More than two thousand years ago, at the end of our Warring States period, a large number of elites emerged on the stage of history: Ying Zheng, Lü Buwei, Li Si, Lian Po, Lin Xiangru... However, there was a small clerk of the Qin State, who was originally unknown, but left his name in history.
Moreover, in today's historical circles and archaeology circles, almost everyone knows and knows, and even appears in CCTV programs.
The clerk was a workaholic, but his position was not high and he never climbed up. He served for a long time as the county commander and was a minor official under the county order, responsible for matters of criminal law on a daily basis.
At that time, the era was full of wars, and the small staff also participated in it, and they joined the army three times and survived. He later returned to his job until he died in office.
The small staff has a very good work habit, that is, they like to take notes at work.
Because I am engaged in legal work, there are more things that need to be memorized and memorized. As the saying goes: good memorability is not as good as bad writing, he wrote down the most commonly used rules and regulations involved in the work at that time, although it was written concisely, it was enough to write tens of thousands of words.
The little clerk was even more bullish in that he told his family that because he was too obsessed with work to extricate himself, after his death, he must bury his work notes, collect other people's notes and books in his coffin.
According to the normal laws of nature, under the polishing of more than two thousand years, these work notes (bamboo Jane) should be returned to dust and soil, and there is nothing left.
However, the bitter man, the sky did not fail, his notes (bamboo Jane) were later completely soaked in water, coupled with the outside of his tomb, sealed with layers of green paste mud, extremely strong, successfully blocked the circulation of air. Therefore, under this double layer of protection, the bamboo jane has not decayed for two thousand years.
In December 1975, a water conservancy project was built in Hubei Province, and the tomb of the small clerk was discovered, which alarmed the world.
The name of this small clerk was "Xi", and the bamboo Jane found in his tomb was called "Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jian" by historians.
How important are his work notes? It is excavated at present, the earliest legal provisions in ancient China, and even become an important material for exploring the source of the Chinese legal system, or the top cultural relics that understand the customs and customs of the Qin Kingdom, and almost no cultural relics have been excavated in the same era before, and there are such detailed text descriptions.
Xi's work notes totaled 1155 bamboo tablets and 80 fragments, and the content of the records was extremely complex.
It records eighteen kinds of "Qin Laws", a total of 202 janes, involving agriculture, warehouses, currency, trade, servitude, officials, knights, handicrafts and other aspects, and even "environmental protection, in order to achieve sustainable development" and other aspects are recorded.
The law alone is not easy for oneself to understand, and it is gratifying to record the law in the form of questions and answers, which is very similar to our "legal interpretation" today; there is also the "closed diagnosis style", which records the principle of trial, and the whole process of the whole case, including investigation, inquest, interrogation, seizure, etc., which is equivalent to today's classic jurisprudence.
Not only that, Xi also put the "Chronicle" under his head, recording the "Chronicle" from the first year of King Qin Zhao (306 BC) to the thirtieth year of Qin Shi Huang (217 BC), the highest moment of the Qin State, and some historical materials can even punch the face and rhyme the "History".
In CCTV's "National Treasure" program, the small staff of more than two thousand years was happy, once again entering the eyes of the audience and becoming a "net red" who exploded.
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References: "National Treasure", "Cloud Dream Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jian"