What puzzled everyone was that, unlike his previous books, this Political History came in two versions: one in the usual classical Chinese, and another written in vernacular prose.
Fang Yun sent both versions to the Sacred Academy through letter transmission and allowed scholars to access them for reading through their official seals.
The completion of this book caused no extraordinary phenomena. Only scholars at the rank of Great Scholar or above sensed a slight influence on the Confucian Sacred Way and the Historian Sacred Way, as though they were tending to expand. Yet it was barely noticeable, only a little better than the works of ordinary Great Scholars and far inferior to Fang Yun's previous works.
Brimming with curiosity, everyone began leafing through Political History.
The first volume covered the political history of the human race and offered little that was new.
It merely played the same old tune, organizing the basic workings of states, forms of government, and administrative offices from humanity's primitive societies to the present day. If there was any difference between this first volume and similar books, it was that it made no mention whatsoever of the various schools' philosophies, including Confucian thought. It simply recorded matters related to politics in an extremely objective style.
The second volume, however, planted a banner all its own, for it recorded the political histories of the various races.
This second volume firmly captured the attention of countless scholars.
Within it, the scholars felt as though they had discovered an entirely new world.
Only while reading the second volume of Political History did they learn that the Myriad Worlds contained so many different political systems, and that no two countries had completely identical forms of government and bureaucratic institutions.
There were a great many ways to classify the forms of