Datang just completed the formulation of Zhenguan Law last year, which is the constitution of Datang, and all rules are based on Zhenguan Law, and Zhenguan Law has the final right of interpretation.
The law of Zhenguan was revised on the law of martial virtue, and the law of martial virtue was actually revised from the law of the emperor of the Sui Dynasty.
However, compared with the laws of the Sui Dynasty, today's Zhenguan law has a feature, that is, the punishment is relatively lenient.
There will be no more heavy punishment of stealing a liter of border grain, killing a head for stealing a penny, and hanging for stealing a melon.
Zhenguan Law follows the ten heinous and unforgiving regulations in the Sui Law, ten evils, one is rebellion, two is rebellion, three is rebellion, four is rebellion, five is unrighteousness, six is great disrespect, seven is unfilial piety, eight is disharmony, nine is injustice, and ten is civil strife.
Those who commit the ten heins and commit murder for the sake of imprisonment will be pardoned, but their names will be removed.
In the past, there were ten evil names, but there were no such names in the criminal law, which were officially adopted in the Sui Dynasty and continued to be used in the Tang Dynasty.
Those who commit these ten crimes and intentional homicide will not be pardoned even by the imperial court, and will basically be beheaded.
In addition, Zhenguan Law abolished a large number of corporal punishments in the past, such as cutting off noses, chopping hands, chopping feet, and stabbing faces.
Basically, it was a short period of detention and exile in a labor camp.
What kind of hanging, Ling Chi, all abolished, the highest is beheading.
The sentencing standards have also been greatly relaxed.
Depending on the severity of the circumstances and the consequences of the theft, theft and robbery are generally only sentenced to a restrained labor camp, or at most an exile to a labor camp, and not to be easily executed.
But murder, counterfeiting and counterfeiting are still capital crimes.
There are also detailed regulations on bribery and dereliction of duty by officials, prohibiting officials who hold substantive positions from doing business, but not prohibiting officials and nobles who do not hold substantive positions from doing business.
This article is an unprecedented new law.
Merchants are no longer untouchables, and commerce is no longer untouchables.
Industrial and commercial practitioners are all listed in the good books of Datang and are good citizens.
These changes are extremely rare, and they were finally adopted at the beginning.
Now it is written on the law of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, written in black and white, and printed all over the world.
The fact that the imperial court was able to have these changes was related to the fact that the proportion of tax revenue in the imperial court has risen dramatically.
In the fiscal revenue of the imperial court, the taxes brought by industry and commerce now far exceed the rent income brought by traditional agriculture.
Li Shimin is a very practical person, and now the group of prime ministers in the center are also very practical people, since the taxes paid by industry and commerce occupy such a large proportion, it is natural to continue to maintain and strengthen the position of industry and commerce.
It is in this situation, in this atmosphere, that the people of Datang do not shy away from talking about business.
Zhao Guogong Li Chao is such a capable person, Wenzong is a military god, and he is not the same as doing business.
There is nothing wrong with doing business, as long as you pay taxes according to the law, the court will not only not despise you, but will also attach great importance to you.
The Tang Dynasty and the opposition now have a business fever.
Wealthy families have formed their own caravans, established their own trading houses, and opened shops.
In various places, the walls of many cities are also being demolished, and the original streets are being transformed into street shops like Hankyung.
Even ordinary people are no longer simply staying at home now.
In addition to traditional farming, they continue to strengthen family farming, and at the same time, they will let their older children work in shops and workshops in nearby towns to earn money.
Even they themselves will do odd jobs for a period of time when the farm is not working.
A variety of commodities are abundant, and commodity trading is becoming more and more prosperous.
There is even a labor shortage in many places.
There are more and more goods, the prices are getting cheaper and cheaper, and everyone's living standards have obviously improved a lot.
Although this has also brought about problems such as increased population movement, declining law and order, and increased litigation disputes, tax revenues have increased significantly everywhere.
Many large trading houses and workshops are also increasing.
These large commercial banks and workshops are basically established by wealthy families with a lot of resources in their hands, or jointly established by multiple wealthy families.
For example, the Baodao Commercial Bank, which was established just some time ago, was funded by the Li family and Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and other eight companies, although the treasure island is now the fief of the Li family, but Li Chao still built this commercial bank and developed the treasure island together.
In addition, some time ago, Li Chao also united more than a hundred nobles to establish the Southwest Trading Company.
The company has directly raised more than one million yuan of share capital, and it is rich and wealthy, recruiting troops everywhere, training mercenaries in various parts of the southwest, and preparing to go to the southwest to open up.
The Southwest Trading Company even lobbied the imperial court to agree to send military instructors to help train the mercenaries of the Southwest Trading Company.
However, the imperial court also has conditions, and the Southwest Company has to support the imperial court with very high training fees, and the equipment required must be purchased at the imperial court, and the price is needless to say extremely high.
In addition, the mercenary team of the Southwest Company must all be registered in the military department and become the reserve of the imperial court.
Once the court needs it, then these mercenaries have to be called up as a reserve for the court.
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Of course, the detailed recruitment conditions will be very strict.
But after all, in this way, this mercenary team has actually become one of the reserve weapons of the imperial court.
Moreover, the instructors and officers of this reserve team are all led by active officers of the imperial court, so the mercenary team is not only the property of the Southwest Company, but also under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
This model is very novel, but for today's Datang, it seems to be changing with each passing day, and it is not unusual for what new things to happen.
And just after the New Year, a few new things happened.
First, the shipyard of Zhao Guogong and Li Chao's family expanded in size, introducing more than 300 partners at once, and then issuing a large number of shares.
As soon as the shares were issued, they were immediately snapped up by the bureaucrats and businessmen in Xiangyang, and the shipyard raised a large amount of money.
However, the most attractive thing is the more than 300 new partners introduced by the Li family, who are basically nobles who have obtained new fiefs in Liaodong.
Li Chao's shipyard also attracted the attention of countless people at once.
There are a few more new things.
First, the imperial court built a new army under the northern ya.
The Fubo Army and the Anlan Army, which were the royal sailors of the Tang Dynasty, were subordinate to the Northern Ya and belonged to the forbidden army system.
This new army was divided into two fleets of sailors on the left and right, each of 5,000 men.
It is planned that one will be stationed in Dengzhou, near the mouth of the Yellow River, and the other will be stationed in Yangzhou, near the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The two water divisions are both inland water divisions and coastal water divisions.
Of course, those who have a heart will also find that the imperial court has built two new standing water divisions, which are also subordinate to the forbidden army.
It is clear that the task will be heavier.
Many people even thought of the proposal to conquer Liao, which the imperial court has been arguing about recently.
Along with the news of the formation of the imperial court's royal sailors, the imperial court had issued privateering licenses to many merchant ships.
Privateer license, with this license, you can equip the merchant ships with registered weapons, and you can plunder the enemies of the Tang Dynasty, such as the merchant ships of Goguryeo, and even the territory of Goguryeo.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, the merchant ships that were approved and granted privateer licenses after applying for them would be sent sailors on board to guide the armed sailors on board in battle.
Merchant ships had to pay the salaries of their officers to the imperial court, and at the same time they could purchase weapons and equipment from the imperial court, and the merchant ships became the reserve of the imperial sailors, registered in the register, and would be called up if the imperial court needed them.
Among the first batch of merchants to obtain licenses, Li Kee & Co. was among them.
Li Chaonian originally planned to go to Yanbei.
There are 300 miles of his fiefdom there.
However, since he bought Liuqiu Island for 12 million and got Liaonan, Li Chao has not looked down on Yanbei.
The remote and desolate place like the Gobi Desert is really inspiring.
In the past, the Li family had such a territory, so it was naturally happy.
But now that there is a better Liuqiu, Li Chao can see Shangyanbei.
After telling the steward to continue to build the city of Sanshou, where he cultivated land and raised sheep and horses, and by the way, he bought livestock skins from the surrounding nomadic tribes and sold them some handmade tea from the Central Plains, Li Chao was too lazy to say anything.
Let it be.
Li Chao took a boat to the south of the Yangtze River just after the Lantern Festival.
Originally, he said that he was going to move to Hanjing first, but Li Chao was too late.
He has shifted his focus to the southeast.
From Xiangyang to Yangzhou, it is very convenient, go down the Han River to the east, enter the Yangtze River, and then go all the way down the river.
This way, the wind and water are smooth, and there are no bumps in the road.
Standing on the soft-sailed galleon, looking at the sailboats with white sails on the Yangtze River, Li Chao was very satisfied.
In a few years, his galleons were still loved by merchants, and they were very useful in offshore and inland waterways.
One of the major characteristics of galleons is that they are large, have many masts and sails, and are fast.
Especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, galleons have much advantages over traditional hard sailboats, with greatly increased cargo capacity and fast speed.
In recent years, Li Kee's shipyard has really sold a lot of ships, and has cultivated a team of shipbuilders who are not small by relying on these orders, and the entire industrial chain has been established.
It is precisely because of the accumulation of the past few years that Li Chao can now let go and expand the scale.
"This soft-sailed three-masted ship is so fast."
Standing on the ship were Cui Jin and a large group of new partners of the shipyard, and the major families sent the most experienced stewards, as well as the young children of each family, so that they could become family representatives and follow Li Chao to the shipyard.
However, they did not go to the shipyard to learn how to build ships, nor to audit and supervise production.
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They all trust Li Chao very much, and those things are just done by the stewards sent by each family, the shipyard has a shareholders' meeting, a board of directors, a board of supervisors, and management, and these shareholders don't have to worry much about specific affairs.
They sent their sons, in fact, to follow Li Chao to Goguryeo.
Zhao Guogong promised them that the ships of each family could follow behind the Li family's fleet, and everyone would form a fleet to rob his mother's Goguryeo Until they take back the Liaodong that belongs to them t1706231537: