The man who opened the strict punishment law in ancient China was called Shang Ying.
Many people say no, what about cannibalism in primitive society, isn't it also powerful for the king to climb the fire pillar and go to the poison basin?
This is a simple punishment, and there is no law yet.
Okay, let's talk about one sentence next, if the law is unknowable, it is unpredictable.
It still applies today.
Many teenagers bully and even kill, just because they are not of sentencing age, this public examination should have memorized a lot, that sentence is called burning, killing and looting, wounded dealers burst into throws, and those who have attended training classes must know.
Therefore, in many cases, in fact, the popularization of law is to be popularized, but the content of popularization is often selective.
Generally speaking, legal popularization is divided into protection and deterrence.
Guarantee is to ensure that your rights will not be damaged and that the people's will will be stable; Deterrence is to tell you the harmful consequences of doing so, so that you do not do things that affect the stability of the people's hearts.
Rights laws are generally not universal, and you need to learn them yourself. Luo Xiang was actually talking about this before, because it was not a good thing.
You set the age to 14 years old, so what about the malicious murder of people under the age of 14? You've got to be twelve again, but twelve knows it, endlessly. This kind of law of exempt nature cannot be overturned by even the best lawyer, unless the responsibility is transferred and several principal offenders and accomplices are added.
Therefore, in ancient times, there was basically no opportunity to popularize the law, and the people generally only knew how to cry out for grievances, and they didn't even know about the protective laws, except for the tax law and forced labor, which were still very popular in the imperial court.
Next, let's talk about the law.
Shang Ying said that heavy punishment and light reward are actually an applicable means to maintain feudal rule.
Because the exchange of information in feudal society was not as efficient as it is today, heavy penalties were imposed to divide it; Reward lightly to hope.
What is the role of heavy penalties?
Shang Ying set the law very strictly, almost requiring a person according to the standard of a saint.
What happens in such a situation?
If you really do what you do according to the law, then your cost is infinitely high and your efficiency is infinitely low.
In other words, if you want to live, you will almost certainly break the law.
In fact, Shang Ying also hoped that they would break the law, so that they could be punished.
But guilt and incurability are two different things.
When what you do is beneficial to the Qin State, then it will not be cured; When what you do is not conducive to the Qin State, then rule.
Why are there so many filthy officials?
Because bad money is chasing good money.
An honest person cannot rise at all.
It can be said that before the imperial examination system came out, there was no incorruptible ** in the imperial court.
The upper limit of integrity lies in the upper limit of what can be achieved by passing a fair examination.
Because when a place is very clean, but the superiors are not promoted?
If you are very honest and report yourself when you are promoted, or in other words, promoting you is no different from promoting another normal person, and they are all doing things according to the law, so why promote you instead of promoting him?
Because he can offer you the benefits of promoting you, then you will surely repay him as well.
Exercising anything other than legal principles is indispensable.
As mentioned earlier, it is almost inhumane to execute it in full accordance with the law.
Therefore, in the feudal society, a so-called good official today must not be popular with the people, and in order to win the hearts of the people, there must be some places that have not been implemented according to the law.
Take Hai Rui and Bao Zheng as examples, they also did a lot of things that the law does not allow.
But they also generate value: stabilizing people's hearts.
There are also limits to stabilizing the people's minds, first, we cannot oppose it, and second, we cannot compare the authority of the imperial power.
However, Shang Ying's strict law does not need to rely on such good officials to stabilize the people's hearts, and only the poor, weak, and humiliated people can control the people.
Because the emperor sits in the north and faces the south, he rules not a people but a dynasty, so the decision-making is based on the overall situation, and for them, what they see is not a person, but a number.
What they need to do is to keep that number going, because there are too many conflicts of interest from a people's perspective to deal with.
And with the Junfa, this can be done.
It can ensure that almost everyone who breaks the law has a handle.
But whether you can be cured or not ultimately depends on how much influence you have over that number, and the conflict of interest between you and the ruling class above you.
Therefore, Jun Fa can ensure that everyone is cautious in what they say and do, and there is as little conflict as possible with others, because everyone has each other's hands on each other.
For those of the same class, this can protect the weaker side, and it is also the same as nuclear deterrence.
For the upper ruling class, this can ensure that there are few ** in the ruling community, and if you want to be treated, you can check it at any time and finish it.
For those who climb up, you have the handle in the hands of the upper echelons, and you can do your best to do things for them - although the purpose of the law is not to make people abide by the law, because law-abiding people are not ***
It was to maintain feudal rule.
This is the power of Shang Ying, and it is also the reason why the feudal dynasty was overthrown.
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