Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

"Okay, you go ahead."

Zhang Xin decided not to bother with the kid.

"I always feel that my grandfather has offended more people in this matter. I'm trying to sort things out while I'm talking -"

Zhu Gaochi did have doubts in his mind, but he had no one to consult with.

The two younger brothers didn't like talking about this with him at all.

As for my real dad, he mainly reads the message but doesn’t reply.

His mother was very interested in talking to him, but when he returned home, his father also returned home, and his father was unhappy when he disturbed him.

In the end, there was only Zhang Xin who spoke.

The Great Ming Code of Laws and Edicts, abbreviated as "Lvgao", is the collective name for "The Great Ming Code" and "The Great Edict".

The Great Ming Code was basically finalized in the 22nd year of Hongwu.

The Great Edict was completed in the 18th year of Hongwu.

By May this year, the "Great Ming Code" incorporated some items from the "Great Edict" to become a complete set of laws and regulations.

The Great Ming Code was compiled by scholars and was intended for scholars to read.

There is no one to explain the laws and regulations in it. Even a educated person would find it difficult to read it and it would take half a day to decipher it.

Because of this, when the law was halfway through, my grandfather was very dissatisfied. He revised the laws so that the common people and grassroots officials of the Ming Dynasty would have rules and regulations to follow, as well as rewards and punishments.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a major revision began. It took more than 20 years, cost a lot of money, and expended a lot of energy, but the result was a set of laws that ordinary people could not understand.

Since they don't understand, then having laws is the same as having no law. Ordinary people can still live their lives as usual. If they are caught, they just cry out for injustice and make excuses.

In order to make it easier for everyone to understand, the Emperor's grandfather personally worked overtime to produce another version of "The Great Edict".

This "Great Edict" purely lists criminal cases.

For example, it lists various cases of torture used to punish criminals in the early Ming Dynasty, including but not limited to thousands of cases of clan extermination, lingchi, and beheading, and hundreds of ordinary cases of caning, flogging, hand amputation, and finger pinching.

For example, if it is a rebellion committed by ordinary people, only the person involved will be executed immediately, and no one else will be implicated. If it is an official who forms a clique to plot rebellion, then the entire family will be exterminated.

My emperor's grandfather also printed a lot of "The Great Edict" and distributed them to the common people. Even in Yan area, every household in the capital and its surrounding areas had a copy.

There are also officials specifically responsible for this who give lectures regularly at the entrance of government offices.

If ordinary people can recite it from beginning to end, they will be exempted from grain taxes.

If a local minor official can memorize all of them until he knows them by heart, it is possible for him to be promoted.

In order to prevent local officials from protecting each other, this "Great Edict" has a killer trick at the end.

Once common people suspected that a local official was corrupt, even if they had no evidence, as long as they could find someone to tie up the official, take a piece of red cloth, and carry the "Great Edict" on it, they could walk all the way to the capital, file a complaint to a higher level, or even file a complaint with the emperor. No officials or common people along the way could stop them.

"You said, Grandfather Huang offended everyone by doing this. This is not as simple as offending scholars, but offending the officials, bureaucrats and gentry of the entire Ming Dynasty—"

Zhu Gaochi felt that his grandfather had taken too big a step.

"Why is it that I have offended the officials, bureaucrats and gentry? I know a little bit about officials and bureaucrats, but what about gentry?"

Zhang Xin decided to be a qualified supporting actor.

"If the common people understand the laws, it will be difficult to manage them. They are just fooling the people. As for the gentry, the imperial power does not extend to the countryside. The people who manage the villages, townships, and towns are all gentry. Who are they? They are the officials who have retired due to old age or illness. Even if they are not officials, they still have a lot of connections. Your grandfather is overturning their dinner table!"

Zhu Gaochi spoke a little angrily.

Zhang Xin rested well, and held out his hand for Zhu Gaochi to help him walk back, with a slow pace and the same tone:

"That emperor is very good. I admire him very much. He is a good emperor who truly cares about the people."

“I don’t deny this.

That is, amending the laws can easily backfire.

Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Law, but as soon as the people died, the Qin Dynasty was overthrown in six years.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty revised the Daye Code for fourteen years, and ultimately both the emperor and the Code were reduced to ashes.

There's always something ominous about this.

My uncle, the prince, died in the years after the "Great Ming Law" and "Great Edict" were officially promulgated.

My cousin Xiongying was even earlier, when the Great Edict was first being drafted for trial implementation.”

Zhu Gaochi had always been very close to the Emperor's grandfather, and was one of the Emperor's grandchildren who was favored by the Emperor's grandfather.

From the perspective of ordinary people, this is naturally a good thing.

But it was not a good thing for the emperor.

In fact, he was very suspicious whether the deaths of the former crown prince, uncle and cousin were related to the royal grandfather's revision of the law.

The drastic changes made by my royal grandfather were all aimed at the interests of the scholar-officials.

The former Crown Prince's uncle cares for the people as much as his grandfather does, and he is backed by capable military officials. Once he takes over, the interests of the scholar-officials will be further reduced.

Therefore, all forces worked together invisibly, and the former crown prince and his son, the former crown prince's grandson, both acted quickly, fiercely and accurately.

"Just do good things and don't worry about the future—"

Zhang Xin sighed inwardly and only gave eight words.

"My daughter-in-law's vision is so big, so big——"

Zhu Gaochi was actually stunned by Zhang Xin's words, his face full of admiration.

"We are in the back house, so we don't know the hardships ahead. The emperor's grandfather personally wrote the "Great Edict" because he couldn't stand it anymore. The emperor's grandfather is a man of great talent and strategy, so how could he not know the tricks involved?

Just follow your heart.

If you think too much, you won’t get anything done.”

This is absolutely what Zhang Xin really thinks.

She watched the Zhu family from beginning to end.

My great-grandfather planned and acted at the same time, and he always seized the opportunity to achieve great things.

My father-in-law planned and acted carefully, and finally he tried his best and took that position.

Zhu Gaochi only planned in the early stage, but failed when he wanted to take action in the later stage.

As for my own son, he generally looks more like his grandfather.

If the son had been as old as his grandfather, who knows how the Ming Dynasty would have developed.

It’s just that the royal grandfather avoided all kinds of calculations, but his son did not, because he was born into wealth and had more hobbies than the royal grandfather, which gave him too many loopholes to exploit, and in the end, he died young like his former uncle, the crown prince.

"My great grandfather was a great man—"

Zhu Gaochi sighed.

After Zhang Xin said this, he realized the gap between himself and his royal grandfather.

Although my grandfather was cruel and often caused rivers of blood, he also did a lot for the people.

Once the book "The Great Edict" was published, the common people knew and understood the law, and even if they were illiterate, they would not be easily deceived by the grassroots officials who supervised them.

Those officials who use chicken feathers as tokens of authority will certainly be more restrained.

In the Ming Dynasty, there will be fewer and fewer cases of false charges and bullying. The politics will be clear and the people will live in peace. Isn't this prosperous era created by our grandfather?

"You're not bad either. The prince looks a bit like the emperor's grandfather now—"

The first sentence of Zhang Xin is the truth, and the latter part is not a lie either.

Zhu Gaochi had lost a lot of weight and his facial contours had become more apparent. Looking at him from the side, he actually had the air of a wealthy prince and looked like his grandfather in the portrait.

"Huh, isn't it Fatty Zhu?"

Zhu Gaochi snorted coldly.

The young wife carved two wooden seals for him behind his back. One had three words on it - Zhu Dapang, and the other had a particularly fat little man on it.

When he found out, he confidently said being fat was fun and told him he would carve it again after he lost weight.

"Fat Zhu?"

"go--"

"I'm hungry--"

"Then get on the sedan chair and walk back quickly to have some snacks."

"it is good."

[Guajia's little science: The Great Edict of the Ming Dynasty is not fabricated, it really exists. The Great Edict has a stronger legal effect than the Great Ming Law at that time. When officials were sentencing, they first referred to the Great Edict, and then the Great Ming Law. It is also true that Zhu Yuanzhang popularized the Great Edict to every household. Even now, this operation is still very awesome. ]