During the peace talks and suppression by various parties, cabinet officials continued to reform despite the pressure.
During the most difficult period of Jing State, the Ministry of Finance and Jing State Money Bank were prepared, and a large number of officials from the Ministry of Revenue and related officials were transferred to these two departments. Nearly half of the people occupying the important positions in these two departments were members of the Fang Party, and there were a few new faces.
There were even a few young people with low educational attainments.
In order to cope with the departure of eclectic scholars, the State of Jing conferred titles on many officials, including scholars, juren, jinshi and hanlin.
The actual academic ranks of these scholars ranged from Tongsheng to Jinshi. They were not well-known in Jingguo, but they had clean family backgrounds and obtained extremely high scores in the civil service examinations. Therefore, they were granted official academic ranks and could directly obtain higher official ranks.
There were some particularly outstanding scholars who, because of their strong abilities in certain fields, were personally recruited by Fang Yun to serve under his command. He placed them in various government offices in Jing State in the name of replacing miscellaneous scholars.
If Fang Yun did this under normal circumstances, it would inevitably trigger strong backlash from various factions. But now, a large number of eclectic scholars have left each faction, and they cannot fill this hole on their own. They have no energy or excuse to oppose Fang Yun.
Fang Yun is always moderate when arranging personnel. He will never let his own people exceed half of the total number in similar positions. He will also balance the personnel of each faction to prevent any one faction from dominating.
The most important reason why these factions did not object was that they believed that Fang Yun would most likely leave Jing State due to the suppression of the Za family. Instead of fighting with Fang Yun now, it would be better to wait until the dust settles before taking any action.
In the next few days, all kinds of rumors continued to circulate among the human race.
The Palace of Industry, Palace of Agriculture, Palace of Medicine, and Palace of Punishment continuously sent ministers to negotiate with the Miscellaneous Family. The Palace of War also expressed that it did not want the Miscellaneous Family to carry out the Holy Way Suppression.
The relationship between the various halls and pavilions is basically equal, and only the Dongsheng Pavilion has the greatest say and can truly stop the miscellaneous schools.
The Dongsheng Pavilion had long been occupied by scholars of various schools.
Therefore, some ministers prepared to initiate a general meeting in the Holy Court, but were forcibly rejected by the Eastern Holy Court, who believed that it was the internal affairs of the various families and that each family had no right to interfere, and that the disputes in the Holy Way should not be escalated at this time.
Eclectic scholars and university scholars from all over the country gathered in Kongcheng.
This is an extremely dangerous signal, because if Dong Sheng does not take action, he must rely on a large number of university scholars and great Confucian scholars to initiate the Holy Way to suppress the country. This means that the Miscellaneous School has made up its mind to severely punish Jingguo.
Ambitious people from the human race continued to go to Kongcheng and began to lobby the Miscellaneous School, but the Miscellaneous School was highly unified. The great scholars and university scholars who participated in the Holy Dao Conferment had been isolated from the outside world, recuperating and waiting for the final opportunity.
In Jingguo, an unprecedented scene occurred.
The grand court meeting, which was not held for several months or even a year, was held in the Fengtian Hall at 7 o'clock every morning.
The officials in the court were divided into two groups.
One side insisted on forcing Fang Yun to go to negotiate peace. If he refused, they would impeach him and deprive him of his position as left prime minister.
One side believes that Fang Yun should not be forced to leave. Once Fang Yun leaves Jing State, the loss caused to Jing State will be no less than the loss of Shengdao Town.
The majority of officials did not want to force Fang Yun to leave. Although these people also had complaints about Fang Yun, they were well aware of the consequences of forcing Fang Yun to leave. They themselves had gained huge benefits from Fang Yun's war poems and reforms. Moreover, they were not mixed people, so even if the Holy Way was sealed, their own Holy Way would not be affected.
These people all have some not-so-bright thoughts in their hearts, that is, if they drive Fang Yun away now, it will be difficult for them to gain more benefits from Fang Yun in the future. The best example is that the Zong and Lei families cannot use Fang Yun's war poems.
Moreover, even if the Kingdom of Jing was destroyed because of the punishment from the Za family, even if the Za family had ten thousand guts, they would not dare to touch Fang Yun at all. Not to mention exiling or expelling him, they could not even confine him, and would not cause any substantial losses to Fang Yun.
Since Fang Yun is still there, those who have no objection to Fang Yun can continue to be on good terms with Fang Yun and gain benefits.
These people knew very well that the benefits Fang Yun could give them were far greater than those that Jing State could.
Many people realize that Fang Yun has already made the most terrible interest binding, but they are unable to break it, so they can only bite the bullet and follow Fang Yun all the way to the end.
The two sides remained in a stalemate.
On the ninth day after the announcement was made by the Miscellaneous Family, that is, when the Holy Dao Seal would be imposed tomorrow, the Fengtian Palace would be lit all night long.
Today's court meeting lasted from morning until late at night. Jingjun Zhao Yuan had already gone to the palace to rest, the empress dowager had occasionally dozed off, and the ministers were still arguing in the Fengtian Hall.
These past few days, Fang Yun hasn't come to the office every day and continues to deepen the reforms, and no one can do anything about it.
However, on the last day, Fang Yun still did not participate in the grand court meeting, which completely angered Fang Yun's opponents.
Seeing that the time had passed midnight and it was already one o'clock in the morning, Sheng Boyuan finally made the final decision.
"If Fang Yun doesn't come to Fengtian Palace within an hour, I will resign and leave. I will never set foot in Jingguo in my life!"
Sheng Boyuan's roar suppressed all other sounds.
No one took his threat to resign seriously before, thinking it was just a means of struggle, but now, they realized that he really wanted to quit.
The Queen Mother was still a little dazed, but she sobered up immediately after hearing Sheng Boyuan's roar. She said hurriedly, "Why are you so angry, Lord Sheng? This matter cannot be rushed. I will send someone to invite Fang Xusheng again."
After she finished speaking, the Queen Mother's voice suddenly changed, and she said in a cold voice: "Zhang Poyue, go and invite Fang Yun. If you can't invite Fang Yun, go to the Ministry of War and be punished. Don't even think about getting promoted in the future."
Zhang Poyue was stunned and complained: "Queen Mother, you are bullying an honest man, aren't you? Cao Xiang, Yang Xiang, Cai He and so many others have gone there, who can invite him? You should ask for help from someone else, and don't bother an honest man like me. The wound I got in the battle of Ning'an has not healed yet."
“Don’t think I don’t know that you got a Holy Body Fruit from Fang Yun. Not only did your injuries heal, but you also showed off everywhere... and got other benefits!” The Queen Mother’s voice was a little strange.
The officials who knew about it laughed secretly, because ever since Zhang Poyue ate the Holy Body Fruit, his health had improved in all aspects, and he showed off everywhere. In particular, he showed off one aspect, which was known to the whole city, and the soldiers in the army would make fun of him behind his back whenever they had nothing to do.
"How can you take bragging seriously?"
"Then I will send people to announce everywhere tomorrow that what you said before was all bragging. In fact, you have another identity, a eunuch." The Queen Mother sneered.
Zhang Poyue was stunned, and the other officials were also at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
The Queen Mother was forced into a corner by Sheng Boyuan and Fang Yun and had no choice but to ask Zhang Poyue, a tough guy, to ask Fang Yun.
Although Zhang Poyue was known as an invulnerable official, he could use those methods against the king, but not against the queen mother.
"Well, I'll go to Duoyuan."
Zhang Poyue was just thinking about standing at the gate of Duo Garden for a while and then coming back, but the Queen Mother said, "I'll send someone to follow you and watch you negotiate with Fang Yun the whole time."
Zhang Poyue rolled his eyes and thought that the Queen Mother was even more ruthless than himself.