The Rites Pavilion was still being prepared, but the Hall of Rites had already begun to distance themselves from the School of Miscellany, disrupting their plans. The Jingguo people finally heaved a sigh of relief when they did not punish the Jingguo officials.
However, unlike the previous reforms, the establishment of the Rites Pavilion attracted many voices of opposition.
Many of the Legalist officials felt that the establishment of the Rites Pavilion was completely unnecessary. If the Rites Pavilion appeared, it would mean that the Legalists' efforts over the past few years would be wasted.
Thus, the Legalist officials continued to submit reports that they felt that a Legalist should be established and that a Legalist Pavilion should be established.
The other officials basically withdrew from the discussion of this matter and watched coldly from the sidelines. Some of the Confucians and Legalists began to fight for power.
The internal strife in the imperial court could not be more normal, and it did not affect Fang Yun's reforms at all.
However, because the previous reforms were too drastic, Jingguo could not withstand large changes over a long period of time. Thus, Fang Yun began to make small changes.
For example, he made up some easy-to-remember nursery rhymes or chants to help the people maintain hygiene and prevent pests and diseases. He also required the children to memorize them. This move was highly approved by the School of Medicine, and the School of Medicine even used the power of the Hall of Medicine to request that it be promoted in various countries.
A few days later, some officials with children joked with Fang Yun. In the past, these children had especially admired Fang Yun, but ever since they had to memorize the chants, they felt that Mr. Fang Yun had become bad.
Fang Yun smiled. These children did not understand the importance of these things. When they grew up, they would understand the importance of changing customs. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it had saved their lives.
As for these small matters that did not affect the distribution of power, the various parties in the imperial court showed a high degree of tolerance to Fang Yun. Even if they felt that Fang Yun was nitpicking, they could not be bothered to make a fuss about it. They treated it as if they were trying to make Fang Yun happy.
Fang Yun was also very satisfied with the attitude of these officials. He continued to make seemingly insignificant changes to Jingguo.
These innovations would take at least ten years to see initial results, and they would become very common in the future. Everyone knew about it, and no one would even think that it was Fang Yun's credit, but Fang Yun didn't care.
Fang Yun did not become the Ning An County Magistrate, the Governor of two prefectures, and the Left Prime Minister for the sake of becoming an official.
The peace talks between the Negotiation Department and the School of Miscellany were still ongoing. Both sides had finally begun to finalize some details, but they were insignificant to both sides. For example, reducing Gyeongo's compensation, opening up a portion of the waters, increasing the price of some of Gyeongo's resources …
The establishment of the Rites Minister Pavilion took two votes.
This time, the cabinet was made up of senior officials, and less than two-thirds of the votes were in favor.
In the second cabinet vote, the cabinet secretaries, who were composed of mid-level and low-level officials, were added, but the number of supporters still did not exceed two-thirds.
Therefore, the Rites Minister Pavilion was temporarily put on hold.
This kind of behavior became an excuse for the School of Miscellany. There was no obvious change in the attitude of the Hall of Rites, but the School of Miscellany seemed to have taken a pill of reassurance. Suddenly, they began to issue consecutive orders of punishment, and all of them were aimed at the officials of Xiang, Jiang, and Mi Provinces who studied the School of Miscellany.
These people were all clearly branded as part of the Fang faction.
In just three days, a total of 23 officials who studied the School of Miscellany were expelled from the School of Miscellany. In light cases, their literary guts were covered in dust, and in serious cases, they vomited blood and fainted. Fortunately, everyone was mentally prepared. In addition, they only studied the School of Miscellany, so their literary guts were not shattered. However, because their literary palaces were damaged, unless they had an unexpected breakthrough on the Divine Path, they would not be able to advance in their literary positions for the rest of their lives.
On the rankings, the people of Gyeongo began to mock Fang Yun.
"This is called retribution for evil! Back then, when a large number of Gyeongo officials were covered in dust by the Yueyang Tower's literary guts, what did you Jingguo people say? "
"Fang Xusheng is really selfless. His subordinates are already in such a state, but he still refuses to admit his mistakes and refuses to admit his mistakes."
"Every dog has its day. Everything is not set in stone yet. People of Gyeongo, don't be happy too early. Also, does anyone have insider information that the School of Miscellany is preparing to shed all pretense of cordiality with Fang Yun? "
"I heard that from now on, the School of Miscellany will expel a group of Jingguo officials every day until all the officials who studied Jingguo with grades are expelled from the School of Miscellany. It may even expel all the scholars who studied the School of Miscellany in Jingguo! In the end, the Divine Path may be sealed. "
"I really didn't expect that the School of Miscellany would dare to do this."
"Fang Xusheng is really stubborn. He didn't bow down to the School of Miscellany."
"What a pity. With Fang Xusheng's talent, even if he doesn't do anything, it won't take many years for him to become a Saint. However, he is seriously injured and may have no hope of becoming a Saint. Otherwise, the School of Miscellany wouldn't dare to treat him like this. "
"No one can say for sure. However, it is said that it involves the battle for the Divine Path. The School of Miscellany seems to have no choice but to do this."
There was a lot of discussion on the rankings, but the people of Jingguo were anxious.
After expelling officials continuously for ten days, the School of Miscellany announced once again that as long as the scholars of the School of Miscellany left Jingguo, they would never be expelled from the School of Miscellany.
This announcement seemed to be just to create panic and make the scholars of the School of Miscellany stay away from Jingguo. However, there was an extremely terrifying message hidden in it.
Because, according to the current situation, the School of Miscellany should only be preventing scholars from becoming Jingguo officials. However, it was now hinting that the entire Jingguo area was very dangerous. This was a hidden signal.
The School of Miscellany might use the Divine Path Seal!
The countless scholars of the School of Miscellany in Jingguo were completely panicking.
At the same time, Gyeongo announced that they were willing to accept the scholars of the School of Miscellany in Jingguo. They would be treated the same as the citizens of Gyeongo. If they were willing to completely abandon the dark side and join the light side, they would be given special treatment.
Gyeongo's announcement was the last straw that broke the camel's back. The scholars of the School of Miscellany in Jingguo began to collapse.
On the same day, a large number of officials of the School of Miscellany below the seventh rank resigned. Not only were there officials who majored in the School of Miscellany, but there were also officials who majored in the School of Miscellany.
In just one day, the number of resignations exceeded three thousand!
Following that, mid-level and high-level officials of the School of Miscellany also began to resign.
This time, the cabinet did not take any countermeasures.
This was because Jingguo was now powerless to stop them.
The cabinet's inaction increased the panic of the scholars of the School of Miscellany. Thus, for the next few days, a spectacular scene appeared on the north bank of the Yangtze River. A large number of scholars of the School of Miscellany took their families and headed to Gyeongo by boat.
Some of the docks did not even have enough passenger boats. Some of the larger fishing boats were used to carry passengers.
The officials of Jingguo began to submit petitions to stop the scholars of the School of Miscellany from leaving Jingguo. Otherwise, it would not be long before the government of Jingguo would not be able to operate normally due to the lack of officials.
However, the cabinet remained unmoved.
Just as the scholars of the School of Miscellany who did not have official positions began to leave, the cabinet finally issued a decree.
As soon as this decree was announced, the sky above Jingguo immediately began to tremble.
The decree announced that Jingguo would begin to test out the civil service examination. A large-scale selection of civil service officials would be carried out. The scholars who passed the selection would be promoted normally. If they had both ability and integrity, but their official position was too high and they did not have enough civil service positions, they would be given official civil service positions in Jingguo.
From now on, only scholars who had passed the civil service examination would be qualified to become civil servants in Jingguo. Only scholars who had passed the civil service examination would be qualified to become civil servants in Jingguo.
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