At night, in the British Duke's Mansion and study room, Yang Nianyun picked up his sleeping son, nodded to his father, and left with his mother Xian. Yang Ji packed up the toys scattered on the couch and handed them away to the maid.

My daughter took her grandson back to her parents' home to visit her relatives and stayed for a few days. She also asked Yang Ji, the grandfather, to play with her grandson, to play well, but he had little time left because the emperor was about to "make trouble" again.

Yang Ji opened the bookcase, took out a few thick books of information and put them on the desk, and climbed over in the bright candlelight.

He was one of the Generals of the Sixteen Guards. He was in charge of Guanzhong and served as the "corn envoy" to supervise the selection and breeding of corn. He occasionally took other assignments, which had little to do with government affairs.

But now, the whirlpool stirred up by the emperor will be swept into, and the officialdom will be swept into a dizzy way by this whirlpool.

The emperor wanted to revise the "Law of the Great Zhou", and based on the development of the situation, modify many contents, and formulate a "draft" to be distributed to officials at the first level or above the state, allowing officials to offer advice.

It is conceivable that the revision of the "Da Zhou Law" will inevitably lead to "boiling" by officials with different views.

The Great Zhou Law, originally called the Great Zhou Law, was a law promulgated in the third year of Baoding in the Zhou Kingdom, and it has been more than fifty years.

The Dalu imitates the Book of Documents and the Zhou Li, and mixed the laws of Wei and Jin, with a total of twenty-five chapters and one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven articles.

These twenty-five chapters are: criminal names, laws, sacrifices, court meetings, marriages, household bans, water and fire, and renovation.

The palace, the market, the battle, the robbery, the thief rebelled, the destruction, the violation, the rule, the princes, the stables, the chaos, the deception, the false, the request, the words, the escape, the information, and the prison.

In the sixth year of Jiande, the Zhou State destroyed Qi and promulgated the "Abstract System of Criminal Documents". By the time of Emperor Xuan, it was added and formed the "Abstract System of Criminal Documents", which are special criminal laws outside the law.

Not long after, the chaos in Zhou Dynasty lasted for more than ten years. After the world was unified, the virtues and the Yuan Dynasty were established, the emperor ordered the revision of the Dalu and renamed the Dalu.

The revised "Da Zhou Law" has a total of fourteen chapters and one thousand eight hundred chapters.

It is a name-based example (general rules, the merger of criminal names and laws, including five punishments, ten evils, eight discussions, etc.), a health ban (palace ban, curfew, etc.), a position system (official duties and punishments), a household marriage (household registration, land, taxes, marriage, family, etc.);

Stables and warehouses (animal husbandry, storage management), national defense (army assemble, mobilization, generals and commanders, military supplies), thieves and thieves (strikes against bandits, etc.), lawsuits (public security, litigation), fraud (strikes against fraud), arrest and death (pursuing fugitives, deserters, fugitive slaves);

Criminal cessation (interrogation, judgment, execution and prison management), confidentiality (official documents, military information, advanced technology confidentiality management), maritime (maritime trade related), miscellaneous laws (all those that do not belong to other "divisions" are stipulated here).

Since then, more than ten years have passed, because the current situation has developed rapidly, the "Da Zhou Law" revised in the early years of Mingde has gradually become out of date, so the emperor has planned to revise it again.

However, this revision is actually equivalent to a "major revision", because the structure of the "Da Zhou Law" is about to be adjusted again. In order to distinguish the original law, it is temporarily called "Mingde Law".

The "Mingdelu" is divided into chapters according to the classification of the various departments of the Shangshu Province, and then supplemented, and is divided into eleven articles.

The Secretariat now has seven ministries, and the Ministry of Commerce is about to add the "Ministry of Commerce", so it is eight ministries: the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Transport, and the Ministry of Commerce.

Therefore, the "Mingde Law" is divided into "The Law of Officials", "The Law of Civil", "The Law of Li", "The Law of Military", "The Law of Criminal Law", "The Law of Work", "The Law of Transportation", "The Law of Merchant", plus "Famous Laws", "Confidential Laws", and "Miscellaneous Laws".

Among them, the Shang Law is the recently promulgated Shang Law of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The jurisdiction areas of the eight ministries of the Shangshu Province have corresponding laws to regulate laws and regulations. For example, the "Standards of Officials" are legislation on the management of officials. In addition, there are supplements such as "Regulations" and "Detailed Rules" under the law.

For example, the "Futures Management Regulations", "Patent Management Regulations", "Public Security Management Regulations", etc. are stored in the "Business Law", "Confidential" and "Criminal Law".

The structure of "Ming De Law" reminded Yang Ji of the "Ming Law", because the structure of the "Ming Law" is a famous example (including five punishments, ten evils, and eight discussions), followed by "Ming Law", "House Law", "Ritual Law", "Ming Law", "Criminal Law", and "Ming Law".

These six laws are in direct contact with the six divisions.

However, the content of the "Mingde Law" is much more than the "Ming Law". The preliminarily formulated terms, including the contents of various "Regulations" and "Detailed Rules", totaled more than 4,000 items.

And how many rules are there in the "Da Ming Law"?

Yang Ji rubbed his temples and was stunned when he looked at the information on the table.

The memory of the Ming Dynasty was unforgettable to him, but many details were already blurred.

After all, it has been many years since he came to this era, and in the past twenty years, the situation has changed so quickly that it makes him feel like he has "dreamed and dreamed in dreams".

Steam ships, trains, telegraphs, steam engines, looking at these "monsters", Yang Ji sometimes feels incredible.

Now looking at the draft "Mingde Law", he felt even more incredible: the emperor was too energetic and wanted to challenge the ethical principles of the entire society?

If you do something like this, aren’t you afraid of causing a big deal?

Yang Ji is not a fool. He has worked under the emperor for many years and is very clear about this person's "virtue". He knows that the other party just likes to make trouble, muddle the water, and then fish in troubled waters.

However, this time, if you are not careful, you will probably not be a poisonous snake.

If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, although you will not die of poison, it is likely that the hero will cut off his arm.

This is not Yang Ji's random thought, because he saw clues in the draft "Mingde Law": the emperor "touched" in "Ministry Law", and some clauses "bad motivation".

At first glance, the content of "Ministry Law" is similar to the previous "House Marriage", but it only refined many terms. However, Yang Ji saw that the emperor had planted strange seeds in "Ministry Law".

This seed is planted in the "Regulations on the Management of Migrant Population", involving marriage, children of illegitimate children's rights and interests in the division of family property, and touches on sensitive issues such as the difference between legitimate and illegitimate children and different wealth.

For example, with the development of the economy, transportation has become more and more convenient. A large number of merchants raise outdoor rooms in other places, give birth to children with them, and buy property.

The outer room is a lowly concubine who is even more inferior than a concubine. Even the concubine is famous, but the outer room is shameless. The sons who are born in the outer room are lower than those who are born in the concubine and maids who are born in the son, and even the clan is not allowed to be enrolled.

However, it is indeed becoming more and more common for merchants to maintain outdoor rooms.

When the merchant died, the official learned about the existence of the outer room and the children of illegitimate children, and also knew that the "vix spirit" occupied the house he bought with his husband, so he brought people to the door to question the crime. The resulting property lawsuits caused great headaches for local officials in various places.

Therefore, in the "Mingde Law" section, there are clauses: merchants register to take concubines in the local government and register the corresponding property (land, house, etc.), so once the merchant dies, the government protects the registered concubines and their children.

He has registered his property with the local government and belongs to the concubine and his children, and is regarded as a "property gift" of the man.

The premise is that the name of the concubine or children is recorded during registration. If the names of the man and the woman are registered at the same time, then the man’s wife has the right to claim half of the property division.

Although this is only a management regulation for "migrant population", Yang Ji thinks that anyone with a discerning eye should be able to see that such a clause is "the drunkard's intention is not to drink", which has challenged the absolute authority of the main room for the outdoor room (side room) and the children born in vain.

It is conceivable how fierce the game between the parties around some "bad motivation" clauses will be when the draft "Mingde Law" begins to "collect opinions" and conduct public debates.

In order to block the "hole" of the collapse of rituals and music, the guards must do their best.

Yang Ji felt that compared with this, the debate on the rights and interests of merchants has lasted for nearly half a year, and the debate on the proposals on merchants' rights is more like a warm-up in a sense, just a "small meaning".

Thinking of this, he felt a little headache. The emperor was extremely energetic and had many ideas. He really didn't know what would happen in the future.
Chapter completed!