Chapter 1,642 Little Family

Su You smiled and said: "You look at the world from the perspective of science and engineering, but from the perspective of politics and ethics, it's another story."

"First of all, those places are far away from each other and full of barbarians. It would take a year to send a letter."

"If we want to open up new territories, the first batch to go there can only be young men, and then the women and the elderly will immigrate."

"If this behavior is large-scale, then only women and children will be left at home, and all men will be left abroad?"

"So those places, when domestic annexation reaches irreconcilable levels, can be used as a channeling gap, just like the current eastward flow of the Yellow River, which is used to solve the problem of flooding. Most of the time, when the water level is normal, it can

You can’t do this.”

"This will cause another problem: the Song Dynasty's development in overseas places is insufficient."

"So we can only do it step by step. Fifty years will be enough to consolidate the South China Sea. One or two hundred years will be enough to reach the level you mentioned."

Neither father nor son mentioned the threat of the Liao Kingdom that was just around the corner, because both of them knew that the great era of cavalry armies had ended prematurely.

The topic opened up a bit, and gradually it came to the government situation and the respective jobs of father and son.

Su You had never thought that Bian Gu would only develop in the military field. His son was at least better than Wang Yu, right?

He often wrote letters to discuss political issues with Bian Guan, and Bian Guan and Bi Guan were often able to give Su You ideas.

In this regard, Bi Guan's ability is far superior to that of a flat pot. He has not read so many books in vain since he was a child.

Bi Zhongyan is now the Minister of Dali Temple. In addition to his official duties, he is also using the data to compile a book.

The current code of law in use in the Song Dynasty was compiled in July of the same year by Dou Yi of Dali Temple and others, who were the ministers of the Ministry of Works and others, and asked the court to propose revisions to the law. After receiving the court's approval, the code was compiled in July of the same year.

Afterwards, Taizu issued an edict to "prepare it to Dali Temple in a rigid copy and issue it to the world", which became the first code in history to be printed and promulgated. Its full name is "Song Jianlong Detailed Penalty System", or "Song Xingtong" for short.

Since its promulgation, although some changes were made in the fourth year of Emperor Qiande of Song Dynasty and the fourth year of Shenzong Xining, there have been basically no changes.

Its chapter content is the same as that of Tang Code, with a total of twelve chapters and 502 clauses, but "doors" are added under each chapter, totaling 213 doors.

However, these provisions still seem a bit rough. When officials are enforcing the law and deciding cases, they constantly consider and deal with them according to the situation. In addition, the central government continues to issue edicts, orders, formats, and forms to add to them, gradually turning into a large-scale legal system.

Among them, "judgment", that is, the previous cases in which similar cases were judged, have gradually become the main basis for laws and regulations.

This is the so-called "what is not contained in the law, then use examples".

Examples are originally intended to make up for the deficiencies of the law, but in actual trials, examples play a very important role, even more so than laws and regulations.

As it has developed to this day, "Although there are laws and regulations, all officials do things based on examples. If the laws are natural and there are no examples, everything will be muddy and impossible."

This will cause many problems. For example, in the history of the same case, there are precedents for being lenient and sometimes strict. If a local official likes it, it may be the root of judicial corruption. In order to greedy for money and bribes, officials "take whatever they want."

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Bi Zhongyan is a great person. Dealing with such complicated and voluminous historical files and extracting and summarizing them into entries is his strength.

Therefore, his current book, named "Song Xingtong Legal Affairs Class", will be a search tool for judges to use in deciding cases.

The compilation style of Bi Zhongyan's book still uses "Song Xingtong" as the outline, but under each outline, additional details are added based on previous cases and the current situation to classify the severity of criminal acts and consequences of similar cases, and implement them.

Based on various aspects such as the subjective motivation of the offender, different penalty standards for light, medium and severe are given.

After that, the origins of these standards are added, which are the edicts, orders, formats, styles and specific cases of the past dynasties.

As a result, the book became overwhelming and turned into a new pyramid-shaped code.

The basis of the code is jurisprudence, above it is the categories of matters, and above it is the criminal system.

The book has not yet been compiled. According to Bi Zhongyan's private letter to Su You, the book will eventually have more than 400 volumes and be divided into four categories: official, civil, criminal, and business.

Bi Zhongyan also bothered Bi Guan for this matter.

The second brother, Bi Zhongyou, was promoted by the imperial court for solving a major smuggling case after completing the rectification of the Hebei Fourth Road. He is now the transfer envoy of Jinghu North Road.

Jinghu Lianglu was a newly opened area by the imperial court, and many places had only returned to Liuzhou twenty years ago. Many local people were still dissatisfied with Wang Hua, or did not know what Wang Hua was at all, which also gave Bi Zhongyou a headache.

It was better for Bi Guan to give his brother some advice. It would be better to start by studying Erlin witchcraft, use it in combination with national laws, respect the local customs, build more schools, and slowly educate people.

Bi Zhongyou was still a little undecided, so he wrote to Su You again.

Su You wrote back and said that the laws of nature are not limited to human relationships, and that the natives must be given a process of getting familiar with and getting used to it.

In addition to the big cities in the Jinghu area, there are also many mountainous cave people who are accustomed to the witchcraft of the past.

The basis for implementing laws is the popularization of culture and education. At least people must understand your laws.

Culture and education have not been implemented, and forcibly enforcing laws may be counterproductive.

In the past, Zhang Dun had his own way of governing Jinghu Lake, and Liu Si had his own way of governing. Which one was better and which one was worse? The word-of-mouth spread among the people can explain the problem.

Bi Guan is right, take your time.

Therefore, when Su You saw Bi Guan, he smiled and said, "The imperial court owes my Guan'er a transit judge and a Dali Temple prime minister."

Bi Guan blushed: "Dad is used to making fun of me."

The teachers' dormitory of the Royal Naval College is a small red brick building with two floors. Downstairs is the hall, kitchen and servants' room, and upstairs is three bedrooms and one living room.

There is also a small garden outside, with two bicycles parked in the garden, which is almost exactly the same as the small villa in the military compound that Su You saw in later generations.

Once inside, except that there are no household appliances, it is almost the same as in later generations.

There is a piano, sewing machine, carpet, sofa, coffee table, and even a pool table and a dart board near the window in the hall.

The dining room has a large table and eight high-backed chairs. There is also a bar counter and a wine cabinet at the door of the kitchen. It seems that the young couple usually has a lot of friends.

Su You asked, it turned out that Bi Guan taught piano to a few female disciples here on weekdays, and on holidays Bi Guan would bake cakes in advance, and take some to visit the female relatives he knew well the next day, and this place would become

A gathering place for teachers and students of the Tactics Department.

The regulations on the combat methods of the navy's new power warships were discussed by Bian Guan and his colleagues while playing billiards and darts.

Just by glancing around the hall, Su You got a lot of information. In the court, he was always regarded as a junior by the old men. Now he really didn't agree that he had the opportunity to play the role of his elders: "This is good, young man

People should live the lifestyle of young people. As for not cooking at home and ordering takeout, I actually don’t care at all, as long as you have a happy life..."

Bi Guan blushed: "I'll go to the kitchen to have a look..."

"Don't!" Su You said, "Don't move, sit down quickly, I'll go take a look."

When he came out of the kitchen: "Either it's a flat can or a takeout from the canteen. There's nothing here..."

Bian Guan picked up the enamel lunch box with ease: "I'll be back in a minute, very soon."

After Bian Guan left, Su Youcai said to Bi Guan: "I heard from my little sister that you are still studying mathematics?"

"Yeah." Bi Guan said, "Sometimes I help Brother Bian Guan with some navigation calculations."

Su You opened the suitcase: "This is Colander's gift to my sister-in-law, a carbide desk lamp. This thing has no smoke, is safer than a blowtorch, has no sound, and is as bright as a whale oil lamp. Do you know how to use it?"

Bi Guan said happily: "I will write a letter to thank him some other time. I have seen the schematic diagram of the carbide lamp in a journal, but I still don't know how to operate it."

Su You asked Guan'er to get a glass of water and add calcium carbide to demonstrate the operation. Bi Guan asked, "Will the Liao Kingdom learn this?"

Su You smiled and said: "It's good to learn from it. They can't produce calcium carbide, so they can only buy it from us. Then it will become a big business."

Guan'er nodded: "A furnace with more than 2,000 degrees Celsius is indeed difficult for them."

"It's also difficult for us." Su You said: "There is a water plant and iron mine in Linzhang. The water plant is the name of the local people. It is actually a power station. We built the first electric converter with power from the power station. Now
Chapter completed!