The Punishment Hall is like a sword hanging over the heads of all human beings.
On the tenth day of March, personnel from the Criminal Hall were dispatched everywhere, covering the Shengyuan Continent.
Like rain falling in a pond, creating ripples.
The deterrent power of the Punishment Hall is so great that many people remain silent even when they know someone has been arrested.
At the beginning, there were only sporadic reports on the list, and some people were arrested for preventing female relatives from participating in the imperial examinations.
That night, Fang Yun issued a holy decree on the discussion board.
When hearing the word "holy judgment", many scholars trembled.
Holy Judgment usually refers to asking all saints to make a decision. However, if a semi-saint takes the initiative to issue a Holy Judgment, it must be that something big is happening.
The Palace of Punishment is a sharp sword, and the Holy Judgment is thunder.
A large number of scholars entered the discussion list to browse the contents of the Holy Judgment.
Many people feel chilled all over after reading the beginning, and feel mixed emotions after reading the whole text.
Thousands of names are listed in this holy decree.
The first one was the Minister of Rites of Qing State, Hao Wenyi. He was extremely famous in Qing State, and his students were all over the world. Now he was escorted to the Holy Court, and his position as a scholar would be abolished by the Criminal Court, and his talent would be taken away! Executed!
The crime of this university scholar was not only to prevent the women in his family from taking the imperial examination, but he also relied on his status to privately send letters in the name of the Ministry of Rites of Qing State, strictly prohibiting women from all over Qing State from taking the imperial examination, and requiring local government offices to ban women from entering the examination room.
This is the first Grand Secretary in human history who was not involved in treason and was deprived of his talent and sentenced to death by the Holy Academy.
At first, scholars felt sympathy for him when they saw his sentence, but after seeing his behavior, many people didn't know whether they should sympathize with him.
Admittedly, Fang Yun’s idea of taking the exam together for both men and women was radical, and many people opposed it.
But Fang Yun is a half-saint!
Any decree issued by the semi-saints in history was either retracted by themselves or revised later, but none of them was denied by the Holy Court!
The Holy Decree is the highest law of the human race, and no one can openly disobey it.
It was not a big deal for Hao Wenyi to stop his own women from taking the imperial examinations, but he called on all the scholars in Qing to oppose the same examination for both men and women. This was against the imperial edict! This was against the semi-saint!
The most outrageous thing Fang Yun had done back then was to defy the Punishment Hall, and that too as a Virtual Saint. In the end, he even accepted the punishment.
During the dispute over the Holy Path, no matter how arrogant Fang Yun was, he never blamed Zong Sheng.
If there are problems with the imperial edict, you can oppose it, you can resign from office and cancel the exam, you can gather scholars to protest, you can even surround the imperial academy!
However, a grand secretary actually openly defied the imperial edict; this was tantamount to defying the Holy Court!
All the saints cannot save him!
Now, although many people in Qing sympathize with Hao Wenyi, they do not think that the Criminal Court did anything wrong. It can even be said that the Criminal Court showed mercy this time because no one was implicated.
Except for Hao Wenyi who was deprived of his literary title and talent and executed, the rest of the scholars were not sentenced to death, nor were they deprived of their talent.
The punishments for the remaining scholars varied, most of them were exile to ancient places, exile for ten years, confinement for three years, etc.
Ji Quan was imprisoned for three years for obstructing women from taking the imperial examinations.
They are not allowed to leave home for three years. Once they leave home, it will be regarded as disobeying the order of the Punishment Hall, and the Punishment Hall can kill them directly.
At the end of this holy decree, there is a very eye-catching explanation.
This is just the first list.
Other lists will be released soon.
Soon, scholars from Qing Kingdom analyzed this imperial decree and published an article.
The article analyzes that the Criminal Court only dared to arrest those who used force to prevent women from taking the exam. They did not arrest those who verbally opposed or advocated against equal examinations for both men and women, nor did they arrest those who protested in Kongcheng and at the foot of Daofeng Mountain.
Finally, the article called on scholars to give up obstructing women and instead come to the foot of Daofeng Mountain to protest and strive for the Holy Academy to abolish the policy of unisex examinations.
As a result, many scholars responded, especially those who lived closer to Kongcheng, and began to travel to Kongcheng day and night.
The next day, the second list of holy judges was released.
As a result, the Holy Inquisition not only failed to silence the scholars, but even triggered an extremely strong backlash.
Many people began to protest and oppose with all their might.
A new wave of opposition to equal examinations for both men and women and criticism of Fang Yun's criticism of Confucius swept everything again on the discussion board.
Except for a few scholars, most of them just watched from the sidelines, neither opposing nor supporting.
Everyone thought that Fang Yun would quietly wait until March 15th and endure the first imperial examination he presided over.
As a result, the Holy Judgment of March 11 had just been announced, and Fang Yun posted on the discussion board again in the evening.
"Criticism on King Wen's Book".
The scholars who were discussing the list were furious once again.
For the entire night, the phrase most frequently used by scholars from all over the human race was "Wouldn't it be better to just be a half-saint?"
Many people did not sleep well the whole night, worried about the human race, worried about Fangyun, worried about Confucianism, worried about the imperial examination, worried about their own future. They greeted the morning with red eyes, and before they had breakfast, they received a message and hurried to check the list of candidates.
On the morning of March 12, Fang Yun became a saint again!
This time it is "Criticism of Mencius' Book".
"I'm so tired" became the most frequently asked reply on the discussion board.
After reading "Criticism of Mencius", the readers have made up their minds and are sure that Fang Yun will definitely choose another sub-sage to criticize tomorrow morning. They just have to wait.
As a result, just after noon, when many people were taking a nap, angry cries of scholars were heard from all over the human race.
"crazy!"
"I do not want to live!"
“Life is so hard!”
"I don't want to be a scholar anymore. It's too tiring. It's really too tiring!"
Because, in the afternoon, Fang Yun criticized the four sub-sages Zengzi, Xunzi, Zisi and Yanzi in one breath, which was completely unconventional.
Soon, many scholars who had been watching from the sidelines began to respond.
"The Holy Month has arrived. The road is rough and too bumpy. Please hold on to the carriage!"
"Govern the country through rankings!"
"This year's students are in a very bad situation. Both boys and girls are probably confused. Do you think these comments on the holy books will appear on the examination papers?"
"Although many of Fang Sheng's contents make sense, but... I can't calm down and study it now. Who can tell me why?"
"Hello everyone, I have been in seclusion in Zhenyu Sea for a year and just came out. Excuse me, did I calculate the time wrong? In fact, I have been in seclusion for a hundred years?"
On March 13, Fang Yun continued to review the saints. Now it was the turn of the half-saints, one article every hour.
"My son just frothed at the mouth and said he would never take the Tongsheng exam again! In the past, his teacher would predict the questions before the exam, but this year his teacher went crazy..."
"Does Fang Sheng treat the discussion board as a wastebasket in his own study?"
"I can't help it. I have a feeling that if I don't let it out, I'll go crazy too!"
"Oh my God, what happened? My Wen Palace was formed just last year. What if it collapses in a few days?"
"Last night, all the scholars in the city went to the Academy of Literature to hold a literary conference. The theme of the conference was how to ensure that the literary courage is not broken in such a crazy period!"
On March 14, an unprecedented article came out of nowhere.
"The Saint of Criticizing Prescriptions".
The author of the article was actually a young Jinshi.
The entire human race was shocked, and at the same time they felt admiration, because at least a great scholar could criticize a saint, and if a mere Jinshi criticized a saint, he would surely die.