The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

The Jinshi of the Criminal Palace said it lightly, but the staff around Fang Yun took a deep breath. This is the difference between the Criminal Palace and the Ministry of Justice.

The Criminal Palace must obtain the consent of the three judicial officials, the cabinet and the monarch to confiscate the property of the Ministry of Justice, but as long as the Criminal Palace has evidence and sends a letter to the elders of the Criminal Palace, as long as the three elders agree and file it with the East Saint Pavilion, it can directly take action.

Although this matter is aimed at Fang Yun's family, it can be regarded as murdering the virtual saint, so the action of the Criminal Palace is very decisive, and all three families of Qi Yi from the receiving and sending room and the two guards guarding the east gate of the county literary academy are arrested.

The lightest punishment for confiscation of property and execution is to execute one family, which only includes the criminal's wife, concubines, sons and unmarried daughters. This is the upper limit of the punishment for murdering a university scholar.

The upper limit of the crime of murdering a great scholar is to execute the whole family.

Fang Yun is a virtual saint, and the crime of murdering a virtual saint is to execute the whole family at the lowest level!

This clan covers a wide range. Take Qi Yi as an example. All male members of the Qi family, starting from his grandfather, including his grandfather, brothers, cousins, and all male members of their descendants with the surname Qi, were all executed! Married women with the surname Qi in the Qi family will not be involved, but unmarried women with the surname Qi will be killed like male members.

It may seem that there are not many people in the clan, but it often involves nearly a hundred people.

Fang Yun frowned slightly. He himself disliked the idea of ​​implicating people, but the Shengyuan Continent was different from the ancient Chinese country. In order to deter the rebellious species and protect the elites of the human race, the death penalty alone could not deter those people. They had to implicate people to prevent anyone from having a fluke mentality.

Because the death of a great scholar of the human race is no less than the death of a million human races, which is a huge loss that cannot be recovered even if the nine clans are executed.

In the eyes of the Legalists, it is very merciful to punish the criminals who murdered the great scholar with a clan.

Fang Yun is a virtual saint, between a great scholar and a semi-saint, and has made great contributions to the human race. His strength is far inferior to that of a great scholar, but in terms of importance, he is still above ordinary great scholars. Therefore, no matter how the elders of the Criminal Hall feel about Fang Yun, they will definitely issue an order to kill his entire clan.

Yang Yuhuan and Su Xiaoxiao showed reluctance, but did not say anything. After all, this is the iron law of the human race. If the human race cannot do its best to deter those people, more scholars will be assassinated.

The human race values ​​competition and elimination, but the premise is to put it in the open. There can be hidden tricks, but there must be limits, otherwise, the human race will inevitably collapse.

If there is no such iron law, Fang Yun would have been killed 10,000 times by the Lei family, the clan.

It is precisely because of this iron law that the human race scholars either die at the hands of monsters or die in literary battles, and are rarely murdered.

The Jinshi of the Criminal Palace then said: "Fortunately, they didn't murder you this time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

Fang Yun nodded, understanding that the Jinshi of the Criminal Palace was explaining that there was not enough evidence to murder Xu Sheng's family, and killing the three people's family was already the limit, and there would be no further involvement.

But this time if they wanted to force Fang Yun to death, the Criminal Palace would not care about the evidence at all, and the great Confucian elders would definitely go out in person to eradicate the Zuo Xiang family and its followers, causing great turmoil in Jingguo, so "the consequences would be disastrous."

Fang Yun could see that both Liu Shan and Ji Zhibai had an extremely accurate grasp of the "degree", and only "strike" him instead of "murder" to avoid angering the Criminal Palace and the Holy Court.

"But... Fang thinks that this kind of thing can only happen once, and if my family is murdered again, Fang will go all out to cut off the mastermind behind the scenes!" Fang Yun said.

The Jinshi of the Criminal Palace hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "The Criminal Palace will protect justice!"

Hearing the answer of the Jinshi, Fang Yun nodded again.

"However, how will you deal with Qi Xi's mistress and illegitimate son?" said the Jinshi of the Criminal Palace.

"Enforce the law impartially." Fang Yun said.

"I understand, I'll take my leave first." The Jinshi of the Criminal Palace bowed and turned to leave.

Fang Yun's staff stared at the back of the Jinshi of the Criminal Palace in a trance. The status of the Jinshi of the Criminal Palace was extremely high. Not to mention a mere county magistrate, even in front of the six ministers, it is impossible to call yourself "your subordinate". At least this humble title will only be used when meeting a university scholar.

In less than half an hour, Fang Yun suddenly received a letter from the Criminal Palace.

Qi Xi's former mistress committed suicide, leaving only two sons, one three years old and the other seven years old.

"Forget it..."

Fang Yun said that he wanted to invite the three people back, but in fact he wanted to find a breakthrough in the female spy, but the other party was keen in smell and experienced, so he directly let the female spy commit suicide, cutting off the last clue.

"What's wrong?" Ao Huang found that Fang Yun's expression was wrong and asked hurriedly.

"Qi Yi's former mistress committed suicide."

"Oh, then there is nothing we can do about them? What do the two kids know? It's impossible to get any evidence from them. What a pity, there are still two fish that slipped through the net!"

"The law of nature is cyclical, and retribution is inevitable. If these two are missing, there will naturally be two others to make up for it. Since someone is like this, don't blame me for staying out of it." Fang Yun said and walked into the study.

Ao Huang and a group of staff looked at each other, not knowing what Fang Yun meant.

Fang Yingwu said: "What do you think of the sentence of killing three people and their entire clan?"

"The sentence is indeed fair, but at least Shen Zhubu or Tao Xiancheng should be removed from their positions. It would be best if Ji Zhibai could be shaken. Unfortunately, Qi Yi is probably a deadly warrior trained by Zuo Xiang, Zong Family and Qing Kingdom. Once he is used, it is impossible for anyone to find a handle!"

"Once the news of the execution of the three clans is spread, it will inevitably cause a shock to the world, enough to deter those who want to harm Fang Xusheng and his family again. That's enough."

"But... have you noticed that Fang Xusheng seems to know something, as if something big is going to happen."

"It's hard to say, will he use some vicious scheme?"

"No. He said he was 'staying out of it', which obviously doesn't seem like a vicious scheme. And the people who deserve his vicious scheme are at least Ji Zhibai or Zuo Xiang, but Fang Xusheng is out of reach now. As for dealing with the people in Ning'an County, he can solve them with fair means as long as he finds an opportunity."

"Let's wait and see, maybe after the textile machinery is improved, the truth will be revealed."

On February 15, Qi Yi and other three clansmen were taken to the execution ground in Ning'an County. Under the auspices of the Criminal Hall, Fang Yun personally supervised the execution and killed nearly 200 people. The blood was boiling, and the few onlookers were stimulated by the smell of blood and their stomachs rolled and vomited continuously.

On February 20, "Wen Bao" was published, and the front page clearly read Fang Yun's words in front of the holy temple: "I am angry for my beauty."

The story of the Ning'an County petty official who murdered Xu Sheng's family and was executed for three generations was revealed and spread all over the world.

Also published in the Wenbao was Ji Zhibai's famous "Lament for Fang Yun", which became a laughing stock in the eyes of the world, and Fang Yun's sentence "God-like opponent, pig-like teammate" became the most popular sentence in Shengyuan Continent, and was as widely circulated as Ji Zhibai's stigma.

The Wenbao objectively recorded that after that day, Ji Zhibai's literary courage was shaken and he had to take sick leave for a month.

In any case, Ji Zhibai's name spread all over the world again, and some people even used the poem that Fang Yun gave to Li Wenying to mock Ji Zhibai, "Don't worry about having no confidants on the road ahead, who in the world doesn't know you"!

After reading the Wenbao of that day, Fang Yun got up and went to Gongfang Street.

The improvement of textile machinery is much more difficult than imagined.