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The Little New Year has just passed, but Bianliang is still as prosperous and bustling as ever.
There are a few small episodes in between.
In addition to the envoys, the more than 60 countries that came this time also had a large number of entourages.
Small countries have fewer people. For example, the king and queen of Brunei have several sons, some officials, followers, and guards, who together number no more than a hundred or so.
There were many big countries, with some having a huge army of one or two thousand people. For example, the Abbasid Caliph Kaim brought a large number of gifts to thank the Song Dynasty for helping him restore his country, and there were more than two thousand people of all kinds.
The combined presence of people from so many countries meant that tens of thousands of foreigners poured into Bianliang overnight, causing some public security chaos.
The accompanying personnel were of mixed quality, and there were even nobles in the delegation who acted recklessly and committed various illegal acts under the pretext that they were outsiders who did not understand local customs.
For example, he beat up street vendors in the street, caused trouble while drunk in a brothel, and got into a conflict with someone but failed to beat them up and was beaten up by the people of Bianliang instead. All kinds of problems emerged one after another.
However, these were originally trivial matters. The imperial court issued strict orders to inform envoys from various countries that once they arrived in the Song Dynasty, they had to abide by the laws and rules of the Song Dynasty.
Any illegal acts must be dealt with in accordance with the laws of the Song Dynasty.
All countries did not dare to disobey the orders of the Song Dynasty court, and basically chose to hand over the troublemakers and accept the judgment as it should be.
According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, fighting used to result in exile, but now it is not so serious.
It depends on the severity of the victim's injuries. If the injuries are minor, the victim will just have to pay compensation. If the injuries are more serious, not only will the victim have to pay compensation, but he will also be detained, beaten with a stick, or even imprisoned for one or two years.
Apart from beatings, the laws that have been revised by the Ministry of Justice are basically very close to the laws of our country in later generations.
The results of each year's revisions are reviewed personally by Zhao Jun. He has not memorized later laws, but he has read many sentencing standards on the Internet and attended some legal lectures, and he will adopt them if he thinks they are roughly the same.
Although it is Zhao Jun's own empirical legal revision.
But it is already relatively reasonable.
At least there is no such thing as judging the mood of the county magistrate, or giving excessive or lenient sentences. It belongs to the more standard continental legal system.
However, this situation became controversial until a powerful deputy envoy of a certain country committed a serious crime.
The man might have been used to being rampant in his country. He met a beautiful woman he liked on the street and wanted to pursue her, but the girl was unwilling, so he followed her to her house.
At night, the man sneaked into the woman's home, killed her family, raped her, and then brutally killed her.
However, he did not expect that the noise was so loud that it aroused the vigilance of the neighbors. Not only did they attract the neighbors, but they also called the yamen runners on duty from Kaifeng Prefecture on the street. Hundreds of people came together and captured him.
Originally, there was no big controversy about this matter. For such a serious crime committed in the Song Dynasty, the death penalty was inevitable, so Kaifeng Prefecture directly prepared to open a trial.
Little did he know that the deputy envoy was not only a nobleman, but also the nephew of their country's king. His family was very powerful in the country. If he didn't find a way, the ambassador would be held accountable, so he had to find a way to rescue him.
However, the ambassador of that country was very smart. He did not directly protest to the Song Dynasty court.
Because he knew very well that they were begging the Song Dynasty now, and the Song Dynasty was powerful in military force, so any threats would be useless. If they angered the Song Dynasty, it would be their own country that would suffer the losses.
Even if the Song Dynasty sent troops or provided firearms to their hostile countries, their own country might be at risk of being destroyed.
So after thinking it over again and again, the ambassador decided to use another method.
He first found ways to meet with many high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty and presented them with large sums of gold and silver. He then went around to apologize to the victims' families, offering money to seek forgiveness, and then went to newspapers to express his sincere apology.
Finally, he even asked to see the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and not only offered gold and silver, but also said that as long as he could save the deputy envoy's life and bring him back to report to the king, he would accept any punishment, even cutting off his hands and feet, as long as his life was spared.
All in all, the envoy spent more than 200,000 strings of cash.
You should know that you should not think that more than 200,000 strings of cash are equivalent to more than 200,000 RMB in later generations. At that time, the purchasing power of one string of cash in the Song Dynasty was still very high.
A bicycle produced by the Bianliang Bicycle Factory only sold for 13 strings of cash, and the most expensive bicycle only cost 8 strings of cash.
The monthly expenses of an ordinary family were only 23 strings of cash. This shows that these more than 200,000 strings of cash, in terms of purchasing power, were equivalent to tens of millions in later generations.
With so much money invested, it will definitely have a significant effect.
As a result, some disagreements arose within the imperial court. Many people believed that although the other party was indeed guilty of a heinous crime, cutting off his limbs could serve as a just punishment.
What's more, the other party promised that if the victim's life was saved, they would pay the victim's family 30,000 strings of cash in compensation, which also provided protection for the victim's family.
And this voice is not just one or two. Most officials in the court and the country, including most prime ministers, think that this plan can be approved. There are also many such voices among the people.
The reason is that there are two survivors in this family.
The family consists of five people. The 16-year-old eldest daughter is the main victim. She also has a younger sister and an infant brother.
My younger sister and eldest daughter live in one room, and the host and hostess live in one room with their youngest son.
When the criminals broke into their house, the male owner went out to see what was going on and was killed by the criminals. Seeing that the situation was not good, the female owner hid her baby son in the closet.
The eldest daughter went out to check when her parents were killed. She encountered the criminal in the living room of her home and was dragged into another room and raped and killed.
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