This first step to breaking the academic monopoly was done by Guo Peng under the banner of sending depressed sent for Guo Shan.

It’s true that Guo Dan really enjoys it.

It was really pleasant to take some old scholars from Guo to study the law and make up for the regrets in his heart when he was young.

Then as I did it, I made some achievements and some sense of accomplishment and responsibility.

After Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Empire, he abolished the laws of the Xinmang regime, restored the old laws of the Western Han Dynasty, and issued many laws and edicts for the release of slaves and the edicts of the releasing punishment, hoping to ease social conflicts.

However, since the old rules of the Western Han Dynasty have become increasingly complicated and harsh since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the monarchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty have been continuously adding new rules and regulations, the laws of the Eastern Han Dynasty are still complicated and harsh, and it is quite difficult to implement them.

Several major gentry who studied the law, including the Guo family in Yingchuan, have their own family codes, with slightly different focus and different ways of interpreting legal terms from each other, which makes law enforcement difficult and sentencing standards not standardized enough.

During the reign of Emperor Zhang of Han, the court officer Chen Chong suggested that the Han Dynasty law be deleted, the Han Dynasty law be simplified, and the sentencing was unified. However, Chen Chong was immediately dismissed from office, and the matter was gone, until now.

Now Guo Peng's rule is becoming more and more stable, and some legal disputes that were covered up during the war have begun to become prominent.

Different attitudes to law enforcement between the two local governments often lead to conflicts between the two local governments. The uneven quality of grassroots law enforcement officers leads to the impact of law enforcement efforts. The public has complained about this. This contradiction is becoming increasingly serious and gradually developing to the point where it must be resolved.

Originally, I just wanted to help Guo Shan relieve his boredom, but as I explained it, I really solved the value.

The legal provisions summarized by Guo Shan will become an important evidence for Guo Peng's promulgation of a new law after he ascended the throne and became emperor.

When Guo Peng went to pay a visit to Guo Dan, Guo Shan was writing quickly. When he saw Guo Peng coming, he immediately called Guo Peng over to sit together.

"Zi Feng, you came just right. Come and take a look at this. You told me that you should pay special attention to the standard of enrollment. I think the statement in Qin law can be maintained, with height as the standard, with male six feet and five inches and female six feet and two inches as adults. Those who reach this height can be punished if they commit crimes, otherwise they will not be punished. What do you think?"

Guo Shan put the relevant legal provisions he summarized in front of Guo Peng and asked Guo Peng to discuss them together.

Guo Peng looked at the law.

This is a provision in Qin law, which talks about the standards for enrollment.

But unlike modern times, modern times mostly use age as the standard, while Qin Dynasty uses height as the standard.

Such standards were naturally inherited by the Han Dynasty.

When I first learned about it, Guo Peng felt it was a bit ridiculous. Why did he use height as a standard instead of age?

In this way, seniors who are not tall enough will be punished for crimes, while young people who are over-represented in crimes will be punished severely, which is too rude.

However, after in-depth investigation by the common people, Guo Peng understood the practical significance of this law.

It is very sad because there are many people who don’t know their age.

There was no ID card at that time, and a lot of Qianshou Lishu didn't know when they were born, nor how old they were now.

On the one hand, I lacked my cultural level and did not understand the chronology of the stems and branches and year names, so I could not calculate my age.

On the one hand, the average life expectancy is too low, and there are too many elders who lose their lives early, so that their children lose their father and mother before they become sensible, so they naturally don’t know how old they are.

In this case, height is obviously more practical than age, because height increases with age and exists objectively, dwarfism or Giantism is a very rare species after all.

Without knowing age, using height as the standard is more fair to the Guizhou People's Republic of China.

This is the wisdom of our ancestors and the sorrow of the people of Guizhou.

The so-called men's crown at twenty, women's 15th and 19th as well as women's heads are all standards for powerful and powerful families, which are the rules that only within 400,000 people can pass.

Only they can enjoy the right to have surnames, names, characters, ages or birthdays, and only they can enjoy the right to keep their names in history. As for the Qianshou Lishu who don’t know their characters, it doesn’t even matter their lives. Who cares about their age?

When Guo Peng went out to patrol the place, inspected ordinary villages and people's homes, when asked about their age, 90% of the common people could not report the accurate age.

Some families are smarter, using the grain in the land to calculate age several times, or using the ancient knotted method.

When Guo Peng ruled Qingzhou and established a village, some families in Qingzhou used the year when Guo Peng first came to Qingzhou as counting to calculate the age of the children born after that.

This is a few, and most common families do not have a way to count, and do not know how to calculate age. Some parents don’t even know how old they are, let alone children, so they have to use their height to judge age.

When Guo Peng sent people to count the population, most of the specific population were replaced by height instead of age, and those with age would also add height data.

Only when children born after starting to count the population data will age data appear on the population record. In this way, many elders in the family do not know it, but the government knows it in more detail.

So when Guo Peng was literate in the local area, the first thing he taught them was how to record his age.

The great cause of literacy has begun to show its dawn, and newborn children have their own age data, but historical problems are simply unsolvable.

Then the Guizhou heads and the people of Guizhou were not worthy of age.

In this case, using height as the criminal standard to distinguish between adults and minors is a truly feasible way.

Guo Peng believes that the enrollment standards for this male six-foot-5-inch and female six-foot-2-inch must be the conclusion drawn by the Qin officials after Shang Yang's reforms after a large number of population statistics. It is true and reliable.

Moreover, the living environment and nutritional intake standards of the common people are even worse than those of the Qin people of that era. The average height data will even be reduced, and this data is not out of date.

"This law can be used. Nowadays, people who do not know their age are feasible, and it is feasible to judge age by their height. In the future, when newborn children have age, they no longer need to use height as a standard, and they can be sentenced by age."

Guo Peng nodded.

Guo Dan was very happy and wrote down this article and collected it for future use.

"It depends on the Guo family. We are a family of law. Although the wealthy families in Yingchuan have the legacy of Shen Han, they are not specialized in studying the law. How can they compare with us?"

Guo Shan seems very happy that he can contribute to the law.

Guo Peng was also very happy to see him so happy.

Then, the father and son discussed the practical significance of some Qin law provisions to the present, and they all felt that Qin law could still be used.

The legal provisions four hundred years ago are still out of date, and Guo Shan has to lament the rigor of the Qin people's ruthlessness in formulating laws.

"Compared with the laws of Qin, the laws of our Han cannot be said to be inferior to those of our Han, but when it comes to the implementation level, it is indeed not a little worse. Many places are even following the three rules of Emperor Gaozu's constitution."

Guo Shan has served as a local official and has a great say in this kind of matter.

"This is the past. At present, my son has increased his investment in law and will cultivate enough legal talents in the future to enter the grassroots level of rural areas and be responsible for law enforcement. The situation will definitely be much better than it is now."

Guo Peng said with a smile.

Guo Shan nodded with satisfaction.

"My son is worthy of being Optimus Prime of Han. With my son in charge of the world, what can I worry about being a father? Hahahahaha!"

Guo Dan patted Guo Peng on the shoulder and smiled with satisfaction.

Guo Peng pursed his lips.

"Father, I'm going to be the emperor."
Chapter completed!