The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2480: Crackdown Upgrade

Ya County is famous for its tough folk customs, but it has no status in Yanzhou. It is insignificant in the entire country or even Shengyuan Continent.

Therefore, the destruction of a small family in a remote area did not attract any attention.

In fact, Gao Mo did not make big news at the first time when he entered Jingguo to establish the Crackdown Division. He just started to investigate various cases step by step. According to Jingguo's current classification method, the Crackdown Division is only responsible for vicious criminal cases, and civil cases are still adjudicated by Jingguo officials.

Many well-informed people have found that the Crackdown Division is just a big deal, but the actual handling of cases is still in line with the rules.

The Crackdown Division is now mainly responsible for three aspects: one is the major cases that have not been solved in the past, the second is to investigate possible unjust, false and wrong cases, and the third is responsible for the major cases that are happening now. It is very organized and there is a big gap between what you imagine.

As for the occasional outbreak of several new major cases, some small families were uprooted. In name, they were all handled by Jingguo officials and had nothing to do with the Crackdown Division.

Many people who paid attention to the Severe Strike Division did not connect those new cases with the Severe Strike Division. They just thought that under the high pressure of the Holy Court, the officials of Jingguo had to make a sudden political achievement to deal with the Holy Court. This was a common phenomenon.

After a period of time, some people found that the Severe Strike Division itself did not do anything earth-shattering, but after the emergence of the Severe Strike Division, Jingguo had an additional department, called the Ministry of Law.

The duties of the Ministry of Law were relatively complex, including drafting relevant laws and regulations, managing prisons across the country, reviewing cases handled by the Ministry of Justice, participating in the trial of major cases in the Dali Temple, and being responsible for supplementary investigations, etc.

The powers of the Ministry of Justice also quietly changed, becoming a pure law enforcement agency with the power of arrest and investigation, mainly maintaining the public security of Jingguo, and began to recruit military scholars, breaking the practice of the legalists monopolizing the Ministry of Justice.

The power of the Ministry of Justice was drastically reduced.

The original name of the Dali Temple was just Li, and later it was renamed Dali. Temple is the name of the institution's residence. In order to unify the norms, Jingguo changed its name to Dali Ministry. The duties of the Dali Department remain the same. It is still the highest institution in Jingguo for trial cases and is also responsible for interpreting the law.

The Dali Department just changed its name. No one cared at first, but after a few days, the changes in the Dali Department of Jingguo became the focus of discussion on the forum, and the heat was far higher than the changes in the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Punishment.

Because Jingguo’s explanation of the Dali Department has more explanatory text, that is, the Dali Department is nominally directly under the Holy Court.

From then on, the concept of the three judicial departments did not exist in Jingguo. All cases that did not involve officials were led by the Dali Department. Officials were only judged by the Dali Department when they were deprived of their official status. The Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Supervision only assisted the Dali Department and were no longer one of the three judicial departments with the Dali Department, and could not conduct a three-court trial.

For this change, many scholars smelled the smell of conspiracy.

The Dali Department was actually under the jurisdiction of the Jingguo Cabinet, but now it is clearly stipulated that it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Holy Court, which means that if there is a conflict between the Holy Court and Jingguo one day, the Holy Court can bypass the royal family and the cabinet and directly order the Dali Department.

This also means that the power of both the cabinet and the royal family has been weakened.

Many people even speculate that Fang Yun handed over the Ministry of Justice to the Holy Court in order to weaken the imperial power, just to exchange for the support of the Criminal Court.

Others believe that the Criminal Court is using the banner of Jingguo's poor governance to help Fang Yun carry out judicial reforms and suppress all opposition.

Because a few days ago, a Legalist official opposed some reforms, and was directly called to drink tea by the people of the Criminal Court.

A few days later, the Legalist official resigned.

Since then, no Legalist official has spoken out against it.

Amid the turmoil, Jingguo's reforms proceeded slowly and forcefully.

In Jingguo's judicial reform, Fang Yun did not completely copy the later generations, but gradually reformed. As long as he pointed out the direction for the new government offices and new regulations, Jingguo would naturally follow the development trend and gradually improve in a better direction even if he did not have to come forward in the future.

What's more, any reform method that copied other political systems is disastrous.

In history, no country has ever succeeded by completely copying the operating methods of other countries. Never.

Fang Yun is responsible for macro-innovation. When it comes to details, Fang Yun will not only verify with the officials of the Left Prime Minister's Cabinet, but also ask the cabinet and various ministries to participate. If any department strongly opposes, Fang Yun will repeatedly discuss or even suspend the innovation, and almost never do anything arbitrary.

Fang Yun respects all ministries, and all ministries also respect Fang Yun, which makes the innovation extremely smooth. After respecting etiquette and restoring the past, there has never been a party dispute.

Officials who support the royal family have been obstructing the innovation, so that some of Fang Yun's innovations have been shelved, but the general direction is not up to them, especially in the innovations supported by the vast majority of officials, they dare not come forward.

The Queen Mother has to deal with fewer government affairs, has more time to rest, and her health is slowly getting better, but it will take at least one or two years to fully recover.

When the scholars of Shengyuan Continent paid attention to the judicial reform of Jingguo, Jingguo's crackdown suddenly escalated from the original crackdown on vicious criminal crimes to crackdown on bandits and road bullies.

The scale of the crackdown on bandits this time far exceeded any previous one.

Each state had a university scholar who used the power of the Holy Temple to patrol the world from high above. All the bandits who occupied the mountains or had a large scale had been marked in advance, down to every individual. Then, the state army and the government army were mobilized collectively and began an unprecedented large-scale encirclement and suppression.

However, the merit of this encirclement and suppression is not calculated by the number of enemies killed, but by the number of prisoners captured. The more bandit leaders captured, the greater the merit.

After the bandit leaders were captured, the military of Jingguo would send them away. As for where they were sent, only the Criminal Court knew.

Regarding the fact that the Criminal Court and Jingguo jointly encircled and suppressed the bandits, there was rarely any opposition on the discussion list, and they all supported the Criminal Court and Jingguo.

A few days later, Wu Jun also learned from Jingguo to encircle and suppress the bandits, but Wuguo was still the same as before, killing enemies to get credit, and did not care about prisoners.

The process of encircling and suppressing bandits was not an overnight success. After it caused heated discussions at the beginning, the discussion list no longer cared.

It was at this time that many small and medium-sized families in various parts of Jingguo were destroyed one after another, because in the process of cracking down on bandits, the Criminal Court obtained conclusive evidence and evidence to prove that those families colluded with bandits.

As a result, public trials and public judgments appeared again in various places, and many people were killed.

Moreover, the handling methods of these cases were surprisingly consistent.

All scholars suspected of breaking the law were directly sent to Zhenyuhai.

All the main criminals were paraded through the streets to arouse public anger, and then executed in public.

All the people involved in the case were sent away.

All the property was confiscated.

All the land was transferred to the name of Shengyuan.

All the land of Shengyuan in Jingguo became pilot fields of Nongdian and Gongdian, planting high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn. Those who farmed in these pilot fields were all serving sentences sent from other places.

At this time, except for a very small number of officials in Jingguo who noticed the trend was different, the scholars in Shengyuan Continent still did not notice the real changes in Jingguo.