I am engaged in construction in Datang

The snow and hail have just melted, and red plum blossoms are seen among the white snow. The stream and spring are gurgling, and I sigh that their bodies are more beautiful than the jade branches.

The village is making dumplings today. Everyone, including the tenants, students and children, will join in.

This was the first time Li Shimin cooked, and the same was true for Li Yin.

The two of them were making dumplings while Empress Changsun was rolling out the dough.

Rolling out dough is much faster than making dumplings, but the three of them were clumsy and they couldn't blame each other, so their cooperation was perfect.

The other table was full of people with fast hand speed, Xiaochun, Xiaoxia and others were all there.

"Let me tell you, our dumplings are not bad!" Li Shimin said. He picked up a piece of cloud-shaped dough rolled out by Empress Changsun, picked up a piece of stuffing with chopsticks and put it in, then sealed the bag.

"That's right!" Li Yin nodded in agreement.

It is totally unreasonable to chase the three of them here on the grounds of causing trouble!

Empress Changsun looked expressionless and didn't want to pay any attention to the two of them.

She turned her head to look at the screen where the dumplings were placed, and could not help but say something fair: "It doesn't matter if the dumplings look pretty good, but it's a bit too much to have a few leeks stuck in the seal."

"Madam, this is called emerald green on the eyebrows." Li Shimin immediately started to talk nonsense, and then he was glared at.

Li Yin didn't dare to say anything. The dumplings they made would definitely open after being boiled in the pot for a few minutes.

But now that things have come to this, there is no possibility of regretting. The worst that can happen is to steam it and eat it.

The atmosphere on their side was solemn, but the other tables were very lively. The people in the village had long been familiar with their owner's sworn brother. He came here to eat all day long, and after so many times, everyone treated him as one of their own.

"The illegal coal mine incident is not an isolated case. How do you think we should deal with it?"

The man has been caught, but he is just one of them.

According to Liu Shen, he was also imitating the operating model of others to save labor costs and leave when he had made enough money.

"This matter must be severely punished." Li Yin placed the dumplings she had made on the screen. They looked crooked but still cute.

She continued, "There is a saying in Zuo Zhuan, 'If Duke Zheng follows the example of others, he will also be punished!' This is a matter of life and death. If the punishment is too light, it may not be enough to deter people."

"We need to spread this matter throughout the ten regions of the Tang Dynasty. We should not only publicize it in newspapers, but also have local officials go to the villages to explain it. We must ensure that the publicity is in place."

At that time, the evil deeds of Liu Shen and others will be made public, and then their fate will be publicized. The ultimate goal is...

“Take the opportunity to introduce the Labor Law.”

"The people are very angry right now. Anyone who opposes the implementation of this law will make life difficult for the people and deny them protection."

At this point, Li Yin sighed helplessly: "The Labor Law has been delayed again and again, not because Duke Liang is not working hard, but because there are too many obstacles."

"If everyone is dissatisfied, then we can't come to a consensus, right?"

The labor law is directly linked to legal decrees and has written evidence, which greatly guarantees the various rights of the people when going to work.

Not only were those merchants not allowed to arbitrarily deduct wages from their workers, their workers' working hours were also shortened. If they wanted them to work longer, they had to pay overtime pay.

What’s even more frustrating for businessmen is that workers can sue you if they are wronged.

"Brother, once the labor law is issued, a large number of people will come to Beijing to work, and we will be able to build houses even faster."

After hearing this, Empress Changsun thought for a while and said, "Sister, what if someone does not sign a labor contract with the workers?"

"Even if there is no signing, as long as it is proven that there is an employment relationship between the worker and the merchant, the labor law is valid."

"The reason for signing the contract is just to avoid more disputes."

"There is one more thing." Li Shimin added: "The three main culprits we caught, the one with a childlike face, insisted that he was only seven years old, and his behavior was no different from that of a child."

"The other person claimed that he was twelve years old, so his sentence could be reduced."

"The Ministry of Justice was in a dilemma for a while, and no one knew how to conduct the trial."

"Brother, if that person is really a seven-year-old child, can he be pardoned?"

The Tang Dynasty law now stipulates that no matter what crime a person under the age of seven commits, he will not be prosecuted, and those under the age of fifteen will be given a lighter punishment.

Li Yin continued, "I heard that there was a seven-year-old child in a village outside Beijing who was born with a disease. His parents died one after another, leaving only his grandfather to take care of him. The children in the same village all enjoyed bullying him."

"There were three evil children with evil intentions. They prepared a pit yesterday, and today they dragged the sick child into the shed and tortured him to death, and then buried him in it."

"The next day, the yamen runners saw the evil boy, who was playing."

"What do you think, brother?"

Li Shimin frowned, with a look of surprise on his face: "Aren't they afraid?"

"Human nature is evil, and those who are good are fake." Li Yin took away the screen full of dumplings and picked up an empty screen.

Although the three of them are not good at making dumplings, a sesame seed, no matter how small, is still meat, so they have to help Xiaochun and the others relieve the pressure.

"We are different from animals because we can control our instinctive desires and restrain our behavior with benevolence, righteousness and propriety, not because we are inherently good."

Hearing this, Li Shimin sighed: "But young children are easily influenced and can be taught in the future. We should not hastily convict them."

"What my brother said makes sense, but a person who kills someone is different from others. His whole life will be affected by this. How can we correct it?" Li Yin lowered her eyes. Even well-trained soldiers cannot easily adapt to society after retirement, let alone ordinary people?

Li Yin is not a professional and cannot give an accurate answer, nor does she want her thoughts to influence legal decisions.

She speaks here only based on her conscience.

Li Shimin was silent for a long time and began to seriously think about the issue of the child's premeditated murder.

He was an experienced person and knew that the mentality after killing someone was indeed different: "If it was really premeditated, then the three evil children..."

There was silence all around.

Seeing the tense atmosphere, Empress Changsun spoke to ease the situation: "Fortunately, the criminal was not a child."

Putting aside this extremely complicated topic, the three of them talked about the Labor Law while struggling with the dumplings in their hands.

Before they had finished wrapping a few, Zhao Erniu came over with a plate of dumplings.

"Master, you and Brother Erniu should go wash your hands and stop making dumplings. You have been busy for half a day and still not enough to fill your stomach!" Zhao Erniu put the dumplings on the table and urged them to prepare to eat.

Now that we have ice cellars, dumplings can be stored for a long time. The villagers were lazy and made tens of thousands of dumplings at a time and froze them. Later, whoever was hungry would take them out and cook them.

Among tens of thousands of dumplings, Li Yin contributed twenty-six, several more than Li Shimin!

It’s awesome!

"Sister, the Ministry of Works doesn't know how to start building the ship, and they're always afraid of making mistakes." Li Shimin ate so anxiously that he almost burned his mouth.

It’s not that the Ministry of Industry has never built ships before, but it’s just that it’s never built anything this scary, so it was inevitable that they were a little unconfident for a while.

I threw all my past experiences out the window, and was worried all day long like a newbie, so naturally I didn't dare to take any action.

"Don't worry, I'll take Engineer Wang with me tomorrow and teach you how to build one first. The rest will be easy."

"That's great." Li Shimin ate one dumpling at a time, enjoying the meal very much.