The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2486 Bell

Fang Yun bid farewell to the dragons of the East China Sea, left with the help of the Sea Eye, and then went to the nearest Yuhai City, and used the Holy Temple to move directly back to the capital.

Fang Yun once again buried his head in the documents and handled government affairs.

Unlike ordinary reforms, the reform of the judiciary is the most critical, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the cornerstone of a country.

So, the officials of the cabinet began the most boring life, discussing one decree after another. Some laws have too much content change, and often cannot be discussed for a whole day, and finally can only be suspended.

The Criminal Hall is worthy of being the Holy Court institution with the second strongest execution power after the War Hall. After only ten days, all the bandits with fixed camps in Jingguo were caught in one fell swoop, and the remaining vagrants will be included in the long-term crackdown targets, which is not a matter of one day or one night.

The severe crackdown on bandits has formed an extremely effective deterrent to all kinds of lawless people in Jingguo. Even those thieves and thieves stopped committing crimes, and the number of vicious incidents in the country has decreased sharply. There was even one day when no one reported a case in hundreds of prefectures and counties across the country.

Officials from all over Jingguo thought that the Criminal Court would celebrate, but the Criminal Court just said lightly, "You all should work hard and make persistent efforts," and then announced that the crackdown had entered the third phase.

The law belongs to the state, and private punishment and private prisons are cracked down.

Unlike the last time when the whole nation was pleased, the third phase of the crackdown has aroused opposition on the discussion board.

Because the human race still retains the patriarchal system, for many things, the people will not go to the government office, but usually go to the respected clan leader in the clan to solve them, which gives the clan leader considerable power.

The grassroots organizations of the government in Jingguo or the Ten Kingdoms are like paper, which will break if poked, but the reason why they can barely maintain stability is mainly because of the existence of the patriarchal system. The clans maintained by blood can maintain strong cohesion.

Ensuring the cohesion of the grassroots and reducing the cost of the imperial power to govern the grassroots, and except for the Legalists, all schools of thought headed by Confucianism support this conservative grassroots form, so the patriarchal system has been prosperous for a long time.

If the state is the embodiment of the monarch and the minister, then the clan system is the extension of the father and the son. Sometimes the two are distinct, but sometimes they are interconnected.

It is the best choice for the imperial power not to go to the countryside before productivity reaches a certain level.

The grassroots without imperial power is the most fertile soil for the clan system.

In a specific historical period, human beings will always make choices that adapt to themselves. This is completely correct for a period of time. No matter how people in later generations criticize it, under the circumstances at that time, no one can find a more effective alternative.

However, once this choice is deeply rooted, the consequence is that it is difficult to adapt to the development of the new era. If you are not careful, it will bring disaster to the ethnic group.

With the increase of Wenquxing power, the control of the Holy Court over the human race has been unprecedentedly strengthened. There is no technical problem in strengthening grassroots rule. If the clan system is allowed to develop, the grassroots and the upper level will be separated, the communication between villages and towns will be blocked, and even the planning of the Holy Court will be opposed. The productivity of the grassroots people cannot be released, and then the crisis of the human race will come.

Instead of waiting to die, it is better to solve it first.

Therefore, when Fang Yun laid out the advantages and disadvantages of the patriarchal system, the elders of the Agricultural Hall, the Industrial Hall, and the Law Hall all supported it, and did not care about the reaction of the Li Hall in the future.

This is not just a question of family law and national law. If the self-determination of the cabinet and the return of the Ministry of Justice to the Holy Court weaken the imperial power and strengthen the "law", then cracking down on private prisons for death penalty is essentially weakening the power of the clan and targeting "ritual".

In the Shengyuan Continent, it is very common for some powerful and influential families to set up their own prisons, and the proportion is even more than 70%.

If private prisons are lost, the power and deterrence of many families will be greatly weakened.

Therefore, some keen scholars have noticed this and began to post articles on the discussion list to oppose it in order to maintain their own power in the local area.

Fang Yun had expected this to happen, so he had been paying attention to the discussion list and summarized the reasons for those people's opposition.

The simplest reason is the historical legacy. They hope that the Criminal Hall will not be too radical. Even if it is reformed, it should be done slowly and not in a one-size-fits-all manner. After all, it may hurt innocent people.

There are even more vehement words. They believe that what the Criminal Palace did was against human ethics and destroying the clan system, which would inevitably lead to disasters in the future.

Some more vicious people pointed out that Jingguo had serious financial problems and it was difficult to maintain the operation of the country, so they used this method to snatch wealth from the people. Jingguo and the Holy Court should keep their wealth in the hands of the people and not compete with the people for profit.

The day after the Criminal Palace announced the crackdown on private punishment and private prisons was the day when the Water Palace was established. Led by the East Saint Pavilion, the Ten Kingdoms Kongcheng and the Four Seas Dragon Clan jointly established the Water Palace. Fang Yun was appointed as the master of the Water Palace. The Dragon Clan sent four great dragon kings and the human race sent five great Confucian elders to be responsible for the construction and management of the world's water network.

When Fang Yun and the Water Palace elders were discussing the basic rules and regulations of the Water Palace, the Criminal Palace welcomed an uninvited guest.

All the elders of the Li Palace arrived at the Criminal Palace and negotiated with the Criminal Palace, asking the Criminal Palace to temporarily suspend the crackdown on private punishment and private prisons, and asking the Criminal Palace to prohibit interfering with the clan system of the human race.

Therefore, the two elders had a fierce debate in the Criminal Hall, which even caused various strange phenomena. The situation in the sky above the Holy Court changed drastically. Finally, the Eastern Holy Hall had to mobilize its forces to suppress the strange phenomena and participate in mediation.

However, the Criminal Hall was very clear about the importance of this action. If the crackdown on private punishment and private prisons failed, not only would Fang Yun's plan be frustrated, but the law going to the countryside that the Criminal Hall was going to promote would also fail.

Therefore, the Criminal Hall used a method that had been planned long ago to solve the problem.

Delay until the rice is cooked, and then the Li Hall will naturally give up interfering.

Fang Yun had expected this result long ago, so he was not panicked.

The next day, the "Minbao" was published, and a full half of the page was used to report news about lynching and private prisons.

The first part mainly cited detailed cases, such as a clan leader who failed to divorce his wife and beat her to death on the pretext that she was unfaithful; for example, people of the same clan disabled their brothers in order to seize property; for example, some people disliked a woman, slandered her for adultery, and finally put her in a pig cage without evidence, etc.

The second part published some popular legal content and the harm of lynching and private prisons.

The last part is a long article. The author deeply analyzed the harm brought by lynching and private prisons, and bluntly stated that this is an obstacle to the development of the human race, but the writing style is very clever, without mentioning the clan law or the ethics, so that everyone instinctively thinks that this is the business of the Legalists and has nothing to do with other schools.

The author of this long article appears in the form of a pen name, without signing his real name.

Duoling

As soon as the new "Min Bao" was published, it triggered a great deal of attention from the whole world. Many people with lofty ideals rushed to tell each other about it, because private punishment and private imprisonment had long accumulated strong public resentment. In addition, the various cases in "Min Bao" made many righteous people indignant and fully supported the abolition of private punishment and private imprisonment that harmed people.

The debate on the discussion board escalated and became more heated.

In the end, the focus of the debate became the dispute between family law and national law, and between etiquette and law.

However, some people still found the pen name of the author of the editorial, and guessed who wrote it and who dared to use such a bold name.

Because the source of this pen name is too obvious, it is obviously from "The Analects of Confucius".