Unexpectedly, the head of the Legal Affairs Department did not go to the widely expected Man Chong. Instead, it fell to Fa Yan.
Fa Yan might not have been very famous, but his son, Fa Zheng, would go down in history.
The Legalist tradition passed down Legalist doctrine. During the early Han Dynasty, Legalism had still enjoyed a decent position, but after the policy of Revere Confucianism Alone, although the Han Dynasty still consisted of law as its bones and Confucianism as its flesh, Legalism's status had continued to decline, gradually being swallowed and absorbed by Confucianism.
By the end of the Han Dynasty, all the families that had inherited Legalist doctrine had fallen into poverty. Man Chong was one such example.
When Guanzhong had fallen into chaos in history, his entire family had fled to the Shu Region of Yizhou to escape disaster. Now, however, because of the Talent Recruitment Order and the legal reforms being implemented in Qingzhou, the entire Legalist family had moved directly to Qingzhou. Eighteen-year-old Fa Zheng had also taken Jia Xu as his teacher and was learning government affairs from him.
As for Man Chong, he had been appointed head of the Police Department. What Wang Xuan wanted was his unsympathetic, severe face. He was about to clash head-on with the great families from every region. If he were not ruthless and merciless enough, how could he crush those great families?
As for the law-enforcement constables in the commanderies and counties, they had all been selected from the army. Every one of them was a veteran who had seen battle and blood, and all of them came from Qingzhou. They had no ties whatsoever to the local great families, ensuring that they would show no mercy when they struck.
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