Chapter 400: The Struggle between the Rule of Law and Imperial Rule

The monarchy is constitutional, and the country is mainly constitutional. The House of Representatives shall establish a constitution and establish the law of the country.

Liu Xing's words once again shocked the audience.

In astonishment, Hu Anguo looked at Liu Xing with a deep sigh and asked, "Constitutionalism, what is constitutionalism?" The country cannot be without a monarch for a day, how can Taifu come to the constitution as the lord of the country? So where will Your Majesty be in the future, and won't the courtiers from now on be people who do not follow the king's way? ”

"Really? What is this constitutionalism and what is constitutionalism? And why is it necessary to replace His Majesty's power to adjudicate the world with a constitutional, so that all the people of the world can be submitted? After Hu Anguo finished speaking, Zong Ze also immediately opened his mouth to express his doubts.

Seeing the doubts of the two, Liu Xing smiled indifferently and said: "Constitutionalism is a doctrine or concept that asserts that state power comes from and is bound by a basic law and stipulates the rights of citizens. This basic law is the Constitution. The essence of constitutionalism is twofold, one is to protect the basic rights and freedoms of the whole people. The second is to limit public power, and the authority and legitimacy of all public power comes from the Constitution. ”

After a slight pause, Liu Xing knew that he was saying this, and these people still wouldn't fully understand.

After smiling indifferently, Liu Xingcai explained: "The laws I have planned and established are actually originally derived from the idea of protecting the whole people. Moreover, the rights of the public, which are established by the law, and which naturally have to be constrained and restricted, must also be derived from the law and guaranteed by the relevant law. ”

Stopping again, Liu Xing took a sip of the tea bowl, then put down the tea bowl and continued: "You have already seen that even if there is no holy decree, as long as I am facing up and down, up to me and other people in the phase, down to those Li people. As long as you act in accordance with the law, the world will naturally be orderly and prosperous. ”

As soon as the words stopped, his face turned pale. Liu Xing immediately said in a deep voice: "But you think back to the past, the emperor said that whoever dies will die?" The facts are not clear, the evidence is insufficient, but how many heroes have become unjust souls, but how many virtuous ministers have been orphans? The royal law, in the past, the royal law was all the common people who broke the law and the common people were guilty of the same crime, and the prince who broke the law was a misunderstanding, not a real law. Think about it. Isn't that so? ”

The common people are guilty of the same crime as the common people, and the prince is guilty of the same crime, and it is a misunderstanding.

When everyone heard this, the collective was stunned at first, and then collectively lowered their heads and fell into thought.

As the old saying goes, a prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people. That is a saying that has been handed down since ancient times, but in this Central Plains, how many dynasties have been before and after, large and small, who has really seen the prince who broke the law and was really dragged out and beheaded like a common man.

Even if I have seen those emperors who dare to strictly abide by the law. In the end, it will be depicted as a vicious king and a tyrannical emperor in history.

The most important thing is that there are not many kings who will choose to bring the prince to justice when their own interests are not affected.

Tiger poison does not eat children, it sounds like human nature, but it has created a king's sentence to the kings of the past generations, and the subjects should die. A few tears of the king let the prince live the tradition.

Is this tradition good? The answer is two-sided, as with many things.

On the bright side, if it is a Maven for the emperor. The king's tears are often shed not only for his own son, but often for the people of the world and for the courtiers who have broken the law. As long as the king's tears fall. Often, the courtiers and the people will have a chance to be born again.

On the downside, if a reckless and mediocre monarch reigns, then the so-called royal law will usually become child's play.

Whoever the faint king wants to die, he doesn't need Wang Fa, he will cut it down for others with a word. Whoever the faint king likes, even if that person kills people and sets fires, and is heinous, he can forgive him with a word, so that the wicked person will continue to harm the world.

Ages. Isn't it because of the unvirtuous king, the chaos of law and discipline and the rules that the world will be in chaos?

Recently, take the Emperor Huizong who is still sleeping in the Five Kingdoms City, he is a typical person who regards law and discipline as nothing, and regards the people's hearts and child's play.

During the years of his reign, the royal law of the Great Song Dynasty was arbitrarily tampered with and used arbitrarily according to his own preferences. It led to the chaos of Xuanhe and the collapse of the people's hearts, which gave the aliens a good opportunity to invade the south.

An emperor like Huizong is better than nothing. There is a set of basic laws formulated under the leadership of Mrs. Liu, which are absolutely fair and beneficial to the country.

As the foundation of a country, no one has the right to change the basic law in the future to restrain the future emperor and ensure that the royal law is no longer child's play......

After learning from the pain, the courtiers who had already had enough of the suffering of the faint monarch thought so in their hearts, and Zong Ze also thought so.

So after a period of contemplation, Zong Ze was the first to speak: "No one can guarantee that the future King of Dading will not be a faint king, if he is also as mediocre as his grandfather, Wang Fa will only become a child's play." The kings of the past dynasties, even the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, the Tang Emperor and the Song Ancestors, could not ensure that their descendants would not produce unscrupulous descendants. Therefore, I agree with Taifu's proposal. ”

"But, but in this way, wouldn't you put the king like a puppet, and let me and others openly use the law to rule the world, and go to Cao Mengde together?" Hu Anguo, the leader of the Confucian Forest, whose belly was full of loyalty and righteousness, obviously had a different idea from Zong Ze, and he immediately raised objections and questions after Zong Ze expressed his approval.

"Is Cao Mengde bad?"

Hearing his husband say this, Liu Xing immediately smiled coldly and said: "He is a traitor, but if he made his Tuntian rich in the north, if he didn't coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, that Han Dynasty would have been disintegrated and ceased to exist by the Yellow Turban thieves and those local tyrants." At least in his lifetime Cao Mengde, the Han still exists, it's better than directly destroying the country and exterminating the species, right? ”

The rebellion of the Han Dynasty was chaotic in the fact that the gang was often abolished, and the chaos was that the law was not followed, allowing relatives to arbitrarily control the government. The emperor was useless, but the house leaked and it rained overnight, and those relatives turned all the laws established by Liu Che into playthings for personal gain.

The program is often abolished, the law is lost, the dog officials are rampant, and the dictatorship of foreign relatives makes the people of the Han Dynasty miserable, and it gives Zhang Jiao the opportunity to incite the people and gather people to rebel.

If Cao Cao hadn't swept north of the Yellow River, the Yellow Turban Thieves and those local Haoqiang would have turned the Three Kingdoms into three hundred kingdoms, and no one would have allowed the Han Dynasty to continue nominally for those decades.

If there is no Cao Cao's series of measures, the Central Plains in the chaos will definitely be withered and desolate, and there will be frozen bones on the road, and the scene of Zhumen wine and meat smelling is everywhere.

In the troubled times, there needs to be someone who dares to risk the disapproval of the world to learn from Cao Cao, not necessarily for himself and his descendants to win the world, but there must be a man who dares to stand up and carry the collapse to end the catastrophe and troubled times. (To be continued......)