"As for the third..."
Sheng Boyuan looked at Fang Yun and said slowly, "My family and Qing country hate Fang Xusheng to the core. If Fang Xusheng cannot admit his mistakes, my family will never stop. However, my family has always valued interests. The bottom line of my family should be that Fang Xusheng admits his mistakes in private. The reason why this matter is listed third and is so important is because I suspect that many people in my family would rather give up the interests and want Fang Xusheng to admit his mistakes."
"Fourth, seeing that our country of Qing has benefited greatly from the reform and is thriving in many aspects, the miscellaneous family will certainly ask for a new-style college to be opened in Qing and for Jing to sell new engineering technology, etc. They will certainly not be too greedy in this regard, and it should be just a fair deal."
"Fifth, it should still involve Fang Xusheng. A large number of officials in the Zong family and Qing country have lost their literary talents, and even the Zong Sheng cannot easily remove them. In the whole world, only Fang Xusheng can solve this matter. Therefore, the Zajia family will definitely ask Fang Xusheng to at least remove the literary talents of some important officials."
"Sixth, we should ask all the halls of the Holy Academy to treat Qing equally and not punish Qing because of Jing."
"Besides that, there should be room for negotiation. It's not particularly important, so I won't waste any more time."
Everyone nodded slowly. Lifting the blockade, modifying the treaty, Fang Yun admitting his mistakes in exchange for benefits, dispelling the dust, and not being punished should be the things that Zajia wanted to negotiate the most.
Sheng Boyuan glanced at everyone and said, "However, I want to say one most important thing. These words may hurt my colleagues, but to be honest, even if all my colleagues leave the court, as long as the remaining colleagues work together, we can still ensure that Jingguo will not be in chaos. However, if the Zajia family imposes the Holy Dao Suppression, Jingguo will definitely be in chaos."
A young official said: "Minister Sheng is wrong. Not to mention that the Shengdao Town Seal cannot be lowered at will, even if it is lowered, our country has Chen Sheng who can greatly weaken it."
Everyone looked at the official, a native of Mizhou, a Jinshi last year named Bo Han. He was currently a seventh-rank county magistrate in Jiangzhou. He was a staunch member of the Fang Party and had a friendship with Fang Yun for many years.
Sheng Boyuan scolded him, saying, "How noble is Saint Chen, how could he get involved in the dispute between the two countries? How dare you, a seventh-rank county magistrate, make irresponsible comments on the half-saint? Only miscellaneous people can be mentioned in the court meeting today, and you are not allowed to make irresponsible comments on the saints!"
Bo Han blushed and had to take a step back.
Strangely, Fang party officials did not refute Sheng Boyuan.
Although Bo Han was young, he could not understand the logic behind this, but most officials could see it clearly.
Because although Sheng Boyuan opposed Fang Yun, he was not stupid and did not favor Qing Kingdom.
The reason why Sheng Boyuan didn't want Chen Sheng to intervene was actually to prevent Zong Sheng from intervening. If Chen Sheng didn't intervene, it would be fine. But if Zong Sheng was forced to take action, it would be a disaster.
It can even be said that both the Za family and the Qing Kingdom are hoping that the Jing Kingdom will let Chen Sheng come forward and force out Zong Sheng.
Sai Zhixue said: "What Minister Sheng said makes sense. We must not alarm the saints about this matter. What Wenxin Academy did must have nothing to do with Zongsheng. However, Minister Sheng did not mention one point, which is also the key to the whole matter. Without Zongsheng's approval, Zajia would never dare to seal the Jing Kingdom with the Holy Dao when the demon world invaded on a large scale. If we really dare to do so, the other palaces and academies will never let it go. Zajia's doing so is equivalent to killing one thousand enemies and losing two thousand of our own."
Sheng Boyuan shook his head and said, "That's wrong. Qing is almost out of ammunition and food. Fang Xusheng obviously values legalists, workers, farmers, and doctors in Jing, and despises miscellaneous people..."
"Minister Sheng, please be careful with your words!" Cao Dean interrupted Sheng Boyuan with a stern face.
Sheng Boyuan showed a complicated expression and said, "I made a mistake. Thank you, Prime Minister Cao, for your enlightenment."
The expressions of the officials began to change noticeably.
Sheng Boyuan actually did not want to sow discord at this time, but he inadvertently pointed out a fact that all officials were worried about.
Fang Yun's reforms were not useless to the eclectic school of thought, nor did they neglect the eclectic officials, but the problem was that the other schools benefited too much.
The most direct evidence is that in the past few months, the number of officials from other families whose realms have been improved is far more than before, and far more than that of the miscellaneous families.
What is strange is that the officials of the Miscellaneous School feel that many reforms are beneficial to the Miscellaneous School. Logically, many of the officials of the Miscellaneous School in Jing State should have their realms improved. But in fact, this is not the case. The number of Miscellaneous School personnel whose realms have been improved is not significantly different from the same period in previous years!
Therefore, the officials of the Miscellaneous School of Jing State have always suspected that either Fang Yun deliberately suppressed the Miscellaneous School, or the Miscellaneous School Saint Dao did not approve of the reforms of Jing State.
Just before the grand court meeting began, some officials from the Miscellaneous School secretly sent letters to discuss that they suspected that the Academy of Literature and Information had discovered that Fang Yun's reforms did not truly strengthen the Miscellaneous School, so they brazenly took action against Fang Yun.
At this time, a fourth-rank supervisory censor said loudly: "Why do you have to hide it? A few days ago, I heard that some great scholars in the clan were convinced that all of Fang Xusheng's reforms were deliberately avoiding the Miscellaneous School, which was to completely oppose the Miscellaneous School. Therefore, in order to avoid the loss of the Holy Way, the Miscellaneous School had to take the initiative. Minister Sheng's six points make sense, but the real core of this matter is the dispute over the Holy Way!"
All the officials present looked at the Supervisory Censor with strange eyes. His name was Di Jianmin, and he was from Jiangzhou. He was in charge of supervising Yanzhou. He had been a Jinshi for many years, and his reputation was OK, but his ability was also average. It was difficult for him to be promoted to a high position, but after the Liu Party was purged, this person who had nothing to do with the Liu Party got the opportunity to serve as a Supervisory Censor, ranking fourth.
However, no one expected that this seemingly non-partisan, rootless and originless man would actually swing the first sword at Fang Yun at this time.
Even Sheng Boyuan, who had always been against Fang Yun, downplayed Fang Yun in this incident, and only listed Fang Yun's admission of mistake as third, instead of insisting that Fang Yun was the main reason for the miscellaneous family's action.
In this matter, Sheng Boyuan demonstrated the overall perspective that a senior official should have, and was not blinded by factional interests when dealing with external parties.
However, Di Jianmin is different.
At this moment, most officials had similar thoughts.
This Di Jianmin turned out to be a deeply hidden spy of the Qing Kingdom. Even if he wasn't, he might have been a hidden man that Liu Shan had been training for many years.
Without waiting for anyone to object, Di Jianmin continued, "So, in this matter, we should not only consider the interests of Jingguo, we should also consider the interests of Qingguo and Zajia. Zajia's actions are not mainly aimed at Jingguo. Now that Jingguo is in the development stage, we should be tolerant. Moreover, the demon world is invading, and for the sake of the overall situation, we should be more tolerant. Moreover, the reason why Zajia took action was because Jingguo and Fang Xusheng punished Qingguo too severely. Fang Xusheng is the root of everything!"
In the Fengtian Hall, there was constant cursing, and some military scholars led by Zhang Poyue even spat at Di Jianmin.
Di Jianmin remained calm.
Fang Yun suddenly nodded and said, "Actually, what Censor Di said makes a lot of sense."
Everyone was shocked, but Fang Yun continued, "If we, the Jing country, endure humiliation and live, the Qing country will not be angry; if we, the Jing country, marry and pay tribute, the Qing country will not attack us; if we, the Jing country, are willing to be slaves of the Qing country, we will not be angry. We, the Jing people, neither want to die nor want to be slaves of the Qing country, which is too difficult for the Qing people. So they have to attack us, and we cannot fight back. Whoever fights back, whoever makes Qing country dissatisfied, whoever hurts Qing country, whoever can threaten Qing country, will be a sinner. For example, the sinner now is me, Fang Yun."
Fang Yun's words pointed out the real root of the matter.
The people of Jing did not kneel down.