From: ltran@lsil.com (Linh T. Tran x4900)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: [MISC] Ve^. U+o+?ng (part 2)
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:02:48 GMT
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(continued from part 1, where Ve^. U=O+?ng is brought to the King of Ta^`n).
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	Ve^. U+o+?ng started to talk about Ancient, Ancient times of Emperor
	Nghe^u, Emperor Thua^'n, how those men governs the people in great 
	harmony. The King of Ta^`n fell asleep! So, Ve^. U+o+?ng came home 
	with nothing.

	The Minister met the King and the King was not pleased with Ve^. 
	U+o+?ng's interview, said that the man is boring. The Minister convinced
	the King to meet Ve^. U+o+?ng again.

	This time, Ve^. U+O+?ng started to talk about how the Kings of A^n,
	Thu+o+ng governs their country in great order. As the last time, the
	King fell asleep again!

	The Minister was lectured by the King on how to promote capable 
	persons, not those who talked in the clouds. The Minister was not
	pleased with that and told Ve^. U=O+?ng that he will not promote
	Ve^. U+O+?ng again, since he missed all his chances.

	Ve^. U=O+?ng said:
	- "Please let me meet the King one last time. The first two time, I
	was not sure how ambitious was the King, so I didn't want to talk
	about low ambition. The first time I aimed at Emperor Way (DDe^' DDa.o),
	the second time of King Way (Vu+o+ng DDa.o). I still have the Prince
	Way (Ba' DDa.o) to serve him . 

	The Minister took all his courage and went to the King, convinced the
	King to meet Ve^. U+o+?ng one last time.

	The last time, Ve^. U+o+?ng talked about how Qua?n Tro.ng helped 
	the Prince of Te^` to make Te^` the leader of all Princedoms; How
	Ba' Li' He^` helped Ta^`n previously, etc. The King is quite pleased
	with this, and talked to Ve^. U=O+?ng days and nights and didn't get
	bored.

	Ve^. U+o+?ng policies were harsh, aiming to make Ta^`n strong in a 
	short period of time, which is what Ta^`n's King wanted. In order to
	get immediate results, you must coerce the people with tight fist.

	The following is among Ve^. U=O+?ng's policies:
	- Ti?nh Ddie^`n: the fields are devided into 9 squares, where the 
		the people will cultivate the whole field, on harvest-time,
		the square in teh middle belongs to the King. Thus, the King
		get 1/9th of all revenue from farming;
	- High Taxes: High taxes on all items, especial salt;
	- Devided the villages into hamlets and group of house. When a person
		in the house commited a crime, the Head of Family is 
		responsible. When a family in a Hamlet doesn't obey, the
		Head of the Hamlet is responsible, and so forth. Thus, people
		must check each other. (The^? che^' Gia Ba?o and Ho^. Kha^?u).
	- Each one must wear a badge at all time, and have papers to identify
		him/herself. If a person doesn't have the paperwork, he/she
		is automatically branded as nogood people, subjected to 
		jail. The hotels must not allow a person to stay if he/she
		doesn't have the indentification papers. Want to travel from
		one place to another, must demand for papers; This is to counter
		surgency and spies from other Kingdoms. Also, that allows to
		levy conscript, since noone could escpape conscription;
	- Conscription: For each 9 persons in the family, they must supply
		one person for military service or state works. 
	- The punishments for crimes are harsh, even for the ancient time.

	The result of Ve^. U=O+?ng's policies was a militarily strong Ta^`n,
	a virtually no crime society, where people wouldn't pick anything
	falling in teh street, by fear of getting brandished as a thief, and
	people hate Ve^. U=O+?ng so much.

(continue in part 3)


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Linh Tran
ltran@lsil.com
of course, it is only my opinion.
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