Sage Kong's Literary World, Zhao Kingdom.
Students across the kingdom entered their private schools or classrooms as usual. But that day, the first thing their teachers did was not check yesterday's assignments, but hand out two books.
One was Zhang Longxiang's Book on Teaching Children, and the other was Zhang Longxiang's New Poetry Collection and Commentary. Neither was thick; they were more like two booklets.
The first, Zhang Longxiang's Book on Teaching Children, had a preface by a Great Scholar of the Zhao Kingdom and an afterword by the King of Zhao.
The King of Zhao's afterword offered much food for thought. On the surface, it introduced Zhang Longxiang's life, but after reading it, many could not help wondering: why would a Grand Academician as gifted as Zhang Wankong turn traitor in the Chu Kingdom? Why would a master of poetry and prose like Zhang Longxiang be imprisoned for ten years? Was the Zhang Household truly at fault, or was the King of Chu wrong?
As for Zhang Longxiang's New Poetry Collection and Commentary, its preface was written by the Zhao Kingdom's prime minister. Although he was not as direct as the King of Zhao, he pointed out that poems so full of grief, indignation, and concern for the nation could only have grown from soil that nurtured such feelings.
Another war of public opinion against the Chu Kingdom was silently underway.
The other kingdoms had received word the day before, contacted the Zhao Kingdom, and immediately sent the books to their printing houses to be printed overnight. That morning, the two books quietly appeared outside Literary Academy bookshops everywhere.
Bookshops and booksellers began purchasing stock from the Literary Academy bookshops, and the two books spread as swiftly as wildfire across the grasslands.
To most people, since Zhang Longxiang had