Saint of the Confucian way

The empty building ship of the holy courtyard can go straight into the capital, but the empty building ship of the miscellaneous family only stops outside the South Gate of the capital.

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

However, the officials of Jingguo who went out of the city to meet the miscellaneous envoys were led by Cao De'an, the right minister.

From the empty building ship to the ground, a group of miscellaneous families did not see Fang Yun. Some were lost and some looked angry.

Hong Maoshan, who was in charge of the negotiations on this trip, smiled from beginning to end. Seeing Jingguo officials was like seeing old friends. He talked and laughed all the way, and finally lived in the place where the foreign envoys in Jingguo school palace lived.

As this is a rare visit by a great Confucian in the holy courtyard, the reception standard is very high.

Fang Yun dared not give them face, and other officials dared not.

After arriving at his residence and taking a break, Hong Maoshan came straight to the point and said that it was not too late. The two sides should hold peace talks as soon as possible.

Soon, Hong Maoshan and others got a reply.

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

The official who replied felt that he spat at Hong Maoshan and others, saying that they tried their best to ask Fang Yun to come forward, but Fang Yun refused. Fang Yun didn't speak, let alone the peace talks department. Even empress dowager Jingguo couldn't hold direct peace talks, so we had to wait until Fang Yun got well.

When the miscellaneous family asked Fang Yun when he would recover, no one could give an answer.

In desperation, Hong Maoshan and other miscellaneous officials had to rest in the school palace. Hong Maoshan also specially met with some miscellaneous scholars in the capital, saying that miscellaneous scholars and Jingguo will certainly abandon their past differences and will not affect any miscellaneous scholars.

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

The answer is unclear.

On the third day, many miscellaneous officials could not contain their anger and asked Jingguo to determine the time of the peace talks in strong terms.

There is still no official reply from Jingguo.

On the third night, the anger of many officials of the miscellaneous family subsided, because they got the news that the vast majority of officials of Jingguo actually wanted to make peace talks with the miscellaneous family, but Fang Yun had been unwilling to make peace talks and had been obstructing the matter.

On the morning of the fourth day, the miscellaneous officials led by Hong Maoshan went out of the school palace and began to play around the capital. At the same time, they constantly hinted that the people in the capital had been in the capital for several days. All the officials of Jingguo were willing to make peace talks, but Fang Yun was unwilling. This shows that it is not the miscellaneous experts who are obstructing Jingguo, but Fang Yun who is fighting against the miscellaneous experts by borrowing the hand of Jingguo.

Various rumors began to spread in Jingguo. Some people even said that Fang Yun had joined hands with other families to crowd out all miscellaneous scholars in Jingguo. The reason why miscellaneous scholars threatened before was that they were cornered by Fang Yun.

On the fifth day, Hong Maoshan went outside the palace and took the initiative to ask for peace talks, but in the end, because Fang Yun didn't come forward, he had to return empty handed.

Soon, all scholars in the ten countries knew that Hong Maoshan, a respected old Confucian, endured humiliation and heavy burdens for the sake of human peace, but Fang Yun teased him and closed the door.

As a result, there were voices denouncing Fang Yun everywhere, especially the Qingguo people, holding high the moral stick, accusing Fang Yun of violating rites and asking the holy court for a ruling.

Although the holy courtyard has not made a ruling, someone on the list has clearly pointed out that Fang Yun is ill and injured. It is not against etiquette not to meet Hong Maoshan at this time.

On the sixth day, a news suddenly broke out. Although Fang Yun was recovering from illness in the duo garden, he still handled government affairs, which was obviously playing tricks on the acrobat envoy.

Qingguo people and Gu people were completely angered, and many Qingguo scholars even wanted to declare war with Jingguo.

Relations between the two countries have dropped to freezing point.

Some officials in Jingguo also thought that Fang Yun had gone too far, so they began to participate in Fang Yun. Some officials even thought that since Fang Yun was ill, they simply entrusted the right to negotiate.

At first, Hong Maoshan and other officials were impetuous. Finally, they were completely tempered. They simply stayed in the school palace. When they had nothing to do, they met miscellaneous scholars and communicated with them, giving people a feeling that Hong Maoshan and others had become miscellaneous scholars' permanent envoys to Jingguo.

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

Jingguo officials and all miscellaneous officials breathed a sigh of relief.

Anyway, since the negotiation is a good sign.

Autumn morning, clear sky.

The new cabinet seat has just been built, and many places are designed and named by Fang Yun. For example, there are conference halls that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, lounges for officials to rest, and conference rooms of different sizes.

In a medium-sized conference room, people from all walks of life and officials of the peace talks Department came early.

The layout of this conference room has never appeared in other parts of St. yuan. In the middle is a long table with officials from 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.

Miscellaneous officials are a little confused. They didn't agree to hold peace talks today. Why didn't Fang Yun come?

It seemed that he was aware of the ideas of miscellaneous officials. Shang Shusheng Boyuan of the Ministry of rites coughed and said, "Fang Xusheng is coming. Don't worry. After all, he is still a patient. Come and serve fruits."

Subsequently, the cabinet's attendants sent a large number of fruit platters.

Those miscellaneous officials were people who had seen the world, but when they saw the fruit platter they had never seen, they showed curiosity, and then found that more than half of them had never seen.

Every miscellaneous official had fruit plates in front of him, but he didn't start immediately and waited for Hong Maoshan to eat first.

Hong Maoshan was a little embarrassed because he couldn't recognize all the fruits and didn't know how to eat them. In case he didn't eat right, he would make people laugh.

Jingguo officials secretly laughed, but they were serious on the surface.

Sheng Boyuan was considerate and said, "Jingguo and the blood mang community jointly cultivated a number of new melons and fruits a long time ago. They were listed one after another this year. Fang Xusheng invited officials in the capital to taste them, and specially invented this kind of fruit plate to entertain guests."

Hong Maoshan smiled and said, "some of these fruits are unprecedented. I'm a great scholar. Others don't dare to buy them when they see them."

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

Hong Maoshan nodded and said, "I don't know some of the melons and fruits. Can you introduce them one by one? If the taste is excellent, I will personally celebrate the country."

Therefore, Jingguo officials who knew these melons and fruits introduced them one by one and took the initiative to teach eating methods. Hong Maoshan led miscellaneous officials to learn new melons and fruits.

Some officials in Jingguo secretly scolded the old fox in hongmaoshan. They didn't know how to eat. They just asked directly. They turned several corners.

After introducing all the melons and fruits, the miscellaneous officials also had a full meal.

A Jingguo official said with great regret that the blood mang community has also cultivated a kind of stinky prickly melon, with sharp thorns on the surface, strange smell, sweet and soft glutinous food. At present, it has become a new favorite of melons and fruits in the capital, but it has also aroused controversy. Some people like it very much, like it as life, and some people smell it disgusting. If it is not so controversial and the quantity is rare, it can be sold only in a few places, which can be tasted by miscellaneous officials.

Some miscellaneous officials were very curious and said that when the peace talks were over, they would taste the stinky prickly melon in the capital.