The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2536 Civil Service Examination

The Li Xiang Pavilion was still in preparation, but the Li Hall began to alienate the Miscellaneous School, disrupting the Miscellaneous School's plan. The officials of Jing State were not punished for a long time, which finally made the people of Jing State feel relieved.

However, unlike previous reforms, the establishment of the Li Xiang Pavilion attracted many voices of opposition.

Many officials of the Legalist School believed that the establishment of the Li Xiang Pavilion was purely redundant. If the Li Xiang Pavilion appeared, it would mean that etiquette was higher than law, which would burn the efforts of the Legalist School over the years. .

Therefore, the Legalist officials kept writing letters, believing that a legal minister should be established and a legal minister pavilion should be established.

Other officials basically withdrew from the discussion of this matter, and watched coldly as some Confucianists and Legalist scholars began to fight for power.

The internal struggle in the court was a normal situation, and it did not affect Fang Yun's deepening reform at all.

However, because the previous reforms were too drastic, Jing State could not withstand long-term and huge changes, so Fang Yun started from small things.

For example, some easy-to-remember nursery rhymes or formulas were compiled to help people maintain hygiene and prevent pests and diseases, and children were required to recite them. This measure was highly recognized by doctors, and even doctors directly used the power of the Medical Palace to request that it be promoted in various countries.

A few days later, some officials with children joked to Fang Yun that the children used to admire Mr. Fang Yun, but since they had to recite these formulas, they felt that Mr. Fang Yun had become bad.

Fang Yun smiled. These children did not understand the importance of these things. When they grow up, they will understand how important it is to change customs and habits. It is not an exaggeration to say that it saved their lives.

For these trivial matters that do not affect the distribution of power, all parties in the court showed a high degree of tolerance for Fang Yun. Even if they thought Fang Yun was nitpicking and unnecessary, they were too lazy to care and just regarded it as coaxing Fang Yun to be happy.

Fang Yun was also very satisfied with the attitude of those officials and continued to carry out various seemingly insignificant reforms in Jingguo.

These reforms will not bear fruit for at least ten years, and they will become commonplace in the future. Everyone knows about it, and no one will even think that it is Fang Yun's credit, but Fang Yun does not care.

Fang Yun served as the magistrate of Ning'an County, the governor of two states, and the left prime minister, all for the purpose of becoming an official.

The peace talks between the Peace Negotiation Department and the Miscellaneous Family are still ongoing. The two sides have finally begun to finalize some details, but they are insignificant to both sides, such as reducing the compensation of Qing State, such as opening up some waters, such as raising the price of some resources in Qing State...

The establishment of the Li Xiang Pavilion was voted twice.

One was a vote by the cabinet senators composed of senior officials, and the votes in favor were less than two-thirds.

The second cabinet vote added the cabinet scholars composed of middle and low-level officials, and the supporters still did not exceed two-thirds.

Therefore, the Li Xiang Pavilion was temporarily shelved.

This behavior became an excuse for the Miscellaneous Family. The attitude of the Li Hall did not change significantly, but the Miscellaneous Family seemed to have taken a reassurance pill and suddenly began to issue punishment orders in succession, and it was completely aimed at the officials who assisted the Miscellaneous Family in Xiangzhou, Jiangzhou and Mizhou.

These people were clearly branded with the Fang Party.

In just three days, a total of 23 officials who were practicing the Miscellaneous School were expelled from the Miscellaneous School. Some were punished with tarnished literary courage, while others vomited blood and fell into a coma. Fortunately, everyone was mentally prepared, and since they were only practicing the Miscellaneous School, their literary courage was not shattered. However, their literary palace was damaged. Unless they made an unexpected breakthrough in the Holy Way, their literary rank would never be able to advance in this life.

On the discussion list, the people of Qing began to mock Fang Yun.

"This is called evil will be punished! When a large number of Qing officials were in Yueyang Tower, what did you Jing people say?"

"Fang Xusheng is really selfless. His subordinates are in such a state, but he is still stubborn and refuses to admit his mistakes."

"Things change, and nothing has been concluded yet. People of Qing should not be too happy too early. In addition, who has inside information? Is Zajia ready to tear his face with Fang Yun?"

"I heard that next, Zajia will start to expel a group of Jing officials every day until all the auxiliary officials of Jing are expelled from Zajia, and may even expel all the Jing officials. There are scholars who are studying Miscellaneous! In the end, they may be given a Saintly Statute. "

"I never thought that Miscellaneous would dare to do this."

"Fang Xusheng is really tough. He never bowed his head in front of Miscellaneous. "

"What a pity. With Fang Xusheng's talent, even if he did nothing, he could be canonized in a few years, but he was seriously injured and it is very likely that he has no hope of becoming a Saint. Otherwise, how could Miscellaneous dare to treat him like this."

"No one can say for sure about this matter, but it is said that it has involved the dispute over the Saintly Statute, and Miscellaneous seems to have done so out of helplessness."

There were a lot of discussions on the discussion list, and the people of Jingguo were in panic.

After expelling officials for ten consecutive days, Miscellaneous announced again that as long as the scholars of Miscellaneous left Jingguo, they would never be expelled from Miscellaneous.

This announcement seemed to be just creating panic and keeping the scholars of Miscellaneous away from Jingguo, but it concealed a very terrifying message.

Because, according to the current situation, Miscellaneous should only prevent scholars from serving as officials of Jingguo, but now it implies that the entire Jingguo is very dangerous, which is sending a hidden signal.

The Miscellaneous School may use the Holy Dao to suppress the seal!

The countless Miscellaneous School scholars in Jing State were completely panicked.

At the same time, Qing State issued an announcement that it was willing to accept the Miscellaneous School scholars in Jing State, and all treatment was equal to that of Qing State citizens. If they were willing to completely abandon the dark and join the light, they would be given special treatment.

The announcement of Qing State was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the Miscellaneous School scholars in Jing State began to collapse.

On that day, a large number of grassroots miscellaneous officials below the seventh rank resigned, including not only officials who majored in miscellaneous studies, but also officials who minored in miscellaneous studies.

In just one day, the number exceeded three thousand!

Then, middle and high-level miscellaneous officials also began to resign one after another.

This time, the cabinet did not take any countermeasures.

Because now Jingguo was unable to stop it.

The inaction of the cabinet exacerbated the panic of miscellaneous scholars, so for several consecutive days, a spectacular scene appeared on the north bank of the Yangtze River, with a large number of miscellaneous scholars taking boats to Qingguo with their families.

So that some passenger ships at some docks were not enough, and some larger fishing boats were used to carry passengers.

The officials of Jingguo began to write letters, requesting to stop the outflow of miscellaneous scholars, otherwise it would not take long for Jingguo’s government offices to be unable to operate normally due to insufficient officials.

However, the cabinet remained unmoved.

Just when even miscellaneous scholars without official positions began to flee, the cabinet finally issued a decree.

As soon as this decree was announced, the sky above Jingguo immediately shook with mysterious power.

The decree announced that Jing State began to conduct a trial civil servant examination and conduct a large-scale civil servant selection. Scholars who passed the civil servant selection could be promoted normally. If they were both virtuous and talented, and their official position was too high but their literary position was insufficient, they could be granted an official and literary position valid in Jing State.

From then on, except for scholars with Jinshi or higher literary positions who could be exempted from the examination, only scholars who passed the civil servant examination were qualified to serve as officials in Jing State.

The decree also had additional details. From then on, Jing State selected scholars based on their talents and appointed officials based on their abilities. As long as they were scholars, they could serve as the left prime minister at the highest level.