Fang Yun's authority, the pressure from the five great families, the cruelty of the Strike Hard Division, the notoriety of the Criminal Hall, the death of King Kang, the demise of 106 families, the silence of the Li Hall... and a series of other factors combined to completely overwhelm the major families of Jing State.
In fact, even so, there are still families who resist stubbornly and even begin to arm their own homes.
However, the Strike Force led soldiers from all over Jing State and launched a ruthless attack in the name of suppressing the rebels.
After the Crackdown Bureau announced that the fourth phase of the crackdown had achieved significant results in combating local tyrants and evil gentry, the Jingguo Cabinet held a meeting to specifically discuss this crackdown, conduct analysis and summary, and gain valuable experience.
After the meeting, Cao De'an called Fang Yun and the two drank tea in an empty side hall. Everyone else left.
After a long while, Cao De'an put down the teacup in his hand, looked at Fang Yun, and said, "Fang Xusheng, you know that I have never opposed you in the court, but this time, are you a little too cruel? You don't have to say that this is the method of the Criminal Court. I know the Criminal Court very well, and I also know Elder Gao Mo. Without your forced promotion, the Criminal Court would never be so extreme."
"Ginger is wise with age. I didn't expect that you could be so sure that this matter is completely under my control." Fang Yun smiled and drank a cup of tea.
Cao De'an sighed, "The old guys in the Holy Court... Ahem, to put it bluntly, they all say that I'm made of paper. Those cabinet ministers are at most made of cowhide paper, not much better than me. Their style of doing things has been tainted with too serious officialdom. The Criminal Court is determined to reform, but it definitely doesn't have such a big responsibility. However, what makes me curious is that such an irresponsible court actually took on this matter silently. No one mentioned you, and even the Dongsheng Pavilion and the Zong family, who should have been the most vehemently opposed, have not made a move. Even for the sake of Qing Kingdom, they only mediated. Fang Xusheng, tell me the truth, what did you do?"
Fang Yun smiled slightly and said, "Don't you know it yet?"
Cao Dean was stunned, slapped his thigh and said, "This reform has been approved by the senior officials above?"
It doesn't take much to guess who is the person who could make a great scholar lose his composure.
Fang Yun said: "This is confidential, I can't disclose any information."
Cao Dean nodded gently and said, "Then I understand. This also solves one of my doubts. However, I reviewed the entire reform process afterwards, especially carefully studied the crackdown by the Strict Strike Division, and found that some of the things, although reasonable, were also unexpected and coincidental. It can even be said that this move by the Strict Strike Division was extremely risky. If you are not careful, you will fail. According to my inference, the probability of the Strict Strike Division failing is as high as 30%. After all, you are facing the families of Panorama Country, and even the families of the entire Shengyuan Continent."
"Thirty percent? You are too conservative. Success and failure are probably about half and half." Fang Yun said calmly.
Cao Dean looked at Fang Yun helplessly and said, "You dare to force innovation when there is only a 50% chance of success?"
"If I don't do it, there will be no chance at all." Fang Yun said.
Cao De'an said: "If, I mean if, the Strict Strike Force fails in the fourth phase of cracking down on local tyrants and evil gentry, and most officials of Jing State and their families oppose you, and the families of various countries also oppose you, what will you do?"
"Do you really want to hear it?" Fang Yun asked.
Cao De'an said: "Of course!"
"I actually have a lose-lose method that can ensure the success of the innovation. However, the time of success will be delayed by several years or even decades." Fang Yun suddenly looked out the window with a melancholy look on his face.
"What means?"
After a long time, Fang Yun looked out the window and said slowly: "I will personally go to the streets and post notices everywhere, asking the people and scholars of Panorama Country to join my team, smash those clay statues, attack those tyrants who are rich and unkind, pull those bureaucrats off the high platform, and thoroughly cleanse Jingguo!"
Cao De'an widened his eyes and looked at Fang Yun in horror.
"If you do this, you will become the enemy of the Panorama Kingdom's clans and bureaucrats, and even the enemy of the upper echelons of the entire human race. By then, the Jing Kingdom will be plunged into great turmoil, and there may even be a semi-saint who will intervene to stop it."
"Compared to being exterminated by the demon world, what does the turmoil in Jing Kingdom mean?"
“But even if you completely cleanse Jingguo, you may not be able to stop the demon world.”
"We will at least leave a spark of fire, and be reborn from the ashes in the near future!" Fang Yun's voice was firm.
"The chance is too slim." Cao De'an said.
Fang Yun said, "You are wrong. If you know the history of a large number of tribes in the Ten Thousand Worlds like I do, you will find a pattern. Every powerful or even great tribe will slack off after reaching its peak, and will slow down or even stop developing, and eventually be surpassed and defeated by other tribes. And those who defeat those ancient tribes are often emerging tribes. Do you know why?"
"I don't know." Cao De'an said sincerely.
"It's very simple. New ethnic groups don't have too many constraints. They will do everything to survive, become stronger, and seize every opportunity for progress. Therefore, in every great era, there will always be competition among various ethnic groups. There are many ancient ethnic groups and many new ethnic groups. The one that succeeds in the end must be the one with the highest degree of progress. Therefore, the birth, death, rise and fall of each ethnic group can be judged by a simple standard: whether this ethnic group is one of the fastest-progressing ethnic groups!"
"what do you mean… "
"In order to become one of the fastest-progressing groups, we must destroy the obstacles that hinder our progress! If we cannot destroy some inherent concepts and constraints, there will never be the motivation for progress, and there will never be the possibility of progress! Of course, I must admit that when destroying the cage, innocent people will inevitably be hurt and our original excellence will inevitably be destroyed. However, for the sake of progress, these losses are completely acceptable. Therefore, ignorant people will only see the good, or only see the bad. Only sober people will discover both the good and the bad in every major change. They will not completely deny the bad, nor will they ignore the bad because of the good."
Cao De'an said: "I understand what you mean. You see the crisis of the human race, so you use your own strength to force the human race to undergo a transformation that only emerging races can experience, destroy the shackles of Jingguo or the human race, create a soil for rapid progress, change the human race, and allow the human race to develop new technologies, concepts and even holy ways, and then progress, and finally win from the battle of all races!"
"So, if necessary, I will not hesitate to destroy Panorama Country to ensure the progress of the human race." There was no emotion in Fang Yun's voice.
"Aren't you aware of the consequences of failure or temporary failure?" Cao De'an looked at Fang Yun, and the weathered old man's eyes actually turned red.
Fang Yun smiled slightly, his eyes full of calmness.
"When I walk forward with my sword in hand, I no longer look back."