Gao Sheng said, "Not everyone can redeem themselves, but for things like brawling, resulting in less than a three-month sentence, one can pay money to redeem themselves."
In fact, the law allowing redemption with money has always existed, and it exists in our dynasty as well.
However, due to Zhao Hanzhang's urgent need for people and the need to curb the sudden increase in security cases due to the war, she ordered the cancellation of all laws allowing redemption with money. Those who should be beheaded would be beheaded, and those who should be exiled would be tattooed and sent to the military.
At that time, the order only involved serious criminals and was meant to deter the incessant bandits within Yu State and incidents like landlords and gentry forcibly taking refugees as slaves. The cancellation of money redemption was a major order without detailed stipulations.
