The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 1510 A Red Apricot Spreads Away

On the 26th day of the first lunar month, the third day after the Lumen Army arrived in Zhucheng, Lumen Hou issued a military order, requiring all armies to rest for five days, prepare their weapons, and rectify their equipment. Five days later, he would send a large army to attack the surrounding small barbarian tribes to show the military power of the Chu State.

The official document room on the left side of the main hall of the Marshal's Mansion was extremely busy, with a large number of scholars and clerks coming in and out, and many people holding various documents in their hands.

The Marshal would issue orders to various armies and regions, and would draft a document, then hand it over to the staff, and then to the official document room. The clerks in the official document room would go to the printing house to print out enough documents.

The court would send letters to various places every day, and the contents of the letters would arrive at the official document room as soon as possible, and the official document room would be responsible for printing them and sending them to various places in need.

The various armies also needed to communicate through the official document room.

In the eyes of the official document room, there are no secrets in the army, so the official document room is an important place in the army. Once the secrets are leaked, the whole army will suffer a catastrophe.

The official document room is also the most difficult and tiring place. There are basically only two types of people, one type of people constantly write documents, and the other type of people constantly run errands to distribute documents.

The busiest thing in the official document room is to write, organize or distribute family letters for soldiers.

For an army of more than 400,000, even if each person only writes two family letters per year on average, the official document room will receive more than 2,000 letters every day, and more than half of the documents are written by the clerks of the official document room.

Some clerks in the official document room go to various armies every day to write family letters for some people. After all, literate soldiers may not be able to write family letters.

After Fang Yun joined the official document room, he was very leisurely in the first few days. He held the official seal and went back to the room to sign or stamp the official seal every once in a while. The rest of the time, he mostly walked around the official document room, observed the clerks working, and occasionally followed some clerks to other military camps to understand all the procedures of the official document room.

At first, the people in the official document room thought it was novel, but they were too busy with official duties and soon ignored the Marquis of Zhujiang who liked to wander around.

"The idler of Zhujiang!"

The nickname given to Fang Yun by Wei Changxian soon spread throughout the camp.

Fang Yun didn't care. The reason why he was so leisurely was that he found that he was anxious to be promoted to the Grand Secretary a few days ago, and his mind was tense. Fortunately, he discovered it early and began to pay attention to the combination of work and rest, otherwise the time for promotion to the Grand Secretary would inevitably be delayed.

Everything is too much or too little.

Fang Yun was very idle, but the whole army was preparing nervously.

On the first day of February, a Hanlin general of the Lumen Army led 30,000 troops to leave Zhucheng and began to look for the barbarian tribe.

On the fifth day of February, the army returned triumphantly, beheading 2,000 people, and our army suffered less than 500 casualties, which was a rare victory. Lumenhou personally welcomed the victorious soldiers.

On the sixth day of February, General Zuo of the Zhujiang Army led 40,000 troops out of the city. The next day, they returned in disgrace, with more than 4,000 soldiers killed and more than 10,000 wounded.

Marquis Lumen was furious. He asked and found out that the army was ambushed by the barbarians and had to withdraw with all their strength.

After Fang Yun got the news, he shook his head slightly. This General Zuo obviously underestimated the enemy, otherwise he would not have been ambushed. Fortunately, the human race and the barbarians in the literary world abide by the basic principle of equality. Unless in special times, the attacking party will never send too powerful generals. For example, the strongest enemy in this ambush is only the barbarian marquis.

If the barbarian king participated in the ambush, the 40,000 troops would have been wiped out long ago.

While doing his own duties, Fang Yun learned the battle between the human race and the monster barbarians.

Compared with ordinary cold weapon battles, the battle between the human race and the monster barbarians has many differences.

In ordinary cold weapon wars, if the two sides engage in direct combat, after one side's casualties exceed one-third, the morale is likely to collapse, and the other side's advantage will become extremely large. The side with collapsed morale will flee, and the other side will easily pursue and kill.

But in the battle between the human race and the monsters, there are very few fleeing, either successfully retreating or fighting to the death.

In direct combat, there are only one in a hundred cases where the human race or the monsters flee.

In ordinary cold weapon battles, direct combat will last for a certain period of time, but in direct combat between the human race and the monsters, there will be two extremes, either it will last for a long time, or it will be decided quickly. After all, both sides have terrible power, and the intensity of the battle is far beyond ordinary cold weapon battles.

It is precisely because of these differences that Fang Yun often abandons some of the ancient Chinese military tactics, and at the same time, he will deepen his research on military tactics applicable to the human race.

On the tenth day of February, Lumen Hou personally led an army of 200,000 to sweep all the large barbarian tribes in the south of Zhucheng, and returned to Zhucheng safely before the barbarians counterattacked.

The victory was a great success, and the Chu State received many congratulatory letters, even from countries friendly to the Chu State.

After the news of the battle spread throughout the country, the families of the Zhujiang Army and the Lumen Army began to mail letters. After a few days, the main task of the official document room was to sort out letters from all over the country and distribute them to the various armies and camps.

Fang Yun once again tried to ask to go to the battle, but was rejected by Lumen Hou. When he visited again, he was blocked outside and had to try from the backyard of the Marshal's Mansion, but ultimately returned without success.

On the same day, Fang Yun wrote a poem "Not Worth Visiting the Garden", which spread in Zhucheng.

I should pity the imprints of my clogs on the moss,

and the wooden door has not been opened for a long time.

The spring scenery in the garden cannot be contained,

and a red apricot branch has come out of the wall.

The first two sentences of this poem are mediocre, using humorous means to say that the host was afraid that the imprints of his clogs would damage the moss, so he had not opened the door for himself.

However, the last two sentences not only caused discussion in Zhucheng, but also became the hottest topic of the day in the literary circle.

The understanding of the last two sentences soon split into two camps. One camp praised Zhang Longxiang's state of mind. Even if he was suppressed in Zhucheng, he still had great ambitions, like apricot flowers in the garden, he could still stand out.

The other camp believed that this poem was a satire on Lumen Hou. The poet was saying that no matter how bad Lumen Hou was, he would break through the barriers like red apricots and stand out.

After this poem appeared on the literary list, the scholars of Shengyuan Continent did not understand it too much. They just thought that this poem was extremely excellent, with an upward spirit in the gloom.

Some people compared Li Wenying's famous line "In the deep snow in the front village, a branch bloomed last night" with "The spring scenery is full of gardens, and a branch of red apricots came out of the wall."

The appearance of this poem set off a climax of spring literary gatherings in various parts of the human race.

On the second day, Zong Ganyu, the head of the Zong family, personally commented on this poem "Spring comes and red apricots bloom, and one branch dominates the world."

Lei Tingzhen, a great scholar of the Lei family, called "Not Worth Visiting the Garden" "The flowers bloomed last night, the first flower of the new year".

The high praise of the two great scholars immediately caused heated discussions in Shengyuan Continent. Many scholars in Shengyuan Continent were dissatisfied and hoped that Fang Yun would come out and "teach" the arrogant Zhang Longxiang a lesson.

Controversy leads to topics, and topics lead to literary reputation. Zhang Longxiang's literary reputation began to rise rapidly in Shengyuan Continent.

No matter how strong the voices of opposition were, "A red apricot came out of the wall" soon became a household name.

While the outside world was in chaos, Fang Yun continued to handle official documents in the official document room. Near noon, Wei Changxian led people in.

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