Fang Yun bid farewell to the dragons of the East China Sea, left with the help of the Sea Eye, 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 paperwork, handling government affairs.
Unlike ordinary reforms, judicial reforms are the most critical and it is no exaggeration to say that they are the cornerstone of a country.
Therefore, officials from various departments of the cabinet began their most boring life, discussing one law after another. Some laws had too much change in content, and often a whole day of discussion could not produce any conclusion, and ultimately they had to suspend their implementation.
The Criminal Hall is worthy of being the holy institution of the human race with execution ability second only to the War Hall. After only ten days, all the bandits with fixed camps in Jing Kingdom were wiped out. The remaining vagrant criminals will be included in the long-term targets of attack, which is not a matter of one day or one night.
The severe crackdown on bandits formed an extremely effective deterrent to all kinds of lawless people in Jing State. Even thieves stopped committing crimes. The number of vicious incidents in the country dropped 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 the country of Jing thought that the Palace of Punishment would celebrate the success, but they did not expect that the Palace of Punishment would simply say something lightly, "You all should work harder and keep up the good work," and announced that the crackdown had entered its third phase.
The law belongs to the state, and lynching and private prisons must be cracked down on.
Unlike the last time when everyone was pleased, the third phase of the crackdown has triggered 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 government organizations of Jing State or the Ten States were like paper, which would break at the slightest provocation. However, the reason why they could barely maintain stability was mainly because of the existence of the patriarchal system. The clans connected by blood could maintain strong cohesion.
It ensures the cohesion of the grassroots and reduces the cost of imperial power to govern the grassroots. In addition, except for the Legalists, all schools of thought, led by Confucianism, support this conservative grassroots form, so the patriarchal system has remained prosperous for a long time.
If the country is the embodiment of the relationship between the ruler and the subjects, then the clan system is the extension of the relationship between the father and the son. The two are sometimes clearly distinguished, and sometimes interconnected.
The best option is to keep imperial power from going to the countryside until productivity reaches a certain level.
The grassroots without imperial power is the most fertile soil for the patriarchal system.
In a specific historical period, human beings will always make choices that suit themselves. This is completely correct for a period of time. No matter how future generations criticize it, under the circumstances at the time, no one could find a more effective alternative.
However, once this choice is deeply rooted, the consequence is that it will be 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 in the power of Wenquxing, 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 patriarchal system is allowed to develop, it will separate the grassroots from the upper level, block the communication between villages and towns, and even resist the planning of the Holy Court. The productivity of the grassroots people cannot be released, and that will be the time when the crisis of the human race will come.
Rather than waiting for death, it is better to solve the problem first.
Therefore, when Fang Yun laid out the advantages and disadvantages of the patriarchal system one by one, the elders of the Agriculture Hall, the Industry Hall, and the Law Hall all supported it, and did not care at all about the future reaction of the Rites Hall.
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 with the death penalty is essentially weakening the power of the clan and targeting "ritual".
In the Shengyuan Continent, it is very common for some powerful families to set up their own torture halls and private prisons, and the proportion even exceeds 70%.
If private punishment and private prisons were lost, the power and deterrent effect of many families would be greatly weakened.
Therefore, some astute scholars noticed this and began to post articles on the forum to oppose it in order to maintain their own power in the local area.
Fang Yun had anticipated this, so he had been paying attention to the discussion board and summarized the reasons why those people objected.
The simplest reason is historical issues. They hope that the Criminal Court will not be too radical. Even if there are reforms, they should do it slowly and not in a one-size-fits-all manner. After all, innocent people may be hurt.
There are also more radical words. They believe that what the Criminal Hall did was against human ethics and destroying the clan system, and would inevitably lead to disaster in the future.
Some even more vicious people pointed out that Jing State 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. Jing State and the Holy Court should keep the wealth among the people and not compete with them for profit.
The day after the Criminal Hall announced the crackdown on private executions and prisons, the Water Hall was established. Led by the East Saint Pavilion, the Ten Kingdoms Kongcheng and the Four Seas Dragon Tribe jointly established the Water Hall. Fang Yun was appointed the master of the Water Hall. The Dragon Tribe sent four great Dragon King elders and the Human Tribe sent five great Confucian elders to be responsible for the construction and management of the world's water network.
While Fang Yun was discussing the basic rules and regulations of the Water Palace with the elders of the Water Palace, the Criminal Palace welcomed an uninvited guest.
All the elders of the Li Hall arrived at the Criminal Hall and negotiated with it, asking it to temporarily suspend the crackdown on private executions and private prisons, and to prohibit interfering in the clan laws of the human race.
As a result, the elders of the two halls launched a heated debate in the Punishment Hall, which even triggered various strange phenomena. The situation over the Holy Academy changed drastically, and finally the East Holy Pavilion had to mobilize its forces to suppress the strange phenomena and participate in the mediation.
However, the Criminal Court was well aware of the importance of this action. If the crackdown on private executions and prisons failed, not only would Fang Yun's plan be thwarted, but the Criminal Court's plan to promote the law in the countryside would also fail.
Therefore, the Criminal Court solved the problem using a method that had been planned long ago.
Delay it until the matter is done, and then the Li Hall will naturally give up interfering.
Fang Yun had already expected this result, so he was not panicked.
On the second day, the "Min Bao" was published, and half of the pages were used to report news about lynchings and private prisons.
The first part mainly gives 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 from the same clan crippled 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 any evidence, etc.
The second part publishes some legal education content and the harms of private punishment and private prisons.
The last part is a long article in which the author deeply analyzes the harm caused by private punishment and private prisons, and bluntly states that this is an obstacle to the development of the human race. However, the writing style is very clever, without mentioning the clan system or ethics, so that everyone who reads it instinctively thinks that this is a matter of the Legalists and has nothing to do with other schools of thought.
The author of this long article appears under a pseudonym and does not use his real name.
Bells.
As soon as the new "Min Bao" was published, it triggered a rush to read throughout the country. Many people with lofty ideals rushed to tell others that private punishments and private prisons had long accumulated strong public resentment. Coupled with the various cases in "Min Bao", many righteous people were filled with righteous indignation and fully supported the abolition of private punishments and private prisons that harmed people.
The debate on the discussion board escalated and became even 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 have discovered the pen name of the author of the editorial and are speculating on who wrote it and who dared to use such a bold name.
Because the origin of this pen name is too obvious, it is obviously from "The Analects of Confucius".