Fang Yun sat steadily on the Taishi chair behind the desk, with the bright night pearl shining on his face.
Chen Mingding, the head of the Chen family.
Fang Yun didn't move at all and said, "The head of the Chen family came to visit you at night. What's the point of your visit?"
Chen Mingding smiled bitterly and said: "Fang Xusheng, we wise people don't tell secrets. I have been thinking about it for a long time and still don't know your true purpose, so I came here to ask for advice."
Fang Yun did not reply immediately. He took a few breaths in thought and said, "I don't know who asked that woman to beat the Dengwen drum, but I want to thank her. My purpose is to ask the Chen family to do me a favor."
"How can I help?"
"You always know how to help." Fang Yun looked at Chen Mingding.
Chen Mingding looked into Fang Yun's eyes, and his gaze kept changing. There were hesitations, suspicions, irritations, and anxiety, to name a few.
Chen Mingding gritted his teeth and said: "Chen Ziqian is my Chen family after all. What's more, he really didn't harm anyone. After this incident, he fell seriously ill and left the Chen family. Since then, he has never set foot in the Chen family again."
"If someone dies, there must be a murderer." Fang Yun said slowly.
Chen Mingding said helplessly: "This matter was done by the steward of the fourth family. The Chen family can hand him over."
Fang Yun looked at Chen Mingding quietly without saying a word.
Chen Mingding was extremely calm at first, but after a few dozen breaths, he sighed helplessly and said, "My daughter-in-law did something wrong and she needs to be beaten or punished. She will be dealt with according to the law. The Chen family will never cover her up."
Fang Yun then smiled slightly and said: "Since it is handled according to the law, it does not count as helping me."
"You..." Chen Mingding glared at Fang Yun, his talent brimming with energy and his long beard waving.
The smile on Fang Yun's face disappeared, and his eyes gradually turned cold.
"Our Chen family needs dignity, the dignity of a semi-saint family!" Chen Mingding said loudly.
Fang Yun said calmly: "Jingguo needs national law, real national law."
Chen Mingding's expression changed several times, and finally he took a long breath, stared at Fang Yun, and said: "Do you know what you are doing? Even if the Chen family helps you, you can't compete with all the families in the world. No one has succeeded before, and no one has succeeded now. If people have succeeded in the past, no one will succeed in the future!”
"As a county magistrate, you seek a city; as a left prime minister, you seek a country; as a virtual saint, you seek a clan. As for the rest, what do you do?"
Fang Yun remained indifferent, as if he didn't take the head of Chen Sheng's family seriously at all.
This is not a declining family, the half-saint of this family is still alive.
Chen Mingding let out a long sigh, turned around and walked away, saying as he walked: "Fang Xusheng has the courage to sacrifice his life and has the righteousness to save the country. What's wrong with the Chen family being on horseback?"
The next day, the Chen family made an announcement that shocked the ten countries.
The head of the Chen family, Chen Mingding, petitioned Shu and resigned as head of the family on the grounds that he was unable to manage the family well. He also sent his fourth son and his first wife to the court for justice.
When scholars all over the world were waiting to see Fang Yun confront the Chen Sheng family, the Chen Sheng family unexpectedly announced their surrender, shocking everyone.
Even the people in the Fang Party did not expect this result.
In their opinion, the best result for Fang Yun is to force the Chen family to hand over the steward. Even if it exceeds expectations, it will only take away the life of Chen Ziqian's mother, and there is no way to force the head of the family to step down.
However, someone soon analyzed that Chen Mingding's resignation as head of the family not only helped Fang Yun, but also helped the Chen family themselves.
Now that Chen Mingding has resigned, no matter what evil deeds the Chen family has done before, Xingdian and Fang Yun will keep an eye on them and deal with some servants at most, and will never affect the Chen family.
Chen Mingding's resignation is more like a deal between the Chen Sheng family and Fang Yun.
For a time, Fang Yun's prestige in the Jingguo court could not be increased, and after Dong Wencong sentenced Chen Mingding's fourth son and his wife according to law, his position in the capital became extremely stable.
No official dared to provoke Jing Zhaoyin who dared to sentence a direct descendant of a noble family.
After the case was settled, Fang Yun announced a new innovation.
Judgment is independent.
Each county has a county court, above which is a prefecture court, and above that is a state court. The highest judicial institution in the country is the Dali Yuan.
After this document was stamped with the King's Jade Seal, an unprecedented power surged in the sky above the Holy Yuan Continent.
The holy way of Legalism was rapidly strengthened.
On the contrary, the Zajia Holy Way has shrunk.
The Confucian holy way has changed, but no one can be sure whether it is getting stronger or weaker.
On the discussion list, countless people from mixed families attacked Fang Yun and Jing Guo.
However, no one attacked Legalism.
In terms of strength, Legalism has always been stronger than Zajia.
Ninety-nine percent of the children of miscellaneous families in the human race seek official positions, not the holy path.
Rather than saying that they are pursuing miscellaneous families, it is better to say that they are pursuing power.
However, among Legalist disciples, those who pursue the holy way of Legalism and promote the legal system far outnumber those who pursue power.
In fact, except for the Zajia family, no family has strong opposition to the independence of the trial, and even the Lidian has no intention of opposing it.
A long time ago, there were legalists who pushed for independent trials, but they were ultimately shelved due to numerous obstacles.
It wasn't until Fang Yun came out that they finally made up their mind to join forces with Fang Yun.
What's more, any knowledgeable scholar knows that judicial independence is not only a general trend, but also an important step in ensuring judicial fairness.
Just when Jingguo was perfecting the new judicial system, an incident suddenly broke out, shocking the Holy Yuan Continent.
All officials in the nine counties of Yanzhou Dingfu, including government officials, resigned.
This kind of thing has never happened in Shengyuan Continent.
This means that all towns within a government will be completely out of order, all order will be unmaintained, all crimes will not be punished, all cases will not be accepted, all taxes will not be collected, and everything will be in chaos. set.
That night, fires broke out everywhere within the nine counties of Dingfu. Many shops were attacked by masked men, and many wealthy families were looted.
After Xingdian led the government troops to the counties, it was already dawn. Many neighborhoods had been burned to the ground. Many corpses were lying on the streets. Countless people were crying and fighting for their lives, but the perpetrators were nowhere to be seen.
After preliminary counting, it was found that in just one night, 145 people died in Dingfu, more than a thousand were seriously injured, nearly 10,000 houses were burned down, and more than 100 people were missing.
In the early morning, another bad news came. Some villages and towns in Dingfu were looted by bandits. The specific casualties have not yet been calculated, but many villages and towns have been burned down.
Dingfu is in Yanzhou, and Fang Yun's power there is extremely weak. The occurrence of this kind of thing had little to do with Fang Yun. However, everyone in the discussion pointed the finger at Fang Yun, thinking that Fang Yun caused these incidents.
Many people defended Fang Yun, but something happened next that made those who defended Fang Yun helplessly shut their mouths.
A total of 105 family heads from all over Xiangzhou gathered outside Yueyang City. They all wore sackcloth and mourning, and carried coffins on carriages. They led their families and fellow villagers to block the city gate and demanded that Xiangzhou stop the persecution of each family. Otherwise, everyone collectively suicide.
Xiangzhou is the traditional power of Fang Yun.
Jiangzhou, across the river, was originally the starting point of Fang Yun's official career, and its significance to Fang Yun was no less than that of Xiangzhou or Mizhou.
On the same day, many prominent families in Jiangzhou joined forces with many prominent families to block the Prefectural Mufu Office in Dayuan Prefecture to petition.
The same thing happened in Mizhou and Dongyunzhou.
Even the capital!