Chapter 714: Questioning Xumi
After the girl on the stage announced the start of the Questioning of Xumi, the scholars surrounded in the auditorium all looked at the Little Auspicious Grass King.
But the god, who has a childlike image and is always kind, still had the same gentle smile on his face as when he entered the stage, and even looked pleased when he looked at the girl on the stage.
Everyone's heart sank.
Thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all grace from God. They have been enjoying the rain and dew. Now, thunder is going to hit people.
The greatest sage and knight of flowers is the thunder of Lord Grass God.
After the deification event of the previous great sage came to an end, Xumi was only lively in a small area for a while before gradually returning to peace.
The Greatest Sage demands that the culprit be exiled? Of course, of course.
The culprit who was exiled by the greatest sage died? Normal.
A large number of those who had been trying their best to conduct forbidden experiments before the Void was closed were arrested? A wise decision!
After these matters were settled, the top leaders of Xumi seemed to have no further actions. Many beings who were worried about being liquidated gradually put their worries aside.
They believed that this was the kindness of the gods, and that Mount Xumi could not do without pillars like them who had some flaws, so they chose to handle it with care.
Their guess was not wrong.
Considering Xumi's seemingly prosperous but actually stagnant society, there are also hidden crises behind it.
After Nashida regained power, she did not intend to thoroughly investigate all the high-level officials, causing Xumi society to become turbulent.
She prioritized dealing with the experiments that were destroying lives right before her eyes, while also thinking about how to deal with the hidden crisis.
After those crises are dealt with, she will probably lose the ability to move. Although some of the wood has been eaten by insects, it can still support Xumi.
But Nashida's friends were too strong! They punched the grass dragon and kicked the abyss, kicking her sacrificial plan into the sky.
Nashida promised Su to "take care of yourself and stay with me well!", so her plans for the future changed accordingly.
For example, those academic tycoons who are detrimental to the interests of Xumi and the power of the gods in public and who use regulations as an excuse to force Su to write papers in private should be eradicated.
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As many high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Education jumped in fear, the girl on the stage asked the first question.
"The Order of the Lords, why do you want to smear the image of the Red King and label him a tyrant?"
The Red King is a tyrant. After hundreds of years of propaganda, it has become a consensus among scholars. Scholars have given countless explanations for this.
The Red King's immorality caused the Demonic Scale Disease to flow out of the desert, and the Red King's love of war caused the desert civilization to be destroyed by war...
In the end, even the scholars themselves believed it and completely forgot why the Red King was a tyrant.
In order to divide the beliefs of the Xumi people.
After the disaster broke out five hundred years ago, Xumi suffered heavy losses. The biggest loss was that the gods who had been protecting the people of Xumi almost died and had to go into seclusion to recuperate.
The desert people, whose lives were becoming increasingly difficult, attacked the rainforest pass, and the great sage of the time finally made a cruel decision.
Stigmatize the Red King, portray the desert people as a backward and dangerous group, and abandon them rationally to save resources.
This should have been a short-term policy that was created out of necessity, but due to various reasons and the promotion of various beneficiary groups, it was eventually implemented to this day.
Su looked at the scholars who were either angry or silent.
"The Red King is a tyrant, and the Flower Goddess is remembered for her beauty. This is how Xumi described the two gods to Teyvat."
"But I never thought they were shallow or even ugly, because they were the best friends recognized by the God of Grass."
She complained about the Red King being in love and the Flower God causing trouble. That was because she was standing on the standpoint of Nashida's friend and speaking up for Nashida and the Tree King.
"The Scarlet King is not a purely good god. He has done cruel things to the demon gods and town spirits."
"But he has nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to humans, and only the Xumi people who slandered him. He tried his best to give the Xumi people a better future."
In front of the Little Auspicious Grass King, all the scholars stood up and bowed their heads to express their shame and grief.
Su asked the second question, "Xumeru, when can we stop relying on the gods?"
"I've been to Mondstadt, where the gods are "absent", Liyue, where the gods have "fallen", and Inazuma, where the gods are "retreating". No other country is like Sumeru, which has abandoned most of its territory and its people in dire straits. It seems prosperous on the surface, but in fact it is stagnant."
Su recounted the policies of the top talents of the Ministry of Education over the past five hundred years, "at the cost of abandoning some of the people, at the cost of selling out the safety of Xumi, secretly sealing up advanced academics, and taking great pains to grab unlimited money... just to create a god."
"You who are complacent with the technology of God, you who panic and run around without the guidance and help of God, you who don't even have the ability to walk upright, what's the difference between you and the toothless toddler?"
"The determination to put aside everything and follow the gods to plant rainforests, the courage to swim upstream and fight disasters together with the flower spirits, the beautiful qualities that the Xumi people once possessed, have now been destroyed by reality and only some of them exist."
The scholars bowed their heads even lower.
Su asked the last question, "Why does Xumi have no aristocracy system but a de facto aristocracy?"
"Because the shameless and immoral great sages of the past have corrupted basic morality."
"Bribing and promoting those who can be won over, suppressing and imprisoning those who refuse to go along with the corrupt, over the past few hundred years, a stable academic clique has been formed, allowing a large group of people with no moral integrity, no talent, and no intelligence to hold high positions."
"People of Xumi, you have failed the expectations and trust of the three gods."
After a long silence, the six great sages spoke on behalf of all the scholars. "A great mistake has been made, but we must rectify the situation and return the innocent truth to the gods and history."
Admitting this is to admit the guilt of the rainforest scholars, and if the guilt is admitted, the guilty person must be punished.
The sinners have all died long ago, so let the descendants of the family who benefited from the sins of their ancestors pay for it.
Some scholars almost jumped up, but were held down by the people around them and the disciplinary officers.
Someone whispered, "It's been so long since the incident happened, and the descendants are not the sages who made the mistake. According to the humanitarian care clause in the law, the crime should be reduced, and we can ask for mercy later..."
Then we can make a big thing small, and a small thing even smaller. At most we can impose a fine and put it into the desert aid project.
The person being persuaded nodded and felt relieved.
That's right, there are so many people in their family! There are also senior officials in the Ministry of Education, so they must be able to...
However, the Flower Knight Sora directly shattered their luck of survival.
Kong stood next to the girl, holding a large stack of files and naming and announcing the crimes of the illegal academic cliques.
Each individual offense is not considered a serious crime, but the cumulative crimes are enough to exile some people three thousand miles away.
Kong called out the names one by one, and Seno and the discipline officers tied up the scholars who were called out and pressed them to the ground.
Some people couldn't help but plead and offered to pay a high fine in exchange for the arrested scholars.
Who doesn’t have useless disciples and relatives? After being exiled, not only will his life be lost, but the reputation of his family and teacher will also be greatly damaged.
"Don't worry, the position will be revoked, and of course the fine will still be imposed." Su felt that he was still too kind, "My initial suggestion was to kill all the guys who committed serious crimes."
But unfortunately, my friends disagreed.
More scholars changed their expressions. This had already reached their bottom line! Otherwise...
"You are also welcome to hire someone to attack me," the girl on the stage smiled brightly, "I will give you the same treatment as the previous great sage."
Relying on rules and the power of numbers to force her to write a paper? This is the result.