After the Grand Court Assembly dispersed, Fang Yun returned to the Left Prime Minister's Office and summoned the Empress Dowager, the Left Prime Minister and the Assistant Prime Minister, all the Grand Secretariat Councillors, and the important officials of the Grand Secretariat and the ministries. With Gao Mo, a Great Scholar of the Legalist School, participating, they prepared to collectively draft a Jing Kingdom Constitution Draft.
In fact, once everyone had arrived, Fang Yun handed each of them a constitutional draft he had already drawn up himself.
At the very first lines, every official jolted. None had expected Fang Yun to be so bold.
The first article of the Constitution stated that the Jing Kingdom was a nation of the Human Race, with scholars as its main body, under the leadership of the monarch and the Grand Secretariat.
The officials had originally known nothing of constitutions, but after hearing Fang Yun's explanation in the Heaven-Serving Hall, they all understood that a constitution was a country's supreme law. Every law and regulation in the country had to be formulated and enforced in accordance with it, and no act violating the constitution was permitted.
One could say that the constitution defined what kind of country the nation was, what kind of laws its laws were, and what kind of officials its officials were.
Although this first article did not explicitly define the nature of the Jing Kingdom, it placed the Grand Secretariat and the monarch in nearly equal positions for the first time. That meant that, from this day forward, the Jing Lord would have no power to overturn the Grand Secretariat.
In other words, the Jing Lord would no longer have absolute control over the Grand Secretariat. He would not even have veto power.
The same saying came to every official's