The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2078 "A Gift to Liushan's Crying Crow"

The officials in the court saw that Fang Yun turned a blind eye to the persuasion and turned a deaf ear to it, and they were all helpless.

Some scholars hurriedly sent a message to the great scholars present, but Jiang Hechuan, Zhou Junhu, Chen Zhixu, Cao De'an, Zhao Jingkong and all other great scholars could only look at Fang Yun helplessly.

Before, these great scholars could persuade Fang Yun with their high literary status, but now Fang Yun is no longer an ordinary university scholar, not a literary giant, and has no qualifications to teach Fang Yun.

As a great scholar, they are polite in words and deeds, and they will not go beyond this dangerous situation.

Some people saw Fang Yun so determined, their expressions suddenly became firm, staring at Liushan, the talent of the palace of literature was shaken, and the lip-sharp swords rang lightly.

As long as the two sides go to war, these people will definitely protect Fang Yun at all costs.

Even if they are facing a semi-saint!

Where the national scholar is, all saints are enemies!

The heaven and earth shook slightly within a radius of thousands of miles in the capital, and the vitality was disordered.

Liu Shan and the left prime minister's party finally changed their faces. They were not frightened by Fang Yun's gift of poems, but were shocked by the common hatred of the civil and military officials.

If the civil and military officials of Jingguo attacked together, Zongsheng might not be able to save Liu Shan!

Because the national destiny of Jingguo and all the forces of the capital would take the initiative to resist the power of Zongsheng.

With unity, there is no fear of half-saints!

Fang Yun was unaware of it and wrote poems as soon as he put down his pen.

A gift to Liu Shan: The crow cries.

The crow lost its mother and uttered a mournful sound.

It does not fly away day or night, and guards the old forest for years.

It cries every night at midnight, and those who hear it will wet their clothes.

The sound seems to tell you that you have not fully returned your mother's heart.

All birds have mothers, but you are the only one who is deeply sad.

It should be because of the heavy mother's kindness that you are unable to bear the sadness.

Now there is Liu Shan, who did not attend the funeral of his mother.

Alas, these people, their hearts are not as good as birds.

Kind crows, kind crows, Zeng Shen among birds.

Before the whole poem was finished, it attracted everyone's attention.

There is a kind of crow with a kind mother and filial son, which is widely circulated among the people, so it is called kind crow.

This poem is not difficult to understand. It tells the story of a kind crow who lost his mother and often cried. He stayed in the woods where his mother once lived and refused to leave. This kind crow cried every day, as if complaining that he could not repay his mother and fulfill his filial piety. People would cry when they heard it. Why is the kind crow so sad? Don't other birds have mothers? It should be that the kind crow is so filial that it can't bear the pain of its mother's death.

When Fang Yun wrote this, many readers vaguely understood that Fang Yun did not want to write a war poem to attack Liu Shan, but wanted to use the power of poetry to criticize Liu Shan. After all, the human race has more than just war poems that are powerful. For example, the famous "Guan Zhong's Exhortation to Chu", "Edict to Bashu", "Exhortation to Yuzhou for Yuan Shao" and "Exhortation to Shu" have all formed substantial power and can even weaken the fate of the enemy country.

The key is that Fang Yun did not use war poems, which does not count as killing the Taoist priests. If it can affect Liushan, even the Zongsheng will find it difficult to have a reason to help.

Now it is equivalent to a literary competition. As long as the Zongsheng intervenes, other semi-saints will have a reason to persuade.

Even so, everyone is still worried about Fang Yun. Fang Yun does not use war poems, and is not afraid of being counterattacked by the Taoist priests. Instead, he uses a very rare literary competition method, but this literary competition also has the risk of failure.

There are many literary competition methods, such as flying flowers to receive orders, such as iron hitting corals, and such as high mountains looking up to the sky, and the most famous of them is Qushui Liushang.

A wine cup is a wine glass. When everyone is at the lower reaches of a stream, someone puts a wine cup filled with wine into the water upstream. The wine cup flows downstream. Whoever the wine cup stops in front of will drink the wine and write a poem. Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection Preface" records this kind of literary comparison.

Now, Fang Yun wants to compare Liu Shan with a literary comparison similar to "Zhu Gong Killing His Son", which is taken from the record of Fan Li in "Historical Records".

"Historical Records" records such a story. After Fan Li helped Gou Jian to destroy Wu, he resigned from his post and went to Taodi. He called himself Zhu Gong, so he was called Tao Zhu Gong.

Tao Zhu Gong's second son was imprisoned because he killed someone in Chu State. Tao Zhu Gong asked his youngest son to take gold to find his good friend Zhuang Sheng. However, the eldest son thought that saving his younger brother was what he should do, but his father asked the youngest son to go, thinking that he was an unfilial son, so he wanted to commit suicide. So his mother asked Tao Zhu Gong to let him go.

Tao Zhu Gong had no choice but to let his eldest son go.

After the eldest son arrived at the Zhuang family, he gave the gold to Zhuang Sheng. Zhuang Sheng was very upright. Although he accepted the gold, he told his wife to return the gold to Tao Zhugong after the matter was done.

After Tao Zhugong's eldest son left the Zhuang family, he spent money to find other dignitaries in Chu.

Zhuang Sheng secretly asked to see the King of Chu, saying that he observed the sky at night and that Chu was in trouble. Only a general amnesty could help Chu. So the King of Chu believed Zhuang Sheng and was about to grant a general amnesty.

Tao Zhugong's eldest son learned from other officials of Chu that the King of Chu was about to grant a general amnesty. He thought that Zhuang Sheng had given the gold for nothing, so he went to ask for it. Zhuang Sheng was very angry because he was deceived and insulted, so he asked to see the King of Chu again, saying that someone was spreading rumors now. Some people thought that the King of Chu granted a general amnesty for Tao Zhugong's second son, not to avoid disasters and sympathize with the people. The King of Chu was angry and killed Tao Zhugong's second son, and then granted a general amnesty after killing him.

Finally, Tao Zhugong's eldest son took his brother's body home.

Tao Zhugong then explained the reason why he let his third son go. His eldest son had followed Tao Zhugong in business in his early years and had experienced a hard life, so he valued money. But when his third son was born, Tao Zhugong was already rich enough to rival a country, so he did not value money and would never ask Zhuang Sheng to return the gold.

In Shengyuan Continent, if one person is not convinced by the other's talent, the two can initiate "Zhu Gong Killing Son", where one person keeps writing poems and articles to give to the other, just like sending his eldest son to give gold. Once the other party is convinced and admits that the poems and articles he received are better than his own, he can only return the poems and admit defeat.

Normally, "Zhu Gong Killing Son" will only make the reputation of the two people rise and fall, but the officials believe that since Fang Yun has started writing poems, he will never let Liu Shan go easily.

When Fang Yun wrote that Liu Shan's mother died but he did not go to the funeral, and scolded him as worse than a beast, the scholars either cheered in their hearts or said it out loud.

When Fang Yun finished writing the last two sentences "Ci Wu Fu Ci Wu, Zeng Shen among birds", the Golden Palace was silent.

Zeng Shen is Zeng Zi, one of the six sub-sages of the human race!

Fang Yun praised this kind crow as the sub-sage of the most filial among birds!

The whole poem was finished. Because in the palace, talent naturally appeared. It was about two feet and three inches high. It was a poem of Dafu.

Liu Shan's face changed slightly, his eyes were full of doubts, and he stared at Fang Yun nervously, fearing that there would be some strange phenomena.

After a few breaths, nothing happened, and Liu Shan breathed a sigh of relief.

But at this time, many great scholars looked up at the sky, and their thoughts flew out of the palace.

They saw that a thousand-mile thick cloud had condensed above the sky. There were lightning and thunder in the dark clouds, blue fire and white light, as if brewing the power of destruction.

Afterwards, many great scholars felt that there was a rare holy power in the sky. When Zengzi helped Confucius compile the "Book of Filial Piety", a similar power appeared.

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