The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2494 Bad things keep happening

After discussing the issue for a long time, the entire court of Qing Kingdom was finally shocked.

As Fang Yun said, the bureaucracy has an extremely huge inertia, but in fact, in a society where officials are the most important, most of the most elite people are in the bureaucracy.

Therefore, when Qing Kingdom realized that it was in a desperate situation in terms of public opinion, it did not think of reform as Fang Yun did, but instead found someone to take the blame.

This is the habit of the elite class of each ethnic group.

Soon, Qing Kingdom issued a statement.

It admitted that the county magistrate where the deceased's family lived was not a good official and had been escorted back to Beijing. The local prefect was demoted to the seventh rank, and the governor was transferred away.

The statement also said that although the death of the seven members of the family was caused by the dragon clan, Qing Kingdom was not prepared to shirk responsibility, but began to study how to ensure the food and clothing of the relevant people.

Finally, Qing Kingdom condemned the dragon clan and the Water Palace, and hoped that the Holy Court would do justice.

That night, the East Saint Pavilion sent letters to Fang Yun and Qing Jun respectively, asking both parties to go to the East Saint Pavilion to discuss the dispute between the two countries.

An hour after the document of the interview was issued, a document from Gongdian forced the King of Qing to hold an emergency court meeting late at night.

Gongdian used the need for technological innovation as an excuse to withdraw all the Gongjia scholars of the Holy Academy in Qing State, and terminated all technical and institutional support to Qing State. In view of the fact that Qing State privately set up trade barriers to hinder the development of Gongjia, the technology usage fees of the Qing State royal family and government workshops increased fivefold.

In recent years, Gongdian is the fastest growing palace in the Holy Academy, because with the innovation and popularization of a large number of technologies, the Gongjia's holy way is constantly expanding. With the strengthening of the holy way, the power of the Gongjia people has also increased, and the control of the relevant forces of the Shengyuan Continent is naturally stronger.

In order to develop Gongjia technology, but not to let innovators get nothing, Gongdian has stipulated technology patents in recent years. Technology innovators can deliver technology to Gongdian, and Gongdian is responsible for promotion. All workshops using related technologies must pay certain patent fees.

Generally speaking, ordinary patent fees are very low, because too high will hinder the development of workshops, but because there are so many workshops using them, the total amount is still very considerable, so many innovators have gained considerable wealth.

Gongjia scholars, especially those with innovative abilities, have become a group of new nobles in Shengyuan Continent.

Some people have even counted that among the founders of new noble families and new famous families in the human race in the past thirty years, Gongjia scholars accounted for a full 30%, and their wealth growth also ranked first among all families.

The patent usage fee is very low, but many workshops have to use the technology of many Gongdians, which accounts for about 5% of the total cost. All workshops can accept this ratio, after all, the income is greater than the expenditure.

Now the technology usage fee has increased fivefold, which means that most workshops will lose money. The more items they make, the more they lose. If they don't pay, Gongdian can sanction them.

So, from now on, the workshops of the royal family and government of Qing Kingdom will either be closed down or continue to lose money until they can't afford it and close down.

Or, the Qing royal family forced all Qing people to buy items produced by the royal family and government workshops at high prices, which is exactly what Qing's opponents want to see.

Qing Jun sat on the dragon throne in the Golden Palace, frowning. The palace maids and eunuchs who served him had been kicked away by him, and only the eunuch who had been serving him for all these years was still around.

The officials of Qing State opposite the dragon throne were already arguing in a mess. Some officials believed that they should continue to fight against Jing State and Fang Yun and should not admit defeat at this time. Some officials believed that there was no need to make things awkward and should sit down and discuss properly.

While the officials were arguing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue suddenly changed his face drastically. He ran to the dragon throne regardless of the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects and whispered to Qing Jun.

Ordinary scholars could not hear the sound, but officials of Hanlin or above could hear it clearly.

Many people's faces changed drastically.

The more Qing Jun listened, the uglier his face became, and finally kicked the old eunuch out.

The old eunuch rolled down the steps, hit his head on the ground, and fainted.

Qing Jun said impatiently: "Drag this old waste out!"

The guards on the side rushed up and dragged the unconscious old man away.

An official boldly asked: "Your Majesty, what happened?"

Qing Jun took a deep breath and said: "The Agricultural Palace ordered that new seedlings of high-yield crops will be supplied to the ten countries, but the seedlings are produced in the Blood Mango Realm. All technologies and cultivation processes are related to the Blood Mango Realm. Each country needs to pay a certain breeding fee. Except for Qing and Gu, each country can pay part of the grain in place of the breeding fee after the crop is harvested. If Qing and Gu want to use the seedlings of high-yield crops, they need to pay the full breeding fee. The Agricultural Palace did not give the specific number, but it is certain that the breeding fee we have to pay is basically equivalent to spending money to buy grain directly."

"The Agricultural Palace is too much! This matter concerns the people's livelihood. Can the saints turn a blind eye?" An official said.

The Minister of Revenue said helplessly: "The Agricultural Palace is fully responsible for agricultural affairs, and the saints are not allowed to interfere. After all, the Agricultural Palace is not only the Agricultural Palace of those elders, but also the Agricultural Palace of all farmers and scholars in the world. Which semi-saint is willing to offend all farmers?"

"We still use the previous seeds to plant, what can the Agricultural Palace do to us?"

"The Agricultural Palace can't do anything to us, but let me give you an example. We can only grow 300 kilograms of grain per acre, but other countries can grow 500 kilograms of grain per acre. This means that other countries will have more food and more manpower. No matter what they do, they will be faster, more and better than our Qing country. In a few years, our Qing country will fall behind other countries. Coupled with the restrictions of the Gong Palace and the Water Palace, all aspects of Qing country will experience a great decline, even including the number of scholars."

"That will be many years later! The one in Jing country will not live long... cough cough, we only need to delay for another two or three years. Jing country has no one. We just need to find a puppet with the royal blood of Jing country and go north to work. King's banner, we can occupy several states of Jingguo. By then, the large tracts of land and workshops in Xiangzhou and Jiangzhou will belong to our Qingguo, right? "

"Yes! We don't need to confront Jingguo for a long time. We can swallow Jingguo in just a few years!"

"No matter how fast Jingguo develops, a few years won't change anything. We have a solid foundation in Qingguo, and two or three years is enough!"

"We can bow to anyone in Qingguo, but we can never bow to Jingguo and Fang Yun!"

"Only by completely defeating Fang Yun and swallowing Jingguo can our literary talents be freed from the dust!"

Many officials shared the same hatred, because at this moment, more than half of the officials in the Golden Palace had their literary talents covered in dust at the Yueyang Tower Literary Conference, and they were still unwilling to accept it.

Qingjun nodded and said with a gloomy face: "Yes, we can never surrender to Jingguo! I..."

The Imperial Physician suddenly interrupted Qingjun and said: "Your Majesty, I have something urgent to report. "