On this day, family and gender conflicts among the Human Race grew more intense than ever before.
Husbands beat their wives, fathers beat their daughters, elder brothers beat their sisters...
The root of every conflict was whether women could participate in the Imperial Examination.
Men everywhere tore up women's books, threw away their writing supplies, and began suppressing women on a massive scale.
But then another piece of news ignited the Saint Origin Continent.
The Jing Kingdom successively introduced three new laws.
Women's Rights Protection Act, Children's Rights Protection Act, and Compulsory Education Act.
Under the new laws, the right of women and children to receive an education was inviolable. Beginning next year, all school-age children throughout the Jing Kingdom, whether boys or girls, would be required to undergo six years of compulsory education starting from age seven. In the future, compulsory education would be extended.
In the Jing Kingdom, any parent who obstructed their child's education would receive a prison sentence of no less than three years and no more than seven. Anyone who publicly advocated resisting the new laws would be punished for subverting the Jing Kingdom's regime, with prison terms beginning at ten years.
Throughout compulsory education, all expenses would be borne by the Jing Kingdom's treasury. Should it prove insufficient, the Blood Radiance Merchant Association would provide the funds free of charge.
Before entering the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land, Fang Yun had already proposed five years of compulsory education, but it had merely been part of a reform plan and had never become law. The Jing Kingdom had never implemented it. Especially after Fang Yun entered the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land, many reforms had been interrupted.
But now, compulsory education had formally been legislated and would be forcibly implemented throughout the nation.
There was also an apparently inconspicuous