Although traditional way of thinking which understood that laws should be prepared and enacted by an emperor ("national laws are family laws of an emperor") was dominant until that time, new conception of heaven-sent law without mediation by an emperor was brought in.
それまで法とは、皇帝がつくり制定するものである（「国法とは皇帝の家法」）とする伝統的な考え方が支配的であったが、自然法という皇帝を介さない天与の法という観念が伝わった。