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Ancient Classics -> Shang Shu -> Yu Shu -> Canon of Shun -> 6

He exhibited (to the people) the statutory punishments,
enacting banishment as a mitigation of the five (great) inflictions;
with the whip to be employed in the magistrates' courts,
the stick to be employed in schools,
and money to be received for redeemable offences.
Inadvertent offences and those which could be ascribed to misfortune were to be pardoned,
but those who transgressed presumptuously and repeatedly were to be punished with death.
'Let me be reverent!
Let me be reverent!' (he said to himself.)
'Let compassion rule in punishment!'
He banished the Minister of Works to You island;
confined Huan-dou on mount Chong;
drove (the chief of) San-miao (and his people) into San-wei, and kept them there;
and held Gun a prisoner till death on mount Yu.
天下These four criminals being thus dealt with, all under heaven acknowledged the justice (of Shun's administration).


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