Fang Yun slowly leafed through the documents. Several drew a cold smile from him: they actually recommended that Ge Yiming establish the People's Gazette.
Moreover, one of those making the recommendation was Guan Yi, the sole editor-in-chief of the Xiang Prefecture Gazette.
While the Hall of Punishment investigated the supplementary edition incident, Guan Yi had stayed motionless like an old turtle drawn deep into its shell, with not a scrap of news about him. Now that the Hall of Punishment had finished handing out penalties, he immediately poked his head out.
In his capacity as editor-in-chief of the Xiang Prefecture Gazette, Guan Yi strongly supported Ge Yiming's proposal to establish the People's Gazette. He even pointed out that, regardless of who established the People's Gazette in Xiang Prefecture, authority over its review must lie with the Rites Office.
Fang Yun continued reading the documents. Today, the officials of the Rites Office were unusually united. Besides recommending other candidates, every one of them declared at the end of his document that the Rites Office held the authority to review the People's Gazette.
All the officials of the Rites Office were applying pressure together.
These Qing Officials deliberately sang a contrary tune to Fang Yun, recommending forces with close ties to the Qing Kingdom. Most of the Jing Officials, however, had received hints from Dong Wencong and nominated nonprofit scholarly institutions such as the Fang Clan Library.
Afterward, Fang Yun convened a meeting of Xiang Prefecture's officials. Apart from presiding over its opening, he simply listened to the officials argue throughout the meeting without saying a word.
Inside the main hall of the prefectural administration, the officials thrust with spears of lips and swords of tongues, arguing without end.
The Qing Officials and Jing Officials had been quarreling from the outset. They