Back in the palace, Liu De asked Wang Dao to bring what Ning Cheng had written, and then summoned Zhang Tang and Ji Di.

After a short time, Wang Dao took the draft that Ning Cheng had written on orders for the past ten days.

Liu De took it in his hand and looked at it first.

It has to be said that merchants, whether ancient or modern, Eastern or Western, as long as they are under the rule of a unified empire, will inevitably be suppressed and discriminated against.

At that time, Qin Shi Huang had just unified the world, and immediately took the stone Langyatai and wrote the four big characters of 'Shangnong except for the end', which dealt an indiscriminate blow to the merchants of the world.

After the rise of the Han Dynasty, there was no good face for businessmen, especially in the ideological world, and none of the hundreds of schools of thought could afford businessmen!

It is said that there is something hateful about the wretched.

The hateful thing about the merchant class is that they do anything for the sake of profit!

Liu De once saw in the book that the capitalists resold state-owned assets in order to make profits with foreign countries, machine-gun fire at striking workers, and packaged Hai, Luo, and Yin as a cure-all for all diseases.

Even if we don't talk about the capitalist world, in terms of the current situation of the Han Dynasty, the merchants, especially the big merchants, have become a cancer in society, a source of national instability, and a flashpoint of contradictions.

They schemed and plundered among the people, relied on money to open the way, colluded with officials, ran amok and lawless, and disregarded people's lives.

Historical Records. It is recorded in the "Biography of the Goods and Colonies" that almost every county of the Han family has a famous merchant in the world, and these big merchants may have different behaviors, but the nature is the same: the accumulation of private slaves. Monopolizing industries, colluding with officials, buying and selling people. Dig mines, squander.

For example, Zhuo Wenjun's father, Zhuo Shi, has a thousand slaves in his family!

At this time, the family of Chehou in the family of ten thousand households, the total number of slaves and maidservants is only a few hundred......

Some big businessmen's personal bodyguards even have hundreds or thousands of people, such as Qi Guo's knife room, and he doesn't know how many dogs and thugs there are.

These people are in the mermaid country. The encroachment on the people's fields intensified social contradictions and intensified land annexation. As a result, the patience of all strata of society towards these people has become less and less.

Later, Liu Che used cars and ships to make peace and warn against the merchants, and the people of the world applauded, and the local officials took the lead. Very few people say good things about these people. Later, Jia Yumaoling, a wealthy businessman who moved to the world, did not have a voice of resistance.

Therefore, Liu De is sure that he will not have resistance to stabbing businessmen, firstly, he will win prestige, and most importantly, he will lay the foundation for the integration of industry and commerce after he comes to power in the future.

To know. If the Han family wants to develop industry and commerce, it is not a simple matter. It is impossible to be like in YY novels, when the emperor pats his head, he can come as he wants.

If you want to develop and integrate industry and commerce, and control it in the hands of the imperial court, first of all, it will be difficult for public opinion and Shilin to discuss things.

However, if it was an emperor who hated merchants, then Shilin would not be too worried or too criticized.

This is the reason why Nixon was the most anti-China in later generations, but he was able to establish diplomatic relations with the Celestial Empire after he came to power - because everyone knew that he was anti-China, so he presided over the establishment of diplomatic relations with the focus on national interests, rather than pro-communism.

In the same way, Liu De hates businessmen the most, so his integration of industry and commerce will not be interpreted as a sacrifice for the end, at most he will only think that he wants to do something with the help of businessmen......

Liu De flipped through the articles written by Ning Cheng, and looked at it reluctantly.

Ning Cheng was born in a low-level official, and his family has dealt with local merchants for generations, so he naturally knows the tricks and tricks played by the merchants.

Just like Sang Hongyang of Liu Chechao, he was born in a big businessman family, so he can make targeted arrangements for the current situation and patterns of businessmen.

It's just that all of Ning Cheng's articles are murderous, and there is only suppression and prevention throughout the article, but no support and forgiveness.

That's not good.

The politics are incorrect!

Like the Celestial Empire in later generations, the Han family also paid attention to punishing the former and the latter, treating the sick and saving people.

Moreover, the legislative spirit of the Han law emphasizes 'immorality without teaching', which means that the law is rashly punished by law without telling the people, which is the incompetence of the magistrate.

Liu De's imperial grandfather, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, issued an edict that year: The ignorance of the people is worth death, and I will not take it.

From then on, the illiterate peasants were always arrested for crimes of the first degree, except for the crimes of unfilial piety and indignity, and as for the peasants in the countryside who complained in their spare time, even if they insulted the emperor, they should not be punished, unless he wanted to rebel......

Therefore, the laws of the Han Dynasty were first announced and then enforced, especially the laws about the city order and the laws related to the people's livelihood, which must be announced in Lubu first and sung by people before they are enforced.

The most important thing is that since the first emperor, the Han law has become more and more cautious about the death penalty.

It is enough to kill them on the spot, but once the legal process is initiated, the death penalty is generally used cautiously unless it is a serious crime.

Every time he encounters a prisoner who wants to be sentenced to death, no matter what crime the other party is, if he must sentence him to death, he will avoid it, and he will not personally sign the death penalty order.

Like Ning Cheng killed and killed, he didn't scare the businessmen to death, he scared the courtiers to death first!

So, Liu De picked up the pen and crossed out all the killing words on Ning Cheng's draft, or changed it to a fine or a whipping.

Then, Liu De wrote a sentence in the draft: Born to steam the people, for them to be treated by the king, to govern them by virtue, not to be tortured!

At this time, Zhang Tang and Ji Di came in together, knelt down and bowed: "Chen Tang (Di) greets His Highness!" ”

"Get up!" Liu De just finished writing, handed the draft to the two of them, and said, "The two Qing's family came just in time!" The day before yesterday, I ordered Ning Cheng to write this draft, I read it again, although there is merit, but its killing is too heavy, the punishment is too much, and it is not even taken, the two secretaries and I mend and improve, and then discuss with the ministers, convene everyone to discuss, make a finished draft, and then take it to me to see! ”

Zhang Tang and Ji Di took the stack of drafts, took them in their hands and looked at them, and immediately saw the sentence written by His Royal Highness before the draft: Born to steam the people, for which the king is placed to nourish them, and to govern them by virtue, not to torture and kill.

Looking at the place where the entire manuscript was deleted and modified, Ji Di immediately bowed: "Your Highness's magnanimity and benevolence are really a blessing for the Han family, and the ministers worship him for the common people in the world!" ”

He naturally knew that this sentence was mentioned in the edict of the first emperor, which showed that his Royal Highness wanted to follow the path of the first emperor and be a holy son of heaven.

Zhang Tang looked at the revised manuscript, but he remembered another sentence in the edict of the first emperor: The world is in chaos, and I am alone......

My heart was immediately touched.

What are you afraid of a courtier like him? Lackeys cook, good bow hidden!

Therefore, Liu De's statement made him feel a lot more relieved.

So he also rarely agreed with Ji Di's opinion in concept, and said: "Your Highness is benevolent, and the ministers are also worshiped by the world!" (To be continued......)

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