Three Enclosures and Four Symbols

Chapter 91 Jing Country's New Policies, Lun Bangwenhui

"This Holy Council has ultimately decided to use Jing as a pilot country to test the new policies for a period of ten years. If Jing is stronger than the other nine countries after ten years, the new policies will be implemented throughout the entire human race. If the new policies fail, Jing will revert to its current system."

Jiang Xuan looked at the remaining Three Ministers and the Empress and said, "Of course, during the testing period of the new policies, the Holy Academy will fully cooperate with Jing. According to this Saint's calculations, the probability of success for the new policies is over eighty percent. Therefore, I hope you all can continue to dedicate yourselves to the newborn Jing in the time to come."

"Saint Jiang, are these new policies the same as the system in your Saintly Mind World?"

Su Qinghuan asked, now with a bit more composure. Normally, she would definitely be unhappy to hear this, as it would be seizing the Zhao family's country, and how could she accept that?

But after the Saintly Mind World, she had a different perspective on these issues. Especially since she majored in political science in the Saintly Mind World, she could naturally see the many shortcomings and flaws of the current Jing.

Jiang Xuan looked at her change and revealed a smile, but also shook her head, "The policies in the Saintly Mind World are still too far away for the current human race. We need to proceed step by step, otherwise it will only end in failure."

If the history of the Saint Origin Continent were to correspond to her previous life, it would be after the Three Kingdoms period and before the Sui and Tang dynasties. However, because of the existence of the Holy Academy, the Eastern and Western Jin dynasties were not born, nor did the Five Barbarian Tribes and Sixteen Kingdoms appear, but rather the existing ten countries.

Although the imperial examination system has already appeared at this time, wanting to transition to socialism in one step would be too big of a leap, and would only harm oneself and others.

Therefore, after the Saints entered her Saintly Mind World, combined with the history of that world and the current situation of the ten countries, they discussed with Jiang Xuan to come up with a new policy with a higher degree of feasibility.

Jiang Xuan waved her delicate hand, and several pages of holy text, shimmering with a pearly white light, fell down. This was the new policy system drafted by her and the Saints. The specific details still needed to be discussed internally within Jing. This was also one of the reasons why Jiang Xuan had them enter the Saintly Mind World.

"Establish a cabinet?" Su Qinghuan looked at the first clause of the draft and her expression changed slightly. She didn't expect that the first clause would be to divide the power of the monarch. If it were the former her, she definitely wouldn't be able to accept it, but now it was much better.

"Rituals belong to Heaven, laws belong to the people..."

This point once again divided the power of the monarch. The cabinet weakened the monarch's control over the government, and this point weakened the monarch's control over the laws.

In the future, the Jing Kingdom's monarch would represent the "rituals" of Jing, and would be more of a symbol of honor, just like the United Kingdom she saw in the Saintly Mind World.

Seeing this, Su Qinghuan already knew what kind of transitional period the Saints had chosen. This was aimed at weakening the monarch's authority little by little. Presumably, at some point in the future, the monarchical system would completely disappear. Even if it existed, it might only be a symbol of the country.

But this was also very normal. Many scholars on the Saint Origin Continent were originally arrogant, and many scholars were simply unwilling to be constrained by the monarch of the country. They allowed the existence of the country, but they were unwilling for the monarch to interfere with their decisions. Therefore, even in the past, the monarch's control over the scholars was very low, otherwise Liu Shan's situation would not have occurred.

After a brief explanation of the new policies of Jing, there was also a "Draft Constitution" on the holy pages, which listed several articles of the constitution set by the Saints.

Everyone present had entered the Saintly Mind World, so they naturally understood what a constitution represented. This was the fundamental law of a country.

Overall, this draft constitution was not much different from the knowledge they had learned in the Saintly Mind World, but it was more suitable for the current Saint Origin Continent, and it was obviously prepared for the ten countries.

Because of this, this draft was not entirely applicable to Jing, because the Saints had taken all ten countries into consideration when they were considering it, so Jing would need to modify it again next.

"The Jing Kingdom's new policies will be guided and supervised by this Saint and Saint Chen, and the Saints of the Hundred Schools of Thought will be responsible for cooperating. The former Jing monarch will also serve as the Minister of Rites in the cabinet, and the former Right Minister, Assistant Minister, and Minister of Culture will also enter the cabinet to govern. The six ministers will also serve as cabinet elders, and their stay will be determined by their political achievements."

Jiang Xuan said, and finally looked at Su Qinghuan again, and said, "In addition, you will also enter the cabinet and take charge of the position of Left Minister. Moreover, because the Jing monarch is young, you can choose someone from the royal family to serve as the Minister of Rites on your behalf. After the Jing monarch comes of age, the position of Minister of Rites will be returned to the Jing monarch."

"A woman entering the cabinet and serving as the Left Minister?!"

Si Yueqing couldn't help but exclaim. Even though he had learned a lot in the Saintly Mind World, that was, after all, the Saintly Mind World, and this was reality. It was simply unimaginable for a woman to serve as the Left Minister.

However, the moment he said those words, cold sweat instantly soaked his back. How dare he say such things here?

He was so impressed by Jiang Xuan's Saintly Way that he had forgotten that the person in front of him was a female Saint!

But Jiang Xuan merely glanced at him, and then continued, "There is an article in the constitution about equality between men and women. If the cabinet is entirely male, what persuasive power does this article have?"

Si Yueqing's heart trembled. Although Jiang Xuan didn't blame him, he had said the wrong thing just now, and he had said those words after studying in the Saintly Mind World, which lowered his impression score in Jiang Xuan's eyes to the lowest.

"What about you? Do you have any objections?" Jiang Xuan looked at Su Qinghuan, who was still in shock at this time.

Jiang Xuan actually let her serve as the Left Minister of Jing! This was unprecedented. She, Su Qinghuan, would truly become the first female official in the world!

"This concubine... this subject has no objections."

Su Qinghuan's shoulders were trembling. Equality between men and women was only four words, but for the entire Saint Origin Continent, and even the entire human race, it was more difficult than the birth of a Demisaint.

Although Jiang Xuan was a female Saint, if she really wanted to implement the idea of "equality between men and women," even if Jiang Xuan was a Saint, she would inevitably be opposed by scholars all over the world.

But she still did it without hesitation, directly making Su Qinghuan the first female official in the world, and also the Left Minister of a country, which made Su Qinghuan inevitably admire and respect her.

"Good." Jiang Xuan nodded.

"Minister Wen." There are no fathers and sons in the imperial court. Jiang Xuan couldn't call Jiang Hechuan grandfather at this moment, so she addressed him by his official position.

"This subject is here." Jiang Hechuan replied.

"Now is the time for the imperial examination, and the new policies of Jing have not yet been implemented, so you will be temporarily responsible for the imperial examination. At the same time, you must also prepare for the coming year's examination for children, where men and women will be tested together."

The examination for children is held every year, and it is the foundation of the imperial examination. Moreover, without passing the examination for children, one cannot participate in the subsequent examinations, so the joint examination of men and women can only begin next year.

"Yes." Jiang Hechuan said. At this moment, he fully supported his granddaughter. Especially after returning from Jiang Xuan's Saintly Mind World, he also looked forward to the Saint Origin Continent being as beautiful as that world.

"Well, for the time being, that's all. You go and gather the officials and complete the Jing Constitution as soon as possible." Jiang Xuan said to them, "If there are any pedantic or stubborn people, remove them from their positions. This Saint will temporarily transfer people from the Holy Academy to replace them, and then look for other talents."

"Yes." The four of Su Qinghuan were shocked. Jiang Xuan was prepared to either break the old or establish the new. No one could stop the implementation of Jing's new policies!

...

Just as the people of Jing were waiting for news from the palace, a golden article suddenly appeared on the forum. Without any reason, it overwhelmed all the articles and appeared directly at the top of the forum.

"This is... Saint Jiang's article?"

"This... doesn't seem to be an article."

But they soon discovered that this was not an ordinary Demisaint article, but a debate article, and the topic of the debate instantly made the entire Saint Origin Continent boil.

The topic of this debate article was "Should the Human Race have Equality between Men and Women?"

Jiang Xuan made it clear on the above that everyone can see the reply content after entering the article, but cannot reply directly.

To reply, you must use your divine sense to select the four words "Participate in the Debate" at the end of the article.

Once you choose to participate in the debate, you will randomly obtain an identity, either as the "Supporter" or the "Opposer," and it will be automatically displayed when you reply.

The reply to this article cannot be nonsense, and the content must strictly respect the theme and reply according to the rules listed in the article.

The Supporter must prove that there should be equality between men and women, while the Opposer must do the opposite. If they prove it randomly or even violate their own identity, they will be disqualified from replying and will be banned for ten years for disrupting the forum.

Of course, the judges of this debate were also extremely luxurious, and were jointly presided over by the incarnations of the Eastern Saint Wang Jinglong, the Southern Saint Zu Chongzhi, the Kong Family Patriarch Kong Changxun, Mi Fengdian, and Jiang Xuan.

Moreover, this debate also set up many rewards.

For example, the Ten Thousand Participants Award, the Best Thousand People Award, the Golden Sentence Award, the Top 100 Award, the Mixed Award, and so on. Jiang Xuan didn't think too much about these and directly followed the rewards from when Fang Yun held the debate.

The only real difference was the final champion award. There was one winner for each side, and in addition to being able to become disciples of Jiang Xuan and the other four, they could also receive a Demisaint-level martial arts technique deduced by Jiang Xuan!

According to the description in the forum, as long as this Demisaint-level martial arts technique can be practiced to perfection, it can be directly used to become a Demisaint!

Of course, at the very end of the article, there was a line of extremely small text: "Jiang Xuan reserves the right of final interpretation for this debate."

However, after the human race scholars finished reading the article, they didn't care about the last line of small print at all, and only felt their blood surge, and the human race boil!

Not to mention the other awards, each one was extremely tempting, but the most tempting was the champion award. Becoming a Demisaint's personal disciple, all the other rewards were no longer important.

In the history of the human race, the personal disciples of Demisaints, except for accidental deaths, all became Great Scholars. Therefore, this champion award was the Great Scholar Award, and for Great Scholars, it was likely to be the Literary Master Award or the Literary Giant Award!

Moreover, in addition to that, they could also obtain a Demisaint-level martial arts technique. They believed that the Saints would not lie, which meant that Jiang Xuan could really take out a technique that directly pointed to the Demisaint level!

How strong should she be? Could it be that she really had become a Quasi-Saint, as speculated on the forum before?!

Of course, very few people were entangled in this point at this moment. All the human race focused their attention on this unprecedented debate, and almost all the scholars who saw this immediately chose to participate!

"If the Saint Origin women want to participate in the debate on the forum, they can call out the Saint's real name, and this Saint can give you the opportunity."

Jiang Xuan's voice resounded in the skies of the ten countries. She became a Saint through martial arts, and was also a pinnacle Quasi-Saint. It was extremely simple for her Saintly Mind to cover the Saint Origin Continent, and her incarnation was a Star Incarnation, which had eighty percent of the power of her main body, making it even easier to do this.

Of course, she couldn't just randomly guide women into the forum. She would only guide those who had unique and reasonable viewpoints.

This debate quickly became a craze among the scholars of the ten countries. At first, both sides of the debate were polite and basically able to remain calm.

However, as the debate progressed, the vast majority of people could not control their emotions and began to debate each other with all their strength. Anyone who made personal attacks or insults would be ruthlessly silenced.

But even so, this forum debate was like a vegetable market. Even the famous writers and poets from all over the world were arguing red-faced for a point of view.

Jiang Xuan even saw Fang Yun's speech in it. Unfortunately, he was assigned to the opposing side. If he was on the supporting side, he, who had received one or twenty years of gender equality education, would probably have more wonderful speeches.

In addition to that, there were also some very good comments among the women. They didn't have literary status and seemed out of place compared to the scholars on the forum, but their views were liked by many scholars.

Similarly, more and more people realized the true meaning of this debate. "Equality between men and women" was just a contradiction. In this debate, both sides could speak freely. Obviously, they were all forcibly assigned to the supporting and opposing sides, but they still needed to do their best to debate.

Many people even started new articles on the forum, sorting out the views of both sides, and then listing excellent debate replies, commenting on them one by one.

Moreover, regardless of the supporting or opposing side, they mainly praised those excellent points of view. Even those who pointed out flaws would be thanked by the original author. Everyone gradually began to look at the issue of "equality between men and women" calmly.

Obviously, it was an old rite that had lasted for thousands of years, but in this debate, a gap was forcibly torn open.

Of course, like all truly meaningful, valuable, and high-level debates, the result of the debate began to tend towards the middle. Both sides gradually abandoned extreme ideas and began to lean between should and shouldn't.

As a result, many scholars discovered that this debate not only did not cause the contradiction between men and women that had existed for thousands of years to erupt, but instead made the participants in the debate more tolerant. More and more scholars took the matter of "equality between men and women" lightly. Even those who were unwilling to accept it would not be too extreme.

This debate lasted for three full days. During these three days, many scholars didn't even rest and kept looking for arguments to defeat the other side. Many people said that what they gained in these three days far exceeded several years of hard study.

However, on the second day after the end of the debate, Jing suddenly issued new policies, and the "Jing Constitution" was also born. When they learned about the detailed clauses, the many scholars in the world finally understood the reason why this debate suddenly appeared.

This time, Jing was almost reorganized, cutting a few knives directly on the power of the monarch, and two female ministers appeared. One was the Jing Empress Dowager Su Qinghuan, who served as the Left Minister, and the other was the Jing Princess Zhao Hongzhuang, who temporarily served as the Minister of Rites.

Moreover, even the Saints of the Hundred Schools of Thought, and even the Zong Saint of the Miscellaneous School, did not object to this matter. Even the Holy Academy fully cooperated, and people from the Holy Academy were constantly being transferred to Jing to temporarily hold official positions.

At this moment, even if these scholars had no brains, they could guess what the topic of the Holy Council after Jiang Xuan became a Saint was.

Of course, they had already taken this very lightly at this time, not to mention that a female Saint had already appeared in the world, and she was extremely powerful, and was suspected of having surpassed all the Demisaints of the current era and reached the realm of Quasi-Saint.

The appearance of the previous debate was obviously a signal. With such a female Saint supporting them, any scholar with a little foresight knew that the matter of equality between men and women was inevitable and would become a certainty.