No one had expected that the School of Miscellany would make a move against Jingguo.
The reason why the Hall of Works punished Gyeongo was because Gyeongo's actions had affected the development of the Hall of Works. It was Gyeongo who had forced the Hall of Works to do so. Even so, the Hall of Works only withdrew the aid that the Hall of Works provided to Gyeongo and didn't punish the Gyeongo Miscellany.
However, the Wenxin Court's actions were a thousand times more extreme than the Hall of Works. In fact, they were even more severe than the Hall of Rites.
No matter what, the Hall of Rites was still investigating. They didn't have to break off relations with Jingguo. They just wanted to punish Fang Yun and the others to go against the Hall of Punishment and the School of Legalism.
If the Wenxin Court really expelled Jingguo's officials, they would be completely breaking off relations with Jingguo.
The Wenxin Marquis was Lu Buwei's title back then.
When the Jingguo officials received the news, they all panicked. They immediately sent in letters to request for a court meeting to be held.
Four hours later, the Empress Dowager announced that a court meeting would be held at 7 PM. She ordered all officials of rank seven and above to gather near the Divine Temple.
Officials from all over the country returned one after another, especially the generals who were outside. They rushed to the nearby Holy Temple without stopping.
When the time was up, a melodious bell rang in the sky above the palace.
The civil and military officials entered the Imperial Palace and the Heavenly Worship Hall as if they were attending morning court.
Then, the Emperor's imperial jade seal emitted a faint white light. The entire capital trembled, and the Divine Temple in Jingguo seemed to be connected.
The interior of the Heavenly Worship Hall expanded continuously. At the same time, three-dimensional images of officials appeared in the Heavenly Worship Hall. They looked exactly like real people, and it was impossible to tell them apart with the naked eye.
Not long after, most of the officials of rank seven and above in Jingguo appeared in the Heavenly Worship Hall.
Thousands of officials were present, but there wasn't any noise in the Heavenly Worship Hall.
The atmosphere in the Heavenly Worship Hall was a bit gloomy.
Among the officials present, there were more than three hundred who majored in the School of Miscellany, and more than a thousand who majored in the School of Miscellany.
This was a huge number.
If Gyeongo expelled these people from the School of Miscellany, the three hundred people who majored in the School of Miscellany would only become ordinary people if they were lucky. If they were unlucky, they would die on the spot.
As for the officials who majored in the School of Miscellany, if they were lucky, they would be unable to improve in the Scholastic Of Miscellany....
Of Miscellany of Miscellany of Miscellany of Miscellany. Miscellany of Miscellany of Miscellany.
In the past, when Liu Shan and his party of officials were driven out, a lot of experienced officials were transferred away. Jing Country was stretched to its limits. If it weren't for Fang Yun's overwhelming victory and suppressing all the contradictions, Jing Country would inevitably have a big problem.
Now, if these officials from the School of Miscellany were expelled, Jingguo would be in deep crisis for the next few years. They wouldn't even be able to maintain the operations of the local government, and there would be all kinds of chaos. The country would only be stabilized after a few years when the new officials were familiar with the situation.
However, this wasn't the biggest problem. If so many officials were expelled from the School of Miscellany, Jingguo's national strength would plummet, and the country's fortune would decline. If there was a crisis during this time, Jingguo wouldn't be able to withstand it.
Merely expelling the officials from the School of Miscellany wasn't scary in itself. What was scary was that if there were no more officials from the School of Miscellany in Jingguo, then the School of Miscellany would be able to seal off the entire Jingguo.
The consequence of sealing off the School of Miscellany's School of Miscellany's School of Miscellany would be unable to move an inch in Jingguo.
The officials wouldn't be able to understand the decrees, and the people wouldn't be able to follow the decrees. The country's operations would become abnormally slow, and the officials wouldn't even be able to communicate with each other.
Many things sounded unimaginable, but under the seal of the Divine Path, they would all happen.
This was only the Saint Dao seal of the School of Miscellany. If it was the Saint Dao seal of the School of Gongzi, the mechanism would have rusted for no reason, and the workers would have operated it incorrectly. This was completely against common sense.
In history, some small countries established in troubled times had close relations with the Barbarian Tribe, and even used some Barbarians with Barbarian Tribe bloodline. They had been completely suppressed by the Divine Path.
The consequences of the full suppression of the Divine Path were very serious.
None of the children were able to learn how to read. All of them spoke ambiguously, unable to express themselves clearly. All of them fell ill easily, and it was extremely difficult to treat them after they fell ill. As long as the illness was slightly more serious, they would definitely die. Crops were failing everywhere, and the climate was chaotic. Faced with all kinds of harsh weather, many people had lost their sense of shame and did not understand the law. They would often commit all kinds of crimes in broad daylight …
In an area under the full suppression of the Saint Path, humans were like demons and barbarians.
Even if it was just the suppression of the Divine Path of the Miscellaneous School, it would have been enough to paralyze the Imperial Court of Jingguo.
All the officials were thinking about the severity of the suppression of the Miscellaneous Path.
After a few hundred breaths, the Empress Dowager's voice came from behind the curtain.
"At the request of my beloved ministers, I have convened a court meeting. Why is no one saying anything?"
After a long while, the Minister of Personnel, Huang Zongyu, sighed softly. He took a step forward and walked out of the line of officials.
There was an unwritten rule in the Ten Nations that the Minister of Personnel was a person who majored in the Miscellaneous School.
Huang Zongyu used to be a minister of the Honglu Temple. He majored in the Miscellaneous School and minored in the School of Vertical and Horizontal Studies. He was originally in charge of foreign affairs, but after the fall of Mount Liu, he directly entered the Ministry of Personnel and became the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Personnel.
"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, and my colleagues, please treat the matter of the Miscellaneous School with caution. You must not underestimate it."
All the officials could see Huang Zongyu's helplessness.
Everyone knew who the Miscellaneous School was targeting.
As long as Fang Yun compromised and admitted his mistake, the Miscellaneous School would definitely stop.
However, Huang Zongyu could not say it directly. He was a scholar of the Miscellaneous School, but he was also a scholar of Jingguo.
The Empress Dowager sighed softly and said, "I already know that the Miscellaneous School has already set off. However, unlike the Punishment Hall, they came by water. It will take about ten days for the first batch of officials to arrive in Xiangzhou. Within ten days, we need to discuss and come up with a plan. "
Even without the Empress Dowager pointing it out, everyone knew that the reason why the Miscellaneous School did not immediately send people to Jingguo was not because they wanted to conserve talent, nor was it because they did not want to fly empty boats. Instead, they wanted to give Jingguo some buffer time so that Jingguo could put forward their conditions and then sit down to negotiate.
After a short silence, the Minister of Rites, Sheng Boyuan, took a step forward and said, "In my opinion, we must first analyze the intentions of the Miscellaneous School this time. I'm not talented, but I'm willing to throw a brick to attract more jade. "
"Please speak, Minister Sheng," the Empress Dowager said.
"Firstly, the Zong family is currently in charge of the Miscellaneous School. Since the Zong family is in Gyeongo, the first priority of the Wenxin Courtyard and the Miscellaneous School is to resolve the crisis in Gyeongo. Gyeongo has encountered the Water Hall's water restriction and the Works Hall's blockade, causing great losses to Gyeongo. Hence, the Miscellaneous School has to prioritize this matter. "
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