot continue forever. After all, many legal provisions in the Ming Law are not in line with the current situation and future development of the Dachu Empire.
Therefore, the Legal Affairs Council must start to formulate the legal system of the Chu Empire based on its own situation and the Ming Law.
The first written law was not civil or commercial law, nor criminal law, but tax law!
This would probably be a very strange thing in other dynasties, but for the Chu Empire, this was a very reasonable thing.
What is the most important thing in the Chu Empire now? Conquer the world.
The struggle for world hegemony requires money and food, because tax collection has become the most important administrative matter under the rule of the Chu Empire.
This can be seen from the huge funding and number of staff of the tax department in the Dachu Empire.
In the past, most of the taxation work of the Dachu Empire was carried out according to some administrative agencies, mainly the taxation department promulgated some administrative regulations. However, after the official founding of the country, it could not continue to be done like this. In general, there were clear legal provisions.
Therefore, the first major task of the early Ministry of Justice and now the Legal Council was to formulate the first law of the Chu Empire based on some of the original tax regulations.
Tax Law
After several months of deliberation and several deletions and adjustments, the Justice Court finally formulated the final version of the tax law and submitted it to Luo Zhixue for approval.
Although the Legal Affairs Council is an institution that formulates various laws, it actually does not have the authority to issue laws. For a law to take effect, it needs to be personally approved by the emperor and announced to the world.
Facing the tax law with more than 20 major categories, more than 500 detailed articles, and a lot of professional terms in it, Luo Zhixue was dazzled...
But he couldn't just fool around with the law and approve it, so even if he felt dizzy, he still kept reading.
If you encounter any clauses or words that you don’t understand, people from the Legal Affairs Court will be asked to answer them at any time.
It took three days to briefly review Luo Zhixue, and finally officially approved the issuance and implementation of the first law of the Dachu Empire.
The follow-up tax collection of the Dachu Empire and the crackdown on tax evasion. Tax resistance and other tax-related matters will be fully implemented in accordance with tax laws.
It will not be implemented according to a series of vague and even contradictory tax regulations formulated by the Ministry of Taxation as in the past.
The successful formulation and promulgation of the tax law also inspired the Justice Yuan, who immediately stepped up efforts to compile other legal provisions.
Especially the two major categories of law, criminal law and civil law.
It must be introduced and implemented as soon as possible. Even if it is not perfect for the time being and there are any flaws, it must be worked out first and used first.
The current civil and criminal laws of the Ming Dynasty are very unsuitable for the Chu Empire. The handling of some illegal incidents now largely relies on the subjective wishes of local patrols and supervisors, as well as judges.
Because there is no existing legal provision as a basis.
This was actually similar in the Ming Dynasty. Whether some criminals were caught, whether they were sentenced, and how heavy they were sentenced all depended on the whim of the county magistrate.
This is true even if it is a lawsuit involving human life!
However, the Chu Empire cannot continue like this for a long time. Luo Zhixue cannot imagine that the empire he established does not even have basic legal provisions. If things go on for a long time, the country will inevitably lose its generals!
Therefore, he still attaches great importance to the work of the Justice Council and continues to dispatch personnel to the Justice Council, and a considerable number of these people have judicial experience.
For example, during the Pseudo-Ming Dynasty, some litigants, officials, officials, etc. were very familiar with the Ming Law and were also very clear about various criminal acts. This was very important for the Chu Empire to revise the Ming Law on the basis of the Ming Law. The new criminal law and civil law are very helpful.
Under the leadership of Luo Zhixue, the Legal Affairs Council now has more than 150 staff members, divided into several departments and divisions responsible for revising various laws.
They will first sort it out according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, delete some inappropriate provisions, and add some legal provisions that the Chu Empire needs to implement first, so that grassroots judicial officials in various places can at least have a legal basis to act.
In the future, we will slowly and continuously improve, and formulate various legal provisions that truly belong to the Chu Empire and are more suitable for the Chu Empire, just like the tax law.
