Rebuild the Hall of Sages!
The Great Hall, which had only just quieted down, erupted into uproar again. The Hundred Schools of Thought could no longer sit still. The Hall of Sages had never been a mere building; it meant mainstream recognition and tangible benefits.
The Qin Legalist School was flourishing enough, but because it had no place in the Hall of Sages, it had always been despised. Even the Hundred Schools called it the School of Punishment.
The name of the Legalist School had gradually fallen to the Qi Legalist School. After all, it had a towering figure like Guan Zhong holding the fort in the Hall of Sages.
It was not that the First Emperor had never thought of establishing his own Hall of Sages, but he could not do it. Leaving everything else aside, he could not even solve the problem of the statues. Luo State had a thousand-year legacy and had always valued artisans, so even after so many years, the appearances of those Sages and Worthies were still known. In particular, most of them had met the Marquis of Luo of their time. Where could Qin State obtain such knowledge?
Quite a few people had guessed that Luo Ling wanted to rebuild the Hall of Sages, but no one had expected him to bring out such a devastating weapon as the sacred statues of the Hundred Schools. It was miraculous enough that the Luo Clan's direct line had escaped back then, and miraculous enough that they had taken away so many books from the Repository of Classics. Now, even those stone statues weighing over a thousand jin had been taken away?
Was this really fleeing for your life?
What exactly had happened in Zhao City back then? Was Wang Jian a spy for Luo State?