In the Left Prime Minister's Pavilion, Fang Yun frowned as he looked at the draft in front of him.
Just like how Half-saint was unable to solve the economic crisis, Jingguo would face all kinds of problems once it started to communicate with other races.
If the government was the only one in charge of this kind of communication, it would definitely cause chaos. This was because it was the nature of bureaucrats to be conservative, passive, and slow to react. Even if Fang Yun personally urged them to do so, there would still be two opposing outcomes.
Either the communication between races would become a slogan, and Jingguo would become closed off again.
Or the officials of Jingguo would cater to the foreigners for the sake of political achievements, to avoid making mistakes, and to avoid being punished by their superiors. In the end, the foreigners would be able to ride on the heads of the Jingguo people.
However, if the aristocratic families and businessmen were the ones to push this, the outcome would already be determined. In order to maximize their own interests, they would even betray the entire country.
A few days ago, when Fang Yun was attacking the local tyrants, he had mocked the aristocratic families and said, "If the businessmen and aristocratic families are really working hard to help Jingguo become stronger, they are only trying to sell it for a good price."
Once the profits were high enough, the profit-seeking businessmen would cause Jingguo to fall into disaster.
Therefore, Fang Yun could only choose to let the government take the lead and let the people do the work.
In the course of history, everything seemed to be coincidental, but everything was inevitable.
No matter where the Huaxia civilization was in the world, its culture, etiquette, political system, bureaucracy, and other aspects all had indelible similarities.
Therefore, Fang Yun did not stupidly follow the foreign system and make a complete revolution. Instead, he chose the path with the highest compatibility.
Some things were good, but they would not be suitable for any race.
Fang Yun looked at the draft and knew very well where his resistance came from.
It was not the Hall of Propriety, the School of Miscellaneous Arts, or even the Notre-Dame. Fang Yun had never treated these forces as his opponents, because he had too many ways to deal with them.
The bureaucratic system that had been corrupted for a long time, the myriad of races, and the strong inertia of the races were the biggest obstacles to his reform.
After sorting out his thoughts, Fang Yun's eyes were filled with confidence.
As long as he could decide the direction of Jingguo, the Jingguo bureaucrats would not deviate from the correct path. As long as he truly cared about the people, the aliens would not be able to abuse their power. As long as he did not want the vanity of the four barbarians coming to court, he would be able to avoid the consequences. As long as he was not arrogant enough to think that he could solve everything, he would be able to prevent the aliens from causing chaos.
Fang Yun lowered his head and flipped through the draft. Suddenly, a faint smile appeared on his face as he understood something.
As the Left Prime Minister, as long as he really wanted to do something, even if he couldn't do it well, he wouldn't let things go bad. Only when he didn't want to do it or didn't know how to do it would the country have problems.
Fang Yun took out a new piece of paper. After thinking for a long time, he lowered his head and began to write.
It was about abolishing all forms of human trafficking, slavery, and unequal employment relationships.
Under the leadership of Fang Yun and the Left Prime Minister's Office, the form of official documents in Jingguo had quietly changed. Simplified characters and vernacular texts were popular. Except for official documents such as laws, which were written in both classical and vernacular texts, most of the official documents were written in vernacular.
This allowed the Jingguo bureaucrats to transmit information faster and more accurately.
For this purpose, Fang Yun had even specially written a set of "Human Vernacular Grammar", which had already been published in Jingguo. Except for Wu Guo, which immediately copied it, the other countries were all waiting to see.
Fang Yun wrote at a fast speed. Not long after, the new draft was completed. Then, Fang Yun went through it word by word, deleting, adding, and changing it.
Many of the reforms were closely linked and couldn't be missed.
While increasing the efficiency of agriculture and allowing farmers to enter the cities to work as workers, he had to ensure that the imperial court had a firm grasp of the law and punishment. This was because once the private punishment was rampant and the clan's power was too heavy, there would be a situation where the royal power was not in the countryside. No matter how hard Fang Yun tried, the imperial court would only get half the results with twice the effort.
With enough workers and the weakening of the clan's authority, Fang Yun was able to resolve the employment relationship on the basis of these two reforms.
In the Saint Origin World, as long as it was voluntary and was certified by the yamen, human trafficking was legal.
The various countries and dynasties had never cracked down on human trafficking. They only cracked down on illegal human trafficking.
When Fang Yun was in Ning An City, he could only crack down on illegal human trafficking. He couldn't do anything about legal human trafficking.
In today's Saint Origin World, many people who had a little bit of money kept slaves, whether it was maidservants or servants. Those rich and powerful families often kept thousands of slaves, and those aristocratic families often had tens of thousands of slaves.
Every country even had a "Slave Law", which was specifically used to restrain slave owners and servants. The status of servants was extremely low. The law even stipulated that in some cases, slave owners who killed their servants were completely innocent. Even if they were guilty, they could be pardoned by paying some silver.
This seemed to be an ordinary matter, but it hindered the development of the human race.
The reason was very simple. Any technological advancement of the human race had a high cost in the short term.
In the eyes of slave owners, slaves were a business. Once they were bought, they had to be used. If they didn't use them, it would be a waste. As for spending more money to buy better farm tools, mechanisms, cattle, and horses, it wasn't a small expense. Buying them would only benefit the serfs, so it was better not to buy them.
Once all the rich people did this, the relevant technological innovation would slow down or even stagnate.
In fact, the human race had many advanced mechanisms early on. For example, the mechanism for fetching water. However, at the beginning, the aristocratic families didn't pay attention to it and still let their servants fetch water manually. It wasn't until a long time later that the mechanism for fetching water slowly became popular. This wasn't because the aristocratic families had a conscience, but because they found that with the mechanism for fetching water, the serfs could free up their hands to do more things. At the same time, they could use it to show off their financial resources.
Slave ownership led to the weakening of the impetus for technological innovation. On the other hand, the slaves had no autonomy in many aspects. The disposable income was extremely meager. They had needs, but they didn't have the money to exchange for them.
This led to the reduction of the country's consumption, unable to stimulate domestic demand, which naturally affected the development. What's more, once the slaves became free people, they would play a more important role.
Therefore, once the slave ownership was abolished and the unreasonable employment relationship was abolished, it would indeed seriously damage the interests of the landlord and the aristocratic families. However, it would be of great benefit to the country and the entire human race.
The power of the human race was actually very strong, but it hadn't been fully released.
Some people's selfish desires hindered the progress of the human race.
Cao Gui said in the debate that the meat-eaters were despicable and failed to think far. This was what he meant. He didn't mean that the powerful people were really stupid.
Fang Yun put down the draft in his hand and sighed softly.
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