The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 1546: Merits and Demerits Offset

"The brutal rule of the King of Chu" became the hottest topic in the Confucius and Saint Literature World. Outside the Great Zhou Academy in Zhoudu, some students even collectively painted their clothes with thick ink to protest the dark rule of the King of Chu.

The news spread to Shengyuan Continent, and many people criticized it. Everyone knows that the scholars in the Confucius and Saint Literature World are weak, but he was able to kill five barbarian kings alone. If he was placed in Shengyuan Continent, he should be stronger than an ordinary university scholar. Such a talented and meritorious person should not be treated like that by the King of Chu.

For the King of Chu, the criticism from the Confucius and Saint Literature World countries was not painful, but the criticism from Shengyuan Continent was extremely stressful.

No matter how great the Confucius and Saint Literature World was, it was still a level lower than Shengyuan Continent.

Scholars from various countries began to take the opportunity to cause trouble, constantly posting the remarks of some famous scholars in Shengyuan Continent to the Confucius and Saint Literature World discussion board.

At first, the King of Chu and some officials wanted to conduct the most severe investigation on Fang Yun, but after a few days, due to the pressure of protection, the King of Chu and the officials did not mention this matter in the court meeting, but still decided to send people to Zhucheng to express their willingness to accept the supervision of the great Confucian hall and thoroughly investigate the whole matter.

The King of Chu and the officials of Chu did not mention this matter, and the number of people discussing it on the discussion board gradually decreased, but the poem "Long Night" was constantly recited.

Most of the previous poems were too sad and angry, and did not conform to the Confucian doctrine of the mean. This poem, except for the word "anger", did not have any fierce words and sentences. Whether it was "accustomed to long nights in spring" or "dreams of mother's tears", or "moonlight like water shining on black clothes", it was the kind of faint sorrow lingering on the surface, and the deepest anger was suppressed on the paper with words.

While this poem was highly praised, the evaluation of the King of Chu by the scholars in the Confucian literary world became low.

As long as Zhang Longxiang was not identified as a traitor, scholars would be closer to him rather than a high and mighty king.

On April 17, a team of supervisors from various countries, led by Hanlin from the Great Confucian Hall, arrived in Zhucheng. There were as many as 200 people. They entered the city with the Chu officials who had been waiting outside Zhucheng for many days to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the Battle of the Five Barbarians and the death of Lumenhou.

Fang Yun used the excuse of training to prohibit officials from marching during the day and not allowing them to investigate any generals during the day, so they could only wait outside the South City during the day, and only talked to the people of the Pearl River Army at night.

With the supervision of the people from the Great Confucian Hall, the investigation process was extremely strict and progress was very slow.

After staying in Zhucheng for a full half month, they began to go to Lianshan Pass to investigate the remaining generals.

During the investigation by the special envoy of the King of Chu, Fang Yun was not idle. He stepped up the training during the day. The training intensity of the Pearl River Army far exceeded any team in the Confucius World, and was catching up with the strongest army in the ancient lands such as Liangjie Mountain.

Those strong scholars can bear it, but ordinary soldiers can't. If any army in the literary world were to practice like this, it would inevitably cause a mutiny. However, Fang Yun had a lot of silver in his hands. While strengthening the training, he also continuously improved the soldiers' food and increased their military pay. Then he used the means of competition ranking to motivate the camps and achieved good results.

At night, Fang Yun continued to consolidate his own realm and currently focused on "Ancient Demon History". The first part of "Ancient Demon History", "Dragon Slaying Era", has completed three volumes, and there are seven volumes to be completed.

At present, Fang Yun divides "Ancient Demon History" into four parts. The first part, "Dragon Slaying Era", is the process of the ancient demons and the dragon clan competing for supremacy. It starts from the rebellion of the evil dragon of the prison and ends with the capture of Dragon City by the ancestor emperor Wanhuang, Xiong'an and others. It records the magnificent war between the ancient demons and the dragon clan.

The second part is "The Lord of Ten Thousand Realms", which mainly records how the ancient demon clan opened up the Ten Thousand Realms in the early stage after defeating the dragon clan, and how they fell into internal strife in the later stage.

The third part is "The Rise of the Monsters", which focuses on the struggle between the monster clan ancestor Luan Mang and the last ancestor of the ancient monster Si Qiong, until the monsters win the final victory and end with the exile of the ancient monsters to the mountains.

Fang Yun is a little unsure about the name of the fourth part. Should it be "The Return of the Ancient Monsters" or "Sleeping on Straw and Tasting Gall"? This needs to be decided in the future, so Fang Yun does not plan to write a volume title. The content of this part mainly records the experience of the ancient monsters over the years, and it cannot be concluded at present.

Since the history of ancient monsters is of great significance to the human race's research on ancient monsters and the history of the world, Fang Yun plans to continue writing other works after finishing the first part "Dragon Slaying Era".

Writing a book is both boring and interesting, but "The History of Ancient Monsters" is of great significance. It takes talent to read the ancient monster heritage, and it also takes talent to turn the history of ancient monsters into words. In this process, Fang Yun also needs to understand the history he wrote. If he does not have a deep understanding of this part of history, then even if he finishes writing this "The History of Ancient Monsters", he will not gain too much historical power.

During these days, Fang Yun plunged into the creation of "Ancient Demon History".

It was not until June that the investigation of the special envoy of the King of Chu was basically completed, and all the evidence obtained showed that under that situation, Zhang Longxiang had done his best to kill the five barbarian kings, and it was indeed difficult to save Lumenhou.

However, the special envoy of the King of Chu also believed that Zhang Longxiang deliberately concealed his strength and the reasons for killing Wei Changxian were not sufficient, and he did not fulfill his responsibility as the Marquis of Zhujiang.

The Great Confucian Hall accepted this investigation result and left.

On the third day after the special envoy returned to Jingzhou, the King of Chu issued a royal decree, first greatly praising Zhang Longxiang's record of killing the five barbarian kings and seizing Lianshan Pass, but then changed his tone and believed that Zhang Longxiang made a huge mistake, causing Lumenhou to fight alone and killing his generals indiscriminately, and his merits and demerits offset each other, and he would not give him any official title or financial rewards.

After the king's order, the discussion board of Confucius' literary world became lively again. Except for a few self-proclaimed rational scholars, most scholars attacked and ridiculed the king of Chu mercilessly.

However, no matter how these people scolded, they could not change the king's order.

The order of the king of Chu angered the soldiers of the Zhujiang Army, and even most of the people in Zhucheng began to scold the king of Chu for being unfair.

In the eyes of most people, the status of a university scholar is not worse than that of a king, and even better in many aspects.

Under the "promotion" of the king of Chu, Fang Yun's integration of the Zhujiang Army was particularly smooth. Those new recruits were still a little short, and those old soldiers who witnessed Fang Yun killing five barbarian kings in a row now admired Fang Yun.

Fang Yun accelerated the training of the troops and waited slowly.

After the investigation, the king of Chu once again ordered Fang Yun to go to Jingzhou, but Fang Yun refused again.

This refusal caused dissatisfaction among the ministers in the court and the public, and many imperial historians wrote to impeach Fang Yun.

However, the title of Marquis of Zhujiang was hereditary in the State of Chu. The title had to be granted by the Emperor of Zhou. Unless he committed a serious crime such as treason or treason, the King of Chu had no right to deprive the Marquis of Zhujiang of his power.

The position of the Marquis of Zhujiang was to lead the Zhujiang Army to garrison Zhucheng and fight against the barbarians. It was normal for him not to return to Jingzhou on the grounds that the war was tight. There were too many border generals who did this in history.

The years passed silently. As July approached, the battle of Bi Can in Liangjie Mountain began to fight day and night. The human race suffered heavy casualties. The official document of the Holy Academy arrived at Kong Shengwenjie, requesting the seven countries to send troops to aid Liangjie Mountain again.

On the second day of July, the King of Chu ordered the Zhujiang Army and the Qishan Army to jointly send troops to Liangjie Mountain, with Qishan Marquis Gou Bao as the marshal of the two armies.

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