When they heard the three words "Zhushan Prefecture", the hairs of all Qing officials stood up.
Qing Jun looked at Fang Yun in disbelief. He did not have the majesty of a monarch at all. Instead, he looked like a sleeping person who was suddenly awakened.
The officials of Jing State also looked at Fang Yun in amazement. They never expected that Fang Yun would dare to choose Zhushan Prefecture.
Even the Minister of Culture Jiang Hechuan kept blinking, as if he couldn't understand why Fang Yun would make this choice.
"How dare you!" Zong Wuyuan, the Minister of Rites of Qing State, slammed the table and stood up to face Fang Yun.
Fang Yun didn't even look at Zong Wuyuan, he looked at Qing Jun and continued to ask: "You are not kidding, Qing Jun, you are not going to take back your order, right?"
Qingjun was suddenly overwhelmed. Who could have thought that Fang Yun would dare to mention Zhushan Prefecture.
Zhushan Prefecture is definitely not the most important prefecture in Qing Kingdom, nor is it the richest prefecture. However, Zongsheng once studied in Zhushan City and served as an official for three years!
After becoming a saint, Zongsheng appeared in Zhushan Prefecture and returned to the academy where he studied. Now the place is revered as a holy place.
If Zhushan Prefecture becomes the territory of Jing State, the consequences will be disastrous. Even if it is not a humiliation to the Zong Sheng, it is equivalent to giving the Zong family a loud slap in the face: Didn’t you rob our Fangyun Library? I will rob your Zong family’s holy land!
Neither Qing Jun nor the officials from the two countries present had considered Zhushan Prefecture at all. Who would dare to provoke a semi-saint family, let alone a living semi-saint!
Fang Yun dares!
"Do you think my Qing Kingdom is deserted?" Zong Wuyuan shouted again. The rest of the Zong family members also clenched their fists, filled with rage, wishing they could rush up and fight Fang Yun to the death.
Fang Yun still ignored the clan members and continued to smile: "Qing Jun, the outcome is still uncertain, you don't even have this little courage, right?"
Qing Jun wanted to strangle Fang Yun to death. He was too vicious. He first designed a plan to make him agree, and then pushed him into a dilemma. The key point was that Fang Yun was forcing him on the surface, but he was actually targeting the Zong family: it was easy to talk and negotiate, and immediately allow the Fang family library to operate normally in Qingguo. If he tried to stop it, Zhushan Mansion might return to Jingguo.
Xin Zhi whispered, "Brother Wu Yuan, Fang Yun will definitely lose in the literary battle against the ten scholars, so why get angry? After the literary battle is over, we can just watch the joke from the sidelines."
Zong Wuyuan said: "That being said, the sacred place of the ancestors cannot be desecrated! Zhushan Prefecture cannot be decided by a literary war."
"Oh? Then can Fengzhou be decided by Wen Zhan?" Fang Yun asked with a smile.
"presumptuous!"
Dozens of Qing officials were as frightened as wild animals. They stood up one after another, especially those from the clan. Their eyes were red, and a hint of sharp words came out of their mouths, cutting through the air and making a slight hissing sound.
The ancestral home of the clan is in Fengzhou.
Zongsheng lived in Fengzhou.
If Fang Yun won the battle of Fengzhou, it would be equivalent to demolishing the old house of Zongsheng and digging up the ancestral graves of the Zong family.
The officials of Jing State were shocked at first, and then laughed in their hearts. Qing State had suppressed Jing State for hundreds of years, and now it was being forced by Fang Yun like a rooster with its feathers blown off, which made people feel particularly comfortable.
Qing Jun's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he coughed lightly. He said, "Fang Xusheng, please be careful with your words and actions. There are some things that cannot be said carelessly."
"You can do whatever you want. But I can't say anything I want." Fang Yun's voice was gentle, but his words contained a strange power, like the teachings of a saint.
The whole place was silent. Fang Yun's words shut up Qing Jun, and Zong Wuyuan and other members of the Zong family had to hold back their anger.
In any case, the actions of the Zong family and Qingjun in banning the Fang family library were indeed more excessive than what Fang Yun said.
Fang Yun glanced at the whole place and said slowly: "From today until I become a great scholar, I have a lot of time. If any state dares to seize my teachings and open a library, I will fight that state with words!"
"Boom..."
Suddenly, thunder rumbled in the sky, making everyone's ears numb.
The scholars were silent. It seemed that Fang Yun was speaking his mind. The words of ordinary scholars were powerful, but the words of a virtual saint were echoed by heaven and earth, and it was even more extraordinary when it came to a semi-saint.
Since Fang Yun said so, this matter involves the dispute over the holy way. Unless the semi-saint personally says that he wants to compete with Fang Yun for the holy way of enlightenment, the clan members cannot mention a word at this time.
The Zong family members looked at each other, and then saw Zong Wuyuan slightly shook his head.
As one of the most outstanding scholars of the new generation of the Zong family, Zong Wuyuan is well versed in the Zong family's sacred teachings.
The holy path of the patriarch is very clear. To win over at least one large barbarian tribe and make them worship him as their master is not only a great achievement, but also a way to educate the barbarians.
In terms of significance, the holy way of education gained by educating the barbarians is stronger than a library. A library needs hundreds of years of accumulation to show its power. It is feasible for the other side, but for the patriarch, it is like distant water cannot quench immediate thirst.
Although Zongsheng himself did not fight for the holy way of enlightenment, his descendants had to fight for it, so the Zong family and Qingjun joined forces to ban the Fang family library.
Now, Fang Yun said those words in person, which means that any family that wants to openly confront Fang Yun now would be admitting that it is a battle of saintly ways with Fang Yun, and at that time, they would most likely be attacked by Fang Yun.
If Fang Yun was a great scholar or a semi-saint, the various families could instead fight him with all their might. But now, although Fang Yun's rank is low, his status is extremely high.
They can use despicable means against Jinshi, but not against virtual saints; they can use powerful means against virtual saints, but not against Jinshi.
Moreover, most of the noble families did not want to be enemies with Fang Yun. They all wanted to enjoy the new power of Fang Yun's war poems and other new forces, and avoid repeating the mistakes of offending those famous families in the past.
The Lei family was clearly at its peak, and even most of the semi-saint families could not suppress it. Even the six sub-saint families had to give way to it. However, Fang Yun single-handedly suppressed them and ruined their reputation, making them infamous. This was a bloody lesson.
The powerful families were unwilling to sacrifice their reputation to fight for the library's teachings, while the weak families wanted to fight for it but were afraid that their family members would not be able to learn Fang Yun's poetry and prose.
But everyone can see that among the most outstanding people of the human race, as long as they are of the same cultural level as Fang Yun, they will be attracted to Fang Yun unconsciously and accept Fang Yun's favors unconsciously. What's more important is that the growth of these people is also incredibly amazing!
Some even say that those who have fought alongside Fang Yun have dozens of times more chances of becoming great scholars, and at least double the chances of becoming a semi-saint!
There are already different voices within the clan.
Zong Wude, who once followed Fang Yun in the Holy Ruins, has taken the initiative to stay away from the core of the Zong family. Although the Zong family is willing to see a hundred flowers bloom, this flower bloomed a little early and a little crooked.
Qing Jun frowned and thought, and determined the key point. Fang Yun's desire for Zhushan Mansion was false, and his desire to force the Zong family to give up the ban on the Fang family library was real. It was even possible that Fang Yun wanted to use Zhushan Mansion to make trouble from the very beginning, but Xin Zhi came to him, and Fang Yun agreed.
Qing Jun sighed and said, "As for which prefecture Fang Xusheng will choose, we will talk about it after the literary competition. It is almost noon now, and the literary competition will begin after dinner. Please take a break and have lunch."
Fang Yun nodded and looked outside. The sun was shining brightly. He then realized that the time he spent in the Thirteen Cloud Ladders was different from normal time. (To be continued...)