The Tang Dynasty just completed the formulation of the Zhenguan Law last year. The Zhenguan Law is the constitution of the Tang Dynasty. All rules are based on the Zhenguan Law, and the Zhenguan Law has the final interpretation power. The Zhenguan Law was revised on the Wude Law, and the Wude Law was actually revised on the Kaihuang Law of the Sui Dynasty.

However, compared with the laws of the Sui Dynasty, the Zhenguan Law now has a characteristic, which is that it uses a relatively lenient punishment. There will be no more severe punishments of stealing border grains and executing them, stealing a penny and beheading them, or hanging them even if they steal a melon.

Zhenguan Law followed the ten evil laws in the Sui Law, the ten evils, the first is to rebellion, the second is to rebellion, the third is to rebellion, the fourth is to rebellion, the fifth is to be unrighteous, the sixth is to be disrespectful, the seventh is to be unfilial, the eighth is to be unfaithful, the nineth is to be unrighteous, and the tenth is to be civil strife. Those who commit ten evils and commit murders will be punished, even if they are to be forgiven, they will still be eliminated.

There were ten evil names in the past, but these names were not included in the criminal law. They were officially adopted during the Sui Dynasty and continued to be used by the Tang Dynasty.

If you commit these ten crimes and intentional homicide, even if the court is amnesty, you will not be lenient and will basically be executed. In addition, Zhenguan Law abolished a large number of corporal punishments in the past, such as cutting the nose, cutting hands, cutting feet, and stabbing the face, etc., all of them were abolished.

Basically, it is short-term detention and exile and labor reform.

What are the twists and lingchis? They are all abolished, and the highest is beheading.

The standards for sentencing have also been greatly relaxed. Depending on the severity of the circumstances, consequences and losses, etc., the punishments are generally only subject to restriction of labor reform. At most, exile labor reform will be exiled and will not be executed easily.

But killing people, and making counterfeit money and minting counterfeit coins are still a death sentence.

There are also detailed regulations on the acceptance of bribes by officials, including dereliction of duty. Officials who hold actual positions are prohibited from doing business, but it is not prohibited from doing business by officials who do not hold actual positions and their families.

This is a new method that has been unprecedented.

Merchants are no longer untouchables, and business is no longer a low-key business. All industrial and commercial practitioners are included in the good ranks of the Tang Dynasty and are good people. These changes are extremely rare and were finally passed at the beginning.

Now it is written on the Zhenguan Law of the Tang Dynasty, with black and white characters and sealed the world.

The court's ability to make these changes is related to the tax revenue that has risen in the current fiscal revenue of the court. In the court's fiscal revenue, the taxes brought by industry and commerce are far beyond the rental and adjustment income brought by traditional agriculture.

Li Shimin is a very practical person, and the group of prime ministers in the center are also very practical people. Since the taxes paid by industry and commerce account for such a large proportion, we must naturally continue to maintain them and strengthen the status of industry and commerce.

It is in this situation that in this atmosphere, the people of the Tang Dynasty are now not hiding business.

People who are so capable in Zhao Guoli Chao, the military god of Wenzong, do business differently. There is nothing wrong with doing business. As long as you pay taxes according to law, the court will not only not despise you, but will also attach great importance to you.

There is a craze for business in the Tang Dynasty and the country.

The wealthy families formed their own caravans, established their own business shops, and opened shops. The walls of many cities in various places are also being demolished, and the original streets have begun to be converted into street shops like Hanjing.

Even ordinary people no longer simply stay at home. In addition to traditional farming agriculture, they continue to strengthen family breeding, and at the same time, they will allow children who are older at home to work in nearby towns and workshops to make money. Even themselves will do odd jobs for a while during the slack season.

Various commodities are enriching, and commodity trading is becoming more and more prosperous.

There are even labor shortages in many places.

As there are more and more products, the prices are getting cheaper and cheaper, and everyone's living standards have improved significantly.

Although this has also brought about problems such as increased population mobility, decreased public security, and increased litigation disputes, tax revenues in various places have increased significantly.

Many large-scale businesses and workshops are also increasing.

These large-scale businesses and workshops are basically established by wealthy families with a lot of resources, or jointly established by multiple wealthy families.

For example, the Baodao Trading Company, which was established some time ago, was established by the Li family and Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and other eight companies. Although Baodao is now the fiefdom of the Li family, Li Chao still built this business and developed the Baodao together.

In addition, some time ago, Li Chao also joined forces with more than 100 nobles to establish a Southwest Trading Company. The company directly raised more than one million chunks of capital, and came up with wealth and recruited soldiers everywhere. He was training mercenaries in various parts of the southwest and preparing to explore the southwest.

The Southwest Trading Company even lobbied the court and asked the court to agree to send instructors to help train the mercenaries of the Southwest Trading Company. However, the court also had conditions. The Southwest Company had to support the court with very high training fees. In addition, the equipment required must be purchased from the court, and the price was extremely high.

In addition, the mercenary teams of the Southwest Company must be registered in the Ministry of War as much as possible and become the reserves of the court. Once the court needs it, these mercenaries must be summoned as reserves of the court. Of course, the detailed recruitment conditions will be very strict. But after all, this mercenary team has actually become one of the reserves of the court.

Moreover, the instructors and team officials of this reserve team are led by active-duty officers of the court. Therefore, the mercenary team is not only the property of the Southwest Company, but also under the jurisdiction of the court.

This model is very novel, but for the Tang Dynasty today, it seems that it is changing with each passing day, and what new things happen is not worth it.

And just after the New Year, a few new things happened.

First, the shipyard of Duke Zhao Guoli Chao's family expanded its scale, introduced more than 300 partners at once, and then issued a large number of stocks.

As soon as the stock was issued, it was immediately snapped up by bureaucrats and merchants in Xiangyang, and the shipyard raised a large amount of funds.

However, the most attractive thing is the more than 300 new partners introduced by the Li family, basically all the nobles who obtained a new fief in Liaodong.

Li Chao's shipyard also attracted countless attention.

There are a few new things.

First, the imperial court built a new army under the Northern Yai. Fubo Army and Anlan Army, which were the royal navy of the Tang Dynasty, belonging to the Northern Yai and the imperial guard system.

This new army is divided into two naval fleets on the left and right, with five thousand men each.

One is planned to be located in Dengzhou near the mouth of the Yellow River, and the other is located in Yangzhou near the mouth of the Yangtze River. Two naval divisions are both inland water naval divisions and offshore naval divisions.

Of course, those who are interested will also find that the court has built two newly established naval troops and is under the Imperial Army. It is obvious that the task will be heavier. Many people even thought of the imperial court's recent debate on the Liao Dynasty.

As the news of the establishment of the Royal Navy in the imperial court, the imperial court has issued privateing permits to many merchant ships.

Privateing license, if you obtain this certificate, you can equip registered weapons on the merchant ship and plunder the Tang Dynasty enemies such as Goguryeo's merchant ships or even Goguryeo.

According to the court's regulations, after applying for the application, the court will send naval officers to board the ship to guide the armed sailors on the ship to fight. The merchant ship must pay the officers' military pay to the court, and at the same time they can purchase weapons and equipment from the court, and the merchant ship will become a reserve for the court's naval division and be registered. Once the court needs it, it will be recruited.

Among the first batch of merchants who obtained the license, Li Ji Trading Company was among them.

Li Chao originally planned to go to Yanbei after a few years.

There is his fiefdom of three hundred miles there.

However, since he bought Liuqiu Island for 12 million yuan and then obtained it in southern Liaoning, Li Chao has no choice but to look down on Yanbei. The remote and desolate place like the Gobi Desert is really unpleasant.

In the past, the Li family had just such a territory, so they were naturally happy. But now that there is a better Liu Qiu, Li Chao can't see Shangyanbei.

Li Chao was too lazy to say more about the management and continued to build the Sanshoucheng City, where he reclaimed land, farmed land, shepherded sheep and raised horses, and then purchased livestock fur from the surrounding nomadic tribes, and sold them some handmade tea from the Central Plains.

Let it go and let it develop.

Just after the Lantern Festival, Li Chao took a boat down the south of the Yangtze River. He had originally agreed to move to Hanjing first, but Li Chao was too late.

He has adjusted his focus to the southeast.

It is very convenient to go from Xiangyang to Yangzhou. Go east along the Han River, enter the Yangtze River, and then go down the river. The road was smooth and there was no bumpy.

Standing on the large sailboat with soft sails and looking at the sailboats with white sails on the Yangtze River, Li Chao was very satisfied.

In a few years, his sailing ship was still loved by merchants and was very useful in the near-shore and inland rivers. One of the major features of sailing ships is that they are large, with many masts and sails, and are fast. Especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, large sailing ships have much advantages over traditional hard sailing ships, with a much higher cargo capacity and a faster speed.

In recent years, Li Ji's shipyard has really sold a lot of ships. With these orders, a team of not small shipbuilding craftsmen has been cultivated, and the entire industrial chain has been established.

It is precisely because of the accumulation over the past few years that Li Chao has now relaxed and expanded his scale.

"This soft sail three-masted ship is so fast."

Standing on the ship were new partners of a large group of shipyards such as Cui Jin. The major families sent the most experienced managers and young children from each family to make them representatives of the family and follow Li Chao to the shipyard.

However, they went to the shipyard not to learn how to build ships, nor to check and supervise production. They all trust Li Chao very much, and they just need to do those things with managers sent by various companies. The shipyard has a shareholders' meeting, a board of directors, a board of supervisors, and a management team. In fact, they don't have to worry about specific matters.

They sent their children to Goguryeo with Li Chao.

Duke Zhao promised them that by then, each family's ship could follow the Li family's fleet, and everyone formed a fleet to grab his mother Goguryeo!
Chapter completed!