On the 26th day of the first month, the third day after the Lumen Army arrived in Pearl City, Marquis Lumen issued a military order for the army to rest and reorganize for five days. After five days, he would send an army to attack the surrounding barbarian tribes and display the might of Chu.
The document room on the left side of the main hall of the Marshal's Office was unusually busy. A large number of scholars and clerks came in and out. Many of them held all kinds of documents in their hands.
When the Marshal wanted to issue an order to the army, he would draft a document and then hand it to his aides and then to the document room. The clerks in the document room would go to the printing workshop and print out enough documents.
Every day, the Imperial Court would send letters to various places. The contents of the letters would reach the document room immediately and the document room would be responsible for printing them and sending them to the places that needed them.
If the army wanted to communicate with each other, they would also need to go through the document room.
In the eyes of the document room, there were no secrets in the army. Therefore, the document room was an important place in the army. Once the secret was leaked, the entire army would be destroyed.
The document room was also the most difficult and tiring place. There were basically two kinds of people. One was constantly writing documents and the other was constantly running errands and distributing documents.
The document room's busiest job was to write, organize and distribute letters for the soldiers.
Even if each soldier only wrote two letters a year, the document room would still receive more than two thousand letters a day. Moreover, more than half of the letters were written by the document room's clerks.
Some of the document room's clerks would go to the army every day to write letters for some soldiers. After all, soldiers who were literate might not be able to write letters.
After Fang Yun entered the document room, he was very leisurely for the first few days. With the official seal in his hand, he would return to his room to sign or stamp his official seal every once in a while. The rest of the time, he would walk around the document room and observe the clerks working. Occasionally, he would follow some clerks to other barracks to understand all the procedures of the document room.
At first, the people in the document room felt that it was a novelty. However, they were too busy and quickly ignored this Marquis of Zhujiang who liked to wander around.
"Zhujiang idler!"
The nickname that Wei Changxian gave to Fang Yun quickly spread throughout the barracks.
Fang Yun didn't take it seriously. The reason why he was so leisurely was that he realized that he was anxious to be promoted to Grand Secretary. Fortunately, he realized it early and began to pay attention to the balance between work and rest. Otherwise, his promotion to Grand Secretary would be delayed.
Anything that goes too far is as bad as anything short.
Fang Yun was very idle, but the entire army was nervously preparing.
On the first day of the 2nd month, a general of the Lumen Army led 30,000 soldiers and left Pearl City to search for the barbarian tribes.
On the fifth day of the second month, the army returned in triumph. They killed two thousand soldiers, and our casualties were less than five hundred. It was a rare victory. Marquis Lumen personally held a welcoming dinner for the soldiers who returned victorious.
On the sixth day of the second lunar month, the left general of the Pearl River Army led forty thousand soldiers out of the city. The next day, they returned in a sorry state. More than four thousand soldiers had died in battle, and more than ten thousand were injured.
Marquis Lumen was furious. Only after asking did he find out that the army was ambushed by the barbarians and had to use all their strength to retreat.
After receiving the news, Fang Yun gently shook his head. The left general had obviously underestimated the enemy. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been ambushed. Fortunately, the human race and the barbarians followed the basic principle of equality. Unless it was a special period, the attacking party would never send out an overly powerful general. For example, the strongest enemy in this ambush was only a barbarian marquis.
If the barbarian marquis had participated in the ambush, the forty thousand soldiers would have been wiped out.
Fang Yun was doing his official duties while learning about the battles between the human race and the barbarians.
There were many differences between the battles between the human race and the barbarians and the barbarians compared to the ordinary cold weapon battles.
In an ordinary cold weapon battle, if the two sides fought head-on, the morale of one side would collapse after losing more than a third of its soldiers. The other side would then have a great advantage. The side whose morale collapsed would flee, while the other side would easily pursue and kill them.
However, in a battle between the human race and the barbarians, there were very few cases of people fleeing. They would either retreat successfully or fight to the death.
In a head-on battle, there were very few cases of people fleeing.
In an ordinary cold weapon battle, the head-on battle would last for a certain period of time. However, in a head-on battle between the human race and the barbarians, there would be two extremes. Either the battle would last for a long time, or the outcome would be decided very quickly. After all, both sides had terrifying strength, and the intensity of the battle would far exceed that of an ordinary cold weapon battle.
It was precisely because of these differences that Fang Yun often abandoned some of the ancient Huaxia's military strategies. At the same time, he would also study the military strategies that were suitable for the human race.
On the 10th of February, Marquis Lumen personally led an army of two hundred thousand soldiers and wiped out a large number of barbarian tribes in the south of Pearl City. They returned safely to Pearl City before the barbarians launched a counterattack.
This great victory received a lot of congratulatory letters from all sides of the Chu State. Even the countries that were on good terms with the Chu State sent congratulatory letters.
After the news of this battle spread throughout the country, the families of the Pearl River Army and the Lumen Army began to mail letters. After a few days, the main task of the Office of Official Affairs changed to sorting out the letters from all over the country and distributing them to the various battalions.
Fang Yun once again asked to go to war, but was rejected by Marquis Lumen. When he visited again, he was blocked outside. He had to try from the backyard of the Marshal's Office, but in the end, he returned without success.
On the same day, Fang Yun wrote a poem, "Garden Is Not Worth Visiting", which spread throughout Pearl City.
"Ying Lian's clog teeth marks the moss,
"The small wooden door does not open for a long time.
"The garden full of spring cannot be shut,
"A branch of red apricot leaves the wall."
The first two lines of the poem were ordinary. It used a humorous way to say that the owner was afraid that the teeth marks of his clogs would damage the moss, so he did not open the door for himself.
However, the last two lines not only caused discussion in Pearl City, but also became the hottest topic of the day in the literary circle.
The interpretation of the last two lines was quickly divided into two factions. One faction praised Zhang Longxiang's state of mind. Even though he was suppressed in Pearl City, he still had great ambitions. Like the apricot flowers in the garden, he could still stand out.
The other faction thought that the poem was satirizing Marquis Lumen. The poet was saying that no matter how bad Marquis Lumen was, he would still break through the barriers like the red apricot and stand out.
After the poem appeared in the literary circle, the scholars in Saint Origin World did not understand it too much. They only thought that the poem was extremely good, and there was a spirit of improvement in the gloomy atmosphere.
There were also people who compared the famous line of Li Wenying's "Early Plum Blossoms" with "The garden full of spring cannot be shut, a branch of red apricot leaves the wall.".
The appearance of this poem caused a stir in the spring literary circles of the human race.
On the second day, the head of the Zong family, Zong Ganyu, personally commented on the poem, "The red apricot blossoms in spring, a branch suppresses the world."
On the other hand, the great scholar of the Lei family, Lei Tingzhen, called "Garden Not Worth It", "Last night's flowers bloomed, the first of the new year."
The high praise of the two great scholars immediately caused a heated discussion in Saint Origin World. Many scholars in Saint Origin World were not convinced. They hoped that Fang Yun would come out and "teach" the arrogant Zhang Longxiang a little lesson.
When there was controversy, there would be a topic. When there was a topic, there would be a Literary Name. Zhang Longxiang's Literary Name began to rise rapidly in Saint Origin World.
No matter how strong the voices of opposition were, "A branch of red apricot leaves the wall" quickly became a household name.
While the outside world was in chaos, Fang Yun continued to deal with official documents in the document room. When it was close to noon, Wei Changxian brought people and barged in.
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