Fang Yun searched the Discourse Ranking. Since the reselection of the Four Great Talents began, more than twenty-four thousand posts concerning "Fang Yun and Zhang Longxiang" had appeared. Only a little over two months had passed since the reselection started-an average of four hundred posts a day. If replies were included, the total was at least a thousand times the number of posts.
The Discourse Ranking had once again become a battlefield.
Reading it gave Fang Yun a headache, so he decided to ignore it. After all, both men were himself.
Then Fang Yun saw an urgent message from Literary Chancellor Jiang Hechuan. After more than a month of court deliberations, during which vice ministers rammed themselves into court pillars, Hanlin Academicians paired off to trade insults, and numerous officials threatened to resign without meaning it, all sides had finally compromised. They agreed that Fang Yun would serve as governor-general of two prefectures and head of the Xiang Prefecture Prefectural Academy, overseeing the civil officials and Literary Academies of Jiangzhou and Xiang Prefecture, but without authority to command the military.
Yet everyone knew that, to help Fang Yun, the empress dowager had already transferred Chen Xibi and Fang Shouye to Jiangzhou and Xiang Prefecture respectively as military governors, each overseeing one prefecture's military affairs.
Chen Xibi and Fang Yun were friends who had faced life and death together. Years ago, they had attacked a demon turtle together, and Chen Xibi had lost an arm to it. Later, Fang Yun had given him a Life-Bestowing Fruit, restoring his body. Not long ago, during the Literary Star Rift, Chen Xibi and Fang Shouye had advanced to Hanlin Academician.
Of the two military governors, one was Fang Yun's old friend and the other his elder uncle from the same clan. Whether Fang Yun