While the Li Xiang Pavilion was still under preparation, the Li Dian began to distance itself from the Za Jia family, disrupting the Za Jia family's plans. It also delayed punishing the officials of the Jing State, which finally made the people of the Jing State breathe a sigh of relief.
However, unlike previous reforms, the establishment of Lixiang Pavilion attracted a lot of opposition.
Many officials of the Legalists believed that the establishment of the Li Xiang Pavilion was a superfluous act. If the Li Xiang Pavilion appeared, it would mean that etiquette was above law, and it would be a waste of the Legalists' efforts over the years.
As a result, Legalist officials kept submitting petitions, suggesting that a Dharma Minister should be appointed and a Dharma Minister Pavilion should be established.
Other officials basically withdrew from the discussion of this matter and watched coldly as some Confucianists and Legalists began to fight for power.
Internal strife within the imperial court was a perfectly normal situation and did not affect Fang Yun's deepening reforms at all.
However, because the previous reforms were too drastic, Jingguo could not withstand long-term and huge changes, so Fang Yun started from small things.
For example, they compiled some easy-to-remember nursery rhymes or formulas to help people maintain hygiene and prevent diseases and pests, and required children to recite them. This initiative was highly recognized by medical experts, who even directly used the power of the Medical Palace to request that it be promoted in various countries.
A few days later, some officials with children joked to Fang Yun that their children used to admire Mr. Fang Yun very much, but since they had to memorize these formulas, they felt that Mr. Fang Yun had become bad.
Fang Yun smiled. These children did not understand the importance of these things. When they grow up, they will understand how important it is to change customs and habits. It is not an exaggeration to say that it saved their lives.
All parties in the court showed a high degree of tolerance towards Fang Yun for these minor matters that did not affect the distribution of power. Even if they thought Fang Yun was nitpicking and unnecessary, they were too lazy to care and just regarded it as trying to please Fang Yun.
Fang Yun was also very satisfied with the attitude of those officials and continued to carry out various seemingly insignificant reforms in Jingguo.
These innovations will not show results until at least ten years later, and will become very common in the future. Everyone will know about them, and no one will even think that it is Fang Yun's achievement, but Fang Yun does not care.
Fang Yun served as the magistrate of Ning'an County, the governor-general of two states, and the left prime minister, all for the purpose of becoming an official.
The peace talks between the Peace Negotiation Department and the Miscellaneous Family are still going on. The two sides have finally begun to finalize some details, but they are insignificant to both sides, such as reducing the compensation of Qing State, opening up some waters, and increasing the price of some resources in Qing State...
The establishment of Lixiang Pavilion was voted on twice.
One time, the cabinet senate, composed of senior officials, voted in favor, and less than two-thirds of the votes were in favor.
The second cabinet vote included the addition of cabinet scholars composed of middle and low-level officials, but the number of supporters still did not exceed two-thirds.
Therefore, Lixiang Pavilion was temporarily shelved.
This behavior became an excuse for the Miscellaneous School. There was no obvious change in the attitude of the Li Hall. However, the Miscellaneous School seemed to be reassured and suddenly began to issue disciplinary orders in succession, and they were completely aimed at the officials in Xiangzhou, Jiangzhou and Mizhou who assisted the Miscellaneous School.
These people are clearly branded as members of the Fang Party.
In just three days, a total of twenty-three officials who had been practicing miscellaneous arts as auxiliary were expelled from the miscellaneous schools. The lighter ones had their literary talents tarnished, while the worse ones vomited blood and fell into a coma. Fortunately, everyone was mentally prepared, and since they were only practicing as auxiliary, there was no case of literary talents being shattered. However, their literary palaces were damaged as a result. Unless there was an unexpected breakthrough in the holy way, their literary rank would never be able to advance in this lifetime.
On the discussion list, the people of Qing began to mock Fang Yun.
"This is called evil will be punished! When a large number of Qing officials were humiliated in Yueyang Tower, what did you Jing people say?"
"Fang Xusheng is truly selfless. Even though his subordinates are in such a state, he still refuses to admit his mistakes."
"Things change over time, and nothing has been concluded yet. People of Qing should not be too happy too soon. Also, does anyone have inside information? Is my family ready to tear their faces apart with Fang Yun?"
"I heard that next, the Zajia will start expelling a group of Jingguo officials every day until all Jingguo's high-ranking auxiliary officials are expelled from the Zajia. They may even expel all Jingguo's auxiliary scholars of the Zajia! Finally, they may impose a Saint Dao Town Seal."
"I never thought that Zajia would dare to do this."
"Fang Xusheng is really tough. He never bows his head in front of Zajia."
"What a pity. With Fang Xusheng's talent, even if he did nothing, he would be able to become a saint in a few years. However, he was seriously injured and it is very likely that he has no hope of becoming a saint. Otherwise, how could I dare to treat him like this?"
"No one can say for sure about this matter, but it is said that it has involved the dispute over the Holy Path, and it seems that the Zajia family has no choice but to do so."
There was a lot of discussion on the discussion board, and the people of Jing State were in panic.
After expelling officials for ten consecutive days, the Zajia school announced again that as long as the scholars of the Zajia school left Jingguo, they would never be expelled from the Zajia school.
This announcement seems to be just to create panic and make scholars stay away from Jingguo, but it hides an extremely terrifying message.
Because, according to the current situation, the Miscellaneous School should only prevent scholars from serving as officials in Jing State, but now it implies that the entire Jing State is very dangerous, which is sending a hidden signal.
Miscellaneous people may use the Holy Way to Seal!
The countless eclectic scholars in Jing State were completely panicked.
At the same time, the Kingdom of Qing issued an announcement that it was willing to accept scholars from various schools in the Kingdom of Jing, and all treatment would be the same as that of citizens of the Kingdom of Qing. If they were willing to completely abandon darkness and join the light, they would be given special treatment.
The announcement from Qing State was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the eclectic scholars in Jing State began to collapse.
On that day, a large number of grassroots miscellaneous officials below the seventh rank resigned, including not only officials who majored in miscellaneous arts, but also officials who minored in miscellaneous arts.
In just one day, the number exceeded three thousand!
Then, middle and high-level miscellaneous officials also began to resign one after another.
This time, the cabinet did not take any countermeasures.
Because now Jingguo is no longer able to stop it.
The inaction of the cabinet intensified the panic of the eclectic scholars. So for several consecutive days, a spectacular scene appeared on the north bank of the Yangtze River. A large number of eclectic scholars brought their families and boarded boats to Qing State.
There are so many passenger ships at some docks that some larger fishing boats are being used to carry passengers.
Officials of Jing State began to write petitions requesting to stop the outflow of eclectic scholars, otherwise it would not be long before the government offices of Jing State would not be able to function normally due to insufficient officials.
However, the cabinet remained unmoved.
Just when even the scholars without official positions began to flee, the cabinet finally issued a decree.
As soon as this decree was announced, a mysterious and powerful force immediately shook the sky above Jing State.
The decree announced that Jing State began to pilot the civil service examination and conduct large-scale civil service selection. Scholars who passed the civil service selection could be promoted normally. If they were both virtuous and talented, and their official position was too high but their literary position was insufficient, they could be granted official and literary positions valid in Jing State.
From then on, except for scholars with Jinshi or higher literary qualifications who could serve as officials without taking exams, only scholars who passed the civil servant examination were qualified to serve as officials in Jing State.
The decree also had additional details. From then on, Jing State recruited people based on their talent and appointed officials based on their ability. As long as one was a scholar, he could hold the highest position of Left Prime Minister.