From Sima Qian's Biography of Shang Jun in the Western Han Dynasty, the original text: During the Republic of China, the capital of Qin people, at first it was said that thousands of people were inconvenient. So the prince broke the law. Wei Yang said, "If the law doesn't work, you should commit it from above." Prince Jiang Fa. Prince, your heir is not allowed to be punished. Punish his son Fu Gongzi and his teacher Gong.
The new law has been implemented among the people for a whole year, and thousands of people in the state of Qin went to the capital to say that the new law was inconvenient. Just then, the prince broke the new law.
Wei Yang said: "The new law cannot be implemented smoothly because the upper class has violated it." According to the new law, the prince will be punished The prince is the heir of the monarch, so he can't be punished, so he punished the teacher Gongzi Qian who supervised his behavior and the teacher Gongsun Jia who taught him knowledge with Joan's punishment.
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After the prince was punished by Shang Yang, the law was unimpeded, and the more Qin ruled, the better, but Shang Yang offended him. After Qin Xiaogong died, he became king, and he was very unhappy at the thought of being punished that year. In addition, at this time, Shang Yang's prestige was extremely high, and every household knew the law of Shang Jun and was afraid of Shang Yang. Gong Ziqian and other people took the opportunity to fabricate rumors of Shang Yang's rebellion.
So the monk sent someone to arrest Shang Yang, who fled to the fief and attacked Zheng County. He was defeated and killed. He dismembered Shang Yang's body, destroyed his home and consolidated his rights and status.