As for whether convicted criminals should be given the opportunity to appeal and receive a retrial, opinions on the matter differed according to one's perspective.
The fundamental reason was that everything depended on which side one was looking from.
If one had been wrongly accused, one would naturally hope for the chance to appeal and receive a retrial. But from the perspective of a bystander, one might worry that some people who had truly committed crimes would escape legal punishment.
This issue was not the fault of the rules or the law. The law and its rules were equal. While they might allow a genuine criminal to slip through, they also gave the wronged a chance to clear their names. The key still lay with the law enforcers; it had nothing to do with the law itself.
If the law enforcers made mistakes, was that not what the Supervisory Council was there to oversee?
As for the other five of the Nine Councils, besides the Supreme Court, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Supervisory Council, and Procuratorate, there was also the State Assets Administration. In modern terms, it ought to be called the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources.
The State Assets Administration was mainly responsible for coordinating all kinds of natural resources within the nation's territory, such as agricultural land, industrial land, forests, salt marshes, lakes, oceans, minerals, and so on.
If this were placed in modern times, these resources would certainly be publicly owned by the state. In ancient times, however, that was not the case. In ancient times, these natural resources were the emperor's private property and were not placed in the national treasury. They belonged to the emperor's private little treasury, also known as the inner treasury.
Take forests, for example. The emperor would designate part of them