In the imperial court, there were quite a few people who claimed to be Fang Yiren's disciples.
Fang Yiren did not stop this situation. However, the people he truly accepted as his confidants, the so-called Fang Party members, were very few.
Since the beginning of this year, many ministers who were regarded as "Fang Party" by the court officials were sentenced to death by the emperor for favoring the gentry or enclosing land for profit during the process of banning and reforming Qingtian.
In fact, almost all of these people have nothing to do with Fang Yiren.
However, Taishi Fang still accepted all of this. He wrote many times to apologize, and even wrote a memorial to Pingzhang to resign, but the emperor ignored him.
Other officials from the Department of Science and Technology heard the news and attacked Fang Yiren, but the emperor also just stayed in the middle and did not deal with it.
The relationship between Li Laiheng and Fang Yiren is subtle and special.
They knew each other's roots, which made the Dashun court extremely stable. Now, although the Shun court has annexed a large number of old officials from the previous Ming Dynasty, the influence of the old man Chuangying has been greatly diluted.
But as long as Taishi Fang's purple gold beams and white jade pillars are there, the court hall of Shunchao will always be extremely stable.
Those old ministers from the Ming Dynasty will never make any waves.
Even other important ministers who were admired by the emperor, such as Gu Junen, Xie Zheng, Song Qijiao, Gong Yu and others, could rarely touch Fang Yiren's true rule of the court.
Fang Yiren stood up and succeeded in the imperial court. In all aspects, he and the emperor still need to inherit this.
Fang Yizhi was obsessed with academics and devoted himself to the study of physics and mathematics. He served as the chief scholar of Hongwen Academy, but he went to the Imperial College to teach every day and instilled new ideas into the young scholars.
It was also Fang Yiren's own intention to ask Fang Yizhi to move to the Imperial Academy to offer wine.
After all, Hongwenyuan was the reserve base for Dashun's senior officials. He had always let his own cousin take control of Hongwenyuan, but he had not been involved in the affairs.
Sooner or later, it will arouse strong attacks from the officials and make the emperor dissatisfied.
Fang Yizhi himself would also be very satisfied if Fang Yizhi went to teach at the Imperial College and become a noble idle official who could also spread his own academic ideas.
It turns out that Xu Du, the three scholars who defected to Li Laiheng in Xuzhou, were transferred to Huaihai Province and were responsible for the important task of founding the province of innovation. Chen Zilong was appointed as the direct commander of Fujian Province, and they were all provincial-level officials.
Only Fang Yizhi was not interested in official career. It was not difficult for him to be a bachelor of the Hongwen Academy and transfer directly to the Six Governments for a period of time as a minister, and then directly become a minister.
However, Fang Yizhi was not interested in official career, Fang Yiren was happy for him to study academics, and the emperor was even more happy to see that the Fang family would not form an intricate force in the court.
Everyone maintains a good tacit understanding, so how can the court be unstable?
Only the fact that Li Laiheng suddenly re-employed Li Dingguo caught Fang Yiren by surprise.
He always thought that he knew His Majesty best, but the emperor's appointment this time was really unexpected.
For Li Dingguo to suddenly replace Guo Junzhen, the top general of the Shun Army? It's a bit exaggerated.
Although Guo Junzhen's current position is just that of the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Shun Army, other generals such as Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, and even the next-level Hao Yaoqi, Chen Yongfu and others would also take up the responsibility. responsibility.
Since Li Dingguo has been granted the title of Duke, his status is higher than that of ordinary generals and marquises. It seems that he is regarded by His Majesty as a commander at the level of General Quan.
Li Dingguo succeeded Guo Junzhen, which was reasonable according to the imperial transfer regulations.
It's just that Li Dingguo is a surrendered general, and he has not surrendered to Dashun for a long time. Why is he suddenly shouldering such an important task?
Very strange, just very strange.
Fang Yiren really didn't quite understand what he was thinking about this. After much thought, he decided to persuade the emperor first.
Taishi Fang understands His Majesty, so he rarely conflicts with Li Laiheng's inner thoughts. However, Fang Yiren has never been stingy about strongly disobeying his superiors where he thinks it is inappropriate.
In this way, he can be regarded as the current independent prime minister of Shun Dynasty.
"Li Dingguo may have many relations with the Western invaders..." Fang Yiren became a little worried when he thought of this, "I heard Yan Xin mentioned that the reason why the Western invaders were unable to resist the king's division in Sichuan was because many of their soldiers and horses were trapped.
On the border of Yunnan, we are fighting with the Burmese chieftains."
Fang Yiren said: "It is impossible for this corner of Yunnan to resist the Dashun Army for a long time. Regardless of Sun Kewang's righteousness or the strength of his troops, it would be difficult for him to fight against the Dashun Army for more than a year. Then why didn't he surrender?
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Your Majesty has said many times that Sun Kewang is a man of great wisdom and courage. I am afraid that Qin Ni’s intention lies overseas..."
"Overseas?" Fang Yizhi was shocked, "Yunnan is among the mountains, how can there be anything overseas?"
"Isn't Myanmar just an overseas country? Mi Zhi often hangs out with Westerners. Haven't you ever heard them talk about the Little Western Ocean and the world of Tianzhu west of Myanmar?"
Fang Yizhi wondered: "Myanmar is full of miasma and surrounded by mountains. How can we go there? Moreover, Burma is a barbarian country. How can Sun Kewang, a Han, run to a foreign country?"
Fang Yiren said with a smile: "Don't you hear about the Yelv Stone in Western Liao? If you have the determination to break the boat and have great wisdom and courage, you may not be able to go overseas and create another career again.
Myanmar, Siam, and Annan countries have many Chinese business travelers, and their situation is even better than that of Yelv Dashi!
If Sun Kewang dares to defy the king's confidence, what do you think we should do with these foreign countries? I'm worried that Your Majesty will let Li Dingguo guard the southwest, and Li Dingguo will lack the determination to kill Sun Kewang.
If Sun Kewang is really allowed to serve Emperor Ming and go overseas instead of building a new country, I don’t know how many years he will be troubled by Dashun in the future!"
Fang Yizhi felt confused and unbelievable about this. Although he had close contacts with many Western missionaries, he already knew that the Western world was not entirely a foreign wasteland.
However, those Westerners often disdain Burma and Siam, thinking that these places are full of jungles and miasma, making it very difficult to survive, so they came to China to do business.
Therefore, Fang Yizhi still thinks that his cousin's words are a bit unfounded.
How many people in the past dynasties have been able to achieve the level of Yelu Dashi?
How could Sun Kewang, a rogue bandit, be so wise and courageous?
He had forgotten, isn't the current Emperor Tianfa also a so-called wandering bandit?
It's just that His Majesty valued Li Dingguo and was determined to use him to pacify the southwest. After that, although Fang Yiren organized several courtiers to persuade him, it was because he himself did not have a firm idea about this matter, and the result was nothing.
It was thus generally confirmed that Li Dingguo would take Guo Junzhen's place to conquer Yunnan, and Yuan Zong's place Liu Fangliang would go to Ping Liao.
But Fang Yiren didn't expect that nothing happened to Southwest, which he had always been worried about.
On the contrary, something big happened in Liaodong, which he had ignored.
It was a very serious event and something that no one in the Shun Dynasty had expected.
North Korea sent envoys to pay tribute...and ask for help.