Li Yu was a famous political scientist and jurist of Wei in the early Warring States Period. He was not many people familiar with him. In fact, he was the true pioneer of reform and the founder of the feudal system, it has had a huge and far-reaching impact on China's history.
In his tenure as Wei wenhouxiang, Li presided over the transformation law, set up Wu Qi to reform the military system, and created a powerful army. "Wei Zhiwu takes precedence over yi, yi sanzhi, exercise the crossbows of 12 stones, the negative vector fifty, put it on, the crown and the sword, win three days of grain, and the day and the trend."
Li Yu took the lead in implementing the rule of law and collecting criminal code from various countries. He published the book "Legal Sutra" Through Wei wenhou, established a complete Wei Guo law, affirmed and protected the law in the form of law, fixed feudal power. After the appearance of the Legal Sutra, Wei has been in use, and then from Shang Yang to Qin, Qin law is born from the Legal Sutra, and Han law inherits the core content of Qin Law.
Li believes that the first role of law is to "divide, stop, and compete", that is, to clarify the ownership of things. The second role is to "do power and fear violence", that is, to encourage people to stand up and fear those who are not doing the same. Therefore, he opposed the so-called "ritual" of Confucianism ". He believes that the emerging landlords opposed the hereditary privileges of the nobility to monopolize the economic and political interests, and demanded that the land be private and be assigned to the government by merit and talent. This is a fair and correct claim. The courtesy system for maintaining the privileges of the nobility is backward and unfair.
Li Yu pays special attention to farming, mainly implementing "Full fertility" and "flat farming". "Full fertility" means to uniformly allocate farmland to farmers and urge them to work hard to increase production. The Pingyi law is a method in which countries purchase food storage at a low price during bumper harvest, and sell it to farmers at a low price in the case of famine. It is sufficient to supplement the shortage, in order to prevent the grain from being too expensive and disturbing the people or hurting the farmers. The implementation of this law has greatly promoted the development of agricultural production in Wei Guo, making Wei Guo prosperous and powerful.
Li believes that "for the way of the country, food has a good job and profit, so that there is a reward and punishment will be done", but also "to seize the lustful people, since the Sifang Shi ". Rewards and Punishments are only usable. This is a popular legalist claim during the Warring States period. At that time, many countries went strong and strong in carrying out these ideas.
Li's transformation in Wei Guo is the beginning of China's transformation and has had a profound impact in Chinese history. At that time, it shocked other countries and triggered the first vigorous national reform in China's history. This paved the way for the transition from slavery to the feudal system.