The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2501: One mansion is empty, thousands of families petition

Fang Yun sat steadily on the armchair behind the desk, the bright night pearl shone on the face of the visitor.

Chen Mingding, the head of the Chen family.

Fang Yun did not move, and said: "Master Chen, you come to visit me in the middle of the night, I wonder what you can do?"

Chen Mingding smiled bitterly and said: "Fang Xusheng, let's not beat around the bush. I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I still don't know your real purpose, so I came to ask for your advice."

Fang Yun did not answer immediately, thinking for a few breaths, and said: "I don't know who asked the woman to beat the drum, but I want to thank her. My purpose is to ask the Chen family to do me a favor."

"How to help?"

"You know how to help." Fang Yun stared at Chen Mingding.

Chen Mingding looked into Fang Yun's eyes, his eyes kept changing, during which he showed hesitation, suspicion, anger, anxiety, and so on.

Chen Mingding gritted his teeth and said, "Chen Ziqian is a member of my Chen family after all, and what's more, he really didn't hurt anyone. After this incident, he fell seriously ill and left the Chen Mansion. 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 was done by the steward of the fourth brother's family. The Chen family can hand him over."

Fang Yun looked at Chen Mingding quietly without saying a word.

Chen Mingding was very calm at first, but after dozens of breaths, he sighed helplessly and said: "My daughter-in-law did something wrong. She should be beaten and punished. She should be dealt with according to the law. The Chen family will never cover it up."

Fang Yun then smiled lightly and said: "Since it is dealt with according to the law, it is not considered helping me."

"You..." Chen Mingding glared at Fang Yun, his talent was aroused, and his long beard fluttered.

The smile on Fang Yun's face disappeared, and his eyes gradually became 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 face changed several times, and finally he exhaled a long breath, staring at Fang Yun, and said: "Do you know what you are doing? Even if the Chen family helps you, you can't compete with the families in the world. No one has succeeded before, no one has succeeded now, and no one will succeed in the future!"

"For the county magistrate, you plan for a city; for the left prime minister, you plan for a country; for the Xusheng, you plan for a clan. As for the others, what does it matter?"

Fang Yun was still calm, as if he didn't take the head of the Chensheng family seriously at all.

This is not a declining family, and the half-saint of this family is still alive.

Chen Mingding sighed, turned around and walked away, saying as he walked: "Fang Xusheng has the courage to sacrifice himself and the righteousness to save the country. What's wrong with the Chen family being the starting stone?"

The next day, the Chen family shocked the ten countries with a notice.

Chen Mingding, the head of the Chen family, submitted a petition to apologize and resigned as the head of the family on the grounds of incompetence in managing the family. He also sent his fourth son and his fourth son's wife to the court for trial.

When all the scholars in the world were waiting to see Fang Yun confront the Chen Sheng family, the Chen Sheng family actually announced its surrender, shocking everyone.

Even the people of Fang's party did not expect this result.

In their opinion, the best result for Fang Yun was to force the Chen family to hand over the steward. Even if it exceeded expectations, it would only take away the imperial edict of Chen Ziqian's mother, and it would be impossible to force the head of the family to step down.

However, someone soon analyzed that Chen Mingding's resignation as the head of the family not only helped Fang Yun, but also helped the Chen family itself.

Since Chen Mingding resigned, no matter what evil things the Chen family had done before, the Criminal Court and Fang Yun would let them off, at most dealing with some servants, and would never affect the people of the Chen family.

Chen Mingding's resignation was more like a deal between the Chen Sheng family and Fang Yun.

For a time, Fang Yun's prestige in the court of Jingguo was unparalleled, and after Dong Wencong sentenced Chen Mingding's fourth son and his wife according to the law, his position in the capital became extremely stable.

No official dared to provoke a Jingzhao Yin who dared to sentence the direct descendants of aristocratic families.

After the case was settled, Fang Yun announced a new reform.

Judgment independence.

Each county set up a county court, above which a prefecture court was set up, and above that a state court was set up. The highest judicial institution in the country was the Dali Court.

After this document was stamped with the emperor's jade seal, a force that was unparalleled in the world surged over the Shengyuan Continent.

The legalist holy way quickly strengthened.

In contrast, the eclectic holy way shrank.

The Confucian holy way changed, but no one could be sure whether it became stronger or weaker.

On the discussion list, countless people from the eclectic school attacked Fang Yun and Jingguo.

However, no one attacked the legalists.

In terms of strength, the legalists have always been stronger than the eclectic schools.

Ninety-nine percent of the miscellaneous disciples of the human race seek official positions, not the holy way.

Rather than saying that they are pursuing miscellaneous schools, it is better to say that they are pursuing power.

However, among the disciples of the Legalists, the scholars who pursue the holy way of the Legalists and promote the legal system far exceed those who pursue power.

In fact, except for the miscellaneous schools, the other schools do not strongly oppose the independence of the trial, and even the Lidian has no intention of opposing it.

Long ago, the Legalists promoted the independence of the trial, but it was eventually stranded due to many obstacles.

It was not until Fang Yun came out that they finally made up their minds to join forces with Fang Yun.

Moreover, scholars with a little insight know that the independence of the trial is not only the general trend, but also an important step to ensure judicial justice.

Just when the whole Jing Kingdom was perfecting the new judicial system, something suddenly broke out, shocking the Shengyuan Continent.

All officials, including yamen runners, in the one prefecture and nine counties of Yanzhou Dingfu resigned.

This has never happened in the Shengyuan Continent.

This means that all towns within a prefecture will be completely out of order, no one will maintain order, no one will fight crimes, no one will handle cases, no one will collect taxes, and everything will be in chaos.

That night, fires broke out everywhere in the nine counties of Dingfu, many shops were attacked by masked men, and many wealthy families were looted.

When the Criminal Court led the prefectural army to the counties, it was already dawn. Many streets had been burned to the ground, many corpses were lying on the streets, countless people were crying and fighting, but the perpetrators were nowhere to be seen.

After a preliminary count, 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 a hundred people were missing.

In the early morning, there was another bad news. Some villages and towns in Dingfu were looted by bandits. The specific casualties have not yet been counted, but many villages and towns have been completely burned down.

Dingfu is in Yanzhou, where Fang Yun's power is extremely weak. This kind of thing originally had nothing to do with Fang Yun, but everyone on the discussion list pointed the finger at Fang Yun, believing that it was Fang Yun who caused these incidents.

Many people defended Fang Yun, but what happened next made those who defended Fang Yun shut up helplessly.

A total of 105 heads of families from all over Xiangzhou gathered outside Yueyang City, all in mourning, with coffins on carriages, leading their families and fellow villagers to block the city gates, demanding that Xiangzhou stop persecuting the families, otherwise, everyone would commit suicide collectively.

Xiangzhou is Fang Yun's traditional power.

Jiangzhou, separated by a 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 famous families in Jiangzhou joined many prominent families to block the governor's office in Dayuan Prefecture to petition.

The same thing happened in Mizhou and Dongyunzhou.

Even in the capital!