Bright moon and breeze (131)

As soon as the textbook was brought up, it was so lively! We were waiting for further news from the court, but after waiting, there were another wave of early warnings.

It was published in the name of the Imperial Heaven Supervision and published in the most eye-catching location of the Beijing News.

In the late 12th lunar month, Yingtian, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Chuzhou, Huai'an, Sizhou, six prefectures and two prefectures including Songjiang and Fengyang will have more than 80% chance of earthquakes. In addition, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, and several prefectures in Jiangxi may be affected. The court has stepped up the warning for 800 miles, reminding all kinds of people who live in the capital and return home before the New Year to pay attention to their itinerary.

When this warning came out, the capital suddenly became quiet.

Is it accurate?

I don't know!

Will it be accurate?

Who can tell it clearly?

Many people began to pay attention to how this was measured? Is the seismometer? At most, can't this thing be measured in which direction?

But some people say that they should know which direction they are in. But as soon as the concept of earthquake belt comes out, all the earthquake belts in that direction are counted! Didn’t you see that the range of the circle is so large this time?

Therefore, various books and various handwritten copies of earthquake records are really hard to find in the capital!

I let go of other things, as if I were waiting for a result. I saw if I really would move in the late twelfth lunar month.

The southern earthquake, the capital city is invisible!

Since the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, I don’t know how many people stared at the postmen in the capital. Anyone who saw the 800 miles of urgent reports would find out if it was accurate!

But there was no news. Until the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, the news was passed one after another.

On the 22nd day of the 12th day of the third year of Taiping, at the fourth hour of Shen, the six prefectures and two prefectures in the former Southern Zhili were all earthquakes.

It can be seen from the reports sent back from various prefectures that Yangzhou is the most serious.

Yangzhou, Yingtian, the city walls collapsed. A piece of house collapsed, and water poured in from the water!

In Huai'an, the lake water is churning, and I have never seen such a strange phenomenon.

In the other side of Taizhou, the rivers roared in the earthquake, which was extremely loud.

There are also earthquakes in other places to varying degrees. Fortunately, there are very few casualties! Although there is no complete statistics now, there is an early warning. It is the time of the earthquake. Before dark, people will quickly evacuate if there is any movement. Therefore, the situation is pretty good!

This newspaper was not only published in the diary the next day, but also published the newspaper word for word in the Beijing newspaper.

Then the entire capital and even Zhili became quiet! After the silence, the sound of firecrackers were heard all night!

Yes! People feel at ease!

Only when you don’t know can you feel terrible. It’s predictable. What is this?

God!

Can we not celebrate together?

The fourth year of Taiping was ushered in the sound of firecrackers.

In the fourth year of Taiping, the weather was renewed. All the civil and military officials of the dynasty wore uniformly distributed dresses to celebrate the world of the Great Ming Dynasty that brought a new atmosphere.

Lin Yutong sat on the upper head with her big belly and accepted the congratulations with the Fourth Master.

The New Year ceremony in the palace is very grand, but I will never do anything but celebrate the New Year! From New Year's Eve, anyone can sleep. The Fourth Master really has to watch the night. He has to write the first words at the hour of the new and old changing times to pray to God, hoping that the weather will be good, the harvest will be abundant, and the world will be peaceful.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you have to accept congratulations from all officials and then write them in a clear window. A series of imperial edicts are shown to show that the new year is coming.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the annual leave ended and construction started.

Of course, at this time, many ministers were on duty and didn’t have that much work. But if they didn’t have so much work, wouldn’t they do nothing?

No! The Fourth Master began to invite some scholars to the palace to give lectures.

The first one to be pointed at is Yuanshanping.

"Please me?" Yuan Shanping was surprised. He could enter the palace? What should he say when he entered the palace?

After the order came, the small courtyard of Yuanshanping was full of people. Many people were unable to go home before the New Year. Anyway, they were fooling around and gathered together, and they were talking about textbooks! They were all arguing about this in private, but no one expected that the emperor would invite people from reading clubs like them to the palace to give lectures.

This is to teach the emperor! Some people say that if you want to talk, you should talk about the imperial examination system. You can change it, but you can't deny all the Four Books and Five Classics! These things can last for so many years, and it is absolutely impossible to abandon them easily.

But some people say, "Don't argue in the palace during the New Year! I think, if you want to say something, you have to say something pleasing and festive! You have to make the emperor listen to it once and have the idea of ​​listening to it for the second time..." It must be a long-term process to influence the emperor! If you go up, the emperor will not like it, and it will be a pity for the future. So why bother?

This was how Chen In-seok came in. In his opinion, he didn't say anything about it.

As soon as he came in, everyone respected him, "Mr. Chen, please sit down! He was just here and was discussing what Mr. Yuan should say when he entered the palace."

Chen In-seok sat down and looked at Yuan Shanping. "Mr. Yuan, I think that Mr. Wang should do more to the textbooks." As he said that, he took out a booklet, "This is sorted out these days. Please see if there is any advantage."

They only took the first sentence of the article as the name of the article. Therefore, this thin booklet contains many titles.

As soon as these words were said, many people slapped their thighs, right! What else has more influence than the textbooks?

So, I put them together to collect booklets, and added a lot of them to each other. Yuan Shanping answered with a smile, but he knew in his heart that it was inappropriate to go into the palace to talk about this.

Finally, everyone was sent away, but Chen In-seok was at the end, "Mr. Yuan, if we have been studying for half of our lives, if it fails, then what is our value? Although the Ming Dynasty is great, we have a foothold."

As he said that, he sighed sadly and turned around to say goodbye.

Yuan Shanping looked at the booklet on the table and sighed again. No one has seen the emperor before, and who knows what he is. He tossed and turned, thinking, what should I say in the palace?

He was prepared a lot, but as soon as he entered the palace with the box, the emperor asked, and he couldn't count what he had prepared.

The emperor asked first: "Is the one in the box going to give it to me?"

It is impossible not to give it to you. "Your Majesty, I heard that the court wants to compile textbooks. Therefore, many scholars are inevitably interested in giving advice, and the people are just passing it on their behalf."

Wang Cheng took it over and checked it before handing it to the emperor.

The Fourth Master opened his eyes and said to Wang Cheng, "See if the queen is finished? He said Mr. Yuan is here and she needs time. Let's listen together."

yes!

So, didn’t Tongtong come here?

This was the first time Yuan Shanping saw the queen. Even a pregnant woman looked particularly neat. He hurriedly got up to greet him. The queen was very gentle, "No gift! Please sit down."

The Fourth Master took Tongtong's hand and sat beside him, "Look, there are many people who are bothering with the textbook."

I think so!

There are only the first sentence of the article in the booklet, Lin Yutong remembers it anywhere? She looked through it roughly, "I stayed, look back and take a closer look." At least check the place!

Today I am asking someone to give lectures, so please ask the teacher to give lectures first!

What did Yuan Shanping say? When he saw such an emperor and empress, he knew that the two of them could not impress. Therefore, he gave up what he had prepared before and began to talk about Confucian rule and Legalist rule.

Speaking of the Legalists, he gave an example, "I heard that before the New Year, the Law School was still discussing some laws and regulations, and the debate was particularly fierce. The most representative of them was that the madman injured people and killed people."

Lin Yutong raised her eyebrows, but she didn't expect that he ordered this. There has been debate on how to sentence a mentally ill patient to commit a crime.

Yuan Shanping said, "During the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was such a provision in the "Book of Zhou" that said, "One amnesty for young people, two amnesty for old people, three amnesty for stupid people."

Lin Yutong nodded, there was such a rule! It means that young, sick, old, stupid, crazy, intellectually incomplete, and crimes are all forgiven.

This kind of special case has lasted for a long time, so long that it is like the law on the protection of minors that appeared in later generations, the system of forgiveness after crimes by the elderly, and the person who is not criminally responsible for committing crimes without legal liability, etc.

I heard Yuan Shanping say again: "This is recorded in the "Book of Zhou", but during the execution process, young and weak are forgiven, but in terms of stupidity, it is not really executed! From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty, stupidity has been regarded as normal people and is regarded as normal adults for thousands of years, so it is not included in the list of forgiveness. During this period, someone proposed that it is said that it is "crazy and easy to kill people, and he must lose weight", and then said, "If the mother and son die on their behalf, the ones who are forgiven are... "

This means that some people think that if a person with an abnormal mind kills someone, they can be exempted from punishment, but it doesn’t mean that there will be no punishment. But if the mother and brother in the family are willing to die for him and receive punishment for him, then the person’s guilt can be exempted from punishment.

Lin Yutong frowned. She hadn't studied it so much in detail. She really didn't know this! But undoubtedly, such regulations cannot be enforced, and this is a challenge to human nature!

If an abnormal person is watching him die, others say that his family is ruthless and unrighteous. But if he uses his body to replace him, it is also absurd! No one can be happy to use the death of a normal person to exchange for an abnormal person to live!

But he didn't expect that Yuan Shanping said again, "This statement was approved by Emperor An of Han who was in power at that time, so it had to be promoted from top to bottom."

Lin Yutong: "..." This thing sounds unreliable! Emperor An of Han... is not considered a wise ruler, so I won't worry about this anymore! Yuan Shanping said that he had promoted it, so he shouldn't be wrong! He must have studied it through text.

Yuan Shanping also understood her meaning from the empress's expression, and then said: "During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, some people raised objections to this. In the Sui Dynasty, the example of pardon in the Zhou Li was still used. In the Sui Book, there was a 'a consolidation of the old and young eunuchs and fools'. The second generation of the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, and the law was not complete. However, the law was different. Laws including the Ming Law were all based on the Tang Law. Tang Law had regulations on this, saying that those who were over 80 years old, under ten years old, and stupid fools who participated in crimes such as rebellion, plotting rebellion, and killing people, they needed to be "please"..."

The emperor asked for advice, which means asking the emperor. The emperor said that he could be forgiven and then forgiven. If he did not forgive, he would still die.

"Song Lu compared to Tang Lu, there was little change, but in the Yuan Dynasty, the change was not small. A case was recorded in the Yuan Dianzhang. A crazy person broke into a neighbor's house in the middle of the night, beat the male owner of the neighbor's house to death with a stick, and injured the rest of the neighbor's house, with varying degrees of severity. The Yuan Dynasty emperor's trial was to "exempt crime, burn and bury silver."

It means that you will not be punished, you can just pay the funeral expenses.

"And similarly, there is a similar case in the Yuan Dynasty's Criminal Law Chronicle, where his crazy grandson killed his grandparents. He was sentenced to death!"

Lin Yutong understood this meaning. The two judgments of the same case can only show that even the foreign race of the Yuan Dynasty did not dare to be careless in filial piety.

He is talking about law, but not just law! He is saying that many things in Confucianism are deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and no ruler can ignore it.

Yuanshan is flat and stops, and he also says this law, "From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, its purpose is to 'benevolence'! In fact, the forgiveness has never changed since the Western Zhou Dynasty. However, from the failure to implement the Western Zhou Dynasty to the slight relaxation of the conditions for forgiveness, it can be seen that the manifestation of 'benevolence' in the law."

But "benevolence" is the core of Confucianism.

It took a full hour for Yuan Shanping to finish this lesson. At that time, the Fourth Master said nothing and asked Wang Cheng to send the person out of the palace.

Lin Yutong was holding her urine, and after she was convenient, the Fourth Master was stunned and dazed.

Regarding the unpardon of pardon, in fact, from Lin Yutong's perspective, whoever knows this kind of thing is involved! If it is not applied to himself, anyone can say "He did not intentionally" and "he knows nothing", but for the victim, should he be unlucky?

Therefore, she has never expressed any opinion on this law designation.

Yuan Shanping today gave this debate a direction. He believed that from the initial failure to execute, to the later implementation of the pardons listed in the Zhou Li, it was a reflection of the "benevolence".
To be continued...