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In ancient China, there were always many privileged groups, and most of the members of these groups were the children of rich families, or people who had obtained titles or official positions through hereditary inheritance. Most of these people are in the middle and upper echelons of the social pyramid, even at the top, and the privileges they have in their hands are a kind of "discretionary" power, which can be large or very small. So let's talk about how the ancient privileged people understood the law.
This matter should start from the early period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a scene of extremely serious political chaos in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, and he directly brought the last years of the Western Han Dynasty directly into the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty with his arrogant strength. It has to be said that Liu Xiu, the monarch, is an emperor who has made a difference, not only suppressed the chaos in various places, but also fought away the Xiongnu, but also carried out a major reform against the society of the early Eastern Han Dynasty, which was full of war, vigorously advocated the agricultural economy and developed social productive forces, and in order to rectify the chaotic situation of management, he also began to vigorously promote the rule of law, so that the society in the early Eastern Han Dynasty was in a relatively fair situation, and if someone did bad things, he would be punished accordingly.
However, this one-sided punishment and system for those who have privileges, some of them think it is just a blank piece of paper, nothing more than a waste. Liu Xiu became emperor, and his relatives and friends all benefited from becoming aristocrats in Eastern Han society, including one of Liu Xiu's sisters, called Princess Huyang. Princess Huyang became a prominent figure in the imperial court, so the servants who followed Princess Fuyang and the subordinates also rose accordingly, feeling that they were a figure. So one of the servants broke the law and committed no small crime. This matter seemed to be a trivial matter in the eyes of Princess Huyang, and no one would find trouble for that subordinate and himself. However, it was more unfortunate that Princess Huyang encountered a "hard stubble", that is, Dong Xuan, who was a county commander in Luoyang County at that time, he was a famous "more truthful" official in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, yes and yes, no, no, yes, yes,
Therefore, after Dong Xuan learned that one of Princess Huyang's subordinates had violated the law, he went to the Huyang Princess Mansion to surround this subordinate, arrested him, and after interrogation, he killed this subordinate. This move actually annoyed Princess Huyang, so she ran to Liu Xiu to complain about Dong Xuan's black form. After hearing about this, Liu Xiu felt that Dong Xuan did not put the majesty of the Heavenly Family in his eyes, so he ordered the arrest of Dong Xuan to be charged, and wanted to punish him with beheading. But after Dong Xuanxian saw Liu Xiu, he pleaded with the emperor to give him a chance to say a word and kill him again! After Dong Xuan received the answer, he said to Liu Xiu: "The atmosphere in the DPRK will be 'upward and downward', if those who have privileges cannot act according to the law, then how can the common people be convinced?" After Emperor Liu Xiu listened, he felt quite reasonable. So after the beheading failed, he was released, and he was rewarded heavily, so that he could continue to go back to his county order. What do you think about this?