When was the Cao Wei Laws enacted?

The Cao Wei Laws, the basic code of the Cao Wei regime during the Three Kingdoms period, were enacted at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Ming of Wei, and were promulgated in the third year of the reign of Emperor Taihe (229), and are known as the Wei Laws. Cao Wei Laws" in the Han "nine chapters of the law" on the basis of an increase in looting, fraud, destruction, impeachment, the Department of interrogation, prison, please control system, alarmed, pay the stolen goods of nine, a total of eighteen articles. The enactment of the Cao Wei Laws marked the beginning of a new era in which traditional Chinese criminal law entered a new era of scientific and complete codification. The Cao Wei Laws made a thorough reform of the chapter structure and code content of the old laws of the Qin and Han dynasties, such as changing the "law of the law" to "criminal names" and placing it at the head of the whole code, and formally including the "eight proposals" to safeguard the privileges of the bureaucrats and aristocrats in the code. In the code, the "eight proposals" system was formally included to safeguard the privileges of bureaucrats and aristocrats, the range of punishment was greatly reduced, and the complicated provisions in the old law were deleted. These reforms relatively corrected the old law of Qin and Han Dynasty, the content of the old law is complicated, the structure of the shortcomings of the messy, so that the whole code chapter structure is more reasonable, the legal provisions are more concise, and substantially improve the overall technical level of the ancient criminal law. Especially since the "Cao Wei Laws" began, gradually Confucianized legal achievements since the Western Han Dynasty directly into the code, so that the Chinese traditional criminal monument gradually branded with Confucian culture.