The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2487 The Dispute over Etiquette and Law

The Analects of Confucius records an incident in which Confucius, while traveling around the countries, passed through a place called Yi. The border guard of this place went to pay a visit to Confucius and said that he would pay a visit to all those who came here and were moral and knowledgeable.

After meeting Confucius, the border guard found that Confucius' disciples were in a low mood because of traveling around the countries, so he said: "Why are you so impatient because you don't have an official position? The world is without justice and the world is dark. This time is too long. God will definitely let Confucius take charge of the copper and wooden bells and lead the human race to light."

The wooden bell is a copper bell with a wooden tongue installed. It is only used on formal occasions. When issuing major decrees or convening people to meetings, the wooden bell will be used.

In connection with this allusion, the meaning of the pen name "Duo Ling" is very obvious. The author clearly means that he is leading the human race and leading the human race away from darkness.

Even the oldest use of the bell is to identify the wind direction, which also contains the meaning of guidance.

After the propaganda caught up, the reform continued.

Fang Yun and the Criminal Court had already discussed countermeasures, letting the Criminal Court drag the Li Hall in the Holy Courtyard, while Gao Mo continued to preside over the crackdown on private punishment and private prisons in Jingguo, and posted notices to reward those who reported private punishment and private prisons, and guaranteed that the identity of the informant would not be leaked.

Not long ago, Jingguo passed a severe decree that no matter how high or low the rank, once the secret was leaked, it would never be allowed to serve as an official in Jingguo, and the punishment would be based on the severity of the leak. The lowest punishment was also three years of hard labor. If the leaker died, the crime was the same as murder and could be sentenced to death.

A bureaucratic system that cannot keep secrets strictly is only lacking, but it cannot severely punish leakers. It will be eliminated.

On the surface, the Criminal Court only destroyed private prisons and collected torture instruments, and carried out popularization of the law, but secretly investigated the death penalty cases in the past ten years. Once the evidence is conclusive, the person will be arrested immediately. If there is resistance from the family, no mercy will be shown. All of them will be arrested on the charge of gathering a crowd for treason and all property will be confiscated.

Neither Jingguo nor the Criminal Court made a big fuss about it, but because the scope of this crackdown was too wide, it was discovered by scholars from all over the country. Some Jingguo scholars believed that the Criminal Court and the Jingguo government were too radical and criticized this practice on the discussion board.

Since some scholars were relatives and friends of the victims, their positions were very clear and their opposition was very firm.

Most scholars only gave examples and reasoned on the discussion board, but a small number of scholars began to fabricate rumors in order to vent their personal anger, and even fabricated that a family of ninety-year-olds and infants in swaddling clothes were all killed.

The Criminal Court was experienced and well prepared. It immediately went to arrest the rumormongers and announced them on the discussion board to prevent the situation from getting out of control.

As the people in the Criminal Court continued to disclose the cruel facts encountered in the investigation and continued to describe the horrific lynchings, many people who originally opposed it gradually became silent.

Morality precedes etiquette and law, and etiquette and law originate from morality.

If even basic morality cannot be guaranteed, then etiquette and law must be problematic. Similarly, if morality is problematic, etiquette and law will inevitably be flawed.

The second largest country in the southern hemisphere has a particularly light punishment for criminals. They claim to protect everyone's rights, but if you look back at the process of the establishment of that country, you will find that most of their ancestors were a group of exiles, and their country was built on the massacre of indigenous people.

In some of the northernmost countries in the northern hemisphere, the punishment for crimes is also lighter than that of normal countries. They only sentenced a murderer who killed 77 people to 21 years in prison.

Because their ancestors were a group of pirates.

Because they are indifferent to life in their bones, they don't care about a person's real rights at all. They just want others to know that they are kind, anyway, the dead will not know.

The moral values ​​of their ancestors affect their moral values, and thus affect their laws.

Any country without the death penalty is protecting evil and punishing kindness.

Therefore, when many scholars find that those who set up private prisons or things conflict with their own moral values, they give up defending them.

The blood of sin will naturally defend sin.

Moreover, there is a trend in the laws of all countries, that is, the more crimes the higher class commits, the more the punishment will be gradually reduced.

Any living being instinctively protects itself.

Fang Yun dared to make reforms because he believed that the scholars of Shengyuan Continent had basic conscience and morality.

The Ministry of Rites and some officials of Jingguo also obstructed the action of cracking down on private punishment and private prisons, but because the action was led by the Criminal Palace, the judicial department and the military joined forces, and there was no need for the consent of those officials, so the crackdown process continued and was never interfered with by the outside world.

The elders of the Rites Palace did not hold real power in Jingguo, so they could only helplessly argue with the Criminal Palace in the Holy Court.

Time passed slowly, Jingguo was slowly reforming, and two major events happened in Qingguo.

The first major event was that the Dragon Clan was vigorously developing a waterway network in Qingguo. From then on, Qingguo would lose the jurisdiction of the waterway and hand it all over to the Water Palace. Some officials of Qingguo knew that it was related to Fang Yun and began to obstruct, but they were immediately retaliated by the water tribe and had to give up obstruction.

The second major event was the birthday of Qing Jun.

Qing Jun had been drained of his health by alcohol and sex, and had been vomited blood many times by Fang Yunqi in the past few years, and his health was getting worse. After a long period of recuperation, with the help of the magical objects accumulated by Qing Kingdom, Qing Jun finally recovered his health.

In order to show the national majesty of Qingguo and to celebrate the recovery of Qingjun, Qingguo held a birthday celebration far beyond the previous ones. Elderly people over eighty years old from all over Qingguo were invited to hold a banquet of ten thousand people. At the same time, scholars across the country worked together to create a birthday celebration. Vice longevity picture.

In the summer of May, in addition to the heat, there is also the coolness left over from late spring in the air.

Qingjun was sitting on a recliner in the Yangxin Palace. Four palace maids were rubbing his legs and beating his shoulders. Six eunuchs were holding handles that shook the mechanical fans to fan him.

The two concubines carefully peeled off the skins of the grapes, put them in their mouths and sucked out the grape seeds. Then they brought the grape flesh to Qingjun's mouth and put the grape flesh into Qingjun's mouth.

While Qingjun was chewing the delicious grapes, he reached out and kneaded the palace maid's breasts.

Opposite the recliner, two officials lowered their heads, waiting for the auspicious moment.

Not long after, I heard the eunuch outside the door shouting in a sharp voice: "The auspicious time has come, your majesty, please take off."

Qing Jun then slowly put on his clothes, touched the maid and concubine again, and whispered to the eunuch that he would favor the maid who slapped his left shoulder tonight. Then he got on the chariot and led the palace guards to the front of the Jinluan Palace.

In the palace, on the huge square in front of the Jinluan Hall, there are densely packed round tables. Guests from various countries, dignitaries, literati, family members of officials, old people with long lives and other people of all kinds are sitting at the tables.

The sun has not yet set, and the palace is already decorated with lights.

Qing Jun had just appeared from the side, and before he arrived in front of the Jinluan Hall, everyone present stood up and shouted, "Long Live the Mountain" with overwhelming momentum.

Qing Jun sat on the imperial chariot, smiling at everyone, enjoying the worship and awe of everyone.

Arriving at the side of the Jinluan Hall, Qingjun dismounted and climbed onto the imperial platform from one side. The shouts of the people below slowly weakened.

Qing Jun raised his head slightly and was about to speak when he heard the sound of dragon roar coming from the north of the capital, and the loud sound echoed in the sky.