Li Nuo was now well-versed in the Laws of Daxia.
The nobles of Daxia, as well as their relatives, had privileges under the law.
For instance, Li Yuan, as the eldest son of a first-class marquis, could avoid punishment for any crime short of a capital offense with 600 silver taels, even if it meant imprisonment for three years or banishment for three thousand miles.
Li Nuo's father was a third-rank official at court; theoretically, he too had access to this privilege.
However, the prerequisite for redemption was that the crime committed was not a capital offense.
Capital offenses were not redeemable—a result hard-fought by generations of Legalists, who paid with their lives to achieve it.
A hundred years ago, even relatives of nobles committing capital offenses were merely fined a hundred taels of silver.
This, of course, conflicted with the principles of Legalism.
