Chapter 138 The first quarter rises

If you pay attention to the weather forecast, you will find that there will always be rain in some areas.In July of the first year of Hu Hai, Daze Township in Peijun was such a local area. It rained heavily for several days, the water was raging, and the road was cut off.A team of more than 900 people was helplessly trapped here, looking at the rain and sighing, feeling overwhelmed. This team, made up of poor and weak people from Luzuo, is about to rush to Yuyang for military service.However, the heavy rain made it impossible to arrive within the scheduled deadline.According to the law, failure should be executed.

Everyone looked up at the sky silently, but seeing that the rain was not as good as the king's grace, it wiped away thousands of lines and thousands of lines.Is there any other option besides sitting still? Chen Sheng and Wu Guangshi were the heads of the village, and they conspired together and said: "If you die today, you will die, and you will die if you take a big plan. Waiting for death, is it possible to die the country?" It should be beheaded in due time. If you are fortunate enough not to be beheaded, but the dead will be sixty-seven out of ten." Everyone looked at each other, unable to make a decision, and said, "I would like to follow your plan."

Chen Sheng raised his arms and said loudly, "It's enough for a strong man not to die, and he will be famous if he dies! Princes and generals, it's better to be kind!" Great words! Everyone raised their arms and shouted, for a while, the pride was dry, and the rain was depressing. Chen Sheng and others falsely claimed that they had formed an alliance for the altar under the orders of the sons Fusu and Xiang Yan to punish Tyrant Qin.Chen Sheng made himself a general, and Wu Guang was a captain. Thanks to the empire's policy of selling troops and eliminating wars for many years, counties and counties neither garrison troops nor repair defenses.Everywhere Chen Sheng and his party went, it was like entering a deserted land.In a few days, Daze Township, Qi, Zhi, Feng, Ku, Zhe, Qiao, and Chen were conquered one after another.Chen Sheng then made himself king, named Zhang Chu.

The power of role models is infinite.Chen Sheng's voice awakened countless dreamers.The counties and counties have suffered from the Qin law for a long time, and they fought to kill the chief officials to respond. Thousands of Chu soldiers gathered together, which is innumerable. From a technical point of view, Chen Sheng's uprising was first caused by an unreasonable interpretation of imperial law.The reason why Chen Sheng and others delayed the schedule was due to irresistible human factors, not due to subjective intention.However, at this point, the imperial law does not make a distinction in sentencing, but kills all without mercy.

The harshness and ruthlessness of Qin law can be seen from this. Later generations claim that the Qin Empire practiced self-destruction. This is not a false statement, but Qin's law has its own brilliance, and we have to pay attention to it. Yes, it is undeniable that the empire has severe punishments and laws, but the exercise of imperial laws is open to all members of society, regardless of their status.In this regard, it has to be said that the Qin Law embodies the most noble attribute of law—fairness.Today, the emblems of courts in many countries have adopted the symbolic element of scales, which means the same.

The tyranny of the empire has aroused long-term resentment from later generations and caused countless bad reviews.But some of these critics were less against tyranny per se than against Qin's more effective implementation of tyranny and the fact that its victims included both the unprivileged majority and the privileged few. The so-called "propriety is not inferior to ordinary people, and punishment is not superior to scholar-bureaucrats", who is the most quoted and touted by this sentence? The answer is: scholar-officials. The following is a joke from "Guang Xiao Fu":

A woman was very jealous, and her husband tried to describe it with the etiquette of Zhou Gong's poems, but he sighed and said: "The ancient virtuous concubines such as "Xiangmu" and "Katas" are not so jealous." His wife said: " Who wrote this poem?" The answer said: "It was written by the Duke of Zhou." His wife said: "It was originally written by the Duke of Zhou. If it was written by the Poet Zhou, I would not say so." Closer to home.At the beginning of Chen Sheng's uprising, the local administrative system of the empire was still operating effectively. When Chen Shengfu rebelled, an envoy immediately reported to the court.Hu Hai had nothing to do, but was furious, so he sent the messenger to prison, leaving his ears quiet.After all this, the messengers no longer dared to stick to their professional creed—Truth, Truth, Nothing but the truth (Note 1), but instead pursued As You Like It (Note 2).Hu Hai asked again, and the emissary replied, "A group of thieves, rats and dogs are stealing, and the county guards and Wei Fang are chasing after them. Now they have all, and there is nothing to worry about." Hu Hai was overjoyed.

〖Note 1: The truth, the truth, nothing but the truth.It is generally used as an oath for Westerners to testify in court. Note 2: As you like.This sentence is also the title of a play by Shakespeare. 〗