Weapons were erected above the hall, including ancient bronze swords, ring-handled iron knives, chariot spears, pear-blossom iron spears, auspicious-hand Xuanhua axes, emperor's carved bows, and countless other military weapons. The sounds were like the shouts of thousands of troops, and the entire court was flashing with swords and sabers.
Afterwards, all the weapons were pointed directly at the Minister of Personnel Ou Mo.
The military officials remained calm, the civil officials had a clear conscience, but many civil servants were shocked. Blood splattered in the Golden Palace was not just a rumor, it had happened in every dynasty.
After Zhou Junhu became a Grand Secretary, he was fortunate to obtain the Baibing Wentai. His murderous intent was so strong that he could be compared with the original Li Wenying among the Grand Secretaries of Jingguo.
"This is a court meeting. General Zhou, please observe etiquette!" Ou Mo shouted in a low voice, and a grand atmosphere gathered in the court.
"There is an evil in front of us, and the military is eager to fight. This is not what I want." Zhou Junhu said, slowly restraining his strength, and the weapons in the sky gradually disappeared.
Many civil officials looked annoyed, because they hated military scholars. They were always eager to fight, acted on impulse, and used the right way to defeat the wrong way. The "scholars cannot explain their reason to the soldiers" refers to the military scholars.
Many officials below the rank of Grand Secretary looked with envy at the soldiers slowly disappearing in the sky. The rank of Grand Secretary was a watershed; once one became a Grand Secretary, their power would increase dramatically again, and those below the rank of Hanlin could not be compared with him at all.
Ao Huang was also extremely envious. Although the dragon clan could call the wind and rain, induce thunder and control water, they did not have the unique power of the human race.
Fang Yun thought to himself, "I wonder what kind of literary platform I can get when I become a university scholar. If there are multiple levels, it would be a great honor."
The Left Prime Minister Liu Shan took a deep breath, and clouds surged over the hall. Except for the great scholars present, everyone was drawn by the invisible force and looked towards him.
"I am the Prime Minister of Jing State, and also an official of the human race. Ou Mo Zhuanglu is considering the human race and the millions of people. I am abdicating. You can discuss this in the court!"
After Liu Shan finished speaking, the bronze bell outside the Fengtian Hall rang softly.
“You…” Many officials were furious, but this was the power of the left prime minister, which could not be deprived even by the king, let alone the ministers.
Liu Shan's body suddenly shook slightly, and the blood color on his face faded. Before many people could be happy, his skin flashed a faint jade color, and his face returned to its rosy color, even better than before.
Fang Yun and the other officials secretly thought that the situation was not good, but there was nothing they could do.
Liu Shan holds the power of the prime minister. The fate of a country comes from the position of prime minister, and the hearts of the people come from the people. Liu Shan's words harmed Jing State, so the fate of the country naturally declined. However, many people are now terrified and hate fighting against the barbarians. In order to save their lives, they are willing to join Qing State or Wu State. His words have won the hearts of at least tens of millions of people, even more than before.
Fang Yun sighed in his heart. Rationally speaking, the royal family of Jingguo could abdicate for the sake of the people, but the problem was that history had proven that the people of Jingguo would be treated as second-class citizens.
In those days, Xiangzhou of Jing State was annexed by Qing State. Except for a few officials who had secretly defected to Qing State, most of the officials of Jing State were transferred from important government offices to idle positions, and a few officials were even placed under surveillance.
So much so that the officials of Jing State in Xiangzhou collectively requested to move to the ancient land and never return.
Afterwards, a large number of people from Qing poured into Xiangzhou, and the original people of Xiangzhou were restricted in various places and were not allowed to leave their hometown at will.
After the Qing Kingdom acquired Xiangzhou, it was really for the number of imperial examinations that the state could provide. In the first ten years after its incorporation into the Qing Kingdom, 90% of the new students, scholars, juren and jinshi in Xiangzhou were originally from the Qing Kingdom who moved there from other places.
Until now, the imperial examination in Xiangzhou still has a strict review system to control the number of people from the former Xiangzhou who participate in the imperial examination, so that the number of people from the former Xiangzhou who obtain new civil service positions each year is less than 30%.
Some people have calculated that it will take at least two hundred years before the people of Xiangzhou can receive similar treatment as the people of Qingguo.
But who will pay for these two hundred years of blood and tears
Fang Yun was unwilling to shed blood and tears for a hundred years.
Most Jing people don’t want to!
I would rather stand and bleed than kneel and shed blood and tears!
What's more, there is still a glimmer of hope that Jingguo can survive by exchanging blood!
Fang Yun looked at the left prime minister Liu Shan coldly.
Liu Shan could sell Jing State for a good price in exchange for the opportunity to become prime minister of Qing State, a great scholar, or even be canonized as a saint, but it would be tens of millions of Jing State citizens who would be buried with him.
The most terrifying thing is that even if Qing and Wu divided Jing, once the barbarians insisted on moving south, a large number of Jing people would inevitably be sent into the army to serve as scapegoats.
Fang Yun saw it through, many soldiers saw it through, and the left prime minister Liu Shan saw it through, but a large number of Jingguo people did not understand.
They only knew that if they went to the wealthy Qing or Wu kingdoms, their lives would be better and they would have smooth sailing in the imperial examinations.
Unfortunately, they don't know that the number of places for the imperial examination is fixed, the land is fixed, and all the resources needed by the human race are fixed. Once the people of Jing become the people of Qing and Wu, except for less than one in ten thousand who are able to compete, the rest will inevitably be cut off by Qing and Wu to feed the real people of Qing and Wu.
Unfortunately, they didn't know that their status in Jing Kingdom would remain the same when they arrived in Qing Kingdom and Wu Kingdom, or even lower.
They were sold by Liushan for a good price.
Some people can see it, some people can't.
The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the ones who eat are the sharks.
The sky is high and birds can fly freely, and the one who spreads his wings is an eagle.
They will not shelter food.
Fang Yun's eyes were still cold as he looked at other civil servants and other military officers.
There are sharks and vultures among them.
Fang Yun sighed in his heart. The human race is the kindest people. As long as they have enough food and are not starving to death, they will live on quietly.
But don't put the knife to their necks!
While Fang Yun was distracted and thinking, a heated debate broke out between the pro-war faction and the abdication faction.
At first, only one person from each side took turns speaking, and then both of them spoke together, each answering the other's previous sentence with their own sentence, while listening to the other's current sentence at the same time.
The officials in the court were not surprised, but as the discussion went on, more and more people joined in and started arguing.
One pair, two pairs, three pairs, four pairs, five pairs...
When the fifth pair of officials joined the debate, the newly promoted scholars were finally unable to listen to all of them and could only choose four pairs to listen carefully.
When the seventh pair of officials joined the debate, the old scholars selected six pairs to listen.
After the tenth pair of officials started arguing, no more officials joined in, because this was the limit of the Hanlin Academy.
Fang Yun and Ao Huang remained calm from beginning to end. For this man and this dragon, listening to twenty people arguing at the same time was nothing.
Fang Yun even heard the empress dowager sigh softly from behind the gauze curtain.
This is the world of scholars. If you are not a scholar or your cultural level is not high enough, you will not even understand what others are arguing about.
This is also the reason why very few people below the Jinshi level can participate in court meetings.
Literary rank means ability.
Fang Yun wanted to speak, but he shut up when he remembered the advice of Minister Jiang Hechuan. He had been baptized by the history of the ancient Chinese nation and read like crazy every day. The amount of books he read was equivalent to that of others in a hundred years. However, he had no experience in court disputes. Now he should study with peace of mind instead of being self-righteous just after some achievements.
Fang Yun's mind moved, and a blank book appeared in the world of strange books, and then four more words appeared on the book.
The grand court meeting.
Then, the first volume of the court meeting was separated into two parts, which started with Tong Luan's first words in the court meeting. In the blink of an eye, he recorded what everyone had said before, and continued to record the current court meeting at an extremely fast speed. (To be continued...)