Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm - Chapter 216
Chapter 216: Chapter 215: Representative Figure of the Great Zhou Legal Code
Translator: 549690339
When Dong Wuwei proposed the three cardinal guides, he was doomed not to become a commander in the Imperial Palace, let alone sacrificing his own son.
This is a man who will do anything for his ideals.
Jiang Li could guarantee that if he was recruited to the Imperial Palace, he would work harder than Zhang Konghu, and the annual Spirit Stone reward he received would be more than other commanders.
But his beliefs were contradictory to Jiang Li’s.
Dong Wuwei wanted to become Dong Zhongshu, but Jiang Li was not the Han Emperor.
“Your ambitions are too big, too complex, perhaps some monarch might agree with your views, but it wouldn’t be me.” Jiang Li left it at that and left.
Being straightforwardly rejected by the ideal ruler he envisaged, Dong Wuwei felt mixed emotions, as if the pursuit of his life had been cut off, leaving no way forward.
All the preparations of these twenty years had been in vain.
Dong Wuwei sat in the tea house, drinking one cup of cold tea after another.
“Father.” Dong Wuwei’s son found his father sitting in the tea house.
In Dong Wuwei’s son’s impression, his father was always ambitious, had ideals, and was never seen to be disheartened.
Dong Wuwei, who had a child after living in seclusion, did not tell his son his origins.
“Xi’er, is my belief wrong?” Dong Wuwei asked subconsciously.
Dong Xi did not answer.
Seeing his son silent, Dong Wuwei felt somewhat relieved. No matter what he had done, at least his son still considered him a good father with no flaws.
So he encouraged, “You don’t have to hesitate. Think carefully, even if it’s a small mistake.”
Dong Xi shook his head: “Father, if you ask Xi’er to say, Xi’er will naturally say it. It’s just that Xi’er thinks you are wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to start. I was just organizing my thoughts.”
Dong Wuwei was stunned.
Dong Xi really did obey his father’s orders, but he never thought it was right.
“For instance, you say ‘ruler is the guiding principle for officials,’ thinking that as long as the officials follow the monarch’s words, they can govern the country well, which is one-sided.”
“You only see the relationship between the ruler and the officials, but not the relationship between the ruler and the people.”
“When a monarch dies and his heir succeeds him, the country is still the same country. ”
“But when the people die, national fortune disappears, the country loses meaning, the country is no longer, showing that the state is rooted in the people.”
Although Dong Xi’s thinking was naive and flawed, the underlying thought was very different from Dong Wuwei’s.
It was then that Dong Wuwei realized that he only saw his son as proof of his selflessness, and never truly understood his son.
He finally realized that he was wrong, very wrong.
His son is not a tool, nor a vessel to inherit his thoughts, he is an individual with his own thoughts!
“Stop talking.” Dong Wuwei’s voice was trembling.
Dong Xi obediently stopped talking, thinking he had said something wrong.
“Do you… still want to cultivate? Father can help you.”
Dong Xi has wasted precious ten years, which Dong Wuwei could fully make up for with his Body Integration Realm abilities.
Dong Wuwei began to reconsider whether his long-held beliefs were correct, whether he had misinterpreted his ancestor Dong Zhongshu, or perhaps his ancestor was wrong in the first place?
He couldn’t figure it out for a while, so he decided to stay here, to make up for his son’s lost time, to care for his wife, and to teach his students.
Jiang Li, who had concealed his aura, saw this scene and finally left to find the next candidate for commander.
The second commander candidate was a Loose Cultivator.
The fact that he could cultivate to the Body Integration Realm as a Loose Cultivator was an indication of his talents.
Moreover, after this Loose Cultivator reached the Body Integration Realm, he didn’t establish a family or join any organization and has remained solitary till now.
He shared the same hometown as Jiang Li, both from the Great Zhou.
This Loose Cultivator had been famous for a long time. When Jiang Li was only in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he had heard of him, a well-known cultivator in the Body Integration Realm.
Now that Jiang Li had reached the Mahayana Realm, the other party was still a famous cultivator at the Body Integration Realm in the Great Zhou.
When Jiang Li found him, he was pleading with a Great Zhou official.
“I beg you, please annul my records of criminal offenses. A few days ago, Commander Liu of the Imperial Palace included me in the list of alternative commanders.”
“What if the Emperor thinks I am good enough to be a commander, and then looks into my scores of past offenses and dismisses me? What a loss it would
“Du Quan, you’re a citizen of the Great Zhou, you know the rules.” The Minister of Public Affairs looked at Du Quan helplessly. This man was all too familiar, there was not a single citizen in the Great Zhou who didn’t know him.
Wine Immortal Du Ping, a notorious lawbreaker. The number of times he had been sent to prison far exceeded the number of times he had entered his own home. He was reputed to be a model of the Great Zhou’s legal code and a pioneer in lawbreaking.
The Great Zhou authorities frequently used Du Quan as an example to the people, showing them that even a cultivator in the Body Integration Realm would be sent to prison if they broke the law.
The example Jiang Li heard when he was in the Great Zhou was like this:
Du Ping, a cultivator at the Body Integration Realm, got drunk and rolled around shirtless on the street in his sleep. This severely disrupted public order and set a bad example. He was fined five hundred lower-grade Spirit Stones for violating public security laws and detained for ten days.
The Department of Public Affairs reminds: Drinking and breaking the law will be punished equally. Drink rationally, do not imitate Du Ping by indulging in the effects of alcohol and deliberately resisting sobering up.
Du Ping, a cultivator at the Body Integration Realm, purchased counterfeit liquor and demanded ten times the compensation from the merchant. The merchant responded by compensating him with ten jars of counterfeit liquor. Angered, Du Ping wreaked havoc in the merchant’s shop.
The merchant was charged with selling counterfeit liquor. He was ordered to recall all the fake liquor he had sold and incarcerated in jail for three months. Du Ping damaged other people’s property and violated public security regulations. He was detained for fifteen days.
The Department of Public Affairs reminds: Please seek legal help when faced with difficulties, do not act impulsively and break the law.
And there were many other examples like these.
After Jiang Li left the Great Zhou, he didn’t pay much attention to this cultivator who was on the Great Zhou’s blacklist.
He remembered that the Department of Public Affairs had a research topic discussing how to prevent Du Ping from committing crimes.
“Rules, I understand, I understand.” Du Ping giggled, took out a Storage Ring and handed it to the Minister of Public Affairs, “There are eight thousand high-grade Spirit Stones in here.”
Seeing it like a snake or scorpion, the Minister of Public Affairs promptly slapped the Storage Ring to the ground: “Du Ping, you dare to bribe! You’re trying to ruin me!”
Bribery by officials of the Great Zhou, once discovered, led to incarceration in the Heavenly Prison.
“No, no.” Du Ping quickly denied it, “Then the rules you’re talking about are…”
The Minister of Public Affairs glared at him: “Of course, if you break the law, don’t think about getting your case expunged!”
“Then can’t I join the Imperial Palace?”
“Every time you touch alcohol, you lose your senses. I’ve told you many times to drink less and not be impulsive. Every time you say it won’t happen again.”
“When I first started as a police officer, the first person I arrested was you for drunk misconduct. Now I have become the Minister of Public Affairs, and you’re still committing drunk misconduct!”
The Minister of Public Affairs pointed to three stacks of case files beside him:
“These are all the things you’ve done over the past few centuries!”
If they were destroyed, that would mean he would no longer have a criminal record… Du Ping was tempted.
The Minister of Public Affairs snorted: “Don’t say I didn’t warn you, destroying case files is a crime, more serious than breaking the law. And these have all been copied onto jade slips, so destroying them is useless.”
Du Ping collapsed in disappointment..</p
