The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 3043 Two Sacred Edicts

On this day, the family and gender conflicts of the human race were unprecedentedly fierce.

Husbands beat their wives, fathers beat their daughters, brothers beat their sisters...

The origin of all conflicts is whether women can participate in the imperial examinations.

Men from all over the country tore up women's books, threw away women's four treasures of the study, and began to suppress women on a large scale.

However, another piece of news detonated the Shengyuan Continent.

Jingguo has successively introduced three new laws.

"Women's Rights Protection Law", "Children's Rights Protection Law" and "Compulsory Education Law".

In the new law, the right of women and children to receive education shall not be violated. Starting next year, all children of school age in Panorama Country, starting from the age of seven, regardless of gender, must receive a six-year compulsory education, and compulsory education will be extended in the future.

In Jingguo, any parent who obstructs their children's education will be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of more than three years but less than seven years. If they publicly advocate against the new law, they will be sentenced to subvert the Jingguo regime, starting with a ten-year fixed-term imprisonment.

During the compulsory education process, all expenses shall be borne by the Jing State Treasury. If the State is unable to meet the requirements, the Xuemang Chamber of Commerce shall provide them free of charge.

Before entering the Haiya Ancient Land, Fang Yun had already proposed five-year compulsory education, but it was only an innovation plan and had not been formed into a law, so Jing State had not implemented it. Especially after Fang Yun entered the Haiya Ancient Land, many reforms were interrupted.

But now, compulsory education has been formally legislated and will be enforced throughout the country.

At the same time, there is also a seemingly insignificant amendment to the law, which greatly reduces the age of criminal responsibility. Above the age of criminal responsibility, the same punishment shall be imposed, and age cannot be a factor affecting sentencing.

The explanation of the legal amendment is very clear. This is done to allow children to have legal concepts at a very young age. Most of the targets of young crimes are their peers. This is to truly protect young children. At the same time, the human race is constantly improving. In ancient times, teenagers knew nothing, but as their education level and the amount of information they receive increase, young children are becoming more and more precocious. If we still unconditionally protect young criminals, we are harming truly law-abiding children and adult citizens.

As expected, the first people to oppose the new law this time were still the people of Jing, and they were the family of Jing.

After the three laws appeared, the discussion board showed a clear split.

For the Women's Protection Law, the vast majority of people opposed it, and only a very small number of scholars who had experienced domestic violence by their fathers in their childhood or saw their female relatives being abused supported it.

However, the opposition accounted for an overwhelming majority.

Regarding the Child Protection Law, more and more people supported it, but most of the scholars who held the authority of parents still opposed it, believing that Fang Yun was fighting against the patriarchal system and denying their ancestors.

The "Compulsory Education Law" triggered the most intense debate.

Some people opposed it completely, but many people with lofty ideals felt that forcing boys to receive elementary education was a huge progress, and highly praised Fang Yun, but did not mention girls. Only a very small number of people also supported girls' education.

As a result, the discussion board was split from a large battlefield to attack Fang Yun into countless small battlefields.

Everyone no longer scolded Fang Yun, but was fiercely debating the new law.

Someone sarcastically said that Fang Yun just threw a bone, and a group of dogs began to grab it frantically.

It is absolutely impossible to keep humans sane.

That is, on the second day after the three new laws of Jingguo were promulgated, Wu Jun issued an imperial decree to fully implement the "Compulsory Education Law", but it did not involve the other two laws.

Those who opposed the new law immediately mocked Wu Jun as "Wu Jun learning to walk".

Wu Jun was so excited that he sent a special envoy to Jingguo and asked Fang Yun to give him the handwritten holy book "Wu Jun learning to walk". Fang Yun's clone was in Jingjing and simply gave him the calligraphy.

Wu Jun directly hung the four words "Wu Jun learning to walk" behind the dragon throne, and he repeatedly looked at them every day when he went to court and left court, as if he had found a treasure.

The whole human race was shocked by Wu Jun's shamelessness.

The more he argued, the clearer the reason was. Soon, the debate on the "Compulsory Education Law" stopped.

Because Dongsheng Pavilion announced that it recommended that all countries promote the "Compulsory Education Law" under certain conditions, and highly praised Jingguo and Wuguo.

Soon, everyone knew a big thing. Because of the birth of the "Compulsory Education Law", the human race's holy way of education and all holy ways, whether Confucianism, Legalism, Industry, Agriculture or Military Science, all the main holy ways of the human race are rapidly strengthening!

The merit of this law is far better than Shang Yang's reforms in the past. It can be said to be the most helpful law for the holy way in the history of the human race.

In the face of such a great achievement, even those who are most hostile to Fang Yun have to shut up.

Because the price of being stubborn in the face of iron facts may be the shattering of the literary courage and the collapse of the literary palace.

So, everyone turned to attack the other two new laws.

The victory of the Compulsory Education Law changed the concepts of some scholars. There were many more scholars who supported the protection of children, and the number of scholars who supported the protection of women also gradually increased.

What many scholars did not expect was that the number of non-scholars who supported these two laws began to increase.

Soon, everyone found the culprit.

Xiangzhou's "Minbao" has spread to various countries, especially after the death of King Qing, even the Qing Kingdom did not dare to obstruct the "Minbao".

In these days, the Minbao has been publishing all kinds of negative news about the abuse of women and children, which has given the Chinese people a clear understanding of the treatment of women and children.

The ideas of those men who are filial to their mothers, feel sorry for their wives, and love their daughters have gradually changed.

After learning the truth, the few scholars who originally opposed these two laws sighed to the sky, knowing that the situation was hopeless.

They knew that compared with Fang Yun, they were far behind in all aspects. It was not an ant against an elephant, but an ant against the Dragon Saint!

So, in order to continue to oppose Fang Yun, these people reduced the discussion of the new law and criticized Fang Yun's policy on the quota of imperial examinations.

Just when the second wave of criticism against Fang Yun was rising, Fang Yun personally issued an imperial edict in the Holy Court.

Fang Yun officially became the chief examiner this year and announced that the number of admissions for all civil positions in this year's imperial examinations would be increased by 30%!

Those Mengtong still had complaints, but Tongsheng, Xiucai and Juren were very happy. 30% was a very large number.

Because women can only participate in the Tongsheng test this year, even if there are geniuses who continue to participate in this year's Xiucai test after passing the Tongsheng test, there are only a few thousand people in total, and the impact on non-Mengtong is minimal.

So, some people who originally reacted particularly strongly gave up their opposition and became silent.

Eat someone's mouth soft, take someone's hand short.

Many scholars suspected that Fang Yun was compromising with the scholars by doing this. Since he had benefited from it, there was no need to pursue it relentlessly. He should wait and see what happened.

The voices of opposition dropped sharply.

The discussion list finally returned to normal. Although people attacked Fang Yun for allowing women to participate in the imperial examination every day, it was no longer as powerful as before.

However, opposition to Fang Yun was still the biggest wave on the discussion list.

The scholars of Qing State were still the backbone of this wave.

Until Fang Yun issued the second imperial edict.