Gu Nanhuai, as the Minister of Personnel of Qing State, is an important official second only to the four prime ministers. His words must represent the Qing State.
The Qing government finally took the opportunity to launch an attack.
Zong Ganyu, the head of the Zong family, coughed lightly and said, "Brother Gu, why are you so anxious? The Chen family is in a precarious situation and I'm afraid we are not able to do it. It doesn't matter if we hand over the deserted city a few years later. Of course, if Brother Mingding is willing to come to my Zong family for tea and chat, and explain the reason, it's nothing more than a deserted city, and my Zong family can completely do without it."
The Zong family officially takes action!
This statement made many Jing people furious, and many members of the Chen family almost cursed. Even people from other countries looked at Zong Ganyu in surprise. As the head of a semi-saint family, he actually said such words to another semi-saint family, which was almost equivalent to tearing his face off.
Everyone knew that Chen Sheng was seriously injured and was about to die, but Zong Ganyu actually said "in the wind and rain" and "not enough", which was equivalent to opening the scars of the Chen family. As for asking the head of the Chen family to go to the Zong family for tea and chat, such words were simply trampling on Chen Mingding's dignity. If Chen Mingding really went, it would be equivalent to begging for mercy from the Zong family and completely bowing his head.
The key point is that Chen Mingding is among the top candidates, and Zong Ganyu's behavior has crossed the bottom line.
Even if the ancestor wanted to destroy Jingguo to complete his own holy path, it was only because Chen Sheng was about to die. If Chen Sheng did not die, the ancestor would never complete his holy path by hurting Chen Sheng. The ancestor's holy path of the various families never follows benevolence, but it is impossible for him to harm the half-saint of the human race.
The Chen family was extremely angry, but did not refute immediately, because everyone knew that this was Zong Ganyu's vicious plan. It would not only hit the Chen family, but also Fang Yun, and at the same time make some people in the Chen family vent their anger on Fang Yun.
Chen Mingding laughed and responded, "Brother Zong, the gambling game back then involved a city in the ancient deserted city, which was of great importance. My Chen family members are evacuating one after another. Once it is handled, it will naturally be handed over to your Zong family."
Zong Ganyu said coldly: "I will not argue with you. I will give your clan a deadline. You must hand in all the bets on September 1st. Otherwise, don't blame my clan for going to the Chen family to collect the debt! If you want to blame someone, blame Fang Yun for not being able to complete the sixteen war poems that will be passed down through the ages!"
The Chen family was furious, but like Chen Mingding, they found it difficult to refute because the Chen family was now at a disadvantage. No matter whether they expressed a strong or weak stance, they would be ridiculed. It would be better to keep silent, which would win sympathy.
However, Fang Yun snorted coldly and said, "Master Zong, don't be too decisive until the last moment. If you leave no room for maneuver, you might be the one who gets embarrassed!"
The Chen family was very grateful when they heard about Fang Yun's help. Since the Chen family was named a noble family, they had never lost face so much. If Fang Yun hadn't spoken out to help, many people would have been furious.
Without waiting for Zong Ganyu to speak, Zong Wuyuan sneered, "Fang Xusheng, if you lose, you lose. Why are you being so stubborn? It's fine that you can't write sixteen war poems, but you dragged down many noble families. You don't know how to admit your mistakes, but instead you keep making excuses. How can you still be a Xusheng? People who can only call others dogs are probably the real dogs that have lost their homes."
The whole audience was in an uproar. Although Fang Yun insulted Qing Jun and others by saying "Qing dog barking at snow", it was because Qing Jun asked questions and pressed them aggressively, so Fang Yun fought back, and he did not directly say "Qing dog barking at snow", but Zong Wuyuan's words were too direct. However, Zong Wuyuan did not dare to say that Fang Yun was a dog who had lost his home, so he could only beat around the bush. It was not considered an insult to Xu Sheng, but at most he was rude, so the Li Hall could only issue a letter of reprimand, but could not punish him.
"Whose kid is so uneducated that he yells and shouts in front of Xu Sheng? Lord Qing, I'm not saying anything bad about you Qing people. People from Jing come to your Qing country to participate in the Four Friends Literary Competition. It's nothing wrong for the Qing people in the stands to yell and shout. It's nothing wrong to help encourage your own country. Even a few people interfering with the Jing people's literary competition is harmless. But so many Qing audiences in the stands are interfering with the Qing literary competition by cursing. I can only say that some of the spectators have parents who raise them but not teach them, like a group of bastards. However, seeing the direct descendants of the dignified Zongsheng family insulting Fang Xu Sheng without any respect, I am sure that it is not a small number of Qing audiences who are uneducated, but the majority of Qing people!" Lord Wu asked lazily while picking his ears.
Faced with such direct insults from King Wu, many people of Qing finally couldn't bear it anymore. They didn't dare to blame Fang Yun, but they were not afraid to blame King Wu.
"Please take back what you just said, Mr. Wu!"
"Are you the ruler of a country or a street thug? Although Zong Wuyuan's words were rude, they were only directed at one person."
"A tyrant!"
Although most of the people and scholars of Wu State often talked about the interesting stories of King Wu and liked to make fun of him on weekdays, when the people of Qing State attacked King Wu, these people immediately became furious and fought back.
"Lord Wu is only telling the truth. Why are you people of Qing desperate? Oh, no, it should be Qing dog barking at the snow!"
"We Wu people can curse King Wu eight hundred times a day. Since you Qing people have cursed King Wu, we can't curse back. After all, we are scholars. Let's put it this way. You Qing people should prepare. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will go to Qingjing and compete with you in literature!"
"If you don't curse, I will! Damn Qing people, see you in Qingjing!"
The court of Qing State was headed by the Miscellaneous School, while Wu State bordered on barbarians in the north and its people were tough. In addition, both the Sun Tzu family and the Sun Bin family were in Wu State, so the court of Wu State was headed by the Military School.
With more military strategists, there are naturally more rough scholars. No matter how powerful Lord Wu is, as long as he dares to scold the Kingdom of Qing and remains tough against the enemy, his throne will always be safe.
At the literary gathering, most of the ordinary people were from Xiangzhou or Jiangzhou across the river, and most of the people who came here from other countries were scholars. So when the Qing Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom started a verbal battle, it was destined that a large-scale literary competition or even a literary fight would break out between the two countries, and it was possible that an even more brutal literary war would break out.
Seeing that the people of Wu were brave, Lord Wu was very pleased with himself and said, "Good men of Wu, I will take you to Qingjing tomorrow morning. I will pay for all your travel expenses, food and lodging along the way! We will not return to Wu until Qingjing is turned upside down! Are you shouting at me? Damn it!"
Scholars from various countries rolled their eyes. There were only a few monarchs who dared to swear in public in the past two hundred years. Even if there were, they should have been in the Wu State.
But when the scholars of Wu State, especially those from the Bing family, heard what King Wu said, they became extremely excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Scholars from all parts of Wu State, all houses, and all academies actually began to gather together to discuss the specific matters of the literary competition.
When the people from the neutral countries saw this scene, they were quite confused. It was clearly a literary competition between Fang Yun and Zhang Longxiang, and it hadn't even started yet. Why did the scholars from the Qing and Wu countries look like they were about to start a fight
.(To be continued.)