Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1750 Interference
“Like this,” Zhu Xianxi thought for a moment, “those who commit genuine violent superpower crimes, needless to say, should all be sent to the celestial realm to face dinosaurs and reflect on the suffering of being a mortal. As for those with violent tendencies but who have not yet committed acts of violence, intervention can be carried out in a sanatorium based on the joint judgment of the doctor, family, and the individual. Moreover, we believe that, whenever possible, this intervention must be conducted with family members present. We can implant a fictional memory into them, such as a holiday. This holiday will be set at about two or three months.”

This is essentially a holiday. By shielding past memories for two or three months, and by recuperating in the Sky City of Emitis for two or three months, Zhu Xianxi hopes to help some people emerge from the shadow of criminal tendencies and stop harming themselves or others.

Through this method, the wounds in the soul can heal to some extent after the scab forms—of course, whether they can be completely healed depends on each person's specific situation.

Zhu Xianxi's view is that, whenever possible, we should try our best to help these people avoid falling into the abyss of crime. Because if we don't intervene early, punishing them after they've committed a crime is like punishing someone without warning. Conversely, if we do our best to intervene beforehand, then imposing severe punishment later will be more reasonable.

This is primarily an ethical issue. Based on this guiding principle, many of the court's laws appear quite strict, because such severe punishment serves as a warning, a red line drawn for potential offenders. This principle remains unchanged even in the Heavenly Court; Zhu Xianxi simply hopes to address it through more effective methods.

“I have always believed that every human society has a basic crime rate.” Zhu Xianxi took a sip of tea. “After all, even ants and bees have some uncooperative individuals, let alone higher and uncontrollable humans. I believe that crime is a disease with many causes.”

Some are prone to violence, some are driven by uncontrollable desires, and others are simply impoverished—and some of these impoverished individuals fall into the category of "basic poverty," meaning that there are always some people in society who fall into poverty for various reasons.

“There are different ways to treat poverty-related diseases, which fall under the category of social welfare. What we need to address now are the inherent, potential destabilizing factors in society.”

"Is there any statistically significant data?"

Zhu Xianxi shook his head: "It's difficult to detect. After all, it's hard to determine whether a person commits a crime because they are born 'bad' or because of environmental influences. Moreover, some people may have natural antisocial tendencies, but their sense of morality is not low, so they usually don't do illegal things. They just take advantage of loopholes in the rules to serve themselves. You can't just arrest everyone with 'specific antisocial genes' indiscriminately."

These issues are all under the law and fall within the scope of ethics.

"Ethical issues are indeed very complex."

"So this is my job," Zhu Xianxi shook his head. "These problems that cannot be quantified or standardized must be solved uniformly by me through various extraordinary means. Only by bearing the nation's shame can one be a true emperor. Therefore..."

He looked at Shangluo and said, “So your solution is very important. You have provided an efficient means of intervention—because it is essentially recuperation and treatment, the parties involved and their families will be more accepting of it, and more people will be willing to accept external intervention to avoid going into dangerous situations.”

This is crucial because not all individuals with criminal potential are unobservable or beyond redemption. Given current levels of social governance, and especially with advanced social engineering techniques, a significant portion of these individuals can be identified and intervened upon.

The court wouldn't force them to undergo treatment. But by providing a medical holiday, many problems could be solved—though it's impossible to solve all problems once and for all, the more tools the better. The more tools, the more choices, and the wider the coverage.

“Heavenly Court, we need to be more careful with everyone,” Zhu Xianxi said. “Because everyone’s destructive power has increased. We really need to be more attentive to these kinds of problems than before—but speaking of which, I’m starting to get interested in the fighting power of the lower realms. You just mentioned that there are many warriors among them who are comparable to Qi cultivators? So that’s why you called earlier to say you wanted to recruit some followers from the lower realms, right?” “It’s a pity that we can’t recruit those real fire tribe warriors—their need for primordial energy is too great, and they would explode and die if they came up here. However, I’ve found some warriors who are faster and rely more on weapons in combat; they can solve some of the problems.”

"Shangluo, I have a question." He looked at Shangluo, "Is there any possibility for them to further improve themselves?"

"Senior brother, what do you mean?"

"Ascension—how many of them are there now?"

"The total world population should be around 20 billion."

"So according to the data you provided—there are millions of extraordinary individuals among them."

"That's true, but only a small number of them can actually be promoted to 'warrior' because it's an entire ethnic group, including men, women, young and old. There are only about 100,000 true warriors among them."

"This is quite a large scale—we need to consider whether cooperation with the lower realms could increase their number of extraordinary beings. Once the base number increases, the possibility of a breakthrough will also increase. Could they... emerge from the pot?"

This is cultivation. Zhu Xianxi knew that cultivation did not follow the law of conservation of energy. The power erupting from that small pot could very well exceed the power invested in casting the entire pot. Just as ascending to heaven in broad daylight can shatter the void.

"That is indeed possible."

“Hmm,” Zhu Xianxi nodded, “Then our choice was correct. Cooperating with them is also a way of keeping an eye on them. If similar signs appear, we can intervene in time. After all, a day in heaven is a year on earth, they move too fast.”

Zhu Xianxi was also worried about them remaining outside the court's control. This kind of intervention, like the one he was doing now, was a good starting point.

"I will compile a list as soon as possible. It will include who needs treatment, who doesn't, and what kind of treatment plan is required. It will be available in a few days. However, given their timeline, it will be several years from now. Let them prepare in those few years."

(End of this chapter)