The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 1516: Boating on the Pearl River

The human race values ​​madmen.

After Fang Yun cursed Lumen Hou, many young students in Zhucheng expressed their support at the junction of South City and North City, believing that he could not be convicted based on poetry and prose. As for cursing Lumen Hou, it was a private grudge at the literary gathering, not a public matter on the battlefield. Lumen Hou should not be confined to his house for revenge.

Many scholars in Chu began to speak out, hoping that the King of Chu would be lenient. After all, Zhang Longxiang had been imprisoned for ten years and was repeatedly suppressed as soon as he was released from prison. He was in grief and anger, and it was understandable that he was occasionally wild and unruly. If a scholar did not even resist after being suppressed, he was not worthy of being a scholar.

However, the voices in Chu that helped Zhang Longxiang were suppressed, and the calls for punishment were getting louder and louder.

As time went by, the King of Chu was slow to express his views, and the Prime Minister, the head of the civil officials with the highest status under the King of Chu, and the Grand Marshal, the head of the military officials, never officially spoke. It was rumored that the Grand Marshal had fought side by side with Zhang Wankong and liked scholars with blood. Zhang Longxiang's arrogant behavior was very much to the Grand Marshal's taste.

The Prime Minister of Chu was the opposite. He was polite everywhere. However, after hearing about Zhang Longxiang's teaching of his son a few days ago, he personally praised Zhang Longxiang for his style of a famous scholar.

The Prime Minister and the Grand Marshal did not speak, and other officials did not pursue him relentlessly. Only the censors of the Imperial Censorate kept writing letters, which was their main job.

Scholars from all over the country speculated on the intentions of the court's top officials and soon found out that Zhang Longxiang, in any case, except for the suspicion of treason, his other words and deeds were nothing more than making a fuss when things were unfair. For someone of the status of the Marquis of Zhujiang, it was not a crime, so even the King of Chu did not come forward to convict him.

Later, these scholars also realized that Zhang Longxiang did this, in addition to venting, the more important purpose was to gain literary fame and make the hostile forces such as the King of Chu afraid to act rashly. If the Holy Academy intervened, the King of Chu would definitely lose all his wisdom, and other countries would make efforts, and he might even be forced to abdicate.

Things slowly cooled down, but many scholars wanted to know Zhang Longxiang's current situation, so the scholars in Zhucheng kept spreading the news of Fang Yun.

"The Marquis of Zhujiang lives a hundred feet away from the Marshal's Mansion. He has been under house arrest for three days and has not made any unusual movements."

"There were no unusual phenomena on the fourth day, but several generals talked with him across the wall."

"Something happened! The strange phenomenon of the country! There were waves of sad sounds, but it was a pity that Zhang Mingzhou didn't seem to want people to know what he wrote. There were only strange phenomena, no poems, and even no poems on the literary list. It seems that he didn't know what poems he wrote, but he didn't write the last stroke, so the poems didn't appear in the world!"

The literary world immediately fell into a heated discussion, and everyone wanted to know why Zhang Longxiang was sad.

Because the articles published on the discussion list were sought after and hotly discussed, several young scholars in Zhujiang City actually came to Fang Yun's residence every morning and borrowed tables and chairs from the nearby military households to sit there.

Most of them were reading, and occasionally they would put down their books to chat, talk about poetry and essays. Once there was any unusual movement in Fang Yun's residence, they would immediately hold the official seal and report what happened to the discussion list as soon as possible.

After all, after posting useful information on the discussion list, there is a chance to get literary works, which are very useful.

Time passed day by day. On the eleventh day after the Lumenhou's house arrest order was issued, not only those scholars, but also many scholars in Zhucheng were waiting outside the door.

The door creaked open, and Fang Yun's special carriage slowly drove out. The scholars present were immediately excited, their eyes widened, afraid of missing anything, and some people hurried to post articles on the discussion list.

"The house arrest order is over! Zhang Mingzhou's carriage came out and stopped in front of the main gate. It looks like he will come out soon!"

"Ten days have passed, and Zhang Longxiang came out! However, his eyes were dim and his face was pale, and he got on the carriage!"

"Zhang Mingzhou is so miserable. Not only was he framed for ten years, but he was also guarded like a thief. In the end, he was even punished for writing a few poems. My great Chu country... Alas..."

"If Zhang Wankong is really a traitor, the King of Chu will not take action, and the Great Confucian Hall will also take action. If the Great Confucian Hall does not take action, the Saint Academy and the Saints will also take action! Someone on the discussion list has already analyzed it clearly. Zhang Wankong is a traitor. The possibility is less than 10%, and Zhang Longxiang is definitely not a rebellious species! "

"When Grand Secretary Wankong was here, what was our Zhucheng like? Grand Secretary Zhang might have recovered the entire south! When he disappeared, Lianshan Pass was immediately breached by the barbarians. In the past few years, the barbarians were still showing off their power outside Zhujiang City. What could they do to them?"

"Yes, so the people in Zhucheng still believe that someone is persecuting Grand Secretary Zhang Wankong. When Grand Secretary Zhang was here, Zhucheng was clear and bright. Now... Haha, let's not talk about it!"

"Zhang Mingzhou, there is a great injustice!"

Everyone sighed.

Fang Yun got on the carriage with a look of disappointment under the gaze of everyone.

The carriage drove to the north of the city.

Many people followed.

The carriage moved forward slowly, and soon stopped by the Pearl River in the north of the city.

Fang Yun got off the carriage and walked slowly to a pier.

Willow trees were planted in a row on the banks of the Pearl River. Behind the willow trees was a flood control embankment. There were stairs between the embankments. Fang Yun stepped down the stairs and saw the vast river in front of him. The river water was green, with waves of white waves, and occasionally a few green duckweeds drifting with the waves.

The aquatic creatures had already withdrawn, and ships were traveling on the river. Looking around, you could still see Pengcheng on the opposite side.

Fang Yun turned his head to the right, where the Pearl River estuary was, which was commonly known as Lingdingyang.

Fang Yun came to a pier, rented a small black-sailed boat, and then asked the boatman to take him to Lingdingyang.

The boatman was overjoyed to receive five taels of silver. Without saying a word, he held the wooden paddle against the pier and kept the boat away from the river bank.

The boatman rowed the boat, going farther and farther away, while Fang Yun lay on his back on the boat, closed his eyes, enjoying the sunshine, listening to the sound of the river and the paddling of the wooden oars, as well as the subtle and dense noises in the distance, and his expression gradually relaxed.

After a while, a slight arc appeared at the corner of Fang Yun's mouth.

The boatman saw that the guests were happy, and he was also very happy to have collected so much money, so he sang the songs of the boatmen and fishermen loudly.

The scholar who followed Fang Yun stood on the shore, looking at the black-sailed boats going farther and farther away, hesitating.

Soon, the four scholars jointly rented a black-sailed boat and asked the boatman to follow Fang Yun's boat from a distance.

Someone started, and the others followed suit. Dozens of black-sailed boats sailed to Lingdingyang.

The black-sailed boats soon left the Pearl River and entered the range of Lingdingyang.

On the clear water, between the blue sky and the blue sea, one black-sailed boat moved forward, and dozens followed, beautiful as a picture.

Fang Yun lay on his back on the water all the time, enjoying the rare tranquility.

An hour later, the wind suddenly started to blow, and then the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the waves rose and fell more violently.

"The wind is blowing, I'll go back." said the boatman.

"Okay!" said Fang Yun.

Then, the boatman turned around and headed for the dock.

A quarter of an hour later, a thunderclap sounded in the sky, and the rain fell.

Fang Yun still lay there, letting the rain fall on his face.

"Alas..."

After a while, Fang Yun sighed, sat back in the black-sailed boat, and looked out in a somewhat lost state.

Many scholars found that Fang Yun's face was gloomy, sighing, and whispering.

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