"The brutal rule of the King of Chu" became the most lively topic in the Confucian literary circles, and outside the Great Zhou School Palace in the Zhou capital, some students even collectively painted their clothes with thick ink to protest against the dark rule of the King of Chu.

When the matter reached the Shengyuan Continent, many people posted articles criticizing it. Everyone knows that the scholars in the Confucian literary world are weak, but they can kill the five barbarian kings by themselves, and they should be stronger than ordinary scholars in the Shengyuan Continent, and this kind of talented and military merit should not be treated like that by the King of Chu.

For the King of Chu, the criticism from the countries of the Confucian Shengwen world was not painful, but the criticism from the Shengyuan Continent had great pressure.

No matter how the Confucian Shengwen Realm is, it is one level lower than the Shengyuan Continent after all.

Scholars from all over the world began to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, and constantly posted the remarks of some famous scholars in the Shengyuan Continent to the list of Confucian scholars in the literary circle.

At first, the king of Chu and some officials wanted to launch the most severe investigation into Fang Yun, but after a few days, because of the pressure of protection, the king of Chu and the officials did not mention the matter in the court meeting, but still decided to send people to Zhucheng, expressing their willingness to accept the supervision of the Great Confucian Palace and thoroughly investigate the ins and outs of the whole matter.

The king of Chu and the officials of Chu did not mention this matter, and the people discussing it on the list gradually became scarce, but the poem "Long Night" was constantly recited.

Most of the previous poems were too sad and indignant, and did not conform to the Confucian golden mean, and this poem did not have any fierce words and phrases except for the word "anger", whether it was "accustomed to the long night of spring" or "vaguely motherly tears in the dream", or "the moonlight shines like water on the clothes", it is the kind of faint melancholy lingering on the surface, pressing the deepest anger on the paper with words.

At the same time that this poem was highly praised, the evaluation of the king of Chu by the scholars of Confucius and the literary circles became lower.

As long as Zhang Longxiang is not identified as a rebel, scholars will be closer to him than a high-ranking king.

On 17 April, a team of supervisors from all over the world, led by Hanlin of the Great Confucian Palace, arrived in Zhucheng, with a total of 200 people, and entered the city together with the officials of Chu who had been waiting outside Zhucheng for many days, to launch a comprehensive investigation into the Battle of the Five Barbarians and the death of the Marquis of Lumen.

Under the pretext of training troops, Fang Yun forbade officials to march during the day, and did not allow them to investigate any generals during the day, so they could only wait outside the southern city during the day, and only at night did they talk to the people of the Pearl River Army one after another.

There was a great Confucian palace to supervise, and the investigation process was extremely strict, and the progress was very slow.

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

In the process of the investigation of the envoy of the King of Chu, Fang Yun was not idle, and stepped up his training during the day, and the training intensity of the Pearl River Army far exceeded that of any team in the Confucian Shengwen Realm, and directly chased the strongest army in the ancient land such as the Two Realms Mountain.

Those who are physically strong can afford to read, but ordinary soldiers can't afford it, and if any army in the literary world exercises like this, it will inevitably lead to a mutiny, but Fang Yun has a large amount of silver taels in his hands, and while strengthening training, he also continuously improves the soldiers' food, increases their salaries, and then uses the means of competition rankings to motivate the battalions and achieve good results.

In the evening, Fang Yun continued to consolidate his realm, and currently focused on the History of the Ancient Demon. The first part of the "History of the Ancient Demons", "The Age of Dragon Slayer", has completed three volumes, and there are still seven volumes to be completed.

At present, Fang Yun divides the "History of Ancient Demons" into four parts. The first "Dragon Slaying Era" is the process of the ancient demon and the dragon clan competing for power, starting from the rebellion of the evil dragon in the prison and ending with the destruction of the dragon city by the ancestral emperor Wanhuang and Xiong Qian, recording the magnificent war between the ancient demon and the dragon clan.

The second part is "The Lord of All Worlds", which mainly records how the ancient demon clan opened up all worlds in the early stage after defeating the dragon clan, and how they fell into infighting in the later stage.

The third part is "The Rise of the Demon Barbarian", which focuses on the struggle between the demon clan's ancestor god Chaomang and the last ancestor of the ancient demon, Si Qiong, until the demon barbarian achieves the final victory and ends with the exile of the ancient demon mountains.

Fang Yun is a little unsure about the name of the fourth part, whether to write "The Return of the Ancient Demon" or "Lying on the Salary and Tasting Courage", this needs to be decided in the future, so Fang Yun is not ready to write the title of the volume, the content of this part is mainly to record the experience of the ancient demon over the years, and it is currently impossible to end.

Since the history of ancient demons is of great significance to the study of ancient demons and the history of the Ten Thousand Worlds by the human race, Fang Yun plans to wait until he finishes writing the first "Dragon Slaying Era" before continuing to write other works.

Writing a book is a boring and interesting thing, but "The History of the Ancient Demon" is of great significance, reading the inheritance of the ancient demon requires the consumption of talent, and it also takes talent to turn the history of the ancient demon into words, in this process, Fang Yun also has to understand the history written, if he does not have a deep understanding of this part of the history, then even if he finishes writing this "History of the Ancient Demon", he will not be able to gain too much historical power.

In these days, Fang Yun plunged headlong into the creation of "History of Ancient Demons".

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

However, the envoy of the King of Chu also believed that Zhang Longxiang deliberately hid his strength and killed Wei Changxian's reasons were not sufficient, and he did not fulfill the responsibility of the Marquis of Zhujiang.

The Great Confucian Hall accepted the results of the investigation and left.

On the third day of the envoy's return to Jingzhou, the king of Chu issued a royal decree, first greatly praising Zhang Longxiang's achievements in killing the five-headed barbarian king to seize Lianshan Pass, but the pen turned around, thinking that Zhang Longxiang had made a huge mistake, causing the Lumen Marquis to fight alone, and indiscriminately killing his generals, and the merits were offset by the merits, and no official or financial rewards were given.

As soon as the king ordered, the discussion list of Confucius Sheng's literary circle became lively again, except for a few self-proclaimed rational readers, most of the readers mercilessly attacked and ridiculed the king of Chu.

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 of Zhucheng began to curse the king of Chu for injustice.

In the eyes of most people, the status of a scholar is no worse than that of a king of a country, and in many respects it is even better.

Under the "push" of the King of Chu, Fang Yun's integration of the Pearl River Army was particularly smooth. Those recruits are still a little worse, and those veterans who witnessed Fang Yun killing five barbarian kings in a row are now impressed by Fang Yun.

Fang Yun accelerated his training and waited slowly.

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

This refusal caused dissatisfaction among the ministers of the government and the opposition, and many imperial histories impeached Fang Yun.

However, the Marquis of Zhujiang is a hereditary title of the Chu State, and the canonization has to go through Zhou Tianzi, unless he commits a major crime such as rebellion or treason, the King of Chu has 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 against the barbarians, and it was normal not to return to Jingzhou on the grounds that the war was tight, and there were too many border generals in the past dynasties.

The years passed silently, and as July approached, the Battle of Bi Shen in the Two Realms Mountains began to fight day and night, and the Terrans suffered heavy casualties.

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

(To be continued.) )