Under the strong suppression of the Punishment Hall and Fang Yun, hundreds of families disappeared.
Jingguo not only improved and strengthened the judicial system, but also dealt a heavy blow to backward customs such as the clan system and lynching. At the same time, they took away a large amount of wealth, shops, and farmland.
In name, these wealth and farmland were jointly managed by the Notre-Dame and Jingguo. They filled Jingguo's treasury and alleviated its urgent needs.
In the eyes of the upper echelons of the various countries, Fang Yun and the Punishment Hall were extremely evil.
However, in the eyes of the lower-class citizens and scholars, Fang Yun and the Punishment Hall were their saviors.
Therefore, not only did Jingguo not fall into turmoil, but the lower-class citizens were even more energetic. They might not listen to whatever the government told them to do, but as long as it was Fang Yun's decree, many citizens would respond enthusiastically.
Moreover, on the second day after the crackdown on the local tyrants and evil gentry, the cabinet announced three things.
Jingguo, the Agriculture Hall, and the Works Hall had cooperated in the Blood-Light Realm and obtained a large amount of farm tools and armored cattle. They would be distributed to the citizens of Jingguo free of charge to reduce the hardship of farming.
Although the government did not say it explicitly, Fang Yun's officials kept spreading the news among the citizens. They said that Fang Yun had used his own money to ask the Agriculture Hall and the Works Hall for help, and that the imperial court did not pay a single cent.
The citizens of various places were instantly grateful.
This was especially so for the citizens of Ding Prefecture who had received compensation after the disaster. Every family erected a longevity tablet for Fang Yun.
The second thing was that Jingguo would continue the development of the northern part of the country. They would vigorously develop the newly acquired land in the northern part of Mishou and add new benefits and preferential policies to the previous policies.
The third thing was to encourage everyone in Jingguo to go out to sea and explore the islands in the sea. As long as they found an island that was not occupied by the sea race, they could use the island to ask the imperial court for a title. The imperial court would then give the island to the person who discovered it.
Jingguo had long become the focus of attention of the various countries. After the cabinet released the official document, the various countries discussed these three things.
As for the free farming tools and armored cattle, the various countries did not publicize it. Wu Jun even helplessly cursed Fang Yun for being a rich dog. No country could do such a thing, and it would definitely empty their treasury.
However, Fang Yun had the Bloodlight World, the support of the Workshop Hall and the Agriculture Hall. The cost of these matters was only a small amount of divine items.
Wu Jun shamelessly sent a letter of credence to Jingguo, wanting to purchase a large number of armored cows and advanced farming tools.
However, Jingguo refused.
Many countries went to Notre-Dame to purchase the technology for new farming tools and the technology for breeding armored cattle. Everyone could see that once Jingguo popularized armored cattle and the new farming tools, grain production and production efficiency would be greatly improved.
The development of the northern region did not garner much attention because it had already been carried out in Jingguo before.
As for encouraging them to go out to sea, the other countries were puzzled.
But there were sensible people who guessed the advantages of encouraging the sea.
Jingguo was now developing rapidly. Other than the lack of skilled workers, there were bound to be many people who could not adapt to the changes, and there would be many idle people.
Not all idle people were willing to go up north to farm or become workers, but the adventure of going out to sea and obtaining land and wealth was something they yearned for.
At the same time, going out to sea could change the culture and gradually influence the closed society.
Moreover, many islands were inhabited by the sea race, and the people could directly trade with them. This would also subtly change Jingguo.
The other countries also wanted to learn from Fang Yun, but they discovered that all ships had to fly the Jingguo flag and carry Wen Xing Long Jue's documents. Otherwise, they could be attacked by the sea race.
The other countries immediately became listless. However, some countries contacted the Dragon Palaces of the South Sea, North Sea, and West Sea, wanting to cooperate with them.
The North Sea and South Sea directly refused. They did not want to offend the official Wen Xing Long Jue, the Special Envoy of the Great Overwatch Council, because other than the Dragon Saint, the Dragons of the four seas were subordinates to Fang Yun. They had to do whatever Fang Yun asked them to do.
As for the Dragons of the West Sea, they were not unwilling to give up their sea territory to the human race, so they did not negotiate with the other countries at all. Moreover, because Fang Yun killed Ao Wushan, the Dragons of the West Sea were hostile to the human race.
The Lei family could talk to the Dragons of the West Sea, but Fang Yun had already restricted the cooperation between the Lei family and the Dragons with his control of the Water Hall and his identity as Wen Xing Long Jue and the Special Envoy of the Great Overwatch Council. As a result, not only could the Lei family not benefit from the sea race, but the benefits they received from the sea race were gradually decreasing.
Later, many people discovered that many of the laws in Jingguo had changed. They no longer emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce. Instead, they supported agriculture, construction, and commerce at the same time. For the current ten countries, this could even be considered radical.
Many of the changes in the laws and policies were so drastic that even the Martial Monarchs did not dare to copy them completely. Instead, they only changed some of the less drastic ones.
Under the efforts of Fang Yun and the officials of Jingguo, Jingguo was like a giant mechanism that began to speed up and slowly left the other countries behind.
Just when everyone thought that things would go smoothly, the Hall of Rites suddenly announced that many of the reforms in Jingguo were suspected of violating the rules of rites and had abandoned the spirit of rites and music set by Kong Sheng. From that day onwards, the Hall of Rites would send a large number of officials to Jingguo to strictly investigate all the violations of rites and correct the unhealthy practices in Jingguo.
This news was like a basin of cold water splashed on the heads of all the officials and people of Jingguo.
Now that the atmosphere in Jingguo was new, whether it was the officials or the people, they suddenly felt that they had something to strive for. It was as if they had taken off their heavy cotton clothes in spring. However, the Hall of Rites was rushing over with strong shackles.
Soon, some rumors began to spread. It turned out that the Hall of Rites wanted to punish Fang Yun for the three rites of rites, but two of the elders disagreed and three of them abstained, causing it to be unable to be carried out.
In the end, after a long discussion, the elders of the Hall of Rites reached a compromise and allowed the officials of the Hall of Rites to be sent to Jingguo.
The intervention of the Hall of Rites caused Jingguo to fall into a short period of panic. Many of the officials were discussing and many of the people were also indecisive.
The most important thing was that there were indeed people in Jingguo who thought that Fang Yun's reforms were too radical. If the Hall of Rites could control it, it would definitely be better.
Most of the conservative forces did not dare to oppose Fang Yun, but it did not mean that they did not resent him.
In the eyes of some people, the development of Jingguo was reasonable, but if it harmed their own interests, it would be completely wrong and had to be corrected.
They would never consider that if they did not lose some small interests, they would never gain more.
The next day, there were three to five officials from the Hall of Rites in every government in Jingguo. They held the official seal of the Hall of Rites and asked the local officials to cooperate with them.
There were no idiots among the officials. As they delayed, they sent letters to their superiors or the Cabinet to ask for instructions.
Soon, the Cabinet of Jingguo issued an order to all the officials, asking them to cooperate fully with the officials of the Hall of Rites as long as it did not affect their local government affairs. At the same time, they solemnly stated that if the officials of the Hall of Rites made unreasonable requests that disrupted the normal operations of the Jingguo government, the officials had the right to reject them without affecting the evaluation.
After receiving the order from the Cabinet, some of the officials heaved a sigh of relief, but more of them were troubled.
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