The Capital of Great Wei.
Inside Liyang Palace.
The emergence of a nation-stabilizing poem sent the Ten Kingdoms' Talented Scholars into excitement.
Though they came from different countries, they were currently in Great Wei.
Great Wei was the supreme celestial empire, and the Ten Kingdoms were its tributary states. But that had been true in the past. Now, the Ten Kingdoms were developing rapidly while Great Wei declined. Were it not for the immense foundations it had inherited...
The Ten Kingdoms might well have chosen to break away from Great Wei.
But such a matter had far-reaching implications. Truly breaking away from Great Wei required achievements in several areas: cultural foundations, economic foundations, and military foundations.
They had to fulfill at least one of those three conditions to qualify to negotiate with Great Wei. If they fulfilled all three, they might break away outright without the slightest hesitation.
The Peaceful Age Poetry Gathering was their cultural counterattack. Great Wei proclaimed itself the orthodox heir to the Sages. After all, the Fifth-Generation Sage had come from Great Wei, and the Great Wei Literary Palace stood in its Capital.
That cultural dominance was terrifying. Scholars throughout the world had to honor Great Wei as the orthodox authority, especially those of Sage Zhu's Lineage. As a result, scholars took pride in Great Wei. If the Ten Kingdoms wanted to break away from or betray Great Wei, how could their own scholars tolerate it?
But if they could counter Great Wei, things would be different. If the Ten Kingdoms' Talented Scholars could surpass Great Wei's scholars at all manner of grand gatherings...
They could achieve cultural superiority and build confidence among both commoners and scholars. Then, when they truly broke away or rebelled, they could simply declare, "Though Great Wei produced a Sage, it