Chapter 1634: Law and the Military

Likewise, there is the Court. Currently, there are three levels of courts: the lowest is the Town-level Court, then the Second-level Court, with one in each city, and there is also a Supreme Court. All death sentences must be reported to the Supreme Court for approval before they can be executed. Some relatively major criminal cases are also judged and handled by the Supreme Court.

This is not only for the rigor and rationality of judgments but also to promote the progress of the law. Only by constantly taking on and trying cases can all legal loopholes and imperfections be patched. Small patches every year, major patches every three years, and patching urgent problems quickly—this is the requirement for the formulation of Huaxia law. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is, without a doubt, Baifeng.

The so-called separation of powers is only needed in an era without a monarch. In this feudal dynasty, all important power should be power controlled by the monarch; it should all be held in his hands.

However, the premise is that this monarch is wise and a good ruler; otherwise, the more power he controls, the easier it is for trouble to occur.

Therefore, in order for Huaxia to continue smoothly, after Yulong, this Chief Justice cannot be held by the monarch anymore. He can become an Honorary Chief Justice or one of the Chief Justices, possessing a certain amount of judicial power, but he cannot be a dictator.

At the same time, the Supreme Court also possesses legislative power. This legislative power is jointly owned by all courts; it is owned by this department, not by the people within it, so as to ensure the impartiality of legislation. In Baifeng's era, he must build a rough framework for laws in all aspects, allowing future generations to fill it in, ensuring it does not go astray.

And the Chief Justice needs to be elected and then rotate, with a three-year term, and consecutive terms cannot exceed two, to avoid the emergence of a legal dictator. Baifeng can be said to have added many democratic elements under the ideology of a feudal dynasty.

Because in this world, the people with the greatest power are actually the people. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. As long as the interests of the underlying people are taken into account, then the Large Ship of this dynasty can steadily continue to drift in the waves of the era. One does not dare to hope for ten thousand years, but one can pursue a thousand years. The Zhou Dynasty lasted eight hundred years, so his own dynasty lasting a thousand years is not a pipe dream.

Currently, those that do not even have a prototype are naturally the Western Development Group and Suiren City. The Western Development Group is currently too remote, and many people are unwilling to go there. Its government department only consists of a few people like Ce, and they also hold other jobs concurrently.

Although the future of the Western Development Group is a large city, its current scale is at most just a town. Being a town far from Huaxia City, the speed of development will naturally not be very fast.

As for Suiren City, it has not been built yet, and they have absolutely no so-called legal consciousness. If one really had to say, criminal offenses are happening on this land at every moment. Those women have long been accustomed to this kind of life, and there is no such thing as whether they are willing or not. Of course, they also do not look favorably upon men who are too inferior.

Fighting and brawling are even more of a norm. It does not go as far as killing, because if a Weapon is used, there will still be a Tribal Chief to discipline them. All other illegal and criminal acts are too common here.

Moreover, among the teachers sent to Suiren City to teach, a portion of the teachers are women. They are women in their prime, dressed beautifully and looking exquisite; to the men of the Suiren Clan, they are the most beautiful women.

And they still maintain their own living habits. On the first day those women arrived, someone had already sought them out, wanting to sleep with them, and even wanting to use force, only to be driven away by the young Huaxia people who rushed over.

Afterwards, those female teachers did not dare to go out because there were too many men staring at them. After telling this matter to Baoxi, Baoxi certainly would not have cared in the past, but now they are all Huaxia people and must follow Huaxia law. Furthermore, every teacher sent here is a treasure. If a situation where a teacher is harmed happens now, where else would teachers dare to come to Suiren City in the future?

Therefore, Baoxi naturally adopted the toughest measures. That very day, he sent people to lie in ambush, caught all the men who snuck over at night, and hung them on wooden stakes.

When the next day came, he even directly ordered people to whip them in public, one hundred lashes per person, not one less. A dozen or so men were hung up just like that, beaten until they were covered in cuts and bruises, with blood flowing continuously. The men who had come the previous nights but had not succeeded were all secretly rejoicing in their hearts, fortunate that they had not gone last night.

After such a deterrent, those men of the Suiren Clan did not dare to have crooked thoughts anymore. They knew that the women of Huaxia were good-looking, but they could not be touched. Even without touching them, one would be beaten like that; if they had touched them, they feared their heads would fall to the ground.

On ordinary days, Baoxi even sent out some Soldiers specifically holding a Knife to protect those female teachers, just to prevent some blind people from doing bad things when no one was around.

At the same time, Baoxi also received information about conscription. In the spring, 1,500 soldiers were to be conscripted from the Suiren Clan, and another 1,500 in the autumn. This is a fairly large number. Moreover, they must undergo an initial selection in the Suiren Clan before being sent to Huaxia City for selection. 1,500 would require at least 2,000 people, and some would still have to be eliminated in the end.

Baoxi naturally had no room to refuse, and he also truly wanted that kind of professional army in Huaxia City. It looked rigorous, was sufficiently handsome, and had strong combat power, so he also actively cooperated.

The first batch of spring soldiers has finished selection and has gone down to the Division for training. Those who did not pass the selection and were eliminated at least got to see the scenery of Huaxia City and were educated in various aspects, making them different from those ordinary people of the Suiren Clan.

These Suiren Clan Soldiers will be mixed with the Soldiers of Huaxia City and Lema City in the future and then assigned to various cities. Currently, the number of Huaxia Soldiers on the roster has reached 7,000. Baifeng's goal is to increase it to 12,000 within the next three years. In this way, under normal circumstances, Huaxia will not have to worry about standing military forces.

After Huaxia builds more cities later, then it will expand the army again, determining the number of Soldiers it can have according to the size of the city and the scale of the population. Large cities have more soldiers, small cities have fewer soldiers; that is how it is.

However, for a long time in the future, the overall number of Huaxia Soldiers will not expand again, because Huaxia basically has no need for combat anymore. Those Soldiers serve as guards and other tasks. Now that the war with the Shennong Clan has ended, the only war left is the battle against the Wulengebu. The demand for the number of Huaxia Soldiers will not be that great.