Chapter 319: Visiting Cao Cao at night

5. Reduce torture and alleviate high-pressure rule over the people.

The torture in the criminal law of various dynasties in history was nothing more than two directions: interrogation before conviction and punishment after conviction.

Compared with the modern judicial system, due to the backwardness of relevant technologies and experience in ancient times, it is impossible to collect evidence of criminals as detailed as modern judicial system; there are even many people who sometimes recognize a person as a criminal based on the personal intuition of the official.

In addition, sometimes even if the prisoner knows that a person is a criminal, the evidence at the time of the incident cannot be extracted, such as recordings or videos of modern evidence collection methods, and the criminal refuses to plead guilty. At this time, torture is still inevitable to make him submit.

The torture and punishment after conviction is to create fear, and to plant the consciousness deep in people's hearts that "if they commit crimes and are caught, they will definitely be worse than death." This deep sense of fear is used to deter the people and prevent the people from committing crimes easily.

Based on all these, although torture is extremely inhumane and is extremely unfavorable to the democratic consciousness of the whole society. However, in this era, it cannot be completely banned. It is precisely for this reason that Wu Fan suggested that torture be reduced and exempted selectively, rather than completely exempted.

6. Abolish the system of joint position in the criminal law. Correspondingly, increase the harm to those who are extremely guilty.

The effects of co-sustainment and torture after conviction are basically the same, and they are all intended to make the people feel a sense of fear.

In fact, co-sitting can only be regarded as one of torture. It is because co-sitting has far more harm to the entire society than other tortures, so it was proposed by Wu Fan alone.

On this suggestion, Wu Fan used his own principles to release all the Sima Yi family detained in the Luoyang prison. This is also the reason why Wu Fan did not immediately cut him into the market after he captured Sima Yi's family.

However, after the cancellation of the joint position will inevitably make people's fear of crimes. In peacetime and good times, there may not be any problems. But if you are in a wartime and disasters are frequent, you may be full of bandits across the country and will be out of control.

Therefore, although Wu Fan suggested adopting a joint position system on this issue, he also suggested increasing the harm to those who are extremely guilty, such as lingchi, nailing the fingers with bamboo sticks, etc.

Of course, for those who are not extremely guilty, the torture will still be reduced and exempted as much as possible in accordance with the recommendation of Article 5.

Despite this, the suggestion that Wu Fan, which proposed torture not only for those with great sins, but also for extra cruelty, caused great controversy in the field of human rights in later generations. Some of those who agree, some of those who question it. However, from the perspective of long-term stability and social stability, Wu Fan's suggestion was indispensable at the time after the abolition of the joint position.

7. If an official breaks the law, it is not the same as the common people, but the double down.

Due to the different levels of knowledge, civilians have different understandings of crime. To put it bluntly, there are inevitably some ignorant laws among civilians.

But different officials are, and those who can become officials must have different knowledge levels than ordinary civilians. They are very clear about what a crime is. In this case, they still know that the law is violated, and even in many cases, the law enforcement is violated. How can the crimes they should bear the same as those of the common people?

The purpose of Wu Fan's suggestion is to strictly rectify the official team; govern the people first, govern the officials, govern the country first.

The Chinese have a long history of officialism. Not only can they benefit from relatives and friends, but they also have an invisible glory that has made countless people squeeze their heads and fight to wear this black hat. If an official thinks that this decree makes it too tiring to be an ordinary person, then just go on, no one stops you, and some people are willing to be an official.

What's more, officials who are dissatisfied with this law are a little trick of using their power for personal gain. It's best if such a black sheep leaves.

8. Abolish the practice of inheriting father and son, and downplay the concept of close relatives of the Chinese people's family blood relationship.

A few days ago when he was in Luoyang, Wu Fan and Xiao Qiao had a conversation about reform. At that time, Wu Fan said: Perhaps it was because God would not allow him to report his son that Wu Fan was able to strengthen his determination to reform.

The determination Wu Fan mentioned at that time was to abolish the succession of his father, master, son and son.

The abolition of father, son and son is actually just superficial, and the deep purpose is to downplay the concept of family blood and close relatives of the people.

There is a survey report on China conducted by the United States Rand Corporation, one of which says it is said -

"Chinese people usually only care about their families and relatives. Chinese culture is based on family blood relations rather than on a rational social basis. Chinese people only care about the blessings of their immediate relatives and turn a blind eye to the sufferings suffered by people who are not related to themselves. There is no doubt that this moral view based on blood relations will inevitably lead to selfishness and cruelty. This selfishness and cruelty have become the most critical factors that hinder the development of Chinese society."

Let’s not discuss whether this report is really from Rand Company. The issues it explains alone are very profound and pointed.

For people other than relatives, Chinese people do lack care, selfishness and indifference can be seen everywhere, and have become the norm in society. This is undoubtedly extremely unfavorable for the entire society and the entire nation.

Wu Fan's suggestion of abolishing the co-selected position and the son and stepfather is actually to downplay the concept of blood ties among the Chinese people. Coupled with the universal creed of love in faith, it will guide the Chinese people to form a positive and benign moral concept.

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Through all this, Wu Fan put forward fifteen suggestions to Cao Chong.

It took a whole morning to roughly finish these fifteen suggestions.

Although Cao Chong is a genius, he is still young after all, has limited social experience, and does not have enough understanding of things. Therefore, Cao Chong did not really understand much about the fifteen suggestions put forward by Wu Fan, and most of them are in a state of ambiguity.

Despite this, after listening to Wu Fan, Cao Chong smiled and said to Wu Fan:

"Uncle Eight, although Chong'er is dull and does not understand what Uncle Eight said, Chong'er will still fully support Uncle Eight's reform."

When Wu Fan heard Cao Chong say this, he felt very relieved. He finally didn't waste so much spit. If Cao Chong disagreed after saying so much, he would be really collapsed.

However, Wu Fan intends to try what kind of mentality Cao Chong has for supporting his reform: is it because he is respectful to himself and is it difficult to refuse? Or is it because he is young and does not understand the impact on him? Or is it just a casual talk?

Therefore, Wu Fan asked Cao Chong:

"Your Majesty, my series of reform measures will not only weaken your power, but will also make my subordinates no longer be timid with you, but will argue with reason. Your Majesty said he would support me in his reforms, but he realized this?"

At this time, the uncle and nephew had already walked into the imperial study one by one. After Wu Fan finished saying this, Cao Chong grinned and sat on the bed in front of Wu Fan, wiggling his legs and said to Wu Fan:

"Uncle Eight, although Chong'er is dull, he has already thought of the Chong'er you mentioned."

When Wu Fan heard this, he smiled slightly and said:

"Oh? In this case, why should Your Majesty fully support my reform?"

Cao Chong said:

"Uncle Eight must have known that Shang Yang, the reformer of Qin five hundred years ago? At that time, the social and economic development of Qin lags behind the other six countries. Fortunately, Shang Yang's reforms achieved a growing national strength and finally unified the six countries. Shang Yang was not originally a native of Qin, and had no contribution to Qin before, and had nothing to do with Qin Xiaogong, the king of Qin at that time. Under such circumstances, Qin Xiaogong could still trust Shang Yang, fully support his reform, and appointed him as the highest official position of Qin as a Qin in the early Warring States Period, mastered military and political power, and also used as a title. Therefore, what reason does Chong'er not fully support the eight uncle who had made great contributions to Wei?"

After hearing this, Wu Fan resolved all the doubts in his heart, nodded and sighed:

"It is really a blessing for the country to have Your Majesty as the king, and the people to be very grateful."

After that, the two of them talked about the specific reforms for a while. Then, Cao Chong formally wrote an edict: Ren Jingong, Grand Sima, and General Wu Fan presided over a series of reforms and beliefs. All civil and military officials obeyed the orders and were not wrong.

In the afternoon of that day, Wu Fan gathered Gou Yu, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Gou You, Tian Feng, Ju Su, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, and Lu Su, the nine most powerful ministers in the world, to discuss the matter of building faith. The chapter of Ce Li Xinjun forgot Jia Xu, has been revised

The wisdom of these nine people is gathered together. Although they cannot study a vehicle that travels at the speed of light, it is completely no problem to create a complete set of beliefs based on Wu Fan's requirements.

When the nine people first heard Wu Fan say that he wanted to create a brand new set of beliefs, they were naturally shocked. However, after Wu Fan's explanation, the nine people were deeply impressed by Wu Fan's long-term vision while they suddenly realized it. Correspondingly, they were more serious and meticulous about this new job.

How could they know that the reason why Wu Fan's vision exceeded the scope of human imagination was because he came to summarize it from the basic point nearly two thousand years later.

The work of creating faith is very cumbersome. It not only requires citing classics, looking up a large number of ancient books, and compiling many school essences; it also requires the myth of "the descendants of the dragon and descendants of Yan and Huang", so that people can not doubt it, but also make people unpredictable, so that the people dare not suspicious.

This tedious work is not Wu Fan's expertise, not to mention that he has more important work of institutional reform. Therefore, Wu Fan handed over the work of creating faith to Xun Yu, who was meticulous in thinking and unrestless in his work. The other eight people divided the work and worked together to complete it.

By the time the work of faith was completed, it was already around 8 o'clock in the evening.

When he returned to the inn where he was temporarily staying, after dinner, Wu Fan suddenly felt depressed, as if a mountain was pressing on his heart.

He knew very well that if he proposed reforms in front of hundreds of civil and military officials tomorrow, everyone would be in an uproar. There would inevitably be many opposition voices, and it was very likely that they would even lead to wars.

However, these are nothing to Wu Fan, who has been through the battlefield and has been in bloody enemy camp. As long as Cao Chong agrees to his reform, other opposition voices are no different from farting in Wu Fan's opinion.

There is another reason why Wu Fan is really depressed.

That is the late brother Cao Cao.

Wu Fan couldn't help but ask himself again and again: If his elder brother Cao Cao was alive, would he agree to his reform? If his elder brother did not agree to his reform, then wouldn't he be sorry for his kindness to him?

It is because of my elder brother Cao Cao's favor that I have such an official position and status today. And now I am using this official position and status to carry out reforms. If these reform measures violate my elder brother's wishes...

Wu Fan was in a mess.

After walking out of the house, he looked up at the sky with stars. After a while, Wu Fan lowered his head and walked towards the courtyard gate...

About half an hour later, Wu Fan came to Cao Cao's tomb buried in a green valley 30 miles outside Yecheng.

According to what Cao Cao said before his death, if he did not build a cemetery after his death and buried it flat, the tomb in front of him was no different from the tombs of ordinary people except for being larger. It is basically equivalent to the tomb of a wealthy family.

A temporary wooden house was built next to the tomb. The noise from Wu Fan's crotch alarmed the people inside the wooden house. Cao Pi walked out after hearing the sound.

When Cao Pi saw Wu Fan, especially when Wu Fan came here alone late at night, he was a little surprised. He hurriedly walked up to Wu Fan and bowed to him to write a compilation, asking the eighth uncle Wu Fan why he came here late at night?

Wu Fan did not tell Cao Pi the truth in detail. It would be useless to tell anyone about his knot at this time. He only said that he suddenly wanted to come and see his elder brother, that's all.

Afterwards, Wu Fan asked Cao Pi if he had any wine, so Cao Pi turned back to the wooden house and brought out a jar of old wine.

Wu Fan took the wine jar and asked Cao Pi to go back to the house to rest. He wanted to have a good time with his elder brother tonight.

Cao Pi could see that Wu Fan was worried, but Wu Fan refused to say it clearly, and he didn't want to ask questions. So he returned to the wooden house according to Wu Fan's wishes, leaving Wu Fan sitting alone in front of the tomb, holding the wine jar to drink with his elder brother Cao Cao.

After drinking for a long time, Wu Fan was already drunk. He was not good at drinking and the settings he created when he created generals. In addition, his worries were in trouble, so he soon became drunk.

He picked up the wine jar again, and Wu Fan was about to drink it when a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears:
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