The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2509 Family Dinner

The two events were linked together, and even the "street elders" who chatted after dinner could guess that the selection of the Council of Political Scholars and the punishment regulations of the Strict Strike Office were aimed at those families that made trouble.

When the news was released, the heads of families from all over Jingguo carefully studied and found that the word "Council of Political Affairs" in the so-called Council of Political Affairs was just a cover. If this institution was named more accurately, it should be "Council of Political Affairs".

The major families and scholars have always been troubled by the lack of nominal status of council of political affairs. Now that they have this opportunity, they must use all means to obtain this opportunity.

So, the first batch of completely innocent families suddenly began to issue statements locally and on the forum.

The main contents of these statements are very similar, basically there are four points.

Support the court reform.

Support Fang Yun as the left prime minister.

Support the Strict Strike Office to crack down on local tyrants and evil gentry.

Oppose any family to besiege the palace and government offices.

In just one day, the number of families supporting Fang Yun and the Strike Force exceeded the number of families besieging government offices and the palace.

That evening, Quanyuan held a family banquet for the Fang family, with only six tables in total.

Five of the tables were for the five major families, and the sixth table was for Fang Yun and several guests.

Among the guests were Cao De'an, the right prime minister, Yang Xuwen, the assistant prime minister, Gao Mo of the Criminal Hall, Xiang Liyuan of the Work Hall, Xu Shi of the Agricultural Hall, and Zhang Zangxiang of the Medical Hall.

The heads, eldest sons or eldest grandsons, or important elders of the five major families of Chen Sheng Family, Zhang Heng Family, Cui Sheng Family, Ban Gu Family, and Gongyang Family were all at the family banquet.

The specifications of this family banquet have exceeded those of a state banquet.

The venue of this family banquet was very ordinary, just a courtyard in Quanyuan.

The servants used were very ordinary, all of them were servants and maids of the Fang family.

The chefs are a little special. They are all chefs from the five great families, far better than the imperial chefs, and represent the highest cooking skills of the human race.

The most special thing is the food.

The rice is dragon-patterned rice, the water is Yuanqi water, the wine is Niangguang wine, and the dishes are the divine objects of the Ten Thousand Worlds.

The ingredients this time are taken from the Blood Mang Realm, the Ten Cold Ancient Land, and the Burial Saint Valley. The value of each dish is more than a Shengsheng Fruit, and the value of one-third of the dishes cannot be exchanged even with dozens of Shengsheng Fruits.

After learning about the ingredients for this banquet, the five great families not only sent the best chefs, but also sent a university scholar to each kitchen for comprehensive monitoring to prevent any waste of divine objects and prevent anyone from stealing them.

Because any scraps of divine objects can be sold for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on the market.

At the beginning of the family dinner, Fang Yun exchanged a few pleasantries, and then said a lot of polite words. After the food was served, Fang Yun raised his wine glass and smiled, "No one below the rank of great scholar is allowed to drink, but you can put the divine wine in a jade bottle and take it home. It can be drunk after diluting it ten thousand times."

The great scholars raised their wine glasses, and then Fang Yun praised the saints and the king, and the great scholars drank it all.

Then, Fang Yun held the official seal and mobilized the power of the Holy Temple to suppress this place.

Those who did not drink saw that all the great scholars except Fang Yun were glowing, their talents were shaking, and their faces were flashing with strange lights. The strong aura almost swept across the four directions.

But under the suppression of the Holy Temple, these people's power was not released, but was restricted in their bodies.

Everyone secretly looked at them. After the initial abnormality, each great scholar had a red face, like an ordinary person who drank too much, drunk. After a hundred breaths, the great scholars woke up one by one, their eyes became clear, but their faces were still drunk.

The strong smell of wine echoed around, even making people feel pungent and nauseous, and the great scholars could only endure it.

The great scholars praised the wine one after another, without sparing any words of praise.

The others did not know the effect of this divine wine, but at least they could see that Fang Yun had bribed all the great scholars with just this glass of wine.

What's more, there were a lot of divine delicacies on the table.

After drinking, Fang Yun did not say much, and after a few more words, he asked everyone to taste it, and said that he would talk after dinner if there was anything.

Not to mention the children of the noble families, even the heads of the noble families and the elders of the Holy Academy had never eaten such luxurious delicacies in their lives, so everyone was not polite and ate these delicacies as if they were taking divine medicine.

The young eldest grandsons of the noble families only ate one chopstick of each dish and stopped, because if they ate more, their bodies would be blown up by the terrifying power. Even if they ate very little, it would take many years to fully digest and absorb it.

The rest of the people who came were at least university scholars, so they could eat more, but they also quickly put down their chopsticks and used their power to absorb the divine objects.

Only great scholars can eat to the end and finish all the delicacies.

The plates were clean, and there was no soup left.

After eating, no one spoke at all. Everyone began to mobilize their talents to digest this rare divine object.

Half a quarter of an hour later, a university scholar from the Chensheng family was promoted from the fourth realm to the peak.

A quarter of an hour later, a great scholar from the Gongyang family was promoted from the first realm to the second realm...

Within two hours, seven people were promoted to a small realm of literary status, five people were promoted to a small realm of literary courage, and three people could break through the literary status or literary courage, but they temporarily suppressed it and waited until after the dinner to prepare for the breakthrough.

After two hours, everyone stopped absorbing one after another. It was not that they had finished absorbing, but that they had finally completed the initial absorption and would continue in the future.

Everyone found that everyone present had become younger and their momentum was slightly different.

No one thanked Fang Yun, but everyone was struggling in their hearts.

There is no such thing as free food in the world, let alone a sacred object. How can we repay Fang Yun?

This dinner was not just a transaction. When they ate these divine items, they already owed Fang Yuntian a favor, maybe even a favor.

Seeing that everyone was awake, Fang Yun smiled slightly and said: "After we have had enough wine and food, let's not talk about it. I will get straight to the point and talk about the purpose of this dinner."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Fang Yun didn't mention these artifacts at all, just to avoid being embarrassed or confused.

Fang Yun suppressed his smile and said seriously: "You are all the pillars of the human race and the pillars of Jingguo. You have known better than me many years ago how far Jingguo's internal crisis has reached."

Everyone nodded slightly.

"Without innovation, Jingguo cannot survive five years. With innovation, I dare not say how long it can last, but there is at least a certain possibility that it can survive five years. Of course, it is also possible that Jingguo will pay a heavy price because of the failure of innovation. I can’t survive even three years. I am very confident about this innovation, but I have been preparing for the worst.”

"The biggest obstacle to this innovation, as you all know as well as I do, is not our ability to make fortunes, the attitude of the officials, the power of the royal family, or even the content of the innovation, but the groups whose core interests I have touched. , including some aristocratic families, various countries, big families and many scholars. They are the vested interests of the old system. Once it is reformed, they will definitely pay a heavy price. Even if it is possible for them to rise from the ashes, they will still oppose me. "

"Actually, when I decided to serve as left prime minister, I was preparing for today's family dinner, but I didn't want to host this family banquet more than anyone else. Once this family banquet is held, it means that my enemies have already used The methods that should not be used exceed the bottom line of the human race. The chaos in Dingfu is the last example."