Kong Siyuan said, "While fierce battles raged between the two worlds, Fang Yun threw the Sacred Way into turmoil and single-handedly suppressed the other schools for the selfish interests of Jing Kingdom. How could he be entirely blameless?"
"Then let me ask: did the Miscellaneous School Sacred Way impose its sealing suppression first, or did Fang Yun strike back first? By your reasoning, only the Miscellaneous School may punish Fang Yun, while Fang Yun is forbidden to retaliate? As I see it, the calamity facing the Confucian School has its roots in the Miscellaneous School! Had the Miscellaneous School not struck with such abandon, Fang Yun would never have written that Political Science, and the Confucian School would never have suffered this undeserved disaster! Therefore, the Confucian School should declare war on the Miscellaneous School!"
"Yingnian, that is utterly unreasonable! The Miscellaneous School's struggle with Fang Yun did not harm the Kong Family. Only after Fang Yun established his Sacred Way did our Kong Family become caught in the fallout."
Yun Luo took the opening. "Exactly. In my opinion, the Kong Family should pressure Fang Yun into incorporating the Political Way into the Confucian School and making Political Science one of its classics, thereby completing the Confucian Sacred Way!"
The eyes of the Kong Family members lit up. This was an excellent idea.
Seeing their interest, Yun Luo struck while the iron was hot. "Like all of you, I can already recite the classics concerning Sage Kong. Whether the Spring and Autumn Annals, The Analects, or the Family Sayings of Confucius, these works contain abundant passages in which Sage Kong discussed government. Thus, affairs of government will forever be part of the Confucian School. Any attempt to separate the Political Way from the Confucian Sacred Way is a declaration of