The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2540 Peace talks begin

The Holy Academy's Skywalker can enter the capital directly, but the Zajia's Skywalker only stops outside the south gate of the capital.

According to normal etiquette, even if the monarch does not come out to meet, the left prime minister of a country should go out of the city to welcome him.

However, the Jingguo officials who went out of the city to welcome the Zajia envoys this time were headed by the right prime minister Cao De'an.

Walking from the Skywalker to the ground, the Zajia family did not see Fang Yun. Some of them were disappointed, and some looked angry.

Hong Maoshan, who was in charge of the negotiations, smiled from beginning to end. Seeing the Jingguo officials was like seeing old friends. They talked and laughed all the way, and finally lived in the residence of foreign envoys in the Jingguo Academy.

Since this was a rare visit by the Holy Academy's great scholars, the reception standards were extremely high.

Fang Yun dared not to give them face, and the other officials did not dare.

Arriving at the residence, after a short rest, Hong Maoshan got straight to the point and said that there was no time to lose and the two sides should negotiate as soon as possible.

Soon, Hong Maoshan and others received a reply.

Fang Yun was in poor health, and the negotiations were postponed.

The officials who responded felt that they had spit on Hong Maoshan and others, saying that they had tried every means to ask Fang Yun to come forward, but Fang Yun refused. Fang Yun did not speak, not to mention the Peace Negotiation Department, even the Queen Mother of Jingguo could not negotiate directly, so they could only wait until Fang Yun recovered.

The Zajia family asked when Fang Yun would recover, but no one could give an answer.

In desperation, Hong Maoshan and other Zajia officials had to rest in the academy. Hong Maoshan also met with some Zajia scholars in the capital, saying that Zajia and Jingguo would definitely put aside their past grudges and would not affect any Zajia scholar.

The next day, the Zajia officials asked Jingguo officials again when to start the peace talks.

The answer was unclear.

On the third day, many Zajia officials could not hold back their anger and used strong words to ask Jingguo to determine the time for the peace talks.

Still did not get a formal reply from Jingguo.

On the third night, the anger of many officials of the Zajia family subsided because they received news that most of the officials of the Jingguo wanted to negotiate with the Zajia family, but Fang Yun was the only one who was unwilling to negotiate and had been obstructing the matter.

On the morning of the fourth day, the officials of the Zajia family, led by Hong Maoshan, walked out of the academy and began to travel around the capital, while constantly hinting to the people of the capital that the Zajia family had been in the capital for several days, and all the officials of the Jingguo family were willing to negotiate, but Fang Yun was unwilling. This showed that it was not the Zajia family that was obstructing the Jingguo, but Fang Yun who was using the Jingguo to fight against the Zajia family.

Various rumors began to spread in the Jingguo, and some even said that Fang Yun had joined forces with other families to squeeze out all the Zajia scholars in the Jingguo family. The reason why the Zajia family threatened before was that they were forced into a desperate situation by Fang Yun.

On the fifth day, Hong Maoshan went outside the palace and took the initiative to request peace talks, but in the end, because Fang Yun did not show up, he had to return empty-handed.

Soon, all the scholars in the ten countries knew that the respected old scholar Hong Maoshan endured humiliation for the sake of human peace, but was teased by Fang Yun and was turned away.

As a result, voices denouncing Fang Yun appeared everywhere, especially the people of Qing, who raised the moral stick, accused Fang Yun of violating etiquette, and asked the Holy Court to make a ruling.

Although the Holy Court did not make a ruling, someone on the discussion list had clearly pointed out that Fang Yun was sick and injured, and it was not a violation of etiquette not to meet Hong Maoshan at this time.

On the sixth day, a piece of news suddenly broke out that although Fang Yun was recuperating in Duoyuan, he still handled government affairs, which was obviously teasing the envoy of the miscellaneous family.

The people of Qing and Gu were completely enraged, and many Qing scholars even wanted to declare war on Jing.

The relationship between the two countries dropped to the freezing point.

Some officials of Jing also thought that Fang Yun was too much, so they began to impeach Fang Yun, and some officials even thought that since Fang Yun was sick, they should simply entrust the right to negotiate to the right prime minister.

Hong Maoshan and other officials were impatient at first, but they were finally completely calmed down. They simply stayed in the academy and met with scholars from the Miscellaneous School when they had nothing to do. They communicated with the scholars from the academy, which gave people the feeling that Hong Maoshan and others had become the Miscellaneous School's permanent envoys to Jingguo.

On the tenth day after Hong Maoshan arrived in Jingguo, Fang Yun finally decided to start negotiations in the Zuo Xiang Pavilion tomorrow.

The officials of Jingguo and all the officials from the Miscellaneous School breathed a sigh of relief.

In any case, since it was a negotiation, it was a good sign.

It was a clear autumn morning.

The new cabinet location had just been built not long ago, and many places were designed and named by Fang Yun himself, such as a conference hall that could accommodate tens of thousands of people, a lounge for officials to rest, and conference rooms of different sizes.

In a medium-sized conference room, the Miscellaneous School and officials from the Peace Negotiation Department came early.

The layout of this conference room has never appeared in other places in Shengyuan Continent. There is a long table in the middle, and officials from both sides are lined up on both sides.

Hong Maoshan sat in the middle of the right side of the conference room, while the middle chair on the left side of the conference room was empty.

The officials of the Miscellaneous Department were a little confused. Didn't they agree to have a peace talk today? Why didn't Fang Yun come?

As if aware of the thoughts of the officials of the Miscellaneous Department, the Minister of Rites Sheng Boyuan coughed lightly and said, "Fang Xusheng is on his way. Don't worry, he is still a patient. Come on, serve the fruits."

Then, the servants of the cabinet sent a large number of fruits and vegetables.

The officials of the Miscellaneous Department were all people who had seen the world, but they were curious when they saw the fruits and vegetables they had never seen before. Then they found that most of the fruits and vegetables were fruits they had never seen before.

There was a fruit plate in front of each official of the Miscellaneous Department, but they did not eat it immediately. They all waited for Hong Maoshan to eat first.

Hong Maoshan was a little embarrassed because he could not recognize all the fruits and vegetables and did not know how to eat them. If he ate them wrong, he would be laughed at.

The officials of Jing State laughed secretly in their hearts, but they were serious on the surface.

Sheng Boyuan said sympathetically: "My Jing State and the Blood Mang Realm jointly cultivated a batch of new fruits and vegetables a long time ago. They have been put on the market this year. Fang Xusheng invited officials from the capital to taste them and specially invented this fruit plate to entertain the guests."

Hong Maoshan smiled and said: "Some of these fruits and vegetables are unprecedented. Even a great scholar like me finds them strange. I am afraid that other people will not dare to buy them when they see them."

Sheng Boyuan said: "An official once asked about this and said that his family might not buy them. But Fang Xusheng said that satisfying people's needs is just an ordinary businessman, but creating needs is a pioneer. As long as the things are good, people will eat them slowly."

Hong Maoshan nodded and said: "There are some fruits and vegetables that I don't know. I wonder if you can introduce them one by one? If the taste is excellent, I will personally promote them in Qing State."

So, the officials of Jing State who knew these fruits and vegetables introduced them one by one and took the initiative to teach them how to eat them. Hong Maoshan then led the officials of Miscellaneous Families to know the new fruits and vegetables.

Some officials of Jing State secretly cursed Hong Maoshan, the old fox, in their hearts. If they didn't know how to eat it, they should just ask directly, but they took several detours.

After all the fruits and vegetables were introduced, the officials of Miscellaneous Family also ate their fill.

An official of Jing State said with great regret that the Blood Mang Realm also cultivated a kind of stinky thorn melon, which was covered with thorns on the surface and smelled strange, but tasted sweet and soft. It has become the new favorite of fruits and vegetables in Beijing, but it has also caused controversy. Some people like it very much and love it, while others feel sick when they smell it. If it weren't so controversial and the quantity was scarce and only sold in a few places, the officials of Miscellaneous Family could have a taste.

Some officials of Miscellaneous Family were very curious and said that they would try the stinky thorn melon in Beijing after the peace talks were over.