Chapter 899: Unhappy Retribution

Chapter 899: Unhappy Retribution

Chapter 899: Unhappy Retribution
The Jade Emperor's difficulty was soon resolved. Before he could figure out how to deal with the guilty officials who were kneeling in the Lingxiao Palace, Wen Rui had already submitted the memorial to discuss the crimes.

This treacherous minister, who was a little too capable, had already prepared a plan for the Jade Emperor to deal with all the guilty officials. All he needed was the Jade Emperor's signature and seal.

When the Jade Emperor first received the jade slip of memorial handed to him by Wen Rui, he was almost furious, but he tried his best to restrain himself and did not scold him on the spot for his crime of usurpation of the throne of the King of Gods.

When the Jade Emperor was furious, he looked at the jade slip carefully, and the evil fire in his heart could not be vented even if he wanted to.

This memorial contains hundreds of thousands of words. Fortunately, the carrier is a jade slip that has a relatively large information storage capacity. If it were replaced with bamboo slips used by ordinary people in today's era, I am afraid that several ox carts would not be able to pull it.

The memorial contained a huge table, detailing the crimes of each sinning immortal, and made sentencing recommendations based on the terms of the Heavenly Law. It also gave a quantitative score for the severity of the sentencing and calculated a comprehensive score for the crime.

Next, a comprehensive score was given to each criminal based on whether he or she had made meritorious contributions by reporting crimes, the degree of his or her cooperation with the investigation, and the severity of his or her subjective malice, and a preliminary calculation of the sentence reduction score was made.

Finally, there are the fairy jades and various natural treasures that this sinful immortal paid as donations for his sins. Some of them were obtained through corruption, while others were legal income. They were the wealth accumulated by this sinful immortal through his hard work in mining and collecting in the realm of desire over the years.

Based on the total amount of immortal jade donated and the grade of the natural treasures paid, a score is calculated after evaluation, which serves as the basis for forgiveness of crimes and deduction of criminal penalties.

After adding and subtracting the scores, each sinner has a final score. At the end of the memorial is another large table, which divides the sentencing ranges according to the score ranges, so that the Jade Emperor can follow the map and give them corresponding punishments within a certain range according to each person's score.

The sentencing of hundreds of criminals is listed clearly and at a glance, which minimizes the influence of subjective factors of the judges and eliminates the problem of heavy sentences for minor crimes or light sentences for serious crimes.

The most important thing is that the judgment of each sinning immortal is well-reasoned and convincing.

The Jade Emperor just wanted to find faults, and couldn't find a suitable excuse to not follow the decision from above.

He knew that Wen Rui was exceeding his authority by submitting this memorial, which was a provocation to the Jade Emperor's supreme power. He was treating the Jade Emperor like a puppet emperor and playing with him in front of all the gods. He deserves to be killed.

The Jade Emperor could only bite the bullet, pull the corners of his mouth stiffly, revealing an ugly smile, and praised: "Good! This memorial has a detailed analysis of the evils of corruption, and the punishment is in line with the laws of heaven. You can use thunderous means to enforce the law, and at the same time persuade people to do good with a gentle heart. You are truly 'powerful enough to suppress villains, and benevolent enough to comfort the immortals'."

"There are so many termites in the heavenly court. I am so disappointed that I really want to wave my pen and send all these sinful immortals to the wheel of reincarnation for rebirth. Fortunately, I have loyal and capable ministers like the Wen family to assist me. It is really a great blessing for me and I am very relieved."

"Just follow the memorial of Wen Xiao Tianzun and order the Censorate to implement it. If it can clean up the atmosphere in the heavenly palace, your word 'good fortune' will truly be a merit of clearing away the turbidity and promoting the clear."

Although he said this, the Jade Emperor's expression was as ugly as if he had just eaten shit and was praising it for being delicious.

What else can he do? He can't win the fight. Even if the Wen family's big and small Tianzuns join forces, a hundred Yang Jians will be pinned to the ground. And even a single Yang Jian who throws a tantrum will be enough to overwhelm the Jade Emperor.

There is no way to reason with him, as everything is clearly arranged by others, and the sentencing is based on the Heavenly Laws and Imperial Decrees issued by the Jade Emperor. Gangsters can go back on their words and break their promises, but the emperors on earth must abide by the rules of the emperor's word, not to mention the Jade Emperor, whose words are the law.

Then he could only swallow his anger and accept it. Not only did he have to accept it, but he also had to thank Wen Rui! If he hadn't taken out this memorial to help the Jade Emperor solve the problem, the Jade Emperor really didn't know how to deal with these scum among the immortal officials.

If the punishment is too severe, the administrative system of Heaven will collapse and it will fall into the embarrassing situation of having no officials available for a long time.

If the punishment is too lenient, Heaven will not tolerate it and the Jade Emperor will be retaliated by Heaven for protecting evil, and his merits and virtues will be greatly damaged.

Wen Rui's scoring mechanism is, on the contrary, the optimal solution under the current circumstances. It deals with every guilty official relatively fairly and impartially. The punished immortal officials are all convinced by their own judgment and cannot complain about injustice.

In the punishment list, many immortal officials were spared the death penalty, but they also paid a corresponding price. Not only did they return all the stolen money and goods, but also all their savings that they had painstakingly accumulated over many years were confiscated and turned over.

Instead, greed backfired and all his efforts were in vain.

Wen Rui's sentencing and commutation calculation formula is quite sophisticated. Even though the sinful immortals emptied their entire fortunes, they were still unable to withstand all their sins. They still had to accept many punishments such as demotion, salary fines, detention, and forced labor, which was considered as interest payment for the karmic debts they had created.

Some crimes are extremely serious, involving harming a region, harming the people, and taking human lives. Even if one surrenders all his savings as tribute to reduce his sentence, he can only escape the highest penalty of complete annihilation of body and soul. He still has to go to the Immortal Execution Platform to have his body destroyed, and his soul re-enter the cycle of reincarnation, having to repent and reform himself by saying "pay attention in the next life."

Moreover, the publication of this memorial sent an important signal to all the immortals in heaven, proving the true value of the saying "Heaven's net is vast and nothing can escape it."

We should be careful about everything. Those who were lucky enough before the Wen father and son launched the anti-corruption storm thought that even gods could not figure out the bad debts that had existed for thousands of years, and that the secret evil deeds they did were unknown to gods.

Things like those who do evil will go to hell and there are gods above our heads are all propaganda slogans to scare mortals. They think that these immortals are above the law and can exploit loopholes in the law.

Western religions often use "retribution" to scare believers, but the lifespan of gods is almost infinite, and there is no such thing as an afterlife. As long as you are good at surviving disasters and avoiding calamities, retribution will never affect you.

However, in just one month, Wen Rui taught all the immortals who held such thoughts a truth: "Every action has its consequences, and I am your retribution!"

When Wen Rui came to them with retribution, they had no room to resist at all. Even if they wanted to argue, they would be silenced and sweaty by the countless hard evidence.

This retribution was just right, not a bit more or less, and it matched the sins they had committed very well, even including the interest.

It is simply the embodiment of the vague and vague concept of heaven's retribution.

Among the sinful immortals who were kneeling on the ground and trembling, many people speculated that the various methods that Wen Rui used in this round of anti-corruption storm were the wonderful methods of the Heavenly Dao that he analyzed from the fragments of the Heavenly Dao's Law of Retribution using the secret method of cutting off the sky, which was how he was able to subdue them.

(End of this chapter)