The Legitimacy of Founding a Nation, Drafting the Outline of National History

Outside Gazing at Shenzhou City.

At the bridge crossing, the delegations from the four nations had gathered together.

The students of Great Qing and Qianyuan had gathered together amicably enough.

Chu and Han, however, had split into two separate groups, with no dealings between them.

Back in the day!

When Qianyuan's armies pressed forward, unstoppable as bamboo splitting beneath a blade, Han and Chu had been forced by necessity to join hands against a powerful enemy. Their alliance had merely been an expedient measure.

Now, times had changed. The two nations governed themselves separately, their national strength steadily flourishing. With foreign threats no longer harassing them, conflicts had long since begun to breed.

Thus, discussions arose throughout both countries!

"Chu people have hearts loftier than the heavens and ambitions as savage as wolves. When dealing with them, one must still guard one's life and livelihood."

"Hmph, Chu people are too full of themselves and terribly shortsighted."

Chu had always regarded itself as the orthodox heartland of Confucianism under heaven, and often looked down on students from other nations.

The question of which nation the "Most Sacred First Teacher," the founding patriarch of the Confucian School, belonged to had become an ancient and unchanging dispute between Han and Chu.

The Han people spoke with utter certainty, claiming that the sage who had laid Confucianism's foundations had, upon tracing his roots, actually been a Han nobleman. He had merely traveled to Chu and established his scholarly tradition there.

Chu, naturally, refused to yield. They said Han had driven that Confucian sage from its borders, betraying the sage himself, and had long ceased to be Confucianism's true orthodoxy.

That had been during the Warring States era, when the teachings of the Hundred Schools contended in debate. Though Confucianism was a prominent learning of