As we all know: in the early days of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, abandoned the harsh punishment laws of the previous Qin Dynasty and recuperated with the people, which was not only supported by the people, but also won the stability of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years later. The topics that will be explored below are:
Statue of Zhuge Kongming
Why did Zhuge Liang use the strict law of punishment instead of learning Liu Bang's lenient provincial law to govern Yizhou?
1. Zhuge knows Yi Li well and opposes leaving Liu Zhang
It is said that after Pang Tong defected to Liu Bei, he offered advice to Liu Bei to attack Yizhou as the foundation for the founding of the country. However, on the way to Chengdu, Pang Tong died in Luofengpo. According to Pang Tong's strategy, Liu Bei soon entered Chengdu and seized Yizhou, and Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou at that time, gave up power in order to protect the people. Liu Bei's acquisition of Yizhou first had a thorny personnel problem. How to place Liu Zhang? Liu Bei advocated that Liu Zhang should still stay in Chengdu.
Zhuge Liang objected: "Liu Zhang should be sent to Jingzhou and let him leave Yizhou, so as to avoid the situation of one country and two masters." He also said: "Liu Zhang's loss of Yizhou is completely due to his weakness. If the lord is a woman's benevolence, I am afraid it will be difficult to gain a foothold in Yizhou for a long time. And from Zhuge Liang's words, it has been revealed that he knows Yi Li very well and is ready to strictly rule Shu's thoughts.
I Ching "Lingua" 92 "Xianlin, auspicious, no disadvantage." The "salty" in the "wei" is taken as "wei". This is to say that when the people are not obedient, they should be under the command with might, and if there is power, the subjects will obey, and there will be no disadvantage. Just as the "Elephant Biography" said: "Xianlin, auspicious is not disadvantageous, and it is not obedient." Zhuge Liang is familiar with the philosophy of the ninety-two lines of the "Lingua", and proposed to "Weilin" to govern Yizhou, please see the following details:
Interpretation of "Hexagram"
Second, Zhuge Wei Linshu governance
Continuing from the above, Liu Bei entered Chengdu, and after seizing Yizhou, he ordered Prime Minister Zhuge Liang to draft a strategy for governing the country. It didn't take long for the draft to be developed. As soon as everyone saw that the criminal law of the draft was very severe, it was easy to convict and kill the head, and they all thought that Zhuge Liang's draft was unacceptable.
Shu County is too law-abiding to oppose on behalf of everyone, saying: "At the end of Qin, Han Gaozu agreed on three chapters of the law, subtracting Qin's harsh punishment law, which was supported by the people, so it won the world. Please ask the prime minister to learn from Han Gaozu and lenient the punishment and provincial law, so as to win the support of the people. ”
Zhuge Liang replied: "Mr. Fazheng, you only know one thing, but you don't know the other. The Qin Dynasty severely punished the people, and the people resented it, and the Han Gaozu practiced a policy of leniency and benevolence, which was making up for its shortcomings. Liu Zhang's father and son ruled Yizhou for more than 20 years, weak and incompetent, the legal system is not stressed, and the majesty is not established. ”
Stills from Fazheng
Fa Zheng listened to it and admired it very much. After Zhuge Liang was convinced by Fa Zheng and others, he announced the decree and posted it in conspicuous places everywhere, and people came to watch it. Many people said, "It's too harsh! Some people of insight said: "Yizhou has no criminal law for more than 20 years, traitors are rampant, and wicked people are in charge, so it is time to punish Shu severely!" ”
Those bullies who have been lawless and lawless gritted their teeth with hatred when they saw the announced decree. Several people in Chengdu who have been doing evil for a long time have even defied the law and wanted to see Zhuge Liang's attitude. Zhuge Liang immediately ordered a strict investigation and sentenced them to capital punishment one by one. Since then, people have not dared to defy the law, and everyone in Yizhou knows that the criminal law is not to be lightly violated.
Zhuge Liang himself set an example, after he misused Ma Tan and lost the street pavilion, he degraded himself by three levels and was removed from the prime minister. All the officials who worked under him, if there were violations of the law and prohibition, Zhuge Liang severely punished them one by one according to the law, and he was not merciful to anyone. For example, Li Yan, the secretary of the Central Metropolitan Protector's Office, and Liao Li, the captain of Changshui, were demoted to civilians for breaking the law, etc., all of which are praised.
Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang and other film and television images
Since then, under the governance of this set of criminal laws, the society of Shu has been in order, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the national economy has also grown with a stable environment, and the people's living standards have gradually improved, and everyone admires Zhuge Liang's way of governing the country even more.
3. The life inspiration of the story
The story of "Zhuge Wei's rule of the state of Shu", as well as the ninety-two epigrams of the Book of Changes' "Hexagram", give us the inspiration for our lives:
Throughout the ages, governing the country has been nothing more than two methods: leniency and fierceness. Sometimes it needs to be lenient, sometimes it needs to be fierce, and this needs to be judged according to the situation. Zhuge Liang is powerful to the people and governs Yizhou, "auspicious and unfavorable", because he can judge the situation and correct the previous shortcomings of Yizhou.
Liu Bei stills
Therefore, those who are in power must be good at judging the situation and must know where the disadvantages of the salvation lie, so that they can be lenient and violent, and there will be no disadvantage.
In short, the reason why Zhuge Liang adopted the strict law of punishment when governing Yizhou, rather than the lenient provincial law of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was not only because of the needs of realpolitik at the beginning, but also because he personally knew that it was easy to reason and the embodiment of the concept of governing the country.
As a result, Zhuge Liang maintained the stability and prosperity of Yizhou with strict laws, and also left valuable experience in governing the country for future generations.
Zhuge Liang stills
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