"Indeed. Once this decree is issued, from then on Sects will be exalted above all. Those Sects will probably be doffing their caps in mutual congratulation. You gentlemen serve in the court; I ask that you urge His Majesty again and again."
"His Majesty wishes to choose Twelve Sects as 'Holy Chosen National Sects', and another Thirty-Six Sects as 'Officially Selected National Sects', to take charge of the civil affairs of the people of the thirty-nine provinces under Heaven, as well as the instruction of Martial Arts and Magic. This is sheer absurdity—does it not cause the power of the Sects to swell all the more?"
Ding Cangsheng was not only a renowned Confucian Sect scholar of this age, he was also the clan head of the Taiyuan Ding Clan, one of the world gates; one could say he never dealt with the unlettered.
And these people voicing complaints were, with almost no exception, the aristocratic families that had risen to prominence in Bing Province.
