The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 1686 Three Punishments in the Criminal Palace

Nie Changju lowered his head and kept thinking. He had taken the initiative to stand behind Fang Yun before, which seemed to be a compromise.

Qing officials used the supplement of "Xiangzhou Dibao" to fight back against Fang Yun, causing chaos in Xiangzhou. If he opposed Fang Yun in front of the Criminal Palace, it would be very likely to force Fang Yun to take an extreme approach.

Nie Changju was a Qing official after all, not a Qing national or Zuo Xiang. The Qing national and Zuo Xiang hoped that Fang Yun and Qing officials would perish together, but the Qing officials knew very well that they had to fight against Fang Yun, but could not go to war, otherwise Qing officials would become victims.

Balance and compromise are the foundation of Xiangzhou officials. Both Qing officials and Jing officials should do these two things.

However, Nie Changju's real purpose was to add fuel to the fire. The more Xiangzhou officials who opposed the Criminal Palace, the heavier the punishment of the Criminal Palace.

The crime of resisting the Criminal Palace is very serious, but the human race has always been a law that does not punish everyone. In the end, the Criminal Palace is likely to punish only Fang Yun. Even if the Criminal Palace wants to punish Qingguan, Nie Changju can say that the situation forced him to blame Fang Yun.

Nie Changju was worried because he was afraid that if Fang Yun failed, they would perish together.

After all, Xu Shengzhen was forced into a desperate situation and had the ability to perish with half of the country, not to mention the Qingguan of Xiangzhou.

Even if he took an unconventional approach, the punishment Fang Yun received was at most giving up his position in Shengyuan Continent, and he could still reach a very high position in other places. Once he made great contributions, he could write off his previous crimes, but the price Qingguan paid was not only his life, but even his descendants would lose their protection.

The supplement of "Xiangzhou Dibao" was published in the morning, and it was already afternoon when Han Zhengyang, the special envoy of the Criminal Palace, left.

Under the hot autumn sun, the officials returned one after another.

Soon, some people found that there were more soldiers in front of the government printing houses in various cities in Xiangzhou. Later, they got the news that from today on, all large-scale printing must obtain the documents of the Governor's Office to avoid another investigation by the Criminal Court.

It was not the Governor's Office that issued the documents, but the governor of the state, Fang Shouye.

Qingguan wanted to fight back, but seeing Fang Shouye using the Criminal Court as a shield, no one dared to come forward. They tacitly accepted this fact and gave up using the "Xiangzhou Dibao" as a weapon to attack Fang Yun.

On July 21, the supplement of the "Xiangzhou Dibao" made the whole Xiangzhou boil. Countless people were discussing this matter. Many people also fought because of their positions and finally had to see the officials.

Strangely, the officialdom of Xiangzhou was extremely calm, as if waiting for something.

That night, many scholars of the human race received a message that the Criminal Court had issued a letter to severely punish Fang Yun, with a total of three penalties.

After learning about the three penalties, some officials were very happy, while others were very unhappy, because the three penalties were very light punishments in the Criminal Court.

The first penalty is to deduct 30% of Fang Yun's military merit.

The military merit of human scholars is extremely important. It is not only related to the status of the human race, but also can be used to enter various secret places of the Holy Academy. At the same time, military merit can be consumed to borrow various cultural treasures of the Holy Academy, and even directly exchange for longevity fruit or life-giving fruit.

But those officials who hope Fang Yun will be severely punished sighed when they saw the first penalty. Fang Yun's 30% military merit far exceeds the military merit of a university scholar in his lifetime. Even some great scholars' military merit is not as much as Fang Yun's 30%. After all, not all great scholars will always participate in foreign wars.

However, Fang Yun is a virtual saint. When entering the same secret place in the Holy Academy, he consumes only one-tenth of the military merit of ordinary people, or even no military merit. As for cultural treasures or life-giving fruits, Fang Yun has no shortage of them.

At the level of virtual saints, the amount of military merit is more of an honor. The impact of this first penalty on Fang Yun is negligible.

The second penalty is to confiscate 90% of Fang Yun and the Fang family's income in the Shengyuan Continent within ten years, including fields, shops and various business income.

At first, many people who hated Fang Yun laughed when they saw this punishment, but soon they couldn't laugh anymore. Not to mention that Fang Yun didn't care about these worldly possessions at all, nor that the land and shops in Shengyuan Continent were all gifts from various royal families, not to mention that ten years was very short for a great scholar. The "Shengyuan Continent" alone showed that the Criminal Court didn't really want to punish Fang Yun, because everyone knew that Fang Yun's real wealth was in the Blood Mang Realm.

If the Criminal Court really wanted to punish Fang Yun, it would definitely confiscate Fang Yun's income in the Blood Mang Realm.

Everyone knew that Fang Yun could carry a small hoe and a broken sack to walk around the Blood Mang Realm, and pick up a few divine objects at random, and he could sell them for hundreds of millions of taels of silver, far exceeding his income in Shengyuan Continent.

What's more, even if Fang Yun had no silver, he could borrow a lot of gold, silver and jewelry by walking around the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea. This was a loan, not income.

The third punishment was to strictly order Fang Yun to leave Shengyuan Continent and go to an ancient place to expand his territory before he was promoted to a great scholar.

Seeing this punishment, many scholars knew that the Criminal Court did not blindly protect Fang Yun after all. This punishment was very severe for the Grand Scholar.

After the Grand Scholar was promoted to the Great Scholar, he had to leave the Shengyuan Continent to hone his skills and make contributions to the human race, but there are many ways to make contributions, such as guarding the Liangjie Mountain.

Expanding territory in the ancient land is extremely difficult. It is a higher level of contribution, and generally only the literary master or the literary giant can do it.

Letting a Grand Scholar go to the ancient land to expand territory is equivalent to a death sentence for others.

However, many scholars thought carefully that this punishment only said before the Great Scholar, and did not say the specific time. As long as Fang Yun went to expand territory when he was the peak Grand Scholar, it would also be considered before the Great Scholar. Moreover, Fang Yun's strength is very strong. After becoming the peak Grand Scholar, he will definitely have the strength to fight against the newly promoted Great Demon King, and even face the higher level of the Great Demon King of the Godly Appearance, and he can face it calmly.

If Fang Yun had a good time and was promoted to a great scholar immediately after entering the ancient land, and any family lent him a half-saint robe, he would have enough power to protect himself.

In other words, this third punishment did not seem like a punishment to Fang Yun, but rather a way to stimulate Fang Yun's true strength.

In addition to the punishment against Fang Yun, all the officials who followed Fang Yun that day were also punished, and they were not allowed to be promoted within five years, neither light nor heavy.

When the three punishments were announced in the Criminal Hall, a few scholars opposed it on the discussion board, trying to attack Fang Yun's literary reputation, but most scholars were too lazy to argue with them. After all, Fang Yun was a virtual saint, and this punishment was just right. If it was too heavy, Fang Yun would not give the Criminal Hall face and directly use the virtual saint privilege to exempt him from punishment.

However, many people also felt strange, because for this level of punishment, Fang Yun could completely use the virtual saint privilege to exempt him from punishment, but Fang Yun took the initiative to write a letter to confess his guilt and said that he would bear the punishment of the Criminal Hall.

The next morning, the news from the Holy Court spread to all parts of the human race. In addition to the Eastern Holy Court, the Criminal Court, the Li Court, the Wenbao Editorial Office, and other Holy Courts all supported the establishment of the Minbao in Xiangzhou as a pilot.

Subsequently, a large number of scholars from the Miscellaneous School began to attack Fang Yun on the discussion board and opposed the establishment of the Minbao.

The Miscellaneous School used various arguments to discuss the harm of the Minbao, but many insightful scholars saw at a glance that the officials of the Miscellaneous School were afraid that the people would become wiser. The people would be easier to manage only if they lived in a relatively closed environment. Once the people became wiser, the people's needs would increase, and the cost of officials managing the people would continue to increase.

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