Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1124 436: The Natural Flow of Time [5,400 Words]

The other meaning of what Ren Zhong and Ma Xiaoling said is that nothing is absolute.

Human society is like a forest full of dense trees.

No law can penetrate every corner of the forest.

Even the same leaf has two sides, one basking in sunlight, the other shaded.

What Ren Zhong can do is establish a management system in the First Continent based on the "Chinese Criminal Law."

As long as this system can benefit the majority, then even if he leaves Source Star with the Great Migration Fleet one day, those who remain will remember the benefits of this system and learn to turn it into a more perfect institution and keep it going.

As long as this institution exists, even though it may not be 100% effective in eradicating all evil, it can at least guide the social atmosphere from indulging in evil towards a positive direction, thus enabling Source Star civilization to break out of the vicious cycle of self-destruction and embark on the right path.

Perhaps one day in the future, this institution will continue to evolve into different forms, and its content will undergo some changes, but its core significance will not change.

This is the role of law.

The contribution of true politicians in history lies precisely in this.

At the right time, establishing management rules that meet the needs of the times and the backdrop of productivity, these rules become the institution.

At the same time, outstanding politicians will also leave behind many detailed provisions that exist to serve these rules, and these provisions can be used to regulate the behavior of humans at that time.

These provisions are laws.

For example, the Hammurabi Code, the laws of Shang Yang's reform, the laws of Wang Anshi's reform, or the many institutions left by Black Emperor Zhuanxu.

In the ancient Chinese civilization, Zhuan Xu, as the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, created the Nine Provinces, established governance institutions, defined marriage, regulated weddings, clarified the differences between men and women, established seniority order, prohibited witchcraft, reformed the calendar, and determined the four seasons and the twenty-four solar terms.

These legacies left by Zhuan Xu made him one of the founders of Chinese civilization.

Perhaps not every achievement of Zhuan Xu was completed by him personally.

He may have simply gathered together all the inventions and creations of the wise people of his time and used his orthodox power to solidify them from primitive theories into rules guiding the direction of civilization. However, Zhuan Xu was not a plagiarist, but a practitioner.

Because, to complete the solidification of these theoretical things, moving from fantasy into reality and leaving them behind, it requires not only the wisdom and ingenuity of inventors, but also the power in the hands of those in power.

At this moment, Ren Zhong's role on Source Star is precisely that of Zhuan Xu back then.

Due to the malformed nature of Source Star civilization, everything was built under the control of the "Net," so in the short millennia of its past history, no one on Source Star could accomplish achievements similar to Zhuan Xu's.

No one was qualified to establish their own rules with Source Star civilization under the jurisdiction of the "Net," resulting in a complete mismatch between the institution of Source Star and its productivity.

Now, Ren Zhong is personally completing this final step.

Once this step is complete, his historical status within Source Star civilization will fundamentally change.

He will no longer just be a kind entrepreneur, a powerful warrior, an outstanding military commander, or a pioneering scientist, but also an exceptional politician.

If, in the future, Source Star civilization has history books, the first thing recorded about Ren Zhong will not be his miraculous battle achievements, nor the rapid rise of the Ren Group, nor the resources and various scientific and technological advancements he left behind, but rather that he endowed Source Star civilization with the correct new order at the right time.

It is this order that can lead the Source Star civilization, which was originally heading towards extinction, to a new stage in the long time ahead.

Of course, at this moment, Ren Zhong is not thinking that far. He is just seizing the last moments before entering cryogenic sleep, doing his utmost to implement the institution he wants to realize.

At the dining table, he said to Ma Xiaoling: "In the past six months, you've done well, but it's still not enough, not nearly enough. You have only rooted out many key criminals in the First Continent, and that amounts to just ten thousand people. But we need more people. Therefore, our laws must be stricter, and moral standards must be more meticulously covered. In the coming time, we must at least dig out one million criminals every year on average from the First Continent."