During the peace talks and the Miscellaneous School's suppression, the Grand Secretariat officials had pressed on with reforms despite the pressure.
During Jing Kingdom's most difficult period, the Ministry of Finance and Jing Kingdom Bank had completed their preparations. Large numbers of Ministry of Revenue officials and related personnel were reassigned to these two departments. Of those occupying key posts in the two ministries, nearly half were members of the Fang Party, along with a small number of unfamiliar faces.
There were even several young people of low literary rank.
To deal with the departure of Miscellaneous School scholars, Jing Kingdom had conferred official literary ranks upon many Official Xiucai, Official Provincial Graduates, Official Metropolitan Graduates, and official Hanlin Academicians.
These scholars' actual literary ranks ranged from Licentiate to Metropolitan Graduate. They were not particularly renowned in Jing Kingdom, but their family backgrounds were clean, and they had earned exceptionally high scores in the Clerk Examination. They were therefore granted official literary ranks and could directly obtain relatively high official grades.
Some especially outstanding scholars, possessing tremendous ability in certain fields, had all been personally recruited by Fang Yun. In the name of replacing Miscellaneous School scholars, he placed them in government offices throughout Jing Kingdom.
Had Fang Yun done this in ordinary times, it would inevitably have triggered fierce backlash from every faction. But now, every faction had seen large numbers of Miscellaneous School scholars depart, and none could even fill its own hole. They had neither the energy nor the excuse to oppose Fang Yun.
Whenever Fang Yun arranged personnel, he exercised restraint. In comparable positions, his own people never exceeded half, and he balanced the staff from every faction, preventing any one family from becoming too dominant.
The most important reason these factions did not object was