The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 3057 Criticize Fang Sheng!

The Punishment Hall is like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of all human beings.

On the tenth day of March, the Punishment Hall personnel were dispatched everywhere, all over the Shengyuan Continent.

Like rain falling on a pond, it caused ripples.

The deterrent power of the Punishment Hall was too great, and many people fell silent even if they knew that someone was arrested.

At the beginning, there were only sporadic reports on the discussion list, and some people were arrested for preventing female relatives from participating in the imperial examination.

That night, Fang Yun issued a holy judgment on the discussion list.

The moment they heard the word "holy judgment", many scholars trembled.

The holy judgment usually refers to asking the saints to make a judgment, but if a semi-saint takes the initiative to issue a holy judgment, it must be a big thing.

The Punishment Hall is a sharp sword, and the holy judgment is thunder.

A large number of scholars entered the discussion list and browsed the content of the holy judgment.

Many people felt cold all over after reading the beginning, and after reading the whole text, they had mixed feelings.

This holy judgment listed thousands of names.

The first one is Hao Wenyi, the Minister of Rites of Qing. He is very famous in Qing, and his students are all over the world. Now he is being escorted to the Holy Court, where he will be deprived of his position and talent by the Criminal Court! Execution!

The crime of this university scholar is not only to prevent his women from participating in the imperial examination, but also to rely on his status to directly send a private letter in the name of the Ministry of Rites of Qing, strictly prohibiting women from participating in the imperial examination in all parts of Qing, and requiring local government offices to prohibit women from entering the examination room.

This is the first university scholar in the history of the human race who was not involved in treason and was deprived of talent and sentenced to death by the Holy Court.

At first, the scholars sympathized with his sentence, but after seeing his behavior, many people did not know whether they should sympathize.

It is true that Fang Yun's co-examination of men and women is very radical, and many people are also opposed.

But Fang Yun is a half-saint!

Any sacred edict of the half-saints in the past dynasties has been withdrawn by themselves, and some have been revised later, but none has been denied by the Holy Court!

The sacred edict 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 family members from taking the imperial examinations, but he called on all the scholars in Qing to oppose the same exams for both men and women. This was against the imperial edict! This was against the semi-saint!

The most outrageous thing Fang Yun did back then was to oppose the Criminal Court, and he did it as a virtual saint, and finally accepted the punishment.

During the dispute over the way of the saint, no matter how arrogant Fang Yun was, he did not blame the patriarchal saint.

If there is a problem with the imperial edict, you can oppose it, you can dismiss your official position and stop the exam, you can entangle the scholars to protest, and you can even block the Holy Court!

However, a university scholar actually openly opposed the imperial edict, which was against the Holy Court!

All the saints could not 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 there was no implicated.

Except for Hao Wenyi who was deprived of his literary position, talent and executed, the rest of the scholars did not have the death penalty, nor were they deprived of their talent.

The punishments for the remaining scholars were different, mostly exiled to ancient lands, exiled for ten years, and confined for three years.

Ji Quan was imprisoned for three years for obstructing women from taking the imperial examination.

He was not allowed to leave home for three years. Once he left home, it was equivalent to disobeying the order of the Criminal Palace, and the Criminal Palace could kill him directly.

At the end of this holy judgment, there was a very eye-catching explanation.

This was only the first batch of names.

There will be other lists released one after another.

Soon, a scholar from the Qing Kingdom analyzed this holy judgment and published an article.

The article analyzed that the Criminal Palace only dared to arrest those who used force to prevent women from taking the exam, and did not arrest those who verbally opposed or advocated against the co-examination of men and women, nor did they arrest those who protested in Kongcheng and at the foot of Daofeng Mountain.

In the end, the article called on scholars to give up obstructing women and instead protest at the foot of Daofeng Mountain to strive for the Holy Academy to abolish the co-examination of men and women.

As a result, many scholars responded, especially some people who were closer to Kongcheng, and began to travel to Kongcheng day and night.

The next day, the second batch of holy judgment lists were released.

As a result, the holy judgment not only failed to shut up the scholars, but also triggered a very strong backlash.

Many people began to protest and oppose with all their might.

The new wave of opposing the same exam for both men and women and criticizing Fang Yun for criticizing Confucius swept everything again on the discussion board.

Except for a few scholars, most scholars watched coldly, neither opposing nor supporting.

Everyone thought that Fang Yun would quietly wait until March 15th, after the first imperial examination he presided over.

As a result, on March 11th, the imperial judgment had just been announced, and Fang Yun posted an article on the discussion board again in the evening.

"Criticizing the Book of King Wen".

The scholars on the discussion board exploded again.

For a whole night, the most frequently used phrase by scholars from all over the human race was "Isn't it good to be a half-saint?"

Many people did not sleep well all night, worried about the human race, Fang Yun, Confucianism, the imperial examination, and their own future. They welcomed the morning with red eyes, and before they had breakfast, they received a message and hurried to check the discussion board.

On the morning of March 12th, Fang Yun criticized the saint again!

This time it was "Criticizing the Book of Mencius".

"I am tired" became the most frequently replied on the discussion board.

After reading "Criticism of Mencius", the scholars were mentally prepared and were sure that Fang Yun would definitely choose another sub-sage to criticize tomorrow morning. They just had 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 don't want to live anymore!"

"Life is so hard!"

"I don't want to be a scholar anymore. It's too tiring, really too tiring!"

Because Fang Yun criticized Zengzi, Xunzi, Zisizi and Yanzi, four sub-sages, in one breath in the afternoon, which was completely unconventional.

Soon, many scholars who had been watching coldly began to respond.

"The month of criticizing the saints has arrived, the road is rugged and too bumpy, please hold the carriage tightly!"

"Govern the country by ranking!"

"This year's children are so miserable, both men and women, they are probably confused. Guess whether these books criticizing the saints will appear on the exam papers?"

"Although many of Fang Sheng's contents make sense, but... I can't calm down to study now, who can tell me why?"

"Hello everyone, I have been in seclusion in Zhenyuhai for a year and just came out. Excuse me, did I calculate the time wrong, in fact, I was in seclusion for a hundred years?"

On March 13, Fang Yun continued to criticize the saints, and now it was the turn of the semi-saints, one article every hour.

"My son just foamed at the mouth and said he would never take the Tongsheng exam again! In the past, their teacher would predict the topic before the exam, but this year, their teacher went crazy..."

"Does Fang Sheng treat the discussion list as a wastebasket in his own study?"

"I can't help it. I have a feeling that if I don't vent, I will go crazy!"

"Oh my God, what happened? My Wen Palace was formed only last year. What if it collapses in a few days?"

"Last night, all the scholars in the city went to the Wen Academy to hold a literary meeting. The theme of the meeting was how to ensure that the literary courage is not broken in such a crazy period!"

On March 14, an unprecedented article came out.

"Criticizing Fang Sheng".

The author of the article was a young Jinshi.

The whole human race was shocked and admired, because at least a great scholar could criticize a saint, and a Jinshi would die after criticizing a saint.